Hello Gift Pocket {Scrapy Land #122}

Hello all.  It's time for a brand new Scrapy Land Challenge!  The theme is always anything goes using any brand of die that Scrapy Land sells.

For today's project, I created a card that incorporates a pocket on the front for a gift card (or money).

The following dies were used to create this project:

Poppy Stamps: Luscious Script Hello

Sue Wilson Designs: Delicate Daisies-Closed Petals

Sue Wilson Designs: Dandelion Clocks

Lil Inkers Designs: Bow-Large (any of these would work)

Little B: Circles (any of these would work)

I started out by creating my focal layer with Nuvo Shimmer Powders and watercolor papers.  (I loved this color so much that I created another card base using the exact same colors that you will see in a future project.😀)

I trimmed down some patterned cardstock to the size I wanted and then used my circle dies to create the opening in the center.  This was then adhered to the watercolor paper.  (Don't forget to only add adhesive to three of the side edges - not the top 😆.) This created my pocket for the gift card.

In order to embellish the pocket front, I die cut the large bow and then heat embossed with glittered embossing powder before assembling it.

I die cut the Daisy flower and two of the Dandelion clocks to add more pizazz to the bow's center.  Once these pieces were adhered together, Nuvo Crystal Drops (Rhubarb Crumble) was added to the Daisy center and to the tips of the Dandelion Clocks.  This was then adhered to the center of the bow after the Crystal Drops had dried.

The large die cut sentiment is perfect for any occasion.

Won't you come join us for the Scrapy Land Challenge #122?  You have until Sept 29 to upload your project for a chance to win a $15 gift certificate to Scrapy Land.


Until next time....

Sweet Baby {Scrapy Land #88}

It's the third Wednesday of the month and you know what that means....time for a brand new Scrapy Land Challenge!  The theme is always Anything Goes using any brand of die that Scrapy Land sells.  (You can see just how many brands there are here.)

Today I created this baby card for a friend's daughter who is having her first child.  The happy couple decided not to find out the baby's gender, so my card can go either way😀.

Each individual rectangle was die cut from a Tonic Studios set (Mixed Edge Rectangle Layering Basics) and the images in the center of each of the rectangles are from Die-Versions (Baby Icons; Sweet Wordlets: Baby; Sweet Wordlets: Sweet).  They were die cut from white cardstock and colored with Copic markers.  

A couple of Sue Wilson Designs embossing folders (Climbing Vines; Quilted Flowers) were used to dry emboss the mats under each baby icon.  Lil' Inker Designs (Quilted Stitched Pattern die) was used to give the Graphic 45 background paper a vintage quilted look.  

On the inside, I added a couple more Baby Icons and die cut a couple mats for the message.

Now it's your turn to play along with the Scrapy Land Challenge.  You have until April 29.  Two winners will receive a $10 gift certificate to go shopping at Scrapy Land.

Pretty Blooms {Sparkle N Sprinkle New Reveal Blog Hop}

Welcome to the February 2018 
Sparkle N Sprinkle New Reveal Blog Hop! 

We are pleased to reveal the following new stamp sets this month.

 873 Pretty Blooms
Digital Version: DIGI873B

883 Whispers of Comfort-Hydrangea
Digital Version: DIGI883BG

885 Bonnet Birdie
Digital Version: DIGI885BG

886 Happiness Greetings
Digital Version: DIGI886DE

887 Balloon Bunch
Digital Version: DIGI887BG

DIGI3140M Snowman with a Heart (digi only) 

You are definitely going to want both the digi version as well as the rubber version because when you purchase the digital versions, there are lots of extras that aren't available otherwise.  These extras can include additional images, additional sentiments, digi papers (in some cases), and a cut file.

The new sets are 20% off until the 20th of the month.  Head on over to the SNS store once you've finished the Blog Hop and start shopping.

One GRAND PRIZE WINNER will be announced on the 17th of the month.  One of the Designers is our Mystery Host and the winner will be selected from comments left on her blog.  You must leave a comment on each of the Designers' blogs in order to be selected as the winner, as you never know who the Mystery Host will be.  This is checked for compliance.

The GRAND PRIZE WINNER will be announced on the SNS Facebook page and on the SNS Blog and will receive a $20 Gift Certificate to the shoppe!

The Blog Hop order is:
(Tip: if you have difficulty with a particular link, try clicking on the Designer's blog title to be directed to their Home page.)
  
Lisa
Irit
Diane
Chris
Donna
Sabrina
Jess
Eret
Anne
Shona

The Blog Hop runs from the 15th - 17th of each month.  

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SNS also has two kit clubs: The Stamp and Card-Making Video Kit Club is released on the 1st of each month and the new Multi-Project Kit Club is released on the 15th of each month.  Subscribe to the SNS You-Tube Channel to get great inspiration using all the products available in each kit.

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We hope you enjoy the New Reveal Blog Hop as much as we enjoy creating new projects for it.  Be sure to visit the SNS Blog for even more inspiration.  Something new is posted most every day.

Products used:

Stamps: Pretty Blooms 873

Glitter: Butterscotch (GM2051)

Embossing Powder: Clear Detail (EP280)

Dies: Lil’Inker Designs (Quilted Stitched Pattern die)

Embossing Folder: Tonic Studios Layered Leaves

VersaFine
Nuvo Crystal Drops (Crushed Grape)
Nuvo Gilding Flakes (Radiant Gold)
¼” Tear-ific Tape
Nuvo Glue Pen (Medium)
Tim Holtz Stamp Platform
Tangerine die cutting machine
Zig Clean Brush water markers

For this card, I stamped the Pretty Blooms image with Versafine ink onto watercolor paper.  I used the Tim Holtz Stamp Platform so that I could get good coverage and then I heat set it with Clear Detail embossing powder.

Next I watercolored the image and background using Zig Clean Brush watercolor markers.  I added Butterscotch microfine glitter to the flower petals and Nuvo Crystal Drops (Crushed Grape) to the flower centers.  The image was then fussy cut out.

The mat behind the focal image was stamped using VersaFine and heat set with Clear Detail embossing powder.  Then I ran it through my Tangerine using a Lil' Inkers die (Quilted Stitched Pattern die).  I tied a ribbon around this mat and adhered my focal image.

For the card base, I ran the Medium tip Nuvo Glue Pen around the edges, let it get tacky, and then added Radiant Gold Nuvo Gilding Flakes.  The next step was to run this through my Tangerine, this time using a Tonic Studios embossing folder (Layered Leaves).  I love how the dry embossed gilding flakes look.

Your next stop on the SNS Blog Hop is Shona and I know you'll love what she's created for the hop!  Don't forget to leave each of us a comment for your chance to win a $20 gift certificate to go shopping at Sparkle N Sprinkle.

Nasturtium 1

My card today features the image and one of the sentiments from the Nasturtium #1 stamp set by Sparkle N Sprinkle.  This set also coordinates with the Nasturtium #2 stamp set.

I used the digi version and printed out my sentiment and the flowers at the same time.  Copic markers were used to color the flowers.  Then I used the Quilted Stitched Pattern die from Lil' Inkers Designs to add a quilted look to the focal panel.  This only die cuts the diamond hash marks, not your card edges.

Once this was die cut, I added some Sparkling Snow glitter to the flower centers and to the Memory Box Die (Tiny Bow).  The bow's streamers were cut twice.

Below the focal point, I added Nuvo Crystal Drops (Gloss White) to three strips of Mon Ami Gabby Diamond Mesh (black).  This panel was then adhered to a dry embossed panel (Sue Wilson Designs - Eternity embossing folder) and then the yellow card base.

Thinking of You

Thinking of You is one of the five new stamp sets released by Sparkle N Sprinkle this month.  I used the digi version, colored it with Copic markers, and then fussy cut out the image.

Diamond Dust glitter was adhered to the centers of the flowers.  The background was created by die cutting an older Spellbinders die (Scalloped Edge Frame) from a piece of Super Adhesive Sheet.   The glitters used to cover the adhesive sheet are Orchid Rose and Blue Haze.

The embellishment in the lower left was created by using a piece of pull ribbon from Mon Ami Gabby.  Then I added a medium sized glue dot to the center and covered it with more Orchid Rose glitter.

The sentiment, which is part of the set, is also a digi version and was die cut using a Lil Inkers Designs die (stitched sentiment flag).

Sparkle N Sprinkle Aug 1 Reveal

Welcome to Sparkle N Sprinkle's August 1 Reveal.

This month SIX new stamp sets are being introduced. These sets are 20% off their regular price, until August 3rd.  All the sets are available on Cling Mounted Rubber and as a digital image. The Sunflower, set #643 is the stamp set featured in  This Month's Technique Video.

The sets are:

Knight Owl #632     (Digi version: DIGI632)

Sunflower #643     (Digi version: DIGI643)

A Little Note #645     (Digi version: DIGI645)

Pilgrim Thanksgiving #646     (Digi version: DIGI646)

Wisps of Autumn #647     (Digi version: DIGI647)

Witchy Gerty #648     (Digi version: DIGI648)

On August 3rd,  one Grand Prize Winner will be selected from the comments left on the designers' blogs listed below.  The Grand Prize Winner will receive their choice of:

1) all SIX of the new rubber stamp sets

or 

2) all the new digital stamps and digital stamp sets. 

The new SNS Creative Challenges also begins today, with lots of prizes and recognition badges. 

The winner of the blog hop will be announced on August 3 on Facebook, the SNS blog, and on our blogs:

Anita Scroggins
April Williams
Belinda Shupe
Emmy van den Heuvel
Eret Pank
Marie Berquist
Shona Erlenborn
Steff Munnings
Anne Temple

Don't forget to leave a comment with each Designer to be eligible for the Grand Prize.  We love reading your comments and hope we have inspired you as well.  If you absolutely can not leave a comment for some reason, please email icinganne@yahoo.com with your comment and the name of the blog or Designer you are commenting about.

We hope you enjoy the New Reveals as much as we do!

Wonder which Designer contains the Grand Prize this month?

Now for a little bit about my project.  I decided to use the digi version of A Little Note and colored her with Copic markers.  Using a Sakura Glue pen, I applied the glue and added Sunny Daze glitter to the flowers and Bubblegum glitter was added to the bow's on the little girl's outfit.  

The heart button was customized with Firecracker Red embossing powder.  You can watch a short video here, describing the process.  It's really easy to bling your brads and buttons this way.

Lil Inker's Designs Quilted Stitched Pattern die is the background for this sweet image and the sentiment was die cut using the Sizzix Labels, Fancy #3.  A little twine wrapped around the panels finishes it off nicely.

Hope you enjoyed the SNS New Reveal and that something has caught your eye.  Don't forget to leave each of us a comment for your chance at the Grand Prize.

For the Birds!

Time for a new challenge at Pattie's Creations.  As you can probably guess from my titile, the theme for the next two weeks is: For the Birds!  You're image must have one or more birds on it.  For this fun challenge, I've used Flamingos and you can find it in Pattie's Etsy Shop.

 The image is colored with Copic markers and highlighted with.....what else but glitter :-).  The flamingos have Mauvelous glitter by Sparkle N Sprinkle and the water ripples are highlighted with Waterfall glitter.  I also added Glossy Accents to the lily pads for a shiny look.

The sentiment was die cut from black cardstock that I spritzed with Smooch Spritz (Silver Foil) before cutting the letters.  The Gatsby font from Die-Versions was used to create the sentiment.  The Smooch Spritz gives the letters a bit of subtle shimmer.

The big pink bow is a die from Lil' Inkers Designs.  I started off by adhering double adhesive tape to cardstock, die cutting the image, and then adding more Mauvelous glitter to the exposed adhesive.

Be sure to check out what the rest of the team has created for this fun For the Birds! challenge.

April Showers

Front panel

Today's card uses April Showers, one of the new stamp sets released by Sparkle N Sprinkle this month.  I have to admit this card came together very slowly.  I had no idea I was going to try and make a reversible card when I started out.

Front panel - Flipped 

I began by stamping the image onto vellum with VersaMark and heat setting it with Clear embossing powder.  I wanted to try my hand at the "no lines" coloring that I've seen.  I colored the image with Copic markers and them backed the vellum with a soft shade of peach thin weight cardstock.

Then I decided this might look good on an acetate card, so I go out my SNS Clear Embossable Acetate and stamped the sentiment on the front cover with Distress Ink (Black Soot) and heat set it with Clear embossing powder.  It didn't show up as well as I wanted, so I die cut the stitched sentiment flag from Lil' Inkers Designs and adhered it to the inside front panel behind the sentiment.  I also adhered the image to the inside front panel.

Inside (normal view)

The back panel is the Scribbles cutting plate from Taylored Expressions, which I covered with VersaMark and heat set using Holiday Blue embossing powder.  It reminded me of swirling rain.  I didn't want the backside to be plain white cardstock, so I embossed it with Sapphire embossing powder and heat set it.  That's when the idea of a reversible card popped into my brain.

Inside with color panel behind it

Since the sentiment mentions rain and sunshine, I added a sun and a cloud (both from MFT) to the backside of the colored image.  These were die cut from a piece of Super Adhesive Sheet and covered with Cloud Nine Velvet glitter.  I then colored the pieces with Distress Markers and a water brush because I wanted to blend a couple different colors together.

Inside when Flipped (with color panel behind it)

Now when you open the card, you see the sun.  When you flip the card upside down, you see the sunshine peeking through the swirls of rain.

Front Flipped (with color panel behind it)

This was hard to explain, but looks pretty cool in person.  Let me know if you have any questions and I'll try to answer them for you.

Berry Sweet of You

I recently purchased some of the Dylusions Ink Sprays and I can't tell you how much fun I've had using them.  The colors are so bright and the nozzle doesn't clog.  Now I want every color!  I used Pure Sunshine, Bubblegum Pink, and Lemon Zest to create this bright mat for my berries.  The image and sentiment are part of a new stamp set from Sparkle N Sprinkle called Sweet Strawberries.

This is one of those cards that a photo doesn't really do it justice.  I stamped the image onto watercolor paper and used my Peerless Transparent watercolors and a water brush to color the image and then die cut the image with a Lifestyle Crafts nesting die.  I also used the next size up to create my green mat.  For the bow, I found a piece of scrap cardstock slightly larger than my die (from Lil' Inker Designs) and covered it with double sided adhesive and applied Turquoise flock over the entire thing.  Burnish it well with your fingers and then die cut the bow out.  Before assembling the bow, I stamped my sentiment on the loops with Staz-On ink.  It feels so soft and velvety.  Definitely one of those things you want to touch.

Imagine

 How fun is this new stamp set, Serena Mermaid, from Sparkle N Sprinkle?  So many ideas came to mind when I first saw this set.   The first thing I did was to make my water scene by applying Copic markers, using long strokes, to white cardstock.  Then I added a soon-to-be-released new product from SNS called Velvet Shimmer.  It's a shimmery paint with bits of velvet glitter added to the mix and it gives a very subtle, shimmery look to whatever you paint it on.  To  create the rest of the underwater scene, I stamped all my images directly onto the water background.  I also stamped them onto white cardstock so I could color them and fussy cut them out (don't worry about all the little curly cues).  Once that was done, I adhered them directly onto the stamped waterbackground.  This allows the curly cues to still be seen without having to worry about cutting them out and it gives the images just a hint of dimension.

Serena is colored with Copic markers and her tail is covered with Moonrise and Deep Royal tinsel glitter.  The centers of the flowers have a touch of Celestial glitter, as do all the starfish, sea shells, and sea horses.  I heat embossed the sentiment onto mirror blue cardstock with Sangria Star embossing powder.  The three panels behind the image use the Debossed embossing technique (see tutorial here) and are heat embossed with Tuscan Star embossing powder and a Spellbinders M-Bossabilities embossing folder, and layered onto the mirror blue cardstock.  The final layer brings back the tan color and I distressed the edges.  For more details on how I created this card, you can visit my SNS Art Gallery.

Dance a Jig

Happy St. Patty's Day to ya!  How about this for a fun tag to get you in the spirit?  The image is one of several from the Free Spirited Hat Ladies stamp sets from Sparkle N Sprinkle.  When I saw her, I knew she'd be perfect for what I had in mind.  The image is colored with Copic markers and fussy cut out.  For the shamrocks, I used a (very) old die from Sizzix that has long since been retired (one of those chunky Originals) and covered them with Luau Green velvet glitter.  The sentiment is the My Micro Die-Versions font and is adhered to the stitched sentiment flag die cut from Lil' Inker Designs.

As you can see from the close up, I applied pop dots to certain portions of the image, usually opposite sides (one foot and the opposite hand) as I wanted her to really look like she was dancing.  All of this was adhered to a tag covered with patterned paper.  For the base, I ran some green cardstock that I cut to resemble a larger tag, through my crimping tool.  I randomly added a bit of Distress Inks (Vintage Photo, Gathered Twigs) to the raised areas.

This tag is really sparkly and glittery in person and makes me smile every time I see it as she looks like she's having so much fun.

SNS Blog Hop: Favorite Technique

Deco Gate closed

This month's Sparkle N Sprinkle blog hop is all about using your Favorite Techniques.  That's a really hard one for me as I love to try new techniques all the time.  For this one though, I decided to use a slight variation of an old favorite - the Wrinkle Free technique.   I also used two different rubber stamps: the Deco Gate and one of the ladies from the Art Deco Ladies stamp set.

Deco Gate partially opened

Deco Gate open

Instead of using Distress Inks and spritzing with water, I used Fireworks! spritzes (Cantaloupe, Dandelion, and Tangelo) by Tsukineko.  I poured the colors directly onto my craft mat and ran my glossy paper through the puddles of color.  Both the base and the focal point were done the same way, using the same colors.  The difference between the two is that on the base one, I blotted up the excess color with a paper towel, thereby leaving a more subtle color variation.  This color matches her skin tone much more.  I also ran this layer through a Spellbinders embossing folder.  The top layer was allowed to air dry, leaving a much more vibrant color variation.

I used VersaMark ink and Brown Fizz, a wonderfully glittery embossing powder to create the image.  I colored the remaining portions with Copic markers and fussy cut her out so she could be the surprise when the Deco Gate is opened.  The Deco Gate was heat embossed with Gold Detail and fussy cut out.  You need to cut through the center of the stamped image as well.  When you adhere it to the background, make sure you only attach the edges of the gate, so that it will open.

Place the Art Deco Lady behind the Deco Gate and close.  Stamp the sentiment, also from the Art Deco Ladies stamp set, onto the tag, which is die cut with Lil' Inker Designs stitched sentiment flag die.

Hopefully you came from Shona's blog.  If not, you may want to start at the beginning at the Sparkle N Sprinkle blog.  There are some wonderful prizes to be won, but in order to be eligible, you must comment on each of the designer's blogs.  Three of the prizes are hidden on three different designers blogs (even we don't know which ones).  You'll have two days to leave comments, so plenty of time.  I hope you've enjoyed the technique I've shown today.  Now it's time to head on over to Karalee and see what technique she used.  Good luck and thanks for joining us today.  Hope you learn some great new techniques.