Grand Canyon

Hi Everyone! I hope you have been enjoying your weekend. It has been gorgeous here. I have always wanted to go see the Grand Canyon and had the opportunity to go this past week! There are no words to describe God's magnificent creation! I had a wonderful trip with perfect weather. I feel so blessed! Here are a few pictures. I hope you have a great day!

Cardinal

Hi Everyone! I hope you are enjoying your day. I want to share a card I made using a stencil that I got recently. It is the Dreamweaver stencil -- Bare Trees. I tried a little something different and I thought it turned out well. I laid the stencil on some navy sparkle card stock and sponged Versa Mark ink in the open spaces of the stencil. I then sprinkled on Sparkle N Sprinkle Vanilla Ice embossing powder and heat set it. I love the sparkle!

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a wonderful day!

Challenges entered:

365 cards -- The letter S ( snow, sparkle and song bird )

Annabelle Stamps -- Christmas

Splendiferous Creations Blogger Challenge -- Things With Wings

Brown Sugar -- Things With Wings

Creative Corner -- Can't Touch This ( texture )

Polkadoodles -- Anything Goes Christmas

Simon Says Stamp -- Anything Goes

Sparkle N Sprinkle November Release

Welcome to Sparkle N Sprinkle's November 1 Release

This month we are bringing you two marvelous new stamp sets by artist Rosiland Solomon with FIVE chances to win

the first two chances are with our "Winter Wonderland" Release Contest
 and
three more chances with the SNS monthly challenge where the monthly theme is always "Anything Goes with Glitter, Embossing Powder and/or Flocking."

Here is the card that I made with the  Winter Wonderland set and Sparkling Snow glitter.

For full instructions on how to make this card, please click here.

The Winter Wonderland stamp set and the Flourishes Two stamp set are both available on line.
The beautiful Winter Wonderland stamp set is included in Jazzy Jill's Technique Video for the month.

The Winter Wonderland stamp set, one glitter and one EP will be awarded to one commenter.
The Flourishes Two stamp set, one glitter and one EP will be awarded to another commenter.

To win, just come to our Mystery Designer Party!

How the Mystery Party works:

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

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

The winners will be announced on November 3 on Facebook, the SNS blog, and on our blogs:

Mayra Duran-Hernandez

Shona Erlenborn

Eret's Kaardimaania 

Craft E Marie Berquist
Anita Scroggins

April "Stampwilly" Williams  (ME)

Belinda Shupe
Anne Temple
Donna Ellis

Both sets are available at 20% off 

as part of our Wintry specials. 

Just use the code WINTRY20 in the COMMENTS SECTION 

when checking out in the SNS on-line store 

to receive these brand new sets at 20% off.

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

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you have a wonderful day. Good luck in the the draw. I am also looking forward in seeing your wonderful creations in our challenge this month!

APRIL

Chickadees and Faux Patina

Hi Everyone! I hope your day has been a good one so far. I would like to show you a card that I made using my favorite Sparkle N Sprinkle stamp -- Chickadees. For my background I used a technique called Faux Patina. I hope you will enjoy trying this technique on one of your cards.

Supplies needed:

1. embossing folder
2. embossing powder -- I used Antiquities EP266
3. Versa Mark ink
4. embossing machine
5. heat tool
6. sponge
7. 2 light colors of Distress ink and one darker ( I used Bundled Sage, Victorian Velvet and Vintage Photo )
8. cream card stock

Pat the Bundled Sage ink all over the opened front of the embossing folder. Place the card stock inside the folder and run through the embossing machine.

Now randomly sponge on the Victorian Velvet ink first and then Vintage Photo.

 Lightly pat Versa Mark ink over the raised areas and add embossing powder and heat set.

Now you have a beautiful, antiqued background! Enjoy playing! Have a wonderful and blessed day!

April

Autumn's Loveliest Smile and Technique

Hi Everyone! Thank you so much for dropping by today. I want to show you an Autumn card I made using the "no iron batik" technique.  I have been in a Fall mode lately. I love the colors, smells and crisp air of Fall. This technique is perfect for those leaves stamps you might have for Fall. I used the Sparkle N Sprinkle Swirly Oak and Swirly Maple leaf in stamp set 410.

Supplies needed:

1. white coffee filter
2. Versa Mark ink
3. clear embossing powder --  I used Velvet Sparkle EP437
4. Distress Stains
5. Swirly Oak and Swirly Maple Leaf stamps
6. heat tool

First randomly stamp the leaves onto the coffee filter using Versa mark ink. It will be hard to see where you stamped. It helps to turn the coffee filter as you stamp to get a better even coverage.

Next sprinkle on the embossing powder and heat it with the heat tool.

The reaction of the embossing on the coffee filter makes the images look waxy so there is no need to iron off the powder. Now start pouncing different colors of stains over the coffee filter starting with the lightest to the darkest.

I hope you enjoy making some Fall cards using this technique. Have a wonderful day!

April

Eat Cake

Hi Everyone! We have a beautiful Fall day here today. We are finally getting a good chill in the air. Hopefully the leaves will start turning more now that we are getting colder weather. I want to share a card I made using this cute House Mouse image. I am always in need of birthday cards so this image is perfect for it. This little mousey sure looks fat and happy! I used a lot of my favorite things on this card, among which are flowers, ribbon, cord, dies and glitter! I sparkled the icing on the cake using Bubblegum glitter, courtesy of Sparkle N Sprinkle. Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope your day is filled with good things!

I had this pink cord that went perfectly with the patterned paper. I made the little rose out of pink felt and added a rhinestone to the center.

Challenges entered:

House Mouse and Friends:  Anything Goes with Twine

Party Time Tuesdays:  Glitter

Fashionable Stamping:  Make it a Card

Quirky Crafts:  Favorite Things

Sir Stamps A Lot:  All Creatures Great and Small

Hiding in my Craft Room:  Color It

Little Claire's Designs:  Child's Birhtday

Sweet Pea Stampers:  Sparkle and Shine

Owl Family

Hi Everyone! I hope you are enjoying Fall. I sure am. Since Halloween is right around the corner, I want to share a card I made with this cute little Sparkle N Sprinkle owl family from the Owlette stamp set 511 (not the Adam's Family)! LOL! I wanted to make my card spooky - cute for Halloween. I had a background already made that I loved. I used black glossy card stock and rubbed rust, purple and silver Mica Gloss over it. I just loved the spooky aura it created.  To add some more pizzazz I patted Versa Mark ink over the background and sprinkled on Silver Detail EP257 and Log Cabin EP397 embossing powders and heat set them from underneath so that the embossing powders would not blow off. Peruvian Lily velvet glitter GM2014 was used to highlight the tree and owls. Thanks so much for stopping by.  Have a wonderful day and a lovely Fall!   

Other SNS supplies used:

1. Versa Mark ink
2. Tear-ific Tape SAT01
3. Sakura glue pen
4. Mirror Silver card stock 99569