Just Poppin' By!

To say HELLO! This is Tanis and I'm going to be popping by here every Tuesday in May to share a quick card with my favourite Sweet and Sassy stamps!

When I first saw the Poppin' By set, my thoughts went straight to creating a QUICK card. Something easy that could be whipped up before you head to visit a friend who's suddenly wound up sick in bed or in the hospital. Or just for a spontaneous visit with someone who needs a pick me up.

So here's my super quick card. Minimal supplies, a happy palette and a fun image....what more do you need?

Thanks for coming by to look and I hope you have a great day!

Special Lady

Good morning, and welcome to the Sweet -n Sassy Stamps Digi Blog.  I hope this day is shaping up to be a beautiful day for you.  I have a card to share with you today in honor of a very special holiday coming up this weekend, which of course is Mother's Day.  While I do believe that we should do our best to honor the special women in our lives each and every day, I always enjoy having one specific day to really go all out and make many of the women who mean so much to me feel special.

This card was created with the Special Lady digital set, and I knew immediately it was perfect for my mom.  She loves all things victorian, old hats, gloves, tea parties, hat boxes, and the list goes on.  Pretty much everything you see here is something my mom loves.   Here's wishing all you special ladies out there a lovely Mother's Day filled with people you love, and if you're like me, LOTS of happy stamping!!

Blessings,

Lorie

Customer Spotlight Sunday!

Hopefully, it's a BEAUTIFUL Sunday morning where you are! 

Today is Customer Spotlight Sunday and I have two beautiful cards to share with you from, Candace Mitchell.  She linked to last Sunday's Customer Spotlight which makes it easy for us to find customers that use our digis.  She did a wonderful job on  both of these!

We love it when you let us know you are using our digis! Be sure to post a link to your card(s) by posting a link below. We are always looking for cards or projects to use on our Sunday Customer Spotlight posts :)!

May Guest Designers

Another month has flown by and it's time to say good-bye to our April guest designers, Julie Glasgow and Tricia Traxler. Julie and Tricia, thank you so much for gracing the Sweet 'n Sassy blog with your beautiful work during the past month! We've enjoyed getting to know you!! (I do have a little secret though...Tricia has agreed to stay on the SNSS team as one of our permanent design team members!! Yeah, welcome Tricia!!

And now for our May guests...I couldn't be more pleased to announce that we have Erika Martin and Tanis Giesbrecht joining our team this month as our guest designers! I've known both of these talented ladies for quite some time and I'm sure that you'll love seeing their work. (Just a reminder that our guest designers post on every Tuesday and Saturday.( And now...allow me to tell you a little bit more about Erika and Tanis...

Erika Martin is a play-at-home mom, meaning, she views her artistic work as pure play and enjoyment. She's been scrapbooking for 13 years, stamping for eight years, and creating altered books for six. She teaches online courses, as well as in-home workshops and classes. She also travels around the east coast, where she teaches art classes of all kinds. She loves to mix words with art and photographs and is always looking for ways to incorporate her stamping into her other art forms. Erika designs for Gina K Designs, Paper Craft Planet, and writes for Craft Critique. You can see Erika’s lovely work on her blog, Stampin’ Mama.

Tanis lives in a small town near Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada. She's been married for almost 19 years to her best friend and they have four amazing kids ages 13, 11, 9 and 5. Tanis is currently a stay at home mom but is preparing herself to go back to teaching in the Fall. Tanis designs for SRM Stickers and the Caardvarks and SALT challenge blogs. She also designs stamps for Unity Stamp Company. You can find her work published in Paper Crafts and CARDS magazines and find her beautiful work on her blog, Paper Canvas.

Please join me in welcoming both of these ladies to the team and check back often to see their work!

Having a Whale of a Good Time!

One of my co-workers has a birthday this Saturday, so I baked a couple of cookies and created a mini pizza box to put them in. Then, I just needed someone cute to have the honor of wishing the lucky lady a very happy birthday.

And who cuter than Wally Whale! Of course, since he's in the ocean he needed some sparkling water to float in. So, I added a clear layer over my image and covered the lower part of it with Stickles. To cover the adhesive on the clear cardstock and to make it seem like we are looking at him out of a port hole, I cut a circle in my patterned paper before layering it over the image.
Now, Wally's all ready to deliver my birthday message (created with MicroSoft Word)! For only .99 you can create a whole lotta cuteness for very little money. Be sure to head to Sweet N Sassy Stamps to see all the new stamps including Wally.
Have a great crafting day!
Lisa

Little Squirt

Happy Thursday to you! Leah here and I have a cute little baby card to share with you today. I make a lot of baby cards and love using all sorts of images for them. For this one I actually did some paper piecing for my whale image available at Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps. The sentiment I computer generated to be on the base of my image panel. We use to call my son "little squirt" and those of you that have boys know why! LOL The rest is pretty self-explanitory...I just love this color combo and I hope you do to! Thanks so much for dropping by!

Rainy Day Easel Card

Lately, I have been seeing some gorgeous easel cards out there in blog land so I decided that it was about time to give one a try myself. I was surprised at how easy they are to make actually. The size of my card is 5.5" square. You can find some great tutorials if you google easel card which is what I did. There are even some video tutorials. Here is an example of one tutorial.



I colored the image with copics and accented with stickles on the rain/puddle, spica glitter pen on the trim, and glimmer mist on the flowers but some got on the image too lol. The image is a real cutie designed by Deedee Anderson for Sweet N Sassy stamps and is called rainy day teddy.

here are some other views for you





Supplies:
digis- Sweet N Sassy stamps rainy day teddy, bear sentiments
CS- pink pirouette, Paper Temptress neenah white, blanc sparkle, noir sparkle, bo bunny dp
accessories- copics, rhinestones, satin ribbon, dazzling diamonds glimmer mist, spica glitter pen, stickles, oval nesties, Fiskars apron lace punch, pearls, buttons

Thanks for stopping in and have a blessed day!