Paw-some Pals

 

Happy Monday! Esther here today with a fun puppy themed card. To create the base of my card I used a side step card tutorial from Splitcoast Stampers. Next I cut a bunch of grass using green card stock and the tall grass die coupled with the smaller grass die. I inked the top edge with dark green distress ink. All the dogs, the bare tree, and the sun were stamped on mixed media paper and colored with water brush pens. 

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Supplies and Tools:

• From Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps:
• Paw-some Pals
• Count Your Rainbows Stamps
• Fence and Grass Die 
  
• Bare Tree Die  
• Tall Grass Die
• Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink 
• Labels Dies (Sizzix - Tim Holtz)
  
• Arteza Real Brush Pens
  
• Rustic Wilderness Distress Ink (Ranger):
• These colors of Distress Oxide (Ranger):
• Salty Ocean, Tumbled Glass
  

Hello Friend

Happy Saturday!! I'm sharing this cheerful card featuring two items from the March Release, Hoppy Spring and Puffy Clouds Stencil along with the out of the vault Fence & Grass Die. 

 

 

I started by stenciling the clouds with Barely Banana ink on the same color card base for a tone on tone look. Then, I stamped the flower image on Strathmore Bristol Smooth with VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink, colored with Arteza Real Brush Pens and die cut. 

Next, I added green grass with Parsely ink and clouds with Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink on the white panel. I die cut the fence from Chocolate Chip cardstock, glued to the flower panel and trimmed the edges. Finally, I stamped the sentiment with black ink on white, hand trimmed the banner tail and assembled the card.

I hope you enjoyed today's card and thanks for stopping by,

Karen

Something old, something new

 

Happy Monday! Esther here today sharing an Easter card that features some BRAND NEW stamps along with some back-in-stock dies. (Have I mentioned how excited I am that Sweet n Sassy Stamps is now carrying dies and has a new line of stencils coming?!)

To create my sunrise cross scene, I sponged versamark watermark ink through the rays stencil and embossed it in clear embossing powder. Then I sponged three colors of distress ink over top to create the sunrise.

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I die cut the Calvary Die  and Fence and Grass Die out of black paper and layered them over top my sunrise piece. The background uses the set Background Builders: Stripes in a grid pattern on one side, and a matching sunrise piece spot stamped with the  Psalm 23 Background on the other. The sentiment comes from the NEW Easter Innies set and is stamped in white on black card stock and fussy cut.

 

Summer Fun Winnie easel card

Hello! It's Monika here today, with a fun Winnie card. I decided to add an easel fold to my card... which is super easy and it takes your card to a different level.

It is just one fold! It's how easy it is... just score the front panel... you do have to plan the elements, but it is rather fun designing what would work, what would look nice.
I used Summer Fun Winnie and Winnie's Garden clear stamp sets. I stamped the images with Jet Black Archival ink on water color paper and colored them with Prismacolor water color pencils.
The cutting was a bit tedious, but well worth it, don't you think?

The background was die-cut with Hillside Edges die set. You can tell I love using these dies... they are the perfect backdrop to scenes...

The greeting is from Keep In Touch Too clear stamp set.

For the inside, you need something that holds the folded panel up... I used the little punched flower... but even a strip of cardstock (preferably popped up on dimensional tape) would work...

 

Thank you for stopping by,

Monika

 

 

 

 

 

Thank ewe!

Hello! It's Monika here today, with a CUTE card.

 I am a flower and butterfly girl, so it's not easy to make a CUTE card with CUTE images... but I decided to ink up the super CUTE sheep image from CUTE Critters clear stamp set.
 

 

I used Bare Tree, Mini Tags and Fence & Grass (currently unavailable) Die sets to build the background.

To jazz up my somewhat simple card, I used a technique: Inlaid Die-cutting. I cut the tree out of the background, then cut another tree out of brown card stock, and laid the die-cut image into the die-cut opening. Now it sounds pretty easy, and it would be... but with the intricate branches, I had to make sure not to lose all the 'scrap' pieces falling out of the tree. While it took a little bit of careful cutting, the end result looks pretty good.

 

Thank for stopping by,

Monika

 

Thank You Bunches

Hello Sweet 'n Sassy friends!  Cathy here sharing a cute thank you card made with the new Winnie's Garden stamp set.  This stamp set is full of cute images and sentiments making it very versatile and ideal for many different occasions as well as for just sending a quick note to a friend!

The flower image from Winnie's Garden was white embossed randomly on the background panel and pigment powders were sprinkled on and spritzed with water.  Excess water was dabbed off with a paper towel and the panel was dried with a heat tool.  Color Burst pigments were sprinkled through a stencil, spritzed with water, and dried to create the circle panel.  The grass was die cut using the Grass Border after the Color Burst powders were dried.  Mixed Media card stock was used for the Color Burst panels, but water color paper would also work for these techniques.  Winnie was colored with Copics, fussy cut, and popped onto the vellum sentiment panel.  Wink of Stella was added to the butterfly which was added to complete the Splitcoaststampers Sketch.  Winnie's garden is much prettier than mine!  LOL!

Thank you bunches for stopping by…be sure to plant some kindness today!

Hugs,

Cathy

Get Well Chicken

Hello! It's Monika here today, with a get well card.

I have a friend who loves chickens. She recently had to have a hand operation, so I wanted to make a card for her with the sweet chicken from Get Well Critters clear stamp set. I knew she'd get a kick out of it...

 

 

While I did not use the coordinating die set (Get Well Critters Die set), I used some of my favorite dies to make the scene. It might seem familiar, since I used these dies before... remember?

To build the fun scene, I used Hillside Edges, Bare Tree, Happy Happy, and Fence & Grass (currently unavailable) Die sets.

For the greeting, I used Get Well Innies clear stamp set.

 

Thank for stopping by,

Monika

Forest Silhouettes Scene

Hello! It's Monika here today with a fantastic scene I built with dies. I love stamping, but these days I am crazy about dies. I love the sharp lines the dies can cut, the sweet images... oh, I get so excited looking at my box full of these metal pieces.

 

I decided to create a masculine scene for a frame I got at Ikea ages ago.

 

 

I wanted dimensions so I used different colored cardstocks and lots of foam adhesive.

 

 

The background was sponged with Peacock Feather Ranger distressed ink, then was blended with a wet paintbrush.

Can you spy all the different die sets I used? Ok, you don't have to guess... here they are: Forest Silhouettes, Bare Tree, Fence & Grass, Hillside Edges die sets. The verse is from Our Refuge clear stamp set.

 

I hope I inspired you to create something.

Thank you for stopping by,

Monika

 

 

Get Well Critter(s)...

Hello! It's Monika here today with a get well card. It was made for a teenage boy so I kept it somewhat neutral...

I stamped the sweet image from Get Well Critters Clear Stamp Set on water color card stock with Jet Black Archival ink and water colored it with Gansai Tambi Kuratake water color. Then I cut the image out... while I hand cut the image, there is a coordinating die: Get Well Critters Die Set.
To make the background, I swiped (smooshed) Onyx Black Memento ink on my craft sheet, spritzed it with water, and laid my water color card stock on top... then I heat dried the card stock.
The grass was cut with the Fence & Grass Die Set.
The bottom of the card stock was covered with washi tape.
 

 Thank you for stopping by today,
Monika