Survivor

If you are looking for the Joint Awareness Blog Hop, you can find it HERE!

Good evening everyone, hope you have had a wonderful day!!  The Joint Awareness Blog Hop with Sparkle N Sprinkle and Die-Versions is ending tomorrow, hope you all had a chance to stop by and see all the wonderful designs from the Design Teams!!  There are wonderful prizes to be won and all the proceeds from this hop will go to Cancer Research.

I am sharing my second card using the Awareness Ribbon Doily and the Pink Ribbon Background stamp set.  

To start my card I created the background paper using Ken Oliver's Alizarin Crimson Color Burst on a piece of white watercolor paper.  I just love these Color Burst they are beautiful colors and so much fun to work with!!  Once the background was dry a strip of 1/8" Tear-ific Tape was added to the edges and glittered using Bubblegum glitter.

The white frame was die cut using Spellbinder's Majestic Labels Twenty Five dies from white cardstock and adhered to a piece of sticker paper.  Sparkling Snow glitter was burnished with my finger tool to the open areas of the die cut.

The pink frame was cut using the smaller die from the Majestic Label Twenty Five inked with versamark and embossed using Velvet Sparkle EP.  I stamped the background stamp with versamark and embossed using Black Detail EP and die cut using the same die set.  I colored in the hearts and added sparkle using a glue pen and Bubblegum glitter.

The ribbon was die cut from white cardstock inked with versamark and embossed using Cotton Candy EP.  Using a piece of sticker paper I traced around the ribbon, removed the backing and placed the embossed ribbon on top.  Sparkling Snow glitter was applied to the open area of the ribbon.

The ribbon was placed on the card using pop dots.  The sentiment was stamped with versamark embossed with Black Detail EP and fussy cut around.

Thanks so much for stopping by have a great evening and remember...Keep Stamping!

Sparkle N Sprinkle's Aug. 1st Reveal

Sparkle N Sprinkle and Die-Versions are partnering up for a very special joint blog hop, called the Awareness Campaign.  A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the newly released Die-Versions dies and the stamp sets revealed in the joint blog hop will go to help with cancer research.  

Almost every one has been touched by cancer is one way or another.  Either you or a family member has had cancer or you know someone who has had cancer.  The Designers from both teams are joining together to help the fight to eradicate all cancers by inspiring you.

Die-Versions

Die-Versions is debuting NINE new Die-Versions low profile dies (July 2015 Reveal - scroll down to the end of the reveal) and Sparkle N Sprinkle is revealing THREE stamp sets for this Awareness Campaign.  All stamp sets will be 20% off until Aug 3.  

Sparkle N Sprinkle

Pink Ribbon Background 408  (digi version DIGI408)

Survivor 713    (digi version DIGI713T)

Awareness 714   (digi version  DIGI714T)

A Grand Prize winner will be chosen from comments left on the Designers' blogs and will be announced on August 4th.  You won't know who the Mystery Designer is until after the Joint Blog hop, so remember to leave a comment with each of the Designers.  

The Winner will be announced on the Die-Versions Facebook page, the Sparkle N Sprinkle Facebook page, the DV Blog, and on the SNS Blog and will receive a $25 gift certificate from BOTH Die-Versions and Sparkle N Sprinkle.

We hope you enjoy the Awareness Joint Blog Hop as much as we have enjoyed creating new projects for it.  We also hope that we have inspired you as well.  Thanks for joining us and remember to comment on each of the Designers' blogs to be eligible for the Grand Prize.  (We love reading them too since your comments also inspire us.)  

The Sparkle N Sprinkle Creative Challenge also begins today with lots of prizes and recognition badges.  Find out how you can become a SNS Featured Artist with special recognition on the SNS Facebook page as well as the Creative Challenge Winner's post.  From time to time, we also have special prizes just for Featured Artists.  The theme is always Anything Goes using Loose Glitter, Embossing Powder, and/or Flock.

Hope you are having fun on this "special" hop!!  

For my card I choose to create a puzzle ribbon in  honor of Autism Awareness.  Since my grandson was diagnosed with Autism this really has a special place in my heart!!  

To create the look of a puzzle, I die cut the Awareness Ribbon Doily Die from cardstock and placed it on top of a piece of white cardstock.  Using colored pencils I colored in the open areas.  Once the areas were colored in I used a glue pen and glittered them with Daisy, Ocean, Terrific Blue and Fire Engine Red glitter.  I then cut around the ribbon.

The die cut ribbon was then inked with versamark ink and embossed with Dark Night EP.  The glittered ribbon was then glued underneath the embossed ribbon.  I really love have it resembles puzzle pieces with represent Autism Awareness.

I used Spellbinder's Radiant Rectangles to create the easel card.  The frame for the card was die cut from sticker paper and glittered using Ocean glitter.  On the second layer I used my finger tool and applied Brushable Glue to the edges and glittered using Evening Glow glitter.

The sentiment was computer generated.

The inside of the card was die cut using the same Radiant Rectangles dies.  Ocean and Sparkling Snow glitter added the sparkle.  The edges were inked with Tim Holtz's Tumbled Glass Distress Ink and a large pearl was placed in the center.

A little sneak peek of projects to come!!  Be sure to come on back to see the entire projects!

Hopefully you came from Chris's  blog.  Your next stop on the Awareness Campaign Blog Hop is Ashley.  If you get lost along the way or have a problem with a link, the complete list of Designers is located on both the Die-Versions Blog as well as the Sparkle N Sprinkle Blog.  Happy Hopping!

Die-Versions/Sparkle N Sprinkle Blog Hop

Welcome to the Die-Versions and Sparkle N Sprinkle Blog Hop!

The joint blog hop with Die-Versions and Sparkle N Sprinkle begins today (7am EST) and goes until Aug 17th (5pm EST), so there will be plenty of time to check out all the great projects created by both teams.  The theme is Christmas, so you'll get lots of great inspiration for your upcoming Holiday cards.

Die-Versions manufactures low profile dies made right here in the United States and Sparkle N Sprinkle manufactures rubber stamps, glitters, embossing powders, and flocking, also made in the US.  This is like a match made in heaven - low profile dies combined with lots of glitter, embossing powder, and flocking.  Doesn't get much better than that.

One winner will receive a Grand Prize consisting of a $50 gift certificate from Die-Versions and a $50 gift certificate from Sparkle N Sprinkle, for a total of $100.  The winner will be announced on Aug 17th on both the DV Blog and the SNS Blog as well as their Facebook pages.

In order to be eligible for the Grand Prize, please: 

• Leave a comment on each Designer's blog

• Follow both companies on Facebook (DV Facebook page; SNS Facebook page) if you haven't already so you can keep up to date on all the latest goings on.   (I'm sure that all of the Designers would love for you to Follow them too, but that isn't a requirement to win this prize.)  

You should have arrived here from the Lori's blog .  If not, then you should begin at the Die-Versions Blog and end at the Sparkle N Sprinkle Blog.  If you get lost along the way, you can go to either the DV Blog or the SNS Blog to see the complete list of participants.

We'd love it if you'd like to leave a comment at either the DV Blog or the SNS Blog telling us which projects were your favorites.  :-)

I just loved these beautiful dies!  The 3 used on my project are Season's Greetings Script, Holiday Cheer Chain and Delicate Deer.  

The Season's Greeting and the Deer were both die cut twice.  One of each were glittered using brushable glue and Champagne glitter.  Once the glitter was dry they were layered slightly off center.  This really created a beautiful look!!

For the beautiful chain, it was die cut and glittered using brushable glue and Champagne, Spirited Green, Fire Engine Red, Sparkling Snow, Silver Dreams and Lady Luck glitter.

The snowflakes were created using embossing paste and stencils.  Twinkling Clouds was added while the paste was still wet.  

The strip of "sparkle" was created using the SNS tutorial for Glittered Lace Background, you can find it HERE.  

Champagne and Lady Luck glitter was used for the glittered background.

For my 2nd project I created a Center Step Card (template can be found HERE)

The background paper for this card is created using the above tutorial for creating Glittered Lace Background.  The glitters used were Champagne and Silver Dreams. 

The sentiment is from A Winter Wonderland.   

A snowflake from Recollections was added along with several

 rhinestones and pearls.

The deer was inked  with versamark and embossed using White Spark.  The paper dolly was also embossed using versamark and Fire Cracker Red.  Once the deer was dry a bow and rhinestone was added.

 

 

You can find full details on both projects on my SNS Gallery!



 

Your next stop on the blog hop is the amazing Marie!

We hope you enjoy this blog hop and it gives you lots of inspiration!  Don't forget to leave each of us a comment and follow both Die-Versions and Sparkle N Sprinkle on Facebook.

Entering this card in the following challenge:

Addicted to Stamps Challenge #108 - Holiday
Crafty Sentiments Designs Anything Goes