"Something Blue" by Leigh Snaith-Brunton - The Sharpie Domino Queen
Design Team Leader

Supplies:
Ivory folded card
Peach cardstock
Ivory cardstock
Corner punch - craft store
Gold and Silver metallic fiber - www.reasonableribbon.com
Pearl bead trim - craft store
Matchbox - grocery store
2 chess pieces
Wedding pick of tulle and pearls - craft store
2 Blue jewel hearts - www.craftingsandthings.com
Blue beads - craft store
Silver coloured wire - craft store
Silver mirror metallic cardstock - www.YellowRoseArtStamps.com
Peach and Light Peach PrismaColor coloured pencils
Pencil and ruler
Fine point black Sharpie
Broad point black paint pen or Sharpie
Broad point metallic silver paint pen
Metallic gold paint pen in fine and broad points
Aleene's Fast Grab Tacky Glue - craft store
Blue alphabet pebble stickers - craft store
Wire cutters
Needle nose pliers
Sticky tape
Scissors
Paper trimmer
Glue dots - craft store

Directions:
Start the project off by preparing the cardstocks. Trim an existing rectangular folded card down to form a square. Then trim the peach and ivory cardstocks to size. These will be the panels for the main folded card.

With a pencil and ruler draw in the grid to create a chess board background. Colour alternating squares with peach and light peach Prismacolor coloured pencils. Add a touch of the light peach coloured pencil to the ivory squares too. Once coloured draw in the lines again with a fine point black sharpie. Edge all the panels and the folded card with a broad point black paint pen or sharpie.

Next, make the heart charm. Cut out two hearts from mirror silver metallic cardstock. Cut a length of silver wire and sandwich the wire between the two hearts. Glue the hearts together with Fast Grab tacky glue. Thread blue beads in assorted shades and length onto the wire. Finish the ends of the wire with an eye loop. Use needle nose pliers to form the loop. Adhere a blue heart jewel to the charm and put aside to dry.

Then punch the corners of just the chess board background and embellish by adding gold and silver fiber. Adhere the fibers in place on the back of the cardstock with sticky tape. Before sticking down the top gold fiber, thread the heart charm onto the fiber first.

Adhere the chess board background to the peach panel and then those panels to the folded card with glue or double-sided sticky tape.

Next, add detail to the chess pieces with a gold metallic paint pen. To create the little niche for the chess pieces use the drawer from a matchbox. Colour the inside of the matchbox drawer with a gold metallic paint pen and the outside in silver. Adhere the pearl bead trim to the edge with Fast Grab tacky glue.

Unfurl the tulle from the wedding pick and glue to the back of the matchbox drawer. Then glue the chess pieces in place and the pearl stems from the wedding pick.

Determine the placing of the matchbox niche and then hand write the word 'Something' in pencil. Re-write over the pencil with a fine point metallic gold paint pen. Then add depth to the word by outlining with a fine point black Sharpie. Glue on a smaller blue heart jewel above the 'i'.

Adhere the matchbox niche in place with glue dots. Then spell out the word 'BLUE' with blue alphabet pebble stickers.

As a finishing touch create a twirl from a length of silver coloured wire and loop it around the fibers on the bottom right corner.

I hope you enjoyed this project. If you'd like to see more of my artwork then please visit the archived newsletters at The Stamper's Mall and my website at http://www.velvetpawcreations.com