Dark Nights and Bright Stars

Hello sweet friends!  God uses the struggles in our life to make us shine more brightly for him.  As we go through these trials with grace Jesus gets all the glory!  I love this quote from the Inspirational Word Art 2 stamp set available at the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Store.

 A galaxy sky seemed the natural choice for a background for this quote.  Blueprint Sketch Distress Ink and Fossilized Amber, Picked Raspberry, Cracked Pistachio, and Wilted Violet Oxide Inks were sponged onto a piece of mixed media card stock.  The colors were well blended before Black Soot Oxide Ink was sponged over all of the colors letting some of the color peek through the black.  The panel was spritzed with water and sprayed with a mixture of Perfect Pearls.  Watered down white acrylic paint was then splattered on creating a night sky full of stars.  Spellbinder Dies were used to make an offset frame. Grass from the Scene Silhouettes: Wetland Grass stamp set was stamped on both the frame and the Galaxy panel.  The little fox from the Scene Silhouettes: Woodland stamp set was black embossed and cut out with my ScanNCut.  The sentiment is from the Inspirational Word Art 2 stamp set and was black embossed on a circle cut with a Taylored Expressions Stitched Circle Die.  A few sparkly gems and sequins were added to the sky to finish the card.  I'm also posting this card over at the Just Us Girls Challenge Blog.

The stamp sets used to make this card are available at the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Store.  (**LOVE the new Scene Silhouettes stamp sets**)

Thanks so much for stopping by!  
Remember that our January Stamp of the Month, Scene Silhouettes: Wetlands, is free with a $60 order through 1/31/18.

Hugs,

Cathy

Brightest Stars

Happy Sunday! 

It's Ceal here to share with you today.

 I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year!

One of my goals for the new year is to send out more handmade kindness.  I have several friends going through tough times and needed some encouragement cards and this set was perfect!  I started with a white top folding card base and a black panel. I embossed the greeting from the Inspiration Word Art 2 with white embossing powder and then diecut three different stars using Star dies  and used the negative space and added the smaller (galaxy) stars with a white gel pen.  Easy card with an encouraging message.

She Believed She Could, So She Did

 Hello My Sweet 'n Sassy Friends!

It's Susie here to share a card made with a few of my favorite sets.  The saying is from the new Inspirational Word Art 2 clear stamp set.  

Here's a look at the whole set:

 The flowers are from the Scribble Flowers clear stamp set.  You already know it's my all time favorite stamp set in the whole wide world!

 What can you make with just two sets?  We would love to see!

Have a creative day and stay tuned for more creative
projects from our design team. 

Susie

Inspirational Word Art 2

Hello! It's Monika here today with a circle card... and not just any circle card, a SHAKER circle card. You must have figured out by now that I love making shaker cards. At first, it might seem time consuming and difficult, but it actually can go really fast especially if you are using one focal image and you keep it simple as I did this time around (earlier this month I made a much fancier shaker card) :

 

 

The greeting (Inspirational Word Art 2 clear stamp set) was stamped with VersaMark then was heat embossed with white embossing powder.

I did have the background already laying on my desk, so that was really fortunate, but you could just use a pretty designer paper. I was trying to make a Northern Lights Background a while ago, but it turned out a mess... so I put it aside... then yesterday I was looking for a dark background that would work as a starry night, and picked up the blotched piece... spritzed it with Mica Spray to add some shine and I had a night sky! It is really hard to see on the picture, but it has some violet and green areas...

 

 

 I added tiny gold, silver and iridescent stars along with micro beads inside my shaker.

These are the products you'd need to make this shaker card:

 

*Circle Scallop Die

*Circle Dies

*Window Sheet

*Star Sequins

*Micro Beads

*White Embossing Powder

*Dimensional Tape or Fun Foam

*Inspirational Word Art 2 clear stamp set

*VersaMark

*Tim Holtz Tarnished Pewter Mica Spray

*Background Paper

*Silver Glimmer Paper

*Silver Rhinestones

*Silver Thread

Here are some of my previously made shaker cards:

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for stopping by,

Monika

 

 

How Tweet It Is!

Hello Sweet 'n Sassy Friends!  It's Friday and that means it is time for another new stamp set to be featured, and what an adorable set we have for you today!  How Tweet includes six images and seven sentiments that can be used for many different occasions.  This stamp set will just make your heart happy!

Now, isn't that little birdie as cute as can be?  The blue panels were made with distress inks on mixed media paper and the designer paper is from Bo Bunny.  Copic Markers were used for the coloring of the images and the Freshly Made Sketch for this week was used for the design.  The branch is from the Love Birds stamp set and was cut with the matching Love Birds Die.

Have you seen the new Inspirational Word Art 2 stamp set that was showcased last week?

This sentiment is one of six in the set and inspired the background for this card which was done  by sponging VersaMark ink through a star stencil and white embossing the stars.  Color Burst pigment powders were sprinkled on the mixed media paper over the stars and spritzed with water.  The design for this card came from the Splitcoaststampers Sketch Challenge for this week.

The products used to create these cards are available at the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Store.

The Love Birds stamp set and Love Birds Dies are available separately or as a Bundle.

Be sure to stop by the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Facebook page to see more amazing samples of these two sets made by the Creative Team then head on over to the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Store to pick up either of these two fabulous stamp sets!

Have a "TWEET" day!

Hugs,

Cathy

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Getting Out of My Comfort Zone

Hello Everyone!

Comfort zones are, well, comfortable!  But, they are not always where God wants us. I have been sensing that God wants me to make a move in a new direction, but what that is, even what area of my life it is in is still a mystery to me.
In crafting, I have been at a bit of a stale mate.  But even there, I needed to get out of my comfort zone.  So when I saw this sentiment in the new Inspirational Word Art 2 Stamp Set, I could not wait to use it.

Techniques.  They can make quite an impact on a card.  I had not done a lot of background techniques for a while and decided that I needed to shake things up a bit.  This background is made with a stencil over mixed media paper and watercolor powders- both Colorburst and Brushos.
Add to that that fabulous sentiment and a silhouette bird image from the His Wings Stamp Set and you can pretty much call it done!
I hope I have inspired you to get crafty! Off to make more backgrounds!

Lee Ann  :)

Inspirational Word Art 2 Shaker

Hello! It's Monika here today with a shaker card. I used  one of the images from the newly released Inspirational Word Art 2 clear stamp set as my focal point.

 

 

I sponged the background with yellow and orange distress inks using a stencil to add a touch of color. It was the perfect backdrop for the bold word art stamp.

The shaker is filled with pretty sequins and micro beads.

 

 

The outside is decorated with flowers from Scribble Flowers clear stamp set. The images were stamped on water color paper, then colored with distress inks. While I did not use it, there is a coordinating die set available. 
I also used some pretty butterflies from Majestic Monarch clear stamp sets. They were stamped on vellum with VersaMark, heat embossed with white embossing powder, then die-cut with the coordinating Monarch die set.
To add a touch of sparkle, I die-cut a circle frame out of glitter paper... I also added gold rhinestones.

 

Thanks for stopping by,

Monika