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Hello Sweet Friends! Sheri here today to let you know that a NEW VIP Challenge has started over in the Sweet 'N Sassy Stamps VIP Group over on Facebook. Each month a new challenge is posted on the first of each month and runs for the entire month. One random winner is selected at the end of the challenge to WIN a SNSS stamp set of their choice!

 

This month we are challenging you with a "WATER" Theme! You just need to incorporate water in your project (raindrops, puddles, watering cans,ocean, beach, nautical stamps, etc). You can find the challenge HERE.

 

 

For my sample card I choose to use the Nautical themed stamps and pulled out the Peace Be Still stamp set to create this simple Thinking of You card. Love how the textured background makes the sailboat and sentiment pop.

 

Card Measurements:

White A2 Top Fold Card Base: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" (4 1/4" x 11", scored at 5 1/2")

Light Blue Mat: 3 7/8" x 5 1/8"
Dark Blue Panel: 3 3/4" x 4 15/16"

White Strip Mat: 3 3/4" x 2 3/4"

Light Blue Strip: 3 3/4" x 2 5/8"

Dark Blue Circle: 2 1/2"

White Circle: 2 1/4"

Dark Blue Sentiment Strip: 1 3/8" x 3/8"

Steps to Create Card: 

• Cut & Score A2 Card Base: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" (4 1/4" x 11", scored at 5 1/2" on 11" side)
• Cut light blue mat: 3 7/8" x 5 1/8"
• Cut Dark Blue Panel: 3 3/4" x 4 15/16", then emboss with embossing folder (Memory Box Waves 3D, EF1013)
• Cut White Strip Mat: 3 3/4" x 2 3/4"
• Cut Light Blue Strip: 3 3/4" x 2 5/8", then emboss with embossing folder (Memory Box Waves 3D, EF1013).
• Cut Dark Blue Circle: 2 1/2"
• Cut White Circle: 2 1/4"
• Stamp & Emboss "Thinking of You" sentiment from the Sentimental Wordfetti stamp set in white on a piece of dark blue card stock. Trim to sentiment strip: 1 3/8" x 3/8". 
• Stamp sailboat from Peace Be Still stamp set with black ink and color with your favorite coloring medium. I used alchol friendly ink and colored with copic markers. Next fussy cut the boat out.
• Assemble card. The dark blue circle and sailboat are popped up with foam tape. This step is optional.
• For embellishment I added clear dew drops.

 

 

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 Happy Stamping!!

Inspire

Today I am sharing a masculine card and creating them is definitely outside my comfort zone. My card features several products from the new May Release. 

I created the background by cutting strips of white cardstock in various sizes and swiping two different gray inks across them. Then, I glued the strips onto another white piece of cardstock, inked up the shiplap background with a darker gray and inked up the panel with it. Afterwards, I die cut the panel, stenciled the word inspire, added the brown mesh(trimmed to the edge), matted with gray and attached to a white base.

I stamped the images with ink on 3 black, colored with alcohol markers and fussy cut out. I left my boss lady apha die in one piece instead of cutting it all apart. I cut a bunch of letters from white cardstock. I used the outlines to hold the letters while I inked them up with a dark gray ink. I assembled the card as seen using bearly arts glue as my adhesive to affix the images and letters. 

Shiplap Background

 Mixed Up Stencil

 Boss Lady Alpha Die Set

 Peace Be Still

 

 

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

Karen

Peace Be Still

 

{janebosi} Happy Thanksgiving!!  This hasn't been the easiest year for many people, for many reasons.  Today, I am grateful and ask you to join with me in recalling all that our Great God has done which deserves our praise and gratefulness always.  The waters may be deep, and yet His grace abounds!

In those moments when we feel most turbulent, may we recall that He is the great calm.

Peace, be still.  May you feel it today.  I created these cards using The Sea set and sentiments from Peace Be Still.  The vibrant colors are distress inks--my favorite!!  

Have a blessed day, Jane

My Anchor Holds

Hello Sweet Friends! Sheri here today to share a nautical themed card I created with the NEW Peace Be Still stamp set from the June 2020 Release!

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I had lots of fun with this one as it's very dimensional and has some texture too.  I started of stamping a bunch of the images in the set with alcohol friendly ink and then colored them with copic markers.

Next I created the card itself by picking out some pattern papers and card stock. I then distressed them with a Tim Holtz distresser tool and attached them to an A2 top folding card base.  I then added some textured ribbon and started arranging the stamped images on a scallop circle.  I finished the card off with some embellishments from my stash.

Card Measurements:
A2 Top Fold Card Base: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" (4 1/4" x 11", scored at 5 1/2")
Kraft Mat: 4" x 5 1/4"
Navy Mat: 3 3/4" x 5"
Pattern Paper Layer: 3 1/2" x 4 3/4"
Navy Mat: 3 1/8" x 4"
Pattern Paper Layer:3" x 3 7/8"
Scallop Circle: 3 1/8"
Circle: 1 1/2"

There's still time to qualify for this months Stamp of the Month!!

Happy Stamping!!

My Anchor Holds

Hello Friends, Esther here with two new cards to share with you.  I'm loving all the masculine stamp sets in this month's release, and this first card features a little scene created with "Peace Be Still" on an ink smooshed background.  I stamped my images on mix media paper and colored them with Arteza real brush pens before fussy cutting and adding them to my card front. For extra texture I added some cheesecloth behind my collage.

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Supplies and Tools:

• These Sweet n Sassy Stamp Sets
• Peace Be Still
• Texture Tiles 1
• Arteza Real Brush Pens
• Canson Mix Media Paper
  
• Lighthouse w/clouds (Cottage Cutz)
• Shells Cutups Dies (The Cat's Pajamas)
• Ornate Ovals (Divinity Designs)
  
• Cheesecloth
  
• Jet Black Archival Ink (Ranger)
  
• These colors of Distress Oxide (Ranger
• Broken China
• Cracked Pistachio
• Black Soot
  

My second card features a set from last month called "My Father's House"

For this card I created a fun vintage scene with script and newsprint designer papers from The Paper Studio, die cuts from various companies, and four different Sweet n Sassy sets.

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Supplies and tools:

• These Sweet n Sassy Stamp Sets
• My Father's House
• Encouraging Thoughts
• How Tweet
• Texture Tiles 1
• Kirby Teesdale Paper Pack (The Paper Studio)
• Canson Mix Media Paper
• Arteza Real Brush Pens
• Dotted Ovals Dies (Sizzix)
• Crochet Dies (Sizzix -Tim Holtz)
• Callista Rectangle Shadowbox Frame (Spellbinders)
• Scallop Basic Edges 2 (My Favorite Things)
• Fishtail Banners (Stamp Simply)
• Jet Black Archival Ink (Ranger)
• Vintage Photo Distress Oxide (Ranger)
  

Peace Be Still

Hello Sweet 'n Sassy Stampers!

It's Ceal, here to share with you today a couple cards using the Peace Be Still set from our June release.  How is it June already? 

To create my first sample I started with a white top folding card base and a piece of Bristol (water friendly) cardstock panel. I stamped the boat image from the Peace Be Still set, colored it and then masked it off to create the background. 

To create the background, I used the Tim Holtz glass media mat and laid down some Speckled Egg (love this new color) distress ink, sprayed it with a little water and then picked it up with the bristol panel. I repeated this step with Peacock Feathers and Salty Ocean. After I achieved the look I wanted I added the waves also in the Peace be Still set. Te greeting is from the For my Father set. 

My second card uses the same set, Peace Be Still.

This time I started with a white top folding card base, a black panel and a bristol panel. I stamped a wave and then masked it off to stamp the next one. After I got them stamped I left the top row masked so I could create the sky background, I did that by using the Life Changing Blender Brushes and some inks. After I finished the background I removed the masks and colored the waves using Copic Markers. Its hard to see in the photo, but I added some shimmer to the waves with using a Nuvo shimmer pen and I also added some glossy accents to them as well. To finish the card I added a greeting from the same set, Peace be Still.