The Celebration Continues.....

Hello Sweet friends, have you been taking advantage of our month long Birthday Specials?  I sure hope so!  This week Korin is offering 11% off all Creative Worship Stamps and All Digital Products...  Since Korin is offering a discount off of digitals I decided to print off some of my favorite images and make a few cards.

This first card is using this adorable penguin image called Pippin's Christmas Lights.  I colored with Copics and the paper is from The Paper Studios.

This next card is using one of the very first Cocoa images called Cocoa's Stocking. I colored with Copics and this paper is also from the Paper Studios.

Now this one is a go to image for me if I need a quick Birthday Card, Celebrate is so fun and makes a great Birthday card.  I colored with Copics and the paper is from Pink Paislee.

Last but not least my absolute favorite.  Flowers in Bloom is such a beautiful Digi set...  I colored it up with copics, did some distressing and I used a retired stamp (music notes)  but you could use Texture Tiles 1 for the same results.  I added the sentiment from Cocoa Sends Love.    Remember that if you spend $60 this month you can pick from one of 4 stamp of the month stamps- pictured below.
Hugs,
~Stephanie

Love and Hugs

Hello everyone! Today I want to show you a sweet winter card that I made with ‘For the Birds’ and ‘Cocoa sends love’. The set with Cocoa has amazing greetings and it’s a great match with a lot of sets.

I stamped the bird on watercolor paper and colored it with my watercolor markers and a waterbrush. I have a (watercolor) paper pad with several gold and white foiled designs on it so I made a matching backgrounds with the same colors that I used for the scarf and hat from the bird. You could stamp your own background with embossing powder and create the same effect. I love that I can create a matching background really quick this way. You only have to wait patiently while it dries ;). The background was a little bit too bright for the bird so you couldn’t see it when I placed it directly on top of it. I decided to add a piece of vellum behind the bird to tone down the background. I die-cut a rectangle with a stiched border out of the vellum and stamped the sentiment ‘love & hugs’ on it. added a clear drying glue behind the borders of the vellum and a little bit behind the bird where you wouldn’t see it at all. I finished the card with a couple of pearl drops.

I hope I inspired you to start creating today!

- Lucinde - Lucilight

Sending You Love and Hugs

Hi Sweet Friends!

Julie, here and today I am sharing a fun card that I designed using SNSS Cocoa Sends Love Clear Stamp Set (designed by KorinSutherland). 

The SNSS Cocoa Sends Love Clear Stamp Set has a gorgeous font and numerous sentiments along with the darling Cocoa image that in addition to Valentine’s cards, you could create cards for so many other occasions . 

To create this card:

First, I inked the SNSS Cocoa Sends Love image with archival black ink, stamped the image onto white cardstock and colored it with water-based markers using a water brush.

I then fussy cut the SNSS Cocoa Sends Love image, mounted it onto a piece of black cardstock (to give it more thickness) and fussy cut around the image once more.

I die cut a heart from white and black cardstock, split the black heart and layered it behind the white heart (allowing a bit of the black die cut to show as a frame).

I also die cut a larger black oval and a smaller patterned oval using stitched oval dies, layered those together before adding the layered die cut heart and fussy cut SNSS Cocoa Sends Love image. 

Once I layered the white, light pink and black cardstock, I added some white crochet trim with black satin ribbon before mounting the panel onto the bright pink card front.

I heat embossed the SNSS Cocoa Sends Love sentiments with white embossing powder onto black cardstock and mounted both sentiments along with the layered SNSS Cocoa Sends Love  focal image using dimensional foam to finish off the card.

I think Cocoa looks so cute delivering his mail- don’t you?

I had fun playing with the SNSS Cocoa Sends Love  Clear stamp set and hope I have inspired you to pull out your stamps and create something!  Hugs and have a blessed week, sweet friends!

Sending Hugs and Kisses

Hello friends, Stephanie here.  I have a sweet card for you today using Cocoa Sends Love and Classy Script Alpha.  I colored with Copics and the designer paper is from My Minds Eye.  I just love this Cocoa set because even though I made a Valentine's Day Card this set comes with so many awesome sentiments it is good for lots of occasions!  I hope you and your families have a very Merry Christmas!!!

Look Who's Back!

Hello Sweet 'n Sassy Friends!  Guess who's back…and just in time to be sending lots of fun wishes to brighten your day:

You guessed…it's that adorable little mouse we all love, Cocoa!  Cocoa Sends Love is chock full of sentiments that can be combined for a host of different occasions all through the year.  While this new stamp set will officially be released tomorrow, ***hint*** you just might be able to snatch it up now!  Be sure to check out all of the adorable Cocoa sets available at the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Store.

While you are there, be sure to click on the Bible Journaling Tab to see all of the fun alphabets.  Today is the last day for the Buy 2 get one free sale!

The Bible Journaling page below was made using just a few of the alphabets available... Shake It Off Caps Alpha, Shake It Off Lowercase Alpha, and Rebecca Script Alpha.  The Capture This Moment stamp set was also used to create this page.

Until next time…stay warm and happy stamping!

Hugs,

Cathy