let your faith be bigger | Sparkle N Sprinkle April reveal/blog hop.

Welcome to Sparkle N Sprinkle's 

April 1, 2015 Reveal

We have FOUR new stamp sets to share with you this month and these sets are 20% off their regular price until April 3.  All the new reveal sets are available on cling mounted rubber and as a digital image.  Friendship Flowers #702 is the stamp set featured in  this month's technique video.

The sets are:

Get Well Friends #701   (digi version DIGI701)

Friendship Flowers #702   (digi version DIGI702)

Old Well #703  (digi version DIGI703)

Spring Window #704   (digi version DIGI704)

On April 3, one Grand Prize Winner will be selected from the comments left on the designers' blogs listed below.  The Grand Prize Winner will receive all FOUR of the new rubber stamp sets (or digi sets, if you prefer)

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

Shona 

Diane 

Eret

Anne

Ashley

Marie

Belinda

April

(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.)

Don't forget to leave a comment with each designer 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.

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The new SNS Creative Challenges also begins today, with lots of prizes and recognition badges.  The theme is always anything goes using loose glitter, embossing powder, and flock.

Thanks for stopping by today! If you've arrived from Anne, you're in the right place!  I'm sharing a card I made with one of the new stamp sets, Spring Window (704).

This card was totally different from anything I've ever done and it was fun. First I colored the branches and flowers with Faber-Castell Big Brush pens in shades of red. I stamped the image and wiped the stamp clean. Then I colored the window with Faber-Castell Big Brush pens in shades of blue and re-stamped the image. I didn't worry about having the stamp perfectly lined up. 

After I wiped the stamp clean again, I inked the whole stamp with Versamark ink and stamped the image for a third time. Again, I didn't worry about having the stamp perfectly alined because I already knew which embossing powder I wanted to use. I coated the stamped image with Magic Speckle (EP175), which is a gorgeous specialty embossing powder that has a Mother of Pearl-like finish. It's lovely!

Versamark with Magic Speckle before heat embossing / after heat embossing

Since I didn't have my stamped image perfectly lined up, you can see some of the reds from the flower branches and the blues from the window coming through from the pearl finish. Isn't that neat?! I think it gives almost a sketch-like appearance. 

For the "sky," I used Ocean marbled embossing powder (EP438). I actually used two coats, but I let the first coat dry completely before I added the second coat. For the brick wall, I used some Tim Holtz Distress ink to blend some brown ink, darker on the edges and lighter toward the middle. Finally for the vase sitting on the window sill, I used Raspberry Sherbet embossing powder (EP243).

blue Ocean marbled embossing powder

 Here's my finished card. This was really fun to make! I think it looks sort of like a water color or a sketched image.

Now it's time for you to hop along to your next stop: Marie

other supplies
Faber-Castell PITT artist pen big brush (magenta; deep scarlet red; cobalt green; skyblue)
ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (gathered twig)