Wishing You

Happy Saturday everyone, today I am sharing a floral card with an old fashioned vibe to it. The old fashioned look was not part of my original plan, but how it turned out and I really like it.

This card was pretty easy to stamp and complete. I mixed and matched inks from various companies to stamp the roses and leaves from True Beauty on white cardstock and hand trimmed out. I used Background Builders: Stripes to stamp the lines on the white (pale pink ink) and pink (versamark) cardstock. I like to use VersaMark when I want a more subtle tone on tone effect. I die cut those panels with scallop and stitched edge dies. I stamped the sentiment from So Happy with Versamark and embossed with white embossing powder. I assembled as seen popping the white panel up with foam tape.

 

 

My card also fits the February VIP Challenge over in the Sweet 'n Sassy Facebook Group. We would love to have you join us!
 

 

The So Happy set is part of the Overstock Sale going on during the month of February at Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps.

 

 

I hope you enjoyed today's card and have a wonderful day!

Karen

Birthday celebration

 Hello! It's Monika here today with couple of birthday cards, using some of the new stamp sets from the May Release.

First up is Happy Couple clear stamp set. I decided this cake doesn't have to be just for weddings... right? So while this card could be a wedding card, it also passes as a birthday card... since I don't have a wedding to go to... The greeting is from Keep in Touch Too clear stamp set. 

I built my cake out of four layers (plus the bow)... I used thin dimensional tape as I didn't want it to be too bulky... I colored the images with Kuretake Gansai Tambi water colors. The background was made with Purple Twilight Tim Holtz alcohol ink. I had to add my sweet vellum flowers with rhinestones... I just can't seem to tire of them...

On my next card, I used Freedom in Christ and Peony Cluster clear stamp sets from the new release. I used So Happy clear stamp set for BIRTHDAY and an old birthday sentiment set for HAPPY (but Christmas Poinsettia, Birthday Greetings, and Precious Poinsettias have similar word images).The heat embossed vellum flowers were leftovers from my card from the blog hop.

The banner was stamped with a multicolored ink pad (just like the background)... and I couldn't help myself, I had to add my punched vellum flowers. 

I hope I have inspired you to craft today!

Thank you for stopping by!

Monika

April Stamp of the Month: Happy Day

 Hello! It's Monika here today showcasing the April Stamp of the Month set: Happy Day clear stamp set.

I love flowers and this set has super cute images that are perfect for card making, scrap booking and Bible journaling.

My first card is an encouragement card with water colored, fussy cut images... I love the extra dimension with the popped up images.

The background was sponged with green distress ink (Tim Holtz) then spritzed with water... the subtle green is the perfect backdrop to the vibrant images. I used Jane Davenport water color markers for the coloring. The greeting is from Be Encouraged clear stamp set, my go to encouragement sentiment set!  

My second card is a square birthday card... I hand drew the wreath and dressed it up with stamped and punched images. You must have seen the sweet wreath cards from last month from the DT, using Genuine Love clear stamp set... I used the same idea, with some of the images from Happy Day stamp set. Again, I used Jane Davenport water color markers for the coloring.

The first part of the greeting is from Happy Day clear stamp set... the BIRTHDAY image is from So Happy clear stamp set.  

I love adding little details to my cards... flower clusters and rhinestones (and some Nuvo crystal drops)! 

I hope I have inspired you to craft today!

Thank you for stopping by,

Monika

Birthday Butterflies

Happy Monday!

It's Ceal, here to share a couple cards with you today using our February Stamp of the Month, Made New. You have until the 28th to earn this set free with a $75 purchase and you get free first class shipping with a $75 order so its a win, win situation. 

Also you can use the code CEAL10 and save 10% off your order total

I love butterflies so when Korin came out with this set I was ecstatic because she used a mix of the sets she had retired. 

I have a couple friends who love butterflies as well so I made a couple birthday cards with it. The first one I embossed the butterflies in white and then blended the background using a pink, yellow and blue ink. The sentiment is from the So Happy set.

My second card using the Made New set and a stencil, the greeting is from the Scripty Thoughts set 

Colors of Fall

Hello sweet friends!  Cathy here sharing two cards using my favorite fall colors.  Now that September has arrived, it will not be long until we start to see the splash of beautiful fall colors displayed on trees and foliage.

Distress Oxide inks were applied to a stencil, spritzed with water, and pressed onto mixed media paper to create the background. The mums from the Autumn Mum Greetings were masked and stamped onto the bottom of the panel.  A rectangle was cut from the panel and the mums on this portion were colored with Copic Markers.  The colored mums were mounted to black card stock and popped back into the card.  Several more mums were colored, cut out, and popped onto the card for additional dimension.  A sentiment from the So Happy stamp set, some twine, and a few splatters were aded to finish the card.

Distress Oxide inks were smooshed onto mixed media paper for another DOX background.  The grid from the Texture Tiles 1 set was stamped onto four panels using four different fall colors.  These were   spritzed with water to cause the inks to bleed.  The maple leaf from the Happy Scarecrow set was stamped four times, colored, cut out, and popped onto each of the grid panels.  The sentiment was added along with several sequins to finish the card.

You can find the stamp sets used to create these cards at the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Store.

While you are there be sure to check out the new September Release!

Thanks so much for stopping by...have a wonderful weekend!

Hugs,

Cathy

Choose Happy

Hello Sweet 'n Sassy Stampers!

It's Ceal here to share a couple cards with you using one of the newest releases,  Go God's Way which is a from our Creative Worship line. The first card I paired it up with the set So Happy because to me this bicycle just looks like it would make a someone choose to be happy and go for a bike ride. 

To create this card I started with a white top folding card base, a Coastal Cabana panel cut down with a postage stamp die and a watercolor paper panel cut down with a stitched die. I stamped the bicycle image using Versafine Clair Nocturne ink and watercolored it using Daniel Smith watercolors.

My second card also used the Go God's Way set but this time I had a little fun with it and paired it up with Thoughtful Words Set. I am going to a stamping retreat, Junkiefest in a couple weeks so I had a little fun by penciling in the signs and I am definitely counting the days, it's going to be so much fun seeing friends again and making new friends.

Go God's Way

Hello SWEET Friends! It's Monika here today. I have couple of cards using the new Creative Worship: Go God's Way clear stamp set.

 I turned my first card into a shaker card... I had this picture in my mind with a circle window opening, and that is a perfect set up for a shaker! You just need lots of dimensional foam tape (or fun foam), a window sheet, and lots of sequins and micro beads.

 

 

The camper and the 'bug' were stamped on water color paper and colored with Kuretake Gansai Tombi water colors. The circle background was sponged with yellow, orange and red distress inks. The landscape images (desert scene and grass) are from Landscape Silhouettes clear stamp set. The greeting is from another favorite sentiment set, Keep in Touch, Too. It's a must have!

 

 

My second card is a simple birthday card. The word images are from So Happy clear stamp set. I already had the sponged background laying around on my craft table, so I went with it. The butterflies are punched out of vellum.

Thank you for stopping by,

Monika