Christmas in July

 Happy Saturday Stampers! It's Michelle from East Bay Stamp Chick with another card share and a sale! It's Christmas in July! So Sweet 'n Sassy stamps has 205 off Christmas and Winter themed stamps and dies.

Just use the code festive22 to receive your discount. Here's the link to the sale category.

Now here is my latest Christmas card!

This card was so easy to make! It's an A2 size card. I started with a panel of kraft cardstock measuring 4x5.25 inches. I stamped in a brown ink the Pinecone background. Then I used the same ink to blend a little around the edges of the card. This gives it an old, antique look. The ice skate image is from the Wonder of Christmas stamp and die bundle. I stamped it with alcohol friendly ink on an oatmeal colored cardstock and colored with alcohol ink markers. Use the matching dies to cut the image out. The greeting came from the Christmas Poinsettia stamp set. I really like that simple Merry Christmas in cursive. I heat embossed it in gold on a green cardstock. I cut it into a strip with my paper trimmer and added the fishtail edges on both sides with my scissors. Bothe the sentiment and skates are popped up on foam squares. Super easy!

Let's take a look at the stamp sets I used.  

Thank you so much for visiting today and I hope you have time to get crafty this weekend!

Merry Christmas

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Hello Sweet Friends! Sheri here with a little Christmas card featuring the NEW sweet & adorable Warm Winter Friends stamp set from the October 2021 Release!

From time to time I like to mix it up by making a card size other than the standard A2 (4 1/4" x 5 1/2") and thought it would be fun to make a 4 1/4" Square card.

First I stamped a few of the images using alcohol friendly ink and then I colored them using Copic markers. Next they will need to be cut out with the coordinating dies or you can fussy cut them out.

To add a little texture I pulled out an old embossing folder, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots,  and I also added a bunch of layers along with a little ink blending for the sky before creating the little scene and assembling my card. You can go as elaborate or simple as you desire.

Card Measurements:

Square Card Base: 4 1/4" x 4 1/4" (4 1/4" x 8 1/2", scored at 4 1/4")

Red Square Mat: 4" x 4"

White Square Layer (Embossed): 3 7/8" 3 7/8"

White Scallop Square: 3 1/2" x 3 1/2"

Red Square Mat:3 1/8" x 3 1/8"

White Stitched Panel: 3" x 3"

Snow Bank Strip: 3" x 1 1/4"

Red Sentiment Strip: 2 1/8" x 3/8"

Looking for more Inspiration?!

Here's the card I created for the November IG Hop

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October 2021 Stamp of the Month!!

 

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Endless Love

 

Happy Monday! Esther here today sharing two cards using the BRAND NEW Endless Love stamp set designed by Julee Tilman! For my first card I created a fun Christmas shaker in bright and cheery colors. 

I used watercolors to paint the striped background before adding some text and splatters. To create the mottled effect on the hearts, I laid them on my distress oxide pads and lightly pressed in places.

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Supplies and Tools:

• From Sweet n Sassy Stamps:
• Endless Love 
• Psalm 23 Background
  
• Heart Die Set  
• Delightfully Delicate Stencil
  
• Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink 
• Christmas Candy Sprinkles (Kat Scrappiness)
• Acetate
  
• Watercolor Paints
• White acrylic paint splatters
  
• Vintage Photo Distress Ink (Ranger)
  
• These colors of Distress Oxide (Ranger):
•  Worn Lipstick, Festive Berries
  

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My  second card uses the same stamp set for a fresh and clean encouragement card. I colored my images with Arteza real brush pens and fussy cut them before adding them to my white on white background. I love how the polka dots on the sentiment add a little extra "pop of interest" to the card.

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Supplies and Tools:

• From Sweet n Sassy Stamps
  
• Endless Love
  
• Texture Tiles 8
• Faith & Hope Word Dies 
• Arteza Real Brush Pens
• White Gel Pen
• Inspire Embossing Folder (Fun Stampers Journey)
• Elegant Ovals (Spellbinders)
  
• These colors of Distress Oxide (Ranger)
• Worn Lipstick, Festive Berries
  

Getting A Head Start with Christmas Cards!

Hello my friends! Thanks for stopping by the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps blog. I hope all of you are doing well! It's already September, can you believe it? Time sure is going by fast, it needs to slow down a bit.

Even though it is September, I'm getting ready to work on some Christmas cards with the hopes I can send them early this year, hahaha!

For today's card, I'm using the Christmas Blocks stamp set. I love this set, it is so adorable! I love how they look like if they are picking out of a window!

To make the background of this card I simply used one of my Christmas patterned paper. After I colored the images with my Copic markers, I used one of the square nesting dies that fit perfectly for this set.

 To finish the card, I heat embossed the sentiments that come in the Christmas Block stamp set and used some Nuvo drops to color in the cute Santa hat on the sentiment.

I hope you have enjoyed today's crafty project. For more inspiration, you can follow me on Instagram @harshgurl .

Wishing you a very crafty weekend, until next time!

Quick and Easy Christmas Card

 Hi Stampers!

Happy Saturday! This is Michelle from East Bay Stamp Chick.

Do you still need a few Christmas cards like me or are you all done?

Today I have for you a quick and easy card. You can make this card in 10 minutes or less!

For this card I cut a white panel of cardstock that is 3.75x5 inches and the red panel is 4x5.25 inches. I mounted them on a A2 card base. I first stamped the white panel with the musical notes stamp from the new Texture Tiles 7 stamp set. Then I stamped on a separate piece of white cardstock the sentiment from the Deck the Halls Stamp set. I also stamped a holy spray from the Christmas Silhouettes Stamp set. I fussy cut both images. But there are dies coming very soon for the Christmas Silhouettes Stamp set, stay tuned, you can pre-order them now! I popped the sentiment and the holly spray up on foam squares. I added ribbon from stash and its done! So quick and easy!

Here are the sets I used.

I hope you make so9me time for some crafting this weekend! If you do please show us what you make!

Christmas Botanicals

Hi friends, it's new design team member, Julee Tilman, here! Today I'm super excited to be sharing a couple of cards featuring the beautiful Christmas Botanicals  set for my first official design team post on the blog. All month long we're celebrating SNSS's 11th birthday with weekly specials and design team features on stamp sets from through the years.

A couple of my picks to feature this month are the beautiful Christmas Botanicals set and the We Three Kings set. These both have beautiful traditional Christmas imagery and the sentiments in We Three Kings really speak the true spirit of the season. I've also paired these with one of my favorite background sets ever, Texture Tiles 1.

I started this first card by stamping the two flower images from Christmas Botanicals in tuxedo black Memento ink and then coloring with Copic markers. I fussy cut the images and then accented with a crystal clear lacquer pen and a sprinkling of glitter.

The music background paper from the Old World Winter pack I've been working through seemed like the perfect backdrop, so I sponged with a big of antique linen and gathered twigs distress ink. Then I cut a couple flourish corner die cuts from brown cardstock for accent.

For the sentiment panel, I started with one of my favorite SNSS stamps, the script background from the Texture Tiles 1 set, stamped in antique linen across the paper. Next I stamped the We Three Kings sentiment using Versafine Clair ink and clear embossing powder.  The final touch was to layer everything together and add to a regular A2 sized card base.

My second card using Christmas Botanicals has a very traditional Christmas vibe to it. I colored the poinsettia and an extra leaf and berry sprig with Copic markers and fussy cut, then accented the berries with some clear glass glitter.  The greenery is cut with the Mini Holiday Greens die from Sizzix. I stamped the sentiment panel with the music background from the Textured Tiles 1 stamp set and then embossed the sentiment in the middle. All of the papers are from the Old World Winter collection from The Paper Studio.

Here's a look at the stamp sets I featured today...

Thanks so much for stopping by! There are some fabulous celebrations going on all month in the Sweet 'n Sassy shop. This week's promotion is FREE US shipping through 11/14! Hooray! I love a good free shipping offer, how about you?

And all month long, if you place a $60 net order, you can choose one of 4 popular sets for free. Just add your selection to the order comments when you place your order and they'll tuck it in when your order ships. Hooray!

O Holy Night

Hello, Sweet 'n Sassy Stampers!

It's Ceal, here ( a little late) to share a card with you today using one of our newest releases 

"O Holy Night".

This is one gorgeous Christmas set just in time for you to get started on your Christmas card making. 

To create my card I started with a white card base and a white panel using a sunburst cover die.

I created a background using several alcohol ink colors in the blue and blueish green family and then let it dry completely. After it was dried I used the nativity circle and some alcohol lift ink to lift some of the alcohol ink and leave the silhouette. 

Season's Greetings Shaker Card

Hi Everybody,

Regina here and today I'm using a stamp set from Sweet 'N Sassy Stamps called Season's Greetings.  Currently, this stamp set is 20% off so grab it now while on sale and start your Christmas cards. While you're at it, check out all the other stamp sets on sale. A few are left with free coordinating die sets as well. 

Have you used the Gina K Designs Fancy Foils? Oh Emm Gee!  They are so much fun!  I used the Foilmates Background Ornamental Holiday pack with the stripes.  I also used the Holiday Colors Foil in Radiant Red and DecoFoil foil in  Green.  

I decided on making a shaker card for this one.  I stamped with Versafine Onyx Black Ink and embossed with Brutus Monroe Ultra Fine Icicle Embossing Powder.  I used Bristol Smooth Paper and colored with Zig Markers and put some Clear Wink of Stella over the top, nothing fancy here. I always try to use a Cardinal anytime I can because I lived in the St. Louis area for 20 years, need I say more?? For the snow part, I used Nuvo Gloss White and put a thick coat on.  I then tied some red and white bakers twine around the mailbox, so cute!

I used My Favorite Things Wide Circle Stitch Dies and cut out in a heavy white cardstock for the frame of the shaker. For the clear part I used Fellowes Binder Covers.  They are the perfect weight for shaker cards and not expensive. I didn't want to cover the beautiful striped foil so I cut circles from regular circle dies for the front window and back layer.  I embossed the front clear window with a snowflake embossing folder to give the window some texture. I filled the shaker window with red, green and silver sequins from my stash and some silver bugle beads for something a little different.

I stamped the greeting with the Versafine Onyx Black to make it really stand out from all the red and green I have going on here.  I used a fishtail banner die and cut a frame outline using Thermoweb Toner Paper and then foiled in DecoFoil Green foil from Thermoweb. I just love how that green foil looks with the red and white.  To finish it off I used some Nuvo Red Berry drops around the window frame and each side of sentiment.  

I had a lot of fun making this card!  Did I inspire you to make some Christmas cards?  Foil is so much fun!  It can really jazz up anything you are doing.  You can't go wrong with birds and bird houses on your holiday cards.

For more inspiration, please visit my blog at http://cardsbyregina.blogspot.com

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day!

Regina

Sending Christmas Blessings

Hi Everybody,

I have a beautiful Christmas card to show you today and it's all glittered up with glitter pens and foil.  Who doesn't love that?  I used two stamp sets for this card from Sweet 'N Sassy Stamps called, Christmas Pine and I just used the bird from the Season's Greetings stamp set.

Close up of foiled pine cones

I started by using the MISTI stamping tool and stamped the pine branches with Kraft Ink by Gina K Designs and then I stamped over that except for the end part of the branch with Memento, Cottage Ivy ink.  This is a great green ink for pine branches.  I just randomly stamped them.  I went over the branches with a white Signo Uniball Gel Pen (my favorite white gel pen) to make them look like they have snow on the them.  

I cut out the word die 'Sending' from Sending Joy by Penny Black with Cherry Red Cardstock from Gina K Designs, the Kraft Cardstock is also from Gina K Designs.  I then lined up Christmas Blessings in the MISTI to make sure I stamped straight and used Gina K Designs Cherry Red Ink, in the cube.  I'll be honest, when the ink cubes first came out, I thought they weren't very practical for me to buy because I already had the full size ink pads.  As I learned how people were using them and putting them in the cute Tim Holtz metal tins, I quickly got over my practicality and started buying them. :)

I traced over the sentiment with a Sakura Clear Star Glitter Pen.  Next I stamped the bird from the Season's Greetings set and colored with Copics.  I traced around him with the Clear Star Pen too.  I used Scrapbook Adhesives small black foam squares to pop him up.  (I love these by the way)

I wanted the pine cones to have some sparkle too but I didn't just want to trace over them with a glitter pen so I decided to foil them.  Have you ever foiled stamps?  I actually made a video on how to do it live on Facebook and was that a disaster initially!  My phone was pointed to the ceiling so people heard me while watching the ceiling.  I had moved my supplies to the kitchen so I could use my heat gun and so I didn't have my laptop to look at to make sure I was set up correctly.  Lesson learned.... I did immediately delete that one and I made a new one so I was a trooper.   Here is a link to this video on YouTube.  I hope you'll subscribe to my channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33B-IYOJ3XY&t=3s

I stamped the pine cones on the Kraft Cardstock with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress Ink to make sure I had a good impression since this was a detailed stamp with the openings on the pine cone etc. and sprinkled Ranger Sticky Embossing Powder on them.  After I used a heat gun on them I placed a little piece of foil on top and gently tapped it down and then burnished it with my finger.  Anywhere there were spots missed, I went back over it with the unused foil areas. 

I hope I inspired you to try foiling your stamps.  It's a lot of fun, something different to try. 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Regina

Christmas Wreath

Hi Everybody,

Regina here and today I'm using a stamp set called Christmas Wreath.  This is the first Christmas card I've made this year!  I promised myself I would start in July and make a few each month and that did not happen.

The card stock I am using is from Gina K Designs called Cherry Red, Black Onyx, and Layering White.  I am really liking the brighter green and red together this year so I stamped the wreath with Colorbox Ink in Jalopeno.  I stamped the berries with Gina K Designs Cherry Red and it covered beautifully.

I got married this past April so I thought it would be nice to make cards using stamps such as 'from us' or 'from the family'.  I used a stamp set called Christmas Wishes.  I really like the fonts in this set. I stamped with Versafine Onyx Black and embossed with Zing Clear Detail Fine Embossing Powder to give some dimension and shine.  I love how crisp and black Versafine ink looks.

I cut the letter 'B' out with the Silhouette machine.  I have been wanting to get a wooden letter B to go on the front door ever since I got married in April. Monograms are very popular where I live in Mississippi so I liked the idea of using the Letter 'B' on the card making it more personal since the card is 'from our family' and we're newly married this year.   The bow was also cut out with the Silhouette, folded and glued together.  I brushed Wink of Stella in Clear over the bow and put some Glossy Accents in the center.

To finish it off I used some red and silver metallic twine from my stash. Glossy Accents were used on the berries and the letter 'B' to give lots of shine and dimension.  

HERE IS A LINK to the Sweet 'N Sassy online store for more Christmas stamps, dies, etc.

I hope I inspired you to make some Christmas cards, especially ones that are personal and unique for your family.  

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day!

Regina