If Kisses Were Snowflakes...

It is Christmas In July at Sparkle N Sprinkle with all the new Christmas sets.  E. Marie here to share a card using the new Christmas set, Milton Catching Snowflakes.  This guy is adorable with his scarves and comes with four great sentiments.

I chose to create a “gap” card since I have seen so many great samples lately.  Most of these cards actually leave an actual gap between the top and bottom front sections, held together by an image or sentiment, but I chose to support this one with a piece of acetate.

After adding decorative cardstock on the top and bottom layers, Dimensional Glue was run around the edges and Twinkling Clouds Sparkle N Soft was added to look like snow.

The image was heat embossed with Detail Black embossing powder and colored with Copic markers.  Cloud Nine Velvet Glitter was added to the scarves and snowflake using a glue pen.  This was layered to the right side of the card.

I used the digital version of this set to print the sentiment and layered this on the inside of the card so the sentiment would show in the open gap.  Here is a picture of the inside.  I added white layers on the inside top and bottom of the card front to make it look neater and cover any exposed adhesive from adding the acetate.

I know you will love playing with this card style and hope you enjoyed seeing this cute set.

E. Marie

Love You Latte!

I am a coffee drinker and I love to have a cup first thing in the morning.  Even in the summer!  My little kindergartners always tell me I smell like coffee and I seem to get a lot of coffee gift cards from them.  I carry my mug around a lot, but I think it is more of a comfort thing than that I actually drink that much coffee.  I actually used left over coffee to stamp on today’s card, along with stamps from Just For Fun.

I started with layers of blue, cream, white, and brown.  Then I used my cup and dipped it in coffee and stamped some rings across the layers.  Some of it ran a bit which added some puddle marks.  I let this dry and stamped the sentiment, A Latte, in red.  I heat embossed the coffee beans from the Coffee Unmounted Sheet, cut them out, and layered them on the card.  The picture makes them look different colors but it must just be the angle.

The main image is Latte' Love, which was heat embossed.  I lightly water colored this, but actually painted the brown sections with coffee and added a few coffee splatters.  I stamped the heart from the image a second time, embossing with red, cut it out and layered it on top.  To create the foam, I used Dimensional Glue and Twinkling Clouds Sparkle N Soft flocking.  Looks almost good enough to drink.

This card is also being entered in the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.

Just For Fun has a great assortment of coffee themed images and sayings, so I am sure I will be sharing more cards with this theme. 

E. Marie

Sparkle N Sprinkle December Blog Hop

Welcome to Sparkle N Sprinkle's  Dec 1 Blog Hop!

This month the Designers were given a Surprise Package full of products found at the SNS Shoppe and were asked to create projects with these products.  So sit back, enjoy the Hop and get ready to have those creative juices flowing!

On Dec 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 on the SNS Blog, will receive a $20 gift certificate to go shopping at the SNS Shoppe.

 The Blog Hop order this month is:

Anne

Shona

Jess

Belinda

Marie

Eret

Irit

(*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 would also like to thank all the Guest Designers who joined us this year: Diane, Ashley, Ani, Chris, Irit, and Jess.  It was a pleasure having each of you on the team as Guest Designers!

We hope you enjoy the Surprise Package Blog Hop as much as we enjoyed creating projects for it.  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????

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.

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!

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In my surprise package I received a wooden Christmas Stocking and some Red Diamond Mesh so I decided to make an ornament.  I covered the front and back of the main stocking shape with designer paper, using brushable glue.  I sanded the edges so it fit exactly.

Then I ran strips of 1/8” Tear-ific tape around the edge.  I covered this with Gold Tinsel Embossing Powder and heat set.  I wanted the gold to extend onto the designer paper so I used the Distressed Embossing Technique and added more of the Gold Tinsel Embossing Powder.  Then, still using 1/8" Tear-ific Tape, I added strips of the Red Diamond Mesh.

For the top section, after covering the back with the designer paper and adding the embossing powder around the edges with Tear-ific Tape, I added white embossing paste.  I tapped on it lightly to give it extra texture and then covered it with Twinkling Clouds Sparkle N Soft.  I let this dry and then gently used the Distressed Embossing Technique to add a little more Gold Tinsel Embossing Powder around the top edges of the embossing paste.  I adhered this piece to the top of the stocking, tucking ribbon in between to use as a hanger.

The next stop on our blog hop is Eret.  Head on over, but don't forget to leave a comment.  Thank you for hopping by.

E. Marie

Scrapy Land Challenge #25

Scrapy Land Blog has a new challenge today.  Challenge #25 is Anything Goes (using any brand of die Scrapy Land sells).  For my project I decided to create a layout, though I really do not scrapbook.  I tell myself that it is just a larger card with more room to play.

I created the look of water by heat embossing the wave flourish with white embossing powder on a square of watercolor paper and using Ultramarine Blue and Pthalo Green Color Bursts.  I die cut the Memory Box Oceana Corner several times from white cardstock and placed one in the upper left corner.  I cut the others apart and layered them across the “ocean”.  This is all added to dark blue and white cardstock, with the top and bottom punched with a border punch.

The photo is layered on blue and dark blue and Hit the Beach embossing powder was added around the edge.

To create the sand castle, Sparkling Sands flocking was added to adhesive on a piece of cardstock and the image was heat embossed on top of this.  I fussy cut it and added it to the layout front.

The dark blue base for the layout is intermittently stamped with a variety of shell images that are heat embossed with more Hit the Beach embossing powder.  Then bubble wrap was pressed into Versamark ink and “stamped” onto the background and heat embossed with Sparkle embossing powder. 

I let the wet wipes I used to clean up after the color burst dry and adhered them to cardstock.  I used this to die cut the seaweed.

The oval sentiment was heat embossed with Dark Night embossing powder and die cut with Spellbinders’ Classic Oval dies.  This was used to create a shaker pocket filled with die cut shells, sand dollars, and starfish.

Don’t forget to visit the Scrapy Land Blog to see more inspiration from the other designers.  Then get creative to enter your creation for a chance to win.

E. Marie