February Guest Designers

Hi everyone! Well, we have made it through the first month of 2011. Are you still writing 2010 on things? It tends to take me a bit to get out of that habit. I am excited to announce the 2 ladies who will be joining us for the month of February. First, I need to say a fond farewell to our January guest designers and one of our DT members who is moving on.

Thank you to Jennifer Taylor and Pattie Goldman for doing a fabulous job during January. Your cards were beautiful ladies and I really enjoyed them! I would also like to say farewell to Jacquie Peifer who has done a great job designing for us the past 3 months. She is moving on to pursue some other crafting avenues and we wish her the best of luck. Thank you Jacquie for sharing your beautiful designs with us!

The two creative ladies joining us for February are Denise Modin and Claudine Poch. Below, is a little more information about both of them.


Claudine Poch- My name is Claudine Poch (sevencats on Splitcoaststampers.) I live in Ohio with my husband, son, and cats. I have been doing crafts almost my whole life, and paper crafts for about five years. I enjoy making cards, particularly those that contain “critters”, such as cats and dogs. Most of my cards are sold to benefit the no-kill animal shelter where I volunteer. I am currently serving on a few other design teams and am excited to be a guest designer for Sweet n Sassy Stamps.

Denise Modin- Hi! My name is Denise (a.k.a. Denimo) and I live in a wonderful little college town in Lawrence, Kansas, USA. I'm a mom, grandma and dog lover/owner of one black great dane. And I absolutely love card-making. I love how we take a plain piece of card stock, add a stamped or digital image, color it up, create a layout and end up with something wonderful! I've been stamping for probably about 10 years now, but just seriously the last 2-3 years. I take lots of inspiration from many other wonderful artists and hope I can provide a little along the way.

Throughout the month of February, Denise will be sharing her creations with us on Tuesday (except the 1st) and Claudine will be sharing on Saturdays. I look forward to seeing all the awesome designs that they will be inspiring us with! Please join me in welcoming both Denise and Claudine.

You will want to stop by tomorrow as it is release day here at Sweet N Sassy stamps! There are 5 terrific stamps sets that will be available and Korin is going to have some card samples to share with us featuring the new releases.

He Lives

This beautiful image is a sneak peek from one of the sets in the February Release from Sweet' n Sassy Stamps. It's called 'He Lives' and the sentiment is a Eureka Stamp. I thought that is was so fitting to put them together.
I mounted this on a piece of chipboard so it could be hung or placed on a stand. It looks like navy blue in this picture but it is really mounted on Elegant Eggplant. I placed each crystal and pearl on one at a time to make my own design.
This wonderful patterned paper is from Prima Marketing and is called ' Fairy Flora'. I wanted to achieve a sunrise effect and matched the ink for the sponging around the cross.
I will display this during the Easter season. I am so thankful for life in Christ. I don't know where I'd be without Him. I hope that this honors Him.


Recipe
Stamps: He Lives, Eureka Stamps
Ink: Adirondack Espresso, Mauve Mist, Bashful Blue, Daffodil Delight, Baja Breeze
Paper: Elegant Eggplant, Georgia Pacific White, Fairy Flora
Accessories: Copic Markers, 0, W0, W1, V0000, V000, V09, V12, V15, V17, E19, E21, E30, E31, E34, E37. Lilac and Lipstick Spica Glitter Pens. Swarovski Crystals, Kaiser Kraft Pearls, Martha Stewart Border Punch Arched Lattice, Stampin Dimensional, Plumb Perfection Embossing Powder. The Ribbon is a scrap that I had from a gift.

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by. I appreciate each one of you and pray that your day will be filled with joy and blessing.

Hugs,

Deb

Customer spotlight Sunday

Today's customer spotlight is brought to us by Vanessa Fernandez. Vanessa used the Sew Happy Cocoa digi for her card. This sweet cocoa is also available in a clear stamp set. I love the hand stitching on the card and the needle and cloth embellishment add the perfect touch.

Thank you Vanessa for allowing us to feature your sweet card today!

Just Because...

Hi there! Today is my last post as a Guest Designer for Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps! I just love the ladies there and Korin is so sweet and so very talented! Thanks to everyone at Sweet 'n Sassy for asking me to join them...I had so much fun!

Today, I am sharing a card that's "Just Because"! And 'just because' I think he's so cute, I got this little Benjamin Bunny digi stamp this week! He's colored with Copics (of course) and surrounded by some pretty pink pearls! I kept the layout pretty simple for this one...a sweet gingham bow and a strip of cardstock that coordinates with my background paper! The sentiment is from Verve.

Be sure to stop by the Sweet 'n Sassy store to see all the new release coming out soon!

Pattie

Love you lots

I used Jacob Loves Reading, a new digi image over at the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps store! Paired it with a sentiment from Birds & Roses. Hard to see but there is piercing on the edges of the background. Copics were used to color Jacob.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Amber

Pamper Me Cookie

Hello! For today's card I am using the newly released digi, Pamper me Cookie. I'm so glad that Cocoa now as a "friend" to keep him company! ;0)

My card is 5 1/2 x 5 3/4. I needed a big card so that I could fit all of my goodies on it.I added Glossy accents to the nail polish bottle and the lipstick, really makes them pop! I took a paper doily and cut it in half and folded it to make my fan. Added a feather, a triple bow & button to finish it off. I'm thinking this will make a cute card to add a gift certificate for a manicure or pedicure to give to a girlfriend or a sister ??!! I left the bottom right corner empty for now so that I can add a sentiment later.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a wonderful day!!

February Sneak Peek

On February 1st we are releasing 5 new stamp sets and 4 new digis. Today, I thought I would show you a sneak peek of one of the sets- Benjamin Bunny. Isn't he just adorable? I colored him with copics and used some feathery strokes to give the appearance of fur.



Now, if you can't wait till next week to get him, he is available as a digi that you can purchase right now. He is also available in 2 different pre-colored versions too.

Thank you for stopping by today- have a wonderful day!