MR. AND MRS.!

Hi there, today I am sharing the first personal wedding card I've ever made. It was put together rather quickly and although it was, I have to say that I was pretty pleased with the outcome. All I had was a little bride and groom die and the Mr. and Mrs. chipboard from Want to Scrap. I was thinking along the lines of a 5" x 7" card, but how was I to make such a big card with those two items? How about using the "Lace Technique"?

So that was what I started with - taking a 4 3/4" x 6 1/4" piece of Super Adhesive Sheet and adhering it to white glossy cardstock. I removed the protective backing and covered the sticky surface with a piece of lace. Orchid glitter was burnished into the sticky surface and then after removing the lace, Bridal glitter (how appropriate - right?) was burnished to the remaining sticky surface.

I die cut the couple twice - once from black glossy cardstock and once from a piece of white cardstock covered with a piece of Super Adhesive Tape. I ran both through the embossing machine and then cut the dress and veil from the white version. Remove the backing and place the lace on top of the two pieces (dress and veil). Sparkling Snow was added first, then after the lace was removed, I applied Twinkling Clouds (one of the Sparkle N Softs). This really gave the dress a soft "material look".

The Want to Scrap Chipboard piece - Mr. and Mrs. was covered in Versamark and heat embossed with Morning Glory. I then applied a little more Versamark and sprinkled on some Magic Speckle which gave the lovely mosaic look. Got to love that Magic Speckle powder!

The Mr. and Mrs. Chipboard and the Bride and Groom were attached with little pieces of Dimensional Foam. I had some left-over netting ribbon from the bridal shower gift - so decided to use it on the wedding card! It was tied in a bow and then attached behind the card front. The entire piece was then layered to a piece of lilac cardstock before being layered to the glossy white card base.

Love the fact that the card probably looks more difficult than it was to make - that lace technique is awesome. Have you tried it yet?

Hugs,

Shona

SPARKLE N SPRINKLE'S MAY 1ST REVEAL

Welcome to Sparkle N Sprinkle's

 May 1st Reveal Blog Hop! I'm the last stop of the reveal this month. You should have arrived by way of Diane's blog and I'm sure by now, if you did, you are drooling over some of the fun techniques that each of the Designers has shared, using the gorgeous Dreamweaver stencils.  

Be sure to visit the SNS Blog all month long, as well as the Designers' blogs (you can click on the Designers' names to go directly to their blogs) to see different techniques used with the stencils.   Each Designer always posts 2 different projects to the SNS Blog and 4 different projects to their personal blogs each month.   

Some of the techniques you see throughout the month is dry embossing with your stencil; double glitter technique; combining embossing pastes with glitter, embossing powders, flock, and/or guilded flakes; using the embossing paste as a resist; double embossing paste technique and lots of other fun ideas.

 All Dreamweaver stencils, soap, and embossing pastes are 20% off until May 3.  So once you finish the blog hop, head on over to the store and start shopping.  

Large Feather is the stencil featured with this month's Technique Video Kit.

On May 3, one GRAND PRIZE WINNER will be selected from the comments left on the Designers' blogs.  Please leave a comment with each Designer in order to be eligible for the Grand Prize.  You never know who the Mystery Designer will be that has the winning comment.  

The winner will be able to choose $55 worth of any products listed under the Stencils and Templates category, plus mica powders (Pearl Ex) and of course, glitters, embossing powders, flock, and sticker paper or adhesive sheets.

The Grand Prize Winner will be announced on June 3 on the SNS Facebook page, the Designer's blogs, and here on the SNS Blog.  

We are pleased to have Diane and Ashley, two of our 2015 Guest Designers,  joining us again this month. They will be our Guest Designers for the months of April, May, and June.

The Blog Hop order this month is:

Eret

Anne

Ashley

Marie

Belinda

Diane

Shona

(*Tip: if you have difficulty with a particular link, try clicking on the Designer's blog title to send you to their Home page.)

We love reading your comments and hope that we have inspired you as well.  If you can not leave a comment for some reason, please email icinganne@yahoo.com with your comment and the name of the blog or the Designer you are commenting about.

The Sparkle N Sprinkle Creative Challenge also begins today.  There are lots of prizes and recognition badges.  Come check out how you can become a SNS Featured Artist as well.  The theme is always Anything Goes using Loose Glitter, Embossing Powder, and/or Flock.

For my share this month I chose the Peacock stencil. I placed the stencil temporarily on black card stock and used a palette knife to apply White Embossing Paste over the branch parts of the stencil. I tried not to get the paste on the peacock part.  I removed the stencil carefully (placing it immediately in a container of soapy water - to clean and dry before reusing) and then sprinkled Bullfrog and Moss Star embossing powders to the wet embossing paste. The paste dries while heat setting the powders.

I repeated the process two more times - concentrating, this time, on getting the peacock portion of the stencil with the embossing paste. I embossed both peacocks, one with Peacock embossing powder and one with Electric Blue. I then fussy cut the Electric Blue portions of the peacock (as shown) and stuck them on top of the Peacock embossing powder version with Dimensional Glue.

I used the lace technique for the right hand side of my card, using some Super Adhesive sheet along with Jasper Blue and Cobalt Glaze velvet glitters. 

The butterflies were also made using the lace technique and were die cuts from Spellbinders Fanciful Flight using scraps of Super Adhesive Sheets. The bottom butterfly was Jasper Blue with Black Suede and the top one was Cobalt Glaze with Black Suede.

The sentiment (from Lilies: Set 583) was stamped in Versamark on black cardstock and was then heat set with Belgian Cream. I die cut the sentiment using Spellbinders Grommet Tags and attached it to the card front using two brads which were previously heat embossed with Moss Star.

The card front was then centered on to a piece of square 5 3/4" x 5 3/4" white cardstock, edged with 1/2" Tear-ific Tape. Cobalt Glaze Velvet Glitter was applied to the exposed sticky edge before being layered to a white 6" x 6" card base. 

We hope you have enjoyed the New Reveal Blog Hop as much as us. Thanks for stopping by and be sure to remember to comment on each of the Designers' blogs to be eligible for the Grand Prize.  

Last month Diane was the Mystery Designer with the winning comment.  I wonder who it will be this month????

Stop by again soon, when I hope to share another stencil creation, using a different technique!

Have a great day!

Shona