June SNSS Blog Hop + GIVEAWAY

Welcome to the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps June Release Hop! 

We're so excited about the new stamps available in the Sweet & Sassy Stamps shop this month and can't wait to share the projects we've been working on with you! Hop along to the blogs linked below for all sorts of papercrafting inspiration and a chance to win! 

Yep, there's a GIVEAWAY! Leave a little comment love on each stop along the way for a chance to win a $10 gift voucher to the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps shop. Winner will be announced on the SNSS blog, Tuesday, June 25.

This card set started with a large scrap of watercolor paper sitting on my desk.  I recently picked up a couple gelatos on clearance at Michaels. They weren't colors I typically use, so I knew I didn't already have them in my stash. Since I hadn't used gelatos in a while, I decided to just play and see where it took me.

I started by making circles all over my paper with the darker green, then overlapping circles of the lighter color in between, making a big grid of circles all across the paper. I then pulled out a waterbrush and blended out the darker circles, then the lighter circles and added some more streaks of gelatos in the empty spots and then blended wiht a baby wipe.

I then cut my panel into 3.25 x 2.25" panels. I then lined them up together on my mat, and pulled out some stamps to add some texture. I used the script from Texture Tiles 1 and the distressed plaid from Texture Tiles 3, stamping them randomly across the panels in leaf green archival ink. I love these texture sets so much!

Next I pulled out the Hymn Word Art set and stamped and embossed a different saying from the set onto each panel. This set is beautiful and I know I'm going to be reaching for it again and again! I started with white, but realized that it kind of got lost in the green, so switched to black for the other two panels. From there, I sponged the edges with peeled paint and black soot distress oxides.  I used a rough mask of copy paper to cover up my stamping and then splattered black ink all around the edges. To finish off the panels, I added a few pen accents where needed and matted with black card stock.

When these were done, I pulled out the Peony Cluster set and stamped the large peony image. I colored the blooms with Copics, then watercolored the leaves with the gelatos I had used on the hymn panels. I then fussy cut the images, cutting the flowers apart, then arranging them with the hymn panels for a bit of accent.

To finish things off, I embossed some diagonal stripes onto stone cardstock and glued it all down.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! 

Your next stop along the hop is Cathy McCauley

Here's the official hop list.

Sweet 'n Sassy Blog
Julee Tilman
Cathy McCauley
Ceal Pritchett
Diane Zechman
Jane Bosi
Lucinde van Ballegooijen
Lyn Tomlin
Monika Davis
Sheri Gilson
Stephanie Serrano

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