Butterflies and Roses

 Happy Monday! Esther here today sharing two cards that feature my new favorite way to add texture and interest to my card fronts --- by dry embossing over stamped images! 

This first card is done up in a fun collage style. Since it's a stamping-only card it's great for those days you just don't feel like coloring or maybe don't have enough time to do something up right. 

I created the collage background by stamping images from Going Postal and Nature Silhouettes in Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink.

I embossed the background with the organic linen 3D embossing golder from Altenew, and added some sweet little butterflies (Made New stamp set) stamped in three colors of distress oxide (Tumbled Glass, Kitsch Flamingo, and Evergreen Bough).  

 My second card features one of the NEW digital stamps released this month --

Rose in Bloom

 I printed it on all four corners of my card and used Arteza Real Brush Pens to give it a messy watercolor look.  After some text stamping (Psalm 23 Background) and paint splatters, I used the same organic linen embossing folder  to add a bit of texture to my card panel.

I finished it off by printing one of the sentiments from Rose in Bloom and die cutting it with the Elegant Ovals Nestabilities from Spellbinders.

 

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Never Lose Hope

Hi friends! It's Julee popping in with a couple cards using one of today's Friday Features sets, Choose Faith. This set is just $13.50 today only, after combining the Friday Features and Black Friday discounts!

I started with the background, smooshing broken china and shaded lilac onto some packaging and then spritzing with water and pouncing onto watercolor cardstock. Next I embossed the hope and the never lose stamps with chipped sapphire ink and clear embossing powder.  I then masked off the never lose portion with a post it note and then stamped the flowers from Nature Silhouettes in a combination of shaded lilac and chipped sapphire inks, then embossed in clear. A super quick, fun card.

Next I did a watercolor wash on watercolor cardstock with broken china and cracked pistachio distress oxides. Then I splattered on some of the same colored inks.  When this was dry, I embossed the JOY stamp from Choose Faith in white, then added the trees and snowflakes from the Thrill of Hope set to complete a winter scene. I cut this with a die and matted with navy cardstock.  The back panel is embossed with a snowflake embossing folder.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you've enjoyed these quick cards.  Be sure to check out all the Friday Features today!

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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

 

 

 

Peaceful Sympathy

Hello Sweet 'n Sassy Stampers!  Have you been having fun with all of our 10th Birthday Celebration activities?  

Yesterday we gave away two wonderful sentiment stamp sets to one lucky winner.  The cards I am sharing today use both the So Grateful and Keep in Touch, Too sets that were given away.

Both cards use a stencil mono printing technique found on Karen Dunbrook's Blog for the background.  Apply inks (Oxide inks were used here) to the back of a stencil.  Spritz with water and press onto a heavy piece of card stock.  Several prints, each getting a little lighter, can be obtained by continuing to spritz and press onto different pieces of card stock.  More colors can be added to each panel, turning the stencil slightly as each layer is added.

Since I found myself needing a sympathy card this week, I reached for the beautiful Peaceful Peonies stamp set.  The same Oxide Ink colors used for the mono printing were applied to my craft mat and spritzed with water.  The craft mat was used as a stamp pad to randomly stamp the peony on another piece of card stock.  One of the sentiments from the same set was stamped randomly over the flowers to finish the background.  The inks on the craft mat also became a paint palette for watercoloring the focal image.  The sympathy greeting from the Keep in Touch, Too stamp set was white embossed on a cut vellum banner and stitched to the card.  The design of the card came from Freshly Made Sketches.

The same mono printing technique was used to create the background for this card.  The Typewriter Text Background was lightly stamped over the panel.  Silhouette images from the Nature Silhouettes set were stamped on the left side.  A quote from Faith Quote Blocks was added along with a white embossed sentiment from the So Grateful stamp set.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Have a wonderful day!

Hugs,

Cathy

Thoughts of You

Hello Sweet Friends!  Julie here and today I am sharing a quick Clean and Simple (CAS) card created with the Nature Silhouettes, Nature Silhouettes 2 and Long Stem Silhouettes Clear Stamp Sets (all designed by Korin Sutherland).

I love the different scenes that you can create with all three of these stamp sets as well as the font on the sentiments in Long Stem Silhouettes. 

To create this card, use various distress oxide inks for the background.  Stamp the pads onto a silicone sheet, spritz with water and press a piece of white cardstock.  Lift up and dry with a heat tool, repeat the process until the background is finished (I used three different colors for this panel- twisted citron, worn lipstick and peacock feathers).

After layering the images from Nature Silhouettes and Nature Silhouettes 2 images onto the background with versafine onyx black ink, trim and layer onto black cardstock, add to a white card panel and stamp the sentiment from Long Stem Silhouettes using versafine onyx black ink.

Heat emboss the bird image with clear embossing powder, fussy-cut and adhere with dimensional foam to finish off the card. 

Thanks for taking the time to visit us today and I hope I have inspired you to create something this week- hugs and God Bless, sweet friends!

Faith

I admit it...I'm a bit obsessed with shaker cards lately...I simply can't stop making them! They are so much fun! I've even gone out and bought a whole bunch of shaker filling...sequins, in lots of fun colors and shapes, and chunky glitter and mica chips. Swoon...

Today's card features three stamp sets, Truth Quotes, Landscape Silhouettes, and a bird from the Nature Silhouettes set.

I started by die cutting a card base using a stitched die. I then added clouds just by sponging Distress Ink around a hand cut cloud shape. Once that piece was finished and attached to my card base, I got to work on the shaker part of the card.

I created the sunset by again using Distress Ink, a blending tool, and a die cut circle. Put the yellow ink on the cardstock first, then use the circle to create a mask and add darker ink around the circle...instant sunset!

The bird was stamped directly onto the sunset paper, the lighthouse was stamped on a separate piece of cardstock and then fussy cut. The sentiment is stamped directly on to the piece of acetate that is the front of the shaker portion of the card. I die cut the frame using two nested Spellbinder dies.

To create the shaker card I adhered the acetate piece to the frame, and then added the lighthouse. I build up "walls" around the frame using foam tape, filled the walled in area with mica flakes and glitter, and then used the foam tape to attach the sunset piece. That entire piece was then attached over the cloud card base. Here's a close up of the finished card...

Thanks so much for checking in today! Happy Crafting!!

Kim

Landscape Silhouette

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

It started out as a one layer card, but I couldn't just leave it so flat...
After water coloring the bottom right corner and sponging the background using a stencil, I stamped the lighthouse from Landscape Silhouettes stamp set, the bird from Nature Silhouettes stamp set, and the words from Be Encouraged stamp set.

 

 Then I cut off a strip of the panel, and popped the strip up with dimensional tape. It added a nice touch to my very simple card.

Thanks for stopping by,
Monika

 

 

 

Worship the Lord

Hello! It's Monika here today showing you my way of Bible Journaling.

 

I wanted to give Bible Journaling a try... but I am still not comfortable with the thought of using my Bible as my base sheet. What if I make a mistake? I can't just tear the page out and toss it aside... and believe me, I do make lots of mistakes...

So I decided to do my journaling on a piece of paper and attach that paper to my Bible. I guess I could call this my altered Bible.

 

 

What do you think?

I really liked how the background turned out on my previous card, so I made the background the same way...

The right side was sponged with Mustard Seed distress ink. Then I went over the ink with a wet brush to spread the ink. After the ink dried, I also splashed some water over the area...

 

 

 

I used Worship the Lord, Nature Silhouettes, and Nature Silhouettes 2 clear stamp sets.

I added some highlights to the words and dress with Prismacolor Pencils.

The silhouette butterflies were stamped on vellum and heat embossed with white embossing powder.

 

Thank you for stopping by,

Monika

 

 

 

Word of Life

Hello! It's Monika here today with a card I made using the newly released His Book clear stamp set. While it was released as part of the Creative Worship line which is for Bible journaling, this set is perfectly suitable for card making.

 

 

I stamped the Bible image on water color card stock, colored it in with Prismacolor pencils, then fussy cut it. It is popped up on dimensional tape.

 

 

I also used Nature Silhouettes and Nature Silhouettes 2 clear stamp sets. The silhouette images were perfect for a subtle background. The silhouette butterflies were stamped on vellum and heat embossed with white embossing powder.

 

I hope I inspired you to craft today.

Thanks for stopping by,

Monika

 

 

New Beginnings

Hello Sweet 'n Sassy friends!  Cathy here with a card to share as we say good-bye to 2015 and welcome a new year.  The sentiments in the New Beginnings stamp set offer a note of encouragement and are perfect for looking forward to what the Lord will do in 2016.

It's difficult to see in the photo, but the large background from the Leafy Flourish Background and More stamp set was clear embossed over the butterflies on the My Mind's Eye DP adding some subtle texture.  Distress inks were sponged on the circle panel which was then stamped with images from the Nature Silhouettes and Nature Silhouettes 2 stamp sets. The butterflies were die cut, sponged, and stamped along with the sentiment from the New Beginnings stamp set.  This week's Mojo Monday sketch provided the inspiration for the card design.

Here are the Sweet 'n Sassy stamp sets used in the card above:

"…but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead…"  (Philippians 3:13)

Thanks so much for stopping by…enjoy your weekend!

{{{Hugs}}}

Cathy