For My Friend

Hello Sweet 'n Sassy friends! 

It's Ceal, here. Today I am sharing a card with a little sneak peek of something that is coming in September. 

To make this card I started with a top folding white card base, a black panel and a white panel.  I used the Grunge Grid Stencil for the background. I stamped the leaves from the Give Thanks set and ink blended them with distress inks and then cut them out. 

I finished the card with a sentiment from the Everyday Greetings set. 

 

Mini Botanical Greetings

    Happy Friday crafty friends! I hope you had a good week! Today I'm sharing a simple card using stamps from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps.

    I wanted to keep things very simple so I started with a premade mini slimline card. I trimmed another piece measuring 3 ¼ x 5 ¾. On this piece I stamped images from the Botanical Branches stamp set. Then used my Copic markers to color the images.

    Next I used gold watercolor to splatter on the background. After that dried, I stamped one of the sentiments from the Everyday Greetings stamp set. To finish my card, I trimmed another piece out of pattern cardstock to glue to my card base and then I used foam tape behind the front panel to glue it to the card. 

    I hope you enjoyed today's blog post and that it has given you some inspiration to do something creative this weekend! For more inspiration you can follow me on Instagram.

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Thanks so much!

  

Happy Monday! Esther here today with fun fold thank you card all done up in blues (my favorite color!). I used several NEW products including the doily stencil, geometric background stamp, and those pretty scallop border dies.

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 Supplies and Tools:

• From Sweet n Sassy Stamps:
• Doily Stencil
• Geometric Background
• Scribble Flowers
• Scribble Flowers Dies
• Background Builders: Stripes
• Everyday Greetings
  
• Thanks Word Die 
• Scallop Border Dies
• Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink 
• Arteza Real Brush Pens
• Yeti Ink (Lawn Fawn)  
• Chipped Sapphire Distress Oxide (Ranger)
  

I just love the elegance of that doily stencil, so I included it on the inside of my card as well as the front panel. It's light enough that I can write my message over top.

Just a Note

 

Esther here today sharing a bee themed card. I started by watercoloring the top left part of mix media card front with watercolor paints from Zenacolor. Next I stamped the honeycomb design from Sweet as Honey in Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide (Ranger), and added a few white paint splatters. To finish it off, I added a sentiment from Everyday Greetings and embossed the entire panel with the Organic Lined 3D embossing folder from Altenew. 

The bees and flowers (In This Together) were stamped in Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink  and colored with Arteza Real Brush Pens. I stamped, colored, and popped up an extra flower in the center of my arrangement for a bit more dimension.

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Hello There Lilies

 

Hello friend. Esther here today sharing this friendship card that features two stamps sets from the March Release as well as a few older ones. Obviously lilies aren't just for Easter as they also make great focal points for friendship, get well, and even sympathy cards!

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To create my card I stamped both Texture Tiles 11 and Typewriter Text Background in white in on a turquoise piece of card stock and die cut the edge with a scallop edge die.  

Next I stamped the Background Builders: Stripes in peacock feathers distress ink across the bottom of of my white card stock. I layered the die cut scallop piece over top and added a sentiment from Everyday Greetings in Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink.

The Alleluia Lilies were stamped in Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink on watercolor paper and painted with watercolors before die cutting with the coordinating  Alleluia Lilies Dies  and adding them to my card front using foam mounting tape.

 

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Mixed Media Birds and Blooms

 Hello Friends!  

Today I am sharing projects made with a beautiful and versatile set, Birds and Blooms.  Both cards are also of the mixed media variety.  

This first card is very much a mixed media card- lots of layers, little white space.  

I wanted to play with some new Distress Ink products I got, Speckled Egg Distress Ink and Broken China Distress Glaze.  Various shades of rust, blue and brown shades of Distress Ink were sponged onto the card front.  I did a lot of distress with water drops. While playing with my new Speckled Egg Distress Ink, I decided to use the direct to paper method across the top of the card.  Being a new pad it was very juicy and stay fairly wet.  I took this opportunity to emboss the ink with Broken China Distress Glaze.  For a girl who loves clean, white, space, I love how this turned out.  

The bird and flowers were both stamped with Versafine Onyx Black Ink and watercolored with various watercolors- whatever happened to be handy!  They were fussy cut out and then white gel pen was added to the flower centers.  The sentiment is from the Begin Again Stamp Set and was stamped in Versafine Onyx Black Ink using my MISTI.  

This next card is more my usual style, but don't be fooled- this is mixed media as well.  

This time I flipped through my stash of backgrounds, many of them gel prints.  I found this one with aquas, yellows, chartreuse and black.  I die cut circles from the panel and then pulled out three of them for this collage style card.  I also settled on a mini slimline card.  

The bird was stamped on watercolor paper with Versafine Onyx Black Ink.  I used Ken Oliver Colorbursts to color the bird.  I also stamped the floral branch.  This I did not color.  The branch and bird were both fussy cut out.  

A strip of black cs was adhered along the left edge, circles were adhered to the card front and the bird and flowers were popped up on foam tape.  The sentiment is from the Everyday Greetings 

Stamp Set and was stamped in Versafine Black Ink with the help of my MISTI.  

GARDEN WHIMSY

Have you had a chance to play with any of the March Sets? They are so fun and they compliment each other so well to create adorable projects!

Today I am working with the the Garden Whimsy set and the Everyday Greetings set. I love the unique style of the critters in Garden Whimsy. They are super fun to color - you can really use your imagination. And the sentiment set is just what I have been looking for. They are perfect for any occasion, just thinking of you type cards.

My first card features the dragonfly and the Thanks sentiment. I never really have many of those in my stash so I am happy to have this one. I created the background with Distress Oxides and the new Puffy Clouds stencil. I added a lot of water so the cloud shapes are very subtle. (I have another panel that I created at the same time that is much clearer. You will likely see that soon.) My dragonfly is stamped on top of the background then colored with Polychromos pencils. I got out my color wheel and tried to use colors that aren't my norm and I love the final look. I added the sentiment on the card front and didn't do anything else.

My second card is actually part of a set. I did a swap with some of the team members at Sweet N Sassy and I decided to create cards for everyone. I laid down inks of blues and purple Distress Oxides onto my mat, added water then smooshed the card front through - this is a one layer made from watercolor paper and cut to a fun Bar 4 size of 3 1/2"x4 7/8". Once the background dried, I inked the sentiment and the ladybug onto all of my cards. I inked the ladybug body onto copic friendly paper and colored them rich pinks and blues - they are so much fun! I fussy cut the body and glued them onto the inked image on my card front. Now it has antennae and I didn't have to cut them out :)

These are so cute in real life - they make me smile out loud! I hope you are inspired to pay with colors today and have a blast doing it! AND...If you need anything from the new release...Sweet N Sassy is moving and they are having a sale so they don't have to load it all up - Just use the Code MOVING... winner!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs,
Lyn

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Everday Greetings

 Hello Sweet Friends!  Sheri here today with a couple cards featuring the NEW Everyday Greetings stamp set from the March 2021 Release.

 

I thought it would be fun to pair the Everyday Greetings set with the whimsical flowers from the Happy Day stamp set and to use different coloring mediums on each card to come up with completely different looks.

 

Clean & Simple with Copic Markers

 

1. Stamp the flowers using alcohol friendly ink and color with copic markers.

2. Add Sparkle to the flowers with Stardust Glitter Pen and Fussy cut.

3. Attach a 2 1/2" Striped piece of pattern paper to white panel and arrange flowers as desired.

4. Add Sentiment, assemble card and add dew drop embellishments.

 

Card Measurements:

White A2 Top Fold Card Base: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" (4 1/4" x 11", scored at 5 1/2")

White Layer: 3 15/16" x 5 3/16"

Black Strip Pattern Paper: 2 1/2" x 2 1/2"

 

Clean & Simple with Ink Blending

 

1. Stamp the flowers with embossing ink and heat emboss with fine detail white embossing powder.

2. Next take any ink blending tool of your choice and ink blend the flowers and leaves with peach & green inks.

3. Fussy cut the flowers out and arrange them on the small rectangle panel and stamp sentiment with black ink.

4. Take the Grunge Dots Stencil and dry emboss the white background panel for added texture.

5. Assemble card and add dew drop embellishments.

 

Card Measurements:

White A2 Top Fold Card Base: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" (4 1/4" x 11", scored at 5 1/2")

Peach Mat: 3 5/8" x 4 7/8"

White Stitched Panel:3 1/2" x 4 3/4"

Peach Strip: 3 1/2" x 3/4"

Peach Rectangle Mat: 2 3/8" x 4 1/8"

White Stitched Panel: 2 1/4" x 4"

 

 

 

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