Music to My Ears!

Hi friends, Stephanie here with a pretty clean and simple card for you.  I am using stamps from the new Music to My Ears stamp set.  I stamped the background stamp for the top half of my background and the striped paper is from My Minds Eye.  I used one of the Doily Border dies to break up the background papers and made the flower by cutting 3 circles and spritzing with water and then I crinkled them up, then opened them up and added a brad to the middle.  Love this new stamp set, so many fun ways you can use all the stamps!

Summertime Stamping!

Hello, Angie here!

Summer is here and that means longer daylight hours and more color in our gardens!  Coneflowers are one of my favorite flowers so I reached for the beautiful Sweet 'N Sassy stamp set, "Flowers in Bloom".

I added lots of dimension to the butterfly by adding three layers to the base wing and then popping up the fourth layer with a sticky foam pad.

This week's Tuesday Morning Sketches is sponsored by Sweet 'N Sassy Stamps so I thought it would be fun to play along with their sketch!

I changed it up a bit by leaving off the stars and adding enamel dots and I used, "Doily Border Dies" for the division between embossed paper and designer paper.

For the inside I added the beautiful sentiment by Laura E. Newell that is one of the four sentiments included in the "Flowers in Bloom" Clear Stamp Set.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Angie

SNSS Ingredients:

Thinking of You

 Hello and Happy Saturday to you! 

  On Release day I shared a soft, romantic card using  the versatile Parisian Postcard Clear Stamp Set. Today I am sharing how this set can be used for a "Sympathy" or "Thinking of You" card.  

I stamped the beautiful rose image and kept it black and white for a bit of drama.   I colored two butterflies and fussy cut them to flit among the roses. Next I stamped the sentiment that is included in the set and finished off the layer with two frilly borders using Doily Border Dies.

Before I leave you today I am excited to share with you that SNSS has a fabulous sale going on right now!!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Angie 

  

The Master

 Hi folks and welcome to today's blog post...It's Kim and I'm here to share a bit of a mixed media tag with you.  Nothing is more fun than marrying traditional card making supplies with paint, gesso, die cutting, and tags!

For today's project, I started by slapping gesso all over my Leafy Flourish background stamp and stamping it on to my tag.  (Clean gesso off of your stamps quickly!)  Next I used some Distress Stains to add color directly over the gesso.  The gesso acts as resist and you get that great ghosty (that's a technical term) image on the background.  Love it!

Next, I stamped the largest butterfly from the Majestic Monarchs stamp set onto some designer paper and use the coordinating dies to cut it out.  (Actually I die cut first and then stamped!)  Set that beautiful butterfly aside and stamp the giant swirl (I love it!) from the Leafy Flourish stamp set so that it fits with the butterfly image.  Attach the butterfly with foam tape and stamp the sentiment on a piece of cardstock.  I'm a big fan of cutting apart the words from larger sentiments and that's what I did for my tag so that it would all fit and fill in the space left beside my main image.

The last item I added some a fun lace die that I cut using the Doily Border Dies.

So there you go...stamps and mixed media products...all together in one place!!  Enjoy and go out there a be crafty!

Happy New Year!

It's hard to believe 2013 is gone.  What a year full of blessings we didn't deserve, pain that reminded us we can't do it on our own, friendships that brought us joy and laughter, trials that stretched our faith and helped us grow, love and compassion for others that came from the Father above.  What a year!  I pray 2014 brings us even closer to the Lord in our walk with Him.  May we remember that every good and perfect gift comes from Him and even the trials and sufferings we endure are for our good.  May our faith be strengthened, our joy be revived and our love be shared with all mankind. Welcome 2014! 

On a more personal note, did you know that when you shop at Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps you are being used by God to help put food on our family's table, get us to and from church, school, and home, put our boys through school, keep a roof over our heads, keep us warm, help pay for doctor visits, braces and glasses...and that's just scratching the surface? 

Thank you for being a blessing to our family in 2013. We are so thankful for you. May God bless you in 2014 as you have blessed us these last 6 years. Happy New Year!!

One more thing before I go...please take note of our January Release dates...

We're releasing 4 new stamp sets and 1 coordinating die that goes with a current stamp set in our line this month.

Our January Release Party is Thursday, January 9th at 8m EST in our SCS forum.  We'll be hosting 3 fun challenges with chances to win, sharing full reveals of our new release and chatting up a storm with our DT and friends.  The new products will be available at 10pm at the close of the party.

Then be sure to join us for 5 days of feature blog hops and more chances to win.  The DT always amazes with their fabulous cards and projects, so don't miss the inspiration!

Thank you again for being a blessing to us in 2013.  We appreciate you more than you know!

New Beginnings ~

 

Good morning everyone! Mary here to share one of our butterfly sets! New Beginnings comes with three sizes of butterflies and eight sentiments all depicting new life and changes that beget opportunities...If you are anything like me, change can be intimidating but it also holds the wonder of the next chapter in life. 

This card uses the doily border dies . The edges create a delicate border perfect for layering. The butterflies are cut using the matching new beginnings butterfly dies. I stamped the butterflies and the sentiment using versafine inks. 

Have a great day! Be on the lookout for the upcoming November release! 

Materials used:

Stamps: New Beginnings

Inks: Versafine inks purple and black

Paper: SU whisper white

accessories: New beginnings butterfly die, Doily Border dies, rhinestones 

Tim Holtz embossing folder