THE RIGHT SHOES!

Hi there,

Today I'd like to share with you another card using the Birds of a Feather Set 726. I loved this cool little lady with the high heels and decided to combine the set with the Cinderella Slipper Set 528 for my card today.

I stamped the chick in Versamark and heat embossed with Dragon Fruit. I used the Spellbinders Eyelet Circles die to cut and emboss and daubered a little Memento Lulu Lavender around the image before I removed the die. She was then colored with Copics: V01, RV02, RV04 and V04. A Sakura glue pen was used to apply Lavender Iris Glitter to her wing, tail and tufts. Dimensional Glue was added to her eye and to the heels. A little thread of Diamond Mesh from Mon Ami Gabby was attached for her necklace. She was set aside at this point for the glue to dry.

To make my background I spritzed white cardstock with water and then applied some Violet Color Burst on top of the spritzed cardstock. I dried the cardstock with my heat tool. The Cinderella Slipper was stamped randomly in Versamark and heat embossed with Belgian Cream. I then decided to go over the entire background with Memento Lilac Posies, I rubbed a tissue gently over the entire piece to take any ink off the embossing powder, this really made the shoes pop!

The sentiment from the Cinderella Slipper Set was stamped in Versamark and then heat embossed with Mulberry (one of my favorite detailed Tuscany EPs that I like to use for sentiments!). It was die cut with Lifestyle Crafts Nesting Rectangles, daubered with some more Lulu Lavender.

Three brads were "blinged" with Mulberry and attached to the circle along with some pink adhesive pearls and rhinestones (Want to Scrap Bling). Three white feathers were threaded through holes and attached to the back with tape. The card was finished by layering the background piece to the card based, which had been edged with 1/2" Tear-ific Tape, then some Diamond Mesh from Mon Ami Gabby was added around the sticky edges. There was still some stickiness around the mesh and so I applied Bubble Gum glitter to take care of that! The sentiment and the image were then added with Dimensional Foam to finish up the card.

I hope I have given you some inspiration today to maybe pick up this sweet little chick set. Both of these new sets are such fun and are so versatile, they can be used for many different occasions.

Hope to see you this weekend for our Joint Blog Hop with Die-Versions where we will be featuring Cancer Awareness. 

Thanks for stopping by today,

Shona

SPARKLE N SPRINKLE'S NOVEMBER 1ST REVEAL

Hi, and welcome to Sparkle N Sprinkle's November 1st Reveal! Toot, toot, toot! ......

This month FIVE new stamp sets are being introduced.   These sets are 20% off their regular price, until November 3rd.  All the new reveal sets are available on Cling Mounted Rubber and as a digital image.  Finn's Scarf, set #671 is the stamp set featured in  This Month's Technique Video.

The sets are:

Christmas Doves #649   (digi version DIGI649)

Brighten the Holidays #663   (digi version DIGI663)

Finn's Scarf #671  (digi version DIGI671)

Woofie Under the Christmas Tree #672   (digi version DIGI672)

Birthday Friends #673   (digi version DIGI673)

On Nov 3rd,  one Grand Prize Winner will be selected from the comments left on the designers' blogs listed below.  The Grand Prize Winner will receive

all FIVE of the new rubber stamp sets (or digi sets, if you prefer)

The new SNS Creative Challenges also begins today, with lots of prizes and recognition badges.

The winner of the blog hop will be announced on Nov 3 on Facebook, the SNS blog, and on our blogs.  This month's Blog Hop order is:

Shona Erlenborn
April Williams
Anita Scroggins
Belinda Shupe
Marie Berquist
Anne Temple

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

So without further ado .... Here are two of my best girlfriends, who know how to party!

I wanted to incorporate a fancy fold this month - and I found this interesting one, the Concertina fold, over at Splitcoast Stampers. Rather than using design paper, I decided to use sticker paper with some glitters to decorate the panels.

After printing the digi and the sentiment, I colored them with Copics and added a little Sparkling Snow with a Sakura Glue Pen to glitz up their birthday celebration.

This is a photo of the card laying "flat" so you can see the gradation from pink to blue glitters used.
The glitter panels were done by cutting strips of 2" sticker paper cut at a slant at the top, so there is an 1/8" edge around each of the panels. Keeping it in the red hat and purple haired club for the sake of these two, first panel is decked out in Pretty Princess, then comes Flirt, followed by Eggplant and finally Blue Jewel. The glitter panels were attached with 1/4" tear-ific tape.

The Concertina card doesn't really have a place for you to stamp a sentiment, so I thought I'd tuck a little tag in a pocket on the back of the front right side panel, and attach some balloons to it for a festive touch!

The balloons were created from pink, purple and blue cardstock covered with a piece of 2 1/2" Tear-ific Tape. Remove the protective backing and apply Pretty Princess to the pink cardstock, Eggplant to purple and Blue Jewel to the blue. A little piece of silver thread was attached to the base of each of them and then they were attached to the front of the tag with the printed sentiment with Dimensional Dots, so that when it goes down in the pocket the balloons sits over the top of the front right side panel.

Too much fun - right?!!

So just to add a little more bling to the sparkle - I added pink Mon Ami Gabby Diamond Mesh to the top of each of the left hand side panels and the two back right hand side panels the bling tape is quite sticky, so I added some Sparkling Snow to counteract that! Full directions can be found in the SNS Gallery, right here, if needed.

That's my show and tell for today! Hope I've inspired you to get out some bling!
I'm first up this month, next is the very talented April, but don't forget to leave a comment with all of the Designers to be eligible for the Grand Prize.  We love reading your comments and hope we have inspired you as well.  If you absolutely can not leave a comment for some reason, please email icinganne@yahoo.com with your comment and the name of the blog or Designer you are commenting about.

Thanks for stopping by,

Hugs,

Shona