holiday happiness

Hi everyone! It's Leslie, guest designing for SweetStamps during the month of August, and I'm here today to share with you my inspiration project for the SweetStamps Monthly Technique Challenge - Masking! What a fun, fun, fun technique! ;) This technique challenge will run from August 15th through September 14th, so come play with us! You'll have a blast!

I used the beautifully simple SweetStamps Winter Tree stamp along with some JudiKins Eclipse Mask Tape and four Memento inks (Bamboo Leaves, Pear Tart, New Sprout and Pisatacho) to create a little wintery scene for a Christmas card! Nothing like getting a head start! And not to mention that green is my absolute favorite color, so these different shades of green masked trees are just an added bonus to this beautiful card! ;) The inside sentiment is SweetStamps holiday happiness stamped in Pear Tart, Bamboo Leaves and Pistacho. For details, please see my full blog post at Love To Scrap!

Thanks so much for stopping by - I hope you've been inspired to create a masked masterpiece (say that three times fast!) for this SweetStamps challenge! Have an awesome day!
Hugs,
Leslie

Happy Wedding Day

Hi everyone! It's Leslie, guest designing for SweetStamps during the month of August, and I'm back today to share with you my inspiration project for the SweetStamps Bling challenge! I'm so happy to be here! What girl doesn't just love bling?! Come play with us!

I used the Antique Bride stamp as the focal image on the front of my card, embossed on vellum and mounted on some very pretty oval die cuts. The Happy Wedding Day sentiment stamp decorates the inside. Medium and dark shades of salmon were used on her wedding dress, and I carried those colors to the front and inside of the card. I used gemstones, pearls and a wedding rings charm for the bling! For details, please see my full blog post at Love To Scrap!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Hope you've been inspired to create a pretty project with lots of bling for this SweetStamps challenge! Have an awesome day! ;)
Hugs,
Leslie

MONTHLY TECHNIQUE CHALLENGE: MASKING

Time for a NEW monthly technique challenge! 

This month's technique is...

MASKING

A pretty simple and fun techinque!!  Here's a basic tutorial on this fun technique if you've never tried it! 

Now for some lovely inspiration from our DT Sweeties:

Annette Andersson

*Calypso Bastian*

Carolyn LaBille

DeNetra Bates


Denise Paxton

Irena Kowalczyk

Irit Shalom

Karrie Snider

*Kendra Sand*

Lisa Lahiff

Monica Edwards

Roxie Glaza

*Shelly Schmidt*

*Tamara Morton*

Join us for this challenge, we'd love to see what you create!!

Click here for our complete Challenge Rules.

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The next monthly winner will be announced September 15th, along with our next monthly challenge. Good Luck and have FUN!

Dryer Sheet Technique {Monthly Challenge} Winner

The winner of SweetStamps.com's Monthly Technique Challenge Dryer Sheet Technique is...

Leslie

Congratulations!

Fabulous job on that technique! And now you can learn even more techniques, because you've won a specialty CD from Technique Junkies! Just email Pat with your selection and she'll get that out to you!

Thank you to everyone who joined in on the challenge, we hope you had fun and will join us again — we have a NEW technique challenge every month, along with a NEW weekly challenge each Tuesday!

A Tip for The Fine Line Applicator Tip

Have you ever used the Globecraft Fine Line Applicator Tip?  It creates a really beautiful fine line!  I use it all the time with the 3D Enamel Gels.

It creates the sort of details that you just can't get without it.  It is especially useful for eyes and other such detailing.

The only problem is that, being so fine, it is more difficult to keep clean.  That is why I am offering this super easy tip:  fill the container it comes in with water, and store the tip in it. That way, it is always clean and ready to go when you are!

Thanks for stopping by, I hope my tip was useful for you!

Laura Drahozal
Remembering Life's Moments

Challenge # 130: BLING! by guest designer, Julie Odil

Hello, Sweet Stamps friends.  Julie here again today from Muddy Paws & Inky Fingers, sharing the honor of guest designing for you on a really fun challenge theme!  I LOVE bling (and I'm guessing you do, too!) I used the Fanciful Butterflies stamp set (S600) and Fancy Birthday 2-line (9099) to make this blinged up card...

 

You can find the papers I used in the Sweet Stamps Store, too.  They are My Mind's Eye Indie Chic: Citron. These stamps are such a joy to work with! Ink yours up and join in the bling challenge. For more details about this card, please visit my blog.



Challenge #130 Bling

Hello crafty friends! This week's challenge theme is a favorite of many {me included}...

*BLING*

Everything looks great with some added bling! And there are so many ways to add bling... glitter, jewels, sparkly paints, pearls, shiny papers, etc. Take a look at these sparkling creations from our DT Sweeties:

Annette Andersson

*Calypso Bastian*

Carolyn LaBille

DeNetra Bates

Denise Paxton

Erika Selander

Irena Kowalczyk

Irit Shalom

*Jacqueline Hill*

Karrie Snider

*Kendra Sand*

Lisa Lahiff

Monica Edwards

Roxie Glaza

*Shelly Schmidt*

*Tamara Morton*

We'd love to see your creation, so bring on that Bling! (ATCs, cards, tags, scrapbook pages, and altered art are welcome), so come and join the fun! You could win a $20 shopping spree for goodies at SweetStamps.com's online store by playing along in our challenge! Click here for our complete Challenge Rules.

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There's still a little time left to join our current Monthly Technique Challenge {Dryer Sheet Technique} that runs through August 14th. Check out all the monthly challenges here.

Next week our theme is Anything Goes and our Sweeties will be featuring some of the NEW ArtsyfArtsy clear stamps!


Happy Stamping! Have a super sweet week!

 

Silhouette Challenge Winner

The winner of SweetStamps.com's Challenge #129 Silhouettes is...

Julie

Congratulations!

Please contact me for your winning prize of a $20 shopping spree at shop.SweetStamps.com.

Thank you to everyone who joined in on the challenge, we hope you had fun and will join us again — we have a NEW technique challenge every month, along with a weekly challenge each Tuesday!

Happy stamping!

Have A Beautiful Day

Hi everyone! My name is Leslie and I'm so stoked to be guest designing for SweetStamps during the month of August! A huge thanks to Kendra and crew! Woo-hoo! I'm absolutely thrilled to be here! I "found" SweetStamps this past February and just love working with their awesome products... everything from stamps, ink and embossing powder to dies! ;)

A little about me... I'm married with a grown son and daughter, and a beautiful granddaughter, and live in sunny (and sometimes miserably hot) north Florida! I'm absolutely addicted to stamping, and love creating beautiful cards, paper shoes and mini albums. And thanks to my sister, I've recently added beading to the list! I work full-time and spend most weekday evenings vegging with the hubster on the couch, but my weekends are usually devoted to playing in the scrap room and getting inky fingers!

I wanted to keep my inspiration project for the SweetStamps Silhouettes challenge simple and elegant. I used the gorgeous In Her Easter Bonnet stamp as the focal image on the front and the Have A Beautiful Day sentiment stamp on the inside. For details, please see my full blog post at Love To Scrap!

Thanks so much for stopping by - I hope you're inspired to create a beautiful silhouette project for this challenge! Have a beautiful day! ;)
Hugs,
Leslie

Seeing the colors of G&P Embossing Powders

Hello! Tracy here with another tip using Globecraft & Piccolo products.

I love using G&P Enamel powders in artwork, there is so many colors and textures I keep finding new things to do with them. Though with Globecraft having so many completely different colors it is hard to choose which one I would like for a project. So I came up with a way to create an index of embossing powders to keep track of my collection!

Enamel powders generally look very different in the jar from they are finally heated. I can keep track of what the final colors would look like by applying them to scrap pieces of bookboard.

You can use any piece of scrap bookboard or chipboard you like, I use the ovals since I do a lot of home decor work and want to see how it would look on a larger surface. In this photo I am apply G&P Enamel & Embossing Powder Adhesive to the bookboard oval.

I like to apply two coats of embossing powder to the bookboard for intense color but it is not a necessity. You can use the total heat set technique or do half & half: total heat set for the first coat, and flash heat set the second.

After the enamel powder has cooled I write the name of the color on the back and keep my color index of enamel powders with the jars of powder. Anytime I have a project I want to see what colors would look best I pull out the index! :)

Inspired by the Tips and Tricks you see on the Globecraft & Piccolo blog? Post your projects on the Globecraft & Piccolo Facebook page!

Until next time, Safe travels!

Super Excited to Share a Silhouette! by guest designer, Julie Odil

I want to thank Stacey and Sweet Stamps for giving me the opportunity to guest design this month.  I've been looking forward to August for a long time now! I'm Julie Odil, and you can find more of my work at Muddy Paws & Inky Fingers.

I've always been creative, spending my days working as an activity director/music therapist at the local nursing home.  My husband and I are very active, walking our 2 Golden Retrievers (one goes to work with me everyday), biking, kayaking, hiking,  & motorcycling. Whenever I have any "free" time, I'm in my craft room, creating something.  I love stamps and paper, and am happiest when getting inky.

For this week's silhouette challenge, I used the beautiful "Queen Anne's Wildflowers" (6008G) stamp to make this card:

And, here's the inside Sweet Stamps sentiment (9126C)

There's details on how I got this watercolor effect on my blog.

Make a silhouette project and link up with us!