Last post as Guest Designer at Sweet Stamps

Hello friends.  I am so glad you stopped in today.  I wanted to share with y'all the last post of my Guest Designer Spot with Sweet Stamps.  I have thoroughly enjoyed my time with them.  I was able to pick out some great products to work with. 

This week's challenge is Christmas Tags.  I don't make too many tags, but I enjoyed making these.  I wanted to them look a bit country so I decided to paper piece them and add some faux stitching.

The stamp set I used is called Mr. and Mrs. Snow Duo.  I used Gina K's Heavy Base Weight Ivory for the base of the snowpeople and MME DP for the elements. I didn't want to add too many embellishments because I wanted to let the snow people shine.  I did add some black faux stitching around the snow people.  To finish off the tags, I added the Merry Christmas sentiment and some Red Jute Twine.

Thanks for stopping in today.  I hope y'all enjoy your Thursday.  God bless.

Guest Designer Spot at Sweet Stamps

Happy Thursday my friends.  Welcome back to my blog.  Today is my day to post as a Guest Designer over at Sweet Stamps.  If you haven't had a chance to check out all the wonderful products in the store, please take the time.  There are many wonderful surprises waiting for you.

This week, the challenge is Christmas Greenery.  I chose to use the Large Poinsettia Swag to make this card.

I began this card by creating a background panel by randomly stamping the image on a piece of white card stock.  I used a Pine Green BIC Marker, a Red Sakura Glitter Pen and a Gold Metallic Gel Pen to color in the images that were stamped with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink.  I stamped the sentiment and added another swag to the top.  Both the sentiment and background panels are matted on Red Recollections card stock.  The Dark Green Colorbok card base is the resting place for this background.  I wrapped a length of Green Organza Ribbon around the back ground panel before adhering it to the base.  The sentiment is popped up.

Thank you for stopping by today.  I hope y'all enjoyed this Christmas Greenery card.  God bless y'all and have a great day!

Challenges:
Robyn's Fetish--#169 Christmas in July
Sentimental Sundays--#164  Christmas in July
One Stop Craft--#235  Make Your Own Background

Guest Designer Spot on Sweet Stamps

Snow Challenge with Guest Designer, Emily Thubbron from www.emsmanythoughts.blogspot.com

Hi, its Emily from Pennsylvania bringing you snow  from Sweet Stamps.   I am using Mr. and Mrs. Snow DUO to  create this card.

It was a tough choice because Sweet Stamps has so many wonderful snow images to select from.

I used the paper piecing technique for this card.  I stamped the image on Neenah White card stock first, then onto four different patterned papers 

from MME.  I cut out each part of the snow people's clothes and adhered them with a ZIG two way glue pen.

I used a masking technique to add the snow to the bottom of the card.  I outlined both snowmen with a very light grey Spectrum Noir Marker.  The image was then cut with Spellbinders Classic Squares and embossed.  I cut a mat for it using the Classic Scalloped Squares from Spellbinders.  The DP is DCWV and the entire thing was added to a Gina K Heavy Base Weight White card base.

So join us this week with your snow  creation. And, of course my special heartfelt thanks to the Sweet Stamps team for the warm welcome and the opportunity to showcase their fabulous stamps this month. 

~Emily T.~

Beauty is the gift of God card

Welcome back friends.  It's good to see ya.  I have a card for y'all that showcases one of Shelly's Images.  Check out Shelly's site here.  

One of the challenges I am entering this card in gave us a theme of creating your own background.  I used chalks to create the back ground behind the horse.  I sure hope that counts as creating your own background.  I printed out the image on GP card stock and colored it with colored pencils and OMS.  I added some silver gel pen to the bridle findings.  I had this cute little fence in one of my Recollections sets.  I stamped it three times and cut them out after coloring them with BIC markers.  I added them along the bottom of the card and pulled out some little Prima flowers to add along the fence.  I should have added some vines, but oh well, my flowers are just floating in air.  I stamped the little bluebird and cut him out and added him to the card with a pop dot.  The butterfly and bee are from the same Recollections stamp set that the fence is from and I think it's called Garden Gnome.

I trimmed down the image to 4"x5.25" and put it on a Kraft (Recollections) card base.  I inked the edges with DI Vintage Photo before adhering it.  The sentiment is one I received in a RAK.   Adding a few little gem centers to my flowers finished off the card.

Thanks for stoppin' by.  I hope y'all enjoy Monday.  God bless y'all.

Challenges:
Shelly's Images--April Showers bring May Flowers
Sweet Stamps--Use 3
Tuesday Throwdown--Create Your Own Background
Stamping with Dragon--Spring Has Sprung ( I used Spring flowers and a grazing horse)
My Time to Craft--#219  Use Kraft 

Rainbows

Howdy y'all.  Thanks for stopping in tonight.  I hope y'all enjoy your visit.

I actually made a card that has no stamping at all.  I printed out the sentiment from my Word Processor and used pop dots to adhere it to the card.  

I pulled some rainbow colored papers and card stock from my stash bins and used a Fiskars Scalloped Border punch to make the layers.  I just adhered them according to the ROY G BIV form on the card.  I added a piece of wide rainbow trim to to the top, punched out some mini 5 petal flowers and added them to the top with clear gem centers.  That's it.  Very easy.  The hardest part of the whole card was punching the borders.

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a wonderful night and God bless.

Challenges:
Created with Love--#37 Reuse/Recycle
Sweet Stamps --#113 A Rainbow of Color
Tuesday Throwdown--#143  Focus on the Sentiment

Yummy!

Welcome back friends.  I sure hope you are enjoying your day.

The card showcased here today uses an image from Melonheadz.  It's called Baking Mom.  I printed out the image on Neenah card stock and colored it in with Chromatix pens.

Do you remember baking cookies with your mom or grandma?  I sure do.  Every year about two to three weeks before Christmas my mom would start baking the cookies.  My favorite was the homemade chocolate chip.  There is nothing better than sneaking a bit of the dough before it's cooked.  Yummy!

I started by making a card base from Chocolate Chip card stock (SU).  I added a panel of pink card  stock from Recollections.  For the DP, I took the HOTP Yummy Kitchen stamp set and chose the Cookie Jar, Spatula, Wooden Spoon, and Cupcake images and randomly stamped them on white card stock.  I then filled in the blank spaces with a little heart.  I used my BIC markers to add a bit of color.  I then took Tattered Rose and Wild Honey Distress Inks and inked it a bit.  I then added a strip of DCWV DP and a strip of border punched Chocolate Chip card stock and tied a sheer yellow ribbon around the middle.  I added the matted image a little wonky and added the sentiment. I stamped another cookie jar, colored it in, and cut it out.  Using pop dots, I added it beside the sentiment.
Adding three green gems to the bottom right corner finished it off.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  Enjoy your Friday.  God bless.

Challenges:
Fresh Brewed Designs--#4  Sweet Treats
Melonheadz Friends--Make it Girly
Perfect Sentiments--#74  Sweet Treats
TTCRD--Anything Goes
Bearly Mine--#81 Anything Goes
Sweet Stamps--#112 Use More than One Stamp