A Christmas Birthday Wish!

Hi there!

Jessica here with a very "Christmas-y" card to share with you today that I made using Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Rhubarb's Christmas stamp set.  But, as you can see the tag says "Happy Birthday" because I made it for my  father-in-law whose birthday is on Christmas day!  I used lots of red and green papers and ribbons along with brown cardstock and cappuccino twine from the The Twinery.

Have a great day -
Jessica

Beauty By the Sea ~

Memories of warm summers by the Sea - aahhh...The crisp days of autumn are here and wanted to share this before we rush into holiday preparations. Can you believe I didn't make a single trek to the beach this summer? This card will have to suffice for the memories of warm sands, sea shells and serene sailboats by The Sea. 

Speaking of holidays and snowy scenes....here is a sneak peek of what is coming this Thursday!!! Join us on October 11 as we kick off Christmas cards and wintry scenes with a bloghop! 

 

See you then! Have a blessed day :)

Mary

Stamps: Beauty by the Sea, The Sea

Inks: memento, copics, versafine

paper: SU dsp

accessories: burlap trim, sugar dust, circle punch

Coffee and Scones

Hello, it's Bridget here, with a card celebrating the joys of chatting with a good friend and having a cuppa, as we call it here in Northern Ireland!  And if we were out for coffee together, I'd buy you a delicious scone to go with it - my favorite is a hot cinnamon scone with real Irish butter dripping over the edges!

I colored this cute Cocoa image with copics and popped up the main image over the tail - I stamped the image on the circle and colored in the tail - an easy way to get around the problem of fussy cutting around that cute, curly little tail!  

This set, Cocoa's Latte,  is a favorite of mine - it has a number of different sentiments that you can add to the coffee cup.

A doily seemed in order for our chat over coffee and scones and why not some flowers too!  

Whatever your weekend holds, I hope it's a good one for you...

Blessings, Bridget

Supplies include:

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Cocoa's Latte

Cheery Lynn Designs Doily die

MFT Flower Trio Die-namic

SU Cherry Cobbler cardstock

Sewing machine

Twine

Brads

Copics

Holiday Baubles

Hello friends...Cathy here with a sweet peek for you!  Can you believe we're already into October...only two more months until Christmas! The rush is on to get those Christmas cards finished, and this month's Sweet 'n Sassy release on the 11th will be just perfect for helping to get that done with six new Christmas sets!  My card today was made using one of the new sets being released, Holiday Baubles...garlands of stockings and lights and baubles, AND four Christmas greetings!  What a fun set this is!

Some of my favorite things went in to making my card for today...texture, stitching, a fishtail banner, and the cream and kraft color combination.  The script on the banner is from the Light of Christmas background stamp and the little ornament is a Spellbinders die!  Now I only have about fifty more cards to make...how about you? LOL!  If you need to make as many cards as I do...or more...I hope you'll plan to join us on the 11th for our October Release Blog Hop and the Virtual Stamp Day activities over at Splitcoaststampers!  You'll love the new sets and the best thing about them is that they bring honor to the real reason for the season...the birth of our Lord, Jesus Christ!

Have a blessed day!
Cathy

Autumn Leaves

Hi everyone!  Kim here today to share a clean and simple card created using just a few basic supplies...and that so wonderful Autumn Leaves stamp set. 

I went a little artsy, technique-y (that's a serious crafter term) with this card. I started with a canvas ATC and then I swiped some nice fall Distress Inks on my non-stick craft sheet and hit 'em with some water from my mini mister. Once the ink was beading, I swiped the canvas through the ink. And I am loving the background result. It's the perfect colors of Fall!

Once the background was dry I stamped the leaves on to the canvas (press down hard when stamping on canvas) and added the sentiment.  My final step was to add an  extra leaf, which I created by stamping on a scrap piece of cardstock and coloring with Copics. Once the leaf was cut out it was attached with foam tape and I just added a few gold mini pearls. Fun, right?

I hope you enjoyed today's "technique-y" card and that it will inspire you to check out all of the wonderful stamps at Sweet 'n Sassy!

Vintage Baby

Good morning! It is Gloria Stengel with you today, from Scraps of Life. I am so happy to be here! I have been looking forward to this guest spot all summer! I will be posting a card each Tuesday in October, plus taking part in the October Blog Hop! I am such a lucky ducky!

Here is my card for today. I used the Vintage Baby stamp set. This is a clear stamp set, and it stamps up perfectly! You would swear it is rubber!

I colored the image with Copic Markers and cut it out with a die cut template. I used a lot of layers and the beautiful Graphic 45 Little Darlings paper.

Here is the inside of the card. The Vintage Baby stamp set has the sweetest phrases. Just lovely!

I hope you enjoyed my guest post! I will be back next week with another!

Cardstock: American Crafts Coffee; Copic Xpress Blender White; Stampin' Up! Whisper White Designer paper: Graphic 45 Little Darlings 8x8 pad Stamps: Sweet n Sassy Stamps Vintage Baby (SNS-12-032) Ink" Memento Rich Cocoa; Clearsnap Colorbox Fluid Chalk Ice Blue; Copic Markers Die cuts: Spellbinders Big Scalloped Circles Large, Standard Circles Large and Small, Large and Small Labels Ribbon: Really Reasonable Ribbon Adhesive: Scotch 3M tape runner; Beacon Fabri-tac; Glue Dots adhesive dots; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L foam squares Tools: Bow Easy; Spellbinders Grand Calibur

October Welcomes

We are so excited to share a couple "welcomes" with you today!

First, our dear friend Makiko Jones, who has been the Digi Challenge DT Coordinator for some time now, is joining us as a Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Design Diva!!  We are so thrilled to have Maki with us.  You are going to love her SNSS creations!

Next, I am proud to welcome our October Guest Designer, Gloria Stengel.  She is well known inthe stamping community and we look forward to seeing what she brings to Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps this month!!

"My name is Gloria Stengel and I live in Oceanside, CA. I’ve been a CA resident since March 2005, after living in five other states. I live with my husband Matt and our three children, Nathan (20), Laura (17), and Jonah (12). I homeschool my two youngest children, but my oldest son has graduated and now attends college full-time.

I have been hooked on paper crafts all of my life. In 1990, I discovered rubber stamping and in 1996, I stumbled across "modern" scrapbooking. I love all aspects of paper crafting: card making, scrapbooking, mini albums, altered art, up-cycling, you name it! I am happiest when I am making a mess!"

Welcome, ladies!!! 

Happy Thanksgiving

Hello my friends! Happy Saturday to all of you, the weather is finally changing, over here in the Pacific Northwest we are having cool mornings and evenings and leaves are changing colors, my favorite kind of weather and season :). So this is the perfect time to start thinking about "Thanksgiving". This is one of my favorite holidays, in Peru we don't celebrate Thanksgiving, so in all my years living in the USA, this holiday is very especial for me.

For my card I used the "Autumn Bounty Set", colored the image with Touch Twin Markers. I paper pieced the poinsettia and added little bits of Star Dust Stickles.

Hope you like it.
Have a fantastic day!
Giovana

Wowie!!

Oh my goodness, I am completely amazed! 

This week's Friday Feature (Gobble Gobble) has sold out in just a few hours!

Thank you so much for your business!!

Since the sale was meant to last through Thursday and we again did not expect to sell out, we are substituting Gobble Gobble with Peace of God...regularly $11, now only $7.70 through Thursday, October 4th.

Grab it at this great low price before it's gone, too!

 

 

Here are a few samples featuring this adorable set...

 

by past DT member DJ Rants

 

by Jessica Fick

 

by Korin Sutherland

 

by Cathy McCauley

 

And check out this beauty by one of our customers, Heather Jensen!!

 

 

ALSO...be sure to mark your calendars for our October Release Blog Hop & Virtual Stamp Day on Thursday, October 11th!  We've planned a wonderful Christmas celebration with lots of eye candy, challenges and fabulous prizes!

 

Thanks for your continued business!  Enjoy your weekend!

Friday Feature: Gobble Gobble

Today's Friday Feature is Gobble Gobble.  This silly set includes a sweet turkey image, a funny Thanksgiving poem, and 4 other matching sentiments that are perfect for your Thanksgiving cards, gifts and table settings!

This set is regularly $11.00, but through Thursday, October 4th, you can grab it for just $7.70!

That's 30% off!  

Here are some adorable samples by our DT...

 by Korin Sutherland

 by Korin Sutherland

by Cathy McCauley

by Kim Schofield

by Ceal Pritchett