Bird Houses

Hello friends, hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends.  Now it's time to click it into high gear for Christmas!  Do you have your cards all made?   I made this card using the set called Season's Greetings, I just love these little bird houses.  I colored with copics and added some glitter for snow, the paper is from The Paper Studios.  Don't forget about our Birthday celebration going on this month, so many great discounts and freebies to be had, you can find all the information HERE!
~Stephanie

season's greetings

Hello! It's Monika here today with a Christmas card. I love circle cards so I decided to make one:

The scallop circle base was die-cut out of heavy designer paper. The birdhouse image is from Season's Greetings clear stamp set. I stamped an extra holly cluster and after coloring the images and cutting them out, I adhered the cluster to the main image with dimensional tape. I added psychedelic embossing powder to the snowy areas and red rhinestones as berries. The greeting is from Christmas Pine clear stamp set. I also added some holly branches from a retired stamp set... just to fill in some empty areas... 
The black frame (die-cut with 2 circle dies), the birdhouse and holly leaves underneath, and the greeting are all popped up with dimensional tape... to finish off the card, I added more rhinestones and red/white baker's twine.
If you are really creative, by adding a clear window sheet you could easily turn this into a circle shaker card!

Thanks for stopping by,

Monika

Tweet Holiday Wishes

Hello friends...happy Friday!  Cathy here with a sweet Christmas card using one of my new favorite stamp sets and matching dies…Season's Greetings and Season's Greeting Dies.

This card was inspired by the cardinals that visit our evergreens in the backyard each winter.  A Splitcoaststampers sketch, some Pebbles DP and a few acrylic paint splatters were used to create a wintery scene perfect for sending warm holiday wishes.  I think the cardinals and birdhouses in this set are as tweet as can be…don't you agree?

How are your holiday preparations coming along?

I can't believe there are only two more weeks until Christmas! 

Be sure to check out this stamp set and more at the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Store!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Hugs,

Cathy

Borders & Backgrounds...

Hello Sweet Friends!

It's been a fun month here at Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps as we celebrate our 8th birthday! The DT Divas are sharing Daily Throwbacks with you all month long here on the blog, and over on our Facebook page, to help celebrate!

Today I am re-visiting Borders & Backgrounds clear stamp set (among some other fantastic sets):

 

 

 

I love making shaped cards, so I decided to make a birdhouse card. The scallop border was perfect for the roof of my birdhouse. I used the coordinating die to cut the strips out (which is no longer available). I stamped the scallop image with VersaMark and heat embossed the image with clear embossing powder.

The holly came from Christmas Silhouettes clear stamp set and was die-cut with the coordinating Christmas Silhouettes die set.

The darling birds are from Season's Greetings clear stamp set. I also used the Fence & Grass and Heart die sets.

Monika

 

Get To Know Me:
Monika A. Davis

 

Hello! I was born and raised in Hungary. I've been in the States for 19 years now, living in beautiful New Hampshire. I live with my sweet husband and our 2 boys. I work part time at my sons' school, in the after school program.
I was introduced to rubber stamping 17 years ago and I've been making cards on and off ever since. It's been a great passion of mine. I love making cards and giving them away for birthdays, Christmas, teacher's appreciation day etc. I've been on a number of design teams and have been published a number of times. I taught card making classes in local stamp stores and now I offer classes at my house. These days I am crafting on a smaller scale and concentrating more on my family and on my spiritual journey.
 I love reading, traveling, playing board games... and this summer I took up gardening and canning (which I never thought I'd do).
If you are a new stamper, I'd recommend getting a nice set of ink pads with coordinating card stocks. I made a mistake of buying miss matched items when I started out as a crafter and I never liked the end result. These days, there are many companies offering matching ink pads, papers, even embellishments. 
There are so many fantastic designers who inspire me... I don't think I could name them all here. I visit Pinterest daily for ideas and get inspirations from challenges.
I was introduced to Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps in 2010 (I think) by the talented Kim Schofield. I started out as a Guest Designer, then first joined The Sweet Stop sketch challenge, then the Sweet 'n Sassy Design Divas. It's been such a blessed journey with the other design team members and Korin. I love the different image designs, the Christian sets with beautiful verses and spiritual greetings.

While I have a number of favorite stamp sets, especially the ones with butterflies, I especially love:

 Be Encouraged clear stamp set with it's powerful words:

 

 

These are just the perfect additions to any cards, no matter what the occasion is... and here are some of the cards I've created with this stamp set:
 

 

 

holiday greetings

Hello!  Today may be Halloween but my thoughts are already turning to Thanksgiving and Christmas.  I have a quick holiday card to share today using the Sweet 'n Sassy Season's Greetings set.  I don't have the matching dies (yet!) but they would have been great to cut out the birds!  I will link them below.

I was originally only planning to stamp the birds on the background layer but then decided to color and pop some up as well.  I also used a Puffy Velvet marker and my heat tool to create some snow on the birdhouse.

I am really behind on making Christmas cards this year.  Usually I start in January!  I am not looking forward to the cold weather and snow but maybe when it comes it will get me in the right mood to create some holiday cards!  :)

 

Have a great weekend and a safe Halloween night!

 

Diane
 

Season's Greetings

Hello!  Angie here with a fun Christmas card to share.  There are just 98 more sleeps until Christmas so here's a little project to inspire you!

Today I am using the beautiful new Season's Greetings clear stamp set that Korin designed.  You can find this set and all of our new release sets in the Sweet N Sassy Store! 

I just love coloring the birdhouses in this set!  I added some twine to hang the bird feeder and popped it up then stamped the sentiment directly on the designer paper.

I hope you will check out the Sweet N Sassy Store for the new release sets as well as many favorites from previous releases!

A Closer Look:

Season's Greetings

Thanks so much for stopping by!!!  

September 2015 Release and Blog Hop

It's here! It's here! Release day is here!! We are so excited to share the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps September 2015 Release and Blog Hop with you today!  We have added five brand new stamp sets to our line plus four new products from the September Sweet Perks Club to the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Store!  

NEW Release Special for our Blog Readers!

We so appreciate all of our blog readers (that's YOU) for your faithful support, we'd like to express our gratitude by offering you 10% off any of the new release products for a limited time.  Just enter coupon code BLOG915 at checkout and the discount will automatically be deducted from your September release purchases! Sale ends Sunday, September 13th.

And now for the BIG reveal...

Wondrous Miracle

$15.95

The sweet shepherd image and sentiments in this darling stamp set convey the true meaning of Christmas.

• Stamp set includes 3 images and 4 sentiments
• Stamp set measures 6" x 4"
• Shepherd image measures approximately 2 5/8" x 2"
• Images illustrated by Chris Dickinson
• Designed by Korin Sutherland

We Three Kings

$15.95

The silhouette image in this stamp set looks fabulous with so many different gorgeous background techniques! 

• Stamp set includes 2 images and 7 sentiments
• Stamp set measures 6" x 4"
• The three kings image measures approximately 3 1/2" x 2 1/8"
• Designed by Korin Sutherland

Season's Greetings

$15.95

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas with a few cardinals sitting in a snow laden evergreen…or feeding at a birdhouse filled with sunflower seeds.  The brilliant red of the cardinal against the pristine white of snow makes a pretty picture, and so will the images from this adorable stamp set.

• Stamp set includes 6 images and 4 sentiments
• Stamp set measures approximately 4" x 6"
• The large birdhouse image measures approximately 3 1/4" x 1 5/8"
• Designed by Korin Sutherland

 We are also thrilled to be adding the following Bible Journaling sets, which can also be used for card making and so much more!

Words of Life: Collection 1

$26.95

The words in this versatile stamp set can be combined to create many different Bible verses that can be used in your Journaling Bibles.  Many of the SNS stamp sets you already have can be used to illustrate the verse.

• Stamp set includes 30 words and symbols
• Stamp set measures approximately 6" x 8"
• "Believe" measures approximately 2 3/8" wide and 5/8" high
• Designed by Korin Sutherland

Words of Life: Common Words 1

$15.95

It's hard to make a sentence without using some common words, so this set can be used to add those little words to your Bible verses.

• Stamp set includes 51 common words that can be used with other stamps to create sentiments, verses and phrases
• Stamp set measures approximately 6" x 4"
• Designed by Korin Sutherland

NEW STAMP SET & DIES NOW AVAILABLE
We'd also like to remind you that the new stamp set and dies from our Sweet Perks Club are now available for preorder individually! We are expecting those in later this month so be sure to claim your own set because once they sell out, we may not be able to reorder them again right away! 

Joy to the World Clear Stamp Set

$15.95

Diane Zechman's adorable illustrations are paired up with some super cute sentiments to help you create the perfect Christmas card!

• Stamp set includes 2 images and 3 sentiments
• Stamp set measures approximately 6" x 4"
• Star image measures approximately 2 1/4" x 2 1/4"
• Illustrated by Diane Zechman
• Designed by Korin Sutherland

and the matching dies make it even better!! 

Joy to the World Die Set

$15.95

We've also added the following dies which coordinate with stamp sets already available in our line.

Snowman Soup Die Set

$22.95

Holly Jolly Christmas Die Set

$10.95

Okay, now that you've seen our new products, click on the links below for our blog hop so you can see what our talented team did with them!  Don't forget to leave a little love on each blog as you hop along.

Then head on over to the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Store to pick up your favorite stamp sets from the release!  Don't forget to use the blog reader coupon code from above at check-out!

Thanks so much for your stopping by!

Until next time....Happy Stamping!

Winter Morning

Hello, Sweet 'n Sassy friends!  Angie here with a sneaky peek of Season's Greetings one of our new release sets for September!  

We are so excited about our new stamp sets and hope you will join us on September 11th for the blog hop and full reveal!!

This is such a fun set to design with and color!!! There are two birdhouses, with two different posts, along with two sweet birds and three sentiments!
 For my design, I chose the shorter birdhouse and popped up papa cardinal then placed mama in the snow.

Thanks so much for stopping by!!!