Sea Lady {SNS Sept Reveal}

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Welcome to Sparkle N Sprinkle's

 Sept 1 New Reveal Blog Hop!

This month we are doing something a little different.  Instead of releasing new stamp sets, we decided to do a themed reveal.  Our theme is "Beach/Water" related, so you will see lots of different stamp sets used by our Designers.   Any "beach themed" set will be 20% off until Sept 3.  So once you finish the blog hop, head on over to the store and start shopping.  All of the sets are available on cling mounted rubber or as a digital image.  

Big Day 749, a calendar/planner stamp set, is featured with this month's Technique Video Kit. 

Here are a few of the Beach themed sets being used this month:

Tropical 158 (digi version DIGI158)

Ocean Treasures 560 (digi version DIGI560jj)

Sea Lady 735 (digi version DIGI735)

Mermaid Kisses 529 (rubber only)

Surf's Up 455  (digi version DIGI455)

Beach Babes 473 (digi version DIGI473m)

On Sept 3, one GRAND PRIZE WINNER will be selected from the comments left on the Designers' blogs.  Please leave a comment with each Designer in order to be eligible for the Grand Prize.  You never know who the Mystery Designer will be that has the winning comment.  

The winner will get to choose FOUR beach/water themed stamp sets of his/her choice (or the digi version, if preferred).

The Grand Prize Winner will be announced on Sept 3 on the SNS Facebook page, the Designer's blogs, and here on the SNS Blog.  

In addition to our regular Designers, two of our 2015 Guest Designers this month, Ani and Chris are with us again this month.

The Blog Hop order this month is:

Eret

Chris

Anne (you are here)

Ani

Marie

Belinda

Shona

(*Tip: if you have difficulty with a particular link, try clicking on the Designer's blog title to send you to their Home page.)

We love reading your comments and hope that we have inspired you as well.  If you can not leave a comment for some reason, please email icinganne@yahoo.com with your comment and the name of the blog or the Designer you are commenting about.

The Sparkle N Sprinkle Creative Challenge also begins today.  There are lots of prizes and recognition badges.  Come check out how you can become a SNS Featured Artist as well.  The theme is always Anything Goes using Loose Glitter, Embossing Powder, and/or Flock.

We hope you enjoy the New Reveal Blog Hop as much as we do.  Thanks for joining us and remember to comment on each of the Designers' blogs to be eligible for the Grand Prize.  

 Wonder who the Mystery Host will be this month????

Now for a bit about my easel card.

I used the digi version of Sea Lady and colored the image with Copic markers.  Once the image was colored, it was die cut using a Sue Wilson die (Noble dies - Ornate Pierced Rectangles).  Lots of glitters were used to decorate the shells, including Periwinkle, Starfire (my new favorite at the moment :0), Sunny Daze, and Lacy Lilac.  I also heat embossed the Sweet Seahorse die cut (by Die-Versions) with Sparkle embossing powder.  In order to get the background for the seahorse, I traced around the die itself and fussy cut it out.

For the inside of the easel card, I started out by dry embossing the bottom with a Spellbinder M-Bossabilities folder (Sea Beauty) and then I lightly went over the raised areas with Distress Inks (Spun Sugar, Dried Marigold).

The small sea shells are dies from Impression Obsession (Mini Shell set).  These were all colored with Copic markers and then heat embossed with more Sparkle embossing powder.  The sentiment, by Penny Black (Doodles), was die cut twice from navy cardstock and a lighter blue cardstock.  After adhering the two together, Glossy Accents was added for a shiny look.

Now it's time to head on over to Ani's blog to see which beach themed stamp set she used.