A Hoppin' kinda day!

I mean Hoppin' like I have two more cards to show you.

Today starts the first day of the summer kickoff blog hop for Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps and I completely forgot about it is also the day the junior DT posts to The Sweet Stop
a new sketch blog for SNS where you can find a different sketch each week for inspiration, the third week each month there will be a prize involved.
And since today is Wednesday it's Belli day!
The neat thing about all this going on today along with the Sweet 'n Sassy Hop is that both of my cards are made using SNS stamps :) So here they are:


First up my card from The Sweet Stop sketch



For this card I used the Sweet 'n Sassy set Jesus Cares which is currently sold out right now but will be back in stock soon. The papers are K&Co. and I used my nestibilities and prima flowers. If you want to play along go to The Sweet Stop and upload your card using Mr' Linky. If you post to a gallery please use SSS01 as your key word so we can find it.


The Belli challenge 64 is Big Brads or Eyelets and this Sweet n' Sassy digi stamp Keep Truckin fit perfectly. I used large eyelets for the tires. I also made the sentiment included in this set as the back of the truck. The papers are from my stash and I used a MS border punch as well. If you play along with us Belli girls please go to the Creative Belli Blog and link to Mr' Linky or if you upload to a gallery use CBC54 as your key word so we can find it.

What a busy Bloggin' day. Don't forget to follow the schedule I posted earlier and visit all the DT blogs for plenty of inspiration!

See you at the HOP!

Kickin- Off the Summer Sweet ‘n Sassy Style

The FABULOUS Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps DT will be sharing their amazing talent with their choice of Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Summer Stamps on
Wednesday April 29, Thursday, April 30 and Friday, May 1.

Wednesday, April 29

Start on the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps blog and head to
Suzy
Chris
Lorie
Faith
Courtney

Thursday, April 30 head to
Cindy
Jeanette
Teresa
Sandy
Janette
Jeanette
Sarah

Friday, May 1
Korin
Deb
Tami
Deedee
Ceal
and back on the SNSS Blog to wrap it up!

My day is not until Friday but I wanted to share another CAS card with you. I have had this set Warm Up for a while and I needed to make a thank you card for my Life Group and they are all a bunch of Starbucks junkies so this set was the perfect choice. The color combo is one of my favorites Pink & Brown ,and fits the challenge for Our Creative Corner~ Favorite Color Combo. Again it is made with all cardstock and no design paper.

Supplies:

Stamp Set: Warm Up ~ Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps

Textured CS: Baby Pink, Chocolate ~ CTMH

Ribbon: Embellish Online

Misc: Copic Markers, Liquid Glass, Pearls, Shimmerz

Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Embossing Folder

See you at the HOP!

God's Grace

This is the first time or at least I have participated in the CAS challenge on Splitcoast. CAS stands for clean and simple. I think these cards make such elegant and beautiful cards.
This card is made for CAS12. You should play along. I also made this one for the challenge at One Stop Craft "Something New" I used my new nesties that I got for my BDay. I also used no DP on this card giving it a clean look.

Supplies used:
Stamp Set: God's Grace ~ Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps
Cardstock: Blush, White Daisy ~ CTMH
Ribbon: Blush~ CTMH
Misc: Nestibilties Label 3, Sponge, CB Embossing folder

Tomorrow starts the Sweet 'n Sassy Summer Kickoff 3 day Blog hop! Make sure you stop at the SNS blog to start the hop to get some awesome inspirations for my fellow DT members.
I will post the schedule tomorrow along with another card.

See you at the hop!

Magnolia four in one

This one fits the following challenges

Copic Creations ~ Jeans

Magnolia Down Under ~ Spot the Dots
Cute Card Thursday ~ Getting Edgy (distress edges)
Papertake Weekly ~ Spots & Stripes

Supplies:
Image: Summer Tilda ~Magnolia
Flower Image: From Me To You~ CTMH
Papers: Frienship ~ CTMH
Sentiment: Computer generated
Misc: Copic Markers, SU Topnote Die,
Scallop punch, MS Butterfly Punch, Primas
Kaiser Pearls

an Award

I have just received this award from Sue one of my followers of my blog and I am so honored to be chosen by her. Sue lives in Australia and has some wonderful work on her blog. She is the guest DT member for May on Magnolia Down Under. They are a fairly new challenge blog that I didn’t know existed, one more for me to be addicted to.

Here is the text to be included with the award and it is to be passed on to 8 others. It is so hard to pick only 8 when I have so many friends who encourage me and are an inspiration to me so if I don’t list you doesn’t mean I didn’t want to.

And in random order the awards go to

Chris

Korin

Barb

Lori

Sandy

Teresa

Deedee

Courtney

Congrats Ladies and thank you for your friendship and inspiration, and to all my other friends thank you for your friendship as well ...If friends were flowers I would pick all of you!

Friday Sketchers Magnolia

I like how this one turned out with the bright colors. the sketch is Friday Sketchers #49 I just flipped it. The Just Magnolia challenge for this week is a color combo Pink & Green. This card would make a great birthday card to give to someone who is having a Hawaiian Luau for their theme, the flowers remind me of a lea and all those flowers qualifies it for the challenge at Stamp Something "Showers or Flowers"

Details for my card:
Image: Birthday Tilda ~ Magnolia
Sentiment: Happy Birthday ~ CTMH
Misc: Copic Markers, SU Topnote Die, MS Lace Border
and MS butterfly punch, Lots of Primas

CPCM CASE Artist Saturday

Today is CASE Artist Saturday at Christian Papercrafts Magazine and I am so honored and excited to be the featured stamper today! Woot Woot!
Cindy Coutts is the founded this magazine through a calling God placed on her life. She has set up a community of Christian Stampers to be able to share their artwork along with praises and prayers. There is a different daily challenge as well. If you are not a member you are missing a blessing!

Here is the post you will find at CPCM

"I chose Ceal Pritchett as our CASE Artist Saturday for the challenge. Ceal has a fabulous CPCM gallery and if that's not enough, check out her blog at Simply Beautiful Creations. I chose to CASE Ceal's Timmy the Turtle and came up my God is Good card below. You will have fun playing in this challenge. Be sure to use keyword CPCM-CAS02 when uploaded to our community gallery, your blog and other online communities. Have a great day and God bless you!"
Welcome to all and I look forward to seeing your CASE'd project.
Praise God for the talent He has giving you and me!

MoJo Monday 83

Well it took all week but I finally got my Monday Mojo. I had another image I was going to use but when I finished the layout I did not like he image with it. I found this Verve Plain Jane that worked well and its another card to give someone going through trials. The papers are Close To My Heart and the ribbon and flower are from my stash. I used the MS punch for my butterflies.
Can ya tell I like butterflies yet? To me they remind me of 2 Corinthians 5:17 that I am a new creation in Christ, as a butterfly is a new creation from a caterpillar.

Bible Verse Thursday Challenge #2

I am a proud member of a new papercraft community of Christian Papercraft Magazine, They have a challenge everyday and on Thursday you are challenged to use a bible verse. This week Korin challenged us to use a verse of encouragement. I choose Philippians 4:13, a verse that is familiar to most of us, but also a verse that many of us do not realize the power of. This verse doesn't say that we can do some things but ALL things through Christ who strengthens us. We just have to put our trust in Christ so that HE can give us the strength we need. I don't know what you are facing but if you give it to God he will give you the strength you need to get through it. I made this card for a friend who is going through some valleys right now.

This card also qualifies for a couple more challenges Stamptacular Sunday ~color challenge Black and White +1 and Simon Says challenge ~recycle The DP is from an old notebook and it is glossy so it was hard to get a picture that the flash didn't interfere.

Details of my card:
Stamps: Encouragement~Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps
Papers: Old Composition book
Misc: Primas, Nestibilities, MS border punch, Big Brad

Sweet 'n Sassy Monday

The Sweet 'n Sassy Monday challenge is to make a card using scripture somewhere on it whether it be inside or out. I used scripture from the SNS set "Encouragement". The sketch for this one is #112 from CPS. The papers are K&Co, Prima flowers so it qualifies for the Cute Card Thursday challenge "Floral Fantasy". I used MS Punches for the leaves and butterflies. Brads, button, and pearls from my stash.

A little cutie with a puppy

This card ended up qualifying for four challenges. I started it for the challenge at Secret Crafter #28 "CREATE A SCENE", well then I needed a sketch so I found this one by Becky at My Time To Craft. I went to pick out my papers and found the old BasicGrey Romani paperpack so I went to the BasicGrey challenges and their challenge is "PAPER PIECING" so I paper pieced Tilda and when I was done I wish I had chosen a different image this one was pretty tedious. When I got done I was checking my list of challenges and realized I had used punches so it qualified my card for the Spoonful Of Sugar challenge "TO DIE FOR" which was to use punches or diecuts. So there you have it a four in one card with a spring theme to give a friend.

Details of my card:
Stamps: Tilda W/Puppy ~Magnolia
Tilda's Birds ~Magnolia
Fence: Happy Harvest ~Sweet 'n Sassy
Sentiment : Dainty Thoughts ~CTMH
Misc: Copics, Ribbon, MS Border punch, SU Photo Corner Punch

Blog Candy Alert

Katharina Owner of Whiff Of Joy stamps is giving away not just one but TWO summer sets you can go here to enter to win this FAB candy

Just Magnolia

The is a brand spankin new Magnolia challenge blog titled "Just Magnolia". Their very first challenge is this sketch challenge by the very talented Donalda, and wow is there a great prize if you are the random winner. For my card I used Making Memories Papers that I got for my Bday along with the ribbon from Michael's. I embossed the brown piece with my cuttlebug embossing folder. The flowers are cut out from a CTMH set "Friendship Flowers", The sentiment (ticket) is also from CTMH from a set "Just The Ticket". The image is Tilda with Tulips and I used my Copic markers for all my coloring.

Have a Happy Day!

Dreamy Tilda

This one is done for the Secret Crafter challenge which was a color challenge along with a sketch challenge. I thought I had done this one in time but I see they have posted another challenge so this one is last weeks challenge. The color challenge was Chocolate and Orange which turned out to be a pretty color combo. I have made a card earlier this week using that color combo and then realized that I had a sketch to follow as well so here is my card. I used dreamy Tilda, with papers from CTMH and all the other embellishments are from my stash.

April Roundup with a Belli

Got Digi?

If you have been hesitant to try digital stamps you should give it a shot and Sweet 'n Sassy has lots to choose from for only $3.00 a piece and some have sentiments. This is one of the newest "Thanks A Bunch" designed by Tami Mayberry. This is a great set to have to use for thank you and friendship cards because it comes with 3 different sentiments for only $3.00 how cool is that in today's tough economy? I paper pieced the vase and colored the flowers with my Copic markers. This digi image went perfectly with the new paper from CTMH to make a cute card to give your girlfriend




The Belli Challenge this week is Dry Embossing so I pulled out the ole cuttlebug and embossed the background to my card. For this card I used the "Treasure Life" set from CTMH and the sentiment is from the "Jesus Cares" set from Sweet 'n Sassy.

Two In One

This one is a two in one, the sketch is from Truly Scrumptious for their 4th challenge which also challenges you to use flowers and the color combo yellow/green is the first challenge at Simon Says a brand new challenge blog. The stamp is another Sugar Nellie and the sentiment is from Rubbernecker. The papers are from K&Co and again I used my Copic markers for coloring, and embellished it with some Prima flowers, Kaiser pearls, and ribbon from my stash

A Sweet 'n Sassy Cupcake

Good Morning Stampers!

Do you love Cupcakes? Well Sweet 'n Sassy has this new digital set "Sweet Thang" It comes with a cupcake and three sentiments for only $3.00 how cool is that? And the best part is the instant gratification no shipping, no baking, just purchase, download and enjoy!
The Sketch I used for this one is from i{heart}2 stamp and it made a fun card to send a little girl for her birthday. This card also qualifies for the Stamp Something challenge "SHAPES" I used my Copic markers for the coloring, some pop dots for dimension and the papers and ribbon are from my stash.

Five in one

This one is another five in one with me having surgery a few weeks ago it hard for me to sit and make cards so I have to try to combine as many challenges as I can, because we all know I am addicted to challenge blogs :)
Three different challenge blogs had a chocolate challenge. BasicGrey's challenge 30 is " Chocolate Soft Centers" so my chocolate center is Strawberry and I used the Bittersweet papers. Cute Card Thursday's challenge 55 is "Marshmallows and Chocolate" which is a pink and brown color challenge. Cute Daisy May's challenge is also a brown and pink color combo. The sketch is # 47 from Friday Sketchers and One Stop Craft's challenge 24 is "Torn" to use torn paper somewhere on your project.

Details for my card:
Stamps: Flourish~CTMH
Sentiment~CTMH
Basket of Happiness~Sugar Nellie
Papers: BasicGrey~Bittersweet
Misc: Ribbon, Dew Drops. Copic Markers

Blessings

This is another card I had started for a Sugar Bowl Challenge but then did not get to finish, I had already colored the image but had not chosen the papers so I choose the colors to enter it in the color challenge over at Rubbernecker blog for Wacky Wednesday color challenge which is Pink and purple. The sketch is CPS 110 which is a clean and simple sketch.

Details for my card:
Stamp: Demure ~Sugar Nellie
Flowers and Sentiment: Friendship Blessings~CTMH
Misc: Nestibilities Scallop Oval, Copic Markers, white EP

another baby card

This is a card I was working on for the clean and simple challenge at SNSS release party but then got sick and could not finish. I thought I would post it because I think that little turtle from Sweet 'n Sassy digi stamps is just the cutest.

Details for my card:
Digi Image: Timmy Turtle~ SNSS
Sweet Sentiment~ CTMH
Baby Girl sentiment~ unknown
Papers: CTMH
Buttons: CTMH
Misc: Copic Markers, Cuttlebug EF, MS border punch

Five in One

This is one for Several challenges
Sketch Saturday ~ Sketch Challenge
Sweet 'n Sassy Challenge~ Easter Card
Stamp Something Challenge ~ Easter Somethings
Our Creative Corner Challenge~ Favorite Easter Stamp
Copic Creations Challenge~ Coloring faces/Skin tones

For my card I used Urban Prairie papers and a cute Magnolia image, other than Sweet 'n Sassy, and Sugar Nellie, Magnolia stamps are one of my favorites. I used my copic markers for coloring and prima flowers along with some flower ribbon from Michaels.

Belli Challenge 62 Cello Bags

Good Morning Stampers! Today is Wednesday so you know what that means?

It's Belli Day!!

This week's challenge is to use a CELLO BAG in your projects and I choose to use mine along with a small paper bag to make an Easter Gift bag and filled with kisses. Be sure to check out our blog this week because the Belli girls have really stepped up on this one and there are some fabulous projects you can find them on the Creative Belli Blog.
To play along just create a project using a CELLO BAG and post to the blog using Mr. Linky. If you post to SCS or PCP please use the keyword CBC62 so we can find your creation. We look forward to seeing what you create.

Details for my project:
Stamps: Tulips~ Magnolia, Happy Easter~Stamps & Smiles
Misc: Copic markers, Paper bag, CELLO bag, Kisses, Ribbon

New Challenge Blog- New Beginnings

There is a new challenge blog Stamptacular Sunday Challenge that just started today, so the challenge is New Beginnings and I choose to do a baby card since a baby is such a wonderful New Beginning! No I am not pregnant..LOL. There are tons of bonus challenges as well where you can win tons of great stuff so you should stop by and take a look but you have to hurry because you only have until midnight EST to make a "New Beginning" card for the main challenge

Bert and Betty Blog Hop

I am a little late on posting but Today started the 3 day blog hop for Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps
here is the schedule today hop over to the following blogs: SNSS, Suzy, Lorie, Faith & Chris
Thursday, April 2 hop over to the following blogs: Cindy, Sandy, Janette, Jeanette, & Sarah
Friday, April 3 hop over to the following blogs: Courtney, Korin, Deb, & SNSS
Then join us in our forum for the Release Party from 9pm-11pm EST! there are 4 new releases that you are sure to fall in love with.
My card today features some of the Digi images at SNS from the series Through The Garden Gate illustrated by Tami Mayberry the sketch is also one of Tami's that you can find here in the Sweet 'n Sassy PCP group forum.
This card is also for the challenge at Papertake Weekly Easy s 1,2,3 which means
1 - circle
2 - ribbons
3 - stamps/images