Have a Tail Waggin Good Day for Sparkle N Sprinkle

Hi, everyone!! It's my turn to post on the Sparkle N Sprinkle Blog and I have a couple of cards to share with you today featuring the newly released Just Me and My Dog stamp set.

I started by my cards by applying Tear-ific Tape ½” to the edges of a piece of cardstock and then covering it with Golden Sparkle Embossing Powder.

Next, a cloudy background using Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. The image stamped with Versamark Embossing Ink Pad using a Tim Holtz Stamp Platform and heat embossed with Black Detail. The image was then colored with watercolors and cut out with Tonic Spring-Cut Fine Tip Detail Scissors 6.5”.

For the Memory Box Tree, I used Irish Isle Glitter for the leaves. For the trunk, Dark Chocolate Flocking.

The sentiment was heat embossed with Black Detail Embossing Powder. I also added a couple of flowers, covered with Lacy Lilac and Shell Pink Glitters using Brushable Glue.

The fence was heat embossed with Blackened Bronze Embossing Powder. It gives it such amazing texture!!

For the cobblestone sidewalk, I put a strip of Tear-ific Tape 2” on cardstock and then cut it with a Tim Holtz Cobblestone die. I then removed the strip to leave spaces between the "stones" and removed the covering on a couple of them before covering it all with Platinum Detail Embossing Powder.

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Thanks so much for stopping by!! Have a great day :)

SNS Products Used

Stamps: Just Me and My Dog (892)

Glitter: Lacy Lilac (G1033); Shell Pink (G1022); Irish Isle (G1141)

Embossing Powder: Black Detail (EP171); Platinum Detail (EP326); Golden Sparkle (EP106); Blackened Bronze (G454)

Flocking: Dark Chocolate (FL104)

Adhesive: Tear-ific Tape ½” (SAT04); Tear-ific Tape 2” (SAT12); Brushable Glue (54)

Dies: Tim Holtz Sizzix Cobblestones; Memory Box Yorkshire Tree; Impression Obsession Beach Fence; Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Border

Other: Tim Holtz Stamp Platform (1707E); Versamark Embossing Ink Pad (VM001); Anti Static Bag (99512); Tonic Spring-Cut Fine Tip Detail Scissors 6.5” (404); Tim Holtz Distress Ink; Watercolor Paints

Expand Your Horizons...

Happy Thursday!! I hope you are having a wonderful week...it's almost Friday :) I have a mixed media canvas to share with you today. I wanted to create the look of a magical, mysterious forest.

Because my time is limited in my craft room, it literally takes me a month to complete a canvas. I do a little bit, set it aside to dry and then add more the next time I'm in there. So I'll try to remember all the steps I took to create this. I started out with crumpled tissue paper and adhered it to the canvas with Claudine Hellmuth Multi-Medium. Once it was dry I used a The Crafter's Workshop Brick stencil and applied Wendy Vecchi Crackle medium.

I then cut a few Memory Box Yorkshire Tree dies in foam and adhered them to the canvas, wrapping them around the sides and top as well.

Next, I adhered a Poppystamps Weeping Willow Branches die to the top, and Poppystams Grassland Border to the bottom of the canvas. Once all of the dies were in place, I covered the entire canvas in black gesso (which made it hard to see the cracks in the bricks). I then used Twinkling H2O's in Pearl Green and a touch of Mustard Green to cover the canvas. Once that dried, I brushed on Perfect Pearls in Spring Green and Duo Green Yellow. Finally, I spritzed the canvas with Perfect Pearl Perfect Pearls Mist and then Glimmer Mist in Iridescent Gold. The magical little bubbles are Skittles from Doubleclick AKA A Busy Bee in Meadow.

The fairy is a Spellbinders Ariana die. She was covered with Sparkle N Sprinkle Moonrise Glitter. Viva Inka Gold Metallic Rub was then rubbed over her and finally, she was covered in Glossy Accents. Her wand was embossed with Sparkle N Sprinkle Frosted Juniper. You can see a bit of the crackle in the bricks, but not like before I added the black gesso.

I am entering this in the following challenges:

1) Anything But Cute - Making Magic (see inspiration pic below)
2) DL.ART - August Linky
3) Little Scrap Pieces - Show it Off Saturday
4) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
5) 2 Creative Chicks - Anything Goes
6) Dies R Us Challenge - The Great Outdoors

Thanks so much for stopping by!!