Merry Christmas

And now for a little more Christmas in July! I am bringing you a Sparkly Christmas Tree! Check this out!

This project features the fabulous Oh Christmas Tree and Old St. Nick Sparkle Blends. These two work together so well and allowed me to use the fabulous elements from both blends to give me tiny Santas, Tiny Christmas Trees, stars for both the sky and to decorate the tree. There are so many fun elements in these blends!

I created my background using Catherine Pooler Inks in Juniper Mist, Suede Shoes and It's A Boy, and have applied these with Taylored Expressions Blending Brushes. I then used Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillsides to create my snowy layers and attached these with Scor-Tape. Then I stamped and colored up the tree from a stamp set from Stamps of Life called Christmastree2stamp and cut it out with the coordinating die set. I colored it up with Copics in G03, G05 and G09. The sentiment is also from the same set and I stamped it using the same Catherine Pooler Juniper Mist ink. I then adhered the Sparkle Blends to my project using a combination of glue dots and On Point Glue.

To see more of the Sparkle Blends July Release as well as all of the amazing Sparkle Blends, head over to the Sparkle Blends Shop. And, take a look on the Doodles Paper Playground blog, Facebook page and in the Sparkle Blends Fan Club on Facebook to see all the fun things going on!

I do hope you enjoy this project and can't wait to see what you create!

Hugs!

Judy

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!

A Floral Christmas Card

Hello Crafty Friends -Annie here with a quick and easy card featuring 

the New July Release Sparkle Blends.

Today I used Old St. Nick and Merry Mint along with a die

from The Rabbit Hole Designs called Candy Twist

Here's the card I created. I used the Candy Twist die to make

 some Christmas Flowers.

Materials Used:

Doodles Paper Playground: Old St. Nick

Doodles Paper Playground: Merry Mint

The Rabbit Hole Designs: Candy Twist

Rinea Foiled Paper: Emerald/Emerald Starstruck

Rinea Foiled Paper: Ruby/Ruby Starstruck

Rinea Foiled Paper: Jade/Jade Starstruck

Hero Arts Stamp: Celebrate Everyday CL498

Recollections Brand 110lb Cardstock: White and card base

Recollections Brand 65lb Cardstock: Medium Green

Tsukeniko Versa Fine Ink: Onyx Black

Art Glitter Glue

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

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