Birthday Girl

Hi ladies, I have this card to share with you this Monday evening, I hope you like it!

The sweet ''OH La La'' is one of my favourite Simply Sassy stamps, she is coloured with Derwent pencils, the papers are from Maja Design - I love them, I would use them every day!!!-, sentiment from a MFT ''A la Modes'' set, the flowers, button and heart are made using Die-namics - what else! I'm addicted to! - and I think that's all from me for today.

Have a great week, and ''see'' you next Monday.
Hugs,
Alina

Please Welcome..

Before I reveal our new guest designers for the next two releases I want to thank all of you who took the time to apply, and there will be a new gdt call later on, so just because you applied now and maybe before  too and not gotten the spot please don't tell your self that this was the last time you will try as there has only been two girls chosen each time and there are soooooooo many great applicants that I wanted to give a chance...

So now for our new girls.. I bet your all exited...

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I have your email addresses so I will contact you both when I get the kids to bed ♥

Tuesday spotlight..

This Tuesday we have a sweet girl with an amazing talent for coloring with us.

meet

Bridget/Curlybear

I asked her to make something for the Spotlight 

and by that I'm thinking of one card or something..

So Bridget has really  spoiled us this time 

Look at her gorgeous Sassy projects!!

 Using: Oh La La, Fashionista, Amelia, Hippie Chick, Winking Student, Fairy Tale,

Butterflies and Pigtails ,5th Avenue

*Start by telling us a little about you:
Hello, My name is Bridget, and I live in the wonderfully picturesque county of Cornwall, with my Patient Husband, our Malamute Buzz, and our two cats Nala and Jasmine, I have lived here all my life and I can't see myself living anywhere else, apart from maybe Scotland, the land of The House of Sugar.

*When did you start card making and what made you start?
I have always had an interest in art, but I have never been able to draw well enough to share with other people, so when I came across the craft channels on TV, and I saw the beautiful things you can make, it inspired me to have a go at making cards, at first, using Rubber Stamps, and then onto the many other forms of crafting, I then progressed onto blogging, about 18 months ago, and my eye's were opened even wider, by the stunning creations that I came across.

*What is your preferred coloring medium?
Everything....... lol, well, it depends on my mood, but I do go through phases, I might use Polychromes for a while, or Promarkers, but my favourite of favourites at the moment are copics, in particular sketch markers, I just love the range of colours you get, and the professional finish they give you, it makes you feel like you've accomplished something when you have finished your project,
I have just gotten hold of a set of Prismacolour pencils, I haven't done much with them yet, its a work in progress, but I do love the finish they give you when using them on Kraft card, so more to follow on that, lol...

*What is your fav Simply Sassy stamp?
Well how can I answer this question, I love them all, and I have all apart from 3 of them, but having thought long and hard about it,
I am going to have to say Amelia and all of the new Christmas stamps, lol, this is the most difficult question of all, lol.

*How did you notice the Simply Sassy stamps the first time?
I first noticed the Simply Sassy Stamps, when Karen introduced us to Krista's artwork on the Sugar Nellie blog and I have been hooked ever since.

 *What is your favourite style (card making)?
I don't think I've really got a favourite style, I do like clean and simple, but I also like to see lots of embellishments, so I don't really think I have a specific style, I like to change things a lot so not to get bored, I like shabby chic, though I can never seem to produce a very good end product.

 *And what would you love to see more of at the Simply Sassy blog?
This is another hard question to answer, because it's difficult to improve on perfection, because I think you girls already do a fantastic job, what with all the fun blog hops, brilliant tutorials and wonderfully inspirational cards, so I had a really good think about what I would like to see added and that would be a Simply Sassy Challenge blog.

Here are some other gorgeous Sassy projects I found at Bridget's blog

Using : Fabulous Darling

Using Vintage Boutique

 

Using 5th Avenue

Using Boho Chic

Thank you So much Bridget for letting us spotlight you.

And please leave Bridget some sweet comments :)

Hugs Maria 

 

Oh La La Birthday!

Hi Simply Sassy Fans!

For my Friday Inspiration Post, I just HAD to ink up Oh La La! She's from the previous release and I'm just now getting around to putting her on a card! I colored her entirely with W1, W3, W5 & W7 copics. I paired her up with some new *to me* Graphic 45 papers. I hope you have enjoyed my tutorials for Simply Sassy - I loved making them and want to thank the girls for encouraging me to step out of my comfort zone...I'm usually the one FOLLOWING tutorials not giving them! :D 

I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend planned. I'm so excited because as this post goes live, I'm at my daughter's kindergarten graduation - Yay, last day of school!!! :D

Hugs,

Carisa

Supplies:

Stamp: Simply Sassy Oh La La

Paper: Copic Xpress It Blending Card; Graphic 45 Curtain Call Collection

American Crafts Rose Ribbon, Tim Holtz Fragments, Make it Crafty LaserCut Chipboard
Copics: W1, W3, W5, W7
Adhesive: Helmar Tape Runner, Helmar 450 Quick Dry

Oh La La - You Amaze Me*

Hello Sassy Ladies! I hope you have enjoy your weekend!! I had my first of three exams on Friday.. yikes. I cannot WAIT until the 27th of May and then I'll be freeee!! Aside from job hunting my time will be all mine so I can craft til my heart's content. Anywho, enough of all that waffle, that isn't why you're here..

Here is Oh La La, isn't she adorable? Jeez.. I gotta stop saying that.. I say that about them ALL!! She is available from Funky Kits HERE, her pretty rose and all.

This is a pretty simple card - in the sense there aren't many layers, or embellishments. It wasn't labour intensive at all, but I really love the effect.

I started with a light grey cardbase using textured card from American Crafts. I then went ahead and stamped a flourish-ish (what would you call it..?!) image from a SU! set in Versamark and heat embossed with clear embossing power. One of my fave techniques, I don't know why I don't do it more - the results are always gorgeous. I then took a design card from a sheet of patterned paper in My Minds Eye MeadowLark collection pack. I thought the sentiment complimented the image perfectly. I matted it onto some PTI Pure Poppy cardstock, distressed the edges and stitched around it. I rounded all corners - simply because that is 'my thing' with my WRMK Corner Chomper!

Next up, I coloured (or is it shaded when it's black and grey?!) the image using my C Grey ProMarkers - a bit of a change from my normal lead pencil and Sansodor, but I kinda like it. I then took some liquid pearls and went over the buttons on her boots - very cute.

Last up.. the very few embellishments I used. Some white seam binding and red bakers twine from The Ribbon Girl tied in a fancy bow and a lovely heart charm dangling from them. Then a lovely two tone mini rose from Wild Orchid Crafts which I have covered in Frosted Lace Stickles for a little something extra.

Thanks for stopping by today!! xo Lou.

A Simple Gift Bag

Hello sassy friends.  I have a little tutorial to share with you today.  I have some friends with daughters that will soon be graduating from high school.  So I thought these little gift bags would be perfect to hold a little graduation gift or maybe a teacher appreciation gift.  Or fill it with yummy chocolates and give it to a friend "just because".

I will apologize in advance for all the pictures.  I'm sure I have included way too many but I would rather share too many than not enough :)

Here are the supplies you will need to make this gift bag:

          Cardstock
          Scor-pal or other strong adhesive
          Scoring tool
          Punches or dies
          Embellishments (optional)

Start by cutting a piece of cardstock 4 1/2" x 4 1/2".  This will be the base of your gift bag.  Score 1" around all 4 sides and then score in the points of the 4 little squares.  My base is red but I'm showing you the score lines on white paper so that you can see them better.

Crease all of the scored lines like you see in the picture.  Bring the corners to the inside of the little box.  Use adhesive to secure the corners.

Add adhesive around the sides of the box.

Cut a piece of cardstock 6 1/2" x 11".  This will be the giftbag.  Apply adhesive to one of the 6 1/2" sides of the cardstock.

Remove the adhesive backing from the sides of the box and lay the box along the bottom edge of the 6 1/2" x 11" cardstock so that the edges are even.  You will be wrapping the 11" side of cardstock around the base of the box.

The 6 1/2" end with adhesive will be the last part of the cardstock you will wrap.  When you get to that end, remove the adhesive backing and finish wrapping the cardstock.

This is what the gift bag will look like now.

Cut a strip of cardstock 1" x 11".  You can use a decorative punch if you like.  Apply adhesive to the strip and then wrap the strip around the bottom of the gift bag.

You can use either nestabilities or punches to make your top closure.  I used my circle nestabilities to cut two circles and then I applied adhesive to the bottom half of the circles.

Adhere the circles to the top of the gift bag.  You now have a way to close the gift bag.  

You can add any embellishments you like to decorate your gift bag.  I decided to make a tag for mine.  I used Oh La La and colored her with copics and colored pencils.  I added her to a tag and used some twine to tie the tag onto the gift bag.

I hope you will give these gift bags a try.  They are so easy that you can make one up in no time.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Stamp:  Sugar Nellie Simply Sassy  -  Oh La La from Funky Kits
Paper:  My Mind's Eye; Bazzill
Other:  Copics, Prismacolor pencils, gamsol, scor-pal tape, Spellbinders circles, Sizzix die, twine

Simply Chic

Hello wonderful Sassy fans! Autumn here with your first inspiration post of the day. Today I've tried to do a little something different for me and go a little Shabby Chic with...

 ...'Oh' La la' available here at Funky Kits. I've only done this style of card a couple of times before and they took me quite a while to complete. This however, just fell together, so I'm wondering if it's missing something, lol. Seemed a bit too easy, but I kept trying to add more and I just didn't like it,lol. 

These fabby papers are from Tim Holtz's Shabby paper stack and the pearls are part of a Prima swirl that I cut up. The rest of the embellies are from my stash.. The papers have all been distressed and I put a little stickles on the flowers.

Here's a closer view. I actually colored her all up before I picked the papers and I really suprised myself with my paper choices.  I realized that although I liked her outfit I didn't want this to be a dark card and needed to find a way to brighten it up and I think these papers did a fabulous job of that. I' m not sure you can tell in this pic, but I've also added some stickles to the hearts in her leggings as well as the stripes on the sides of them and to her belt.

Lastly, I wll leave you with my copics.

That's the end of the line for me today. Thank you all for stopping by and be sure to stop by later and see what wonderful creation Anita has to show you.

Have a great day!

xxAutumn

Simply A Lot ;o)

Hi everyone, you know how I say that the weeks are flying by and it seems I'm here with a new post like every five minutes? Well, this week went realllly slow, we had a national holiday here on Thursday and since then I've been a little out of sorts, getting my days muddled up... I've also got tomorrow off so hopefully I'll think to go to work on Tuesday ;o)!

Anyway, blablabla, I do go on don't I ;o) Today I made a little something different for you, using not one but three Simply Sassy cuties! Why do you ask? Well, there's a new release coming up (and can I just say the new stamps are beyond gorgeous!!) and I still had three stamps from the previous set sitting unused, uninked and unloved...no scratch that, never unloved ;o) on my worktop so decided to put together this card.

As the paper is quite busy I put all my embellishments on the front of the card and left the inside bare of everything but some labels and texts. I hope it works and that you likey!

Materials I used:
Stamps: Simply Sassy stamps, available from Funky Kits HERE;
sentiments by Papertrey Ink and Hero Arts
Paper: Bazzill Basics cardstock white; Elzybells cardstock kraft;
My Mind's Eye paper pad Stella and Rose "Hattie"
Embellishments: Kars adhesive pearls; Papertrey Ink ribbon; Karen Foster scrapper's floss; Heidi Swapp ghost shape; Zva Creative pearl swirls; We R Memory Keepers eyelets
Tools: We R Memory Keepers Crop-a-Dile; EK Success Retro Flower Punches; Martha Stewart Doily Lace punch
Copics:
E00, E51, E93, E21 (skin, cheeks)
Y28, E53, E50 (hair)
BG10, BG11, BG13, BG15 (clothes)
T0, T2, T4 (clothes)

Right, that's all from me this week, be sure to check back regularly as some of my very talented DT teamies will be hosting sneek peaks during the coming week!!!

Hope you have a great week, thanks for stopping by :D

Hugs,
Erica

OH La La ~ tag

The best part about making a card is for me to color the Image.

I use my Copic markers and sometimes add some extra shadow with prisma pencils.

Sometimes I even sit down just to color with no specific card or  paper in mind.

Last summer we were on a car trip for almost two weeks and I wanted to bring something to do for the evenings after the kids we're a sleep. 2 weeks without crafty stuff.. not think so, wile with two kids in the back and one of them needing a stroller I couldn't pack lost of stuff, so I brought my markers and a box full of stamped images..

Not all we're used for cards afterwards but I had lots of fun coloring them!

What I wanted to say with that story was that if you have images colored and don't have much time to make a card a Tag is a sweet thing to put with a gift . Confirmation time is also around the corner here in Norway at least.

And if you have lots of cards to make and little time, how about making tags and make a little pocket for the money behind the tag. If your friendly with your sewing machine (which I'm not it always clogs up the thread on my paper) you can sew around the pocket for a nice touch..

So remember for your next long trip or even a weekend cabin trip, stamp up some images and bring whatever you use for coloring..

For this tag I've used OH La La ,Pion paper,seem binding and the thank you note is printed from my computer using Junko's Typewriter 

And I also want to tell you that both Carissa and Lou will start posting next week. 

We are not saying goodbye to Anita just yet as she have a few weeks yet :) 

But I like to give the Guests the option to start before they get their first stamps as we all are Simply Sassy fans and they have Sassy stamps, the more the merrier and we get more inspiration for you guy's!! 

Have a sweet Easter for those of you celebrating and a relaxing bank Holiday for those not celebrating or just a lovely weekend if you don't have time off from work :) Ta daaa be back before you know it!!

Oh La La

Morning Sassy Fans,

I do hope you enjoyed the Hop yesterday and if you haven't yet been on it you have until tomorrow evening to complete it, and as there are only 6 of us, its a real quick one!

It's hard to top the amazing creations that the DT put on for you yesterday but here goes...... As you will see I'm back to my Tracy style, lots of everything, lol......

This fabby stamp I think is my favourite in this set and I can see her on a forthcoming Anniversary card, but she screams Paris and Love  to me so I have gone with the Paris theme and added an Eiffel Tower stamp on accetate in the background and also a film strip also on accetate, love this as an embellishment, oh and a little postcard, cos although she lives in France she is on holiday in Grand Paris.

I have coloured her using all the "C's" Copics, and the flower using G82, G40 and V17, V15, V12

It's my turn for the tutorial on Thursday and I have a real treat for you, calorie free of course, so don't forget to pop back.

Ingredients:-

Image "Oh La La" from Sugar Nellie at Funky Kits HERE

Papers from Bearly Mine Vintage collection HERE

Corrugated Card oval stamped with a Tim Holtz Stamp and middle panel covered with white acrylic paint

Heart Doily, seam binding, lace and Pearls from stash

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and 99p Shop

Film Strip and Eiffel Tower Stamp by Tim Holtz

Butterflies - Martha Stewart Punch

Flourishes are lasercut chipboard  available from Make It Crafty and covered with Tim Holtz Crackle Paint

Distressed with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo

Star Dust Stickles