Amazingly-Fancy Folds Blog Hop

Welcome to the Sparkle N Sprinkle Fancy Fold Blog Hop.  Each designer will be sharing cards with fancy folds - anything OTHER than the “normal” fold.  If you came here from Jackie Smith's sweet blog, you are in the right place.  If you just stopped by, head over to the SNS blog to get all the details.  To give you time to really check out the fabulous creations that our talented Sparkle Team has designed, the hop will run for FOUR DAYS! 

By leaving a comment on each and every blog thru-out the hop, you will become eligible for some great prizes!!  Three of the prizes are “hidden” on 3 different mystery designer blogs.  Even the designers don’t know who has the prizes on their blogs – so don’t miss any.  Winners will be announced on Monday, Jan. 21st.

Here is the list of designers in the order of the hop:

Brigita Skopas

Karalee Ingram

Shona Erlenborn

AnneTemple

Karin Martin

April Williams
Julie Zippel
Dawn Bennett
Jackie Smith
Marie Berquist (You’re here!!)
Barbara Bruder
Shanna Shands
Cammy Vietzke
Donna Ellis 
Keri Brown

I am always fascinated with cards that are “different” than the norm, so you know I loved the theme of this blog hop.  The hardest part was deciding which “fancy fold” I wanted to use.  I came up with two fun cards to share with you.

This first card is a Triangle Trifold Card, featuring the new Just Froggy stamp set.  This little guy is just too cute.  I used the directions from Split Coast Stampers but had to make some changes to accommodate the size of my image.  My base is 4 ½” x 13 ½” so you end up with a 4 ½” card when it is folded and tied shut.  I colored my image with alcohol markers and add just a touch of glitter, using a glue pen.

I love the way this card opens up, still showing your original image on the front and revealing another cute frog hopping by to say Hello!!

My second card combines an easel card with a box of goodies!!  I used a digital image, Love Letter Fairy, printed in black and colored with alcohol markers.  This image is also available in rubber on the new Love Fairy Stamp Set 483. 
 

This card works like a normal easel card, but when it is opened it reveals the attached box filled with goodies.  

I used some chocolate nugget candies and wrapped them with coordination cardstock.  Make sure to come visit the SNS blog on Sunday, January 27, for a complete tutorial on this project.

Now it is time to head over to Barbara Bruder’s beautiful blog to see what she has waiting for you.

Don’t forget to leave comments so you have a chance for a prize!!

E. Marie

These cards are entered in the following challenges:
Hello Triangle Trifold Card  
Lexis Creations Challenge #81 –Anything Goes  
One Stop Craft Challenge 211 – New Beginnings (New Stamps)  
Crafty Calendar Challenge - Whats New?! (New Stamps)
Sweet Stampin’ Challenge - Gingham
Crafts and Me Challenge 116 - New (New Stamps) 
CCW Dec/Jan Mini Challenge - Smaller then 12" x 12"

Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge PWC241 – Ribbon! 

Love Fairy Easel Treat Box  
Basic Grey Challenge #85 - New Beginnings/Something New (Used New EP and Stamp with Crush cardstock from Blush Collection) 
Bunny Zoe's Crafts Monthly Challenge #32 – Anything Goes  

Spectrum Noir January 2013 Challenge - Love  
Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge:  Lace Love  
Allsorts Challenge Week 189 – Dies and Punches  
Anything Goes Challenge 84 - Buttons and Bows  
Kaboodle Doodles Challenge #154 – Buttons  
Stamp and Create January Challenge: Love  
Totally Gorjuss Challenge 166 – Spotty

Amore!!

Have you seen the new stamp sets recently released by Sparkle N Sprinkle?  The two newest “Stampette Sets” coordinate with each other and are perfect for making a card to let someone know you love them. 

Stamp Set 483 – Love Fairy

Stamp Set 480 – Amore

Here are two cards I just made using these sets.

This first card is probably the simplest card you will ever see me make.  You have no idea how hard it is for me to leave it alone.  It uses an image from the Love Fairy set and the one word sentiment from the Amore set.  Running it through a Darice embossing folder and adding a little glitter made me feel better and it is still simple and sweet.

On this second card the beautiful Amore Fairy image is centered on layers of red mirror cardstock and Nesting Doily Square die cuts.  I used the floral wreath to add a sentiment and added glitter to all of the stamped flowers, using a glue pen.  The white bow, pink satin flowers, and a pearl button on a hat pin add a touch a elegance.

Find more detail on both of these stamp sets and cards on the Sparkle N Sprinkle Blog.  Don’t forget to come back on Thursday, January 17 for the start of the Sparkle N Sprinkle Fancy Folds Blog Hop. 

Enjoy your week!!   

E. Marie

These cards are entered in the following challenges: 

Amore

Simon Says Stamps Challenge – Black/White + a Spash of Colour

Incy Wincy Designs Challenge – Something New (Used new stamps and new embossing folder)

Delightful Challenges – Add Hearts

CAS(E) this Sketch! Challenge         

Forever Yours 
Craft Your Passion Challenge #144 – Vintage/Shabby Chic

Penny Black And More at Allsorts January Challenge – Love Is In The Air

Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge –Embrace the Old (Ribbon, Satin Flowers, Pearl Button, and Mirror Cardstock)

Stamp and Create January Challenge: Love

Totally Papercrafts Challenge #149 – Ribbon

Allsorts Challenge Week 189 – Dies and Punches

Crafty Catz Challenge 165 - Buttons & Bows

Dutch Dare Challenge #199 – Sketch 

In The Meadow...

I had hoped to have this posted on Sunday, but ended up spending most of my day trying to locate my camera so I could take a picture.  The Sparkle N Sprinkle Design Team recently made scrapbook pages.  We were to use lots of sparkle and dimension.  I had something different in mind, but the family pictures we took over the holiday need not arrive in time.  Luckily my nephew’s wife was willing to let me use this adorable picture of her children during their latest winter storm.

The base is created using some decorative paper and blue and white layers.  After adding some blue rectangles, punched with snowflake corner and border punches, I used the Masking on Velvet GlitterTechnique to create the white strip down the center.   I used Cloud Nine, Jasper Blue, and Reflection Velvet Glitter and then added a delicate embossed border with a Beatrix Potter Embossing Folder by Crafter's Companion and the Dry Embossing on Velvet Glitter technique .  I layered the photo on two distressed layers and added it to the center of the page.

Fellow designer, April Williams, gave me this cute fencing I added along the bottom of the page.  Using a combination of Spellbinders’ Standard Circle dies, SNS Dimensional Glue, and Twinkling Clouds Sparkle N Soft, I created the snowman.  Using more dimensional glue I created the eye, nose, mouth, and buttons, covering them with Black Suede and Tiger Orange Velvet Glitter.

This page wouldn’t have been complete without some snowflakes.  I die cut more cardstock covered with "Tear-ific"Tape and added more Cloud Nine, Jasper Blue, and Reflection Velvet Glitter, along with a little Navy Opaque Glitter.  The different layers were popped up with dimensionals.  Head over to the Sparkle N Sprinkle Blog for full details on this page. 

Have a wonderful week!!

E. Marie

This card is entered in the following challenges:

Crafter’s Companion January Challenge – Anything BUT a Card (Embossing Folder)

Simon Says Stamps Challenge – New Something (Embossing Folder, Jasper Blue and Reflection Velvet Glitter)

Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge –Embrace the Old (Corner/Border Punch)

Stamping For the Weekend Challenge 25 – Anything Goes

Catch The Bug January Challenge – Anything Goes

Charisma Cardz Challenge #52 – Monochrome 

Crafts and Me Challenge 115 - Winter Wonderland Christmas Bumper Challenge

Crafts 4 Eternity Challenge R#105 – Something New (Embossing Folder, Jasper Blue and Reflection Velvet Glitter)

CHA Winter Blog Hop At Impression Obsession

Not only is it a new year but now is the time for many new products!!  Monday, January 7 Impression Obsession will begin their Sneak Peek Week and a Blog Hop introducing their new designs and catalog.  Here are the details:

CHA Winter Blog Hop

• Starting next Monday, January 7 and through Friday, January 11, we will have our CHA Sneak Peek Week with designs by our IO DT Only.
• The rest of our NEW SPRING CATALOG images will be previewed for you by the DT and they will also be available to you in our online store!!!
• We will have a $25 Gift Certificate drawing every day (for those people commenting on all DT participating blogs, starting with the IO blog.
• There will be an additional drawing on Friday for those people who participated every day of the hop. 

E. Marie

New Year and New Challenge

Happy New Year!!  Can you believe it is 2013 already?  It is also the beginning of a new month so we have a new challenge for you at the Sparkle N Sprinkle Creative Challenge Blog.  Barbara has a new sketch for that I know you will like.

I spent most of my holiday making wedding plans and creating invitations with my daughter, who recently got engaged.  I guess this put me in the mood for flowers, sunshine, and love so here is my take on the sketch.

 

I used to different embossing folders to create the background pieces.  The window was created using Spellbinders’ Classic Ovals and I used a border punch, "Tear-ific" Tape, and Black Ice Glitter for the border.  I used the Benjamin Bunny stamp set for the images and sentiment.  I added Sunny Daze Glitter to the flower petals using a glue pen and used SNS Dimensional Glue to add tiny yellow glass beads to the centers.  The sentiment and little shaker squares are heat embossed with Ebony Spark EP.  Full details how to make this card can be found at the SNS Gallery, here.

Now head on over to the Creative Challenge Blog to get all the details and rules and see what my fellow designers created with this sketch.

 

E. Marie

This card is entered in the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamps Challenge – Anything Goes

Stampin For The Weekend Challenge 24 – Anything Goes

CI Paints Inspired By:  Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday Challenge 249 - Anything Goes

Delightful Sketches Challenge – Anything Goes

The Pink Elephant TPE180 – "Anything Goes"

Charisma Cardz Challenge #51 – Anything Goes                             

Merry Christmas

I want to wish each of you a very Merry Christmas!!  I hope that you have a lovely day, celebrating with family and friends.

 

 

Let’s not forget the true reason we celebrate this season and the love that God showed by sending His son.

 

E. Marie

The Cards I Sent

Just a few more days before Christmas!!  The gifts have been bought but I am still working on the wrapping, along with cleaning and baking.  I finally finished my Christmas cards and they are in the mail.  Between the problem I had with my tooth and then coming down with a virus that laid me up for a week, I still have a lot to do before the family celebrates together.

I thought I would show you some of the cards I made this year to send to friends and family.  Because I have to make so many cards for Christmas, they are usually a little more simple than most of my cards. 

 

This first card is probably the simplest card I made all year.  It took all I had to keep it this way, though I love the look.  I used ine of Sparkle NSprinkle’s new digital images, designed by Beccy Muir, called Candy Canes.  I colored it with markers and added a simple sentiment, Season Greetings, stamped in red.  A little layering and it is finished!!

I used the Candy Canes digital image for this card, too.  It is colored with markers, die cut with a Spellbinders’ Classic Ovals die, and layered on a red Lacey Oval die.  I embossed the background with an embossing folder that coordinated with the candy cane theme.  I added the story of the candy cane inside the card.

This last card uses another new digital image, Joy, also designed by Beccy Muir.  I increased the size so it fit the length of the card.  After coloring it with markers, I layered it on green and added it to the bottom of a red layer on a white card base.  I used a glue pen to add gold velvet glitter to the ribbon and the centers of the flowers.  Along the top of the card I added a die cut holly border with just a touch of red velvet glitter added to the center of the leaves.

May you have a very Merry Christmas and experience true joy as we celebrate the birth of Christ.

E. Marie

These cards are entered in the following challenges:

Season Greetings

Anything Goes Challenge 82 - Traditional Colours

Crafts 4 Eternity Challenge R#103 – Anything Goes 

Totally Stampalicious Challenge – CASTotally Gorjuss Challenge 163 – Easy Does It

Sentimental Sundays Challenge #134: Focus on the Sentiment

CI Paints Inspired By: Merry Christmas

Delightful Challenges – Anything goes

DYSU #103 - Anything Goes

Candy Canes

Penny Black And More at Allsorts December Challenge – It's Your Choice

Top Tip Tuesday Challenge #92 – Anything Christmas Goes 

Sweet Stampin’ Challenge - Seeing Double (Two Candy Canes, Two Dies)

Paper Pretties Monday Challenge PPMC70 - Create a Christmas Creation
Ladybugs Crafts Ink Challenge – Anything Goes

One Stop Craft Challenge #210 – A Christmas Carol

Joy

Bunny Zoe's Crafts Monthly Challenge #31 – Celebration

Simon Says Stamps Challenge - Merry Christmas

ABC Christmas Challenge – Y is for Your Favorite Punch/Die

Bugaboo Recipe Challenge – Use A Border

Crafts And Me Challenge 115 – Winter Wonderland Christmas Bumper Challenge
Stamp and Create December Challenge - Sparkly Christmas

Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge PWC237 – Glitter

Incy Wincy Designs Challenge – Christmas Mistletoe or Holly