SNSS – Time Well Spent

Happy Friday!!

Today I have a fun card to share. I love to try new techniques and when I stumbled across a Youtube video with Gina K teaching a vintage looking background, I knew I had to try it and I knew the Psalm 23 background stamp and the new Time Well Spent set would be great to use!

It is pretty simple but I think I like it. Maybe a little more practice is necessary but it’s definitely a fun technique for my toolbox 🙂

I hope you are inspired to try a new technique!

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Lyn

PS and by the way… The Sweet N Sassy Store just kicked off summer with a sale!!

SNSS – TLC Scrape Painting

For today’s TLC challenge at SplitCoast Stampers, I am challenging folks to try the Scrape Painting tutorial shared two weeks ago. I always leave them in my inbox when I want to try them so I don’t lose them or forget I want to try them. It is always fun when I can check it off my list and remove it from my inbox. This one was very fun!

I used acrylics from my stash – colors I like no brand specifics. I decided to go with an ocean theme so I finally tried out a stencil that has been in my stash a VERY long time! The sailboat (popped up with foam) and sentiment came are from a new stamp set at SNSS called Peace Be Still – I absolutely love it!!

I hope you are inspired – I would love for you to join in the challenge HERE!

Lyn

SNSS Begin Again

This weekend, I took my inspiration from my desk 🙂 Meaning, there was versa mark, embossing powders and “watercolors” and the Sweet N Sassy stamp set Begin Again. These butterflies are so beautiful and have so many possibilities!

Here is what I came up with…

First – a set of cards. using  the big butterfly, a rainbow of Brusho colors (one at a time) and gold embossing powders. My mom is going to love these! She is always asking me for greeting cards and these should be perfect for any occasion.

My second project is a mixed media look. I used Distress inks, the smaller butterflies, clear embossing powder, and Psalm 23 to add to the background.

My final project is a Bible Journal card using a card I had previously done and the small butterfly and sentiment in silver – I love this simple card!

I hope you were inspired to play – embossing powder can be super fun and add a lot to your projects!

Thanks for stopping by!

Lyn

SCS – TLC Challenge – Front Flap Card

For today’s TLC challenge at SplitCoast Stampers, I am challenging folks to try the Front Flap Card tutorial shared a few weeks ago. It has been in my inbox since it was posted so I am super excited to try it today!

I decided to play with a stenciled background and a versamark tone on tone background using Cocoa’s Latte Digital Stamp and Grunge Elements 2 Clear Stamp Set and a sentiment from Special Blend Clear Stamp to create a fun giftcard holder. Pretty simple but super fun!

I hope you are inspired – I would love for you to join in the challenge HERE!

Lyn

Bugaboo Oldie Thursday – Girls Night – Mixed Media

For today’s card, I created a fun mixed media background with a geli plate and acrylics. I colored up my girls from Bugaboo called Girls happy trio using Copics and since the  Small Talk (Tim Holtz) sentiment sticker booklet was still on my desk from my last project, I used it again :).

It’s pretty simple but it makes me smile and it reminds me of me and my two friends…so twice the happy!

I hope you are inspired – have a great and blessed day!

Lyn

SNSS Going Vintage

Today I have a couple of cards using two of the April release sets Country Garden and Beautiful Birds.

Both of the images I chose were colored with Copics then cut out and adhered two distinctly different backgrounds. One clean and simple and the other mixed media with oxides, stencils, and texture stamps. They both look very vintage to me and I really love the results. I completed them with sentiments from the Friendship is a Blessing stamp if the Month. This set is so perfect – especially to let a friend know you are thinking about them, praying for them, and so grateful they are in your life.

Here is the clean and simple one using the chair from Country Garden

Here is the second one using the chickadee from Beautiful Birds. This one also uses Wood Background and Psalm 23 for texture as well as a couple of Tim Holtz stencils.

As we spend more time at home, I find myself trying to mix things up and challenge myself. Going CAS and definitely CAS at the same time was a challenge for sure! I hope this inspires you to try the same.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Hugs,

Lyn

SNSS – In a Digi World… In this Together!

Have you had a chance to play with some of the new digis at Sweet N Sassy this month? Since we are all at home, they decided to go digital on some fun sets and I am in love with all of them! Today, however, I am featuring the new In This Together set. It has some many sentiments that are perfect encouragement to send out to those people you love and miss right now. There are also three stamps that can be sized, flipped, positioned however you want! HERE is a quick (not professional haha) how-to of me setting this set up from download to print…

So… I have three different cards using this ONE set and they are all pretty different! All of these were set up on a Word doc and printed – some were printed on Copic friendly Xpress-it paper and the last one was printed on lightweight Canson watercolor paper.

First, I created a scene in the corner of my page using the tea cup with flowers in a pretty big size. I wanted it to be a little off the card so that’s how I placed it. I also added the It’s going to be ok sentiment. To test that it would fit right on my card I added a text box beside it that was 4.25×5.5. After I confirmed the spacing was good, I deleted the text box as they can get tricky if you leave them there… I also added some smaller sized images on the page as well as a bunch of sentiment and printed it out… I love to keep these printed pages on my desk, pop on some music, and color a little while with no card making plans – just relaxing and coloring….So great for stress relief!!

NOW for the cards that came of that creative time…

For the first card, we have a CAS card. I cut out my scene and mounted it on some coordinating blue cardstock and adhered that to an A2 size card. At this point it seemed a little bottom heavy so I pulled out the new Stamp of the Month Friendship is a Blessing and used the Dear Friend piece. I love this new set – it is great for inside and outside card sentiments. I definitely see this being a go to stamp for me!

For the second card, I used one of the smaller cups and one of the sentiments and added it to a mixed media back ground I had in my stash. Serendipity I think 🙂 I had a fun die from Mama Elephant that you could run ribbon through. I wanted to use this for my sentiment but I couldn’t find the right color of ribbon…so I found a scallop border die, and used on it two sides of a strip of the blue I mounted my card’s front on…paper ribbon woohoo!! My final card is also CAS but it is a little different. I followed the same steps to create a scene that I mentioned above but I used lightweight (90lbs) Canson watercolor paper – think less expensive pad from Michael’s. It isn’t going to do well with a lot of water as it does pill; but it has that pretty watercolor paper texture and will go through the printer whereas heavyweight generally doesn’t. AND it was great for this project.

I took the flower border image and copied it twice. One I put on top of my Mother’s Day sentiment (In the set) and the other I flipped and put it under the sentiment. It created a sort of loose wreath for the sentiment to nestle into. I used my Arteza watercolor pencils and colored my image in the areas I wanted to be my “shadows” and to create the highlights, I blended those areas out. NOW here is where I switched things up to accommodate the fact that this is a digital stamp, therefore, printed with inkjet ink (which isn’t a friend to water) I used my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen to blend instead of water. It blends great, it looks watercolor’y’, and it is sparkly (that doesn’t show up here but it is 🙂 )I mounted it on some matching cardstock and adhered it to a top-folding A2 card.

Mother’s Day Card?…Check!!!

I hope you were inspired today. Digital stamps are super fun and super versatile and they conveniently store in a folder on your computer not on a shelf haha!

ALSO – have you seen the new April release of clear stamps? There is a super fun hop happening with prizes… Start here – Sweet ‘n Sassy Blog and have fun!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Lyn

Bugaboo Challenge – ATG You Rock!

I forgot to hit submit and post my card! (Ughhh) Saturday (two days ago – sigh) Bugaboo posted a new weekly challenge and it is anything goes! I had my card ready but alas…

I have been holding onto a SplitCoast Stampers Spotlight technique for a while (do you ever do that?). It is called Center Stage and thought it would be so much fun to use Rock Star Boy. This one uses inks for setting the stage (haha) but it is colored with Copics. I hand wrote the sentiment.  It is going to be the perfect bday card for a special guy!

I hope you are inspired to try a new technique and to jump into the challenge at Catch The Bug… Did I mention there are prizes??? Just post your project to Catch the Bug, by 4/11/20 at  6:00 AM EST to be entered a random drawing for three digi prize packs – )  10 free images   (using a Bugaboo image only),  seven  (7), or four (4) using any image!

I am going to enter this into the following challenges:

• Sketch Saturday – Week #604 – Make a scene
• Creative Crafting Uncles – #3 BIRTHDAY

Thanks for stopping by!

Lyn

SNSS – Soooo Blessed!

WOW!!! I had the best weekend at Sweet N Sassy’s Creative Worship retreat! There was much learning and loving and a whole lot of Jesus! I still haven’t finished all my projects, but here are a few…

Friday I worked and then lead a demo on embossing. I showed lots of techniques and then went back over the weekend and made something out of each (even the one that was a “mess up” 🙂 .) If you didn’t get a chance to join in, the lives were all saved as were the music lists, etc in Unit 2. If you aren’t a member of the group – I really think you would love the love and encouragement you fin there… It is the Creative Worship Bible Journaling Group

Here is a quick look at the “collection”. I used Cheerful Hexies, Psalm 23 BG, Sweet as Honey, and Faith Wordfetti for the demo.The first faithdex card showed HEAT embossing on pigment ink, Distress Oxides, and Versa mark. It also showed that Distress oxides could be used through a stencil and embossed for extra texture and that embossing a outline stamp creates “walls” for your watercoloring. I added some interest with the Psalm 23 BG stamp in random places and added splatters of black and white acrylic paint and finished it with some sentiments from the Faith Wordfetti set.

This one was so busy with techniques, but in the end, it really worked and is a favorite!

Here is the close up of the bee that I inked up a second time and cut out and glued (just the body) on top of the original. Then I pulled the wings up a bit for dimension.I added my verse on the back so I could reference.

The second one showed that you could layer your embossing and stamp into the final layer for a wax seal look. I added some embossed patterned hexies and splatters with DOx inks I used and picked a simple sentiment. This will go in my Bible and I will journal on the back.

The third one is another faithdex card. I inked a hexie and then decided to do another direction so I started over with project two. But when it was time to show dry embossing, I grabbed this one back and ran it through my Cuttlebug with an embossing folder. It was a mess, but I didn’t want to chunk it so I smooshed some inks all over it, added a layer of gesso to calm the inks (especially the original hexie I was trying to hide) added some spots of “texture” with the Psalm 23 BG stamp and some stenciled hexies. Then I found a BG I had created using the same ink colors I had pulled out for this one but in Distress Inks vs. Oxides – so they were bolder! I stamped the Psalm 23 BG on top, then stamped and embossed an outline hexie (two sizes). I fussy cut them and added them and a Faith Wordfetti sentiment and I was so please that it came together in the end!

The forth and fifth project showed a way to stretch that embossing folder; essentially using it as a stamp.

For this one, I inked up the back side (where the crosses stood out) with Distress Oxide, and closed the folder with my faithdex card lined up inside. I added a few patches of the Psalm 23 BG words randomly. I really liked it, but it was so simple – what to do? I grabbed a digi stamp called Old Rugged Cross sized it to the size I wanted and printed it and colored it with my copics. Then I fussy cut it and glued it to my card. I used my Bitty Minnie Alphas to stamp out part of Isaiah 53:5 and added a sentiment from Faith Wordfetti to my tab – This became my favorite!

The last one, I inked it up again with a couple colors, misted it, and closed my journal card inside it. It was so fun, I decided to finish it by adding a Cocoa Mouse digi image (colored with Copics) some washi, a sentiment from Faith Wordfetti and a sewn on ribbon (I had to dust off my sewing machine haha!) This card will be my first entry in my Loved Bible I am starting – so excited!

I am still working on finishing up the last few projects but here are a few other projects from the retreat.

A faithdex card taught by Amanda Ginn. I used Bitty Minnie Alphas and Chunky Alphas, and Faith Wordfetti and  The Good News (for the sun)

A vellum insert using a printable from Pile of Ashes and Lots of Alphas (just mix em up) – led by Amanda Hargrove

Clips and a tassel bookmark taught by Elizabeth Chu.

Watercoloring and stamping in Hymnals by Stephanie (IG Faith.and.creativity) I used Landscape Silhouettes, Scene Silhouette:Trees, Thrill of Hope (NOT just for Christmas :)) and Chunky Alphas

What a blessing this weekend was! I hope you are inspired by this projects as I was by the weekend! Now I need to go finish coloring and cutting flowers (Gail Bond at Patio Ponderings) and working on my gel prints (Colleen at Stir the Soul)

Thanks for stopping by!

Lyn

 

Bugaboo – Oldie but a Goodie – Feeling Lucky

Happy Thursday! I know we are all a little tired of being inside, but it does give us a chance to play in our craft rooms. I had a lot of fun creating this one! Today I am sharing a  super fun mixed media-like card featuring Fanny Calendar March.

For the background, I have a few layers of techniques so here goes:

• First I ink blended a couple of green Distress Oxides (including Clover green haha!) Then I spritzed it and let it dry.
• Second, I used a direct to paper technique with my same green ink pads (I explain it in THIS POST).
• THen I inked up a shamrock embossing folder and pressed the panel in it (with my hands not a die cut machine). It is subtle but you can see them if you look 🙂

I colored my image with copics and cut her out and adhered her to the background panel and used a sentiment I had in my stash and have never used (win!)

I hope you are inspired to create something today. Bugaboo has lots of fun images that would work! I also hope and pray you and your family are healthy and safe!

Thanks for stopping by!

Lyn