Blessed

Hi friends! Today I'm popping in with a fun mixed media card with my Favorite Mom DIGITAL Set. 

I started by coating a piece of heavy white cardstock with gesso. Next I sponged on picked raspberry, worn lipstick and seedless preserves distress oxides and spritzed and dried and spritzed some more.  Then I dipped a baby wipe in some funky fuchsia paint and dabbed on, repeating until I got the depth I wanted.

The sentiment and flower are printed from the Favorite Mom DIGITAL Set and I colored the flowers and leaves with Copics, then fussy cut and added some white gel pen accents.  I framed the sentiment with a doily die cut, then cut down my background panel and added a black mat.  A diagonal stripes embossing folder finishes things off.

Customer appreciation month continues at Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps and this week we're celebrating with a 25% off sale on sets illustrated by NinaB Designs.  Here's a little sampling of some of my favorite cards using her sets. Hurry in, sale is valid through May 13, 2021, while supplies last.

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Mojo Monday 559

Hi friends! It's a brand new month, and time for a new Mojo Monday sketch! I hope you can find a little time in the next couple weeks to play along with me! I always love to see what you create.

As always, we're playing just for fun. I'm an equal opportunity stamper, so feel free to use any papercrafting products your heart desires and enter as many creations as you like. Use the sketch as inspiration for your creation, then come link it up below so I can come take a look! The linky for this challenge will close on May 16, 2021. I have included dimensions on the graphic later in this post, but feel free to change them up to suit your needs, and never worry about substituting a shape or layer.

For today's card I printed out my new Favorite Mom Digi set that just released with Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps. You might recognize the digi, as it was one I released with Verve back in 2016.  I made a few tweaks to the flowers and such, and am so excited to work with these images and sentiments again!  I colored the cup and flower image with Copic markers, then fussy cut.

The pink background was designer paper and I added a subtle tone on tone background with picked raspberry distress oxide and the Delightfully Delicate Stencil.  Some square dies , more patterned paper and a teeny border strip finish things off.

I hope you'll pop on over to the SNSS store to check out my digi. There's also a fabulous Buy 2 Get 1 FREE sale  on Jennifer Nilsson Art stamp sets through May 6! Here are a few of the cards I've created with her awesome sets...

Alrighty, now it's your turn! I hope you've been inspired to create something with this sketch. Thanks so much for stopping by. 

Please join me for Mojo Monday!

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Sip Sip Hooray

Hi friends! Today I'm popping in with a project featuring the new Star Teacher Digi I designed for Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps. My boys have had the most AMAZING teacher this year, and I was inspired to design a few little digis to make some projects for her for Teacher Appreciation Week next week.

I started with the sip, sip hooray sentiment, cutting it out in a tag shape. I took the plain to go cup image and sized it down and copied it for the cup image layering the original sized cup over the top for a little dimension and colored with Copic markers.  The card shape and  pieces and parts are from a die set and I used patterned paper to spice things up.  

For the inside of the card, I wanted to do a gift card to go with the "coffee's on me" part of the sentiment.  So I used the same coffee cozy strip, but only glued it down on the bottom and sides so I could tuck in a Starbucks giftcard.  I then cut down the thanks a latte sentiment from the set and placed it in the center to finish things off.  A super quick and fun card done!

For my second project I wanted to create a bookmark to go along with a book store gift card. I haven't finished up the whole project yet, but the bookmark design is done, minus the laminating.

I lined up the two sentiments and the star image to print, then cut with the Bookmarks & More Die Set.  I then stamped the stars from the Back to School stamp set in blues and greens to fill in the space. Then I handed it off to one of my boys with some Copics to color in the star.  A little tassel finishes things off.

Okay, if you haven't checked out the $10 Deals category in the SNSS shop yet, there are still a few more days to take advantage of the sale!  Lots of goodies, including one of my personal faves, the Coffee Talk set!  Here's a throwback card I made with this fabulous set, on sale for only $10 until April 30.

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Sunshine in a Cup

Hey friends! I'm back with another coffee card for the Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.

Coffee is definitely one of those sunshine things in my life. Since the twins were born, I've struggled with depression, and back when I still ran Verve one of the things I would do to try to pep myself up each day was work just a little bit on coffee illustrations, sentiments, and cards. It was a bright spot in my day and always made me smile. So as things have gotten a bit crazy in the world lately, I decided to reinstitute this little bright spot in my day. And thus the Sunshine in a Cup DIGI was born.

I've been having so much fun creating with this set!  For today's card, I colored up the large flower in sunflower colors, then added the sentiment on a die cut for the sunflower center.  I then also colored up the sunflower mug and fussy cut.

I thought my flower needed a stem, so I did something I rarely do... sketch on a card.  I'm not a sketcher. I draw on a computer with a mouse, not with a pencil. LOL After I sketched it out roughly, I then colored with Copic markers and sponged the background with peacock feathers, tumbled glass, squeezed lemonade, shabby shutters, and peeled paint distress oxides.

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Getting Digi with the Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Hop

Hi friends! It's that special time of year when all the coffee loving papercrafters get to post obscene amounts of coffee, tea and cocoa creations! The Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop kicks off today and I have a bunch of fun projects I can't wait to share with you over the coming week!

For today's post, I'm sharing a card I made with a new DIGITAL set I created that's available today in the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps shop. SNSS is one of the fabulous Super Sponsors along the hop. At last count I think there are 70 super sponsors this go round and that means tons of AMAZING prizes for participating. Link up your new coffee, tea, and/or cocoa creations over on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog now through May 29 for a chance to win!

So, a I was saying, I dusted off my design software and came up with the Sunshine in a Cup digital set. It's a little bit inspired by this pandemic, and a lot inspired by coffee and sunshine.  For my card I chose the fun "May your coffee be strong and may recess be long" sentiment. After the last couple of months of school at home, I can attest to just how important strong coffee and long recesses are!

I printed out the digi, then colored up the sunny to go cup and fussy cut.  The sentiment is die cut with a stitched die and matted with early espresso.  I went for a tall & skinny layout to play on the word long.  I stamped splatters and rings from the Grunge Elements 2 set in ground espresso distress oxide on a 3.5 x 5.5" card base, then layered it all together.

Sunshine in a Cup

I have another card featuring this new digi over on the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps blog today. Here's a little peek.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed my coffee loving creations!

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