Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps April Release Hop & Giveaway

We are so excited to be hopping today with some inspiration with the amazing April Release. Hop along and leave a little comment love for the designers linked below and you just might be the lucky winner of a $25 gift voucher to the Sweet n' Sassy Stamps shop. Winner will be announced on the SNSS blog, Wednesday, April 28th.

 

 

My first card features Just Married from the April Release and the out of the vault Hearts Die Set.

 

I stamped the image and sentiment with VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink on white cardstock. I embossed the car with clear embossing powder, colored with Arteza Real Brush Pens and fussy cut out. I stamped the love sentiment from the set with Versamark ink on white cardstock and embossed with clear embossing powder. 

I die cut the panel with a stitched edge rectangle die and then ink blended Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide ink over a portion of it. I die cut a small heart and colored it red then cut a banner tail on the sentiment. I assemble as seen on a gray card base popping the image and sentiment up with foam tape. 

My second card features the brand new Everyday Greetings 2 along with previously released True Beauty, Background Builders: Stripes and Bookmarks & More Die Set.

 

 

Everyday Greetings 2 is filled with fantastic sentiments and I love the mix of bold with a smaller font!

To create this card, I decided to pull from my stash of extras. I actually have quite the pile of colored images, backgrounds and die cuts so I was glad to put them to good use. The blue background was created with Versamark ink and the Stripe background set. I love this ink for a more subtle tone on tone look. 

The multi step roses were stamped with shades of pinks, purples and greens and fussy cut out. I stamped the sentiment with black ink on the bookmark and trimmed to fit the blue die cut panel. I assembled pieces on a white card base popping the bookmark and portions of the flowers and leaves up with foam tape. As the final touch, I added some small white pearls around the sentiment.

 

 

Giveaway: Leave a little shout out in the comment section on each stop along the way for a chance to win a $25 gift voucher to the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps shop! Comment deadline is 10 pm ET Tuesday April 27th with winners announced on the 28th.

Thanks for stopping by and your next stop on the hop is the fabulous Julee Tilman!

Sweet n' Sassy Stamps

Sheri Gilson

Michelle Hale 

Lyn Tomlin

Lieschen Harshbarger  

 Lee Ann Barrett

 Karen Decknick 

 Julee Tilman

Jane Bosi 

Esther Asbury

Diane Zechman

Charmaine Canham 

Ceal Pritchett

Have a great day!

Karen

 

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps March Release Hop & Giveaway

We are so excited to be hopping today with some inspiration with the fabulous March Release. Hop along and leave a little comment love for the designers linked below and you just might be the lucky winner of a $25 gift voucher to the Sweet n' Sassy Stamps shop. Winner will be announced on the SNSS blog, Wednesday, March 24th.

 

 

 I love the playful design of the Garden Whimsy set and it pairs perfectly with Texture Tiles 11. 

I began by heating embossing the leaves from Texture Tiles 11 on white cardstock with clear embossing powder. I inked the background up with mowed lawn distress ink. Then, I wiped off ink from the embossed parts, used my heat tool to make the embossing shiny again and die cut the one end with a scallop edge die from Bookmarks & More Dies. 

Next, I heat embossed the butterfly from Garden Whimsy on white cardstock with black embossing powder. I colored the image with Arteza Real Brush Pens and fussy cut out. I stamped the sentiment with VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink on a scrap of turquoise cardstock.  

I started to assemble the card, but decided to stamp some stripes on the white card base with Background Builders: Stripes and aqua sky ink. I assembled as seen, wrapping string around the front and popping the image and sentiment up with foam tape. 

Giveaway: Leave a little shout out in the comment section on each stop along the way for a chance to win a $25 gift voucher to the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps shop! Comment deadline is 10 pm ET Tuesday March 23rd with winners announced on the 24th.

Thanks for stopping by and your next stop on the hop is the amazing Lee Ann Barrett!

Sweet n' Sassy Stamps

Julee Tilman

Ceal Pritchett

Diane Zechman

Esther Asbury

Jane Bosi 

Karen Decknick

Lee Ann Barrett 

Lieschen Harshbarger 

Lyn Tomlin

Michelle Hale 

Sheri Gilson 

 

 

Have a great day!

Karen

 

 

Wishing You

Happy Saturday everyone, today I am sharing a floral card with an old fashioned vibe to it. The old fashioned look was not part of my original plan, but how it turned out and I really like it.

This card was pretty easy to stamp and complete. I mixed and matched inks from various companies to stamp the roses and leaves from True Beauty on white cardstock and hand trimmed out. I used Background Builders: Stripes to stamp the lines on the white (pale pink ink) and pink (versamark) cardstock. I like to use VersaMark when I want a more subtle tone on tone effect. I die cut those panels with scallop and stitched edge dies. I stamped the sentiment from So Happy with Versamark and embossed with white embossing powder. I assembled as seen popping the white panel up with foam tape.

 

 

My card also fits the February VIP Challenge over in the Sweet 'n Sassy Facebook Group. We would love to have you join us!
 

 

The So Happy set is part of the Overstock Sale going on during the month of February at Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps.

 

 

I hope you enjoyed today's card and have a wonderful day!

Karen

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps January Release Hop & Giveaway

We are so excited to be hopping today with some inspiration with the fabulous January Release. Hop along and leave a little comment love for the designers linked below and you just might be the lucky winner of a $25 gift voucher to the Sweet n' Sassy Stamps shop. Winner will be announced on the SNSS blog, Wednesday, January 20th.

 

 

 I'm sharing two cards today featuring three of the new January Release sets. 

My first card features two of the new coffee themed sets, I Like Big Cups and Coffee Talk 2. I love coffee and collecting coffee stamp sets!

 

 

I wanted to create a little bit snarky non-traditional color Valentine's Day card. I started by embossing the hearts from Grunge Elements 2 in clear embossing powder on bristol smooth cardstock. I cut the panel with a stitched rectangle die, ink blended with chipped sapphire distress oxide ink and added a piece of washi tape. 

I stamped the coffee cups with VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink onto white cardstock and pattern paper. I stamped the lids a second time and coffee sleeves on white. I fussy cut the cups, lids and sleeves. I stamped the sentiment from Coffee Talk 2 and XO from Much Love with chipped sapphire on the coffee sleeves. 

I paper pieced the cups together. I stamped Happy Valentine's Day from Love Wordfetti on white and cut a banner tail. I assembled the card on a white card base popping one of the coffee cups and sentiment up with foam tape. 

 

My second card features the fun new set Background Builders: Stripes and I used a previous layout from Freshly Made Sketches.  

I began by stamping the thicker stripes from Background Builders: Stripes with buttercup ink on so saffron cardstock to create a tone on tone effect. I cut the panel down and mounted on a black panel. Next, I stamped the Delightfully Delicate Background with VersaMark ink on a kraft cardstock base. 

I stamped the teapot from In This Together, with VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink, colored with Arteza watercolor brush markers and fussy cut out. I stamped the sentiment with black ink on kraft cardstock and assembled the card popping the sentiment up with foam tape.  

 

 

 

Giveaway: Leave a little shout out in the comment section on each stop along the way for a chance to win a $25 gift voucher to the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps shop! Comment deadline is 10 pm ET Tuesday January 19th with winners announced on the 20th.

Thanks for stopping by and your next stop on the hop is the amazing Lee Ann Barrett!

Sweet n' Sassy Stamps

Julee Tilman

Ceal Pritchett

Diane Zechman

Esther Asbury

Jane Bosi 

Karen Decknick

Lee Ann Barrett 

Lieschen Harshbarger 

Lyn Tomlin

Michelle Hale 

Sheri Gilson 

 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a fantastic day,

Karen

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