Peace collage

My daughters and I spent this past weekend with my dear friend Korin Sutherland and her family. It was great spending time together and enjoying some stamping. She makes some wonderful collage cards and I was determined to learn how to do collage stamping lol. So with her help and after several failed attempts this is the card that I came up with.

 

On kraft cardstock I first stamped the Light of Christmas bg stamp with Antique Linen ink.  Next I stamped the Snowflake flourish with brown memento ink over the top of that.  Finally I stamped the Vintage ornament with CTMH twilight ink.  All of the edges were distressed with scissors and I sponged the edges with brown ink.  Pearls and white twine were used as my embellies.  The layout is the sketch challenge on SCS this week which was designed by the fabulous Korin.

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Charisma Cardz- feeling blue
Sweet Stampin- anything goes
Paper Play- snowflakes

Supplies:
stamps- Snowflake flourish, Light of Christmas bg, Vintage Ornaments, all from SNSS
paper- kraft, ctmh twilight, My Minds Eye dp
ink- Antique Linen distress ink, Memento brown, ctmh twilight
embellishments/tools- white twine, pearls, sponge, scissors, lace

Have a blessed day!!

Christmas Is...

Sweet N Sassy stamps is having a last minute Christmas release.  I would like to share a fairly CAS card with you that I made with one of the stamp sets from this release called Christmas Is.



I stamped the main frame image and the smaller poinsettia image from the set and colored them with copics. I popped the smaller flower up with foam tape and accented each flower with a rhinestone. The white bg is embossed with a Sissix poinsettia folder.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:
Papertake Weekly- Flower Power
Crafty Ann's- tic tac toe (gems, flowers, ribbon)

Supplies: 
stamps- Christmas Is from Sweet N Sassy stamps 
cardstock- Neenah white, black 
copics- R81, R83, R85, R89, BG63, BG67 
embellishments/tools- foam tape, rhinestones, Sissix ef, organdy ribbon, silver cord

Thanks for stopping by today!

Many Thanks!

Hi everyone! I hope that you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Speaking of thanks, I created this CAS thank you card to give to a friend of mine for a birthday gift that I recently received.



I used one of my fave sets from Sweet N Sassy stamps called Wildflowers (I used it on my last post too lol). I took an acrylic block, inked it up 3 different timees before I stamped it on my paper so it created blotchy rectangles. I then stamped the flowers over the top of the 3 rectangles with black ink.

Supplies:
stamps- SNSS Wildflowers and Many Thanks (sentiment)
ink- SU coral, baja, and celery
accessories- rhinestones, scallop border punch, foam tape, acrylic block

Thank you for spending a part of your day with me! Have a wonderful rest of the day!

Coral Wildflowers

I have an all occasion card to share with you today. I made this it for the color challenge on SCS this week which was coral, limeade and baja breeze. The beautiful flower image is from the Wildflowers set from Sweet N Sassy stamps. I colored directly on the stamp with Stampin Up markers before stamping the image. Stickles was used on the center of the flowers. I created the decorative frame around the oval by using a Martha Stewart border punch. You can see directions on how to do this HERE.

Supplies:
stamps- SNSS Wildflowes
CS- cameo coral, white
accessories- stickles, pearls, MS border punch, cuttlebug polka dot folder, scallop corner punch, white organdy ribbon

Christmas Present

I have pretty limited craft budget so I really enjoy getting the most out of my supplies and using them in new ways. For the card I am sharing with you today, I used an all occasion everyday stamp set to create a Christmas card. I was inspired by a Christmas ad that I recently saw and that is where the idea for my card came from.



I stamped several different images from Sweet N Sassy stamps Seeing Spots set in both red and gold inks to make a square. I then matted it and used some organdy ribbon to make it look like a present. The card was further embellished with gold stickles and gold pearls in the corners. I "framed" the sentiment by placing it between 2 score lines. I was fairly happy with how this card came out and I am planning on making more in some different color combos.

Supplies
stamps- Seeing Spots from SNSS
Cardstock- Gold Sparkle, Blanc Sparkle and red from Paper Temptress
embellishments- gold pearls, gold stickles, gold organdy ribbon, and scor-pal

Tis the season for holiday shopping! This week's birthday special at Sweet N Sassy stamps is Buy a $25 gift certificate and get a $5 gift certificate for yourself. Now that is my kinda shopping- one for you and one for me too so everyone is happy lol.

Well, have a great day and I appreciate you taking the time to visit my blog!

Sweet Sparkly Snowman

Hello and welcome to the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Birthday Blog Hop! Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps is so excited to be celebrating four wonderful years! A fantastic group of Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps design team members past and present, along with some special friends, have put together this fabulous Birthday Blog Hop to kick off a whole month of fun. We have 37 stops so the hop will take place over three days - feel free to take your time visiting each blog! You have until 11:59pm EST November 9th to leave comments on as many blogs as you can. On Saturday, November 12th Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps will announce FOUR winners (chosen at random from comments on random stops along the hop); each lucky winner will receive a prize pack including stamps, dies, paper & twine valued at $40!

If you have been following along already you should have come from Shannon White. If you are only starting here, please head back to the SNSS blog and go from there. You won't want to miss any stops along the way! Also, don't forget to comment on as many stops as you can....the more comments the better your chance of winning one of the fabulous prize packs! :)

Here is what I created for the hop



I used the snowman image from theSnow Special set and "colored" it with red, silver, and stardust stickles. I stamped 2 snowflakes from the Snowflake Flourish set and popped them up over my snowflake punches. The patterned paper is from the Echo Park Dots and Stripes Christmas paper pad. I love the little snowflakes in some of the dots of the background panel. My layout is the Sweet Stop sketch for this week. All of the edges were sewn and rhinestones were added for the buttons. This is such a sparkly card in person and my teenage daughter gave it the thumbs up lol.

Your next stop on the hop is Katlyn Traxler, but just in case there are any hiccups, here is the whole list of celebrants on this party train:

Korin Sutherland

Holly McMillen

Taylor Usry

Kim Schofield

Monika Davis

Lydia Fiedler

Harriet Skelly

Makiko Jones

Jerusha Borden

Mary Marsh

Lori Craig

Kim O'Connell

Chris Dickinson

Stephanie Wright

Shannon White

Janette Olen

Katlyn Traxler

Deb Felts

Stephanie Serrano

Jessica Fick

Kim Singdahlsen

Mary Faus

Sandy Domelle

Bridget Finlay

Ceal Pritchett

Dina Kowal

Margo Smith

Shelby Goolsby

Tami Mayberry

Lorie Souther

Darsie Bruno

Cathy McCauley

Beate Johns

Janice Melton

Jacquie Peifer

Lisa Hjulberg

Glad you were able to stop in today, enjoy the rest of the hop!

Snowy Rhubarb Christmas

Hello and welcome to the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Release Day Blog Hop! This month we have are doing something really fun - the Design Divas and the Digi Team are hopping together, to celebrate the fabulous clear stamps, digis, and dies being released tonight!! Grab your favorite cuppa and maybe some of that yummy chocolate the kids collected this week ;) and get ready for some amazing eye candy! Don't forget to join us tonight at 8:00PM EST in our member company forums over on Splitcoast stampers - we have a great release party planned! There will be full reveals of all of the stamp sets, digis and dies, plus challenges AND prizes!!!

If you have been following along already you should have come from Mary Faus. If you are only starting here, please head back to the SNSS blog and go from there. You won't want to miss any stops along the way!

Here is what I created for the hop



I used the new Rhubarb's Winter Fun set. I colored Rhubarb with copics and used stardust stickles for the snow. The super cute patterned paper is called Holly Jolly Christmas from Echo Park- love it! I sanded the edges of all the dp before matting and my layout is the Sweet Stop sketch for this week.

copic colors- E 23, 25, 27, 50, 51, 53; R 000, 0000, 35, 37, 39; G000

Here is a close up


Your next stop on the hop is Makiko Jones, but just in case there are any hiccups, here is the whole list of team members sharing new release goodness today:

Kim Schofield
Sandy Domelle
Ceal Pritchett
Mary Faus
Janette Olen- you are here
Makiko Jones
Kim Singdahlsen
Jessica Fick
Stephanie Wright
Dina Kowal
Holly McMillen
Carol Longacre
Taylor Usry
Cathy McCauley
Margo Smith
Bridget Finlay
Harriet Skelly
Monika Davis
Korin Sutherland
SNSS blog

Also, if you did not already know the birthday sale for this week at Sweet N Sassy stamps is 50% off all digis!!!! How awesome is that?

I would like to enter my card into the following challenge:
Charisma Cardz- Cutesy Projects

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your day!

Masculine Birthday Card

Today I would like to share with you a masculine card which is not something I tend to create often. My husband needed a card for a birthday card for a friend whose party was a couple days ago. This is what I came up with:



I stamped the lighthouse image from the Shine Your Light set from Sweet N Sassy stamps onto confetti white CS with black ink then sponged around the edges with baja ink. I crinkled my white paper then sponged the creases with ink to make them stand out before stamping the sentiment over the top. The tabs are made using the word window punch and putting a brad through. The middle strip is accented with charcoal twine.

Supplies:
stamps- Sweet N Sassy stamps Shine your Light and Happy Birthdays set for the sentiment
paper- kraft, black, baja breeze, confetti white
accessories- charcoal twine, word window punch, pewter brads, sewing machine, distressed stripes cuttlebug folder, foam tape.

This Thursday, Nov. 3, Sweet N Sassy stamps is releasing 6 new stamp set along with some new dies as well. The release party is from 8-10pm EST in our forum on Splitcoast so you won't want to miss the fun. We are also having our release blog hop so I hope you will stop back on Thursday for a peek at the new sets before they are released. It is also our birthday month so lots of sales and cool events happening. You can read more about it HERE.

Well, I am off to work now. Hope you all have a wonderful day!

A Fall blog hop!

The design teams of Sweet and Sassy stamps and The Twinery have teamed up for a fun blog hop complete with some awesome prizes up for grabs.



I really enjoy using twine on my cards, it really adds a nice touch and is a great alternative to ribbon since it is not quite as bulky. Sweet N Sassy stamps has a wonderful variety of The Twinery twine in the store so you will want to check it out!

If you have already been hopping you should have arrived here from Sheri Twing's blog. If you are just starting here, I invite you to start back at the beginning and hop along with us!

I have 2 cards that I would like to share with you today.

The first is a card that I made during the summer for one of the SNSS kits but never shared yet- gasp!



I used the Seeing Spots set to create a strip and then I cut around the circles to create a scallop edge. I accented the card with honeydew twine.

The second card is a pretty simple Christmas card that would be easy to reproduce.



For this card I stamped the holly image from the Holly Jolly Christmas set randomly to create a background panel with green ink then used candy cane stickles for the berries. I stamped the sentiment beneath my punched border. I wrapped Maraschino twine around the border and then cinched the twine by tying a bow through my button. I love how twine looks when used on buttons!

Your next stop on the hop is:
Emily Leiphart

But before you go....

Here's the wonderful prize The Twinery has up for grabs with today's hop,
the Ultimate Color Sampler Pack valued at $25....



And here's Sweet 'n Sassy's prize...
the super popular Season of Change Stamp Set (which you have seen me use a few times now) & Die Bundle valued at $28....



For a chance to win these fabulous prizes you MUST comment on each blog in the hop.
Winners will be announced on Sunday, October 23rd on The Twinery Blog as well as on the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Blog.

Thanks for hopping along today! I hope that you have been inspired by all of the wonderful creations that the DTs have shared.

Fall Thank you

I made a thank you card the other day that my husband needed and I just remembered that I forgot to post it here on my blog. I participated in the Splitcoast sketch and color challenges with it.



Pretty simple and straight forward card really. I used one of the leaf images from the Season of Change set from Sweet N Sassy stamps and did the rock and roll technique using mustard and tangerine inks. The white panel is embossed with a cuttlebug polka dots folder, add some pearls to the corners and some ribbon and call it a day :)

Enjoy your weekend all!

Supplies:

stamps- Season of Change and Many Thanks sets from Sweet N Sassy
paper- soft suede, whisper white, more mustard from Stampin Up
tangerine tango ribbon

Paper Pieced Pumpkin

This week's clean and simple challenge on Splitcoast was paper piecing. I love the look paper piecing gives an image and I couldn't wait to try it on the pumpkin from the Fall Time Cocoa set from Sweet N Sassy stamps. I am happy with the way the Echo Park papers looked. Cocoa was colored with copics and baker's twine and pearls were used for my embellishments. I was tempted to add more to this card and to sew my layers but CAS was the name of the game lol. The layout is the Sweet Stop sketch for this week.

Supplies:

stamps- Sweet N Sassy stamps Fall Time Cocoa set
paper- Echo Park dp, white, chocolate chip
embellishments- brown pearls, cappuccino baker's twine
copics- E30, E31, E33, E35, E37(cocoa); R00, R02, E30 (ears); E40, E41, E42 (stem and ground); YR0000, YR000 (shadow which is not showing well in pic), W3, W1, W00 on pumpkin

Hope you have a great day!!

Wildflowers

I found some time to make it into my craft room and decided to play along with the color challenge and the sketch challenge on Splitcoast.



I chose the Wildflowers stamp set for my card. I colored directly on the stamp with my Stampin Up markers in Pumpkin and Olive then spritzed the stamp with water before stamping the image onto watercolor paper. The "sky" was painted with an aquabrush dipped into turquoise ink. The center of the flowers was accented with stickles.

Supplies
stamps- Sweet N Sassy stamps Wildflowers and Seeing Spots (sentiment)
paper- watercolor, pumpkin pie, old olive, chloe's closet dp
tools- SU markers, pearls, stickles, corner rounder punch, sewing machine

Thank you for visiting today- have a wonderful day!

Cocoa's Christmas

Have you been enjoying the Sweet Peeks so far from Sweet N Sassy stamps? Today is Sweet Peek day 7 and the set featured today is called Cocoa's Christmas. It contains 2 adorable Cocoa images along with 6 sentiments.



I colored Cocoa with copics and used silver stickles on the garland and star. I stamped the sentiment with Black Staz-On onto my pleated ribbon. I thought that would be something new for a different look. I think it looks kinda cool. I am entering my card into the Sketch Saturday challenge this week as I used this week's current sketch for my layout.

Close up


Here is a look at the inside. I used one of the sentiments in the set along with some Michaels bridal flowers which I colored with my R37 copic marker. I then added a dot of silver stickles in the centers.



Stop on over to the Sweet N Sassy blog to see the other fabulous examples that the DT has to share with you using this new set.

Also, tomorrow night (Thurs 9/15) from 8-10 PM EST we will be having our release party located in the Sweet N Sassy forum on Splitcoast. There will be set reveals, challenges, and of course there will be some prizes up for grabs so I hope you can drop by and join us. I am one of the challenge hostesses this month but you will have to check out the release party to see what my challenge will be.

Thank you so much for visiting my blog today, have a blessed day!

Blossom and Flourish

I used the beautiful newly released Season of Change set illustrated by Dina Kowal. The sentiment in the set is lovely and I chose to focus on that rather than the images for this card. I stamped the poem with dk brown ink and sponged some soft blue ink along the edges. All of my edges were stitched and I used buttons and baker's twine for my embellishments. I thought that the dp coordinated so well since part of the poem mentions "leaves on the tree". It is from the Echo Park Walk in the Park line which I don't see in the store right now but the Country Drive pack looks like it has a similar pattern.

Supplies:
Stamps- Sweet N Sassy stamps Season of Change
embellishments- buttons, cappuccino baker's twine, MS border punch
paper- Echo Park Walk in the Park, Paper Temptress hot fudge, CTMH ivory

Glad you stopped by today, have a wonderful day!!

Balloon Thank you

My daughter had her birthday party and she needs to thank her guests for the great gifts they gave to her. I made some very quick and easy cards for her to give to her friends. There is a "boy" and "girl" version for her to use.





This week Korin, my good friend and owner of Sweet N Sassy stamps, was chosen as the Featured Stamper on SCS so I really wanted to play along. Way to go girl! I chose to CASE this card of Korin's. I thought that it was perfect for the thank you cards we needed.

Supplies:
stamps- Sweet N Sassy stamps Polka Dot Silhouettes and Many Thanks
embellishments- stardust stickles, rhinestones, black multiliner pen

Baseball birthday

We have had so many birthdays to celebrate this summer between family and friends. I originally was going to give this to my husband but he was invited to a party for a friend of ours and I did not have any cards in my stash to give him- gasp!



I used the Cocoa loves baseball digi and colored him with my copics. I stitched the edges and used some baseball patterned paper that I have had in my stash for quite some time along with Echo Park dp. Buttons with baker's twine are used to accent the card. The sentiment is from the Happy Birthdays set which has a terrific variety of "Happy Birthday" sayings- both vertical and horizontal.

I colored this image quite awhile ago but here are the copic colors I believe that I used: R000, R00, R02, E41, E42, E43, E44, W00, W1, W3.

Thank you for stopping in today and have a blessed day!

Season of Change

Today the THE day!!! The August release from Sweet N Sassy stamps that is. There are 8 fabulous sets that are going to be released tonight after the release party. It is the last day of Sweet Peeks and the featured set is called Season of Change. It is designed by our new illustrator Dina Kowal. I think that you are going to love it! Check out my CAS sample card below.



I used one of the gorgeous leaf images in the set and did the "rock n roll" technique on it. I used mustard, tangerine, and riding hood red inks from Stampin UP. I really love the pattern within the leaf. Isn't it cool? I wanted to call some attention to the image so I scored 4 lines behind it to accent.



Stop on by the Sweet N Sassy blog to see some other samples created by the awesome DT.

Some more exciting news...Sweet N Sassy stamps has joined the Splitcoast community as a member company today!!!! We are full of exciting news huh? There is another exciting announcement but I will have to keep that a secret until tonight and you can hear about it at our release party lol :)

Thanks so much for stopping in and please join us at 8pm for the release party which is going to be held in our forum on SCS:

Fabulous Fall Release Party

Quick and Easy Birthday

Today I would like to share a quick CAS card that I made for a birthday party that we are going to for a 6 year old boy. I used the new Seeing Spots stamp set from Sweet N Sassy stamps.



I used 4 of the images from the set and used 4 inks as well to create this fun and colorful border. I tied some green twill ribbon at the top and added the sentiment which is from the Happy Birthdays set at the bottom.

Thanks for looking and hope you have a great weekend!!

Bring on the Bling

Wow, summer sure seems to be flying by for my family and quite busy too. August is birthday month for us as 2 of my daughters and my husband all celebrate their birthdays within 9 days of each other too. I would like to share the invitation that I made for my youngest daughter's birthday party today.

The challenge on the Sweet N Sassy digi challenge blog is to bring on the bling which fits so perfectly for my daughter who likes everything that sparkles.



I used the precolored Party Hat Cocoa for the invites and sized them down to 1.5 inches as well as flipped the image so that there would be mirrored images in each corner. This is an awesome advantage to using digis- the fact that you can make them any size (I have even printed them out very large so my daughters used them as a coloring page) and that you can rotate them etc. I used photoshop to do this and then typed in the text using the same program. Having the precolored image also saves loads of time especially when you need to create a large quantity of the same card. So, for my bling...I used a ticket corner punch and added a rhinestone to the corners, and used diamond stickles on the trim of the party hats. My invites are flat, meaning that it does not open up like a card.

I hope that you will decide to give making your invitations a try for your next party/gathering. It really can be quick and easy. I will be making invites that I will share with you for my oldest daughters birthday in the near future also.

I am off to swimming lessons now, hope you have a great day!

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July Release Sweet Peek Day 5

Today is the 5th day of Sweet peeks leading up to Friday's release. The set being featured today is Reading Bethany. This little bunny is so cute.



I colored Bethany with copics and added some stickles to the bow, butterfly, and flower. The bright cheerful papers are from Echo Park's Summer Days and Splash collections. I used the Sweet Stop sketch for this week as my layout. I am planning on sending this card to my friend Kim who loves to read thanking her for letting my family come and stay with them this past week. I hope she likes it.

Be sure to stop by the Sweet N Sassy blog to see the rest of the wonderful creations that the DT has to share.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!!!