Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps June Release Blog Hop

Hello, and welcome to the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps June Release Blog Hop!  As always, I think you'll be delighted with the new  products and you'll find a lot of fun inspiration with what the DT have come up with today too!

My first card is made with the new set Under His Wings - what a wonderful image which is easy to color with shading already done for you and a beautiful script background. 

The sentiments include encouraging Bible verses about being under the protective and loving wings of God.

I also used the Light of Christmas script bg on the kraft card base.  I masked the bird to sponge a teal ink background.  My little bird may not be a typical one you'd see in your yard or garden but I think it has a little bit of an exotic look!

All edges have been distressed with SU's Soft Suede ink, and I finished with a twine bow and button.

Supplies include:

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Under His Wings

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Light of Christmas

Kraft cardstock

SU Taken with Teal, Lucky Limeade cardstock

Cheery Lynn Designs Fanciful Flourish die

Spellbinders Nestabilities Circles 

Twine

October Afternoon buttons

Copics

SU Soft Suede ink

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Echo Park Dots and Stripes dp

The butterflies in the set New Beginnings are going to be an absolute favorite with me, especially with the matching die set!  I love the sharp, crisp image they create and how the die-cut butterflies add so much dimension.

I used a Sizzix embossing folder for the background panel and stamped one of the beautiful sentiments from the set on the upper half.  All the sentiments in this set have encouraging and meaningful words and quotes about change and new beginnings.

I added a Memory Box vine in black along the bottom and pearl accents, trying to leave enough white space to keep a somewhat clean and simple look.

Supplies include:

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps New Beginnings 

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Butterflies die set

Memory Box Delicate Vine die

Versafine Black Onyx ink

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Pearls

Copics

Time to hop on and check out what the rest of the Design Team have come up with!  Here's a complete list of everyone participating today!

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps 

Jessica Fick

Dina Kowal

Sandy Domelle

Mary Faus

Cathy McCauley

Kim Singdahlsen

Brenda Weaver

Taylor Usry

                        Bridget Finlay - you are here!

Kim Schofield

Giovana Smith

Monika Davis

DJ Rants
Korin Sutherland 

Thanks so much for stopping by and don't forget to come to the Release Party in the Splitcoaststampers Members Forum tonight at 8:00 pm EST.  As always, there'll be fun chat, challenges and full reveals!

Back soon!

I'm just popping in to say I'll be back soon...I had to pack up a lot of my stamping stuff while we had some work done on our house and now there is illness in the family, so I've been unable to stamp.  I look forward to getting back in the saddle soon, in fact there's a Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps blog hop coming up on Thursday with fantastic releases for the month of June.  Hopefully you'll be able to drop by!

Paper and Such Father's Day Challenge

Time for another challenge at Paper and Such, and this time we're creating cards on a Father's Day theme!  I pulled out the fantastic Deer Dad set again, it's perfect for masculine cards.  

I grew up in the Copper River Basin in Alaska and enjoyed the beautiful Wrangell mountains in full view every day.  Sometimes when the sun set over the mountain range there would be a pink, gold or purple glow which was absolutely radiant.  I was trying for a bit of that look on my card, then realized my sun wasn't low enough for a sunset!  

But it was fun to make and I love creating scenes around this regal buck.

I used post-it-notes as masks for the mountains and sun and

MFT's Fishtail Flags STAX Die-namics to make the dp banner. 

I hope you're inspired by the Father's Day creations the Design Team have created for the challenge - I've really enjoyed being a Guest Designer with these talented ladies!

Supplies include:

Paper and Such Deer Dad

MFT Fishtail Flags STAX Die-namics

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Ranger Distress Spun Sugar ink

SU Old Olive, Lucky Limeade, Orchid Opulence, Baja Breeze, Basic Gray, Yoyo Yellow ink

SU dp

SU Early Espresso cardstock

Brads

Copics

Post-it-notes

Morning Glory Sympathy

Today's Featured Stamper at Splitcoaststampers is Candance Pierce, aka candylou.  

I love Candance's style and chose this clean card with lots of white space to CASE: Happy Birthday.

I love the embossed background and the pink and white color combo she chose.

I changed the theme from birthday to a sympathy card - it's a sad fact of life that we always need to have sympathy cards on hand, and the all white background suits the clean style I prefer for sympathy cards.

This flower image is Morning Glory from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps and I love how easy it 

is to color - the leaves on the image are every bit as beautiful as the flowers.

The sentiment is from the SNSS set Elegant Blessings.  A simple sympathy sentiment in an elegant font is absolutely invaluable as far as I'm concerned!

I changed the card to a square and offset the image to the left.  Instead of using liquid pearls I used half pearls.

Supplies include:

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Elegant Blessings

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Morning Glory

Paper Mill Shop white linen cardstock

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Ribbon

Pearls

Copics

Sewing machine

Lighten Your Load

Someone asked me to make a retirement card and the Sketch Challenge at Splitcoaststampers seemed perfect for using Papertrey Ink's On My Couch set...it's always fun to paper piece, kind of like a mini interior design job!  I popped up the seat cushions and the pillow adding a tiny brad.  

The main panel of the sketch is tilted, which makes this cozy little living room look a bit like it's in an earthquake zone!

All the panels were stitched, I'm kind of stuck using a zig zag stitch as I can't seem to get my tension adjusted properly for a straight stitch.

I sponged the main panel - the ink was a little too pink and a deep coral was the color I was aiming for so I lightly added some rust sponging to bring the color closer to the matching shade I was looking for.

I combined two sentiments from the set for this...I'll add the persons name using a tiny tag also.

The seam binding is crinkled by spraying it with water and scrunching, and I added buttons and ric rac to finish.

Supplies include:

Papertrey Ink On My Couch

Spellbinders Nestabilities Circles

Sewing machine

Buttons

Twine

My Minds Eye Miss Caroline Howdy Doody dp

DCWV dp

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Versamagic Pixie Dust ink

Praying for you

The Featured Stamper at Splitcoaststampers today is TracyMac - what  a gallery full of beautifully colored images!  HERE is the card I chose for my inspiration today.  

I sponged the circle while still in the Nestie die with Ranger Distress ink and then popped up this Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Rose Blossom image on it.  I love coloring this rose and it's also easy to cut out.

I used three panels to the left instead of one - my mother recently sent me MFT's Fishtail Flags STAX Die-namics, and once I started making those, I couldn't stop!  

My Mom is a card maker herself and is always sending me fun and useful things - thank you, Mom!  Mother's Day was in March here in the U.K. and Ireland, but I know those in the North America are celebrating today...for all of you who are mothers or who care for others with a mother's heart....have a very happy Mother's Day today!

Supplies include:

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Rose Blossom

MFT Fishtail Flags STAX Die-namics 

Spellbinders Nestabilities Circles

Twine

October Afternoon button

Ranger Distress Scattered Straw ink

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Copics

My Minds Eye, Cosmo Cricket, SU dp

Big Day

A dear friend and I were out shopping this afternoon for another friend's birthday present - I came home to design a card to go along with our gift and here it is!  

I used the My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch Club #71 sketch by Julie this week and got my inspiration at Hard to Find, the website Anne picked for today's Inspiration Challenge at Splitcoaststampers.  Several items made me think of dp that I had - this Floral Frame and the French Rural Red Pin Board.   That pin board is right up my alley!

All edges have been sponged with Distress ink and I used Versafine Black Onyx ink for a good strong black color on the sentiment.

The flower is made using MFT's Loopy Bloom Die-namic - I have some shimmery gold organza in my fabric stash which I folded over before cutting with the die, then rolled up two of them since the fabric is so fine.  

At the end of April I was delighted to be named a Favorite Find at My Favorite Things and won a gift voucher - I got this fabulous set Big Greetings - I love it!

Supplies include:

MFT Big Greetings

MFT Loopy Bloom Die-namic

MFT Fancy Flourish Die-namic

MFT Dizzy Doily Duo Die-namic

My Minds Eye, October Afternoon, Cosmo Cricket dp

Twine

October Afternoon buttons

Organza

Sewing machine

Ranger Distress Frayed Burlap ink

Versafine Black Onyx ink