Back to School Tags

 

Happy Monday! Esther here today sharing some fun tags I created to attach to gifts I'm giving out to my Sunday School kids to celebrate going back to school this fall. 

I started by stamping the library card from Your Story in Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink on white card stock and cutting them out. Next, I stamped a bunch of images from the Back to School stamp set on mixed media paper and colored them with Arteza Real Brush Pens. After fussy cutting (because I don't own the Back to School coordinating dies --- yet!), I arranged them on my library cards and stamped various school related sentiments at the top. Each tag has a personal message from me on the back.

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To-Do List

 Hello! I’m sharing a different type of project today for the Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps May release. I started making cards recently for our church card ministry and I thought it would also be nice to decorate some mini composition notepads that people can use for sermon notes, prayer journals, etc. I picked the notepads up at Walmart. They are pretty colors in packs of three.

Product links: To-Do List, Your Story, Scribble Flowers Bundle (also sold separately).

I couldn't decide if I wanted to place the same color of flower on each notepad or mix them up...so I made some both ways!

Have a great day!

Diane

Back to School

 

Esther here today with a fun "back-to-school" themed card to share with you using several fun supplies from Sweet n Sassy Stamps! 

 

 

To create that fun chalkboard background I simply inked up the alphabet stamp set (in white pigment ink) while it was still on the stamp backing, and pressed it into my black card stock. I found that laying a book on top and pressing down a bit helped to ensure that all the letters got stamped, and was much quicker than stamping each letter separately! I lightly spot stamped the typewriter text background over top for extra interest.

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Supplies and Tools:

• From Sweet n Sassy Stamps:
• Back to School
  
• Your Story
• Typewriter Text Background 
• Alphabet - Skinny Lowercase
• Star Dies Set
• Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink 
• Arteza Real Brush Pens
• Vintage Photo Distress Ink (Ranger)
• Yeti Ink (Lawn Fawn)
  

Special Delivery

It's the first of the month and you know what that means? If you guessed new stuff, you're right! Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps will be releasing new Digital Stamps all month long! Today SNSS is releasing two new digi sets perfect for Mother's Day cards and beyond.

 

 

For today's card, I am using Rose in Bloom by Jennifer Nilsson.

 

 

I started by sizing and printing the rose image and sentiment. I colored the image with watercolors and fussy cut out. I stamped the notebook paper from Your Story with Antique Linen Distress ink on ivory cardstock. I hand trimmed out, hole punched the side and stamped images from Going Postal with Vintage Photo Distress ink. I die cut a piece of patterned paper from my stash and assembled as seen wrapping twine around the front. I popped the image and sentiment up with foam tape and added three small pearl embellishments.

All of Jennifer Nilsson's sets in this category are on sale through May 6th! Check it out!

 

 The other sets I used on the card.

 

 This is the second Mother's Day set releasing today illustrated by Julee Tilman.

 

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

Karen

Scribble Flowers

Hello Friends! Esther here sharing two cards that feature the Scribble Flowers stamp set.

For this first one, I added some colorburst powders to a dictionary page, spritzed with water, and heat set. I then stamped my flowers in black ink and fussy cut them. You'll notice I "dressed up" the centers with some circle punched dots -- sometimes it's the little things that take your card to the next level!

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Supplies and Tools;

• Scribble Flowers (Sweet n Sassy Stamps)
• Grace So Amazing (Sweet n Sassy Stamps)
• Jet Black Archival Ink (Ranger)
• Circle Punches
• Dictionary Page
• These colors of Colorburst Powders (Ken Oliver)
• Ultramarine Blue
• Lime Green
• Fuchsia 

For my second card I used two of the new releases for April to create a fun library card focal point and decorated the corners with some of the pretty florals from Scribble Flowers.

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Supplies and Tools:

• These Sweet n Sassy Stamp Sets
• Scribble Flowers
• Typewriter Text Background 
• Your Story
• Friendship Is A Blessing
• Canson Mixed Media Paper
• Real Brush Pens (Arteza)
• Petals & Blooms Designer Paper (The Paper Studio) 
• Crochet Thinlits (Sizzix -Tim Holtz)
• Embossing Folder (Sizzix - Tim Holtz) 
• Oval Punch
• Black Archival Ink (Ranger)
• Worn Litpstick Distress Oxide (Ranger) 

Paper Bag Pocket of Encouragement

Hello Friends! Esther here, and today sharing a Paper Bag Pocket of Encouragement. It's stuffed full of Bible verses, hymns, and inspirational sayings to cheer and encourage.

Here's how I created my pocket

(Maybe you'll see a pink and white polka-dot / denim version later this year!!) 

1. Start with a lunch sack
2. Fold the top down and glue in place
3. Punch or die cut a partial circle in the center of the bottom flap
4. Use decorative scissors along the top of the bottom flap
5. Fold bottom flap up
6. Cut designer paper to decorate your panels

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Supplies and tools:

• These Sweet n Sassy Stamps Sets:
• Friendship Is A Blessing
• Your Story
• Delightfully Delicate Background 
• Grace So Amazing 
• Hymn Word Art   
• Texture Tiles 1
• Texture Tiles 5 
• Typewriter Text Background   
• FREE: Faith Over Fear Printable
• Canson Mixed Media Paper
• Real Brush Pens (Arteza)
• Dotted Ovals Dies (Sizzix) 
• Crochet Thinlits (Sizzix - Tim Holtz)
• Manila Tags Nesting Dies - CUTplorations 
• Labels 3 Nestabilities (Spellbinders)
• Blossom Nestabilities (Spellbinders)
• Jet Black Archival Ink (Ranger
• These colors of Distress Oxide (Ranger)
• Fossilized Amber
• Broken China
• Black Soot

I hope you're inspired to make your own little paper bag pocket of encouragement!! 

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