Precious Friend

 

Here's a card made for the Featured Stamper challenge this weekat Splitcoaststampers - it's Pattie G. and HERE is the card that inspired me.

I used Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Precious Poppies set for the sentiments and curved the long one on the acrylic block to imitage a butterfly flight path.

I coloured the two hat pins with Copic marker YG03 to match the dp made by Wild Rose Studios.  The polka dot dp is from Stampin Up and was sent to me by my sweet friend, Roberta (stampin'nana).

The tag was made using Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Mini Tags and Sentiments and Mini Tags and Sentiments die set with Stampin Up's Lucky Limeade ink.

Other Supplies include Spellbinders Butterflies 2, my sewing machine, a flower and some ribbon!

Pretty in Pink

A card made for this week's Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger Challenge and for the Inspiration Challenge at Splitcoaststampers  at DryGoods. 

 And here's the Tuesday Trigger inspiration photo, Pretty Little Petits Fours:

 

 

I made a couple of masks with post-it-notes using Spellbinders Nestabilities Squares Large and Small, then sponged inside with both pink and gray ink.

The flowers were made with different sized punches, layering them up, and topping with pearls.

The sentiment is one of my favourites for a thank you card, from Papertrey Ink's Signature Greetings.

Then a few pearls scattered around to finish!

Other Supplies include:

Stampin Up Pretty in Pink ink

Tsukneko Archival Brilliance Starlite ink

Woodware Flower punches (medium and mini)

Papermania Midi Flower punch

Pearls

 

Courage

 

A card with absolutely no stamps! 
I made this for three challenges - Moxie Fab's The Wonder of Watercolor, Splitcoaststampers Mix-Ability (to use drawing or doodling), and the Free For All Challenge,
to write a sentiment rather than stamping. 

Here's the story behind the sentiment. 

When I saw my sweet friend Dina Kowal's sample for the Mix-ability challenge,
I was astounded by how beautiful it was - you can see it HERE.
 I showed it to my son and said, "I know she's fabulously talented, but how does she do that?"  and he said "She's not afraid."  
When I told Dina, she said it made her teary and to give him a hug! 
As a young man headed for Art College in September, this has been part of his journey - learning to "let go" and not be worried about people's expectations, or about messing up, but to just CREATE! 
It inspired my sentiment for today's card.
I sponged a watercolor paper panel with ink before loosely watercoloring grass and flowers in several layers. I then drew in some lines and dots, and added a doodled border to frame. I wrote the word "courage" with different size letters on watercolor paper before popping it up in a random fashion. The whole panel is popped up on a watercolor paper card base - I love the rich feel of the paper!

I used Winsor & Newton watercolors and the only other supplies are a small Woodware butterfly punch plus a black fine line pen. 
Thanks for stopping by!

Pale Pink Roses

 

A card made for this week's Moxie Fab Trigger Tuesday Challenge and the Splitcoaststampers Ways to Use It Challenge - Add it Up (mathmatical symbols).

Here's the gorgeous Trigger Tuesday photo that inspired me called Pretty Little Petits Fours.

 

 

I love that wood grain bg, but I don't have a wood grain embossing panel or stamp - I did have a few brown woodgrain embossed panels lying around someone must have given me - so I swiped white embossing ink over one and then embossed with white embossing powder - it ended up with a glossy white woodgrain effect. 

I also used several layers of silver embossing on the flourish and multiple layers of silver embossing on the tag before stamping the sentiment while it was still warm to leave the impression (it's helpful to ink up the stamp with embossing ink first so it doesn't stick, and don't do it while it's still too hot.)

The roses are made from pink felt using MFT Mini Rolled Rose Die-namics - I just love rolling those little things!

The tag is Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Mini Tags and Sentiments Die set and the XOXO sentiment is from SNSS's Bottom of My Heart.

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Peaceful Sea

A card  made for the Colour Challenge at Splitcoaststampers using Night of Navy, Baja Breeze, and River Rock....the blues and sandy hues made me think of the sea so I reached for one of my very favourite Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps sets, The Sea.
 The sentiment is also from SNSS, Bridge of Hope.

These words were written by Horatio Spafford after deep personal tragedy and are still bringing peace and comfort today through the singing of this hymn.

I masked and sponged the scene with post-it-notes after stamping the silhouette and then used a Cuttlebug die set for the sea shells, lightly sponging the edges with Ranger Distress Frayed Burlap ink.

Other supplies include:

Spellbinders Nestabilities Circles Large

Hessian burlap
Post-it-notes

Stampin Up Night of Navy, Baja Breeze ink

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Ranger Distress Frayed Burlap ink

Brads

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps The Sea

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Bridge of Hope

Provocraft Cuttlebug Seashell dies

Chocolate Cupcake Anyone?

 

Here's a card I made for hosting the Featured Stamper Challenge at Splitcoaststampers today - it's Robin, aka Missro, and I was inspired by her cupcake card found HERE.

I used Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps newly released Birthday Bash set and Birthday Bash Die Set to make the cupcake and SNSS dies for the stars and pennants. 

I stitched with brown thread to add to the chocolate theme. 

 I used a tiny star punch to make some chocolate star sprinkles, just like some we've got in our cupboard - they're a favourite cupcake decoration!

I scored a line at the top of the pennants so that I could fold a small edge back and tape them over the twine at the back, I found it helps keep them all in place and gives a neat edge.

Other supplies include:

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Pennants and More dies

Sweet 'n Sassy Stars dies

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Birthday Bash die set

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Birthday Bash

DCWV Sweet Stack dp

Sewing machine

M-bossibilities So Trendy embossing folder

Spellbinders Nestabilities Ovals Petite Small, Large

Buttons

SU Pool Party, Early Espresso card stock

American Crafts jute twine

Hey Chickie!

 

 

 

Here's my card for the fab Paper Smooches Sparks Cool Shades Challenge this week - Oceanside:

 

 

I ended up loving this combo! 

I used a Stampasaurus Stencil and sponged the colours in the

chevron pattern before popping up this little bird. 

Strictly speaking, chicks are yellow, but in Stampyland,

we can be as creative as we like, so my little chick is acid green!

 

Others supplies include:

MFT Color Box Black Licorice ink

Stamping Up Cool Caribbean

Memento Pear Tart, Sky Blue

Ranger Distress Antique Linen

Marianne Designs Bird/Branch die

Kraft cardstock

Buttons

Copics

 

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

 

 

 

I love the fun Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger photo this week called Wake Up Call! 

The colours are so fabulous and cheery and remind me of a sunny summer's morning! 

 Looking forward to the first time I can sit in the back garden with a morning

cuppa and enjoy the sunshine!

I used Verve's Sip and Savor for the sentiment and the coffee cup, adding little polka dots with a gel pen on the cup. 

I made my own double ended banner with dimension using My Favorite Things Fishtail Flags STAX Die-namics - this ends up being easier than it may look by cutting two small bits of a banner and attaching them at an angle behind the sentiment banner to make it look like it's been folded. 

 I drew in the steam with a gel pen as well.

Other supplies include:

Spellbinders Nestabilities Circles Large,

My Favorite Things Sun Die-namics

Echo Park dp

Stampin Up dp

Stampin Up Pool Party, Daffodil Delight card stock

My Favorite Things Color Box Black Licorice ink

My Favorite Things Fishtail Flags STAX Die-namics

White gel pen

Verve Sip and Savor

Twine

October Afternoon button

Button Heaven

 

A quick card made for the Splitcoaststampers Clean and Simple Challenge today based on this Pinterest photo!

 

I used Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Cloud and Raindrop dies for the clouds and Verve's Words of Wisdom set for the sentiment.

Others Supplies include:

MFT Color Box Black Licorice ink

Smooth White card stock

Twine

Butterfly Blessings

 

One of the things I love about papercrafting is being able to choose colour combos, and I had a real urge to do green and black!  Here's a card for today's Featured Stamper Challenge at Splitcoaststampers - it's Lin, aka bearpaw, and HERE is the card I used for inspiration.

I cut a rectangle with Spellbinders Nestabilities and then inside it cut a square from Spellbinders Nestabilities Squares. 

The rectangle is popped up and so is the text square with the black layer receding behind, you might be able to see it in this closer look. 

 

Who knows if green butterflies exist in reality but this one's coloured with copics to match the vivid green dp (DCWV Lemonflower Matt Stack).

 

 

Other Supplies include
Hero Arts Antique Butterflies and Flowers

Stampin Up text dp

Sewing machine

Button

Twine

Memento Tuxedo Black ink (butterfly)

MFT Color Box Black Licorice ink (sentiment)

Papertrey Ink Signature Greetings (sentiment)

Sun Kissed Flowering Tree

 

 I don't think we're going to get much sun here in Northern Ireland today, so I had to create mine on a card! 

I made this inspired by the beautiful Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger photo Magical Magnolias:

 

 

I was intrigued by the mix of pink with tiny touches of yellow which I don't use together much, but I went for it head first!  There's plenty of milky white in the photo, so I kept a fair bit of clean, white space!

I masked a strip with post-it-notes before sponging in Stampin Up's Barely Banana and Blushing Bride. I also masked a sun with a small circle from Spellbinders Nestabilities Circles.

I created the tree using several die-cuts from Memory Box's Woodland Branch die, then added some layered flowers using Martha Stewards hydrangea punch and a Tonic punch with tiny star shaped flowers. The sentiments if from Taylored Expressions Discover Your Wings set.

My card also fits the Free for All Challenge at Splitcoaststampers today - Let the Sun Shine In - to use sun or something sunny on your card!

Our Father in Heaven!

 

 

Today I'd like to show you a couple of cards I created with the sentiments from the

new Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps set, His Child.

I love these wonderful truths about our relationship with our heavenly Father
through Jesus and wanted to show
how flexible they are with many different images and die-cuts.

For the first card I added an embossed heart to highlight the

love of God mentioned in the sentiment, using SNSS's Heart Die Set -

love all the sizes and shapes in this set of dies!

The sentiment panel is popped up over two dp panels, and to finish I added a trio of buttons.

It was a quick, easy card, and there's plenty of creamy white space for a clean look.

Supplies include:

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps His Child

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Heart Dies

Sizzix Plaid embossing folder

Buttons

October Afternoon dp

MFT Color Box Licorice Black ink

Smooth Cream card stock

For the second card I sponged a panel with green ink along the bottom, then stamped with several images from Nature Silhouettes.

Using clouds from SNSS's Cloud and Raindrops Die Set I masked and sponged a sky scene, then popped up a couple of clouds.

To finish I added a fence die-cut using SNSS's Fence and Grass Die Set and a few sponged punched butterflies.

Thanks so much for stopping by, I hope your day is a good one!

Supplies include:

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps His Child

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Nature Silhouettes

Sweet n' Sassy Stamps Clouds and Raindrops Die set

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Fence and Grass Die set

Stampin Up Lucky Limeade ink

Ranger Distress Broken China ink

Stampin Up Melon Mambo ink

Martha Stewart Butterfly punch

SNSS April Release Mini Blog Hop Day 5

Welcome to Day 5 of Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps April Release Mini Blog
Hops - today we're showcasing several sets, the first one is
His Child!

 

I loved making cards with this set, in fact I ended up making

about five the first time I used it - I'll share a couple of those with you today! 

For this one I masked and sponged a strip with post-it-notes

before spritzing with distress stains. 

I used the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps

fence die from the Fence and Grass Die set to add a

little picket fence.  This wonderful sentiment

is accented with stamps from SNSS's Decorative Frame Toppers.

 

Supplies include:

SNSS His Child

SNSS Decorative Frame Toppers

SNSS Fence and Grass Die

 Ranger Distress Scattered Straw

Stampin Up Pool Party, Cool Caribbean

Ranger Broken China Distress Stain

MFT Color Box Licorice Black ink

 

Here's my second card:

 

 

For my second card I also masked and sponged a strip using post-it-notes,

before spritzing with water.  I find dabbing up the excess water

with a dry cloth helps "lift" the ink.

I used a post-it-note and a small circle cut with Spellbinders Nestabilities

Circles Small to mask a sun. 

The wild meadow grass is stamped using

SNSS's Nature Silhouettes 2. 

Once again I used SNSS's Decorative Frame Toppers

to accent the wonderful sentiment.

 

Supplies include:

SNSS His Child

SNSS Decorative Frame Toppers

SNSS Nature Silhouettes 2

Stampin Up Lucky Limeade, Yoyo Yellow ink

MFT Color Box Licorice Black ink

Twine

Pearls

Ranger Mini Mister

 

 

 
Stamp set includes 3 images & 5 sentiments
Set measures approximately 4" x 6"
The first sentiment measures approximately 1 3/8" x 3"
Designed by Dina Kowal
Stamp set is priced at $15

Mini Tags and Sentiments and Mini Tags Die Set

 

I can't tell you how useful these stamps and dies are going to

be - look at all those tags and sentiments!

I decided to string some of the small tags along for a "rainbow" effect and

then designed a matching sentiment to say exactly what I wanted to say. 

I popped up the word "blessed" using red ink for emphasis.

Check out all the details below and just imagine what YOU could do with it!

 

Other supplies include:

SNSS Mini Tag Die set

SNSS Mini Tags and Sentiments

Stampin Up Yoyo Yellow, Lucky Limeade, Ballet Blue, Orchid Opulence, Real Red ink

MFT Color Box Licorice Black ink

Twine

Brads

 

 Stamp set includes 8 images & 37 interchangable words

Set measures approximately 4" x 6"

Round tag measures approximately 1"

Designed by Korin Sutherland

Coordinates with Mini Tags Die Set

Stamp set is priced at $15

Die set includes 8 dies, Round tag measures approximately 1 1/8"

Die set is priced at $11.75

Get them both for $24 when you purchase the Mini Tag Bundle available for a limited time

 

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

Be sure to leave a comment on 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 EST Wednesday, April 10th. The list of winners will be announce on our website homepage by Thursday, April 18th.

Thanks so much for joining us, enjoy the rest of the hop and have a wonderful day!

 

SNSS April Release Mini Blog Hop Day 4

Hello and welcome to Day 4 of our Mini Blog Hops

celebrating this month's releases - today we're featuring 

two very useful sets

Celebrating Milestones and Anniversary Innies!

 

 

I sponged a heart using a mask made with

Spellbinders Nestabilities Hearts and

then stitched around it before adding 

white flourishes and some flowers and pearls.

 

 

 

Here are the details:

The set contains 10 sentiments and 10 numbers.

It measures 6" x 4".

The first sentiment measures 2 3/8" x 3/8".

It's designed by Korin Sutherland.

The price is $15.

 

 

And here's how I made the INSIDE of the card:

 

 

It's not often I do up the inside of my cards but

a fantastic set like Anniversary Innies makes it so easy! 

Again I made a mask using a Nestie heart and post-it-notes

before stamping the verse and adding some die-cut flourishes.

 

Supplies include:

SNSS Celebrating Milestones

SNSS Anniversary Innies

Spellbinders Nestabilities Hearts

Prima flowers

MFT Fancy Flourish Die-namics

Stampin Up Blushing Bride ink

MFT Color Box Black Licorice ink

Pearls

Sewing machine

 

Here are the details:

The set contains 6 sentiments.

It measures 6" x 4".

The first sentiment measures 2 3/8" x 3/8".

It's designed by Korin Sutherland.

The price is $15.

 

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

Be sure to leave a comment on each of the blogs along your journey because we're giving away these fab stamp sets to one lucky commenter!

The deadline to comment for a chance to win is midnight EST Wednesday, April 10th. The list of winners will be announce on our website homepage by Thursday, April 18th.

Thanks so much for joining us, enjoy the rest of the hop!
 

SNSS April Release Mini Blog Hope Day 3

Hello and welcome to Day 3 of our Mini Blog Hops

celebrating the April Releases at Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps! 

Today we're showcasing two fabulous sets -

Precious Poppies and Poppy Background!

 

 

Here's my card made with the beautiful Poppy Backround stamp -

I simply sponged the image with red ink and then added

some white highlights in the center with a gel pen. 

The scalloped black edge is the back side of a die-cut using

SNSS's Lacey Eyelet Border die.

The tag is made using a newly released set called Mini Tags and Sentiments

and the matching Mini Tags dies.

 

Supplies include:

SNSS Poppy Backround

SNSS Mini Tags and Sentiments

SNSS Mini Tags Die set

SNSS Lacey Eyelet Border Die set

Twine

Echo Park Victoria Gardens dp

Stampin Up Real Red, Lucky Limeade ink

MFT Color Box Black Licorice ink

 

 

 

Here are the details:

The set contains 1 large image.

The poppy is 3 3/4"  x 3 3/4".

The price is $15.

It's designed by Korin Sutherland.

 

 

 

 

This card was made with the wonderful set Precious Poppies - I know I'm going to reach for this set again and again with all it's fabulous sentiments and beautiful poppy images!

I kept this one clean and simple, colouring the image with copics and simply adding ribbon and pearls.

Supplies include:

SNSS Precious Poppies

Copics

MFT Color Box Black Licorice ink

Gingham ribbon

Pearls

 

 

 

Just look at all these fabulous images and sentiments!

Here are the details:

The set contains 3 images and 17 sentiments.

It measures 8" x 6".

The large group of poppies measures approximately 4 1/2" x 3 1/8".

The price is $26.

It's designed by Korin Sutherland.

 

 

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

Be sure to leave a comment on each of the blogs along your journey because we're giving away both fantastic sets to one lucky commenter!

The deadline to comment for a chance to win is midnight EST Wednesday, April 10th. The list of winners will be announce on our website homepage by Thursday, April 18th.

Thanks so much for joining us, enjoy the rest of the hop and have a wonderful day!

 

 

SNSS April Release Mini Blog Hop Day 2

Welcome to Day 2 of the SNSS Mini Blog Hops celebrating the April Release sets! Today we have two sets that will give you so many options for making birthday cards!

I've used Birthday Innies for a beautiful birthday verse and Script Birthdays for the banner sentiment.

My card is also for the Featured Stamper Challenge at Splitcoaststampers today - it's Ellen Parker, aka ebparker, and I was inspired by her card found HERE.

I stitched the main panel onto a framing panel and then added some orchids with tiny pearls.

Supplies include:

SNSS Birthday Innies

SNSS Script Birthdays

Lifestyle Crafts Inverted Squares Nested Dies

Lace

Cheery Lynn Designs Fancy Flourish die

Pearls

MFT Color Box Black Licorice ink

MFT Fishtail Flags STAX Die-namics

Here's one more card made with Birthday Innies and inspired by a card in Ellen's gallery.
I stamped some words of the sentiment in different colours and popped them up for emphasis.
I love the font on this lovely birthday verse! 
The image is from the just released fabulous set Precious Poppies.

 

• Stamp set includes 17 sentiments
• Set measures approximately 4" x 6"
• The first sentiment measures approximately 1 3/4" x 7/8"
• Designed by Korin Sutherland
• Stamp set is priced at $15
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• Stamp set includes 5 sentiments
• Set measures approximately 6" x 4"
• The first sentiment measures approximately 3" x 1"
• Designed by Korin Sutherland
• Stamp set is priced at $15

Check out some of the fabulous samples made by our talented DT in the thumbnails 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 EST Wednesday, April 10th. The list of winners will be announced on our website homepage by Thursday, April 18th.

Thanks so much for joining us! Enjoy the hop!