Warm Winter Wishes ~

Good morning everyone! Mary here, sharing a quick warm wishes card from Winnie's Warm Wishes. She is coloured using my latest fad of colouring with Tombows on mixed media paper. I layered her onto decorative plaques dies and the sentiment is stamped on a punched oval. To give added interest, I added the hearts scallop border die and stitched on my card! 

Winnie's Warm Wishes is part of the latest Sweet Perks Club for the month of October!

Materials Used:

Stamps: Winnie's Winter wishes

Inks: Tombows, archival ink, SU, QQ powder puff inks

Paper: SU, MME, mixed media

accessories: SNSS decorative plaques die, SNSS hearts scallop border die, SU punch, ribbon, stitching.

       

Parisian Postcard Anniversary Shaker Card...

Hello! It's Monika here today, bringing you a tutorial on how I made my anniversary shaker card. I love adding shaker elements to my cards. It might look difficult and time consuming, but it actually can go pretty fast when you learn the basic steps.

I started out stamping my main image, the Eiffel Tower from Parisian Postcard clear stamp set on the white base card and the red panel. (Yes, it seems to be the favorite for the last week or so between the SNSS team members.) I made sure the images were stamped the same place on both card stock, so they would line up when layered on top of each other. I used my trusty Stamp-a-ma-jig to do the perfect job. (If you are leaving a white border, don't forget to calculate that 1/8" extra on the white card.)

Next I die-cut the heart window opening on the red panel, using the biggest die from Heart Die set. 

Next I placed the red heart back in the negative space, and secured it to the white base card with masking tape (you can also use repositionable or washi tape). Then I placed dimensional tape around the heart.

Next I added extra dimensional tape to the white base card. 

Then I added the shaker elements: glitter hearts, gold sequins, and micro beads. The tiny glitter hearts were die-cut with Hearts and Stars Scallop Border Die set. Before I adhered the red cover panel, I taped a piece of window sheet behind the heart window opening.

Finally I embellished my card with stamped postal stamp images, thread (adhered with a glue dot), punched vellum flowers, and more of the glitter hearts.

The greeting was stamped with VersaMark ink, then heat embossed with gold embossing powder. The image is from You & Me clear stamp set. 

I hope I inspired you to make a shaker card today. 

Thank you for stopping by, 

Monika

Warm Hugs...

Hello! It's Monika here today, bringing you a new card. 

Now that Christmas is over, I am having a hard time switching gears. I am not ready to put all my holiday stamps away yet... so I decided to make a winter card, since that would be still 'in season'. At least for some of us... 

I've been enjoying using water color backgrounds, so I used that technique for the base. I used blue and green colors on water color paper and finished it off with white splatters on top:

 Next I used an other favorite technique of mine, heat embossing on vellum. I heat embossed the image from Snowflake Flourish clear stamp set with white embossing powder. It is the perfect hand-made overlay!

Next I die-cut a border with the scallop star die from Hearts & Stars Scallop Border die set out of silver glitter paper. I used the stars as my embellishments. The tag is hand cut to fit the greeting.

Thank you for stopping by today. I hope I inspired you to make create something pretty today.

Monika

Thankful for You ~

Good Morning SNSS fans and family! Mary here to share a holiday card with you.  At Sweet'nSassy we are so thankful for all the Servicemen and women in the Armed Forces on this Memorial Day. We remember the Fallen and the families left behind. Their sacrifice will not be forgotten.

My card uses the recently released You're a Star and used the matching stars die to create my layers of stars. To create the border I used the stars border from the hearts and stars border dies and layered it on the scallop border die. The background is embossed using provocrafts CB folder. The sentiment is from the Flower Blocks2 set and the banner is trimmed and cut by hand. 

Materials Used:

Stamps: You're a Star, Flower Blocks2

Inks: SU Not quite Navy

Paper: Miscellaneous DP, SU

Accessories: CB folder, SNSS Dies - Stars, hearts and borders, scallop border

Thank you for stopping by! Have a wonderful Holiday.

Long Stem Silhouettes

Good Morning! It's Monika here today, bringing you a CAS card using our brand new Long Stem Silhouettes clear stamp set. I love working with silhouette images, because they can be bold or soft... and work great with simple designs.

I've been drawn to neutral colors, so today I picked cream and dark brown. I stamped the silhouette images in the background, and on top of the vellum piece, which was then heat embossed. Silhouettes images are also great for just filling the 'empty space'... so I stamped it under the circle greeting (Vintage Postcard clear stamp set) for more 'dimension'.

For the border strip, I used Hearts and Stars Scallop Border Die set. The other greeting came from New Beginning clear stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by today,

Monika

Celebrating Rhubarb

Hello Sweet 'n Sassy Friends!  I LOVE new releases and last Thursday Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps released six fabulous new clear stamp sets PLUS matching dies, so today I decided to celebrate...with that most adorable bear...Rhubarb!  The card I made for today is a Tri-Shutter Card and the tutorial for this fancy fold can be found over at Splitcoaststampers under the resources tab.

The front of the card features Rhubarb from the new Rhubarb's Birthday Wish clear stamp set. Rhubarb is colored with copic markers and the balloons were given a coat of Glossy Accents. The patterned paper is from the BasicGrey Lauderdale Paper Pad. Do you see those stars and the star border? The Stars Die Set has four different sizes of stars and the star border is included in the Hearts & Stars Scallop Border Die Set!  Can I just tell you how much I LOVE Sweet 'n Sassy dies...they cut like butter!

This is a picture of the back of the card.  The banner in the middle section was made with the new Pennants and More Dies.  The tickets are made with the new Ticket Sentiments clear stamp set.

And here's the whole card opened up.  I had so much fun decorating this card with some of my new stamps and dies. I hope I've inspired you to check out the new release and to try a Tri-Shutter card of your own!  This is the day that the Lord has made, let us be glad and rejoice in it...and maybe find some time to do some stamping! Have a wonderful day!

Hugs,
Cathymac