Oh Happy Day

Hello! Kim here to share this card I made using the Sweet Cuts Flower Trio die. I started by die-cutting the flowers with the green cardstock. After that I cut each flower again in yellow, red and blue cardstocks. This is a great way to use up my small scrap pieces of cardstock. I cut each flower at the base to separate it from the stems and leaves and set it aside. I stenciled the clouds background and added some glass bubbles using dimensional glaze to adhere them onto the card front. I started piecing the flowers together by placing the outlines onto the card. I then placed the solid pieces of the flowers and leaves into the outline creating an inlaid look. Last of all I stamped the sentiment onto white cardstock.

Matching Bookmarks

Hello everyone, I have a pair of matching bookmarks for you today.  What better way to celebrate you and your daughter's love of reading than with matching bookmarks!

I created these bookmarks using several Sweet Stamps products:

Wild Roses Clear Stamp Set
French Writing Background Stamp
Locket Lady stamp
Checker Flowers 6x6 stencil
Forget Me Not Shades Dye ink
Medieval Medals embossing powder

If you would like to see more details about how I created these bookmarks, please visit my blog at Ode to Paper.

You can find all of the linked products in the Sweet Stamps online store.  Check back soon for more great inspiration from the talented design team members!

Technique Focus: Resist Stamping and Pigment Powders

Hello, Josette here with another Tuesday card.  Todays card is a bit different.  It involves a technique that has been around for a while with a new twist.  So let's look at the card:

This photo does not do the card justice.  Here is another shot, double click to see detail.

So this technique is very simple.  Stamp the images in embossing powder and heat emboss.  Then using a pigment powder, sprinkle on the image, spritz with water to activate and let dry.  Once dry, place between  a folded piece of computer paper, and either heat with iron, or in my case I ran it through my MINC to remove the embossing powder.  In some instances I go back and color the image or enhance it, but with this card I left it be.  Mounted in onto a black A2 card base and let it be.

On my blog there is a detailed instruction of this technique: Here

All of the supplies are available at Sweet Stamp.  Any pigment powders will work,  I used a product by ColourArt, but there are many on the market.

Thank you for stopping by,
Until next week,
Happy Crafting ,
Josette

Happy Day Wishes

Hello! Kim here to share a card I made using the Poppy ATC stamp and coloring it in with Copic markers. I die cut the flowers after I finished coloring. On the middle circle die, I did a 3rd generation stamping to eliminate the black and created a background behind the sentiment. The fun part is creating the embossed multi-color background for the card front. I did it by using my air can and Copic markers with yellow, blue and green colors then embossed it. I finished off the card by adding sequins using Glastique to adhere it to the embossed background and added a ribbon and a pearl accent.

We have a new challenge this month with an "Anything But a Card" theme. Click the link at the top right sidebar to go to the challenge and enter to win a fun prize.

May’s Anything But A Card Challenge

Hello Sweet Stamp Friends!

First, our winner from April's Anything But A Card Challenge....
Drum roll please......

31. Super Stick Chick

Please contact us (within one week at sweetstamps (at) gmail (dot) com) to claim your sweet prize!!
  

Have you been by the SweetStamp shop yet?  If not, you may want to swing by there and check out April's New Release. 

Super CUTE!!!  Just sayin'!!!  :)

We have also made a small adjustment to the Challenge Rule.  We  are now asking that you only submit 3 entries per challenge.  Any more than 3 entries will be deleted. 

So with that business out of the way, let us get to this month's challenge. 

Our theme is....

Anything But a Card

Remember you still have time to join in our Monthly Anything Goes challenge!

DT Sweeties projects...

Kelli Acopan

Kim Sherrod

We'd love to see your beautiful creations, so come play along! {ATCs, scrapbook pages, mixed media, altered art, tags, etc.} You could win some SWEET things of your own by playing along in our challenge! 

Click here for our complete Challenge Rules.

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***Check back throughout the week for more inspiration from our DT Sweeties!!***

An InLinkz Link-up

Happy Birthday w/ Hanging Fuchsia

Morning-

Happy gloomy Saturday!!  Love the overcast weather, great day to spend outside doing some yard work!!!  My middle boy LOVES veggies and I mean LOVES!!!  He eats tomatoes, cucumbers, and bell peppers right off the tree/vine!  A few months back his class visited a local farm, where they got to pick veggies like carrots, beets, and sugar snap peas!   He loved the sugar snap peas that we planted the seeds they give him and this plant is well over 4 feet tall!!!  This morning we found the first peas!!  Very exciting!!

I've been loving playing with my embossing paste on my cards and I hope you don;t get tired of seeing them!!  One this card I used white embossing paste and re-inkers to create the colored background!!  Very little goes a long way, remember that if you decide to try this technique out! 

Colored the image with Zig Clean Brush Markers again!  :)  Loving them very much!! 

Here is a list of all the SweetStamps products I used and links to the shop:

Hanging Fuschia- Large

Simple Greeting Sentiment  (Happy Birthday)

Stone Path Stencil 

Dreamweaver White Embossing Paste

Black Soot Re-inker

I would like to share in the following challenges:

Thank you again for stopping by and I hope to see you again soon! 

Hugs. 

Pool Party Bear

Hello friends!! kel here today sharing a super fun card with this furry friend, Pool Party Bear Clear Stamp Set.  He is just adorable!

I wanted to keep him simple and looking like he was floating around the card... and I think maybe next time I'll make him into a shaker of some sort!!  How fun!!  I added some Epoxy dots with the Blue Sky 3D Enamel Gel... just absolutely love this because I don't have to spend so much money for a little sheet of dots anymore!!  And the colors are so wonderful... I want them all!!! haha!

Thanks for stopping by, see you again soon!!

lovies, =o) kel

Wild Roses with Leah

I am totally in LOVE with this new stamp set!  It is so gorgeous, and it has so many possibilities!  This is the new "Wild Roses" stamp set, and I have paired it with the "Beautiful Day" stamp, to create this elegant card.

You can find more details about this card on my blog at Ode to Paper.

You can find the linked products in the online store at Sweet Stamps, as well as many other floral stamps and fun crafty stuff.  See you there!

Tick Tock Kitties

Josette here with my Tuesday installment.  Sometimes, you just don't know what to make.  I was playing with my piccolo's and embossing them with different powders, when I thought about time and cats looking at the moon.  Not sure why I thought of that, but my blog is about little bits of inspiration, so this is a good example.

So here it is.  Cute, maybe but interesting yes.   This is a very simple card, A2 in size.  Primarily made with piccalos that have been embossed with different powders, mounted on dimensional and those cute cats colored with Copics.  A couple of ribbons, voila!! a Card.

So, let me tell you about the design and what techniques I used as there are some hidden treasures here.  The first one is the background paper.    I started with an embossing folder and waxed paper.  Then I ran two pieces of card stock with the wax paper in the middle through my MINC and inked it with Distress Inks and a dauber.  If you visit my Blog: Wax Paper Technique, I discuss the whole process with up close photos.

Next I embossed  the Piccolos: Vintage Clock with various powders.  The Frame: REAL_RUST
The Clock and Swirls: VINTAGE_GOLD.  These are all popped up on using dimensionals.  The stamp set is: What's new Pussycat?  It's a party time is from an unknown source that was embossed in gold.  Matt is a brown card base and a bronze and Rust colored ribbon completes the pictures.

Well that is all for today,
Stop back next week for more MINC techniques using Sweet Stamp products.

Happy Crafting,
Josette

Hello

Hello! This is Kim and today I am sharing this card using the Cabbage Rose stamp. I embossed the image using clear embossing powder. I then watercolored it in then fussy cut and popped it onto the circle die cut using 3d foam tape. I also sponged the background using blue and green ink. The sentiment was die cut several times to create dimension. 

Our monthly challenge is still current. Click on the link on the top right sidebar and join us to win some fun prizes. 

You Make Me Smile

Hello SweetStamps.com Friends!!

First off, Happy Mother's Day, to all the lovely moms out there!  

Hope you have a wonderful day!!

I have a fun and bright card to share with you today...

I stamped the smiley faces from the Big Smiles stamp set randomly on my yellow cardstock base! 

I also used the fun "You Make Me Smile" sentiment from the set!

Sure to put a smile on someone's face!!

Have a great day!

GDT Tammi

Hello SweetStamps.com fans!

We'd like to once again give a warm welcome to Tammi from Making Memories!!

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She's sharing her 2nd beautiful card using a Glam Girl Digital Stamp!!

She used the fun digital Shelly Glam Girl!!

What a lovely design!!

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Happy Stamping!

Elegant Entwined Roses with Leah

Hello everyone, I have some elegant roses on a card for you today.  I have used the Entwined Roses and Beautiful Day stamps to create this card, and I kept it fairly simple...I wanted the image to speak for itself!

If you would like to see more details about how I created this card, please visit my blog at Ode to Paper.

You can find the linked products in the Sweet Stamps online shop, hope to see you there soon!

Beary Best

Aloha friends! kel here sharing a simple card perfect for a little guy!!

This is the Beary Best clear stamp set in the Sweet Stamps store.  He is just too cute.  I wanted to keep this card on the masculine side so decided to keep it really simple and without a lot of patterns or embellishments.. just a simple baker's twine  bow around some solid colored banners to keep it all together!!

Thanks for stopping by today, hope to see you again soon!

lovies, =o) kel

Happy Penguin: A Birthday Card

Josette here with another Tuesday Installment:  Todays' card is just plain cute!!

This is a fairly simple card with a big bang happy!  So let's discuss how I made it and the product used.  This is a 5.5" square card.  The base layer is white cardstock.  The Mat, is a piece of watercolor paper.  I randomly dropped Distress reinkers onto my craft sheet, misted with water until very thin, and dragged my paper through the puddles.  Once dry, I enhanced by further misting with water and letting dry.  I usually created several back grounds at a time, trying out different color combos.  Then when I need a base, just pull out the stack and go from there.

The image is from February Release: Cool Penguin.  I used  Classy Circle Frame and coated it with Enamel_Powder_ENCHANTED_AUBERGINE.  Using a circle die, cut out the Penguin just slightly larger than the opening and glued in place.  Added a circle of fun foam to the back.  Stamped the Birthday greeting from:  Kitty_Sweets_Clear_Stamp in black ink and heat embossed with fine clear embossing powder.  A black and white polka dotted bow was all that was needed to finish this card.

The Penguin was colored with Copics.  I used W0 to add shadow and R24 for the Bow with R27 for shadow.  Ready for mailing!!!

Hope you enjoy my Happy Penguin Card,  Come back next week for more card ideas!

Happy Crafting,
Josette

Especially For You

Happy Moday! This is Kim here to share with you my card using the Black Eyed Susans stamp and coloring it in with Copic markers. I added some shimmer to the flowers. The background was done using the Roof Tiles stencil. I sponged it using yellow and a deeper shade of orange inks. The panels were then cut into thirds. I stamped the sentiment using the Simple Greetings set and popped the image onto the panels using 3D foam tape and added some pearls.

Be sure to enter our monthly challenge to win some fun prizes from the Sweet Stamps store.

May's Anything Goes Challenge

Hello Sweet Stamp Friends!

We have a new monthly challenge...

Our theme is....

Anything Goes 

Remember you still have time to join in our 
April's Anything But A Card Challenge & since last month's Anything Goes challenge posted late it's overlapping with this month's challenge which means you have the opportunity to enter twice, but only for a few more days!  :) 
April's Anything Goes Challenge

Here are this month's DT Sweeties inspirational projects...

Nazeema Thompson

Leah Tees

We'd love to see your beautiful creations, so come play along! {ATCs, scrapbook pages, mixed media, altered art, tags, etc.} You could win some SWEET things of your own by playing along in our challenge! 

Click here for our complete Challenge Rules.

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***Check back throughout the week for more inspiration from our DT Sweeties!!***

Happy Stamping! 

Have a super sweet week!

An InLinkz Link-up

Guest Designer Tammi

Hello SweetStamps.com fans!

We'd like to give a warm welcome to Tammi from Making Memories!!

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First a little about Tammi:

Hi my name is Tammi and I live in Southern part of West Virginia. I have been married to my wonderful husband for many years. I enjoy anything that keeps me in my craft room. (lol) I hope to share some of my creative passion with you on my crafty journey and inspire you too.

Tracey, we are happy to have you as a Guest Designer!!

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Here is her first beautiful card with us:

Absolutely gorgeous!!

She used the lovely digital Kendra Glam Girl!!

Other goodies used:

Copic Markers

Nestabilities Dies

Cricut Cuttle Bug Die Cuts

Friskars Die Cut

Paper Pack - Purple Pinwheel - Shadowy Rose

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Happy Stamping!

4020 Blossoms with Leah

I have so much fun coloring flower images, and this one did not disappoint.  This is the 4020 Blossoms rubber stamp, and it can be used to create almost any kind of card.  I have created a "Thinking of You" card with it this week for you to see.

If you would like to see my color combinations for this image, please visit my blog at Ode to Paper.

You can find this wonderful image in the Sweet Stamps online store, as well as many other fun floral images.

Check back again tomorrow for more great inspiration from the Design Team!

Butterflies and Flowers

Hello, Josette here with another Tuesday post.  Today is short and sweet but I would like to share a technique that can be used for all the piccolos at Sweet Stamps.

This is from a shadow box that I created using a resit paper and distress inks for the background.  The flowers were created from Glassine by Ranger and misted with dye ink.  The butterfly is the focus for this posting however.

 I started with Butterfly Accents Piccolo.  Added Enamel_Powder_ENCHANTED_AUBERGINE. after coating the image with _Enamel_Powders_adhesive.

Here they are embossed with the powders.  There is Vintage Black, Mermaid Tears, Mardi Gras, and the darker purple is where I mixed one of these with a darker purple.

Next I glued gemstones and crystals onto the butterfly.

I hope you will explore the Piccolos and Piccolo Enamel Powders and create your own enchanted creations.
Until next time,
Happy Crafting
Josette