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Pomp & Circumstance

Posted on May 19, 2011 11:24 AM by Julie 1 Comment

For today’s Ways to Use It Challenge (WT323) at Splitcoast, I went the easy route today and used a song for inspiration. I needed a grad card for my nephew and while making it, I kept hearing “Pomp & Circumstance” the whole time, lol. Since I was in the band all the way thru school, I bet I’ve played this song a million times.

All images are Sparkle N Sprinkle. Anyway, I gold embossed the greeting and diploma and die cut w/ a Spellbinders circle. The ruffled gold is two cupcake liners that I split, removed the middles and put them together to form a lg circle. I used a MS diamonds edge punch on the black glitter dp and formed a circle w/ it. The final part of the medallion is just strips of metallic gold ribbon attached to the back. (I didn’t have time for a video, but I did take some pics so hopefully soon, I’ll have them up for you to see.)

The black glossy layer is backed w/ a gold glitter dp layer. On the white layer, I used the CB swiss dots on top and the QK stripe label on the bottom. The stripes are very visible because I used them to line up and attach narrow strips of black and gold glitter dp. I saw some glitter striped dp in the store but it was the wrong color so I made my own to match. Finished card measures 5 x 6.5 (A6).

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Stamps: Sparkle N Sprinkle – Graduation set 435

Paper: Neenah white, black glossy, black glitter & gold glitter dp

Ink: Encore UM gold

Accessories: detail gold ep, Spellbinders circle, Martha Stewart diamond edge punch, gold ribbon, Krylon gold leafing pen, mini gold foil cupcake liners, Cuttlebug swiss dots ef, Quickutz stripes label ef

Sparkle N Sprinkle Blog Hop!

Posted on May 12, 2011 6:45 AM by Julie 65 Comments

Welcome to our Not so Macho Masculine Blog Hop brought to you by the Sparkle Team of Sparkle N Sprinkle!

If you arrived here from Barbara Bruder’s blog, you are in the right place! If not, you’ll probably want to go to the SNS Blog and start from the beginning.

Best of 2011

I’m going to share two different cards made using the same set, 1900 Cars set 285. For the travel card above, I used two different map papers, a new banner die set and labels 17 from Spellbinders. The antique autos on both cards were colored using a combination of markers and Prismacolor pencils. For the Travel greeting, I used a bookplate die and bowed it slightly when I attached it.

On the Classic card below, I cut out the roadster and also an extra left side (facing the viewer) and layered it on the base image for a little extra dimension. The background scene was stamped, masked, sponged and then colored w/ markers. The white frame used a lg oval Spellbinders die and a dot border embossing folder which I used a stylus to hand emboss around the frame. Both cards measure 5.5 x 4.25. The Travel and Classic cards w/ full instructions are also on the SNS website.

Your next stop will be Jill Jacobson’s Blog, so hop on over! By the way, the product you can win from my blog is a jar of Berry Pudding Glitter Tinsel. If you haven’t tried it, please check it out. It’s fabulous! And this color is just scrumptious! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Sparkle N Sprinkle – 1900 Cars, Scenery set 349 (for Classic card)

Paper: Neenah white, dk red, 2 different designer/map papers

Ink:VersaFine Onyx, Kaleidacolor Melon Melody, Desert Heat & Riviera rainbow pads

Accessories:White gel pen, Prismacolor pencils, Tombow Markers, 1/2″ Double Sided “Tear-ific” Tape SAT04, 1/8” Tear-ific Tape SAT02, Spellbinders Labels 17, petite ovals & Banner Basics 2 dies, Sizzix bookplate die, Cuttlebug dot border embossing folder, stylus, sponges, Stamp-a-ma-jig (SAMJ)

More challenges for this:
Stamps R Us – masculine
SCS WT322 -trees, SCS FS223
Kaboodle Doodles – lots of layers
Cards for Men – someone special
Tuesday Throwdown – die cuts
Timeless Tuesday Challenge – anything goes!

ODBD May Release Blog Hop!

Posted on May 1, 2011 7:58 AM by Julie 176 Comments

Hello everyone! I hope you are enjoying the May Our Daily Bread
designs Blog Hop! The sticks in the bread basket are soooo excited
this month about all the sets being released! I know you will enjoy
this hop and will love all the new sets!

If you got here from the wonderful blog of Chris Olsen, you are in the right place! If
not, you might want to start at the Our Daily Bread designs Blog and
hop from there!

(You can always click on any picture to enlarge.)

I have two cards to share today. It didn’t start out to be two but it evolved that way and parts of one are used on the other. This one started as a watercolor background on lightweight watercolor paper. After it dried, I die cut the image out of the background then used a slightly larger die to make the background opening larger. On the 5×5 ivory card front, I stamped the Vintage Border across the bottom, added a little color to the centers and used the Vintage Border Die across the bottom half only to cut the card edge. I made a few more of the borders on another piece of c/s, die cut them and added them under the frame and around the top of the sentiment tag.

A lot of times, when I have an image like this fabulous Porch image (designed by Dina Kowal) all inked up, I’ll stamp it more than once. Just in case something happens to the first or I want to layer for depth or to have one for later. This was the extra one and while it was sitting there, I thought I’d add a little color. Then the narrow frame piece from the first card was added to see how it looked. For the die cut Vintage Border peeking out around from around the frame, I double stamped it; once w/ the Kpad and again w/ the black ink. I scored a border on the front of the 5×5 ivory card.

From here hop on over to Connie McCotter’s blog, I know she’ll have something fabulous to share!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: ODBD – Porch & Vintage Border

Paper: ivory, water color paper

Ink: Kaleidacolor Caribbean Sea, VersaFine Onyx

Accessories: ODBD Vintage Border die, Spellbinders long rectangles (rezized to a lg square), Peerless watercolors, Tombow markers, Scor-It board, white gel pen (for highlights)

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