Season Of Change

My husband needed a thank you card to give to our friends for some gifts he received. This is what I came up with.



Pretty simple and straight forward card really. I used one of the leaf images from the Season of Change set and did the rock and roll technique using mustard and tangerine inks. The white panel is embossed with a cuttlebug polka dots folder, add some pearls to the corners and some ribbon and call it a day :)


Supplies:

stamps- Season of Change and Many Thanks sets from Sweet N Sassy
paper- soft suede, whisper white, more mustard from Stampin Up
tangerine tango ribbon

We Blossom and Flourish

Hi, it's Beate again. Today's card is another sample I created for the Hope You can Cling to Challenges on Splitcoaststampers. This challenge was to incorporate pink in a masculine card.


The sentiment from Season of Change was stamped in the center of a 3 1/4" x 4 3/4" piece of white cardstock with embossing ink. The sentiment was embossed with clear ink before the entire piece was sponged with Tattered Rose, Wild Honey and Peeled Paint Distress ink. Leaves from Season of Change were stamped over it in the same colors.

The edges of the panel were distressed and stitched to a 1/4" bigger piece of brown cardstock. Three brads were added to the top left of the card.

The card base is a 4 1/4" x 11" piece of Kraft cardstock folded in half. The card front was embossed with the Cuttlebug Brocade Embossing Folder and the edges were sponged with Vintage Photo distress ink. The layers were adhered to the card base with dimensionals.

Leaves were cut out of white cardstock with leaf dies matching the set. Leaves were stamped over the die cuts and the edges were sponged before both leaves were tied together with a button and Linen thread. The leaves were adhered to the lower right of the sentiment panel.

Here is a video for the visual learner:


Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful day.

Having a Blast!

Happy Monday to you, friends!  I hope you all had a fabulous weekend.  I had the wonderful experience of doing some make-and-takes at Heirloom's York Rubber Stamp & Paper Arts Festival with Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps this weekend.  It was so much fun meeting and talking with people who enjoy this wonderful craft...I am convinced that stampers are some of the nicest people you will ever meet! Working with Korin and her family was a blast!

Speaking of having a blast...over at The Sweet Stop, we are celebrating a "Blast  From the Past" for the month of October by revisiting some of the fabulous sketches from the past. I used this week's sketch for my card today. 

I just love the rich, earthy colors of fall and this gorgeous bouquet from the "Autumn Bounty" clear stamp set from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps.  Mix those two elements with some beautiful paper from the "Forever Fall Collection" paper pad by Bo Bunny and you have a winning combination...don't you think! The fall bouquet was colored with copic markers.  The doily was cut from some of the Bo Bunny paper with the Cheery Lynn English Tea Party Die which is now carried by Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps. The little leaves in the corner were cut with a Spellbinders foliage die.  All the layers were heavily sponged with Walnut Stain distress ink.  Add some ribbon and pearls colored with a copic marker and the result is a rich autumn bounty!

Thanks for visiting with us today...hope you have a chance to get out and enjoy autumn wherever you happen to be!

Hugs,

Cathy

Customer Spotlight Sunday

Happy Sunday Morning! 

I hope you have a beautiful Lord's Day today! 

Since today is Sunday that means it time for our Customer Spotlight and I have not just one, but

two cards to share with you from two talented ladies!

This first card is made by Sheila of Inky's Delight.  She used our beautiful, Peace of God, stamp set and colored the Titmouse bird so perfectly.  Her card has such warmth and great choice in papers and embellishments!  The twine bow to the side adds such a great touch!

This second card was made by Carol Longacre and it's such a cute card!!!  Carol used our sweet, Rhubarb's Cuppa Joe, digi stamp!  She couldn't have colored him any cuter and I love the colors and the great orange plaid bow.  She really made him pop on this card!!!

Thank you ladies for the great cards and use of our Sweet 'n Sassy images!

Woof-Woof

Happy Saturday everyone and thanks for taking the time to visit the Sweet 'n Sassy blog. It's Mary Marsh here and it's my turn to post on the blog.
Hope this long holiday weekend will be a relaxing one for you. We are celebrating Columbus Day on Monday here in the U. S., and Monday is also Thanksgiving Day in Canada.

My card for today is using the Sweet 'n Sassy set "woof you".  Isn't he just the cutest puppy?The card colors were determined by the photo on our weekly inspiration challenge. Here is a link to get all the details in case you didn't know we have this Tuesday challenge on Splitcoaststampers.

I colored my puppy with prismacolor pencils and gamsol and paper pieced his bandana. I added some puppy paw buttons that I had in my stash to complete my card.

That's it for me on this post so until next time.........God bless

~ Coffee With Friends ~

Holly here... super excited about my first post with the team!

I am completely infatuated with Cocoa.  I used this week's SNSS Inspiration Challenge (#8) to guide my colors, and Thursday's Way's To Use It challenge (Pass Me A Hot Beverage).

My details are:

Stamps:  Sweet N Sassy Stamps' Cocoa's Latte Clear Stamps Set

Colors: GP White, Buckaroo Blue, DCWV Linen dp

Ink: Versafine Black Onyx, copics

Accessories: PTI cornflower blue satin ribbon with white polka dots, 1/2 pearls (colored with copics), label nesties, dimensionals, sticky tape, white gel pen (for accents)

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Here's a little close up:

Cocoa's head and ears are layered to give him a pop!

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What do you think?!   Thanks so much for stopping by!  

Hugs!

Rhubarb's Christmas Kit

Hi there!

My card today was made with September's Sweet 'n Sassy Rhubarb's Christmas card kit.  The papers, stamps, ribbons, twine and buttons are all included in the kit - I love all inclusive kits like those, don't you?  I designed this kit to be relatively clean and simple keeping in mind how busy we are all at Christmas.  Besides, this adorable Rhubarb the Bear image needs to take center stage, doesn't he?

For more details on the kit as well as to see all the card ideas I designed for the kit samples, please check out THIS LINK on the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps website.

Have a wonderful day!
Jessica

Count the Moments

Hi, it's Beate. Thanks to Taylor and Korin for inviting me to be the Guest Designer for October. I'm very excited to be here.

For my first sample I chose a card made for a Hope You Can Cling To Challenge on Splitcoaststampers. I was the hostess and my challenge was to create a circle card.


The card base was cut with the largest of the Large Scallop Circle Nestabilities dies out of Pink Pirouette cardstock. Patterned paper from the Echo Park Victoria Garden pack was cut with a Classic Circle Nestabilities die. Before it was stitched to a slightly bigger white cardstock circle, May Arts Crochet Lace was taped under the horizontal layer.

The sentiment is from Everyday Miracles. It was stamped in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink on Neenah Solar White cardstock. The sentiment was cut and embossed with a Classic Circle Nestabilities die. One of the butterflies from the same set was partially stamped on the sentiment circle in second generation Shabby Shutter Distress ink. The sentiment was adhered to a slightly bigger pink layer cut with one of the Large Scallop Circle Nestabilities dies.

The butterfly that was used in the sentiment panel was stamped again on a piece of Victoria Garden Echo Park paper with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink. The butterfly was cut out and colored with Copic Markers (RV10, R43, R46 and E27). It was adhered to the lower left of the sentiment panel. Stardust Stickles was added to the darker parts of the wings and Glossy Accents to the body.

Red Kaisercraft Pearls finish off the card! Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!
Hugs and smiles

Shine Your Light...

Good Morning!

Kim's gorgeous card (from couple of days ago) inspired me to take my embossing powders out... plus heat embossing was the perfect technique to use on the type of card I set out to make.

I tend to use flowers and butterflies a lot so I am always in need of masculine cards. Today I decided to make one... and Shining Light clear stamp set had the perfect images just for that.

I stamped the lighthouse image on an old dictionary page (I made sure the word light was on the page I used) with VersaMark, and embossed it with silver embossing powder. Then I sponged some black ink inside of the lighthouse and the edges of the dictionary page.

Here are a number of ides that you could apply/use when making a masculine card:

-use text background

-distressing-I sponged and tore the edges

-stitching

-add buttons

-use some kind of string instead of ribbon-I used Black Baker's Twine

-dark colors

-heat embossing simple images

-add staples

I also picked a border punch that was not flowery, or cute by any means... to add some sparkles to my card, I used silver rhinestones. They are the perfect masculine embellishments, don't you think?

Thank you for stopping by today,

Monika

Customer Spotlight Sunday

Happy Sunday everyone! 

We are so glad that you took the time to visit the Sweet 'n Sassy blog. Today in the customer spotlight we are featuring Chrissy Dickinson. 

Chrissy created this card from our Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps set, Autumn Bounty.  I just love the color combo and papers she used.  It has the touch of pink with the oranges, a color I wouldn't have thought to use for fall!  Be sure to stop by Chrissy's blog, she has such a great variety of techniques and embellishments on  her cards.

Thank you Chrissy for using our Sweet 'n Sassy stamps!