I Scream for Ice Cream!

It's summer in New England and that means it's time for eating lots of homemade ice cream! All through our country streets you can find family owned businesses that sell homemade ice cream. And the servings? Goodness, one serving is enough to feed a family of four! Let's just say...cough, cough...that our family is on a first name basis with the store in our town...

This sweet cone is part of a darling digi set, Ice Cream Cone, that comes with one image and two sentiments...all for only $3.00. That's a whole lot cheaper than our big 'ol New England cones and far better for one's waistline!

My card combines fun, summery paper from the Bo Bunny Sun Kissed paper line, a grungeboard circle, stamped with a fun Tim Holtz alphabet stamp, and two giant brads to create a bright stage for my mint chocolate chip (my son's favorite ice cream flavor) cone!!

Enjoy and have a wonderful ice cream filled weekend!

Back to School

Good morning!

Here's Schoolgirl Sally all ready for school. Isn't she sweet? I love her neatly organized desk with the cute cup for her pencils and scissors. I wish my desk was always that uncluttered!! Sally fits right in with our monthly challenge that's going on over in our PCP and SNR groups today. You'll have to stop by and say hello! By the way, Schoolgirl Sally is a digi, but the sentiment is from the clear set Poppies and Greetings. I think that clear set is the one that I've gotten the most use of so far. It's definitely a *must have* for your collection.

On another note... this card is a mutated version of this week's Sweet Stop sketch. :-) I rotated it, flipped it, made the center panel too big and put the sentiment in the wrong place. Do you think it will still count??? {{looking innocent}} LOL!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope to see you over at PCP!

Christmas Candle

Happy Wednesday everyone!! It looks like Christmas has arrived at Sweet and Sassy. I am delighted to show you a bit of seasonal cheer myself today. This is one of the new clear stamps released last week at the store called Christmas Candle.  It includes this wonderful candle image and four delightful sentiments. If you purchase the digi you receive this image and a beautifully scrolled "Merry Christmas " sentiment. It was so easy to color with Copics or any color medium for that matter.

For my card today I popped the candle up onto Basic Grey designer paper, added a touch of Flower Soft to the center of the poinsettia, and a few crystals to the holly to make it more dimensional.  To finish it off I made a bow and added more crystals to the border at the top. This makes me think of the Christmas candle centerpiece on my dinning room table that I put out every year. What a warm and inviting image to use on your Christmas cards this year.

Happy Stamping!!
Randi

Cocoa's Mittens

Hi! This is Cheryl. I am so excited about being on the Sweet 'n Sassy Guest Diva design team for the month of August. Thank you Kim for asking me!

When I first found Sweet 'n Sassy, I fell in love with Cocoa the mouse. He is just so adorable and there is a Cocoa image for every occasion. I decided to use the very first Sweet 'n Sassy digital image that I bought, Cocoa's Mittens. Not only do I love this image, but it helps me get a jump on my Christmas cards.

I am looking forward to showing you some other projects using Sweet 'n Sassy digital images during the month of August. Thank you for stopping by today.

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Cheryl

Little One - New Releaase

Good Morning Stampers. Can you believe its August already! Even though it's been a really hot summer, I hate to see only one month left of it.

I'm here today to feature a card made with the newly released stamp set called Little One. Isn't this just the cutest baby set!!! It has 2 images and 6 sentiments. This rocking horse would even make a really cute Christmas Card. Hmmmm, I think I may need to try this out!

Blessings,
Nancy

August Guest Designers

It's just not possible that it's already August! I can't believe how quickly the summer is going by...before you know it we'll be pulling out our Christmas stamps!! :-)

Well now that we're on to August, we're thrilled to introduce you to our two guest designers, Cheryl Gorka and Monika Davis, but we can't move on without sending out a great big thank you to our July guest designers, Marisa Ritzen and Janice Melton...you guys rocked this month, so glad you shared your beautiful creations with us during July!

Now on to August's designers! Here is some details about each of our designers...
Hi! My name is Cheryl. I live in Wisconsin with my husband of almost 12 years and my 8-year old daughter. We have 2 dogs and a parrot. I have a full time job working with numbers and spreadsheets all day so I love it when I have a chance to relax and craft. Although I enjoy scrap booking and altering items, making cards remains my favorite. I like the fact that you can complete a project relatively quickly and then easily share it or give it away. I only started blogging last October and love the crafting community I have found there. Every one is so friendly and willing to offer help or support. I am very excited by the opportunity to be a guest designer for Sweet 'N Sassy Stamps.

Hi! I'm Monika and I've been stamping on and off for almost 13 years; it's is my passion. I was born and raised in Hungary, but I've lived in NH for 14 years with my family. I am a SAHM to 2 boys (7and 1). I've been a past design team member for Taylored Expressions and Magnolia, and currently I am on Taylored Expressions Cupcake Sketch Crew and Dutch Dare-Card Challenges Design Team. I've been teaching stamping classes for a number of years now in my local stamp store and at my home, and have been published a number of times in papercrafting magazines.

Cheryl and Monika - We can't wait to see what you create with your Sweet 'n Sassy stamps!! Thank you so much for joining us this month!

Customer Spotlight Sunday

Good morning and welcome to another Spotlight Sunday! Today we're pleased to share an adorable card created by Kelly Schelske. Kelly joined our Design Team earlier this week for our monthly chat and challenge night at Scrapbook News & Review and posted this darling card for us to admire.

This sweet image and sentiment are from the clear set Thankful Molly, but if you want just the image, you can grab her as a digi for just $3.00 (Molly's Flower).

I love the warm, summer colors that Kelly used on her card and how she coordinated Molly's dress colors to match the card. And you can never go wrong by adding scallops! Great card!!

Kelly, thanks so much for letting us share your card this week!!

Be sure to check back later today for the announcement of our August guest designers!!