But First.....Coffee

I am super excited for this months release!! I love coffee and coffee stamps! I have been eagerly awaiting January's release so I could finally play with some of the new coffee themed sets. 

For my card I combine two of the new sets, I Like Big Cups and Coffee Talk 2, with three older sets (Fill Me Up, Love Wordfetti, and Forever & Always). This card also fits the love theme for the January VIP Challenge in our Facebook group.

I began by heat embossing the loved a latte sentiment with Versamark and clear ep powder on bristol smooth paper. I cut it with a stitched rectangle die and blended spun sugar distress oxide ink over most of the piece making sure to leave some white space. 

I stamped the coffee cups with VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink onto white cardstock and pattern paper. I stamped the lids a second time on white and the coffee sleeves on pretty in pink cardstock. I fussy cut the cups, lids and sleeves. I stamped the sentiments on the coffee sleeves masking one of the sentiments so I got just the word coffee. 

I paper pieced the cups together. I stamped Happy Valentine's Day on white and cut a banner tail. I stamped the small heart in honeysuckle ink and cut out. I assembled the card as seen on a pretty in pink card base popping the coffee cups up with foam tape.

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

Karen

Love You

For today's card, I paired the super fun December Stamp of the Month, Much Love, with Forever & Always to create this quick colorful card.

 

 

I started by stamping six of the striped hearts in different colors and fussy cut out. I cut a piece of white cardstock with a crimped frame die and adhered the hearts. I stamped one of the small hearts with Versamark ink on a Bashful Blue card base. I stamped the sentiment with VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink and hand trimmed the banner tail. I assemble the card as seen popping the white panel up with foam tape. I love how simple and quick this card was to create!

The stamp of the month is available in the shop to purchase, or you can receive it as a free gift with a $75 order in the month of December. Just add it to your cart before you check out and it will automatically apply the promotion.

 

 

 

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

Karen

Together

For today's card, I paired the beautiful October Stamp of the Month set, My Thoughts of You, with Forever & Always to create this non-traditional color love card. 

 

 

I used the following colors of cardstock and ink: pumpkin pie, more mustard, ruby red, handsome hunter, night of navy (SU!) and kraft for the base. I cut the strips at 1/2 and 1/4 inches and attached to the card base. I stamped the hearts and hand trimmed out. I stamped the sentiments with VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink. The hardest part of this card was deciding out how to arrange the hearts.

 

Thanks for stopping by and have a fantastic day,

Karen

Two cards to share.....

Hello friends, Stephanie here today.  I have 2 cards to share with you today.

This first card uses Girl Power 2 which is back in stock along with a few older sets, Be Encouraged,
Choose Faith and Truth Quotes.  I wanted a fun, cheerful card to give to our neighbor who is fighting Ewing's Sarcoma and I think these stamp sets all worked well together.  I colored her with copics and paper pieced her shirt, the papers come from Pink & Main.

I made a bridal shower card which could also be used as a wedding card or engagement card using the heart from Forever & Always and the word love from His Love.  This paper is from DCWV.  I stamped the heart with pink ink and heat embossed it and did some fussy cutting and added it to an embossed circle.  Wow, those two cards used a lot of stamp sets!  Don't forget that if you spend $75 you will receive the stamp of the month for free!

butterflies x4

Good morning! I have FOUR cards to share using the Sweet ‘n Sassy February Stamp of the Month: Made New. These butterflies are so pretty and very versatile. Last week I shared two other cards with them...they're so fun to use! For my cards today I also used these SNSS stamp sets: Forever & Always, Typewriter Blocks Alpha, Nature Silhouettes, and Long Stem Silhouettes.

 

I stamped them in lots of colors for my background on the first card, then the black one was popped up with dimensionals.

 

 

I colored a rainbow of butterflies on my second card...

 

For the third card I die cut the top corner and sponged some inks on the layer behind it. Flowers were stamped with the same colors and the butterfly was colored to match.

 

This last card started out a disaster as I had one mistake after another. I was too stubborn to toss it after all the effort put into it so I kept going. LOL! In the end, I liked it after all. :)

 

Have a great day!

Diane

 

 

 

Friends Warm the Heart

Happy Friday, sweet friends!  I have a couple of cards to share today using some of the products from the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps February release.

You loved the Girl Power stamp set...now, the new Girl Power 2 stamp set has even more hair and dress up options!  A background was created with Distress inks and the grid stamp from the Texture Tiles 1 stamp set.  The girls were colored with Copic Markers and cut out to add to the card.  The split sentiment and the tea cup are from a stamp set currently out of stock called Special Blend and the heart is from the Forever & Always stamp set.  I think you'll agree...nothing warms the heart like some special girl time!

My second card uses the butterflies and sentiment from the Made New stamp set which happens to be the Stamp of the Month for the month of February and is free with a $75 purchase.  The background for this card was made using the Tissue Paper Bokeh Technique which can be found HERE.  The butterflies were stamped on a Distress Ink background from my stash, fussy cut and popped up onto the card.  Some Nuvo Drops were added to finish the card.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  May your heart be warmed not only by spending time with some special friends, but by the love of the Lord and His promise of new life in Him!

Hugs,

Cathy

Love You

Hello Sweet Friends!  Sheri here today with a couple quick Valentine card ideas featuring the NEW Forever & Always stamp set and some pattern paper.

I love incorporating pattern paper in my card designs and it also allows you to create some quick cards as you are using the patterns for part of your card design.  In my first sample I used a bunch of patterns and layers.  I then stamped a sentiment and two hearts and added a piece of ribbon.  Now that was simple yet it doesn't look like it!

My second card has a little more stamping as I created the heart panel by randomly stamping the two smallest solid hearts in the set to create my own pattern paper.  I then stamped a sentiment and two hearts that I fussy cut out and added a little bling and a sheer bow.

 

 

 

 February's Stamp of the Month is called Made New and is FREE with any $75 order (after discounts and before tax & shipping).

 

And...

Happy Stamping!

Friendship & Love

Happy Monday everyone!  Today I have a sweet little friendship card for you using a couple of sets from the new release.  First I made my background panels by doing some smooshing, is that even a word?  I put down some distress inks on to an acrylic block and misted with some water, next, I put a baggie on my hand and picked up the ink with it and smooshed it onto the mixed media paper.   After my paper dried I inked up the Hearts from Forever & Always and Filigree Hearts misted them with water and stamped.   I colored the girl from Girl Power 2 with copics and paper pieced her shirt with some of the background paper I made.

This next card is just a quick and easy note card using In Stitches.  For this card I decided to paper piece the letters instead of coloring them in.  The designer paper is from The Paper Studios.  I was not going to put the little heart on the "O" but after I had everything glued to the card I noticed a little blotch of ink so instead of tearing the card apart I added a heart!  Make sure you check out all the new stamps sets this month and remember if you spend $75 you get the stamp of the month-Made New absolutely free and as always free shipping with a $75 order.  Happy Crafting!
~Stephanie

Forever and Always!

Happy Friday! I can't believe we are in February already. Time is flying and I am madly working on hard on Valentines so I can get them in the mail this weekend. Today's cards are fun additions to the collection!

For your inspiration, I have two cards featuring a new stamp set called Forever and Always. This is a great set with lots of hearts/textures and so many possibilities. I decided to showcase it in two, extremely different ways...

The first card is clean and simple but has some fun features. I cut a postage stamp die cut from a card panel and before I took the cut-out away from the die, I lightly inked the background with distress ink. I stamped the solid heart from the set with Distress Oxide and once it was good and dried, I embossed the sentiment on top of the heart and hand wrote the word "forever" in the bottom corner (so it would look like a US postage stamp.) I die cut the postage stamp in black five times and glued them together and popped my image piece on top. This gives the card dimension as well as  a black "outline" that highlights my "postage stamp".

My second card uses a technique called Joseph's Coat Technique. I inked up some Neenah cardstock with distress inks in pink, red, and yellow. Once it was dry, I clear embossed the hearts (I used all of the hearts in the set) randomly over the inked panel. Then I inked over everything with black soot distress ink. 

Inking it over with black freaked me out at first because I L-O-V-E-D the colors and just the embossed hearts (which looked like tone on tone) was so fun...BUT when I wiped the black ink off the embossed hearts the fun color popped like crazy and it was still awesome! I created a sentiment banner using the words "You have My" from the So Thankful stamp set, then adding a heart to finish the sentence and coordinate with the card theme.

I hope you were inspired today and see just how versatile this sweet set is. While it is perfect for Valentines, I could see it being great for anniversary, or just-because cards too.

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!
Lyn