SPARKLE N SPRINKLE'S FEBRUARY REVEAL

Welcome to the February 2018 

Sparkle N Sprinkle New Reveal Blog Hop! 

Today my card incorporates the new February Reveal Happiness Greetings Set 886 with some fun embossing powders, new Tonic embossed and mirror papers, dies and some chipboard pieces.

We are pleased to reveal the following new stamp sets this month.

 873 Pretty Blooms
Digital Version: DIGI873B

883 Whispers of Comfort-Hydrangea
Digital Version: DIGI883BG

885 Bonnet Birdie
Digital Version: DIGI885BG

886 Happiness Greetings
Digital Version: DIGI886DE

887 Balloon Bunch
Digital Version: DIGI887BG

DIGI3140M Snowman with a Heart (digi only) 

You are definitely going to want both the digi version as well as the rubber version because when you purchase the digital versions, there are lots of extras that aren't available otherwise.  These extras can include additional images, additional sentiments, digi papers (in some cases), and a cut file.

The new sets are 20% off until the 20th of the month.  Head on over to the SNS store once you've finished the Blog Hop and start shopping.

One GRAND PRIZE WINNER will be announced on the 17th of the month.  One of the Designers is our Mystery Host and the winner will be selected from comments left on her blog.  You must leave a comment on each of the Designers' blogs in order to be selected as the winner, as you never know who the Mystery Host will be.  This is checked for compliance.

The GRAND PRIZE WINNER will be announced on the SNS Facebook page and on the SNS Blog and will receive a $20 Gift Certificate to the shoppe!

The Blog Hop order is:
(Tip: if you have difficulty with a particular link, try clicking on the Designer's blog title to be directed to their Home page.)
  
Lisa
Irit
Diane
Chris
Donna
Sabrina
Jess
Eret
Anne
Shona

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The Blog Hop runs from the 15th - 17th

SNS also has two kit clubs: The Stamp and Card-Making Video Kit Club is released on the 1st of each month and the new Multi-Project Kit Club is released on the 15th of each month.  Subscribe to the SNS You-Tube Channel to get great inspiration using all the products available in each kit.

The Sparkle N Sprinkle Creative Challenge group is on Facebook and runs from the 1st - 25th of each month.  A SNS image (either rubber or digi) is required.  The winner will receive a $15 Gift Certificate to go shopping at the SNS store.

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We hope you enjoy the New Reveal Blog Hop as much as we enjoy creating new projects for it.  Be sure to visit the SNS Blog for even more inspiration.  Something new is posted most every day.

So, to start of my card today, a heart (Tonic Traditional Hearts Layering Basics Die) was die cut from the center of a 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" piece of Craft Perfect Embossed Paper Blush Heartbeat. I use the Tonic Guillotine to cut these papers, otherwise they don't cut cleanly.

I then swiped the cut panel with Poppy Red hybrid ink.

I sprinkled one of the specialty embossing powders, Copper Flame on top of the inked panel and heat set from below. This would stop the larger granules from flying off.

Once this was heat set, I continued around the panel, sponging on some Nuvo Clear Mark and heat embossing with some Bronze Rose and then some Gold Detail.

Using the Stamp Platform and the anti-static bag, to ensure nice detailed embossing, the sentiment was inked with Nuvo Clear Mark and was stamped on pink cardstock. This was then heat set with Gold Detail and attached to the back of the embossed and inked panel.

The key (Recollections) chipboard pieces were inked with an old Versamark pad. I have an old pad labeled for chipboard pieces, as the burnt edges of the chipboard pieces leave marks on the pad. The keys were also heat embossed with Gold detail. I gave them two coats, to ensure a nice even shiny coat.

A piece of gold thread tied them together and this was attached to the panel with a gold heart brad.

The different sized hearts were die cut, using the Tangerine, from Blush Heartbeat Embossed Paper and Rose Platinum Mirror Cardstock.

The chipboard heart was inked with the old Versamark pad and first heat embossed with Cayenne, but I felt it was too dark and so I re-inked and went over it with Petal Pink.

This was attached to the panel with a little pink heart shaped brad along with the heart cut outs which were attached to the card front with tape and mounting tape, to give varied dimension. The panel was then layered to a 6" x 6" piece of the Rose Platinum Mirror Card.

Some Rose Water Nuvo Jewel Drops were added around the inside of the heart center.

... and once the drops dried - that finished up my card for the day ...

Below you will find a list of the products used in the making of my card today.

Happiness Greetings Set 886

Gold Detail (EP168), Cayenne (EP423), Bronze Rose (EP335)

Petal Pink (EP220), Copper Flame (EP453)

Nuvo Clear Mark, Versamark, Nuvo Hybrid Poppy Red

Tonic Stamp Platform

Nuvo Jewel Drops Rose Water

Anti-Static Bag

Tonic Craft Perfect Embossed Paper: Blush Heartbeat

Tonic Craft Perfect Mirror Cardstock: Rose Platinum

Tonic Tangerine
Tonic Guillotine

Tonic Traditional Hearts Layering Basics Die Set

Recollections Hearts and Key Chipboard Pieces

Gold Thread

Pink Heart Brad, Gold heart brad

I am the last on the hop this month. I hope you have left a comment on each of our blogs, this will enable you to be eligible to win the entire reveal set. Who doesn't want a chance to win that?

I'd like to play along in the following challenges:
Card Mania Challenge #101: Red and Hearts
Classic Design Team Open Challenge #22: Anything Goes
World Wide Open Design Team Challenge #2: Anything Goes
Crafty Gals Creations #44: Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by! I'll be back soon with some other ideas from the other reveal sets. Till then...

Warm hugs,

Shona

Sending You a Smile!

Hi there, today I'd like to share with you a card I made using the new Flowers Silhouettes Set 824.

Such a fun and versatile little stamp set. I decided to go monochromatic with my card this time round, incorporating some of the awesome Nuvo products that Sparkle N Sprinkle now carries. To begin with I made some plaid background paper by daubing Nuvo Embellishment Mousse Peony Pink in stripes on white glossy cardstock and then turning it a quarter turn and sponging lines over the top with Lilac Lavender. I then ran the plaid cardstock through the embossing machine with Spellbinders Floral Doily Motives. 

A circle was then cut (using Lifestyles Nesting Circles) from the middle of the plaid background. The image was stamped on glossy white cardstock and then heat embossed with Concord (one of the fine detailed embossing powders that work so well on detailed images). A portion of the image was cut and embossed with the same circle used to cut the plaid layer. 

After turning the "doily", to break up the plaid a piece of Super Adhesive Sheet was put behind the entire piece. Purple Rain Microfine Glitter was added to the sticky surfaces around the doily.

The flowers were then colored with Copics. Next a piece of pink cardstock was dry embossed with the Die’sire Ornate Butterflies Embossing Folder. Nuvo Embellishment Mousse Lilac Lavender was sponged over the raised butterfly pattern.

This was then cut into a circle using Lifestyles Nesting Circles, and three butterflies were fussy cut from the middle of the piece to be used as embellishments.

 

A real doily was then sponged with Nuvo Embellishment Mousse Peony Pink, as the last layer to the card base. 

The sentiment was stamped in Versamark and heat embossed with the same Concord EP and was die cut with the little doily from the Floral Doily Motifs set. 

The card was put together with Tear-ific Tape and Mounting Tape on top of a textured pink base. Pale Periwinkle Nuvo Jewel Drops were added around the card for some extra dimension.

That finishes my card for today. Hope you've enjoyed my share today?

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Double D Challenges: Things that Fly

Fab 'n' Funky Challenges #343: Flowers

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Layer it Up

Use Your Stuff Challenge Blog #256: Doilies 

World Wide Open Design Team Challenge, March 15th 2017

Shona