Sparkly Joy Altered Letters

Good morning, Scrappin' Friends! I'm Wendy Coffman from Stamping Rules, and I'm here to share this glittery holiday display today. I got these cool paper mache letters which I painted with layers of grey and silver acylic paint. The front of the letters I coated with lots of silver glitter, just some standard chunky kid glitter. Then I got to work with the Mod Podge, pasting on hexagons I cut with my Cricut machine. After all the hexagons were attached and trimmed around the letters I did a final coat of Mod Podge and coated the letters with a clear chunky plastic glitter. 

Here you can see the final coating of what I always call kid glitter because it's uber chunky. It adds a lot of sparkle but still let's your paper shine through! I topped off each letter with a snowflake embellishment I built out of glitter paper cricut cuts and some rhinestone brads that I've been hoarding for just this kind of special project. I finished off my bling with a sparkle flourish for each letter. I adhered the flourishes with lots of Liquid Glass, which dried clear so it didn't interfere with the sparkle of the letters. For the parts of the flourish that were not actually attached to the letters I just flipped the whole thing over and coated the sticky part of the flourish with more Liquid Glass so it wouldn't attract hair or dust. I can't wait to add these letters to my holiday mantel!

If you'd like to see more pics of this project, and links to my craft sources, please visit me over at Stamping Rules. Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Fall, Y'all!

Hi! I'm Practical Scrapper Wendy Coffman from Stamping Rules!, here with a fun Fall project for y'all.  When I found this chevron print burlap canvas I knew it would be perfect for a pretty scrappy door "wreath", which is ready to start hanging around on my front door now that Fall is really here. I had originally planned to make it more Halloween themed, but then I saw the Tuesday Trigger over at Moxie Fab World and I was immediately inspired to change my whole game plan. We still have a lot of green around in fall up here in the PacNW...plus if you've seen my work before, you know I don't need much encouragement to add glitter and flowers to any project! 

So I hit my stash pretty hard for this project, using up bits and bobs of all kinds of materials to build my flowers. I've got a bit of chocolate felt border that I rolled up into a sweet rose. Layers of garden green and cream cardstock that I cut on my Cricut to layer into the biggest flowers, topped off with bling. I also cut the beige linen patterned paper and yellow cardstock for the 3-D rolled flowers on my Cricut. The leaves and vines are felt. I filled the rolled flowers with glitter and rhinestones, and tucked a little felt acorn in amongst the flowers and bling. I backed the wreath with a few layers of black tulle. 

I cut my sentiment on the Cricut as well, using a deep brown glitter paper. The upper letters are layered onto a cork diecut frame.  Most of the materials to build my wreath came from Close To My Heart. I found the burlap canvas at Joann's.  The sequins are from American Crafts. I attached everything using my hot glue gun so it'll be good and sturdy hanging on my sheltered front door. 

Now it's time to head off for another week of apple picking, sweater wearing, pumpkin spice everything fun. Happy Fall, Y'all!

Loose Glitter and Flocking Challenge Winners

Grand Prize Winner - Robbyn:

Glitter AND Flocking!

Wendy - Flocked Snowflakes and a Glittery Snow Scene

Pinky

Marina

Sandra

Glitter ruled this week, but a few flocking projects snuck in and got noticed. I love the finishing touches these products add to a project. Email us at practicalscrappers@gmail.com for your blinky and thanks for taking part in this week's challenge!

Friday's Loose Glitter and Flocking Projects

Amanda, added flock to the diamond plate embossed tree on her page.. She all so put flock on the green part of her banner.. The digital stamp of the the owl in the tree is from our sponsor for this month Squigglefly stamps.

For this Caroline filled the holes in her chipboard bubbles with crystal effects and covered them in shimmery glitter. She then painted the chipboard with Shimmerz paint to give it more sparkle, and painted the cork buttons with Stickles. To finish it off she splashed some Shimmerz paint over her background cardstock.

Carolina used glitter of different colours to cover the brads used for this card.

Heidi used loose glitter of different colors to embellish her frame and jazz up her paper-pieced guitar.

Lisa B used an adorable Giraffe digi stamp from Squigglefly to complete this card. She cut out the digi after she printed it and added some Marth Stewart Brownstone glitter to the giraffe's spots, horns, mane and feet. She ended up tucking him neatly into a little gift tag and attaching that to the front of the card.

Thursday's Loose Glitter and Flocking Projects

Erin used Zig 2 way glue and black flock by Doodlebug Design Inc. to embellish one of the cats on her patterned paper, as well as to add definition around the kraft colored paper. She then added loose red glitter by Stix 2 on the heart shape.

Karen used glitter in several places on this photo frame. On the blue chipboard flower, she painted the lines in each petal and while the paint was still wet, she sprinkled glitter over them. She then did the same technique with the I love you plaque. After painting the edges with pink craft paint, she dipped the edges in glitter while still wet. On the row of blue flowers that go around the frame in the patterned paper, she used CTMH's Liquid Glass to put a dot in the center of each little flower and then sprinkled glitter over it. The liquid glass dots helped it to be raised and give it a tiny bit of 3-d feel.

Pam used loose glitter to help accent the focal point of this birthday card. After glimmer misting the Tattered Angels butterfly in lime and the Prima flower in turquoise, she painted each lightly with tacky glue and sprinkle on some Doodle Bug Design Sugar Coating Lily White Glitter. This glitter is very chunky and adds a lot of dimension to anything it is used on! A little bling swirl from Prima finished off the design.

Tanya took out her chipboard, her pretty pink ink and her loose pink glitter in order to make these sparkly pink flowers match the sparkly pink ribbon. Tanya found that using Diamond Glaze was the best glue to get the glitter to adhere, as it dried clear allowing the ink to peek through and the glitter to sparkle.

Wednesday's Loose Glitter and Flocking Projects

Kerri colored the image "Floral Frenzy" from this months sponsor,Squigglefly, with her Craft Essential Markers. She then created her own shaker card using some plastic from packaging, her Cricut to cut the frame, and some sparkling crystal glitter that she had in her stash.

For her layout, Jessica used fine loose glitter to cover double-sided adhesive letters, then applied a top coat of Liquid Glass to add an epoxy look and prevent excess glitter from falling off the letters. She also added fine and chunky glitter to hand-made roses by using a spray adhesive.

Sasya covered butterflies with silver glitter to decorate her card.

Barb C used Martha Stewart double sided snowflake stickers to add subtle snowflakes made from loose glitter and flocking. They were combined with larger snowflakes and some gems to complete the snowy look!!

Tuesday's Loose Glitter and Flocking Projects

Sara used loose glitter to accent the butterflies and a double stick swirly bracket on her layout.

Lisa S. used flock for her grass to add texture to her card. Lisa used Squigglefly image Thy Cart Overfloweth.

Sue used different color flocking on her title word "COLOR."

Robin stamped her flowers with a glue pad and then sprinkled loose glitter over the image.

For this challenge, Sandra dug out her large stash of Glitter Ritz. Glitter Ritz is an ultra fine glitter that is excellent for using with double sided sticky tape. In order to get the variation and design she used her tulipe die and the Big Shot. Please check her blog herefor all the details on how to create this look.

Monday's Loose Glitter and Flocking Projects

Kim used some big loose glitter to cover a chipboard butterfly. She also used some pink glitter Thickers for the name on her altered journal. To put the finishing touches on, the flowers have some strawberry stickles.

Corinna used spray adhesive and loose glitter to add sparkle to her Easter egg sticker and the metal egg dipper.

Deanne added Martha Stewart Swan flock to the bears tummy and ears to give him a huggable feel. She also used Studio G Fresh Flock to make the soft blue flowers and added Stampendous! Ultra Fine Blue glitter to the brads and underlay flowers as well as on the image itself.

Denise cut out a wave pattern with her Cricut machine. After chalking the edges, she applied Zig 2 way glue to the top of the waves and covered it with blue glitter.