Cocoa's Heart ~

Good Morning! Mary here with Cocoa's Heart for your Thursday Morning view ~ The new releases and the five day mini blog hops were fun and very inspiring. I hope you were able to comment on the blogs to win some prizes! :) 

My love for Cocoa goes back before I was on any of SNSS design teams. I fell in love with this sweet mouse at my LSS and the rest is history as the saying goes. I coloured this image using copics and cut him out by hand. I added some heart and scallop border dies to my design. This heart die matches the newly released Bottom of my heart set which creates some awesome "to die for" hearts. I stamped three rows of xoxo's amidst the music notes for some romantic flair.

Have a great day!!!

Materials used:
Stamps: Cocoa's Heart, Bottom of my Heart
Dies: Hearts, Scallop border die
Paper: EP, MME, SU
Inks: Versafine ink, Memento Ink, Copics
Accessories: Seam binding ribbon

Featuring Cute Critters

Welcome to our final day of January Release Features!  We hope you've enjoyed all the wonderful inspiration these last five days.

Today's featured set is...

Cute Critters

This set is jam-packed with cuteness!  You'll be making valentines and love-notes until the cows come home! {or the bunnies, turtles, birdies, mice, puppies, kitties & sheep} ;)

• Includes 7 images and 7 sentiments 
• Set measures approximately 6"x4" 
• Images measure approximately 1.5" x 1.5" 
• Illustrated by Korin Sutherland 

Check out some of the fabulous samples made by our talented DT below.

Be sure to leave a comment of each of the blogs along your journey because we're giving away this adorable stamp set to one lucky commenter!  

The deadline to comment for a chance to win is midnight Wednesday, January 9th.  The list of winners will be announced on our website homepage on Thursday, January 10th.

Thanks so much for joining us!  Enjoy the hop!

Featuring Bottom of My Heart

 Welcome to Day #4 of your January Release Features!

Today's featured set is...

Bottom of  My Heart

The ideas will flow like crazy with this versatile set.  And the best part is, it coordinates with our fabulous Heart Dies!  Woot woot!!

• Includes 9 images and 8 sentiments 
• Set measures approximately 4"x6"
• Largest heart image measures approximately 2" high 
• Designed by Korin Sutherland

Check out some of the fabulous samples made by our talented DT below.

Be sure to leave a comment of each of the blogs along your journey because we're giving away this adorable stamp set to one lucky commenter!  
 
The deadline to comment for a chance to win is midnight Wednesday, January 9th.  The list of winners will be announced on our website homepage on Thursday, January 10th.

Thanks so much for joining us!  Enjoy the hop!

Featuring Cocoa's Heart

Welcome to Day #3 of your January Release Features!

Today's featured set is...

Cocoa's Heart

For all you Cocoa Mouse fans out there, this set will melt your heart!  Imagine all the super cute lovey-dovey cards you can make for the sweethearts in your life!

• Includes 2 image and 4 sentiments
• Set measures approximately 4"x4"
• Cocoa in the heart frame image measures approximately 2 1/8" x 1 3/4"
• Illustrated by Korin Sutherland

Check out some of the fabulous samples made by our talented DT below.

Be sure to leave a comment of each of the blogs along your journey because we're giving away this adorable stamp set to one lucky commenter!  

The deadline to comment for a chance to win is midnight Wednesday, January 9th.  The list of winners will be announced on our website homepage on Thursday, January 10th.

Thanks so much for joining us!  Enjoy the hop!

Featuring Long Stem Silhouettes

Welcome to Day #2 of your January Release Features!

Today's featured set is...

Long Stem Silhouettes

This lovely set will help you create beautiful and classy cards with ease. It's perfect for many techniques and CAS projects, too.  You'll use those gorgeous sentiments over and over again!

• Set includes 3 images and 6 sentiments 
• Set measures approximately 6"x4"
• Images measure approximately 3.75" high x less than 1.5" wide
• Illustrated by Korin Sutherland

Check out some of the fabulous samples made by our talented DT below.

Be sure to leave a comment of each of the blogs along your journey because we're giving away this adorable stamp set to one lucky commenter!  

The deadline to comment for a chance to win is midnight Wednesday, January 9th.  The list of winners will be announced on our website homepage on Thursday, January 10th.

Thanks so much for joining us!  Enjoy the hop!

Featuring Mini Critters

Welcome to our first mini blog hop for our January Release.  We hope you enjoy this new format of sharing and inspiration.

Today's featured set is...

MINI CRITTERS

These little critters are sweet as can be.  They may be tiny but they pack a BIG punch when it comes to the cuteness factor!  Perfect for personalizing the back of your cards as well as for tags, ATC's, inchies and more!

• Set includes 7 images and 8 sentiments 
• Set measures approximately 3"x4"
• Images measures approximately 1" x 1" 
• Illustrated by Korin Sutherland

Here's a quick card I made with the set last night.

Isn't that little bunny the cutest thing? :) The papers are from the Be Happy paper pad by My Mind's Eye.  I also used the sentiment from Cocoa's Heart and the heart is from Bottom of My Heart cut out with our Heart Dies.  A simple card that packs a punch.

Check out more fabulous samples made by our talented DT below.

Be sure to leave a comment of each of the blogs along your journey because we're giving away this adorable stamp set to one lucky commenter!  

The deadline to comment for a chance to win is midnight Wednesday, January 9th.  The list of winners will be announced on our website homepage on Thursday, January 10th.

Thanks so much for joining us!  Enjoy the hop! 

Jessica Fick

Bridget Finlay

Mary Faus

Giovana Smith

Cathy McCauley

Jennie Harper

Korin Sutherland

  

January Release Day!

Hello friends and Happy New Year!!

Thank you for helping make 2012 a fantastic year.  We look forward to bringing you more wonderful stamps and dies in 2013!!

Oh and BTW, you may have noticed our website, blog and stamp set inserts have had a facelift for the new year...we hope you enjoy our fresh new look! :)

The Design Divas have been busy little bees creating with our new stamps and we are so excited to finally be sharing them with you!

We are doing things a bit differently with this release but we are sure you are going to love the changes...

Instead of doing the typical new release blog hop, we'll be doing 5 mini hops over 5 days.  We want each set to have it's own day to shine, plus you will have a chance to WIN each set over the 5 days of features!  How fun is that? :)

Without further ado, our January 2013 Release...

Cocoa's Heart    4x4    $11

For all you Cocoa Mouse fans, this set is going to melt your heart!  Imagine all the super cute lovey-dovey cards you'll make for all the sweethearts in your life!

Cute Critters    4x4    $15

This set is jam-packed with cuteness!  You'll be making valentines and love-notes with this set until the cows come home! {or the bunnies, turtles, birdies, mice, puppies, kitties & sheep} ;)

Mini Critters    3x4    $9

Look!  Those cuties from the set above are also available MINI-sized!  They may be tiny but they pack a BIG punch when it comes to the cuteness factor!  Perfect for the back of your cards as well as tags and cards!

    

Bottom of My Heart    4x6    $15

The ideas will flow like crazy with this versatile set.  And the best part is, it coordinates with our fabulous Heart Dies!  Woot woot!!

Long Stem Silhouettes    6x4    $15

This set will help you create beautiful and classy cards with ease.  It's perfect for many techniques and quick CAS projects, too! 

Now if you are anything like me, you love and want them all....so this offer is just for you...

Get all 5 sets (a $65 value) for just $58 when you purchase the January 2013 Release Bundle! 

After you're done shopping for new stamps, head over to our Member Company Forum at Splitcoaststampers for our January Release Virtual Stamp Day.  We've planned 5 fun challenges for you plus more prize opportunities! 

  

The challenge schedule is as follows: 

10am EST - CAS Challenge hosted by Bridget

12pm EST - Color Challenge hosted by Cathy

2pm EST - Inspiration Challenge hosted by Mary

4pm EST - Sketch Challenge hosted by Ceal

6pm EST -  Theme Challenge hosted by Monika   

See you there!

Come back tomorrow the 5th through Wednesday the 9th for oodles of eye candy featuring our new sets, PLUS a chance to win each one!!

    

Key to My Heart

Hello friends...Cathy here with another Sneak Peak at one of the new clear stamp sets being released tomorrow at Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps! Cocoa's Heart, perfect for sending love to your special someone, features the adorable Cookie and Cocoa and is sure to melt your heart.

BasicGrey papers from the Kissing Booth paper pad were stitched to Cherry Cobbler card stock and attached to a Vintage Cream card base. Embossed hearts and a Romantic Rectangle form the background for Cookie and Cocoa who were colored with Copic Markers, cut out, and popped on.  The heart was paper pieced with some of the same DP used on the card front.  The other stamped and embossed hearts are from another new set being released tomorrow, and were cut with matching heart dies...SWOON!  A little heart charm, ribbon, and some Stickles finish the card.  The Sweet Stop sketch for this week was used for the card design.

If you've enjoyed the Sneak Peeks you've been seeing the last several days, you won't want to miss tomorrow's release.  Come join us here and on the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Member Forum at Splitcoaststampers tomorrow for some fun challenges and a chance to win some wonderful prizes!

Hope to see you there...thanks for stopping by!

Hugs,
Cathy

From Bottom of My Heart - Sneak Peek!

Hello there,
This is Maki and I am super excited to show you my card today!! This card was created with the brand new set to be released on Friday, January 4th! It is called From Bottom of My Heart :)

Each heart is single stamp and there are more hearts I didn't use for the card. That's a lot of hearts! lol. The set is also included sweet sentiments to work well for the hearts.


Be sure to come back every day to check more sneak peeks of new January releasing sets from now to January 9th.



Happy stamping!

Maki

Happy New Year!

Hi everyone, and Happy New Year!!! I hope that you have had a wonderful holiday season. I don't know about you, but I have a little bit of a hard time getting back into the swing of things after the holidays.

Anyway, it is a new year and we have some new things to share with you. First, is new stamps! We are excited to be releasing 5 new stamp sets this Friday January 4th. I think you are going to love them as they are a great mix of styles to appeal to a variety of stampers. We will have some sneak peeks to share with you over the next few days, so be sure to check in daily.

Next, I would like to introduce our guest designer for the month of January. I am pleased to announce that Lori McAree is joining us this month, and we are excited to have her!

You have probably seen Lori's work on Splitcoast as she is a frequent participant in the daily challenges and was a member of the product focus review team. She is also a DT member for Crafty Card Gallery, and was previously a member of the Gina K's design team and was also a Sweet Stop Sugar Baby. Lori and her husband live in Saint Louis Park, Minnesota and they will celebrate their 20th anniversary in March. She has 3 sons. Lori enjoys NASCAR, cross-stitching, and of course stamping! Lori will be sharing her beautiful creations here with us on Tuesdays starting January 15.

Until then, I thought I would share a card that she recently created using the beautiful Graceful Calla Lily stamp set.

Welcome Lori, we look forward to seeing all the wonderful projects you have to share with us! Be sure to visit her blog Smiling While Stamping for some great inspiration.

Have a blessed day everyone. I hope that you are able to find some time to craft today, I know that I am hoping too :).