Falling Leaves

Hi friends! It's Julee popping in with a fun autumn card featuring the August Stamp of the Month, Fall Background. I knew I wanted to do a blended background for this image, so decided to emboss it on white cardstock in dark ink for an emboss resist effect.

Once the leaves were embossed, I blended with Catherine Pooler inks (Merlot, Clay Mask, Catching Rays, and Rouge) all over the panel, then buffed with a clean cloth.  I sprinkled with water for a distress effect, then dried, and blended the same colors over the watered areas to bring back some of the vibrancy.

Next I pulled out the previously released Autumn Splendor set. The images in this set are larger versions of the ones in the background, so they pair beautifully together.  I stamped a couple of the leaves and two acorns, then blended with the same colors of ink and fussy cut.  For the smaller leaf in the center, I used one of the leaves left over when I cut my background panel down to size.  I arranged these in a cluser, then added to the lovely embossed sentiment from the My Thoughts of You set.

Fall Background is available for purchase, or you can earn it as a free gift with a $60 order in the month of August. Just add it to your cart and the discount will apply once your order total qualifies. If you're looking for another fabulous fall set, check out this week's Stamp of the Week, Leaf Silhouettes. It's on sale for just $5 through 8/30. Here's a card I made previously with it, the coordinating dies, and the Typewriter Text Background.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you have a fantastically creative day!

Wishing You a Season of Blessings

Hello Sweet Friends!  Julie here to share a card created with the Leaf Silhouettes Clear Stamp Set designed by Korin Sutherland. 

I absolutely love the leaf images in this set as well as the sentiments plus there is a coordinating Leaf Silhouettes Die Set that is available individually, or you can save even more money when purchasing the Leaf Silhouettes Stamp/Die Bundle.  The die set includes 10 dies of which 5 are embossing dies and the other 5 cut out the stamped images- what a bargain!

This card is so quick and easy- I used a stencil brush to lightly stencil pumpkin ink onto a piece of white cardstock, heat embossed the sentiment from the Leaf Silhouettes Clear Stamp Set with espresso embossing powder, trimmed the panel and added the hemp twine before mounting onto the espresso card base.

I stamped the leaf images from the Leaf Silhouettes Clear Stamp Set with embossing ink and pulled out some of my older colored embossing powders to heat emboss each leaf. 

I cut the leaves out, arranged them using an online sketch challenge and added the hemp twine bow along with a few iridescent sequins to finish off the card.

Quick and easy as well as fun!  I hope I have inspired you to create something this week :-)

Also, don’t forget- this week’s special offer:

This is so easy to add to your collection, for example, if you decide to purchase the Leaf Silhouettes Stamp/Die Bundle at $27.95, you would receive one of these bonus stamps for free! 

Thanks for taking the time to visit- hugs and we hope you have a blessed Thanksgiving week!!

My Friend

Hello Sweet 'n Sassy Friends!  Cathy here with several cards to share with you today.  November is a busy month for Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps…we are celebrating our 9th birthday all month long!  We started our month long festivities with a new release.  My Friend, one of the new stamp sets released, was an addition to the Jesus line of stamps designed by Krista Hamerick.

How sweet is this image!

We are continuing our birthday celebration with Daily Deals on our Facebook page, weekly specials, and a chance to win a $99 Shopping Spree!

This week's special is 20% off all Fall and Christmas stamp sets.

Leaf Silhouettes provided the perfect accents for this fun fall card.  The sentiment is from the Inspirational Word Art 2 stamp set.

Christmas Pine, Music to My Ears, and the Scallop Border Die were used to create this Christmas card on Kraft card stock.

About twenty ladies from church got together yesterday to make Christmas cards.  Since some of the ladies had never stamped before I kept the card designs pretty simple.  This card featuring Winter Blessings was one of the cards we made.  The sentiment is from the Poinsettias & Candles stamp set designed by Diane Zechman.

Be sure to take advantage of the Fall & Christmas Special…with every purchase of $9 or more, your name will be entered for the $99 Shopping Spree!

Thanks so much for stopping by…be sure to stop back often to check out future specials and see more fabulous projects by the creative team!

{{{HUGS}}}

Versatile Scribble Flowers

Hello Friends!

Well it has been some time since I have written  a Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps blog post and I am thrilled to be back on the team, sharing with all of you!  It is hard to stay away from these stamps and this amazing group of ladies.
 Have you seen the first of Korin's August releases?  Can you say 'Winner Winner"?!  Scribble Flowers is THE cutest floral set, and SO versatile!  All of the great projects that the team has been posting with this set-  each and every one different! 

On this card, I did a lot of masking and then added dimension by fussy cutting one of the big orange flowers out (dies are coming, I just don't have them yet!) and layering it with dimensional tape, in addition to cutting a couple of green sprigs out. 'Thank You' is from the Leaf Silhouettes Stamp Set.  Everything is colored with Copics.  Some sequins and seed beads finish it off.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope I have inspired you to get crafty this weekend!

Have a blessed day!

Lee Ann  :)

glory one sheet wonder

Happy Monday!  I hope you are enjoying a relaxing day off!

 

I am sharing how to make a OSW (One Sheet Wonder) card today for this week's Design Diva Demo.

 

A One Sheet Wonder is basically filling a sheet of cardstock with stamped images to create your own backgrounds.  It's a fun and easy way to quickly make multiple cards or a set of different, coordinating cards.

 

To begin, I started with a 1/2 sheet of vanilla cardstock, a few colors of dye-based ink, and the Sweet 'n Sassy Leaf Silhouettes stamp set.  (I usually use a full sheet of cardstock but I only used 1/2 sheet today).

 

When using images of various sizes, it is best to stamp your largest image all over the paper first.  Then stamp the next largest, etc. and finish by filling in the empty spaces with your smallest images.  However, the leaves in the set I used today are very close in size so I started by filling in one corner of the cardstock and then worked my way across the sheet.

When I was finished stamping my background, it looked like this.

There are many diagrams and instructions on the internet for cutting your stamped sheet and creating cards, etc.  I have a few OSW templates on my blog and I think my favorite is this one because it is SO easy to cut up and use!  This diagram is for a full sheet but as you can see...with this template it is also very easy to use half a sheet as I did today.  (I cut it into four 2 1/8" x 5 1/2" panels)

Once you have your panels cut, stamp a few extra leaves to add to your card.  The Leaf Silhouettes Dies are perfect for cutting them out!

Another thing I love about this OSW template is that it makes 8 cards but I have 16 different layouts to choose from.  You can pick & choose which ones you want to use...make them all the same or create different cards!  You can see the layouts and directions here on my blog where I used the Precious Poppies stamp set.

 

This time I used my 1/2 sheet and made all 4 of my cards the same (similar to the #2 card on my blog).  Here's my completed card.  I hand cut the bottom of each panel to a banner shape.  Decorate yours any way you like!  For the words, I stamped the NEW Sweet 'n Sassy Words of Life- Collection 1 (a new bible journaling set!!) which will be available Friday in the SNSS store!

Thanks for stopping by today... happy stamping!

♥  Diane

 

I will Say of The Lord ~

Good morning Sweet'nSassy friends! Mary here to share with you my love for Fall, the crisp air and falling leaves. So naturally my card takes on a fall theme. I paired my images with a scripture  from Our Refuge, any scripture that tells of Who He is becomes a favourite. The Leaf silhouette set and matching die brings balance to my favourite moose die image from Forest Silhouette dies. 

Materials Used:

Stamps: Our Refuge, Leaf Silhouette

Paper: Basic Grey, SU

Inks: Versafine inks, Ranger inks

Accessories: Jute, SNSS forest silhouette dies, SNSS Leaf silhouette dies.

Enjoy your Fall days! Have a great week! 

Falling for Leaves

Hello Everyone and Happy October!

Today I am sharing a technique card using the Leaf Silhouettes Stamps with their new matching Leaf Silhouettes Dies.

We have already had some blustery fall days, and I wanted a card that had the feel of blowing leaves. To get this look, I used the trendy cascade design and the trendy inlaid die technique.  I stamped and die cut all of my leaves and then laid them out on the ivory panel. One at a time, I die cut the leaf shapes from the ivory panel.  Some of the leaves overlap; with these leaves, I placed the leaf that appeared to be under the other leaf into its diecut space and held it in place with a bit of washi tape.  I then used the die of the leaf that appeared to be overlapping the first leaf, inserted it back into its die cut space and held it in place with a bit of washi tape; a bit of the leaf was cut off where the die  overlapped the die cut leaf.
 I used the Grunge Elements Stamp Set to stamp the random blue spots.  This stamp set is perfect for adding texture to your background.  The sentiment from the Beary Bountiful Autumn Stamp Set was perfect for this card. 
That's it for me!
 I hope I have inspired you to get out your ink  and Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps today!

Blessings!

Lee Ann  :)

Thank You.........

Hello friends!  Jacquie here, to share with you!  How are you and what's new?

I am excited to share my little creation with you today!  I have been seeing a lot of banners and ink sprays/splatters being used and I wanted to give it a try!  So here is what I came up with.

I started out with a pre-made kraft card base and then added a layer of Georgia Pacific white.  I used Memento Rich Cocoa ink to stamp out a few borders from the SNSS Borders & Backgrounds clear stamp set and cut them out with the matching Borders & Backgrounds die set!  I just love when stamps and dies match; it makes for EASY card/project making.  Once my borders were cut out, I trimmed them down to make banners and placed them on my white layer; off centered a bit of course.  After the banners, I  used my mini mister to spritz some Mandarin Perfect Pearls (a little mixed with water) onto my project; I only used a bit, as I did not want my paper to get all wonky from being wet!  I stamped some leaves from the SNSS Leaf Silhouettes clear stamp set in Memento Clay and Tangelo; cutting them out with the matching Leaf Silhouettes die set!  Before I added the leaves to my project, I put together and stamped a sentiment from the SNSS Thankful Blooms clear stamp set.  Another thing I REALLY love is being able to make my own sentiments with different fonts.  I just LOVE the way it looks.  Once all the above was done, I completed my card by adding my leaves with 3D foam tape and adding some various embellishments.

Hope you enjoyed my little creation today!  Thanks for stopping by and be sure to come back tomorrow, one of our DT will have more to share with you!  Have a WONDERFUL day!

Give thanks...

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

I am loving the new Leaf Silhouettes die set. Especially the tiny dies with the dry embossing.

My first card was made for Friday's challenge at SplitCoast Stampers. You had to use something 'natural' on your card. I decided to make a wreath out of raw twine. 

The background was stamped with the wood grain image from Grunge Borders. I was trying to make it look like a door with those panels. The greeting is from Leaf Silhouettes clear stamp set.

The sweet little leaves were die-cut out of a piece of hand-made card stock. I water colored the paper with orange, green, and yellow... then spritzed brown ink on top... I was going to use thread too, but at the end, it didn't work with the wreath.

I love how these leaves look. Can't seem to stop using them... here are couple of my previous cards (just in case you missed them), using Leaf Silhouettes:

I hope I have inspired you to make something fun today...

Thanks for stopping by,

Monika

a Season of blessings.

Good morning!

Jessica here with a CAS card to share today using the beautiful new Leaf Silhouettes dies along with a sentiment from the Leaf Silhouettes stamp set.

I die cut the embossed leaf die cuts out of some white core textured paper and sanded around the embossed lines in spots here and there to add some texture.

This is such a fun little die set - have you added it to your collection?

Have a great rest of your weekend!
Jessica

Give Thanks

Hello, it's Bridget here with a autumn card in non-traditional pastel colors 

using the Leaf Silhouette Stamp Set and the newly released Leaf  Silhouette Dies.  

 I love the bold, modern style of these leaves - very fun to work with!

The background is created with a technique using watercolors 

or ink and a stencil, which I learned in the 

Watercolor for Cardmakers Online Class.

Many people prefer using watercolor paper but other types of card stock work 

fine because it doesn't involve over-working the paint/ink too much.  

However, a word of warning, many types of card stock will buckle and warp -  I 

taped down the edges of the panel with easily removable masking
tape to avoid excessive warping, but if it does 

happen, you can adhere the panel to another piece of card stock or 

else put it between the pages of a large book and sit on it for a while to flatten it out!

I brushed the panel with plenty of of water, then added various colors of ink 

with the brush - the paint or ink should spread and blend if you've added
enough water.  If not, give it a spray of water until you see it start to really blend.
Here I used Ranger Distress Shabby Shutters, Scattered Straw, 

Antique Linen, Broken China and Worn Lipstick.  I then lay the stencil over the

 wet panel and set some jars of buttons on top of the stencil so that it's 

pressed down into the paint/water fairly evenly - you could probably use anything 

that has a bit of weight to it but also allows some air flow.   Then you have 

to let it sit and dry!  Go have a cup of coffee or do some cleaning up around 

your craft area!  Don't be tempted to take the stencil off too soon 

before it dries - so maybe you've got time for a cup of coffee AND tidying up!  

When the stencil is removed the result is something like this - the paint/ink has 

gathered where the stencil is pressed against the paper, creating darker areas, leaving
the stencil pattern in lighter shades. 

I popped up the stamped, die-cut leaves and added a strip of vellum with the sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Leaves and Forest Silhouettes~

Good morning everyone! Mary here to share some leafy inspiration! Korin recently released some amazing new dies for current sets available in the store.

 

My first card is using the leaf silhouettes and newly released matching leaf silhouette dies! I layered these squares onto the leaf skeleton background that is perfect for quick colourful and textured coverage.

The second card is using the falling leaves stamp set with the Forest silhouette dies! I love the look of these images against the sponged background. For the "floor" I sprinkled some stampendous embossing fragments, tinsel and powders and melted them all together. I adhered the deer to the floor with the leaves falling gently. So serene.

Have a wonderful Day!

Materials used: 
stamps: Falling leaves, Skeleton leaf BG, Leaf silhouettes
Paper: SU 
Inks: Versafine inks, SU inks, Ranger distress inks
Accessories: Stampendous powders, SU punch

Autumn Wreath

Hello Everyone!

I just love the September release as it is all about the fall season, which happens to be my favorite.
The new Leaf Silhouette Dies are fantastic!  There are smaller leaf dies that not only die cut but emboss as well!  I used the small maple leaf die to make an autumn wreath.

See what I mean?  These leaves are a perfect size for making wreaths.  I made mine out of  Craft Metal to give my wreath a wonderful shine.  I started by die cutting a cardstock wreath using two circle dies.  Next, I die cut my leaves and arranged them on the wreath for placement.  Then I started gluing my leaves down- some are glued with Crystal Effects and others are popped up using dimensionals. 

The sentiment, which is from the Leaf Silhouettes Stamp Set, is embossed in gold on vellum.  I added a scalloped border for interest, using the Scallop Border Dies.  

You can get complete details on my blog.   

I went CAS with my second card.  Don't like to color?  No problem!  Look how you can add color to your line images by using the Grunge Elements Stamp Set!  

 I used several of the "splotchy" images to color the flowers and butterfly from the Flowers in Bloom Stamp Set.  I did not worry about 'coloring outside the lines' as it gives the finished image a trendy, watercolored look.  The background is colored with a BG Copic marker.  I used pointillism with darker BG Copics on the background around the flower heads and butterfly.  The sentiment is from the brand new So Grateful Stamp Set.  I love it for its versatility and the great fonts!  I hope you give this technique a try!  It is fun and easy!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a fabulous fall weekend!

Lee Ann  :)

Sweet Perks Leaf Silhouettes Bundle

Morning Everyone!

Jacquie here, to share a SWEET creation with you!  I cannot believe we are in September already.  I have to admit, that we are coming into my FAVE season! So, to go with the my FAVE, Fall season, I created a little something with our NEW Leaf Silhouettes Bundle.

I layered some pumpkin colored CS and white CS, for my base.  I created my panel by stamping the image off once, onto a scrap, before stamping it onto my panel.  I did this for all 3 of the leaf images/colors. After my panel was ready, I stamped 3 directly onto some white CS, so I could die cut them with my Big Shot.  I used a little foam tape to pop up those single leaves; then completed my creation with some pumpkin colored twine and gold sequins.

Hope you enjoyed my card share.  Thanks so much for stopping by!  Be sure to check out our NEW Sweet Perks Club!  It's a WIN-WIN!!