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!!

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!!!

Cocoa Loves Soccer

Hi Friends! Quick post today. I have been pretty sick and I still can't seem to shake it. I have not had the slightest desire to craft and my mojo is gone too. But, I need a card for a birthday party on Saturday so since I have had this image colored since December I decided to try and put together a card with it.



The image is a digi from Sweet N Sassy stamps called Cocoa loves Soccer. I thought it would be a good choice since the card is for a friend of ours who is a soccer coach. I colored it with copics and some ultrafine glitter was added to the white parts of the ball. The layout is the Sweet Stop Sketch for the week. I thought it would be easy but in my impaired state I just could not get the measurements right and I cut the white panels which were embossed with seeing spots cuttlebug folder 3 times.

Hopefully, I will be back to normal soon and have some projects to share with you. Thanks for hanging in there and be blessed today!

Snowflake Silhouettes

I am super excited as my Snowflake Silhouettes stamp set is officially released and for sale at Sweet N Sassy stamps! I made a couple more cards with it using this week's Sweet Stop Sketch. Below are my samples and this week's sketch.







I chose to make one vertical and one horizontal for the sketch. This is a great sketch to use if you have some small images like my snowflakes or the images from our Christmas Itty Bitties set work very well also. I of course blinged up my snowflakes and used stickles and silver beads on the first card and rhinestones on the second card. I wanted to get these posted for you sooner but I wanted to make a matching ornament which just did not happen lol. I am sure that many of you can relate.

Supplies:
Stamps- Sweet N Sassy stamps Snowflake Silhouettes
paper- blue bayou, soft sky, pink pirouette, real red, and blanc sparkle from paper temptress on both.
accessories- nesties, ribbon, rhinestones, silver beads, fiskars apron lace punch and snowflake punch, snowflake and swiss dots cuttlebug folders

Before, I go I want to tell you about the awesome sale going on at Sweet N Sassy stamps. We are celebrating our 3rd birthday this month and you receive the newly released Santa's helper Cocoa stamp set FREE with your purchase of 3 stamp sets or if you want to purchase it separately you receive $3 off of it. There are a total of 8 new sets that were just released on Monday! I am off to get mine- what are you waiting for?

Next Tuesday November 9th, we are having a HUGE blog hop in celebration of our birthday. The DT, past DT members, and some friends of SNSS are participating for more than 30 blogs! Of course, there will be TONS of stamps and digis given away so it is something that you will not want to miss. I wonder what stamp set I will be giving away (wink)?

Thanks for stopping by today. I always appreciate your visits and sweet comments.

Sweet Stop Sketch with Christmas Bear

Well, it has been awhile since I have shared a card with you. So, I have my sweet stop sketch to show you today.





Isn't that bear super adorable?? It is a newly released digi stamp from Sweet N Sassy stamps called Christmas Bear. I colored the bear with copics, added stickles to the ribbon, and accented the the hat with a spica glitter pen. I tried my hand at making a dotted background with the copics which my friend Crissy does. I was fairly happy with the outcome for a first try but I look forward to trying it again with even better results. Here is a closer look for you:



Supplies:
digital stamp- Sweet N Sassy stamps Christmas Bear
paper- Neenah white, eskimo kisses from basic grey
accessories- pearls, sanding block, spica glitter pen, stardust stickles, poinsettias
copics- bear- E30, E31, E33, E35, E37; hat- R35, R37, R39, R89; present- RV32, RV11, RV000, ribbon- YG93, YG95; dotted bg- W1, W3, BG0000, BG000, BG01

Challenges that I am submitting my card for:

ABC Challenge- Flowers
Create4Fun- use a digital stamp
Crafty Ann's Challenge- use a digi stamp and your favorite coloring medium (copics)

Now one of the reasons it has been awhile since I posted is because I was down in York, PA helping out at the Sweet N Sassy booth at the Heirloom Stamp Show. It was a blast and I loved every minute of it. One of the cool things is that I was able to see some wonderful people who I knew online but never met in person. Some of the ladies I got to meet were Janice Melton (SCS catcrazy), Denise Marzec (SCS Peanutbee), Wanda Cullen (SCS cullenwr), Jacquie Peifer (SCS javablustamper), Julie Smith (SCS hobbywoman), Teresa Kline (SCS va sunshine), Mary Mahey and of course one of my very best friends in the world Korin Sutherland (SCS sweetnsassystamps). These are just some of the awesome gals I got to meet! They all are just gems let me tell ya!

I am going to leave you with a picture of some of us:



from left to right: Julie Smith, Korin Sutherland, Me, Denise Marzec

I may have some more to share with you but I am hoping some of the girls will get them to me as I did not have my camera with me (gasp lol!)

Have an awesome day all!

Pumpkin Cocoa

Have you seen the new digis that were just released the other day from Sweet N Sassy stamps yet? I think that this digi release is especially fabulous! I love Cocoa and the Cocoa's pumpkin image is one of my new favorites. So the card I have to show you today uses it and the layout is the sweet stop sketch for the week. If you like sketches, you are sure to LOVE this blog. I am a guest sugar baby for the month of October. Below you will find the sketch and my sample.





This is image is so fun to color! I used my copics to do so and I also used vintage photo distress ink to sponge around my colored image so the white did not look so stark with my papers.

Here is a closer look for you:



Supplies:
stamps- digi image Cocoa's Pumpkin from Sweet N Sassy stamps
paper- CTMH abundance dp, new england ivy, autumn terracotta, neenah white from paper temptress
accessories- taffeta type ribbon, artichoke button, linen thread, orange brads, corner rounder punch, circle nesties, distress ink
copics- Pumpkin- YR21, YR12, YR14, YR18, E33 (body of pumpkin)/ E42, E44 (stem)/ YG93, G99 (leaf)
Cocoa- E30, E31, E33, E35, E37/ R0000, R00, R02 (nose and ears)
Shadow under pumpkin- W00, W01, W03

Challenges that I am submitting this card for:
Simon Says Challenge- Autumn
Paper Sundaes- something from your stash (I have had the ctmh dp forever)
Cupcake Inspirations
Stampin for the Weekend- Autumn Inspiration
Copic Creations- Orange


Thanks for stopping in today and have a blessed day!

Embossed Poppies

It has been awhile since I used my heat tool and did some embossing so I thought it was about time to dust it off and use it lol. The challenge on SCS and Crafty Ann's was embossing so that gave me the final nudge.





I used a couple of new stamp sets released from Sweet N Sassy stamps for my card called Amazing Grace (on 6/27) and Poppies and Greetings. I embossed the scripture verse with gold ep onto cryogen white (which is on sale at Paper Temptress) and then sponged turquoise ink around it while still in the labels die. I then used a gold paint pen to edge around the shape to further accent it. This was adhered to a turquoise oval and then onto a scalloped gold oval and then finally onto a gold fancy tag that I cut in half. I stamped 3 poppies and also embossed them with gold before cutting them out and adhering around my scripture verse. The card base is the super yummy candido incandescent from Paper Temptress which is an ivory color with a touch of texture and gold shimmer- love it! The color combo for the Creative Inspirations challenge to use turquoise, gold and cream so that is why I used these colors on my card. My layout is the sweet stop sketch for the week and I kept the layers fairly minimal for me with this card.





Supplies:
stamps- Sweet N Sassy stamps Poppies and Greetings, Amazing Grace (releasing 6/27)
Paper- blue ice sorbet, candido incandescent, cryogen white, antique gold metallic all from Paper Temptress
accessories- pearls (cream, gold), fleur de lis punch EK Success, nestabilities- ovals (classic and scalloped), labels 8, fancy tags, gold ep, heat tool, gold paint pen

Challenges that I am submitting my card for:

Sweet Stop sketch
Crafty Creations challenge- shine
Crazy 4 challenges- use paper flowers (my poppies)
Crafty Ann's challenge- embossing
Creative Inspirations- color combo tuquoise, cream and gold

Sweet N Sassy stamps June blog hop

Well, the time has finally arrived. Clear stamps are officially back at Sweet N Sassy stamps and I am very pleased about it! To celebrate our first new stamp release we are having a blog hop to showcase all of the 6 new sets and a release party tonight at 8PM EST.

Now in the tradition of blog hops and release parties, you know that there are going to be some great prizes being given away! Two of our DT members are giving away some blog candy as part of our blog hop so you are going to want to be sure to stop by each of the blogs to see who has the candy.

I am featuring the "Woof You" set today. The puppy image is soooo cute, I just love it! This set is available in BOTH clear stamp or as a digital set that is called Puppy Love. So, you can chose whichever way you prefer- pretty cool right? Take a look:



I stamped my puppy image onto Blanc Sparkle cardstock from Paper Temptress (it's on sale too 25% off for the month of June) and colored it with my copics (all warm greys). I created my own patterned paper by stamping the little bone image repeatedly onto my paper. All the edges were sewn with my sew mini, and then it was fnished off with some brads and buttons. The scarf was paper pieced with a scrap of dp and I added some shading on it with my marker for depth. The layout for the card is the sweet stop sketch this week and there is still penty of time to play along.I was happy how it came out.

here is a closer look


Supplies:
stamps- Sweet N Sassy stamps Woof You
paper- Paper Temptress blanc and noir sparkle, kraft; PTI dp
accessories- brads, buttons, twine, copics, sewing machine

I wanted to show you a card that I made a little while back using the puppy digi image (which is the same as the stamp version). You can see how different but how equally adorable he looks just by coloring him with different colors.



Here is the list of the blogs you will want to visit for our blog hop. Now, in order to win the prizes you must comment on all of the blogs in the hop as well as the sweet n sassy blog. The winners will be announced tonight June 1st at the release party,

Ceal Pritchett
Darsie Bruno
Kim Schofield
Korin Sutherland
Leah Cornelius
Lisa Jurecek
Lorie Souther
Nancy Brown
Nicole Anderson
Tricia Traxler

Don't forget the grand finale, a FUN-tastic release party, tonight in our SNR forum at 8pm EST! Find out who won our fabulous blog hop prizes, chat with the DT, play along in our games and challenges for a chance at MORE prizes, make new friends and be inspired! Plus, we have a few special surprises for ALL release party attendees, so you won't want to miss the fun :). We'll see you tonight!

Challenges that I am submitting this card for:
Sweet Stop sketch challenge
Copic Creations- animal theme
Polka Doodles- sewing
Pixie Dust- Round and Round (buttons and brads are round)
Spoon Full of Sugar- celebration (this will either be for my husband or grandma's bday from my girls)

My First Easel card for the Sweet Stop 1st Anniversary

Lately, I have been seeing some gorgeous easel cards out there in blog land so I decided that it was about time to give one a try myself. So, I thought it was a perfect occasion for another first on my behalf. The sweet stop blog is celebrating one year of sketches this week and in honor of the 1st anniversary Korin has some terrific prizes up for grabs for the participants in the sketch. Here is my card using this week's sketch (there is a twist too- buttons and bows)





I colored the image with copics and accented with stickles on the rain/puddle, spica glitter pen on the trim, and glimmer mist on the flowers but some got on the image too lol. The image is a real cutie designed by Deedee Anderson for Sweet N Sassy stamps and is called rainy day teddy.

here are some other views for you





Supplies:
digis- Sweet N Sassy stamps rainy day teddy, bear sentiments
CS- pink pirouette, Paper Temptress neenah white, blanc sparkle, noir sparkle, bo bunny dp
accessories- copics, rhinestones, satin ribbon, dazzling diamonds glimmer mist, spica glitter pen, stickles, oval nesties, Fiskars apron lace punch, pearls, buttons

Challenges that I participated in with this card:

Stamp Something- layers (and boy I sure do have lots of them on here and layers of embellies too)
Creative Belli challenge- to use die cut shapes (oval nesties) sponsored by Sweet N Sassy stamps
Simon Says Challenge- let's go to the movies with dry embossing twist (my movie- Singing in the Rain, oval nesties are embossed)
Sweet Stop sketch- with a button and bow twist
SCS technique challenge- Piercing (on the scallops of the ovals)
Stampin for the Weekend- ribbons and bows

Thanks for stopping in and have a wonderful day!

Inspired Sweet stop Puppy

Hi all, my girls and I are visiting with Korin down in PA and I have been enjoying the extra stamping time that I have had. I made this for the inspiration challenge on SCS today and for the Sweet Stop sketch this week. Take a peek



The puppy love image was printed out on Neenah white and colored with copics. I sponged in the bg "scene" and added to crystal effects to the nose. I think that this puppy is just adorable and what a great sketch huh? Hope you can play along this week- check out the awesome layout HERE.

Supplies:
stamps- Puppy Love from SNSS, Verve circular sayings
CS- Paper Temptress Neenah white, choc chip, celery, doodlebug dp
accessories- pearls, circle nesties, MS border punch, stitched ribbon, crystal effects, copics, flowers, buttons

Now, I am heading out to my first ever stamping show in Allentown with Korin and Kathy. Should be fun!

Thanks for popping in and have a wonderful day!!

Teacup Cocoa

Ok, so for those of you that follow my blog, it is probably no secret to you that I LOVE Cocoa mouse from Sweet N Sassy stamps. So, I have another adorable cocoa to show you today. This one is called Teacup Cocoa.





I colored Cocoa with my copics of course and I chose these colors (bermuda bay, saffron, gray) because I played along with the SCS color challenge this week too. The edges are sewn with my Janome sew mini and pearls were added as accents. The fabulous layout is the sweet stop sketch for this week and you still have time to play along.



Supplies:
stamps- SNSS teacup cocoa
CS- bermuda bay, saffron, white, nana's nursery dp
accessories- pearls, copics, spica glitter pen, ribbon, Fiskars apron lace punch

Thanks for stopping in and have a blessed day!

Sweet N Sassy stamps October Christmas blog hop

This month Sweet N Sassy stamps is featuring their Christmas stamps for the blog hop. It is never to early to get started with making those Christmas cards so the DT have some fabulous samples in store for you to inspire you.



This super cute new image is a sneak peek of one of the new digi images being released tomorrow from SNSS. I just love it and I am excited about it being a "digi" because you can resize it to whatever size you want! I am so not computer savvy and if I can figure out how to do it then anyone can LOL. I colored the image with my copics and sewed all the edges. I accented the tree with a star rhinestone and pink rhinestones for the ornaments. The tree and the circle are raised on pop dots. My layout this week is the fabulous sweet stop sketch for the week!

Be sure to stop by the Sweet N Sassy website on Thursday to check out the newest digital releases and to download your free digi image for the week. I am not sure which one is going to be the freebie for this week so I guess you will just have to stop on by to see.

close up for you


Supplies:
stamps- Sweet N Sassy stamps "O Christmas Tree" digi
CS- SU cranberry crisp, GP white, BG eskimo kisses dp
accessories- copics, pop dots, paper piercer, sewing machine, satin ribbon, rhinestones, word window punch

If this was your first stop on the hop then you will want to go back and start on the SNSS blog so you don't miss anything. Otherwise, your next stop on the hop is Sandy who has a super cute card to show you!

Christmas blessings everyone and happy hopping LOL!

September Sweet Stop with a Spin

It's Saturday and that means Sweet Stop sketch time. This week we also have our monthly "sketch with a spin" challenge PLUS a terrific prize for one lucky participant! If that weren't enough, we've got a couple sneak peeks using our upcoming October release stamp sets. Talk about a ton of fun!!

This month the "spin" is a color challenge. Please use any combination of red, black, and tan on your creation in addition to following the sketch. If you participate in the challenge and link your project on the sweet stop blog by Friday, September 25, you will be entered into a drawing to win both of our September new release stamp sets -- "Waddle I Do?" and "You Light Up My Life"!! I have used the You light up my life set for my card today.



I first created my patterned paper by using snowflake stamps from the Snow Friends set and the Snowflakes set from Sweet N Sassy stamps. I stamped them in white, red, and black then sponged the edges with white and stitched it onto my black sparkle paper. I stamped the snowman onto my kraft paper and colored him with a white prismapencil and copics. I always wanted to try the white on kraft- pretty neat! I paper pieced the scarf and used diamond stickles for the lights. The edges of the circle were also sponged with white.



Supplies:
stamps- Sweet N Sassy stamps "Light of the World", Snow Friends, and Snowflakes sets
CS- Paper Temptress kraft, sparkle black, basis red, SU dp
accessories- black rhinestones, white gel pen, stickles, prismapencil, copics, circle nestabilities, stitched ribbon

Stop on by the sweet stop blog for all the info on this week's contest and to get some terrific inspiration from the DT.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Sweet N Sassy Autumn stroll blog hop

This month sweet n sassy stamps is featuring our Autumn stamp sets and digis for the blog hop. I decided to use the Autumn blessings set for my cards today. I used this week's sweet stop sketch for my first card that I have to share.



I stamped the leaf with dark chocolate palette ink onto watercolor paper and used my ink pad and aquapainter to watercolor it. It has been a long time since I have done watercoloring! I pierced around the image to accent it.

Supplies:
stamps- Sweet N Sassy stamps Autumn blessings
CS- watercolor paper, chocolate chip, SU confetti white, basic grey mellow dp
accessories/tools- Martha Stewart doily lace punch, chocolate grosgrain, brown pearls, paper piercer



I stamped the beautiful leaf image with versamark ink onto cryogen white and embossed with copper embossing powder. The copper metallic ribbon was showcased by scoring 3 lines both above it and below it.

Supplies:
stamps- SNSS Autumn blessings
CS- Paper temptress cryogen white, jellybean green, and copper metallic
accessories- copper ribbon, scor-pal, marvy scallop corner punch, copper ep, rhinestones

If this was your first stop on the blog hop then you will want to go back and start on the SNSS blog so you don't miss anything. Otherwise, your next stop today is Nancy and she has a wonderful project to share with you.

Thanks for visiting and enjoy your autumn stroll!

Sweet Stop Saturday sketch 20

Greetings from the beach. As you are reading this I am should be relaxing by the ocean on vacation with my family. Below are the sketch and my sample for this week.





The adorable penguin is from "Waddle I do" one of the newly released sets from Sweet N Sassy stamps this week. On Tuesday we released 2 super cute sets and you can get both of them for less than $15 shipped! What a fantastic deal huh? You should definitely check it out.

Supplies:
stamps- Sweet N Sassy stamps Waddle I do set
CS- CTMH
accessories- copics, stickles, organdy ribbon, pearls, MS punch, oval nesties

The Sr. DT has some great samples to show you on the Sweet Stop blog

Sweet Stop Saturday sketch 19

Another Sweet Stop sketch coming your way! I really liked this sketch- fairly simple to do and quite universal too. Below is my sample and the sketch.





I stamped the cross image from the Elegant Blessings stamp set from Sweet N Sassy stamps with gray ink. I then colored in small parts of it with an olive copic marker and sponged the edges with baja breeze ink. I then added rhinestones to accent it. In the top 2 corners I used the sraps from the fleur de lis punch.

Supplies:
stamps- Sweet N Sassy stamps Elegant Blessings
CS- Paper Temptress Cryogen white, basis gray, gumdrop green, SU dp
accessories- copic marker, rhinestones, taffeta ribbon, EK Success Fleur de Lis punch

Have a fabulous weekend and thanks for visiting today. Don't forget to stop by the sweet stop blog and check out the sketch and some more great samples from the DT.

Sweet stop Saturday sketch 17

Hi everyone! It is sweet stop Saturday so it is sketch time and this week is the sketch with a spin. The spin for this month is to use a fall or back to school theme. The sketch and my sample are below.





I stamped my pumpkin from the happy harvest set 3 times and colored it with copics. This set has so many adorable images and is one of my favorite fall sets.

Supplies:
stamps- Sweet N Sassy stamps Happy Harvest
CS- CTMH autumn harvest dp
accessories- copics, SU scallop punch, PTI satin ribbon

Stop by the sweet stop blog for all the "sweet" details on this week's sketch.

Sweet stop Saturday sketch 15

This week Korin has a fairly simple and universal sketch for us. I really enjoyed it! My sketch and sample are below:





I decided to flip the sketch. I first stamped my flower image from doodle flowers with green ink onto white sparkle CS (I stamped off once). Then I stamped my verse from the Encouragement set with pumpkin ink over the top of it. I really love to do that, I like the effect of stamping over an image. I then sponged around the verse while still in the die.

Supplies:
stamps- Sweet N Sassy stamps Encouragment set, doodle flowers
CS- Paper Temptress Fairway metallic, blanc sparkle, tangy orange poptones
accessories- pearls, taffeta ribbon, corner rounder punch, oval nesties, rectangle nesties, paper piercer, sewing machine

I hope you will take a minute to visit the sweet stop blog and check out the great samples that the rest of the DT has to show you.

Have a great day and I hope it is filled with many blessings!

Sweet stop Saturday sketch 14

Hi there everybody! I hope that your week is going well. It has been busier than normal trying to catch up on all the things that i have been behind on since I was away.

Anyway, today I have my sweet stop sketch card to show you today. Below is the sketch and my sample.





I stamped my stocking image twice from Christmas Cheer, colored with copics, popped up the dog, and accented the white with stickles. I stitched around the image and around the patterned paper layer. All the Christmas stamps are still on sale at Sweet N Sassy stamps for the rest of the month for the Christmas in July sale.

Supplies:
stamps- Sweet N Sassy stamps Christmas Cheer
CS- riding hood red, basic grey figgy pudding dp
accessories- shimmer brads, stickles, SU eyelet punch, pop dots, sewing machine, copics

Be sure to check out the sweet stop blog today for the sketch details and some more terrific samples from the DT that are sure to inspire you.

Have a great weekend!

Sweet Stop Sketch 12

Hi everyone! As you are reading this I am out of town with my daughters. So the next couple posts from me will be rather short posts as I am trying to schedule them before I leave, hopefully they will post as scheduled too.

Below is the sweet stop sketch for this week and my sample.





I made a Christmas card because there is a Christmas in July sale at Sweet N Sassy stamps this month. I used the Christmas scripture set on my card and the gorgeous papers I used are from the incandescent line at Paper Temptress.

Be sure to check out the sketch details and some terrific samples from the Sweet N Sassy Sr DT on the Sweet Stop blog.

Have a great day!