Change is Good

Hi there! This is Andrea Vernagus signing in for my first assignment as one of September's Guest Designers. First let me say, how truly excited and honored I am to be here! I had the pleasure of working with Korin on the Sweet Stop Sketch side so I am excited to get to play with more Sweet n' Sassy images!

I chose to use the Everyday Miracles set...I actually needed a good butterfly set and this one is even better with some amazing sentiments! My butterflies were stamped in Black Stazon and watercolored using ink pads and an aquabrush. The layout for the card is from the current Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge #72...if you haven't yet, you should definitely participate! I have a hard time creating without a sketch and Korin's are some of the best!

Thanks for joining me and I will see you back here every Tuesday for the month of September! Can't wait!!

Off I Go,

Andrea (Crafty Engineering)

Princess Kate....

It saddens me deeply to tell you that Little Kate Thornton is now safe in the arms of Jesus. She passed away on 9/5/10 at 6am. Her pain and suffering are now over. Please pray for the Thornton family as they mourn the passing of their precious little girl.

Please consider sending your condolences to Kate's family....

The Thornton Family
c/o Kisses4Kate
PO Box 2266
Jamestown NC 27282

Despite Kate's home-going we will still be collecting funds for her family through the sale of this digital stamp. Please consider purchasing it and using it so others might know of brave little Princess Kate.

Thank you for your prayers and support for the Thornton family!

Customer Spotlight Sunday

Greetings!! Raise your hand if you participated in this week's Blog Hop...What fun! I had a wonderful time creating with the new Christmas stamps!! Part of the Blog Hop included a few challenges; one of them was using non-traditional Christmas colors on a card. When I was poking around, looking at posts, I found this lovely card created by Mary Mahey. Mary managed to create a card for each of the challenges - way to go!!

So I have become a huge fan of pink on Christmas cards...I just love it (that and purple, light blue...fabulous!) And I love Mary's pick of designer paper...see those cute reindeer? And how about that bling-y brad...Darling! Mary used a sweet Cocoa image for her card, this one is called Cheese for Cocoa. What could make a mouse happier than a big 'ol hunk of cheese!

Mary, thanks so much for letting us showcase your card today and for playing along with our Blog Hop challenges!!

Enjoy!

Princess Kate

Hello everyone! I'm Melissa Craig, one of the September Guest Designers. I am thrilled to have been given this opportunity to join this very talented team this month.

I had started to make another card to share with you, that I'll share later on this month, but my plans changed when I received an email from Korin about a very special digi stamp she designed to help out a sweet little girl named Kate Thornton. You can read all about Kate here and you can help her by purchasing this adorable digi named Princess Kate.

Korin did a wonderful job with this image - it exudes the same sweetness and innocence that photos of Kate exudes as well.

I look forward to spending Saturdays with you this month. Thanks for stopping by!

Many hugs & blessings
Melissa

Sew Prayerful

Hello friends! Today's card uses one of my favorite Cocoa digis, Sew Happy Cocoa, which is also available in clear stamp form. I think I like him so much because I love to cross stitch and quilt as well as stamp. And isn't that sentiment from the new clear set Prayerful Thoughts perfect? I colored Cocoa with Copics and added some pretty lace from Grandma. And I even found an old buckle in my stash. How fun! BTW, have you made your cards for the challenges yet? You have an excellent chance to win a free set just by playing along!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Blessings!

Tricia

Christmas Itty Bitties

Wasn't it a fantastic blog hop yesterday? There was so much great inspiration from the DT members! One of my favorite sets from the new release is the Christmas Itty Bitties set. It contains 6 adorable images and they are perfect for making CAS cards. The images are just over an inch and are so quick and easy to color. I have 2 cards to show you today.

The first card I featured on my blog yesterday and it is the sample for the sketch challenge that is part of the blog hop festivities. I was of the divas hosting a challenge with the prize being the itty bitties set.



It was a pretty simple card to make- I stamped 4 of the images from the set onto squares that were die cut, colored them with copics and accented with stickles.



The second card was made by stamping the gingerbread image 6 times. I colored them and cut out 3 of the gingerbread men and popped them up over the other 3. I used clear rhinestones as accents for the buttons.

I bet you can see that this set is a must have right? It has many possibilities- gift tags, ornaments, cards, you name it! If you have not already purchased it (what are you waiting for lol) you have a chance to win it by playing along with the sketch challenge I am hosting. You have until Saturday Sept 4th to enter and you can get the details on my personal blog post.

So glad you could drop in today- hope your day is filled with many blessings!

BLOG HOP DAY!

September is here and that means NEW STAMPS at Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps! And new stamps mean a BLOG HOP full of inspiration, challenges and prizes!

If you are starting here then you came to the right place because this is where the fun begins!

We've released 10 amazing new clear sets today and we are so thrilled to share them with you :)! Before you start hopping along the eye candy trail, let me tell you how this hop will work.....

You will hop to each of the DT blogs (below) to see what these talented ladies have done with our new release, but be sure to read their posts carefully because you might find a surprise along the way......

----- Three of our Design Divas are hosting a challenge on their blogs. For each challenge you participate in, you will be entered to win a FREE stamp set from our new release! If you enter all three challenges, not only will you have the chance to win 3 different sets, BUT you will also be entered into a drawing for a $25 gift certificate to the SNSS store!! NOTE: Challenge details will be included in the DT hostess blog post.

----- One of our Design Divas will be sharing a special 1-day-only coupon code to the SNSS store which can be used to save you $$$ on your favorite new releases!

Are you excited to get hopping?!?!?!

Here is a list of the blogs you'll want to visit:

Ceal Pritchett

Darsie Bruno

Janette Olen

Korin Sutherland

Kim Schofield

Leah Cornelius

Lisa Jurecek

Lorie Souther

Nancy Brown

Tricia Traxler

Chris Dickinson

Happy hopping and may the MOJO be with you :)!!