December Sparkle Blends Release Blog Hop

Hello.  Welcome.  This month I am guest designing for Doodles Paper Playground and I am so happy to be hopping with the team for the new release, so welcome to the December Release Blog Hop!  You should be coming from Annie.  There are 6 new blends to share with you and I can't wait to see more of what the team has to share with us all!  

Here's my project.  I made a shaker tag!

Sqquueeee!  How cute is that??  Penguins on frozen pond!!  Aren't they adorbs??  And so much sparkly loveliness!!

I started by making my Shaker element.  I cut a piece of patterned paper, a piece of acetate, a piece of foam and a piece of white card with Sizzix Rounded Tags dies.  Then I cut the foam and the white card with Poppystamps House in the Woods die.  It gives this lovely tree lined aperture, but alas, once again, the house had to go!!  I water coloured the white card to give me my scene.  The foam I cut away all the branches and tree trunks except the biggest ones on each side.  This has allowed me to make a three part shaker.  I filled the two outside shaker spaces with Icicle blend, removing some of the bigger elements, and used Juniper Berries blend for the middle shaker window.  I also stamped the penguins' skates and the Rubber Dance sentiment with black archival.

Here you can see a bit more of the blends in the shaker windows.  I stamped, embossed and fussy cut the penguins from Poppystamps Love Note set.  Stamping their skates on the tag means I didn't have to fussy cut them!!  Then I went a little crazy with the iridescent glitter glue on the penguins, the tree branches, the sentiment and also used it to add detail to the trees. 

To see detailed descriptions of each of the December Sparkle Blends release, check out the release blog post! 

We are so excited about this whole release! Do you have a favorite? Juniper Berries, Celebrate and Garnet seem to be front runners for our Designing Divas! These talented ladies have lots of inspiring projects for you, so please hop along with us and leave comments on each leg for a chance to win one of 4 great prizes!

Grand Prize: One person who comments on all posts will win full size packages of all 6 of our December Release Sparkle Blends!

3 Door Prizes: 3 randomly selected commenters will receive one full size package of Sparkle Blends from the December Release!

Giveaway closes at 11:59pm, EST, Sunday December 16, 2018

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Thanks for dropping by.  Don't forget to leave a comment for a chance to win and now you need to hop to Kelli.  If you get lost or find a broken link the full hop list is at the Doodles Paper Playground.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
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Visions of Sugarplums Challenge 1 - Christmas/Winter
The Cats Pajamas Challenge #352 - Winter Holidays
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Christmas