Hummingbird by Sparkle N Sprinkle

This is an old card that I made for Sparkle N Sprinkle.  I used copics for coloring and used the tear-ific tape that SNS sells to put two strips on the card and then covered those with purple glitter. 
This stamp set and the Tear-ific Tape can be found at the store of SNS at www.sparklensprinkle.com.  The tape comes in several different sizes -- 1/8", 1/4", 1/2", and the large 2 1/2".  Enjoy!

St. Patrick's Day

I'm sorry I haven't been blogging lately. Life is moving along so fast and I am enjoying every minute!  We had a snowstorm last weekend and had about 8-10 inches of snow.  It was a beautiful snow but we lost electricity for about 24 hours.  Now we are back to having wind and rain.  The sunny weather will be here soon!  Since tomorrow will be the first of March, I am looking for some beautiful spring days (without allergies!! LOL).   

Blog Hop Winners

               Here’s the list of winners for the blog hop!

Grand Prize #1:  Janet 33234  -  full-sized stamp set of her choice on cling

Grand Prize #2:  Stampnk – Stampette set of their choice on cling

1^st Place: (from Angie’s blog)  JayBee46   - two glitter tinsels of her choice

2^nd Place: (from Karalee’s blog)  Denise Bryant  - 3 small e mbossing powders of her choice

3^rd Place: (from Barbara’s blog)  Cat Darling  -  3 small glitters of her choice

Congratulations to all of the winners and many thanks to everyone that left comments!  I have read each of my comments and appreciate all comments I got. 

Spring Fling Blog Hop

Welcome to the Sparkle N Sprinkle Spring Fling blog hop!  If you hopped here by way of Angie @   http://hopemorestudio.blogspot.com  then you are in the right place!  Otherwise, you might like starting from the beginning @ http://sparklensprinkle.com/blog. to become eligible for FIVE great prizes.

There are 2 grand prizes and 3 “random” prizes that are attached to 3 different designers blogs!

The sale items for Feb. at 15% discount are:  Art Deco, People, Fantasy & Gail Burton images.

I have chosen to make an Easter egg card and I used colorful papers to help usher in spring.  I used the Mediterranean Star Embossing Powder (EP429) for the eggs and sentiment.  Then I used Blue Jewel Glitter (G1113) and Cyclamen Glitter (G1090) to decorate the eggs and sentiment.  The leaves is a die cut from Spellbinders and the butterfly is a die from Cheery Lynn Designs.  I used green mulberry paper for the grass and leaves.  I hope you enjoy this bright spot of spring!

The list of participants for the blog hop is as follows: 

SNS Home Blog addy:  http://sparklensprinkle.com/blog

Karalee Ingram  http://kareescardsandcraftsofcourse.blogspot.com

Julie Zippel  http://backtobasicsandbeyond.blogspot.com

Jill Jacobsen  http://stampinhands.com

Shanna Shands   http://scsdesigns.blogspot.com

Marie Berquist  http://craftemarie.blogspot.com

Jessica Griffin  http://canyoupixelthis.com

Charlene Driggs   http://www.paperandinkplayground.com

Angie Blasingame   http://hopemorestudio.blogspot.com

Eleanor Jenkins  http://stampinginva.blogspot.com (you are here)

Barbara Bruder  http://www.artandsoulcreations.blogspot.com

Gerlinde Townsley   http://mycreativecorner-gerlinde.blogspot.com

Karin Martin   http://karin-withaniforpaper.blogspot.com

Lana Clarke  http://sweetpeaspapercreations.blogspot.com

April Williams   http://stampwillydesigns.blogspot.com

Shona Erlenborn&nbs p;  http://shonasstampingstage.blogspot.com

Amanda Reed   http://cardscatsandcopics.blogspot.com

Brenda Smalle   http://www.rubberroomantics.blogspot.com

Thank each of you for visiting my blog and don't forget to leave a comment to become eligible for a prize!  Remember to be eligible for a prize you must comment on each blog that is listed above.  Don't we all love blog candy!!  Now you are ready to hop over to Barbara at http://www.artandsoulcreations.blogspot.com where another beautiful project waits for you. .

Hummingbird feeding

This stamp is from Sparkle N Sprinnkle and it is from a beautiful set. I also used purple glitter on the Tear-rific tape that I ran across the top and bottom of the red card. I colored the scene with Prismacolor Pencils and blended with Gamsol. Then I used a die cut from Spellbinders to cut out the image. You can get these stamps and glitter at www.sparklensprinkle.com. Hope you enjoy this card. Have a great day!

Red Grapes

Sorry I haven't been posting much lately, but have been busy with finishing up an order of cards and working at www.paperink.net three days a week. The store has the new Cheery Lynn dies in stock and I have had so much fun demoing these delicate dies. We also have the double sided adhesive that is made for die cutting. The adhesive does not make your dies sticky and it sticks beautifully! The above card was made for SparkleNSprinkle. They came out with some new wine stamps the other month (when I was having computer problems) and I am just getting around to showing what I did with the stamps. I colored this one with prismacolor pencils and blended with Gamsol. I highlighted all of the "wet" droplets with Ranger's clear accents. You can go to www.sparklensprinkle.com to see many more views of the wine cards and to order the stamps. Have a great day!

Happy Heart

Thought I would post another valentine card. The image is from SparkleNSprinkle. The image was stamped with white pigment ink onto watercolor paper and heat embossed with white embossing powder. I then used the Range distress inks in Spun Sugar, Pumice Stone, and the new Red from the Christmas pack. I started with the lightest color working my way up to the darkest. I used the blending tool to get a good blending of the colors. A white satin ribbon was tied around this and then layered onto charcoal cardstock and this was attached to red cardstock. Very easy card. You can buy this image from www.sparklensprinkle.com and it is one of the small sets so very reasonable in cost.

Bee Mine

Sorry I haven't posted for a couple of weeks, but the most wonderful thing has happened! I am now working 2-3 days per week at Paper Ink on the downtown mall in Charlottesville, VA. This store opened a couple of months ago and is adding new stamps, cardstock, pens, etc. daily. I am so happy to be part of this team! I design cards using all of this new stuff and demo the die cutting with the Grand Calibur. I also teach card making classes. You can go to their web site at www.paperink.net to see pictures of the team's work. After being off from work for a whole year, I am gradually getting my body back in shape to work three days a week. This is an opportunity made in heaven!! Anyway, I am going to try to upload cards more often now. For the above card I have used the Bee Mine stamp set from www.sparklensprinkle.com. This is such an adorable set! I used a Cuttlebug folder for the background, a Fiskars border punch for the bottom row of hearts, a Memory Die for the corner flourish, and a Spellbinders circle heart for the pink circle. I used my Copics to color the pink butterfly. Enjoy!

Merry Christmas

This is an ornament made out of a drink coaster that I made last year! I used stamps from SparkleNSprinkle and this set of stamps is one of my favorite sets from them. I love to stamp penguins and find different ways to dress them with embossing powder, glitter, markers, flower soft, etc. The silver and red snowflakes were die cut using an old Cuttlebug snowflake die. I glued flower soft around the edges of the ornament. The stamp set can be found at www.sparklensprinkle.com. Have to get back to my cooking now. Two of my grandsons are here all day today and tomorrow three of them will be here. Christmas is all about children and family! Have a wonderful holiday season!

Beautiful Snowfall

I'm so sorry I have been missing in action!  I usually upload my pics from my laptop and it had to take a visit to the shop for repairs.  I'm hoping it will return home soon!  My PC is slow and I don't have photo editing on it so am going to just post my pics without editing.  This neat scene is from Rubber Cottage and is colored with copic markers.  I added Starfire Glitter #G1017 from http://www.sparklensprinkle.com/ on all of the snowy areas.  I love hos this glitter sparkles just like a new snowfall!  The poinsetta is stamped with white pigment ink and heat embossed with white opaque embossing powder.  The poinsetta stamp is from Heartfelt Creations and the die is from Spellbinders.  The cardstock is cherry cobbler from Stampin Up and the white is from Papertrey Ink.  Enjoy!

Holly Berries

Another Christmas card.  This one is very easy and simple.  The stamp is from SparkleNSprinkle and it was colored with Copic markers.  I die cut this out using my Grand Calibur and the Fleur de lis square nestabilities. I put glossy clear accents on the berries so they are really shiny!  I then layered everything to make a very simple card.  Enjoy.

"It's A Culture Thing Blog Hop

Welcome to the Sparkle N Sprinkle It's A Cultural Thing blog hop!  If you hopped here by way of Julie's blog at http://backtobasicsandbeyond.blogspot.com/ then you are in the right place! Otherwise, you might like starting from the beginning at SNS Home Blog addy: http://sparklensprinkle.com/blog/ to become eligible for four great prizes.  I chose an Asian theme for the Cultural blog hop   I only used three colors for this card -- white background, black and gold.  I used the Asian fan from Set 126 and stamped with gold ink on black cardstock.  I then embossed with gold detail embossing powder and fuzzy cut.  I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder with black cardstock.   I then brayered gold pigment ink over the entire black embossed cardstock.  This picture isn't showing up the gold like it did in real life but it is brilliant in real life! A complete list of supplies and tutorial on how to make this card can be found at http://sparklensprinkle.com/g/view_photo.php?set_albumName=Oriental&id=agi. The following is a list of the blogs for you to visit to get more ideas!

Linda Loew http://www.lindamloew.blogspot.com
Amanda Reed http://cardscatsandcopics.blogspot.com
Shona Erlenborn http://shonasstampingstage.blogspot.com/
Angie Blasingame http://hopemorestudio.blogspot.com/
Barbara Bruder http://www.artandsoulcreations.blogspot.com/
April Williams http://stampwillydesigns.blogspot.com/
Julie Zippel http://backtobasicsandbeyond.blogspot.com/
Eleanor Jenkins http://stampinginva.blogspot.com/ (that's me)
Karin Martin http://karin-withaniforpaper.blogspot.com
Gerline Townsley http://mycreativecorner-gerlinde.blogspot.com
Marie Berquist http://craftemarie.blogspot.com/
Patti White http://iliveforsnsglitter.blogspot.com/
Sandy Meier http://simplysandylee.blogspot.com/
Dawn Thomas http://belladonnasgarden.blogspot.com/
Donna Ellis http://creativesmiles2.blogspot.com/
 http://sparklensprinkle.com/blog/ 

 I hope you enjoy this card and don't forget to leave a comment to be eligible to win some prizes!  Hop over to Karin's blog now to see her great card!  Thanks for hopping!

Peace

Christmas is right around the corner and the weather we are having sure does indicate that winter is here!  It was 29 degrees this morning!  The fur babies aren't even staying out very long.  I did this card as part of the monthly cards for SparkleNSprinkle last month.  I used red cardstock by www.papertreyink.com and stamped the holly with black ink to make the backgrung.  I used Spellbinders ornament die cut with the Grand Calibur to cut out the double sided adhesive and then sprinkled with the Silver Glitter Tinsel by SparklNSprinkle.  I then stamped the holly and colored with Copic markers.  This was then die cut and placed on the Glitter Tinsel.  I used Crystal Effects to make the berries shine.  The stamps is from www.sparklensprinkle.com.  You can see many samples of this stamp set if you go to their web store.  Enjoy.

Pooch Day

Two of my doggie cards are featured on the SparkleNSprinkle blog today so I thought I would also show this card.  Go to http://sparklensprinkle.com/blog/ so you can see the other two cards.  One of the cards is made with a book mark.  Thanks for looking!

I made easel card from one of the new SparkleNSprinkle stamp sets that were just released.  These are smaller sets than previously and are just so sweet!  There are three different snowmen sets which can be found here http://sparklensprinkle.com/o/index.php?cPath=82_207.  There are three other small sets also and all of them can be found at the above link.  The above easel card was shown on the SNS newsletter which went out yesterday.  I was really surprised and pleased that my card was in the newsletter.  To find out how the card was made you can visit http://sparklensprinkle.com/g/view_photo.php?set_albumName=Christmas-New-Year&id=ayp.  It is a rainy cold day here in Virginia today and that makes me want to get in my room and work on more stamping projects.  Hope you enjoy this card!

Wrinkled Pooch

What do you think of this winkled pooch?  I think he is so sweet!  Plus the sentiment is great!  This stamp set is from http://www.sparklensprinkle.com/ and also the glitter tinsel.  This is a 5x5 card made from a medium brown cardstock.  I used pattern paper to layer and cut it in triangles.  I then ran the double sided tear-ific tape from http://www.sparklensprinkle/ down the middle of the triangle and sprinkled on the tinsel.  I used the Grand Caliber from Spellbinders with the scalloped rectangle to die cut the sentiment.  I colored the pooch with Copic markers.  Have a beautiful fall day!  I am going to visit a fall craft show and hopefully the back and knee allows me to walk the whole show!

Fall butterfly

I am anxious to get back to blogging and cardmaking!  It seems like I lost most of the month of September.  I had to go to the ER and found out my appendix was about to rupture.  Had surgery and came home in two days.  Then I was on a strong antibiotic and couldn't get my body to co-operate so ended up back in the hospital.  Finally I am feeling much better and need to get back to my crafting!!  The above card was made for SparkleNSprinkle and it is on their web site in case you want the directions on how to make the card at http://sparklensprinkle.com/g/view_photo.php?set_albumName=Animals-Insects&id=atg.  I used my Grand Calibur to cut the Spellbinder dies.  Enjoy and I will be back soon!

BLOG HOP WINNERS

Congratulations to all of the blog hop winners!  I also want to thank everone that posted on my blog as I love to get comments and I hope everyone will visit me again very soon.  The winners are:

Grand Prize - Aileen Freeman
Prize One from Donna Ellis - 2 embossing tinsel colors of your choice!

Karen A. Jones

Prize Two from Dawn Thomas - 3 embossing powders

Linda Craig -
Prize Three from Linda Loew - 3 glitters

Denise B -

Prize Four from Shona Erlenborn - 2 Sparkle N Soft colors

Barb P

Prize Five from Patti White - 2 Flocking colors

Anita Braddock -

Autumn Inspirations

Welcome to the Sparkle N Sprinkle Autumn Inspirations blog hop.  If you hopped here from Marie's blog at http://craftemarie.blogspot.com/  then you are in the right place.  If not, and you'd like to become eligible for the Grand Prize and five other mystery prizes, please begin on the SNS Home Blog at http://sparklensprinkle.com/blog/ 

When I think of autumn, I always think of pumpkins, so I decided to make a card with some pumpkin stamps from SNS http://sparklensprinkle.com/o/index.php?cPath=82_93. Aren't these pumpkins just darling?  They can be used in so many ways!  Plus the autumn stamps are on sale!!  Yay!!  I stamped the pumpkins on orange cardstock and shaded them with Prismacolor pencils.  I then cut them out.  The background is done with burlap material and covered with dark chocolate cardstock which I die cut with my Grand Calibur die cutting machine.  The sentiment is also from SNS and can be found at http://sparklensprinkle.com/o/index.php?cPath=82_84.  You can read a more detailed description of my card at  http://sparklensprinkle.com/g/view_photo.php?set_albumName=Thanksgiving&id=adl

Leave a comment on my blog to become eligible for the Grand prize and five other mystery prizes.  I read all of the comments you leave so if you have any questions about my card, just put it in the comment and where I can reach you, and I will answer.  I love comments!! 
Now hop on over to Barbara Bruder's blog at http://www.artandsoulcreations.blogspot.com/.  Have a great time hopping and good luck!  Maybe you will be a lucky one!!

Butterfly fantasy

Good morning!  For a change, I am up early so thought I would start the day by showing a lovely butterfly card.  The new butterfly stamp set, butterfly dies, tinsel, glitter, and embossing powder can be ordered from http://www.sparklensprinkle.com/.  If you click on the card you can see a close-up of the butterfly showing where I  used different colors of glitter.  Also, isn't this tinsel darling?  All you have to do is lay down a strip of tear-ific double sided tape and sprinkle on the glitter tinsel.  You can find different widths of the tear-ific tape on this page at http://sparklensprinkle.com/o/index.php?cPath=25_76.  This is the tape that I use to make all of my cards, boxes, etc.  It is just wonderful! 
  This is a pic of the new butterfly stamp set and it is located at http://sparklensprinkle.com/o/index.php?cPath=82_134&&page=4.  You can buy it as only a stamp set or a combination set with the butterfly dies from spellbinderspaperarts.  Enjoy.