Hi Everyone! Welcome to the Sparkle N Sprinkle Technique Tuesday. It is time for vacations and hitting the beach! I made a card using the beautiful Serena Mermaid. The technique I used does great for a water background. I hope you will join me in making some for yourself.
Take the paper towel and fold it several times. I folded it to fit my 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ card.
Now place the folded paper towel on top of the large multi-colored ink pad and brayer over the paper towel a few times.
The paper towel will look like this when finished. It needs to be pretty saturated with ink.
This time take white card stock and lay it on top of the inked side of the paper towel. Brayer the top several times.
Here is what the background looks like when you are finished.
When I saw this pattern, I wanted to make an underwater scene, so I used the Penboss , traced the swirl print with it, added Sparkle embossing powder and heat set it. Now my “water” looks shimmery.
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed this technique. Have a great day!
Hi and welcome to the Sparkle N Sprinkle Technique Tuesday! Father’s Day is right around the corner, so I thought I would show you a Father’s Day card I made using a fun technique called Joseph’s Coat With Patterned Paper.
Run the patterned paper through the embossing folder.
I like this just the way it is but there is more! LOL!
Use Versa Mark ink and brayer it over the embossed patterned paper.
Sprinkle on clear embossing powder, shake off the excess and heat with a heat tool.
Sponge black ink all over the embossed patterned paper.
Take a paper towel and rub it over the background to get any excess ink off the embossed areas.
I also tried a background using Sparkle embossing powder. This powder is clear with glitter. I rubbed on a burgundy color over top this time to get a different look.
Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you will enjoy making some backgrounds using this technique. Have a wonderful and blessed day!
Have you seen the new Sparkle N Sprinkle Fishin’ With Dad stamp set that was just released? It is perfect for masculine cards and brought back many childhood memories of going fishing with my father. Of course, I had to use it for my Father’s Day cards and wanted to share them with you.
This first card is fairly simple. I used some adorable fish designer paper for the card background and then created banner strips with coordinating cardstock. I layered these vertically, overlapping, and then added my image with a horizontal banner strip. I love the Thanks, Dad sentiment and embossed this with Teddy Brown EP on the bottom right side of the card.
My second card is one that I just learned to make, called an accordion strip card. It is a bit more labor intensive, but well worth it. I love lots of layers so that might have made mine a little more labor intensive than needed.
First create your card base, adding layers of cardstock and/or decorative papers. For this card I used a 4 1/4” x 11” cream cardstock and folded in half to create a 4 1/4” x 5 1/2” card base. I added a 4 1/8” x 5 3/8” dark brown layer and two 4” x 3” pieces of designer paper. I punched one edge of a 1 1/2” x 4” strip of brown paper and layered it across where the pieces overlapped.
For the accordion strip, cut a strip 3” x 12”. You can make it wider if you choose. Score the strip at 3”, 4 1/2”, 6”, 7 1/2”, and 9”. Fold together and trim or punch the corners and then punch a hole for the ribbon.
Add layers, images, and sentiments to each section as desired. I added 2 7/8” x 2 1/2” pieces of dark brown and 2 3/4” x 2 3/8” pieces of light brown to the top and bottom inside sections and the bottom outside section (A). I stamped my images on 2 5/8” x 2 1/4” pieces of cream cardstock. I added 2 7/8” x 1 3/8” pieces of light brown to the four middles sections and then added 2 3/4” x 1 1/4” pieces of striped to the 2nd and 4th sections (B) and dark brown to the 3rd and 5th section (C). I stamped the sentiment and fish on 2 5/8” x 1 1/8” pieces of teal paper and added these to the 3rd and 5th sections.
Fold up the accordion strip and add ribbon (approx. 18”). Run one end through the punched holes, around the back, and back to the front to tie in a bow. Adhere to the card front.
You can also adhere the ribbon to the back of the folded accordion and pull each end through a hole and tie together.
Here is the completed card open. I did add some glitter to parts of images, using a glue pen. I also used it to add a glittery “fishing line” and “fish hook” to the card front, along with a quilled “bobber”
Here is one more little tip for you. I didn’t have any Baker’s Twine to match my card so I decided to make my own.
I had some plain white twine so I wrapped this around a marker.
Then I used my alcohol markers to add strips of color.
When you unwind it looks like this. If your markers are juicy they will soak through the fiber. My fiber was a littler thicker so after I unwound it, I added a little more color by pressing my markers onto the un-inked side.
I hope these cards give you some inspiration to make something special for the special man in your life – husbands, dads, grandfathers, … You still have a week so get creative!!
I can hardly believe that it’s already June, and we’re moving closer to summer time everyday! While we are still enjoying the last bits of spring, I thought I would share a card made with the gorgeous stamp set aptly named, Spring Floral (490) by Beccy Muir.
This lovely magnolia stamp needed just a bit of shading on the petals. After coloring in the center and the leaves, I used Copic marker in Cool Grey (C3) to outline it. This really makes the image pop! Also, I had to add a bit of bling to it, so I used my Dimensional Glue (539) and a bit of Evening Glow glitter. (G1086)
I used a a couple of strips of 1/4″ Tear-iffic Tape (SAT01) on the center strip and coated it in Citron Green glitter (G1087) for some added sparkle. I figured as long as I had my roll of tape out, using it to hold my card together, why not use it for embellishment too
Hi All! It is time again for Technique Tuesday! When I saw these flowers I had to know how to make them. They look so real! I hope you will enjoy learning to make these as much as I did.
Supplies needed:
white coffee filters
Distress stains
brads
flower dies
heat tool
Use about 8 coffee filters and open them up flat. Use a flower die to cut out flowers from the filters. Eight layers went through my cuttlebug just fine. Use different sizes of flower dies using eight layers for each size. Poke a brad in the middle to hold the flower together.
Take the color of stain you want and start pouncing it onto the flower. The stain soaks through all the layers pretty well. You can turn the flower over on the back side and pounce on some more stain to cover the layers better. I also took a darker purple and pounced the edges of the flower. I spritzed the flower some with water to blend the colors.
You can let the flower air dry or step up the drying time by heating it with your heat tool.
Now comes the patience part! LOL! Take each layer and pull it up to the middle of the flower and scrunch it tight. Keep doing this until all layers are scrunched.
I just love how frilly the flower is! As you can see I used 2 different sizes of flowers on my card. Thanks for stopping by. Have a wonderful day!
It’s time for a change! I’ve been doing the Video Kit Clubs for about 3 1/2 year now and it’s time for an facelift! I have renamed the club to the Technique Club. I think this better fits the theme and its sounds better! You will still receive the same great kit, but from here on out it will be a complete stamp set that has not yet been released to the public. The cardstock to create 5 of the featured card will be included with any other glitters, EPs, or other supplies needed. You will provide the basics like scissors, adhesive and inks.
This month I am featuring a triple easel card with the new stamp set Dahlia, from Rosiland Solomon. Here is the video…so take a look and let me know what you think?? If you are new to the club you can join here, by just putting the kit in your shopping cart and letting us know what glitters or embossing powders you would like as your free thank you gift.
Hi Everyone! I hope you had a wonderful and safe Memorial Day holiday! I am back with another technique that I call “Painting With Glitter.” I was trying to achieve a blended look with the glitters by using a glue pen to paint on the various colors of glitter.
Stamp the tulips on white card stock using Versa Mark clear ink.
Add black embossing powder and heat with a heat tool.
Color the stems and leaves with copic markers. Color in some areas of a tulip with the glue pen. You can see a little blue where the glue is on the far right tulip.
Now color in the rest of the tulip with the glue and add the second color of glitter. I used Purple Potion velvet glitter. You may end up with some white showing through, but you can go back and fill in with the glue pen and add more glitter.
Here is the end result.
I think this turned out real pretty, but I wanted a brighter look so I tried another set of tulips with the SNS regular glitters. On this piece I usedLemonade,Autumn Medley, Pretty Princess andImpulsive Purple glitters. This is the piece I used on my card above.
Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope I inspired you to try this out! Have a great day!
With Memorial Day coming up, I think of picnics and family, and so today I want to share a card created with this in mind. Sparkle N Sprinkle recently released two new stamp sets featuring the art of Beccy Muir, and my card uses one of the bicycle images from the new Bicycles set.
The card features two windows, created with die cuts. The image is centered in the second window of the popped up card front. The sentiment, included in this set, goes so perfect with this bicycle built for two. I stamped it on a little tag die and added it with the little polka dot brad. Full details can be found in the SNS gallery here.
Wow! It is Technique Tuesday again! I hope you are having a good day. Today I want to show you a way to make a shimmery background by using several different shimmery products. They say April showers bring May flowers, so I made a card with flowers. I hope we keep seeing sun and more pretty flowers this May! The first part of May was a complete washout!
Supplies needed:
3 colors of Distress Stains
several different shimmer paints — I used Inka Gold paints, Acrylic Pearl paints and Metallic Distress stains.
embossing folder
white card stock
Take the stains and randomly rub them over the card stock.
Place the card stock in an embossing folder and run it through an embossing machine.
On this piece I rubbed the silver metallic Distress Stain over the card to give it shimmer. This look gives a silver sheen with muted colors underneath.
Here is another one I did using the Distress Brass stain over top. You can really see in this picture how the stain rests on top with the colors barely showing underneath.
On these two backgrounds I used the Inka Gold paints. They are like a metallic rub, when used with water they make a paint. These blend in more with the stain colors and are very shiny.
On this last one I used acrylic white Pearl Paint. This is the background I used to make my card.
It was fun trying the different shimmery paints on these backgrounds. Each one gave a different look. I hope you will play with this and come up with some wonderful shimmery backgrounds for your cards. Have a wonderful and blessed day!
This product is great because you get both a soft texture and a bit of bling!
I was lucky enough to find some wood grain paper in my stash and I love how it was a great match for the colored the bird house. My original intention was to use and embossing folder to create a wood type backdrop, it would have added some realistic texture to the card doing it that way This stamp is so gorgeous, you can’t go wrong! As always, full details can be found in the gallery.
I finished the piece by added some lace and buttons to keep the homespun feel.
