September Blog Hop Winner

Hi Sweet 'n Sassy friends. It's Julee popping in with a little happy news for one of you blog hoppers!

We had so much fun sharing the current release with you on our September Blog Hop last week. We so hope you enjoyed it, too, and gleaned a little inspiration for using this month's stamps! While we think you're ALL winners, we did randomly select ONE lucky reader from among all the comments on the hop to receive a $10 gift certificate to the Sweet 'n Sassy shop.

And the winner is...

Congratulations Denise Bryant!

Please send an email to snssassistant@gmail.com to claim your prize.

Thanks to all of you who commented. We love sharing this wonderful craft with you and look forward to hopping with you again in September!

Didn't win this time?
Join us here on the blog, Sunday, September 29th
 for the National Coffee Day Hop!

Sentimental September

{jane bosi}  It's Sentimental September, Friends!! We've been sharing, all month long, different projects that feature lovely images along with stamps in the "sentiment" category.  The more you buy, the more you save!!  What a sweet deal!  The card above features Sentimental Wordfetti and Be A Flamingo.

The next card features Puppy Love and God is For You.

 The gelli plates are also available in the store now.  This is such a great tool!!   I made the flamingo card and this one from the same "pressing"--for two completely different looks.  I've posted a picture tutorial on my blog if you are curious!  This card features leaves from Happy Scarecrow and The Future.

 I saw this idea on pinterest and wanted to try it myself.  The cross is a die--there are many companies who carry this kind of die--here is where google is your friend!!  I added another of the sentiments from The Future to finish it off.

My final card features another background I made using the gelli plate.  Stamps are from Sentimental Wordfetti and Fill Me Up.

Give Thanks

Hi Sweet 'n Sassy friends! It's Julee Tilman popping in this fine Saturday morning to share a couple of the creations I've been working on this month.

Both cards today feature the gorgeous Give Thanks set. I love the leaf imagery in this set. I started by smooshing some Shimmerz inks onto watercolor cardstock, then embossed the leaves in copper over the smooshed background and fussy cut. I then created a simple backdrop by inking up a long acrylic block with coordinating distress oxide inks and then spritzing with water and stamping onto the watercolor paper. I left the block in place with something heavy on it for 5 minutes to make sure I'd get a vibrant transfer of ink.

Once this was dry, I embossed the sentiment from Keep in Touch, Too in white on the panel and cut down to pop up on my card base. I then layered the leaves in a falling formation to finish off the card.

For my second card, I used the rest of the smooshed background leaves I had embossed and fussy cut, adding a bit more vibrancy by spraying with more of the Shimmerz inks.  I tucked in a few leafy sprig die cuts painted in copper and a bit of enamel dots for accent.  The sentiment is from the beautiful Inspirational Word Art 1 stamp set.

If you haven't shopped our Sweet & Sentimental Sale, you should definitely check it out. Both of the sentiment sets I used today, along with a whole host of other stamp sets are included in the sale. The more you buy the more you save!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Nuts About Fur-ever Friends!

Hello sweet friends!  By now you have probably seen all of the fabulous stamp sets released for the month of September by Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps.  I have been having so much fun with the Fur-ever Friends Stamp set...I'm just nuts about all of the adorable critters that are a part of this wonderful stamp set designed by Jennifer Nilsson!

The background for my scene was created by applying Oxide Inks to a piece of acetate, spritzing it with water and patting and smearing the wet ink onto a piece of mixed media paper...blues on the top and greens on the bottom.  A smaller rectangle was cut from the panel, mounted to a piece of white card stock and popping it back onto the larger rectangle.  The fence and clouds were cut with retired dies from SNSS and were popped onto the scene along with the cute critters from Fur-ever Friends which were colored with Copic Markers and cut with my Scan 'N Cut.  One of the sentiments from Fur-ever Friends was embossed on one of the clouds to finish the card.

Oxide Inks were swiped down a piece of mixed media paper and stamped with the wood slice from the Wood Background stamp set.  A circle was cut from the ring off the edge of the paper.  More texture was added to the wood background using one of the stamps from the Texture Tiles 2 stamp set.  This panel was popped onto a piece of brown card stock and the sentiment was white embossed.  The cute little squirrel, acorns and leaves from the Fur-ever Friends stamp set were colored with Copic Markers, cut with my Scan 'N Cut and popped onto the front of the card.

These stamp sets from the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Store were used to create the cards above:

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

Hugs,

Cathy

fur-ever friends

Good morning! Today I’m sharing some cards with the Sweet ‘n Sassy Fur-ever Friends set. No matter the weather, these sweet critters are sure to get you in a mood for fall. Autumn is just a few days away!

I kept my cards pretty CAS to let these images pop.

The fox is one of my favorites but I love them all.

Have a great day!

Diane

September Release Hop

Welcome to our September Release Blog Hop! 

We're thrilled about the new stamps available in the shop this month and are so excited to share the projects we've been working on with you! Read on for a bit of inspiration and a little walk through of our new release, then hop along to the blogs linked below for all sorts of papercrafting inspiration!

Plus, there's a GIVEAWAY! Leave a little shout out in the comment section on each stop along the way for a chance to win a $10 gift voucher to the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps shop. Winner will be announced here on the SNSS blog, Wednesday, September 25.

Here's the official hop list. If a link misbehaves along the way,

hop on back here to pick  up where you left off.

Sweet 'n Sassy Blog
Julee Tilman
Cathy McCauley
Ceal Pritchett
Diane Zechman
Jane Bosi
Lee Ann Barrett
Lucinde van Ballegooijen
Lyn Tomlin
Sheri Gilson

My card today features the precious Adore Him set from the September release. I love the sweet illustrations and had fun coloring these shepherds with their little lambs.

I  chose a soft palette of aqua and silver, mixing a few patterned papers from my stash and matting each panel with silver matte cardstock.  The sentiment and star are from the O Holy Night set, and I embossed them with sparkle silver embossing powder and then finished off the card with a silver bow.

Here's another beautiful Christmas card featuring the Adore Him. I love how Korin embossed the rays on the vellum panel to make it look like light is emanating from this sweet illustration of the Holy family. So lovely.  She finishes with a sentiment from Jesus is Born.

And here's another beautiful creation from Korin featuring the Trust in the Lord stamp set, along with Faith Wordfetti, Delightfully Delicate Background and the new Gel Press products in the shop. Don't miss her process video on creating this page. 

Okay, the next stop on the hop is my blog, Poetic Artistry.  But before you go, there's a fantastic sale in the shop right now! Take a look...

Purchase stamp sets from our Sweet & Sentimental Sale category and stack up the savings!
The more you buy the more you SAVE!

Now back to the release. Here's a little look-see at the sets included in the SEPTEMBER release...

First up... the fabulous AUGUST stamp of the month, Singing Praises is  now available for purchase! This elegant set is timeless. With uplifting Scripture and two gorgeous bird images, this set is sure to bring delight.

Next up is the SEPTEMBER stamp of the month, Donut Worry. This whimsical stamp set brings some sweet fun to your crafting. It includes punny builder sentiments and sweet donut imagery. Donut Worry is available exclusively as a FREE gift with a $75 or more purchase during the month of SEPTEMBER.

Illustrator Jenn Nilsson has some adorable woodland critters for us to play with this month in her adorable Fur-ever Friends set. Lots of fun greenery and butterfly accents make this a perfect set for all seasons.

Next up is the precious Adore Him set from Krista Hamrick. With beautiful nativity imagery and lovely lettered sentiments, this timeless set is a definite must-have for your Christmas creating.

Our Creative Worship set for this month is the beautiful Trust in the Lord set from Rebecca Rios. Her beautiful lettering  brings so many options for focusing on trusting God and his plan for our lives.

Rebecca also illustrated the whimsical Deck the Halls set. The ornaments, popcorn string garland, and delightful sentiments are perfect for a jolly good stamping time.

Rounding out our September is the elegant Warmth of Christmas set illustrated by Diane Noble. The timeless silhouette imagery in this set is perfect for scene building. So many options for creating a beautiful Christmas card, but our Creative Worship team has also made some fabulous non-holiday themed pages with the images in this set. So versatile!

That's our September release in a nutshell! So many fabulous sets to choose from! Thanks so much for hanging out with me as I reviewed another fantastic release.

May you be blessed today and always!

Fur-ever Friends- Two Different Looks

Hello Everyone!

Lee Ann here again, and its no surprise that I am back with more ideas for the Fur-ever Friends Stamp Set!  I cannot get enough of this set.  And talk about being versatile! 

This first card is a seasonal card, using the leaf stamps in the set.  I also used Typewriter Text Background Stamp and Skeleton Leaf Background Stamp.

Obviously very CAS, I colored the leaves with Copics and fussy cut them out.  I stamped the Skeleton Leaf and Typewriter Text Stamps on a piece of gray cardstock, using gray ink and black ink.  The sentiment is from the So Grateful Stamp Set.  Super simple!
Now this next one uses the same set and looks TOTALLY different!

I have a couple of friends who are expecting grandbabies, so his set came at the perfect time.
I used all of the critters in the set, stamping them in light colored ink and water coloring them.  I then water colored stripes of the same color paints on a larger sheet of watercolor paper. 
I wanted a tone on tone look, but the images got lost in the background, so I put them back in my MISTI and stamped them with a gray ink.  To add even more contrast, I used the Falling Leaves Stamp and some white ink to add texture and a hint of white behind the critters.

Once I was happy with the background, I fussy cut the critters out, used a black Micron pen to color in their eyes, noses, etc. then popped them up on Dimensional tape over their respective color.
The image panel was mounted on gray cs and then that was mounted on a sheet of white cs.  This was trimmed down to fit in a 8 x 10 frame.

Stamp Sets used~

        

Thanks for stopping by!  

Lee Ann 

Singing Praises

Happy Monday, Sweet 'n Sassy Stampers!

It's Ceal here to share with you today a couple cards using the Singing Praises set with two different looks.

The first card I stamped the image with embossing ink and watercolored it with Zig watercolor markers. I stamped the Wood slice from the Wood Backgrounds set as the background. The greeting is from the Thoughtful Words set. 

The second card uses the same set Singing Praises but this time I created a fall card with it. I stamped the bird and masked off the branch and then stamped the leaves from the Give Thanks set. I colored them all with Copic markers. The greeting is from the Incredibly Blessed set.