Noel

So glad you stopped by today!!

I know that Christmas is a ways off (149 days) however I have been incorporating Christmas cards in some of my card classes lately. 

I thought I'd share this one with you.

SUPPLIES USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps:  Inkadinkado - Angel; Art Impressions - sentiment Paper/Card Stock: Blue CS, White CS, Gold CS,  Ink: Danube Blue, Angel Pink- Memories; VersaMark; Punches/Dies Used: Marvy Accessories: Ribbon, Gold Embossing Powder, Craft-Dee BowZ  tool

I am submitting this card t the following challenges:

• Artbymiran Challenge - No.11 - (W1 of 2) - Anything Goes
• Bloggers -  Christmas in July
• Crafty Catz -  No.241 - Anything Goes
• Jellypark Friends Friday Challenge - - Christmas in July
• Sister Act Card Challenge -  No. 67 - Anything Goes
• Stempelsonnen Challenge - - No.120 - (W1 of 2) - Anything Goes
• Aud Sentiments Challenge -  #111 Christmas In July
• Creative Knockouts  #47 Christmas in July

Thanks for stopping in today. Tuesday I will have a post for Craft-Dee BowZ and hope you will stop back for that. It's a masculine card and I think you will like it.

Have a great week

Deepest Sympathy

Welcome back. Gosh it's Wednesday already. This week is flying by.

Let me share my second sympathy card from last Saturday's morning class. This started out as an all black card. Black card stock, black embossing powder, totally black. Then I had to rethink this card. Too much black. So here is the card that my students wound up making last Saturday. Black card with a white panel and a black tag with the sentiment.

Black on black is hard to photograph

so

Let me show you that label which is below the image on the card

Don't be afraid of black and make sure to use your embossing buddy on your card stock to keep those pesky specks of embossing powder away from where they do not belong. .LOL

We all need sympathy cards from time to time. So, check out your stamps and see which ones will make a great black and white card. So simple yet so striking.

In class I did a third card however I sold it before I photographed it. I loved that card so I will make another one and post it later. It was a really cool card.

The next  three cards I have to share with you are from last Saturday's afternoon class.Two of the cards are Easter cards and are so cute.

SUPPLIES USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps:  Northwoods - Calla Lillies (PP8490), Hot Off The Press - Heartfelt Greetings Paper/Card Stock: White CS, Black CS Ink: VersaMark Dies Used: Spellbinders Fancy Tags S4-235 Accessories: Black detail embossing powder

I am submitting this card in the following challenges:

• Crafts and Me Challenge & Inspiration Blog - Anything Goes (#169)
• Just B Creative Crazy -   Linky Party Anything goes (#250)
• Just For Fun -  Anything Goes(# 171)
•  LEJ Designs Challenge - Favorite Die Cuts (#59)
• Treasured Times Rubber Stamps & Scrapbooking - Challenge #14 Anything goes with Layering (#27)
• Challenges 4 Everybody -  Challenge #39 Anything Goes. (#506)
• Scribble and Scrap -  Challenge #14  Always Anything Goes. (#70)
• My Craft Creations -  Always Anything Goes (#21)
• Shabby Tea Room -  Anything Goes (#79)
• The Crazy Challenge -  Flower Frenzy (#29)

Yappy Birthday

Welcome back everyone,

Are you staying warm?? Well it's really cold here in the northern part of the south, otherwise known as Northern, Kentucky. I was invited to a birthday party for a darling 3 year old and who would want to miss that, even if it is 16 degrees out.  The party was held at a local pizzeria and we all had a wonderful time. Logan, the birthday boy himself, got so many gifts I think he got more that he did at Christmas. LOL

Let me share with you the card that I put together for his 3rd birthday.

I had the stamp of the dogs in my stash but I wanted to add something else to this card. It needed some more personality. LOL  What would be more appropriate than a dog house. I hand drew the dog house and then decided to make the house look like it was made of wooden siding. I added the siding boards (yellow card stock) to the cutout of the doghouse. I layered the siding starting from the bottom, working up, overlapping just like you see on a house. I trimmed the edges and then I then added the house trim in dark brown and used a black piece to give the opening some depth. I attached the dog house to the card front with dimensional foam. The paw prints are stamped in VersaMark and embossed with clear EP.

The sentiment is computer generated as is the inside sentiment. Coloring of the dogs and the front sentiment was done with my Spectrum Noir's

Logan's mom, Morgan, thought this card was so cute and I am so glad she liked it. She is saving this card so Logan can look back on the card and pics that Morgan took, when her gets older.

Supplies used:
Stamps - Great Impressions
Ink/Markers - India Ink, Spectrum Noir, VersaMark
Clear Detail EP
Cardstock - Mint Green, Yellow (siding), Black, Dark Brown, Medium Brown
Dimensional Foam

I am submitting this card in the following challenges:

• 4 Krafty Girlz - Challenge # 9 Anything Goes  (#240)
  
• Charisma Cardz - Challenge #51 Its a boy thing (#25)
• DL.ART Thankful Thursday Challenge -   Monthly Linky Party (open till January 31, 2014) Anything Goes (#202)
• Scrapbooker PhD - Use Stamps (#4)

Thanks for stopping in and I will see you soon

A Little Bird

Hi Everyone

Hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Just bought a cute stamp set from Woodware Craft Collection and it contains 3 different birds and 2 sentiments that work together.This is such a great set!!!

I decided to use a center step card that I had cut earlier today. This card will fit in a A-2 envelope.

The three different birds in this set all have circles on their bodies. So I decided to use an embossing powder just on those areas to add some visual interest. That DP I used in the center panel area, has some pink swirly areas and I just added glitter to give that area more definition and to catch one's eye.

I added some pearl swirls to the side panels which  picked up the swirl design on the DP paper and tied both areas together.

Love this cute bird set, hope you do too.

I am entering my project in the following 10 challenges:

• Challenges 4 Everybody - 2W, 3E - (2nd week) Challenge #28: Always Anything Goes
• Hobbycutz  -W, 3E, SIO - Challenge #15 Anything Goes
• Sentimental Sundays - W, must include a Sentiment - Challenge #171Something Tweet.
• Di's Digis Designs 3E 2W SIO - (W2 of 2)   Birthdays
• Totally Gorjuss - W  #200   Anything Goes
• Brown Sugar – W, E2 - No. 58 - Animals
• Inspire Me Fridays– W - No. 119 - Anything Goes!
• Quick Quotes - M (first Friday of the month), E1, SIO - No.31 - week 1 -  Anything Goes
• Sister Act Card Challenge - W, Cards. - No. 23 - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping in today, Have a great week

Get Well

Hi Everyone,
Happy Summer!!!! Well I have been busy giving my monthly classes and I also took time to actually take a class over at Scraps Etc.-KY. The class was so great. Karen Burniston was in town and she gave a fabulous class. We made 4 fantastic cards using her easy to use Sizzix dies that she has designed. I will be back in a few days to show you the cards we made.

In the meantime I have also been busy making a few cards for Sparkle N Sprinkle. I want to show you this one in particular.

I designed this card using lots of glitter and some embossing powder. The stamps are on the nicest set, called Swirls (set 497). Love this set

I decided to use glitter as a layering element and after I attached my two designer papers I added a border of 1/2" tape around all four edges of the card. I then covered the tape with glitter. Next I added a trellis piece and layered that on top of the DP.

I stamped the flower, heart and the butterfly using black ink. On the butterfly, I colored it using Spectrum Noir markers and then covered the image with glue and I covered the butterfly with Sparkling Snow glitter.

On the hearts I then traced the black swirls using a glue pen. I covered the glue with Meadow Spark Glitter.

The flower was covered in the center area of the image with VersaMark. Then I covered the VersaMark with  Shimmer EP, tapped off the excess and heat set it.(It's hard to see but its there. LOL)

All of the images were fussy cut and I used dimensional foam to mount the flowers and the hearts.

The sentiment was stamped in the same black ink and I used Spellbinders Labels Three to cut out the sentiment and the bordered piece under the sentiment. 

Here is a review of what I used on this card:

Large Flower, Hearts, Butterfly and Get Well sentiment –Sparkle N Sprinkle stamp set 497Swirls

Adhesives: ¼" Tearific Tape- SAT01, 1/2"  Tearific Tape -SAT04, Brushable Glue - 540, Glue Pen - 053482384809 

Spellbinders Labels Three S4-189 (2^nd & 3^rd smallest dies)

Inks: Memento–Black Tuxedo 712353259003, VersaMark -712353310018 

Glitters: Meadow Spark G1014, Sparkling Snow G1003 from Sparkle N Sprinkle

Embossing Powder: Shimmer EP137 from Sparkle N Sprinkle

Other products used:

Cardstock: Designer Papers (DP) 3, White, Yellow, Mint Green

Dimensional foam

Alcohol Ink Markers

Swirl Die

Lattice Die

I am submitting this card in the following fabulous challenges:

• Craft Lovin Challenge Blog - Anything Goes
• Crafty Calendar  Things with Wings
• Paper Creator's Crafts Make it Sparkle
• The Hobby House  Anything Goes
• Crafty Catz - Add Some Embossing
• Inspire Me Fridays - Anything Goes

For the next day or so I am purging. Simply Said Rubber Stamps in Loveland Ohio, is having a used stamp sale next Saturday and I am bound and determined to get rid of a lot of stuff (to make room for more). So if you are in the area, ya might want to check out her sale, I know there will be some great deals.

Well I hope you have a great week this week. I will be back soon.

My Favorite Technique Blog Hop

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to the Sparkle N Sprinkle Favorite Techniques Blog Hop.

If you have arrived here from Cammy's blog then you are in the correct spot.If you haven't and you want to be eligible for prizes, then please start at the beginning at the Sparkle N Sprinkle blog to be eligible for some fabulous prizes.

This month our blog hop theme is my favorite technique. Boy, I had a hard time deciding what to show because there are so many techniques that I love to use. Since I my card was going to use an Easter theme that made my choice easy.

I decided to use one of my all time favorite techniques, making your own glitter paper. Here is why I love this technique: It's easy to make, I can use whatever color card stock I choose, I can match the color to my project,......oh and did I say it's an easy technique.

Let me show you how easy this technique really is. First gather up a few needed items

I cut my card stock into egg shapes first, but you can do this after the glitter paper is made if you prefer.

You will need a heat tool, I used a clip to hold the egg shapes as I heat set the powder, VersaMark, Shimmer Embossing Powder - EP 137, and a coffee filter to catch the excess EP.

 Cover your card stock with VersaMark then cover with the Shimmer EP.

 Heat set.

Here are the eggs with one layer of Shimmer EP applied.

 I applied a 2nd layer to add even more glitter to these eggs.

Here is the card that I designed using those glittery eggs I made using this technique.
Click here for directions to make this card.

List of products used:

Shimmer EP - EP137

VersaMark -712353310018 

Sentiment - Set 426 Easter Chicks

Bunny - Set  488 Bunnies and Bows

1/4" Tearific Tape - SAT01 

Mini 8 Punch 

Spellbinders Nested Egg Die S4-264

Designer paper (for the grass)

Fringe Scissors (for the grass)

Well I hope you give this technique a try, I really think you will like it, too. It is fast, easy and really the results are quite pretty. 

Just a reminder to leave a comment to be eligible for the fabulous prizes that are to be awarded.  There are prizes "hidden" in some of the blogs, so the comment you leave just may be one of the winners.

Next on the blog hop agenda is the wonderfully creative Karin Martin, So hop on over to her blog to check out her awesome technique.

Here is the list of designers in case you get lost.

** Marie Berquist  ** Dawn Bennett ** Cammy Vietzke ** Barbara Bruder (that's me) **

** Karin Martin ** Jackie Smith  ** Julie Zippel ** Shanna Shands ** 

** April Williams  ** Brigita Skopas  ** Shona Erlenborn ** Anne Temple **

**Karalee Ingram  ** Brenda Smalle **  

Thanks for stopping in today so I could share this easy and fun technique with you.

Another Christmas Scrapbook Layout

Hi Everyone,

On my last post, I believe I mentioned that the Sparkle N Sprinkle Designers project for December was scrapbook layouts. My last post showed the cute whimsical layout I made using my cats as the subject. This layout utilized pic's of friends on Christmas Eve. I went to Robin's house for Christmas Eve, as I do every year, and she always decorates to the hilt! Her home is always in perfect order. Her trees are always perfectly decorated and I thought that would be my inspiration for this layout, the guests at her party. I took a few pictures of Robin and some of the others at her Christmas Eve get together and that got me started.

In planning this layout,  I picked out a beautiful gold/yellow scrapbook page and decided to make a fir tree stamping a pine sprig to resemble a pine tree.Next I used holly dies to add a border on the right edge. Then  came the poinsettias and the punched border. Lastly I added pictures and letters that I glittered.

Click here for complete directions and a product list.

This was a fun project and I will be doing more layouts, I'm sure.

I am submitting this in the following challenges:

Sparkles Forum Challenge - Anything Goes

Christmas at Sweet Stampin - Anything Christmas Goes

Crafty Creations Challenges - Anything Goes #203

Inky Impressions - Anything Goes 

The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping in, have a great day.

Winter Wonderland Blog Hop

Hi Everyone,
Welcome to the Sparkle N Sprinkle Winter Wonderland Blog Hop.If you got here from Dawn's blog then you are in the right spot. If not, you might want to start at the Sparkle N Sprinkle blog so you don't miss anything.

I have 2 projects for you and the first one uses stamps from Set 414, Winter Swirl. This set is definitely one of my favorites!!

I used the pine forest and stamped it multiple times to give the scene dimension. Also using lighter and darker embossing powder colors helped with the dimension as well.After I fussy cut the forest images I attached the images to each other and then added the images to the embossed panel on the card front.This set really is perfect for a winter wonderland theme.

Directions for this card can be found here.

Next I thought I'd use stamps in set 385, Merry Crows. Slim the snowman, is another of my favorites. This set has a great array of  images.There are so many great images included in this set, check them all out below. 

Along with Slim, I thought I'd include that cute bird and I placed it onto the pine branch I have added to the card. I used a lattice border punch in brown cs and then added die cut elements that include pine branches, a pine cone, and some holly leaves. These elements add great interest to "Slim".And of course snowmen really remind me of a winter wonderland.

Directions for this card can be found here.

A reminder, that through the end of the month, the Sparkle Team presents the Asian, Medallion and Decorative Elements categories on special – 15% off. Among the specials, will also be all images by Artist, Andrea Roberts and several coordinating embossing powders and glitters.  To view all our specials just click here  http://sparklensprinkle.com/o/specials.php     

If you get lost -  start here - http://www.sparklensprinkle.com/blog

Designers in today's blog hop -

** Julie Zippel ** Shanna Shands ** Brigita Skopas ** Anne Temple **

** Karin Martin ** Debi Brile ** Shona Erlenborn ** Dawn Bennett **

** Barbara Bruder (that's me) ** Genevieve Chesky ** Karalee Ingram **

** Cheryl Bennett ** Keri Brown ** Marie Berquist **

** Charmagne Welch-Rivera ** April Williams ** Cammy Vietzke **

** Jackie Smith ** Brenda Smalle **

Hop info:

This hop runs November 15-November 18.Winners will be announced over on the Sparkle N Sprinkle blog on Nov. November 19. There are 6 prizes to be awarded and winners are selected from the comments left on the designer’s blogs.  Leave a comment on each designers blog and follow directions on the last blog. Leaving a comment inspires, motivates and brings happiness to each designer!

Now it's time to hop on over to Gen's blog to see her fabulous designs.

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to leave a comment for a chance at a prize.