Hot Cocoa

Hey Friends! It's EK and today I am playing around with a coffee themed project using Doodles Paper Playground's Hot Cocoa Sparkle Blend Mix.

While DPP is not sponsoring the Coffee Lover's Hop this year, they have certainly sponsored it in the past, so I thought it would be fun to create a card using one of their newest hot drink mixes. And yes I know this blend was meant for 'hot cocoa' but I thought it went perfectly with my coffee themed card.

I started this shaker by blending three shades of brown over some watercolor paper. I used Distress Oxides in Antique Linen, Vintage Photo and Ground Espresso.

I then both sprayed and splattered the watercolor paper with Distress Oxide Spray in Vintage Photo.

Using coordinating dies, I die cut the watercolor paper into a clean rectangle and three circles in a diagonal across the paper. I saved the three cut outs and adhered them to the A2 card frame.

I built up the shaker element inside the card, and filled the three openings with the Hot Cocoa Sparkle Blend Mix.

I added an extra layer of acetate over the filled holes so I could easily place the shaker element over my card frame.

Onto some alcohol ink friendly cardstock, I stamped two coffee images from Gina K Designs and colored them with my copics, keeping the colors in a neutral brown color. I then fussy cut out the images.

I adhered the coffee cups onto the card frame, letting them over lap a little.

Using a sentiment from the same stamp set, I added a fun 'coffee' themed sentiment in Ground Espresso Distress Oxide.

Finally, I hand adhered a few more sequins onto the card frame front just to add a little more bling.

Let me know in the comments below what drink themed project you would make with this blend? Until then, happy crafting.

Fleece Navidad Card

 Hello Crafty Friends - Annie here with a fun card featuring Sparkle Blend: Blue Blizzard

Sparkle Blend: Blue Blizzard

This icy combination of cornflower & baby blue, white, 

shining clear & glittery silver sequins is full to the brim 

with 3 different styles of sequins in different colors--

from holographic silver confetti to matte white & blue Fimo snowflake shapes.

Supplies Used:

Doodles Paper Playground Sparkle Blend: Blue Blizzard

Lawn Fawn: Baah Humbug Stamp Set

Lawn Fawn: Snowy Sky Stencil

Ranger Texture Paste: Matte

Tsukineko Memento Ink: Tuxedo Black

Tsukineko Memento Ink: Bamboo Leaves

Tsukineko VersaMagic Ink: Red Magic & Tea Leaves

Tsukineko Brilliance Ink: Mediterranean Blue

Copic Markers: Hat & Gifts: R37, R39, G05, C1

Sheep: W1, W3, W5, W7 & R30

Xyron Mega Runner Adhesive

Art Glitter Glue

Accent Opaque White 80# Cardstock: Ultra Smooth

Recollections Brand 110# Cardstock: White

Recollections Brand 65# Cardstock: Navy & Med. Teal

Thank you for stopping by the blog today. I hope you found some inspiration!

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Annie

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Unicorn Chill

Hey Friends! It's EK and I am back today with two cards for the price of one featuring the beautiful Sparkle Blend mix Unicorn Chill from Doodles Paper Playground.

To create my first card I blended distress oxides around a piece of watercolor paper. Then I die cut the paper to create the effect I wanted. I stamped this really fun sentiment (which I think could not be more relevant right now).

I added the Unicorn Chill sequin mix inside the shaker card and adhered with liquid adhesive a few of the hearts onto the sentiment.

I think this is the perfect anytime card for the woman in your life who is sort of her own version of super woman!

The second card was created simply because I had the extra bit of scrap from the ink blend water color paper.

I trimmed up a piece of Lawn Fawn printed paper and used the watercolor paper as a frame.

I created a background with splatters of Nuvo Mica Mist and Distress Oxide Spray. I adhered the printed paper and frame onto the background, and then added Unicorn Chill sequins around the frame.

I love the subtle holiday flair to this card without being an obvious Christmas card.

Thanks for peeking in today and checking out my two for one cards. Let me know in the comments below which of the two are your favorite. Until then, happy crafting.

Oh, and if you want to save 10% on your order feel free to use the code EKGORMAN10. 

Christmas Penguin Fun

Hey Divas!  It's Ek and I am back today to share another of the recently released Sparkle Blends mixes from Doodle's Paper Playground! Today I am playing with the fun Pastel Penguin blend, and creating a fun Holiday card with it.

I love how this blend creates its own glow, so I thought it would be perfect inside the moon for this Your Next Stamp stamp set. Well the glow, and of course the penguins!

Have you checked out the full collection from this month's Doodle's Paper Playground release? You are missing out if you haven't!

Let us know your favorite of the new Blends in the comments below. Until then, Happy Crafting!

Oh, and if you want to save 10% on your order feel free to use the code EKGORMAN10. 

Happy Halloween

Hey Friends! It's EK, and I am back with another Halloween 2020 Crafting project, and today I am using some newly released Doodles Paper Playground Sparkle Blends to help create a Halloween themed shaker card.

Not only did I pull in one of the new Sparkle Blends mixes to create this card, I used two different blends to have a little extra fun!

I started by blending Distress Oxide over a piece of watercolor paper using Carved Pumpkin, Spiced Marmalade, and Wild Honey to create the orange-ish themed background. Then I used some Black Soot around the edges to spook up things.

Next I die cut the card using two different Halloween themed die sets from Simon Says Stamps. I kept the 'a' and 'o' around because I was going to need them to make certain I get the center parts correctly in.

To make certain that my two different mixes did not mix, I created channels on the back of the card. Here is just a quick peek at what my three dimensional tape looks like.

I filled the hats and bats die cut section with the new You Drive Me Batty blend and the Halloween section with Spectral blend.

I just love how the little ghosts peek out the sentiment of the card.

Let us know in the comments below if you every mix two different blend to create a unique shaker card. Until then, Happy Crafty. (And early Happy Halloween too!)

Keep it Weird

Hey Friends! I am back with another guest designer post for Doodle's Paper Playground. Today I am trying to keep it weird while I play withe recently released Sparkles Blend mix, Grown Up Grape Juice.

To create this card, I stamped out an image from a Dylusions stamp set, coloring it in with my copics. Then I hand cut a shaker window and filled it with the Grown Up Grape Juice mix. Finally, using a little Wilted Violet Distress Oxides, I blended ink around the edges of the card and added a sticker sentiment from Tim Holtz.

Do you ever try to keep things weird when you craft? Let me know in the comments below. Until then, happy crafting.

Pizza Bling

Hey Everyone! It's EK and today I am popping in with a really fun guest designing project featuring Doodles Paper Playground's new Sparkle Blends. I love playing with these really fun sequin blends in non shaker card ways sometimes, and the new Pizza Party blend.

For this project, I stamped up a card frame with images and sentiments from an Impression Obsession stamp set and colored it in with my colored pencils.

Then using the new code Pizza Party Sparkle Blend, I added the sequins in a really fun way. I added pepperoni colored sequins to, well, the pepperoni. I added metallic sequins to the pizza cutters. Basically, I just used some of the blend to bling up the focal images, and other sequins to just bling up the projects!

Yes, my project is super simple, but I think it is also really fun!

Make sure you pop over to the DPP store and check out the full new release! And if you want to save 10% on your order feel free to use the code EKGORMAN10. 

Candy Twist

Hey Friends! It's EK and today, I am popping in with a little guest designing here at Doodles Paper Playground.

Earlier this month, DPP had a chance to collaborate and play with The Rabbit Hole Designs for a Christmas in July crafting palazzo, and today I am getting to play with not only DPP's recently released Sparkle Blends, but The Rabbit Hole Designs (TRHD) recently released holiday dies and stamps.

Today I am using the new Old St. Nick Sparkle Blend pack and Candy Twist die set from TRHD.

I started my project today by die cutting two piece of crafting paper with the Candy Twist die. One piece was simply a piece of cardstock, the second a piece of red adhesive foil. I have never played the foil paper before, so, there was a bit of a learning curve. I however thought it would be really cool if I could use the die cut in each of the other projects and get a cool two for one.

The red foil was a little hard to work with, so it simply got adhered to a piece of white cardstock. The Christmas cardstock got a piece of acetate to the back of the die cut opening.

The die cuts then got adhered into the openings, and I added back a few of the candy swirl die cuts back into the openings.

The holiday cardstock card got prepped to become a shaker card and I added the Old St. Nick Sparkle Blends got added to the opening. Both card faces were added to an A2 card.

The cards needed a sentiment, so I stamped a sentiment from The Rabbit Hole Design's new Kringle stamp set and embossed it in red embossing powder onto some trimmed cardstock.

The trimmed cardstock got a fishtail trimmed and added to the two cards.

Several Old St. Nick sequins were added to the face of the red foil card, keeping it simple.

I figured the paper of the printed cardstock was busy enough, that I let the sparkle blends inside the shaker do the work all on its own.

Let me know if you have a favorite card from the two today in the comments below. Until then, happy crafting!