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!

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!

GDT Claire

Hello SweetStamps.com fans!

Guest Designer Claire is back today with her second card!!!!

Ready for her adorable card?

Here is a word from her....

Hey,

I'm back again with my second Guest post for Sweet Stamps..

If you missed my first post you can see it here.

I chose the Christmas Mouse stamp for my second card...I loved him when I saw him shortly after Christmas, but knew I could make him work for other occasions.

I printed out the Mouse quite big deliberately because I wanted him to be the main focus of my card. I coloured him using Promarkers.

I played around with lots of different layouts until I realised that he would work best with a 'wallpaper' style background.

I used stamped the birthday wishes multiple times to create a fun background behind the mouse.

The funky triangle paper came from my recent trip to Amsterdam from a random, non crafty shop.

The glittery silver strip is washi tape - that I keep for 'best' LOL.

My whole card is a tribute to using things in different ways - don't be afraid of using your Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween stamps for other occasions - your stamps have so many uses, especially digital stamps, as you can make them as big or small as you want.

Go over to the Sweet Stamps shop and have a look around at all the goodies they have.

I've really enjoyed this mini two post guest series, big thanks to the Sweet Stamps team for having me with them.

Cx

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Happy Stamping!

Guest Designer Claire

Hello SweetStamps.com fans!

We'd like to give a warm welcome to Claire!!
Be sure to visit her blog and leave her some love!!

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Hey,

Exciting day today.

This is my first post of two as a guest designer for Sweet Stamps - they make beautiful digi stamps and I am super excited to be working with two of their fun stamps.

I chose the fun Denise Glam Girl stamp for my first project.

Before I start 'building' a card, I like to lay the elements out and see how they will work. Here's a rare photo of that process.

What can you see? A shaker pouch, a card blank, three pieces of card, friend die and sentiment stamp.

The Denise stamp reminded me of a good friend, so I decided this card should be for her.

I really enjoyed colouring the stamp and the great thing about digi's is that I get to print a sheet of them and try out various colourways before choosing the final one, then I still have a sheet of coloured stamps ready to go for later.

I fussy cut the stamp, as I wanted her to sit on the front of my shaker card.

Constructing the card was very easy to do.

I love the girly, but funky feel of the card. I know my friend will love it too.

Visit the Sweet Stamps store, to check out Denise and all the other fun stamps and products that are available.

I'll be back with my next project soon!!

Cx

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

We absolutely love your pretty shaker card you created!!

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Happy Stamping!

Guest Designer Darlene

Hello SweetStamps.com fans!

Darlene from Dar's Crafty Creations is with us again as a Guest Designer!!

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Today's card was created with a fabulous digi named FELICITY.

My daughter is into fitness and is currently training for a triathlon!

A wife, mother, and business owner,  I am so proud of her and thought this image

was perfect to create a card of encouragement for her. 

This is a great example of the variety of digital stamps available

at the Sweet Stamp Store ... please be sure to pop over and check it out for yourself.

Have a fabulous day!

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Please be sure to visit Darlene's Blog and leave her a little love!!

Thank you so much for joining us Darlene!!  We loved your beautiful cards!!!

Happy Stamping!

Guest Designer Darlene

Hello SweetStamps.com fans!

We'd like to give a warm welcome to Darlene from Dar's Crafty Creations!!

She's our next Guest Designer this month!!

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First a little about Darlene:

Hi!  I’m Darlene Pavlick from Akron, Ohio, USA.  My husband, Mark & I are originally from Pittsburgh, PA and that is where our families reside.  We have one daughter who is married with two children, Morgan (23) and Jonathan (18) and has her own accounting business.  She is the one who got me started in paper crafting about 12 years ago.  To make a long story short, once she introduced me to scrapbooking/card making, I’ve been paper crafting every day since.  It is my passion and mental therapy! I am retired, have the basement of our home set up as my ‘crafting cave’ and spend lots of time there spreading my creative wings!  I’ve been blessed to meet so many wonderfully talented people from around the world through this craft and many have become personal friends!

I’m honored to say that I have been on various design teams over the years but currently I am a member of The Sisterhood of Crafters (Originating sister 2010), Dies R Us Inspiration DT, Blog and DT Leader for Dies R Us Challenge Blog (March 2014), Robyn’s Fetish (2015) and a good friend and I just started our own challenge blog in January 2016 called Double D.

Please come visit me at Dar’s Crafty Creations http://www.darscraftycreations.blogspot.com/

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

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Here is Darlene's first project with us:

This sweet digi is called CLAIRE

and, she's all ready for those warmer temperatures

that we are all longing for!!  

I've kept my card pretty simple because I wanted you to see just how fabulous these digital stamps are.  My background was created by simply sponging blue for the sky and green for the grass on a white piece of card stock.  A spring time  frame die cut and a few butterflies help set the scene for CLAIRE.

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Darlene has another card to share with us next Friday as well!!

Happy Stamping!

Guest Designer Tracey

Hello SweetStamps.com fans!

We have Tracey Mowbray from Mowbray Designs joining us again today!!

Be sure to visit her blog and leave some love on her beautiful projects!!

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Here is the card she is sharing with us today:

A lovely step card!!

She used the beautiful Denise Glam Girl Digital Stamp for her card!  Once again, she colored this image so beautifully!! 

Once again she finished up her card, by adding some beautiful flowers!!  We just love those tiny roses!!

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Thanks so much Tracey for joining us and sharing your lovely talent!!

Happy Stamping!

Welcome Guest Designer Tracey

Hello SweetStamps.com fans!

We'd like to give a warm welcome to Tracey Mowbray from Mowbray Designs!!

She's joining us today as a Guest Designer!!  Stay tuned as she will be joining us again next week!!

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First a little about Tracey:

I'm married & have 2 wonderful teenager boys who keep life busy!  I live in Oxfordshire in the UK. And my passion is crafting. I love to take a blank piece of paper or card & make something with it. I love to colour using copics, gel pens & water colours.  Have been papercrafting for over 11 years but have been crafting in one way or another all my life. 

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

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Here is her first beautiful card with us:

She used the adorable Tween Girl Flower Digi Stamp!!

We just love her beautiful coloring of this sweet image!

The added flowers really add the perfect touch!!

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Happy Stamping!

Looking for Guest Designers

Hello SweetStamps.com Friends!!

We're looking for.....

GUEST DESIGNERS!!

Do you enjoy working with digital stamps?

You can check out our current digital images here!

You'll be able to choose two digital images you would like to work with!!  In return, we'd love you to share the two projects with us, to be posted on our blog here!   We will link to your blog and give you all credit!  You just need to post your project to your blog and send us your write-up, we'll take care of posting it here!

Trying to keep this as simple and fun as possible!!

We ask that you use the digital image as your main focal point.  It's understandable we don't have many sentiments, so you can print or own, or use a stamp in your collection, but ask that it isn't too large and take away from the image as well as not linking or talking about the company it is from. 

Looking to possibly have 2 guest designers each month.  

We will work out posting dates at your convenience! 

This is meant to be fun and carefree!!  

While sharing our love of creating!!

If you're interested, please send us an e-mail:

sweetstamps(at)yahoo(dot)com 

All you need to provide is your name and link to your blog!!

Hope you will like to join us!!!

Pieces of Life

 Hi stamping friends. I'm so excited to be the guest designer for the month of April here at SweetStamps. I'm Barbara Washington and I've been stamping for many years. One Thanksgiving my sister brought over a set of stamps and demonstrated how to heat emboss. I was smitten and the rest is history. Creating with paper and trying new techniques are my passions. I live in Chicago with my two grown daughters, my 7 year old grandson, my 3 year old granddaughter, and four cats.  I enjoy trying many of the blog challenges which are posted each month. This month I look forward to sharing my interpretations of the challenges here at SweetStamps and I hope you will join me. You can learn more about me and see more of my work on my blog, Magic Delights.
This week the challenge at SweetStamps is dies. Here is the card I created.

The base card is white cardstock. The layering panel is a piece of design paper. All of the dies used are Cheery Lynn dies. SweetStamps has a large collection of Cheery Lynn Design Dies for sale. The corners  were die cut from the panel. The center oval was cut and the negative of the die cut was used to frame the lilac bunch (SweetStamps). The lilacs were colored using distress markers. China blue distress ink was stippled around the image to give a little dimension. The dragon flies are also Cheery Lynn Design dies. The card design says spring; hopefully, mother nature gets inspired. I can't wait to see what you design for the dies challenge.

Bunny Swirls

Hi friends!  Sandy here for my last March guest designer post, so this is bittersweet partings.
I think this is one of my favorites, and I enjoyed making cards for these challenges.  I would also love if you stopped by my tutorial blog, Scrapbook Blessings Club, for daily tips, tutorials and technique.
A big thank you to SweetStamps for letting me be guest designer.

This week is Sweet Stamps'
 Swirls challenge

For this card, I pulled out my favorite embossing folder which is.... Swirls of course!!!  But to give it a little color, I used the Letterpress technique found HERE.
 The biggest tip when doing this technique is to tap on the color from the ink pad, not smear it on.  To finish it off, I did simple paper layering, ribbon and prima flowers.

colored with Prismacolor pencils and odorless mineral spirits

Stamp Set used:

Tulip Bunny 668

• Item #: 668H
• Manufacturer:SweetStamps.com
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Thanks for stopping by. I hope you have a blessed day!

Sincerely, 

Sandy

HIS and HERS

Hi friends!  Sandy here for my next March guest designer post.  This week is Sweet Stamps'
  Anything Goes challenge
 and the March monthly technique challenge is Coloring Stamps with Inks.
I enjoyed making cards for these challenges.

The first card is Anything Goes. I decided to do a masculine card. I never do enough "guy" cards so for me this a little challenging. I think simple is best so I went with a bunch of layering with mats.
For the coloring, I decided to use a neutral ink and then using Prismacolor pencils, I add just a quick touch of color. I don't think it is too fancy.

For my second card, I wanted to make a more feminine card. It was easier to do to, lol. I used Tim Holtz Distress Markers to color my stamp with ink.  I absolutely love the "line art" that this image has. I think these birds are fabulous. Definitely one of my favorite stamp!  To mat this great stamp, I used Martha Stewart punches.  I also used just the first line of the sentiment stamp on the front and then added the whole sentiment on the inside.

Stamp Set used:

Eagle's Nest & Scripture DUO 3072K

• Item #: 3072k
• Manufacturer:SweetStamps.com

AND

Goldfinch Pair & Scripture DUO 3071K

• Item #: 3071k
• Manufacturer:SweetStamps.com

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you have a blessed day!

See ya next week, 

Sandy

Triple Time Luck

Hi friends!  Sandy here for my second March guest designer post.  This week is Sweet Stamps' LUCKY challenge. This was a fun for me. I used one of my favorite tutorials to create my card and couldn't wait to share it with you....Triple Time Stamping.

The shamrocks I used were perfect to use and as an added bonus, I decided to emboss them in different greens. Here is my card and the link for the tutorial that I use when doing this technique...

Triple Time Stamping

So what do you think?  This is a very easy technique that looks fabulous when it is all put together.  I used shimmery gold card stock to appease the Leprechauns and I went ahead and embossed the sentiment to  match the embossed shamrocks.  The embossing powder I used was Sweet Stamps Fine Detail Black embossing powder. It is by far THE best fine embossing powder for small print sentiments like this one! Its in my "craft box" all the time.

Stamp Set used:

Shamrock Wish DUO 2002

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you have a blessed day!

See ya next week, 

Sandy

Frame Card- Guest Designer Sandy Hentzel

Hi Friends!  Sandy here, I am March's Guest Designer and over the moon to be creating and stamping with you.  

A little about me...I live in "sunny" Ohio, married and a working (full-time) mom of three. I started scrapbooking 10 years ago with card thrown in the mix about 3 years ago. Since then, I have been hooked with stamping. It is my stress reliever after I get the kiddos to bed. I love the sense of accomplishment when I look at the finished product and making gifts for others.  You can find me at my craft desk almost daily and love, love, love learning new techniques and tutorials. That's about it. I am a simple crafter that likes to have fun with my family, friends and scrapbook crafters everywhere.You can also find me at The Scrapbook Blessings Club which is my tutorial blog along with my personal blog at A Working Mom's Joy.

 I am looking forward to inspiring you with projects, showcasing the wonderful stamps from SweetStamps.

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Have you checkout this weeks SweetStamps challenge... SPRING FLOWERS?  I don't know about you but I am ready for warmer temperatures, birds chirping and flowers blooming! 

I decided to create this project using the Frame Card Fold...

 You can find the tutorial I used to make this cute frame HERE. It is easy to follow, and  I think it is a great way to showcase this pretty stamp. 

And don't forget the inside of the card too! I like to adhere a strip of the pattern paper that I used on the front inside the card to coordinate.

Stamps used for this card are:

Joyous Bouquet 3065F

and

Goldfinch Pair & Scripture DUO 3071K

Thanks for stopping by and have a blessed day!

Vintage Lady - Julie Warner Guest Designer

Hello and thanks for stopping by! Today is my last post as the February Guest Designer and I can't tell you how much fun it's been! I've had such a wonderful time working with these beautiful images and adding to the fun challenges each week. I've saved this lovely lady for last....to use my favorite color..GREEN. I love all shades of green and I especially enjoy contrasts so I added dark pink and peachy shades to play off the greens. After coloring Margery with Copics, I die cut her with a mega oval then embossed her with the oval from the Radiant Rectangles set then added her to the green die cut from the same set. The designer paper is from Prima and I used it because the vintage style seemed to go with my vintage lady. But...the paper didn't have quite enough of the peachy pink colors so I used a Copic to add more of these colors to the paper. I also used the bisque & sardonyx Copics to color the seam binding I used for the wrinkled bow. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50 and these are the Copics I used. And in case you're wondering, the blue violet was used for the shadows on Margery's skin.

Thanks so much for stopping by

Supplies:

stamps: Sweet Stamps - Margery

paper: X-Press It, green dp (Basic Grey-Wander ), printed (Prima - Almanac)

ink: Memento tuxedo black

accessories: Copic markers, pearls, Spellbinders mega oval & radiant rectangle dies, seam binding, mini bowdabra

Flower Frames - Julie Warner Guest Designer

Julie here again and I hope your week has gone well! The Sweet Stamps Challenge this week is Anything Goes, so be sure to check it out! Since anything goes, I wanted to use this beautiful Framed Daisies image. This is one of those cards that the idea starts out simply enough, but as it develops, it gets more and more complicated. I'm sure that never happens to you!

After stamping the image on a large white panel and coloring with Copics, I decided I really wanted to die cut it. First problem, none of my rectangle dies are big enough. Ok, so I used a larger square and resized it...not a problem, except I combined it with the out of the box technique, too. So it's a little more complicated. But it worked and I liked the way the corner flowers pop against the navy blue paper. I used the same paper to back the greeting oval. I decided to repeat the daisy corners on the background and colored the lines and shaded the vines but the daisies themselves were fussy cut and added on top. Two extra daisies were added where the frames stopped on the sides, just to finish the line. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25 and these are the Copics I used.

Thank so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend.

Supplies:
stamps: Sweet Stamps- Framed Daisies 3019, Special Day 9114
paper: X-Press It, designer paper (Teresa Collins - Moments collection)
ink: Memento tuxedo black
accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders squares & ribbon tags & labels 33 dies

Poppy Love

Happy Saturday!

Julie here again with a card for this week's LOVE Challenge theme! It's no secret that I love floral images..especially I love to color them. Don't you just adore this Poppy Vase image? I couldn't wait to color it. Instead of bright red poppies, I made mine more of a coral, orangey color, sort of a California poppy color.  I used Copics to color it then a circle die to cut it out. I decided I only wanted a partial circle, so I cut off the left side. The remaining piece of white card stock, was trimmed and embossed with a small heart pattern before I attached them both to a piece of violet blue designer paper. The "love you" phrase was die cut out of a textured metallic copper card stock and I made a matching 1/2 inch "faux brad" out the same card stock and attached it to help fill in a little of the blank space.

The rest of the layout came about because of pieces I had left over and I decided I liked the way they fit. Be sure to check out the Sweet Stamps Love Challenge, you could win a fabulous prize!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:
stamps: Sweet Stamps - Poppy Vase
paper: X-Press It white, designer paper (SEI - On the Coast collection), textured metallic copper
ink: Memento tuxedo black
accessories: Cuttlebug embossing folder & love you die (Love Language combo), Spellbinders circle die, Copic markers
Poppies, Flowers & Leaves- Y06, Y15,  R00, R02, R22, R27, R35, R46, R89, YG01, YG25,YG45, G28, B21, B24, B28
Vase: B60, B63, BV20, BV25, C00, C1, C3

Special Day Teapot - Julie Warner Guest Designer

Hi! Julie Warner here and I'm thrilled to be the Guest Designer for February! I was also lucky enough to stop by and meet Stacey this past weekend at the Heirloom Convention in Lawrenceville, Ga. I also "know" Roxie from Splitcoast & Shelly from Technique Junkies. I'm a native Texan but my husband & I moved to N. GA about 16 yrs ago. For as long as I can remember, I've been painting or coloring something. I found rubber stamps back in the 80's when I bought a few at a home show. Before stamps became mainstream, I used to carve my own. I'm currently one of the Featured Stamper Challenge hostesses on Splitcoast and a Dirty Dozen Alumni (I'm known as justwritedesigns on Splitcoast).

Have you checked out the Sweet Stamps Color Challenge #155...Red, White & Pink? Perfect for Valentine's Day next week! I used the challenge colors for my card today, using this lovely Millie's Teapot Arrangement 3043.

After coloring the image with Copic markers, I used a square die and an Out of the Box Nestie technique. I know Roxie did a tutorial similar about the same time I did this one, and it's still one of my most used techniques. The designer paper layer was die cut with a larger square and the larger white layer was trimmed to fit along with the side layer of the same dp. Two pearl white Candi dots were glued in place and the Special Day 9114 was hand cut in the pennant shape and attached on the right side only. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25 (A2). Usually I take a picture of the Copics I used, but I forgot. So here is a list of the colors:

R11, R20, R22, R35, R46 (poppies)

RV10, RV11, RV19, RV34, RV55 (tulips)

YG01, YG09, YG11, YG17, YG67 (leaves)

C00, C1, C3, C5, BOOO (teapot & shading)

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend!

Supplies:
stamps: Sweet Stamps - Millie's Teapot Arrangement 3043, Special Day 9114
paper: X-Press It white, dp (Basic Grey - Knee Highs)
ink: Memento tuxedo black
accessories: Spellbinders lg & sm square dies, Copic markers, Candi dots

Pink Bells

Hi folks!  It's Holly with my last guest post here on the Sweet Stamps blog.  I truly appreciate this opportunity to share my Sweet Stamps creations with you during the month of December.  I've had a wonderful time playing with these beautiful stamps.  I'm leaving you with this card that I created using the gorgeous Bells with Bow stamp.

This week's Sweet Stamps challenge is Something New.  This Bells with Bow stamp is a new stamp to me, and it is such a relaxing image to color.  I created this card for my grandparents.  Their 69th anniversary is coming up in a few weeks, and I knew this stamp would be perfect!

I picked these colors specifically for my grandparents.  How can you go wrong with a pink and brown color combo??  :-)  I stamped the Bells with Tuxedo Black Memento ink and then pulled out some Copic markers to color it with - E44, E49, R81, R83, and R85.  Once I finished coloring, I sponged some Antique Linen distress ink around the edges.

For the card base, I pulled out some papers from the Pretty In Pink 6x6 paper pad (Glitz) and adhered them to a white layer.  Everything was glued down onto a brown card base.  Then I die cut some corner pieces and added a white pearl to each one.  Finally, I adhered my Bells image with foam tape in the center of the card.

Check out the Something New challenge on the Sweet Stamps blog and play along with us.  You could win a $20 shopping spree at Sweet Stamps!  Thank you for stopping by to check out my artwork here this past month.  Here's to a wonderful new year in 2014!!

Poinsettia Christmas

Hi, it's Holly, the Sweet Stamps guest designer, posting today.  I realize Christmas is over, but I just had to share this card that I made a couple weeks ago.  Since this week's Sweet Stamps challenge is Anything Goes, I figured I'd share this with you today.

I stamped the Poinsettia Corner with Tuxedo Black Memento ink in the opposing corners of the white cardstock rectangle.  I then carefully positioned the Merry Christmas Script sentiment in the center and stamped it with the same Tuxedo Black Memento ink.  Next, I colored the poinsettias and leaves with Copic markers, and then I filled in the centers of the flowers with Goldenrod Stickles.

Once the Stickles was completely dry, I then sponged the edges with Antique Linen Distress Ink to tone down the whiteness of the piece.  I glued this to a green layer and then wrapped some red seam binding around this and tied it with a bow in the corner.  I then glued this down onto a card base with some designer paper on it.

I hope you had a wonderful and very Merry Christmas with your friends and families.  If you have a chance, check out the challenge and play along with us!  You could win a $20 shopping spree!  :-)