SNSS May Release Mini Blog Hop Day 1

Hello and welcome to Day 1 of the May Release Mini Blog Hops at Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps! 

I'm so excited to share today's set with you because it very
quickly became my favourite set EVER!

It's Landscape Silhouettes and with the variety of silhouettes,

the possibilities are

endless in creating scenes!

 

 

I used Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Clouds and Raindrops dies to make some
cloud die-cuts to mask and sponge a sky scene before stamping the lighthouse beach silhouette. 
The sun was masked with a circle cut using Spellbinders Nestabilities Circles Large.
The image panel is popped up over the dp background panels.

When sponging scenes like this leaving a little bit of white
(as I did between the pink and aqua) creates the illusion of light and helps with adding depth.

The sentiment is from another favourite SNSS set - Be Encouraged.

 

Other Supplies include:

Basic Gray Lucille dp

Stampin Up Pool Party, Cool Caribbean, Night of Navy, Blushing Bride

Ranger Distress Broken China

MFT Color Box Black Licorice ink

 

 

For this card I masked a sun with a post-it-note circle cut using one of the smallest Spellbinders Nestabilities Circles.  I stamped the purple mountains first, sponging under them to blend down into the green sponged area.  I then stamped the silhouette in black. 

I used simple colour blocks in matching cardstock in sort of a graphic random pattern.

Again the sentiment is from the very useful and uplifting set Be Encouraged.

 

Other supplies include:

Ranger Distress Broken China ink

Stampin Up Orchid Opulence, Lucky Limeade, Cool Caribbean

Versafine Black Onyx

 

 

 

Korin says she just couldn't stop when designing this one and I, for one, am glad she didn't!

The set even coordinates with some of the other silhouette sets.

Here are the details:

 

There are 12 images.

It measures  8" x 6".

The cityscape image measures 4 1/8" x 7/8".

It's designed by Korin Sutherland

The price is $26.

 

Check out some of the samples by our design team in the thumbnails below and be sure to leave comments on the blogs as you go, because we are giving this fabulous set to one lucky commenter!

The deadline to comment is midnight EST, Friday, May 17th.  The list of winners will be announced on the SNSS homepage on Monday, May 20th.

 

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

 

 

Outside the Lines

 

A card for the Moxie Fab The Wonder of Watercolor Challenge and the Splitcoaststampers Ways to Use It challenge: Discover It, to do something new. 

I love watercoloring but it's still new to me to purposely let go and go "outside the lines" with paints and colouring mediums.

The butteflies were stamped on watercolor paper with Stayzon ink using masking with post-it-notes.

I watercolored and sprayed a few layers before spritzing with paint, then sponged ink on the edges. 

To finish I added some jute twine and a vintage button.

I'll definitely be trying this again!

Supplies include:

Winsor and Newton watercolours

American Crafts Jute twine

Stampin Up Soft Suede, Rose Romance, Marvelous Magenta ink

Stazon Black ink

Papermania Butterflies

Subtle Hexagons

 

 

A card made with today's layout from the Sketch Challenge at Splitcoaststampers and for the CASology challenge: Hexagon.  I used a favourite M-bossibilities embossing folder, So Trendy - one side has a double hexagon pattern which I reach for time and time again!

The tulip was stamped three times so I could pop up the layers - it was sponged, no colouring, so this was a very quick and easy card!

Other supplies include:

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Flower Blocks 1

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Be Encouraged

Stampin Up Pumpkin Patch Spectrum ink

Stampin Up Cool Caribbean ink

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

M-bossibilities So Trendy embossing folder

Flourishes May Beautiful World Tour

 

 

 Hello and welcome to the May Beautiful World Tour!

If you've arrived here from Anne-Elise's fabulous blog you're right on track. 

This month our hostess is Kathy and the challenge is: A Picture Says a Thousand Words - to make a card with a picture image only, no sentiment!

My card represents the picture I see out my kitchen window right
around late May or June.
We have a pink clematis absolutely covering our back and side fence,
 it's a riot of colour which I love! 
Especially because we don't have a dishwasher so it's helpful to have a
beautiful view when I'm standing there scrubbing pots and pans! 
(Most people in Northern Ireland probably do have a dishwasher, but our kitchen is quite small!)
The other special thing about the gorgeous clematis is that we didn't plant it. 
It's coming over the fence from our neighbours garden and sharing it's glory with us.
I reckon there's a lesson there - what we plant gets shared with those around us,

which includes not only in our gardens and back yards but in our life and relationships!

This is from the fabulous Flourishes Blossoms and Butterflies set - I stamped the image several times so that I could pop up various layers after fussy cutting.  The circle was sponged with Ranger Distress Scattered Straw.  I dyed the seam binding with Copic ink RV34 to match the flowers.

Other supplies include:

Mariann Design Bird and Branch die

Button

Sewing machine

Stampin Up dp

Stampin Up Lucky Limeade cardstock

Thanks so much for stopping by Belfast on your Beautiful World Tour!

Don't forget that by leaving comments on the designers blogs as you hop the globe, you're in the running to win a free Flourishes Stamp set! Comments will be accepted till the end of the month and a random comment will be chosen, so the more comments, the better your chances of winning! 

Your next stop is South East Asia to see what the very talented

Dina Kowal has come up with for the May Tour!

 



Hey There Friend!

 

 

 

A card made for the current Papers Smooches Sparks challenge Anything Goes and also for the Featured Stamper challenge at Splitcoaststampers - it's Gayatri Murali and what a fun, clean style she has!  HERE is the card that inspired me.

I wanted a fresh colour combo so went with citrus colours combined with gray!

Love the variety of sentiments in the Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler set as they can be combined or used separately.

I sponged a bird die-cut using the Memory box Serene Bird die and he branch is also a Memory Box die.

All dp is from Stampin Up. 

Other Supplies:

Stampin Up Basic Gray card stock

Prima flower

Stampin Up Lucky Limeade ink

MFT Colour Box Black Licorice ink

Healing a Broken Heart

A card made for three challenges:

CASual Fridays Challenge CFC100

CASology Week 42: CARE

Splitcoaststampers Inspiration Challenge at Godiva Chocolates

 

 For the CASual Friday's Challenge of Top Ten Tic Tac Toe

(what a fun title - try saying that ten times very fast!)

I chose the top row, incorporating Polka Dots (heart), Kraft (tree branch), and

Punches/Dies (branch, butterflies, and hearts). 

 

 

I think this sentiment definitely fits the CASology challenge of CARE, it's so encouraging.

I chose this box of chocolates at Godiva for the colour combo here.

 

The Memory Box Branch die-cut is quite fine and hard to pop up so I cut four of them from kraft card stock and glued them together so I could achieve dimension and stability.  The hearts are cut with Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Hearts Dies and the sentiment is from SNSS's Be Encouraged set. 

The twine has been dyed to match with Copic ink YG03.

 

Other Supplies include:

Kraft card stock (Papermania)

Stampin Up Lucky Limeade card stock

Stampin Up dp

Wild Rose Studios gingham dp

Woodware mini butterfly punch

Twine

Pearls

Versafine Vintage Sepia

A Different Colour!

 

 

 

A card made for the current CASology challenge - Week 42: CARE! 

I used some new (to me) Visual Image Paint Splats and then popped up a

little die-cut paintbrush cut with MFT's Art Palette Die-namics - fun and easy!

This sentiment is sweet - if only it were that easy to deal with feeling blue!

The white panel is popped up on the black bg and here are the inks which I used:

Ranger Distress Scattered Straw

Stampin Up Lucky Limeade

Stampin Up Blushing Bride

Stampin Up Rose Romance

MFT Color Box Black Licorice

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend!