Christmas Fun

Hi Everyone! I hope you are having a good day. I want to share a card I made for the Basic Grey and House Mouse challenges. I just love this House Mouse stamp. I purchased this stamp when my boys were snowboarding a lot. They always had a great time on them. It was fun watching them doing flips and tricks and flying down the mountain! I miss those days now that they are grown and we don't go as a family anymore. I am getting too old to ski since I have not been in many years. I am afraid I might break a bone now! LOL!

I used Basic Grey papers from the Basics, Out of Print and Green at Heart packs. White Liquid Applique was used for the snow and then I added Stickles glitter to make the "snow" sparkle.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you have a wonderful day!

Challenges entered:

Basic Grey -- Happy Christmas
House Mouse and Friends -- Anything Christmas

Holiday Wishes

Hi Everyone and welcome to my blog. I know you are gearing up for Christmas. I hope you will take some time to relax and enjoy the many wonders of this blessed season.

Here is a tag I made for Tim Holt's 12 Tags of 2013 ( Dec.) challenge. I love the frosted film that he used. You can see Tim's demo here. I do not have any of frosted film, but it is certainly on my wish list! I made a version of this of my own. .

I laid acetate on top of a Super Adhesive sheet from Sparkle N Sprinkle that had one side peeled off. I then cut out the flower shapes using the Tattered Flowers sizzix die. Transparent Sparkle glitter form Sparkle N Sprinkle was used on the back side after the protective sheet was removed. This gave the acetate a frosted look. I then sponged on permanent ink colors to the front of the flowers and leaves.

I used a stipple brush to pounce Versa Mark ink over the flower and tag and then added Sparkle N Sprinkle Belgian Cream embossing powder over it to look like snow.

On the swirl I used the new Green Marbled Christmas embossing powder also from Sparkle N Sprinkle.

Once again, thanks for stopping by. I hope your day is great!

Challenges entered:

12 tags of 2013 -- December

ALBC -- Christmas Cheer

Craft My Life -- Anything But a Card

Craftin Desert Divas -- Tags

Creative Creations -- #24 Make Your own Flowers

Dream Valley -- Anything But a Card

Feeling Crafty -- Christmas

Simon Says -- With a Flourish

Beautiful Geraniums Winner

Hi!  Thanks to everyone who played in Sparkle N Sprinkle's recent "Beautiful Geraniums" Mystery Party. We enjoyed making the new projects, and hope you enjoyed browsing. 

We released one new stamp set and Jazzy Jill's latest Technique Video Kit:

I was the Mystery Designer for the contest. With 22 comments left on my blog, Mr. Random.org was used to generate our Commenting Winner.

Congratulations, Jean Bullock!

Thank you for checking out the products and sample cards. 

Jean, will you please e-mail SNS_Artist@tampabay.rr.com with your mailing address, choice of one glitter and one embossing powder which can be used with your new stamp sets, and we will get your prize in the mail!

A big thank you to all for joining us in this kick off.

(and for visiting all our blogs)

hugs always from The Sparkle Team,

Beautiful Geraniums

Welcome to Sparkle N Sprinkle's December 1 Reveal.

This month we are bringing you a pretty new stamp set by artist Beccy Muir with FIVE chances to win

the first chance is in our "Beautiful Geraniums" Release Contest
 and
four more chances with the SNS monthly challenge where the monthly theme is always "Anything Goes with Glitter, Embossing Powder and/or Flocking."

The Geranium stamp set is available on line or is included in Jazzy Jill's Technique Video for the month.

I thought our new marbled embossing powder, Bahama Mama EP439 would look great on these geraniums. I love how the embossing powder gave a variegated effect to the flowers.

I used Cloud Nine glitter GM2000 around the edges behind the frame.

For instructions on how I made my card, please click here.

The Geraniums stamp set, one glitter and one EP will be awarded to one commenter.
To win, just come to our Mystery Designer Party!

How the Mystery Party works:

On one of the participating blogs below, a Commenter will be selected to receive the prize. 

No one knows who the Mystery Designer is, so you may wish to visit each blog to leave a comment.

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

Shona Erlenborn

Eret Pank

Marie Berquist

April Williams   ( ME )

Anne Temple

Belinda Shupe

Emmy van den Heuvel

Mayra Duran-Hernandez

Donna Ellis
Jazzy Jill's Video Technique Kit

The beautiful Geraniums set is available at 20% off 

as part of our December specials. 

Just use the code DEC20 in the COMMENTS SECTION 

when checking out in the SNS on-line store 

to receive this brand new set at 20% off.

Promotion valid through December 3.(sorry, credit card customers only. Total will be manually adjusted. Or phone the SNS shoppe and ask them to manually adjust the charge on the phone for you).

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a wonderful day and good luck in the draw!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! I hope you have a wonderful time with your family and friends. I want to share a Thanksgiving card that I made using the cornucopia from the Sparkle N Sprinkle  Fall Harvest 474 and our new Flourishes Two 520 stamp sets.

I stamped the flourishes onto patterned paper using Versa Mark ink and added Brown Fizz embossing powder EP381. The Brown Fizz embossing powder was also used around the edges of the card.

I colored the image using copic markers and added Diamond Glaze on the fruit.

For complete instructions please click here.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a great day.

April

Recycle Challenge

Hi Everyone! I hope you have been enjoying your weekend. It has been rainy this afternoon -- a good day for crafting. I made this card for a recycle challenge at Club Posh. We were to use saved wrapping paper. I used some Christmas tissue paper that came in a gift bag. I placed the tissue paper on Sticker Paper from Sparkle N Sprinkle and used the beautiful Spellbinders Gold Majesty Circle die to cut the frame. I stamped my favorite Cardinal image from Inkadinkado. Thank you for stopping by. Have a great day!



                    This is the tissue paper I started with.

Here is the end result!

Black and White Christmas

Hi Everyone! I hope you are having a good day. It is gray outside here, but not that cold. I just got back from a nice walk. You do not often see a black and white Christmas card, but I must say that is rather striking. At Joan's Gardens this week the challenge is to use black and white, Christmas and frame.

The frame is a Spellbinders die -- Decorative Labels 8. The leaves is a Memory Box die -- Fresh Foliage. I used an embossing folder with a frame on the black card stock and used Belgian Cream embossing powder from Sparkle N Sprinkle on the image.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you have a wonderful day!

Challenges entered:

Joan's Gardens:  Black, White, Christmas and Frame

Addicted to Stamps:  Anything Goes

Crafting by Designs:  Anything Goes/With a Christmas Twist

Crafty Ribbons:  Anything Goes With Ribbon

Handmade Harbor:  Christmas is Coming

Jo's Scrap Shack:  Anything Goes

Lady Anne's Challenge:  Anything Goes/Must Use a Stamp

Sister Act:  Anything Goes