Instagram Hop and Steel Die SALE!

 

 Hello Friend, Esther here today to let you know that it's time for another Sweet n Sassy Instagram Hop and this month we're featuring steel dies. I chose to use the NEW coordinating dies for Birds & Blooms and the NEW With Love Word Die Set. I also used some of Susan's NEW Softly Snowing Digital Papers! One lucky commenter will win a $25 gift code to the SnSS store - click here to check it out!! 

Check out the awesome die sale starting today!! Buy 2 Get 1 FREE!!

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When I print these digital papers, I usually open them in my word program and resize them to fit my card front so that I'm not wasting ink by printing a full 8.5 x 11 inch paper. It also reduces the design and makes it look prettier on my card.  

All the images on this card were stamped on mixed media paper and colored with Arteza Real Brush Pens. 

Supplies and Tools:

• From Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps:
• Birds & Blooms Stamp Set
• Birds & Blooms Die Set
• or buy the bundle and save
• With Love Word Dies 
  
• Softly Snowing Patterned DIGITAL Paper Pack
• Softly Snowing Filler DIGITAL Paper Pack
• Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink 
• Arteza Real Brush Pens
• Spun Sugar Distress Ink (Ranger) 
• Crochet Lace
• Sewing machine
  

Puppy Love

Happy Saturday Everyone! There are four new digis in the house and all digi stamps are 50% off November 6-12, 2020.  I decided to play with GG: Puppy Love first since I love this sweet image. So cute!

 

 

After I printed her out on canson mixed media paper, I die cut the panel and colored with Arteza Real Brush Pens. I masked the bottom of the white panel and added some green ink just along the edge. After that, I wasn't sure what else to add to the card. I started digging through my stash of extra colored images and came across the sun from Melt for You and the flower pots from Happy Camper. I love mixing and matching elements from different sets!  I assembled the card as seen and added the sentiment from Sentimental Wordfetti. 

 

 

I hope you enjoyed today's card and may you have an awesome day!

Karen
 

 

Sending Lots of Love

Happy Tuesday!

I am loving my time as guest designer for Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps!  Thank you or making me feel so welcome!

I used two different digi sets for my card.  My main image - the cutie pie flowers are called Doodle Flowers and it is a digi stamp..  This was a very easy image to color.  I'm sure it took less than 30 minutes!  I totally enjoyed adding just a bit of shading to each flower.

My sentiment is the Sending Love digi stamp..  I love the font and I think you will too.  I am a sucker for cute fonts!!

So that's it for me today.  I think you could use this as a Valentine or just a friendship card.  What do you think?

Be sure to check out all the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps digis.  And while you're there, take a peek at the wonderful clear stamps too!

Happy stamping!

Susie

The Dies Have It

Cocoa's Heart - I {Heart} You :-)

Happy Monday Sweet ‘n Sassy Friends! 

Julie here and since we just celebrated a new Digital Stamp Release this past week, I thought I would share a fun Valentine’s Day card that I created with some of the digital stamps that were already in stock- Cocoa’s Heart and Valentine’s Day Greeting.

Did you know that Sweet ‘n SassyStamps has over 200 exclusive digital stamp images (also known as “digi’ or “digi's”) in the online store?  

Are you intimidated by digi stamps?  

You do not need to be...they are so easy to use and you can print them out and color them just like a normal stamp image.

One thing I personally love about digi stamps is that you can re-size them to fit your design- for this card, I printed out the Cocoa’s Heart image along with cropping the sentiment from the Valentine’s Day Greeting set.  

FYI- I did re-size both images for this card and before printing them on my white cardstock, I also inserted other images onto the document (I can use the other images for several cards in the future :-)).

Also, were you aware that you can color digi images with watercolor pencils, sponging, ink with a water brush (Distress Inks, etc.), alcohol markers, regular colored pencils (plain or with Gamsol)- basically any medium that you use for regular stamps.  

I print my images out with an inkjet printer, so the only tip I can recommend regarding coloring digital images would be not to saturate the image with too much water or get too close to the printed lines with water (the printer ink can bleed a bit into the coloring medium if it is too wet).

I decided to color the Cocoa’s Heart image using Spectrum Noir™ Alcohol Markers and used a Faber-Castell® Pitt Penn marker to add the border.  

After coloring, I “fussy-cut” out the heart and mounted the image onto white cardstock and cut around the heart by hand to create a white border.

I wanted to add some shimmer, so I used a waterbrush to paint Frost White Shimmer Paint over the entire heart (but tried to avoid Cocoa)...it is a bit difficult to see the shimmer in the photo (fyi- I also added Crystal Effects® to Cocoa’s nose, but again, this is difficult to see in the photo :-)).

The sentiment from Valentine's Day Greetings was printed and banners were created with a hexagon punch (although you can also create really fun banners with the Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps Banner Dies- these are on my "wish list").  

I mounted the banner onto a piece of black cardstock and layered everything onto the card using the Splitcoaststampers’ SC568 Sketch Challenge for inspiration.

I hope we have inspired you to try some of the digital images for yourself- if you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

Hugs and have a blessed week, sweet friends!! 

More Christmas Fun!

Did you have a chance to check out yesterday's Christmas in July festivities?  The Design Divas have invited all of the wonderful Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps customers to play along with us and get a head start on those Christmas projects.  Three amazing holiday stamp sets are now available (they are only in stock in limited quantities, and won't be available again until their official release in the fall!):

ALL Christmas clear stamps are 20% off through Wednesday, July 25.  And with every $25 purchase of Christmas clear stamps, you will receive this little cutie for free:

Be sure you check out yesterday's blog hop post for all the details on how YOU can join us and win yourself a FREE Christmas stamp set of your choice!

Today, we are releasing new DIGI Christmas images!  To celebrate, the Digi Challenge team is having a fun blog hop and challenge, so be sure to check it out.  And take a look at the new digis:

Pippin's Christmas Lights

 Santa Owl

Christmas Sentiments

Poinsettia

 Born This Day

 Immanuel

So many fun things are happening this weekend - come join us and get in the holiday spirit!

March Digi Release

Did you know that we released new digi images on Friday?  The Digi Challenge team celebrated with a Blog Hop full of fabulous inspiration using the new digis.  In case you haven't had a chance to see the newest additions, you can check them out below:

Cookie's Tea 

Easter Rhubarb

Morning Glory

Numbers 4:21b

Psalm 30:5b

Psalm 46:1

This month's digi release has so much variety!  Head over to the store and pick up yours today!

Friday Feature: Egg-Cited Cocoa

Easter is approaching very quickly - just three more weeks!  Today's Friday Feature set will definitely get you started on some Easter goodies.  Take a look at Egg-cited Cocoa:

Here are some sweet samples to get you inspired:

card by Cathy McCauley

card by Mary Faus

card by Kim Singdahlsen

card by Korin Sutherland

Doesn't this little Cocoa totally get you in the mood for some Easter treats?  He makes such sweet cards!  Head over to the store to pick up your set today, and get started on those Easter projects!

And there is a digi release going on today...you can find all the details over on the Digi Challenge Blog!  Happy Stamping!

Customer Spotlight Sunday

Hello friends, can you believe it is Sunday again?  I'm here to share a couple of customer cards that I spotted this week - I think you will love them as much as I do!

Take a look at what the lovely Emily Painter-Davis has ben sharing:

This first card features the Pamper Me Cookie digi image, and was made for a Sweet Stop Sketch challenge.  Aren't the colors just so perfect and girlie?

Emily's second card features the yummy A Donut for Cocoa digi image, and was made for the SNS Digi Challenge.  Love that sketch she created, and the color combo!

Aren't these cards  fabulous? I love how both of them are colored, and the bright colors Emily used - well done!!  Thanks so much for sharing such fabulous creations with us!  You never know when we'll spot your card in our gallery or on one of our challenge blog linky collections, so be sure to keep those amazing uploads coming (we are always on the lookout in our Splitcoaststampers gallery, over at the Sweet 'n Sassy Connection, Paper Craft Planet, and the linky collections for the Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge and the Digi Challenges)!

Customer Spotlight Sunday

Hello friends, and welcome to another joyous Sunday!  I have some fabulous inspiration to share with you today; both of these cards come from the lovely Donna Hanley:

Aren't these cards just darling? And both of them are so well colored - great job, Donna!! Thanks so much for sharing such fabulous creations, with us!  You never know when we'll spot your card in our gallery or on one of our challenge blog linky collections, so be sure to keep those amazing uploads coming (we are always on the lookout in our Splitcoaststampers gallery, over at the Sweet 'n Sassy Connection, Paper Craft Planet, and the linky collections for the Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge and the Digi Challenges)!

Did you see the surprise announcement about the entire February release being available early?  Limited quantities are already in the store, so if you order now you might even get your stamps before the official release on Thursday, Feb 2!

And mark your calendars for these two events coming up next week:

The Design Team is hard at work creating amazing samples to show off during our New Release blog hop next Thursday! The fun starts right here on the SNSS blog!

We have so many fun things planned for our release party next Thursday...challenges, chatting, giveaways, and oh so much fun!! Don't miss it!

Customer Spotlight Sunday

Wow - we've had such a big week here at Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps!!  Our January release is now available in the store; we celebrated with an inspiration-filled Design Team Blog Hop.  We also had a great Release Party Thursday night in our member company forums over on Splitcoaststampers.

I've got some great cards to share today for Customer Spotlight Sunday.  Wait until you se all the amazing details on these!

Card courtesy of Deb Foti

Deb Foti made this adorable card before Christmas, to play along with a Sweet Stop Sketch.  How cute is Self Conscious Paulie?

Deb also whipped up this adorable tag for a Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge to make or incorporate tags.  Write Soon Cocoa is just darling on this, isn't he?

You never know when we'll spot your card in our gallery or on one of our challenge blog linky collections, so be sure to keep those amazing uploads coming (we are always on the lookout in our Splitcoaststampers gallery, over at the Sweet 'n Sassy Connection, Paper Craft Planet, and the linky collections for the Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge and the Digi Challenges)!

If you need a challenge today, play along with our release party challenges for chances to WIN a FREE set from the new release:

My Color Combo Challenge 

Cathy's Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge

Kim's Paper Piecing Challenge

And.....I love the new release SO much, I'm giving away a free set, just to spread the love.  Head over to this thread on SCS and just tell me which one is your favorite. That's it!! It's that simple!  You have until tonight to enter the challenges and leave me a comment to win.

Lavender Rhubarb

Good morning!

This morning I'm sharing a card that I made recently with Rhubarb the Teddy Bear digital stamp. I love re-sizing digital images to make them a bit bigger when creating a focal point for cards.  After printing Rhubarb out, I die cut a notebook border along one side and decided to color him a light blue and transform 'him' into a 'her' to make an all occasion card to keep on hand to give to a friend when she needs it.

Have a great rest of your day!  I hope it includes some stamping!
Jessica

Did Someone Say Pie?

Good morning and many blessings to you! This is Cindy Coutts, sharing a fun image and card that should have you baking by now. It's the Did Someone Say Pie? digital stamp! I would love to see the food digi stamp turn into a stamp set some time, but until then, I'll take the fabulous sentiment and the image that I love so much that has endless possibilities to use all year long.

Thank you for stopping by to see me today and God bless you! Here is my card that I'd like to share with you. I love how this card turned out and know that you will too!

Stamps: Did Someone Say Pie Digital Stamp

Card Stock: Papertrey Ink Stamper’s Select White, Stampin' Up! Cajun Craze

Markers: Copic markers (E31, E34, E35, R02, R05, R08, YR20, YR21, YR24)

Designer Paper: My Mind's Eye Stella and Rose Mabel Papers

Buttons: Stampin' Up! Regals Collection Designer Buttons (Cajun Craze)

Ribbon/Twine: Stampin' Up! Early Espresso Grosgrain Ribbon, Papertrey Ink Rustic Jute Button Twine

Punch: Stampin' Up! Scallop Trim

Ink: Papertrey Ink Chamomile

Spellbinders Paper Arts Nestabilities: Ribbon Tag Trio 2

Dry Embossing: ProvoCraft Cuttlebug Polka Dots

Machine(s)/Tool(s): ProvoCraft Cuttlebug, HP Printer

Technique: Die-cutting, dry embossing, ink distressing

Size: 5-1/2 x 4-1/4