SOS: All that glitters is gold

I'm here again for another Tuesday with Shopping Our Stash where we challenge participants to use neglected or unused items in their craft-stashes to create something!

This week, our selected theme is..

All that glitters is gold!

Although the common saying is "All that glitters is not gold," we are saying, "Sure it is!"

Use some glitter and/or gold on your project and enter at Shopping Our Stash.

This is my creation:

Supplies and methods:

• This started on a panel made a few weeks ago using Dylusions sprays in After Midnight and Vibrant Turquoise, as well as some light blue+gold Glimmer Mist.  I believe the Vibrant Turquoise was sprayed though a Heidi Swapp polka-dot stencil, but it is very subtle and hardly worth mentioning at this point... because I added some water droplets and further obliterated the dots.  Moving on!
• I recreated that original panel for a background panel, this time using my mini-mister filled with vodka for the splattery effect.
• I planned to use the Recollections brads to adhere the panels together, but then I got all willy-nilly and started tacking brads across the panel.  It added a little more dimension across the the snowy sky.
• The snowflake stamps (which are actually doilies... shhh) in the background are by Tim Holtz (won last year for a "12 tags" challenge) and Martha Stewart (many years old), all inked with Distress Embossing Ink and embossed using Stampendous Frantage in Shabby White.  The stamps that are fussy-cut in the foreground are by Handmade Modern (from Target... it's a set I bought for my kids a few years ago), inked again with Distress Embossing Ink and embossed with a glittery blue Stampendous powder.
• The yarn is new to my stash, sent to my by the wonderful Andrea Ockey Parr... thank you! 
• "Miss you" written with a Faber-Castell Pitt brush pen
• The Tim Holtz Idea-ology nib was a late addition.  I had already inked it (maybe two months ago?) with Adirondack mixative in Gold, and when I came across it while looking for a little something, I thought, "That will be perfect for a 'miss you' card!"  
•  To "up" the glitter factor, I used Mercuy Glass Stickles to casually edge both panels.
• I matted the wintery panels onto some Tim Holtz craft-core metallic cardstock.  The smooth gold wasn't meshing with the project, so I stared at it for a minute before I busted out the Adirondack mixative in Pearl... added just the right effect!

Along with posting this for (hopefully) some inspiration at SOS, I'd like to also share this at Retro Rubber, where the current challenge is "Let it snow." It's only right to share there: they share a similar goal with us girls at SOS... use your older supplies!

Oh, man! I really need to vacuum the craft-shack!  All of the glittery embossing powder is going to melt to the floor in front of the heater!  Please go on and visit the rest of my DT-homegirls at Shopping Our Stash, and I look forward to seeing your sparkly projects over at the challenge page!