Sweet 'n Sassy Celebrating Birthdays Blog Hop

Welcome to the April Sweet 'n Sassy Customer Blog Hop! (It's also digi release day at SNSS so be sure to stop by the web site to see all of the newly released images).

This month's challange is focused on celebrating birthdays and this month we celebrated Korin's birthday!! This month is also home to my 'baby' brother (OK, he's almost 40, I guess he can't be considered my baby brother anymore), one of my close friends, and a bunch of other friends and family members. I guess April is a good month to be born!! :-)

You can read all about the blog hop details here, be sure to check it out because there are prizes involved!! Oh, and I should add that this is a blog hop that you can participate in...it's for our wonderful customers to join in on the fun!

For my card, I used a brand new digi called Cookie's Gift. The image was colored with Copics and paired with this lovely Spring paper from Best Creation. The layout is a loose version of this week's Mojo Monday sketch.

Enjoy today's card and enjoy the hop!

Sweet Tulips

I participated in a CAS (Clean and Simple) challenge on Splitcoast last week and this was the card I submitted. This lovely tulip image is a recent Sweet 'n Sassy release, called Spring Tulips. The SCS challenge was a color challenge; pale aqua and yellow. I used these colors in my coloring (with Copics) and in the layered cardstock. A white satin ribbon was my only extra! Enjoy!

Emerging Color

A quick card from my Wholly Scrap! class last week. This is a technique called emerging color and the looks is achieved the following way: 1) Use solid image stamps for this technique 2) Collage stamp three-four images, in different color inks, all over a white or cream piece of cardstock 3) Allow to fully dry to use an embossing buddy to remove any static, stamp larger solid image in VersaMark and emboss with clear embossing powder 4) Use a brayer and dark ink (I used black on my card) to fully cover the white/cream cardstock. The embossed images will resist the ink. 5) Once the white/cream cardstock is fully covered, use a clean cloth to remove any ink residue from the embossed images. And there you have it! This is a great technique for large floral (or in my case leave) images! All stamps are from Tim Holtz and supplies are from Wholly Scrap! Enjoy your Monday! PS - I have a plea for help!! Blogger will not keep my spacing in my posts, no matter what I do everything gets all bunched up when I publish...even if the preview appears correctly. Anyone have any ideas??

Coaster Box

Happy Friday! I'm so excited for the weekend this week...it's been a busy week and I'm looking forward to not thinking about my marketing consulting work and getting to fully enjoy a few hours of stamping tonight at my monthly Wholly Scrap! class! This month we'll be making this sweet Easter-themed box/basket out of chipboard coasters. I love how easy it is to create these sweet boxes. Perfect for a baby or wedding shower, or even table decorations!

My coasters are covered with bright, Springy paper from Imaginsce. I used a Crop-a-dile to punch the holes in the chipboard and this fun purple ribbon to hold all of the pieces together. I also added a chipboard bottom to the box so that I can fill it with candy! This sweet bunny and egg stamp is from The Paper Company. Enjoy your weekend!

Tiffany Doodles Challenge - TD10

Greetings and welcome to this month's Tiffany Doodles challenge! This is your opportunity to participate in a fun challenge and be entered in to a drawing for wonderful prizes! Our challenges last for two weeks so you have plenty of time to create and post! For April, the challenge was to create a card based on a color inspiration, turquoise, which you can see in the Tiffany Doodles graphic below. For my card I used the 2 Butterflies image, which is available for immediate download for only $2.50! I colored my image with Copic markers and adhered them with foam tape to my a stamped doile image (from Papertreyink). The sentiment is from Sweet 'n Sassy and the designer paper is from Little Yellow Bicycle. So...how about the rules for the challenge! The dates! Start date: Today, April 7 End date: April 21, Midnight EST Winners Announced: April 21 Don't forget to add your card to the Tiffany Doodles Flickr Gallery! Tagged with: TD10 The Prizes! You have two chances to win Tiffany Doodles gift certificates! 1st place - $10.00 gift certificate (Note that you must use a Tiffany Doodles digi image in order to qualify for this prize) 2nd place - $5.00 gift certificate (This prize will go participants who do not use a Tiffany Doodles digi image) Want to see what the rest of the team came up with? You're in for a treat, their designs are amazing! For details on any of the team cards just click on their name on the left hand side of my blog, under the Tiffany Doodles logo, to visit their blogs!

Happy Birthday Blop Hop

Hey, guess what day it is? Yes, yes, it's April 5th but guess what else today is? It's Korin's birthday!! And a bunch of us are hosting a surprise blog hop to celebrate Korin's special day!! WooHoo!! (I think there might even be some prizes in store so be sure to visit everyone's blog!) For those of you who might not know, Korin is the owner and illustrator of Sweet 'n Sassy stamps and she is one sweet lady! I had the pleasure of meeting, and stamping, with Korin about two years ago at a Stamping Around event. Not only is she so full of energy and life, but she instantly puts you at ease and you feel as if you've been friends forever. And now I have the blessing of working on her design team, which is just about the best team out there!!

For today's card I used the Cocoa Kind of Birthday stamp set and paired sweet cocoa with some new spring paper from Best Creation. My image is colored with Copic markers. And since sweet Cocoa took up a decent chunk of my card cover, and I really wanted to use a larger sentiment, I opted to decorate the inside of my card too! How fun! Korin, we wish you the very happiest birthday!! We love you!! Here is the list of who else is participating in today's blog hop...stop by and pay everyone a visit, there just might be a drawing for some free goodies along the way!! Enjoy!! Sweet N Sassy stamps blog Janette Olen Tammy Maynard Sandy Domelle Monika Davis Carol Longacre Jessica Fick Julie Smith Ceal Pritchett Lorie Ames Taylor Usry Jessica Stockmeyer Melissa Craig Amber Hillman Stephanie Serrano Neva McMullen Joni Mastronardi Mary Faus

Keep it Simple Sunday

How about a scrapbook page for this week's KSS project? Yippee! This is my first February page and it features a photo of a big 'ol playdough snowman that was created by my youngest. This was part of one of his pre-school projects that focused on counting. It was a great winter project and I snapped a few great photos of the kids building. I'm hoping to scrapbook those photos this week. So...what's so simple about this page? I only added a few squares of designer paper - all scraps - from My Minds Eye (Be Loved) to a piece of plain 12x12 cardstock. Easy peasy! A few buttons, rub-ons, and paper ribbon were the finishing touches! Enjoy!