Saturday, April 30, 2016

Winnie's Garden- Bloom Where You Are Planted

Hello Sweet Friends!  Julie here to share a card created with the brand new stamp set, Winnie’s Garden (designed by Wynne Gettelfinger) along with Grunge Elements and a fun Smakin’ Acetate technique (an “older” technique but still fun:-)).

To create the background with the Smakin’ Acetate technique:  I used a clear acetate envelope (like the ones used for the packaging of the Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamp Sets), cut one side of the envelope and the bottom so that the envelope would open like a “book”, opened the envelope and gently patted the blue water-based ink onto the acetate, spritzed it with just a bit of water, closed the envelope over the ink, smooshed the ink with my fingers through the acetate, re-opened the envelope, inserted the piece of white cardstock and pressed into the ink.

Whew!! Sounds like a lot of steps but really it is quick and I love how each background turns out a bit different.   

Once I finished the background, I used the Grunge Elements splatter stamp with same blue ink to add a few splatters, trimmed the panel and mounted it onto green cardstock, trimmed once more and mounted onto the coordinating blue cardstock.

Winnie's Garden
I inked the cute watering can image from Winnie’s Garden with archival black ink, stamped onto white cardstock and used a watercolor brush with ink from the coordinating ink pads to color the image (along with two shades of gray alcohol markers for the watering can and trowel and a bright yellow marker for the flowers).

I stamped the sentiment from Winnie’s Garden with archival black ink onto white cardstock (OK, do not faint, but I cut it apart first so I could layer and use a circle punch :-)).  Another thing I love about clear stamps, you can cut them apart and still put them back together on the block and no one is the wiser :-)

Once it was punched out, I added the Grunge Elements splatter with the same blue ink (stamp off before stamping onto the background of the sentiment) and mounted it onto the green and blue cardstock.

Grunge Elements
Everything was layered with dimensional foam and I added the rhinestones for the finishing touches.


I hope you enjoyed this fairly quick and easy card.  I just love the cute images in Winnie's Garden and know that you will have fun with this stamp set for sure!!

Hugs and have a blessed week, sweet friends!

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

deepest sympathy

Good morning!  Today I am sharing a card using one of my favorite sets, Parisian Postcard, along with the Sympathy Innies.

I think if you ask any card maker what their least favorite card to make was, sympathy cards would come to mind.  But unfortunately we all need them so sometimes I like to go monochromatic for a quick and easy way to create a beautiful, yet heartfelt card.


I die cut my card base and layers, then stamped the images first and second generation (stamping off once).

Here's the coordinating inside...


I hope you don't need to make a sympathy card soon, but if you do then I hope I've given some inspiration.  If possible, I like to make them when I don't need them and keep one or two on hand.

Thanks for popping in and… happy stamping!
Diane
 

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Amazing Grace...How Sweet The Sound

Happy Tuesday, Sweet Friends!!  I've been working in my journaling Bible lately.  Today's share features Zephaniah 3:17

"The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice
over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult
over you with loud singing."

How sweet is that?  Our Father sings over us?  Like the song (How Sweet the Sound by Citizen Way) says...."how sweet the sound...I hear you singing over me...I once was lost, but now I'm found...and, it's a beautiful sound!"

The Word and song together created, for me, a remembrance of sing with, to and over my own children.  I couldn't resist adding the sweet silhouetted images from Happy Together.  Just picture it--it's how He sees us!  

I tried my hand at some lettering....need more practice!  And, also added color with distress inks and the watercolor smoosh technique--not sure if that is an actual technique name or not.   I added inks to my nonstick kraft sheet, spritzed with water and dipped the pages.  It's definitely something you need to have an open mind about as it's hard to control for a specific outcome.

I used several other Sweet N Sassy sets to complete the layout:  Borders and Backgrounds, Words of Life-Collection 1, Choose Faith and Note This.

What are you journaling?

Be Amazing!  Jane


I got crafty with:








Monday, April 25, 2016

Wishing you...

Hello! It's Monika here today, giving you a SWEET peek of Winnie's Garden clear stamp that will be coming out soon. It's going to have 20+ fabulous images and greetings, perfect for Spring...
 
 
I wanted to make something fast, but add an easy technique... hence the heat embossing. The raised surface always gives an extra touch to any cards. The main images were stamped with VersaMark and heat embossed with white embossing powder... then they were water colored, along with the background.
 
 
 
Thank for stopping by,
Monika
 
 

Saturday, April 23, 2016

Happy Together


Happy Saturday, Sweet 'n Sassy Stampers! 
It's Ceal, here to share a card usage one of our newest sets Happy Together
This set is super sweet, it has three adorable silhouette images along with some great sentiments. 
To make my card I stamped the image using Versafine Onyx black ink and then did a watercolor wash over it. I paired it up with some super cute plaid paper and the sentiment to finish it.
This set is also a great set for Bible Journaling and also for wedding, engagement and save the date cards.






Friday, April 22, 2016

Under the Weather

Hello Sweet 'n Sassy Friends…happy Friday!  Have you had a chance to see the new stamp sets added to the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Store?  If you love our innies, you will want to add Get Well Innies to your collection.  They are perfect for sending a little bit of sunshine to someone who is feeling under the weather.  When you pair the Get Well Innies with the new Happy Together stamp set, you have a winning combination!


Distress inks were tapped onto an acrylic block, spritzed with water, and stamped onto the Bristol Board card stock to make the background.  The children from the Happy Together set were stamped in Versafine Onyx Black ink.  Wish You Were Here, Head in the Clouds (currently out of stock but the Clouds & Raindrops Die set is available), and Windy Winnie stamp sets were used for the umbrella, cloud, and raindrops.  Glossy Accents were added to the raindrops and a few dew Drops were added to finish the outside of the card.  The sentiment from Get Well Innies was split so when you open the card…


…you see the other part of the sentiment and the sun from Wish You Were Here.

Here are the two new sets used to make this card:


In case you missed it, here is another card made with the Happy Together stamp set and Nature Silhouettes 2.


You can pick up these delightful new stamp sets any time at the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Store as well as the new His Name stamp set added to the Creative Worship line.


Thanks so much for stopping by!  Happy stamping…
until next time!

Hugs,
Cathy

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Sending Warm Wishes to Cheer You


Hello Wednesday Friends!

Get Well Innies is one of two brand new stamp set we have in the store.  It has lots of sweet sentiments.  I used one on the front of my card and one on the inside too.


I used two other stamp sets to make my card - Prim Blessings and Baked for You. The sunflowers are from Prim Blessings and the little flower accents are from Baked for You.  I die cut and colored my sunflower images and built my card from there.  The Get Well Innies worked perfectly on this particular card layout.

Be sure to drop by the store to see the new sets that were just added.  I think you will love them both.  Here are the sets I used to fashion today's card:




Have a great day and we'll be back very soon with another post. 

Susie

Saturday, April 16, 2016

True Friends are Always Together In Spirit

Hello Sweet Friends!  Julie here to share a card created with the new stamp set, Happy Together (designed by Korin Sutherland) along with Grunge Elements and the Ticket Dies.


First I stamped the Grunge Elements stamp with yellow ink onto white cardstock and then stamped the figures from Happy Together with a dark gray ink.

The sentiment (also from HappyTogether) was stamped with a dark gray ink onto white cardstock, die cut with the largest of the Ticket Dies and mounted onto another die cut from dark gray cardstock (the dark gray die cut was split in half before adhering the sentiment layer so you could see the edges peek out on the sides).  

FYI- I used the Spiltcoaststampers' SC588 Sketch for the layout on this quick card :-)

I just love the images in this new Happy Together stamp set, don't you?  I think it will be great for so many occasions as well as Bible Art Journaling.

I hope you enjoyed this quick and easy card :-) Hugs and have a blessed week, sweet friends!

Friday, April 15, 2016

Fill Me Up & Happy Together

Good morning, friends!

Today is another beautiful day the Lord has given us. Did you mess up yesterday? Well, the slate is clean and you get to try again today. His mercies are new every morning!

I am thrilled to be sharing a couple new stamp sets with you today. We took a little break from new stamps over the past couple weeks but we're back and I think you are going to LOVE what we have for you today! :)

First up is a fabulous new set for our main line of stamps called Happy Together. We know how much you love our silhouettes so this one about friendship will surely make your heart happy.

HAPPY TOGETHER  $15.95

http://www.sweetnsassystamps.com/happy-together-clear-stamp-set/

http://www.sweetnsassystamps.com/happy-together-clear-stamp-set/


Next up is a wonderful new Creative Worship set illustrated by Rebecca Rios called Fill Me Up. She sure has a knack for stamps, wouldn't you agree? :D

FILL ME UP  $19.95 
http://www.sweetnsassystamps.com/creative-worship-fill-me-up-clear-stamp-set/

http://www.sweetnsassystamps.com/creative-worship-fill-me-up-clear-stamp-set/


Both sets are now available for preorder (but shipping next week, so the wait won't be long).

Don't forget we offer FREE shipping with your $75 order AND you'll receive $5 in SNS Cash Rewards (as a store credit) for every $50 you spend (in one purchase)!!

Thanks for popping by today!
Have a blessed weekend!
Korin

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

friends

Good morning!  Today I am sharing a CAS set of 3 cards with the Kindness and True Friend stamp sets.  I made this set to honor Korin last week as she celebrated her birthday.


The first card I made was a little softer…I stamped the flowers in the background with gray ink and colored the flower with soft blues.


The next two I made a little bolder, stamping with all black.



The Kindness stamp set looks beautiful in many colors!  Do you have a favorite color?
 
Have a great day!
Diane



Monday, April 11, 2016

Birthday Wishes

Hello! It's Monika here today, bringing you a birthday card... not just any birthday card, but the one I made for Korin, who celebrated her birthday last week. You might have seen it on the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Facebook page, but I didn't want you to miss this pretty number... so here it is again:

 
I used Kindness clear stamp set with the coordinating Kindness Flower/Cloves die set. The flowers were stamped on vellum with VersaMark ink, heat embossed with white embossing powder, then die-cut with the coordinating dies.
 
 
For the background, first I water colored the right side with purple ink, then I stamped one of the flowers from Long Stem Silhouettes clear stamp set with the same color. The greeting came from Birthday Innies clear stamp set. I also used a retired leaf die set for the leaves. Pearls and green thread finished off the card perfectly.
 
Thank you for stopping by,
Monika
 
 

Sunday, April 10, 2016

Happy Birthday


Hello Sunday Friends!

I just wanted to quickly share the card I made for our Sweet 'N Sassy Stamps leader, Korin.  Her birthday was Tuesday and we "showered" her with cards to wish her the happiest birthday.

My image and top sentiment are from the One of a Kind digital stamp set.  I love how easy it is to search through the digital stamps on the site.  They are completely organized and just a few clicks away from being in your stash.

I added a layered Birthday die cut to finish my card and I hope it made her birthday just a bit brighter.

Have a great day and we'll be back very soon with another post. 

Susie