Psalm 16:11

I made this card for this week's color and sketch challenges over at Splitcoaststampers.com. This Sweet n Sassy stamps scripture verse is mounted on Spellbinder dies and the flower spray is made with My Favorite Things flower and flourish dies. The scalloped borders are also by Sweet n Sassy Stamps.

Cheers!!
DJ

Down by the Boardwalk

Glimps of the sun have really made me crave summer and a chance to walk on the beach! I heat embossed this Sweet n Sassy Stamps starfish and colored him with Tombow markers. I placed him on the dock (hopefully someone will throw him back in!) with some seaglass colored Dew Drops and Psalm 139: 9-10 mounted on a wavelike Spellbinders Floral oval die.

Stamps: Sweet n Sassy Stamps - Beauty by the Sea
Paper: My Mind's Eye, SU
Accessories: embossing folder, heat gun, embossing powder, Tombow markers, foam tape, Spellbinder dies, Dew Drops

Happy Spring!

I definitely need a touch of spring, so I added some Spellbinder Rose Creation flowers to this adorable Sweet n Sassy Stamps Chickadee.

Stamps: Sweet N Sassy Stamps - God's Purpose
Paper: My Mind's Eye, Stampin Up
Accessories: Sweet n Sassy Stamps scalloped die, embossing folder, jewel stickers, My Favorite Things doily die, seam binding ribbon, glitter glue, Copic markers

Friends of Speedy TV Challenge - Border Punch

This week's Friends of Speedy TV challenge at Mark's Finest Papers is to use a border punch, come join us, a different stamp set is given away to a winner every week! http://www.mfpspeedytv.ning.com/
We had an embossing challenge a couple weeks ago and I really loved the heat embossed effect and have been heat embossing most of my images since, and coloring them with Tombow markers. It gives the church a great shine that can't be seen in the picture. There's a My Favorite Things flourish behind the seam binding bow and I lined the bottom with dew drop glass beads, and of course, an edge punch!!

Stamps: Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co - Christmas in the Country
Paper: My Mind's Eye, Stampin Up
Accessories: seam binding ribbon, Heartfelt Creations corner die, My Favorite Things Flourish, embossing powder, heat gun, embossing folder, Dew Drops, Martha Stewart edge punch

Morning Glories

My inspiration for this Sweet n Sassy card was the beautiful new paper by Echo Park and My Mind's Eye. Come visit the Sweet N Sassy Stamps blog for more ideas and beautiful images. http://www.sweetnsassystamps.blogspot.com I heat embossed the morning glory image and colored with Tombow markers, then raised with foam tape on a oval doily die. I've been thinking about these Spellbinder flourishes that I've had for a while and never used, tryed it in different colors, but teal seemed to work best with the seam binding ribbon. I added a twine bow behind the seam binding to add a country feel and to go with the wood patterned paper.

Stamps: Sweet N Sassy Stamps - Morning Glories
Paper: Echo Park, My Mind's Eye, SU
Accessories: Sweet n Sassy scalloped edge die, embossing folders, Spellbinder dies, seam binding ribbon, embossing powder, heat gun, Tombow markers, water pen, twine, jewel stickers, My Favorite Things oval doily die, foam tape.

Friends of Speedy TV challenge

This week's Friends of Speedy TV challenge at Mark's Finest Papers is to make a Friendship card, join us http://mfpspeedytv.ning.com. This card was so much fun to make, I was inspired to make a country card by this beautiful designer paper by My Mind's Eye, I decided to make blue pansies and lace.

I heat embossed the pansies and colored with Tombow markers and a water pen. The image was cut out and raised with foam tape on an embossed plaid SB circle and placed on a Cheery Lynn doily die. I gave shadow to the lace edge by punching it in blue and white and layering them. The sentiment is raised with foam tape on a Spellbinders Picot die and jewel stickers were added for sparkle.

Stamps: Mark's Finest Papers - Spring Flowers (Pansies), Dogwood Blossoms (sentiment)
Paper: My Mind's Eye, SU
Accessories: Embossing folders, seam binding ribbon, foam tape, Cheery Lynn doily die, Spellbinder dies, MS edge punch, half pearls, jewel stickers, Tombow markers, blender pen, embossing powder, heat gun

Thanks for stopping by!!

MFT Guest Designer Contest

This is the card I made for the My Favorite Things Guest Designer Contest. The theme this month for the contest is 'Hit the Books'. I brought the book challenge out in my card by adding wordy designer paper, a script embossed bg, and I made the card for a teacher thank you, teacher's always love books!!

I colored this precious Pure Innocence image with copics and paper piecing and I glossed the apple with Diamond Glaze, she's raised with foam tape on a My Favorite Things oval Decorative Doily die in black.

I really enjoy making flowers and MFT has the most beautiful flower and leaf dies.

The white flower is made with the e MFT Prima Donna Petals die set. I used a stylis from my flower making tool kit to give the petals dimension and added a half pearl to the center. The roses are made with the Mini Rolled Roses, I inked the edges and once again used the stylis for dimension. A seam binding bow, swirl die, and leaf dies bring up the rear.

Stamps: My Favorite Things Pure Innocence - Apple for You
Accessories: My Favorite Things Prima Donna Petals, Mini Rolled Roses, leaf, Decorative Doily, Faux Crochet Border, and Swirl dies, half pearls, embossing folders, Spellbinder dies, Copic markers, foam tape, seam binding ribbon, jewel stickers, Diamond Glaze.
Thanks for taking a look!

Sweet N Sasy Birthday Banner

This card is made with the versatile new Sweet n Sassy Pennant Party set.

I went with bright colors and inks for this fun banner card and added foam tape to each layer for dimension.
Stamps: Sweet N Sassy Stamps: Pennant Party
Accessories: twine, seam binding ribbon, jewel stickers, MFT edge die, embossing folder, Spellbinder dies, foam tape.
Paper: BoBunny, SU

Yellow Roses

This week's Friends of Speedy TV challenge at Mark's Finest Papers is to make a sympathy card: http://mfpspeedytv.ning.com/. Thankfully, I don't currently need a symapathy card and so this is for my stash.

I colored these pretty Mark's Finest Papers roses with Tombow markers after heat embossing them. The bg is embossed with an embossing folder.
Stamps: Mark's Finest Papers - Love Remains
Accessories: Cheery Lynn doily and lace edge dies, embossing folders, Spellbinder dies, half pearls, seam binding ribbon, foam tape, Tombow markers, embossing powder, heat gun
Paper: Mark's Finest Paper, My Mind's Eye
Thanks for taking a look!!

Guest Designer for I Spy Sketch Challenge

I am so honored to be guest sketch designer this week on I Spy Sketches http://www.ispysketches.blogspot.com with this card that I created last year.

There are so many great artists and ideas on this site, check it out!! http://www.ispysketches.blogspot.com

Blue Flower Challenge

I made this card for the Verve sketch and this week's Free for All - Blue Flowers challenge over at SplitCoastStampers. I got a little carried away with the flowers, they were very fun to make.

The blue flowers are made with the Spellbinder Rose Creations die, I used a flower tool kit stylis to give the flowers dimension and added a My Favorite Things flower die for the yellow centers.

The roses are made with the large and medium My Favorite Things rose dies.
The flowers are layered over a chocolate seam binding bow, MFT swirl dies, and Spellbinder leaves.

Stamps: Verve
Spellbinder: Leaves, Rose Creations, Oval, and label dies
My Favorite Thins dies: Swirl, rose, flower center
Magnolia die: Heart edge
Cheery Lynn dies: Lace doily, lace edge
Paper: My Mind's Eye, Stampin Up
Accessories: Jewel stickers, foam tape, seam binding ribbon, embossing folders
Inks: Pool Party, olive, mustard, rust

Thanks for stopping by!!

Sweet n Sassy Stamps Guest Designer for March and Blog Hop

I am so privileged to be a guest designer for Sweet n Sassy Stamps for the month of March!! I'm excited to design a card with the new SNSS Paris Collage Stamp Set.  My family was blessed with a trip to Paris a year ago and it was one of the best experiences of our lives!! I tried to put a little of that love into this card!!

I stamped the Paris collage on watercolor paper in black and distressed the edges, the roses and leaves are colored with Tombow markers and I ran a little rust ink along the border.  The background panels were embossed with embossing folders and touched with more distressing ink and the flower is made with Spellbinder scalloped circles that were scrunched and distressed.

Stamps: Sweet N Sassy Stamps - Paris Collage

Accessories: Sweet n Sassy lace edge die, Spellbinder dies, seam binding ribbon, embossing folders, Tombow markers

Welcome to the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps March New Release Celebration!  The Design Divas are so excited to be kicking off this month's amazing stamp release with a blog hop today.  You are probably joining me from Mary Faus' blog; if not, be sure to head back to the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps blog so you don't miss a thing!

We hope you enjoy checking out the projects as much as we've enjoyed making them!   Ready to get started?  Your next stop is Amber Hillman's blog.  And just in case,  here is the whole list of team members hopping along with us today:

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Blog
Korin Sutherland

Jessica Fick

Kim Singdahlsen
Cathy McCauley

Mary Faus

DJ Rants

Amber Hillman

Monika Davis

Kim Schofield

Giovana Smith

Holly McMillen

Dina Kowal

Bridget Finlay

Taylor Usry

 

After the hop, make plans to join us for our New Release Party over in our Member Company Forums on Splitcoaststampers.  We'll have full reveals of all the stamp and dies sets being released this month, challenges to inspire you, and of course fun chatter with great friends!  See you there!