Thursday, August 16, 2018

August Sparkle Blends Release Blog Hop (Blog Candy entries close 8/19/18)

Hello Doodle Friends!
Welcome to our second Blog Hop celebrating our August Release!

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Our August Release included some fantastic seasonal blends, including two for Halloween, as well as two twinkly, magic inspired blends. This release included:
Check out the in depth descriptions of each blend, Here



We have some fantastic inspiration coming your way, on each leg of the hop, from an amazingly talented group of women, so get ready to get your creative juices flowing!

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To start off the hop today, I decided to combine two challenges into one card! In addition to our Hop, this is also "How do you Doodle" week over at White Rose Crafts--celebrating both Doodles Paper Playground: Sparkle Blends & Heffy Doodle stamps & dies! I'm a huge fan of the Elfish Antics stamp set from Heffy Doodle & wanted to mix it up a bit by pairing it with our Bubblegum Ice Sparkle Blend! If you've seen this blend you might be raising an eyebrow right now, but I love a good non-traditional Christmas color palette, and thought the icy blues & silver, soft pinks, and transparent purples made the perfect, contemporary Christmas combination for this simple stamped and Copic colored, frame style shaker card.


I used a frame die from my stash to cut a white, 110# frame & my Misti to repeat stamp the train and car around the frame in Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I also stamped the elf girl and remote control & colored them all with Copic markers.


I backed my colored frame with a clear acetate window & used Woodware 3mm foam mounting tape to create a shaker box. I selected a sheet of beautiful, blue snowflake paper from the Wild Rose Studio Frosted Lace paper collection as my background, adhering it to a top folding, white A2 card base. I added a generous amount of Bubblegum Ice Sparkle Blends to the middle of the panel & then centered my shaker box and adhered it to the background.


I topped the windows of the train engines & the white areas of the elf's clothes with a generous coat of Sakura clear Stardust Pen & coated the grey train sections with Spectrum Noir clear sparkle pen, so they look more silver than grey.


Finally, I glued the remote control in the elf's hands & adhered her to the card, using Multi Medium Matte. I found a tiny "Season's Greetings" stamp from the Papertrey Ink Snow Globe Mini Sentiments stamp set. 

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As always, we are offering 🍬 Blog Candy 🍬 on each leg of the hop, in addition to a Grand Prize
Comment on each post to be eligible to win one randomly selected package of Sparkle Blends from this release on each post (Plus, we will have two more reminder posts on Saturday and Sunday, here on the blog, so make sure you come back and comment there too for 2 bonus chances to win a pack of Sparkle Blends from this release!!) 

Grand Prize - one pack each of all 6 Sparkle Blends from the August Release, plus 3 randomly selected mini sample packs from previous releases
Note: Make sure you comment on ALL 6 of the blog hop posts to be eligible to win this prize (bonus entries if you comment on our reminder posts, Saturday & Sunday)! 

Disclaimer: To be eligible to win, you must be at least 18 years old, have a US mailing address & comment no later than 11:59pm EST on Sunday, August 19, 2018. Make sure you use a Valid Email when leaving your comments, so that we can contact youWinners will be chosen at random, using random .org & announced early next week, here on the blog & on our Facebook Page. Winners must provide a mailing address within 48 hours of contact to claim their prize, or a new winner will be selected. This giveaway is in no way sponsored, endorsed or affiliated with Blogger, Facebook or any of their entities. All prizes furnished & shipped by Doodles Paper Playground.

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Kay Barnes, owner of Sparkle Blends exclusive retailer, White Rose Crafts LLC has generously offered a special promotion on all items in the Doodles Paper Playground section of her online store, which includes all in stock Sparkle Blends!

Save 15% on all items in the Doodles Paper Playground section of the store, Valid Friday 8/17 through Sunday 8/19.
Use Discount Code:
DOODLES15

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Blog Hop Links:

                   Doodles Paper Playground <--- you are here
EKgorman Designs



The next stop on the hop is: 
Fawntastic Creations

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Thanks for visiting the blog!
Come back soon,
Happy Crafting!

17 comments:

  1. Oh my what a wonderful surprise this would be to win. I love the card it is so colorful. The winner will have fun making so many pretty and bright cards with all the colors

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  2. Oh your card is simply
    gorgeous! Love the colors
    and the stamps and the
    shaker packages are all
    so pretty!!
    Carla from Utah

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  3. This is just so pretty! The colors, the shaker - everything!

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  4. Love the train frame and the colors.
    slrdowney at hotmail dot com

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  5. I love the Sparkle Blends and the new release ones look awesome too. That is such a pretty card too.

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    1. Congratulations Verna! You have one a randomly selected package of Sparkle Blends from our August Release! Please email doodlespaperplayground@gmail.com with your address to claim your prize!

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  6. Such a great card! Love the colors!!!

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  7. I love the colors you used and how you did the train as a border! SO CUTE!

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  8. Wonderful card idea ! Would love to win so I could make a shaker card too.

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  9. Beautiful products and such a sweet card. So festive!

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    1. Congratulations Dana! You are the winner of our August Sparkle Blends Release Blog Hop GRAND PRIZE!! Please contact me at doodlespaperplayground@gmail.com with your mailing address to claim your prize!

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  10. I really love your shaker card! The colors in my opinion are fantastic! Honestly I have never cared for the traditional Christmas colors! And that train going around the border of the cards is so adorable too!! my email is: caholmes67@gmail.com

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    1. Hi Cindy, the single pack of SParkle BLends prize for this post wasn't claimed, so we've drawn a new winner. Congratulations! That's you! Please send us an email at doodlespaperplayground@gmail.com within 24 hours to claim your prize!

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  11. Sweet shaker card! Love the cute stamps you used and the coloring!

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  12. Thank you all for participating! Our next release will drop on October 1st & we will have another blog hop in Mid-October--so make sure you follow our blog & don't miss out!

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