Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps ~ God Is

Welcome to day 4 of our August feature Blog Hops!  Today we're featuring Dina's wonderful companion set to His Child called God Is.

Stamp set includes 3 images and 5 sentiments
Set measures approximately 4" x 6"
The drummer boy image measures approximately 1 1/2" x 2 1/2"
Designed by Dina Kowal
Priced at $15

This is such a sweet set and a perfect companion for the other silhouette child stamp sets. For my card I did a little mixed media with some Farmhouse patterned paper. I applied gesso to mute is down a bit and then applied some red gelato to the edges rubbing it in a bit. 

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 this set away to one lucky winner!  
The deadline to comment for a chance to win is midnight EST Friday, August 16th.  The list of winners will be announced on our website homepage by Monday, August 19th.
Thanks so much for joining us!  Enjoy the hop!

 

Blessings,

 

Thank You for Loving Me

Today I wanted to share a card I made using the new SNSS stamp set Precious Poppies. I stamped/embossed the flower image using Versamark and clear embossing powder and then colored them with Gelatos from Faber Castell Design Memory Craft (those cool chapstick tubes of coloring medium). Super fun technique!!

I was inspired by the Tuesday Trigger: Magical Magnolias challenge. Isn't this piece beautiful? The flowers and pop of yellow in these magnolias just called me to come and play along. Hope you can join in on the fun!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day! 

Blessings,

 

Check out my CardMaker Tip!

Blogging over on the CardMaker blog today with a CardMaker Tip!  Hope you will check it out....it sure made creating this card easier.  {Here} is a link!

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day! 

Blessings,

 

SNSS Fall Frenzy Blog Hop

Hello stamping friends!!  We are so excited about Fall arriving soon that we've decided to celebrate the season with a Fall Frenzy Blog Hop & Virtual Stamp Day! 

The Design Divas have created some fabulous eye candy for you featuring our wonderful selection of Fall stamps so we hope you'll hop along with us today!
Be sure to stop along the way because we'll be drawing one lucky commenter from a random DT blog to win a $25 credit to the store!!

Today I am showcasing two Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps sets and first is Leaf Silhouettes:

 I love the solid leaf image in this stamp set and used Big Brush markers from Design Memory Craft to color directly on the stamp for the leaves.  I did a bit of combining colors to mimic the fabulous colors God reveals through the fall season as the leaves slowly change colors.  I did a bit of flicking (by coloring on my craft mat with a brown marker, spritzing with water, and picking up the color with a water color brush) to fill in a bit of the "white" space.

Don't you just love the fall colored M&M's that are showing up in stores???  I accented this little treat container using some Simple Stories patterned paper, Spellbinders dies and a sentiment from the stamp set:

And the other fall stamp set I am showcasing is Autumn Leaves:

For this card, I scored a piece of Ivory card stock every 1/4" and stamped the leaves using Versafine ink.  I colored them using Big Brush markers and sponged over it with Old Paper distress ink.  Then I stamped over it with Friendship Script.  Love the "tile" like design to the background!!!

Here's the list of blog participating in today's hop:

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Blog

Monika Davis

Jessica Fick

Cathy McCauley

Mary Faus

Kim Singdahlsen

Bridget Finlay

Dina Kowal

Jennifer Ingle

Kim Schofield

Ceal Pritchett

Giovana Smith

Jennie Harper

Korin Sutherland

When you're done hopping be sure to join us for a fun day of challenges over in our Splitcoaststampers forum.  We're giving away some fun prizes, too, so don't miss it! We look forward to seeing your fabulous Fall creations!

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day! 

Blessings,

 

Wildflowers

Hello!  I managed to make a quick card last night using Wildflowers from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps and coloring direct to stamp using PITT artist Big Brush pens (in Ochre, May Green, Green Olive and Caput Mortuum).  I stamped over the image Friendship Script Background with Old Paper distress ink and distressed the edges.  Very easy peasy.... :)

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day! 

Blessings, 

Grateful For You

 I recently won a contest over on the Penny Black blog and received some wonderful goodies from Penny Black...such a FUN package to open... thank you Penny Black :)  One of the sets I received was Foliage Fancy which I just LOVE!!!  

I made this card using the solid images from the set and gelatos from Design Memory Craft (Faber Castell). I spritzed the stamp with water and used the chapstick tubes to color directing on the solid leaf images before stamping on ivory cardstock. (Some generational stamping was done as well to fill the panel). After I was finished, I used a Black Big Brush pen which I colored onto my craft mat and picked up the ink using a wet paint brush flicked onto the panel. It added some cool speckles!!! The sentiment was stamped with Versafine Oynx Black and embossed with clear embossing powder.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day! 

Blessings, 

Time to be Creative

Today I have something very different from a normal card to share.  I was recently at AC Moore and saw these amazing plain wood clocks and immediately thought about something I had seen Jill Foster share using wooden birds (HERE) and thought I would give it a try.

The flowers on this frame are from Petal Party and embossed using Versafine Black Oynx ink and Clear Embossing powder.  Then, I colored the flowers with a yellow and orange Big Brush Marker from Design Memory Craft     ** they blend very easily layering one color on top of the other 

Here is a photo of that process:

To fill in the gaps between the flowers, I used a yellow gelato and rubbed it in liberally with my fingers.  I added the butterflies from Social Butterfly (which I again embossed with Versafine Black Oynx ink and clear embossing powder).  I colored them with two shades of blue Big Brush Markers and using permanent glue dots attached them to the frame.  I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with the center of each flower and debated between liquid pearls and Want2Scrap bling....the latter won as I considered those holes a bit big for liquid pearls, lol!

I am amazed with how easy, fast and FUN this was to create

and hope I have inspired you to give your stamps a whirl on wood!  I had NO idea how easy it was/is!!!

Now I need to make a trip to Hobby Lobby!!  There is a LOT of shaped wood pieces there... :)

I am entering this into the Penny Black Art Extravaganza and if you have any Penny Black stamps hope you will play along!

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day! 

Blessings, 

Floral with Gelatos

Obviously I have a new favorite floral image...  This time I colored it with Gelatos by smearing a little color onto a craft mat, spritzing with water, and using a water color brush to pick up and spread color.   Super easy and this kinda coloring I can handle, lol!  Then I die cut the image using a Spellbinders die and lightly sponged with Toffee Crunch (a new color from Memento).  The background is a Dreamweaver stencil (Damask) which was sponged heavily with Toffee Crunch ink as well and then sprayed/spritzed with Fireworks Rich Cocoa Craft ink spray. 

I am entering this into the Spatter Technique Challenge in the Moxie Fab World.  LOVE using my spray ink!
 

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day! 

Blessings,

 

Little Moments...

A quick card to share today that I made using Vogue Vases and some Design Memory Craft Big Brush markers from Faber-Castell.  I paper pieced the vase using the same Herringbone CB folder as I used on the Kraft panel.  I used a the Green Olive (167) marker to color directly on the stamp and added a bit of Nougat (178) to add a bit of depth to the fern image.  

I am entering this into the Moxie Fab Stamp It! Cards Challenge.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day!

Blessings,

STV Kit and Gelatos

I have another card to share that I made with the Springtime Silhouettes Stamp TV Kit. This time I used some of the new Gelatos from Faber-Castell.  You can find some wonderful tutorials on their blog: Design Memory Craft.  

For the background, I used the damask image in the kit and heat embossed a piece of White cardstock with Clear Embossing powder.  After it had cooled, I used this cool Gelato (think chapstick, but don't use it as chapstick, lol!) and rubbed it over the cardstock and the embossing.  Then I simply used my finger to blend it in and buffed with a tissue.  Uber cool!!!   The butterfly was stamped/embossed on Red Hot cardstock with Black Embossing Powder, adhered to the card, and had to add a bit of pearl bling. 

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day!

Blessings,