by Karin on February 1, 2012
Hi Everyone,
Today I’m showing off this wine themed card made with some products from Sparkle N Sprinkle. Recently they released a couple of stamps sets perfect for any oenophile you may know. Ha! Like my big word?
These stamps came from the set Wine Tableau (449) and paired with the sentiment included in there, it makes such an elegant birthday card. I embossed the glass with Clear Detail (EP280) embossing powder and colored the Chardonnay with my Copic marker.
Here is a closer photo of the gorgeous glitter named Florida Beach (G1111). It does glisten just like some sparkling sand in the sun!
Alright, it’s 5:00 somewhere, right?! LOL! Seriously, all the card details can be found right here in my gallery and if you haven’t done so yet, mark your caleders for the next blog hop!
Thanks for peeking in today and have a good one!
Karin
by Barbara Bruder on February 1, 2012
Hi Everyone,
It’s time reveal the sketch for February and to show the great creations made by the sketch designers using the February sketch.
Here are the designers creations,
Amanda’s Card
Eleanor’s Card
Karalee’s Card
Marie’s Card
Patti’s Card
Shanna’s Card
Shona’s Card
And now, who won the January Sketch Challenge?? Well without further ado the winner is
Sue Hamel
please contact me at barbara@sparklensprinkle.com to arrange for your prize to be sent.
Here are the guidelines for playing:
- Create a NEW project for the challenge. No back links please.
- Please use Sparkle N Sprinkle images only
- Please link to your blog or to your post at the SplitCoastStampers gallery (SCS)
- If posting to the SCS gallery, please be sure to include the code that appears on the sketch to tag your card to the challenge. Please enter that code using the keyword SNSSC04 . If posting on your blog please include the code on your blog also. Each monthly sketch will have its own unique code that will appear on the sketch.
- Please link the card or project to the inlinkz icon at the bottom of the current challenge page. Please make sure to link to your challenge card not to your blog address.
If you have any questions please email me at Barbara@sparklensprinkle.com
I am looking forward to seeing your creation here.
You have until February 29, to enter.
The prize is the stamp set of your choice.
by April Williams on January 31, 2012
Welcome back to Technique Tuesday! I hope you are enjoying these each week. I think you will really like this technique that I am showing you today. It is called Pooled Watercolors.
Supplies:
- heavy weight watercolor paper — 140 lb.
- Adirondack reinkers — Purple Twilight, Cool Peri, Lettuce or any other brand reinkers
- water spritzer
- water pen or water and paint brush
- Starfire glitter G1017
- white embossing powder
- Roses stamps from My Rose Garden set 402
- Versa Mark ink pad 99702
- heat tool
- Sakura glue pen 99202
Stamp roses onto the watercolor paper using Versa Mark ink. Sprinkle white embossing powder over the stamped images and heat with a heat tool. Spritz water over the roses until it pools and drop a few drops of the lighter color of reinker onto sprizted rose. Move the color around with the water pen. Keep doing this with each petal of the rose.
When you are finished with the lighter color, drop a few drops of the darker reinker in a few places on the rose to add depth. Then do the same on the leaves, using the green reinker. Let dry. You will notice that some of the color may bleed out of the embossed lines, but you will be cutting out the rose to layer on a card and this will not matter.
Use a glue pen to dot randomly on the rose. Sprinkle on Starfire glitter. Cut out the rose to use on a card. I hope you enjoy doing this technique. We would love to see you again next Tuesday!
by Karin on January 25, 2012
Hi Everyone,
I’m dropping in today with a card share made with the stamp set named Flower Vases (#265). I just love all of the stamps in this set, but I particularly enjoy these flowers in the 4 Vases (728-265G). If it’s cold and snow covered where you live, this bright card will surely chase away the winter blues.
I chose my colors for them from the strip of patterned paper I used on the side and I backed the image with with some gorgeous Pretty Princess Glitter (G1109). So easy to use with the Sticker Paper (99558) from Sparkle and Sprinkle. I love the vibrant color, it packs a lot of punch!
After the vases were colored with Copic markers, I used some Super Thick Clear Embossing Powder (EP230) on the vases to simulate the look of glass. A great technique if you haven’t tried it yet. The Missing You (850-265AA) sentiment is also from this same stamp set. And as always, full details on how to make this card is in my gallery at Sparkle and Sprinkle.
Thanks for visiting today!
Karin
by April Williams on January 24, 2012
Welcome back to Technique Tuesday! This past weekend Marie and I were in North Carolina stamping with some friends. We tried one of Tim Holtz’s techniques that I will call acetate resist. 
Supplies:
- acetate or plastic from a container
- Purple Twilight alcohol ink
- ink applicator
- Paisley Florals stamp
- Jet Black Archival ink pad
- paper towel or cloth
- spellbinders heart die
- white glossy card stock
- Xyron machine
Cut a square piece of plastic a little larger than your heart die. I used plastic from one of my spellbinders dies. Put several dots of Purple Twilight alcohol ink on the ink applicator and pounce all over the plastic and let dry.
Ink up the Paisley Floral stamp with the Jet Black Archival ink and stamp several times on the alcohol inked side of the plastic. Archival black ink is the only ink that will work with this technique. Immediately wipe off the black ink using a paper towel or cloth. You will see clear areas where the black ink once was.
I ran the plastic piece through the Xyron machine to adhere it to glossy card stock. The glossy card stock helps the images show up better. I then cut out the heart shape using my heart die.
I made another card using the window left by the heart heart shape.
Marie has also made a card using this technique. You can see it here on her blog.
I know you will enjoy this technique as much as we did!
April
by Brenda on January 21, 2012
Thanks to everyone who participated in the Deco Divas – Love is in the Air Blog Hop!!! All your fabulous comments are greatly appreciated by our design team………..
For those who may not have won a prize this time – you’ll have another chance before you know it… Mark Feb 9-10 on your calendars for the Spring Fling Blog Hop!!!
Here are the winners for this hop. Please e-mail me at brenda@sparklensprinkle.com with your full name – address – phone contact & your choice of item(s) for the prize you won.
CONGRATULATIONS TO:
Grand Prize #1 - Full-sized stamp set of your choice on cling - Cheryl B
Grand Prize #2 - Stampette set of your choice on cling - Kaiahobid
1st Place - (from Lana Clarke’s Blog) 2 Glitter Tinsels - Aurora Selvaggio
2nd Place – (from Gerlinde Townsley’s Blog) 3 sm embossing powders – Karen Land
3rd Place – (from April Williams Blog) 3 sm glitters – Robyn Rinehart
Thanks again for hopping with us and see you soon at the next hop!
by Brenda on January 18, 2012
Hop along with us…….
We’re celebrating romance in a blog hop. We’ve decided to embrace our inner divas and not just concentrate on Valentine’s Day this year.
Each of our Sparkle Team Designers will be sharing their thoughts on how their cards fit into the Deco Divas – Love is in the Air theme.
A reminder that through the end of the month, the Sparkle Team presents St. Patrick’s Day, Easter and Spring along with all Becca Barton images on special – 15% off!!! To view all our specials for the month, including some fabulous glitters, embossing powders and other SNS products, just click here.
http://sparklensprinkle.com/o/specials.php
Important things first!
One lucky person will win the Grand Prize – a Stamp Set of the winner’s choice mounted on cling cushion. As you visit each artist’s blog, there is the possibility of winning one of THREE more prizes! It’s a secret though. No one knows who “those three” are except for me…so be sure to leave a comment on EACH blog to be eligible (including the SNS blog).
Winners will be announced Saturday, Jan 21st between noon and 3PM – Arizona Time here on this blog.
We hope you will enjoy viewing our cards as much as we did in creating them. To become eligible to win a Grand Prize, please leave a comment on EACH blog, and follow the directions on the last blog. Winners of the mini prizes are selected when they leave a comment on the mystery designer’s blog AND answer the final question at the SNS Home Blog.
Leaving a heart-felt comment inspires, motivates and brings happiness to each designer! From the last blog, you will be directed to come back here and leave a brief comment about………. (you’ll have to go there to see what the comment will be about). For those of you who have “hopped with us” in the past, the heartfelt sharing you left on our blogs, also touched our hearts. Thank you!
HOW TO LEAVE A COMMENT: Are you new to blog hops? To find the comments section on each designer’s blog, scroll down to the bottom of that day’s post. The word COMMENTS possibly will be very tiny. Click on the tiny word COMMENTS. A box will pop up (or you may have to scroll down again). Write your comment (sign your name if leaving an anonymous comment). Perhaps one of those wonky SPAM preventer options will show up. Just type in the shown characters and click enter. That’s all there is to it. You will become an old hand in no time at all. Designers covet sincere comments left on their blogs. They share their artwork and hearts, hoping to inspire others. Visitors who leave comments, in turn, encourage and inspire the designers. (If you absolutely cannot leave a comment for some reason, please e-mail Brenda@sparklensprinkle.com with your comments AND the name of the blog or designer(s) you are commenting about.) Happy Hopping!
Your blog hostesses are:
SNS Home Blog addy: http://sparklensprinkle.com/blog
Barbara Bruder http://www.artandsoulcreations.blogspot.com
Julie Zippel http://backtobasicsandbeyond.blogspot.com
Lana Clarke http://sweetpeaspapercreations.blogspot.com/
Karalee Ingram http://kareescardsandcraftsofcourse.blogspot.com/
Charlene Driggs http://www.paperandinkplayground.com/
Amanda Reed http://cardscatsandcopics.blogspot.com
Shanna Shands
Shona Erlenborn http://shonasstampingstage.blogspot.com
Gerlinde Townsley http://mycreativecorner-gerlinde.blogspot.com/
Angie Blasingame http://hopemorestudio.blogspot.com/
Marie Berquist http://craftemarie.blogspot.com
Karin Martin http://karin-withaniforpaper.blogspot.com
Jessica Griffin http://canyoupixelthis.com/
Dawn Thomas http://belladonnasgarden.blogspot.com/
April Williams http://stampwillydesigns.blogspot.com/
Jill Jacobsen http://www.stampinhands.com/
Brenda Smalle http://www.rubberroomantics.blogspot.com
READY? SET? GET HOPPING!
by April Williams on January 17, 2012
Welcome back to Technique Tuesday! I have another technique that I hope you will enjoy trying this week. I call this Acetate Dazzle. 
Supplies:
- Acetate
- Jet Black Staz On ink
- Dimensional glue
- 3 colors reinkers
- sponge brush
- Starfire glitter
Place frame on top of acetate in order to see spacing of images and stamp images onto the acetate using Jet Black Staz On ink. 
Turn acetate over and squirt a quarter size amount of dimensional glue on the center of the acetate. Then add a few drops of each color of the reinkers into the dimensional glue.
Take a sponge brush and spread the glue and reinkers over the whole piece of acetate. Since my reinkers were lighter colors — I used a pink, light green and light blue — I added a few more drops of reinkers as I was spreading the glue. After the acetate is covered with the glue and rinkers, then sprinkle Starfire glitter over the whole piece of acetate and let dry.
I hope you enjoyed the technique today. I hope to see you back next week for another fun technique!
by Jill Jacobsen on January 11, 2012
Hummingbird Party
Hummingbirds & Flowers
Happy Wednesday! Today is reveal day for two new great Hummingbird Stamp sets that we had given you sneak peeks to…..aren’t they beautiful?? These sets are so much fun to color and glitter or emboss and there are so many sayings you can use it for so many different occasions. Click on the stamp sets to purchase these sets.
The first card is using the Cracked Ice technique that April shared yesterday. It gives it a vintage or antiqued look.
This second card was done with the Faux Bleach technique on the Tips and Techniques page. The embossing powder is the Tuscany EP’s Sangria and Sangria Star, and the hummingbird has Moss Star and Tuscan Star added also for lots of sparkles.
You can also check out and see what are designers have done with these sets:
Barbara Bruder
Marie Berquist
Karalee Ingram
April Williams
Donna Ellis
Thanks for stopping by:)
Jill
by April Williams on January 10, 2012
Hi, Happy New Year! My name is April and I am a member of the design team here at Sparkle N Sprinkle. I love doing techniques. Each Tuesday I will be showing a technique here on the Sparkle N Sprinkle blog and I hope you will visit and join the fun here at Technique Tuesday! The technique that I am showing today is called Cracked Ice.
Supplies:
- White light weight cardboard.
- Versa Mark ink pad.
- Super Thick Clear Embossing Powder EP230
- Tree die cut.
- Blue/green dye based ink pad.
- Heat gun.
Cut trees using tree die from the white cardboard. Stamp the Vera Mark stamp pad all over the trees. Pour the heavy clear embossing powder over the inked trees and heat with a heat gun. Do this one more time. Now place the trees in the freezer for 20 minutes. Take the trees out of the freezer and start bending the trees to crack the embossing powder. Keep bending until you have the desired cracked look. Below is a picture of the tree as it came out of the freezer and after it was cracked.
I then rubbed the blue/green ink into the cracks to add dimension. I added white Liquid Applique to the branches, then sprinkled Starfire glitter to it and heated with a heat gun.
I hope you enjoyed this technique and that you will have fun trying it out! I hope to see you again next Tuesday!
You can also see a video of this technique in our Tips & Technique section.
April
