Snow Glad We're Friends

Hi Friends!

Today I am sharing another card designed with Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps-  Snowy Hello and  Texture Tiles 3 using the Try Stampin’ On Tuesday #387 Sketch Challenge for the layout.

I am also linking to Simon Says Wednesday “Anything Goes” Challenge. 

If you have not had a chance to visit the above challenge sites or the SNSS Blog/FB Page yet, I encourage you to do so- fabulous inspiration from all!

To create this card:

1). De-static a piece of white cardstock with an embossing powder tool, ink the snowman image from Snowy Hello with Versafine™ Onyx Black ink, apply clear embossing powder and heat set with a heat tool.  Once the embossing has cooled, color the images with water-based markers and die cut with a stitched oval die.  Mount onto an oval doily die from dusty pink cardstock.  Use a permanent marker to create the snow line and apply Tim Holtz® Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide Ink with a sponge to the background.  Add a few snowflakes using a Sharpie® Extra Fine White Paint Pen.

 2).  Stamp the sentiment from  Snowy Hello with Versafine™ Onyx Black ink onto a piece of white cardstock, trim and create the banner by hand.  Mount onto dusty  carpinkdstock and mount onto the lower portion of the oval focal image. 

3). Stamp the texture image from Texture Tiles 3 with Versamark™ ink onto a piece of white cardstock, apply white embossing powder and heat set with a heat tool.  Use a sponge dauber to apply Twisted Citron and Tattered Rose Distress Oxide Ink, wipe the excess off with a dry paper towel.  Trim the panel and mount onto dusty pink cardstock. 

4). Trim a piece of white cardstock to 4” x 5 ¼”  and mount onto a piece of dusty pink cardstock 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.  Adhere the panel to a white card base and add the panel of horizontal panel created in step 3.

5). Mount the snowman image with dimensional foam and add a few sequins.  Use a clear glitter pen to add shimmer to the snow and snowman to finish off the card.

Stamp Sets: Snowy Hello, Texture Tiles 3 (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)

Ink/Mediums: Versamark™, Versafine™ Onyx Black, Stampin’ Write markers- Blushing Bride, Early Espresso, Lemon Lime Twist, Pumpkin Pie, Smoky Slate; Tim Holtz® Distress Oxide- Tumbled Glass, Twisted Citron, Tattered Rose; Spectrum Noir™ Clear Glitter Pen,  Sharpie® Extra Fine White Paint Pen

Cardstock/Designer Paper: Whisper White, Blushing Bride (Stampin’ Up!)

Accessories/Tools: Embossing Buddy®, Clear & White Embossing Powder, Heat Tool,  My Favorite Things Dies- Stitched Oval STAX, Oval Open Scallop Doily; AquaPainter™, Sponge Dauber, Sequins

Thanks again for taking the time to stop by- I hope all of you have a wonderful and safe New Year’s Eve and New Year!

Happy 11th Birthday to Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps!

 Hi Friends!

Sweet‘n Sassy Stamps is celebrating their 11th birthday this month! We are so excited and will be having sales to celebrate each week for the month of November!

Korin Sutherland has released two new sets this month as “11^th Birthday Throwback” sets- Cocoa’s Cups and Crazy About Snowmen!  Both sets incorporate some of the most popular images from over the years at Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps (many of these images were previously retired) and Korin combined them into two wonderful new sets just perfect for the holidays!  Plus, from 11/01-11/07/18, you can receive 11% off the November release with code HAPPY11NEW! 

Plus, you get to choose your November Stamp of the Month from one of our top 4 stamp sets (for a $60 net order (after all discounts and not including shipping- US $$)- good through November 30^th!  

Plus, don't forget- all $75 net orders receive free shipping in the US!

My first card for the celebration features the new Cocoa’s Cups using the Mojo Monday #501 Sketch Challenge for the layout (guess what?  Julee Tilman has joined our SNSS Design Team plus she has re-started the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenges- woohoo!).

I am also participating with day Simon Says Wednesday “Anything Goes” Challenge along with the Double D Challenge “Stripes or Dots” Inspiration Challenge (I used striped designer paper in the horizontal panel as well as added dots to the snowflakes on the cup image) and the Dies R Us #108 "Stitched Dies" Challenge.

If you have not had a chance to visit the above challenge sites or the SNSS Blog/FB Page yet, I encourage you to do so- wonderful inspiration from all!

To create this card:

1). De-static a piece of white cardstock with an embossing powder tool, stamp the 11^th Birthday Throwback: Cocoa’s Cups snowflake cup image onto the panel along with the sentiment with Versafine™ Onyx Black Ink (leave plenty of room for fussy-cutting the image as well as die-cutting the sentiment), apply clear embossing powder and heat set with a heat tool.

2). Once the embossing has cooled, fussy-cut the snowflake cup image (I used my Brother Scan ‘n Cut machine to cut this out with just a bit of a border- love this machine I received for my birthday!).  Watercolor the image using water-based markers (see colors below) and add additional white details using Nuvo™ Gloss White Drops and a Sharpie® Extra Fine White Paint Pen .  ***FYI- I had added the gloss white drops to the centers of the snowflakes on the cup first but the color from the marker bled through, so when they had dried, I went over the drops with the paint pen as well as added additional details to the ends of the snowflakes***

  

3). Die cut the various pieces of designer paper and navy cardstock with stitched rectangle dies.  Layer the white cardstock onto the navy cardstock panel for the card front and add the striped layer horizontally (I split this panel behind the vertical layer to extend the length- no one is the wiser, except you are now, lol!).

4). Add the twine across the center of the card and mount the vertical panel with dimensional foam.   Adhere the twine bow with the button and mount the entire panel onto the white card base.

5). Add the fussy-cut image to a die cut layered circle with dimensional foam and mount directly to the card front.

 

6). Adhere the layered embossed sentiment using dimensional foam and add three small Nuvo™ Gloss White Drops at the lower left edge of the sentiment circle.  

7). Punch three snowflakes using a snowflake punch, adhere to the card front and add pink buttons to finish off the card. 

Stamp Sets: 11^th Birthday Throwback: Cocoa’s Cups (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)

Ink/Mediums: Versafine™ Onyx Black, Stampin’ Write Markers- Coastal Cabana, Gray Granite, Smoky Slate, Melon Mambo, Real Red, Soft Suede; Sharpie® Extra Fine White Paint Pen; Nuvo Gloss White Crystal Drops

Cardstock/Designer Paper: Whisper White, Not Quite Navy, Winter Frost Designer Series Paper (all Stampin’ Up!)

Accessories/Tools: Big Shot™, MFT Dies- Stitched A2 Rectangle Set 1 & 2, Stitched Circles; Circle Dies (retired SU!), Embossing Buddy®, Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Martha Stewart™ Snowflake Punch, Coastal Cabana Thick Baker’s Twine, retired SU! Pink buttons

Thanks again for taking the time to visit and stop back again soon!

Snow Much Fun!

Hi Friends! 

Today I am sharing a Mixed Media card that I designed using Artistic Outpost (AO)  stamp sets Skating Emporium and GrungeElements along with ODBD Snow Crystals Dies (all available at Our Daily Bread Designs).

I incorporated the Splitcoaststampers’ SC620 Sketch Challenge along with the Inkspirational #128 “Chill” Challenge and the Tic-Tac-Toe #22 Challenge (Scene- Use Dimension- Texture) into the design.

If you have not had a chance to visit The Artistic Outpost Blog or the challenge sites yet, I encourage you to do so- gorgeous inspiration from my Design Team sisters on the AO Blog as well as the challenge galleries!

To create this card:

1). Layer walnut stain, brushed corduroy and antiqued bronze distress stains onto a piece of kraft cardstock, dry with a heat tool and add “snow” with the large splatter stamp from the AO Grunge Elements stamp set using picket fence distress stain.

2). Repeatedly stamp the advertising images from the AO Skating Emporium stamp set with black soot distress ink and the snowflakes with walnut stain distress ink to finish off the panel.

3). Distress the edges of the panel with a distressing tool, use a sewing machine to zig zag stitch the panel onto a piece of vanilla cardstock, add a strip of ivory crochet lace with black satin ribbon along with string pearls before mounting onto the black card front.

4). Add brushed corduroy distress stain onto another piece of kraft cardstock, stamp the focal scene image from the AO Skating Emporium onto the panel with black soot distress ink and added the snow effect again with the large splatter stamp from AO Grunge Elements using picket fence distress stain.

5). Trim a piece of black cardstock for the sketch element, de-static the panel and heat emboss the AO Skating Emporium “Snow Much Fun!” sentiment with winter white embossing powder.

6). Mount the scene created in step 4 to the embossed sentiment panel, adhere to a piece of vanilla cardstock and mount onto the card front with dimensional foam.

7). Heat emboss the skating couple and ice skates from the AO Skating Emporium stamp set with black embossing powder onto kraft cardstock, fussy-cut the images and mount both onto black cardstock before fussy-cutting again (this gives the images stability).

8). Add the fussy-cut skaters and skates to the card front with dimensional foam (doubling the thickness of the foam as needed for the edges of the images).

9). Die cut the two small snowflakes using the ODBD Snow Crystals Dies from vanilla cardstock, add to the card front with pearls in the centers and apply shimmer with a clear glitter pen to finish off the card. 

Thanks again for taking the time to stop by- hugs to all of you and I hope you have a fabulous Thanksgiving week!

AO Skating Emporium

Artistic Outpost Grunge Elements

Snow Crystals Dies

TCC47 Warm Winter Roses

Hi Friends!!

It’s time for new The Card Concept #TCC47 "Floral Elegance" Challenge!  I just love this neutral color palette along with all of the different floral textures in this cake from our fabulous photo inspiration- don’t you? 

For my Mixed Media card, I combined the colors along with a fun textured background (a bit difficult to see the texture in the photo but IRL it almost feels like leather :-)).

Just a reminder that the Card Concept is a bi-weekly challenge that has an inspiration photo along with a number of design styles that you can choose from to create your card- Clean and Simple, Clean and Graphic, Clean and Layered, Shabby Chic, Freestyle Collage, Classy and Elegant and Mixed Media.  

I hope you have a chance to visit us at The Card Concept and check out the rest of our Design Team samples as well as the other challenge sites- fabulous inspiration from all!

I have also linked this card to the Artistic Outpost January 2016 “Show us Your AO Art Challenge"- wonderful designs in their gallery as well:-)

To create this card:

On a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock, apply Liquidtex® Matte Gel Medium and layer pieces of white tissue paper over the gel (allowing the paper to crinkle a bit).

Carefully use a Heat Tool to speed up the drying process and apply ProArt® Gesso® over the surface.

Once the Gesso® has dried, add color using Ranger® Tim Holtz® Old Paper, Tea Dye and Vintage Photo Distress Inks (layering, spritzing and drying with the Heat Tool between layers).

Once you are satisfied with the background, lay the Memory Box™ Winter Flurry Frame Stencil over the corners and remove the ink using a wet cloth (again, drying with the Heat Tool as you re-position the stencil and continue to remove the ink).

Ink the images from the Artistic Outpost (AO) Skating Emporium with Early Epresso Classic Ink (I used the snowflake and the Central Park Script stamps), repeatedly stamp onto the panel and cut out the panel with the Our Daily Bread Designs (ODBD) Double Stitched Rectangle Dies .

Mount the panel onto a piece of Smoky Slate cardstock, sponge Vintage Photo around the edges and mount onto a piece of Early Espresso cardstock.

Add the 1” Dark Brown Satin Ribbon Strip and mount onto the Smoky Slate card base.

Ink the Holly and the Ivy (A/O) image using Staz-On™ Jet Black Ink and stamp onto a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock.

Using Sponge Daubers, apply Ranger® Tim Holtz® Old Paper, Tea Dye and Vintage Photo Distress Inks around the panel to color the background of the image.

Use a paint brush with Titanium White Acrylic Paint (dilute with a small bit of water) to highlight the fur on her collar/arms, ribbon in her hat and the flower at the top right.

Use the Big Shot™ with the (ODBD) Double Stitched Rectangle Dies to cut out the image (I had to re-position the image back into the die after the first pass to reduce the size of the rectangle), mount onto a piece of Smoky Slate cardstock, sponge Ranger® Tim Holtz® Vintage Photo Distress Ink around the edges and mount onto a piece of Early Espresso cardstock. 

Add the Holly and the Ivy panel onto the card front using dimensional foam.

Create the flowers from Very Vanilla and Smoky Slate cardstock using the My Favorite Things™ (MFT) Mini Royal Rose and Royal Rose Dies-use the Crimper Tool to crimp the paper before rolling into the flower and sponge a bit of Ranger® Tim Holtz® Vintage Photo Distress Ink on the edges.

Use the Martha Stewart (MS) Leaf Punch to punch out the leaves from Early Espresso cardstock, crimp the leaves with the Crimper Tool and attach the leaves along with the flowers using Hot Glue to the card front to finish off the card.

I did not add a sentiment yet since I think this card could work for several occasions- Valentine’s Day, Birthday (Winter Months), Christmas or a “Thinking of You”...what do you think?

Stamp Sets: Holly and the Ivy, Skating Emporium (both Artistic Outpost)

Ink: Staz-On™ Jet Black, Ranger® Tim Holtz® Old Paper, Tea Dye and Vintage Photo Distress; Titanium White Acrylic Paint

Paper: Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, Smoky Slate, White Tissue Paper

Accessories: Gesso®, Matte Gel, Big Shot™,  ODBD Double Stitched Rectangle Dies, MFT Mini Royal Rose Die, MFT Royal Rose Die, MS Leaf Punch, Crimper Tool, Sponge Daubers, MB Winter Flurry Frame Stencil, 1” Dark Brown Satin Ribbon, Paint Brush

Thanks again for taking the time to visit- I hope you can gather your supplies and pick a style to create your own card for our gallery at The Card Concept!

CAS Silver Winter Trees

Hi Friends!!

I hope you are having a great weekend!!  I had a chance to play in my stamp room and created several cards for some of my favorite online challenges.

This Clean and Simple (CAS) card was created for the Simon Says Wednesday “Thinking of You” Challenge using the Inkspirational #95 "Anything Goes with Silver" Challenge as well as the CAS-ual Fridays CFC145 “Precious  Metals” Challenge.

If you have not already visited the above sites, I hope you will take a moment to do so- wonderful inspiration from all!

Since the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge was showcasing Hero Arts Products, I decided to use a Hero Arts stamp that I had purchased months ago and have not had a chance to ink it up until this weekend.

To create this card:

De-static a piece of Whisper White cardstock using the Embossing Buddy®. 

Ink the Winter Trees stamp using Versamark™ Ink and stamp onto the Whisper White cardstock, apply Stampin’ Emboss® Silver Embossing Powder, heat set with the Heat Tool.

Trim the image and mount onto Brushed Silver cardstock, trim and mount onto Smoky Slate cardstock.

Stamp the sentiment from Peonies & Tulips (Power Poppy) using Smoky Slate Classic Ink onto a Whisper White cardstock panel, trim the panel and mount onto Smoky Slate card base.

Mount the Winter Tree image onto the card front using dimensional foam.

Add a few Rhinestones to finish off the card.

Stamp Sets:  Winter Trees (Hero Arts), Peonies & Tulips (Power Poppy)

Ink:  Versamark™, Smoky Slate

Paper: Whisper White, Smoky Slate, Brushed Silver

Accessories: Embossing Buddy®, Heat Tool, Stampin’ Emboss® Silver Embossing Powder, Rhinestones

Thanks again for visiting- I hope you can visit again soon!  Hugs and have a blessed weekend, my friends!

Happy 8th Birthday Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps!

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps 

 Hello Friends!

Woohoo!!  Today we are celebrating Sweet ‘n SassyStamps 8th Birthday with a fun Design Team blog hop!   Check out the Design Diva's links below to visit all of their blogs and leave a comment (we have a Birthday Prize drawing as well- see more details below) :-)

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I decided to share a card that I designed using the fun Snowman Soup Stamp Set along with WinterBlessings for a warm, winter celebration card!   FYI- I am also linking this card to the Splitcoaststampers' F4A298 "Coffee Please" Challenge (I rarely drink coffee but love hot cocoa in the winter) :-)

To create this card:

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps- Snowman Soup, Winter Blessings

Ink the Snowman Soup image using Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink and stamp onto Very Vanilla cardstock.

Color the hat, coat and mug with a water brush and retired Stampin’ Up!  More Mustard and Midnight Muse Classic Ink, use Stampin’ Write Markers for the scarf and mittens (Pear Pizzazz), the carrot nose (Pumpkin Pie) and Sahara Sand for the shadows.

You can cut the image out with the coordinating Snowman Soup Dies (I have these on my wish list so I  fussy-cut the image) and set aside.

Ink a portion of the Winter Blessings stamp with retired More Mustard Classic Ink and stamp onto retired More Mustard cardstock.

Trim the More Mustard stamped panels and stitch a rectangle with a zigzag stitch onto Midnight Muse cardstock, trim carefully and mount onto a piece of More Mustard cardstock.

Add the Snowman Soup image to the panel using dimensional foam and adhere the 5/8” Gold Satin Triple Ribbon Bow.

Adhere a piece of My Mind’s Eye™ Asparagus™ Designer Paper to a piece of More Mustard cardstock with a zigzag stitch on the sewing machine, trim carefully and mount onto the Midnight Muse card base.

Add the horizontal strips of stamped More Mustard panels mounted onto Midnight Muse with the zigzag stitch and mount the entire panel onto the card base (I generally use white but you can use any color you choose since you will not see this base from the front of the card).

Stamp the sentiment with Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink onto a scrap piece of Very Vanilla cardstock, huff onto the previously inked portion of the Winter Blessings stamp, lay the sentiment down to stamp a bit of the background onto the panel, trim and create the flag by hand or with a punch.

Adhere the snowflake charm with gold thread to the card front (making sure that the end will be behind the sentiment- I use Hot Glue for this step) and mount the sentiment to the card front using dimensional foam.

Add the focal image panel to the card and finish off with a few Pearls to the corners of the card and a Rhinestone to the center of the snowflake charm.

I hope you enjoy this fun card!  I would love to see your comments and hope you have time to visit and comment on all of my DT Sister's blogs for our Special 8th Birthday Blog Hop!  Don't  forget to comment for a chance to win this fabulous Birthday Party Prize!!

Linky Code:

Snowman Soup

Stamp Sets: Snowman Soup, Winter Blessings  (SNSS)

Ink: Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink, Stampin’ Up! Classic Ink- retired More Mustard and Midnight Muse; Stampin’ Write Markers- Pear Pizzazz, Sahara Sand, Pumpkin Pie

Winter Blessings

Paper: Stampin’ Up! Very Vanilla, retired More Mustard and Midnight Muse cardstock; My Mind’s Eye™ Asparagus™ Designer Paper

Accessories: Sewing Machine, Hexagon Punch, Snowflake Charm, Pearls, Rhinestone, 5/8” Gold Satin Ribbon

Hugs and have a blessed week, my friends!