A Friend's Love

Hello crafty friends, Kim here today, welcome to our post! Today I'm sharing two of my favorite stamp sets, Scribble Flowers and Rebecca Script that I combined into one card. This project features the no-line water coloring technique, and I produced a video that demonstrates the steps I took to create my card. You can click on the video below to watch! Enjoy and happy crafting!

Parisian Hello

Hi Sweet Friends!

Today I am sharing a Freestyle Collage style Mixed Media card that I designed using using Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps (SNSS) Parisian Postcard ClearStamp Setalong with Grunge Elements and the new Creative Worship stamp set, Rebecca Script Alpha (all available at Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps). 

To create this card:

1). Ink the SNSS Parisian Postcard ClearStamp Set Eiffel Tower image with Versamark™ ink, stamp onto a piece of white cardstock, apply black embossing powder and heat set with a heat tool.  Once the embossing has cooled, fussy-cut the image and set aside.

2). Ink the floral image from theSNSS Parisian Postcard Clear Stamp Set with black soot distress ink, stamp onto white cardstock, create a mask for the image and stamp the remaining collage images from the SNSS Parisian Postcard Clear Stamp Set with antique linen distress ink.

3). Ink a few of the postage images along with the postcard image from the SNSS Parisian Postcard Clear Stamp Set with  Versamark™ ink, stamp onto the panel, apply gold embossing powder and heat set with a heat tool.

4). Remove the mask for the flowers and use water-based markers to watercolor the flowers (being careful around the edges since the black soot distress ink is not waterproof), dry with the heat tool.  

After the ink had dried, I used a thin black marker to redefine a few of the lines on the petals and stamped the SNSS Grunge Elements image (I used a small piece of the large splatter stamp) with black ink to add the splatter between the images.

5). Trim a piece of white cardstock, mount onto a piece of black cardstock, trim once more and mount onto the white card base.  Add the striped gold vellum cardstock (I used glue beneath the gold stripes to hide the adhesive).

6). Trim the collage panel, mount onto a piece of black cardstock and mount onto the card front.

7). Ink the letters from the SNSS Rebecca Script Alpha Clear Stamps to spell “Hello” with black soot distress ink and stamp onto white cardstock.  Create the banner by hand cutting the flag end before mounting onto black cardstock and mirror cutting the banner.

8). Add the hello banner directly to the card front and mount the SNSS Parisian Postcard embossed Eiffel Tower image with dimensional foam.

9). Add a few black shimmery sequins to finish off the card.

I hope I have inspired you today with this fun Mixed Media card- hugs and have a blessed week, sweet friends!

Look Who's Back!

Hello Sweet 'n Sassy Friends!  Guess who's back…and just in time to be sending lots of fun wishes to brighten your day:

You guessed…it's that adorable little mouse we all love, Cocoa!  Cocoa Sends Love is chock full of sentiments that can be combined for a host of different occasions all through the year.  While this new stamp set will officially be released tomorrow, ***hint*** you just might be able to snatch it up now!  Be sure to check out all of the adorable Cocoa sets available at the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Store.

While you are there, be sure to click on the Bible Journaling Tab to see all of the fun alphabets.  Today is the last day for the Buy 2 get one free sale!

The Bible Journaling page below was made using just a few of the alphabets available... Shake It Off Caps Alpha, Shake It Off Lowercase Alpha, and Rebecca Script Alpha.  The Capture This Moment stamp set was also used to create this page.

Until next time…stay warm and happy stamping!

Hugs,

Cathy

Merry Christmas

Hello! It's Monika here today, with a holiday card.
One of my favorite holiday images (other than nativity scenes) is the holy from Christmas Silhouettes clear stamp set. I just love the delicate look. So I decided to use that on my card:

 

 

I love the delicate look of heat embossed image on Vellum. It gives an airy look to it...

I totally forgot that I had the coordinating die (Christmas Silhouettes Dies) so I fussy cut the image... imagine how easy it would have been if I simply die-cut it. Silly me!

 

The greeting was stamped with the new Rebecca Script Alpha clear stamp set. It is part of the Creative Worship line. I also used one word from the Christmas Morn clear stamp set. The two different fonts worked really nicely together.

Thank you for stopping by,
Monika

 

Heartwarming Alphas

Hello and Happy Friday Everyone! 

It finally feels like winter here in St Louis; fall surprised us and went on and on.  I do welcome the snow, but not frigid temps.  Is it getting cold in your neck of the woods? 
One of my favorite things about winter crafting is snowmen!  I just can't get enough of them. 

I combined the old with the new on this CAS card.  The super sweet snowman in a cup is from the Snowman Soup Stamp Set; he is colored with Copics.  I used the snowflake images in the new Holiday Hugs Stamp Set and did 3rd generation stamping with them. I LOVE being able to create sentiments with the alpha sets and my favorite is this new one, Rebecca Script Alpha.  I pieced my sentiment together with singular words from other sets (you and my).  The heart on the cup was the perfect way to finish the sentiment!
That's it for me! 

Check out all of the alpha sets at Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps. Korin is running a special through 12/15- buy two alphas, get one FREE!

Thanks for stopping by and have a blessed weekend!  

Lee Ann  

Alpha Script Joy

Hello Sweet Friends!  Julie here to share a card created with the Creative Worship Rebecca Alpha Script Clear Stamp Set designed by Rebecca Rios  and Celebrate the Savior Clear Stamp Set (designed by Krista Hamrick) along with SNSS Music To My Ears Clear Stamp Set (designed by Korin Sutherland).

I had fun creating the "JOY" sentiment for this Christmas card and am looking forward to using the SNSS Alphabet sets for Scrapbooking, Card Making, Tags, Personalized Gifts, Home Décor as well as Bible Art Journaling!   Love that you can create your own sentiments- perfect customization!  

Plus, this month Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps is celebrating with their  "It's All About Alpha" Sale- Buy 2 Alphabet Stamp Sets and Get One Free now thru December 15th!

I used water-based markers to watercolor the SNSS Celebrate the Savior angel, poinsettias and holly images and added shimmer with a clear glitter pen to the angel’s wings, gown and white highlights with a white extra fine paint pen to the poinsettia centers before fussy cutting the images.

I used the SNSS Music To My Ears Clear Stamp background image for the one panel as well as sporadic background around the SNSS Celebrate the Savior angel and sentiment.

I used water-based markers to watercolor the SNSS Celebrate the Savior angel, poinsettias and holly images and added shimmer with a clear glitter pen to the angel’s wings, gown and white highlights with a white extra fine paint pen to the poinsettia centers before fussy cutting the images.

I used cherry distress ink to stamp the CW Rebecca Alpha Script letters and finished off by layering all of the images and adding a cherry bow along with pearls to finish off the card

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I hope I have inspired you with this fun Christmas card!

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