Corner Garden {Sparkle N Sprinkle April New Reveal Blog Hop}

Welcome to the Sparkle N Sprinkle

 April Reveal Blog Hop!

NEW STORE - NEW BLOG - NEW PRODUCT LINES!

The sets are:

Girlfriend Support Set 2 - 839  

(Digi version DIGI839BG)

Christmas Holly Blessings - 841  

(Digi version DIGI841B - includes extra sentiment)
**Limited Edition**

Corner Garden - 842  

(Digi version DIGI842FS - includes extra images, decoupage sheets, and digi papers)

Corner Garden Digi Bundle set - DIGI842FS (includes extra images, decoupage sheets, and digi papers)

Proudly Patriotic - 843  

(Digi version DIGI843J)

Vibrant Watercolor Digi Papers DIGI4001FS

The new sets are 20% off until April 3, 2017, so after the blog hop, hop on over to the NEW STORE and have fun shopping - be sure to check out the OTHER amazing new products as well! With names like TONIC STUDIOS, STAMPENDOUS and HOUSE MOUSE, you're sure to fill that cart up quickly!

SNS also has a brand new blog, which can be found here!


On April 3, ONE GRAND PRIZE WINNER will be selected from the comments left on all the Designers' blogs listed below.  Please leave a comment with each designer to be eligible for the Grand Prize (checked for compliance).  The Grand Prize Winner will be announced on the SNS Facebook page and the SNS New Blog.  

 There are FOUR new rubber stamp sets being released this month, plus a new Digi Papers set, and a huge Corner Garden Digi Bundle. 

Also, when you purchase the digi versions of any of the SNS rubber sets, you are getting lots of extras that aren't available otherwise.  These extras include additional images not available with the rubber version, digi papers (in some cases), and now a cut file to use with your electronic cutting machines will also be included with all digi images purchased!

You're definitely going to want both the rubber versions as well as the digi versions of all our new releases.

The new sets are 20% off until April 3, 2017.  So once you finish the blog hop, head on over to the New Store and start shopping.

On April 3rd, ONE GRAND PRIZE WINNER will be selected from the comments left on the Designers' blogs listed below. 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 Grand Prize Winner, which will be announced on the SNS Facebook page and the SNS New Blog, will receive ALL of the new rubber stamp sets revealed this month.

The Blog Hop Order this month is:

Diane

Chris

Shona

Eret

Belinda

Corner Garden surprise

Jess

Donna

Anne (you are here)

(*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 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 (including the Corner Garden surprise post).  

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

Have you checked out the SNS YouTube Channel featuring Demo Donna?  If not, then you are in for a real treat.  Subscribe today to get all the latest Demo Donna tips and techniques!

And now for a bit about my project.

I created a square card with the new  Corner Garden stamp set and a stamp positioner.  The new Tim Holtz Stamp Platform would be the perfect tool to make this super easy.  (SNS is taking pre-sales of this awesome tool, which begins shipping in a couple weeks.)

I began this project a little backwards from what I normally do.  I die cut the background first using the Tonic Studios Greek Temple layering set then I preceded to do my stamping.

I stamped the corner image in one corner and then turned the paper to stamp the same image in the opposite corner.  Next I placed the sentiment in the center and then stamped it with Memento Cottage Ivy ink.  I immediately poured Clear embossing powder over the ink and heat set it.  Even though this is a dye ink, if you are fast, you can emboss it 😊.

The flowers are colored with Copic markers and Fuchsia Glass Glitter was added to the centers.

Several Nuance pigment powders (Violet, Hot Pink, Bright Yellow, Cerulean Blue) were added to my craft mat and then spritzed with water.  I then ran plain white cardstock through the puddles to create a watercolor background for my butterflies.  Once I was happy with it and the cardstock was completely dry, I stamped several butterflies onto the cardstock with VersaMark and heat set them with Brown Fizz embossing powder.  Then I fussy cut a few of them and adhered them here and there.

I wanted to add color behind the die cut, so I used 2 1/2" Tear-ific Tape, cut my strips down the middle, and then adhered it to the backside of my project.  this allowed the openings on the front to have adhesive.  I then added Dogwood Rose velvet glitter to the adhesive and burnished it into the openings with my fingertip.

The focal panel was then adhered to green cardstock.  The final step was to dry emboss the card base with a Sue Wilson embossing folder (Climbing Vines) before pop dotting the focal panel on top.

I'm the last stop on the SNS Blog Hop.  We hope you have enjoyed what the Designers have created for you.  Be sure to leave each of us a comment for you chance to win all the rubber stamps revealed this month.