Something Old Something New..

With all the new Stamps featured in here these last few weeks I'm here with a Older Sassy girl Rupunzel.
And to remind you all that a new Sugar Bowl challenge is up :)

The sketch we're using over at The Sugar Bowl this time is made by Kiki and the option is Autumn.

I have dressed up Rupunzel in her Autumn dress.

She is colored with Copic's and the paper are by Prima - Romantique

One lucky winner will get to choose 4 Sugar Nellie stamps or 6 if we get more than 100 entries :)

Yumm..so much to choose from ♥

So find those Autumn color and join us over at The Sugar Bowl ♥

Rupunzel

Hello Sassy fans! Autumn here with your first post of the day and today I wanted to share Rupunzel with you.

Sadly she's been waiting and waiting to be inked up, but finally she's gotten her turn. I'm still trying to take a little break from cards, so today I've come up with this....

...an altered a notebook. I've been wanting to make one for a while now and I thought Rupunzel would be just perfect for the job. My mom is always telling me that I should keep a journal of all the cute, funny, wonderful things my children do every day and that's what this will be for.

I absolutely love the papers I used here and they are from 'the girls paperie' vintage whimsy collection. I've colored Rupunzel up to match and cut a bunch of die cuts with my new Cricuit cart. Sophisticated. I've kept the embellishments simple so I can actually use it on a day to day basis.

Here's a closer view of the little beauty. Don't you just love that long hair...makes me wish mine was long again. I've given her blue eyes and blonde hair like me and tried my best to color her to match. 

That will do it for my post today. Hope you all have had a wonderful week so far. Thanks for stopping by!

Have a great day!

xxAutumn

It's my farewell post....

Happy Friday, Simply Sassy Fans!

It really seems like yesterday when I got the happy email from Maria Therese asking if I'd join the Sassy girls for  a guest spot and now it's over much too soon! *tears* I had a blast designing with the sassy girls during these past 2 releases - they are so much fun and sweet to be around. I'm keeping my fingers crossed to be asked to come back some day! :D I will always be a Simply Sassy fan and will continue to use them often so be sure to stop by my blog any time for more inspiration. :D

For my final inspiration card today, I just HAD to ink up Rupunzel! I loved her from the moment I saw her and that was the first set where I bought ALL 6 of them at once! I know, I couldn't help myself! :D So, when making a birthday card for my daughter last week, this stamp definitely was the one to use because of her long beautiful hair. My daughter, 1. LOVES the movie Tangled and 2. Has pretty long hair herself! I colored Rupunzel using copics and gave her dark brown hair and hazel eyes like my daughter and a fabulous red dress because my daughter's favorite color is red. Now, I have to say here, that while I was making this card it was late....my daughter's birthday was the next day (I am NEVER one to make a card too early, LOL) and I put a big giant 5 on it and took this pic when I was all done. THEN I went to show it to my hubby and he looks at it, then looks at me and says "What's the 5 for?" to which I immediately exclaim "Oh My GAWD, she's 6!!!" LOL So, thankfully it was just easy peasy to switch out this sticker for the one that said 6 but I just didn't photograph it again. haha I think I was just in a little bit of denial that my firstborn is growing up so fast! Now, when she saw the CORRECT card, she literally gasped and said "I love it, mom!" Now, THAT was the best reaction. :D She's by far my BIGGEST fan!

So, that is my final post. I am sad but so happy to have had this amazing opportunity to design for Simply Sassy stamps. It truly was an honor and one I will cherish always! Like I said, I have fallen hard for these adorable images, they have even worked their way up to my top 3 stamp loves for sure! I am just thrilled that Krista shares with us her art in this way so we can all enjoy her images for years and years! :D

Hugs,
Carisa

Supplies:

• Simply Sassy Rupunzel Stamp
• PTI Kraft & Pure Poppy Cardstock
• Copic Xpress It Blending Card
• Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
• American Crafts Confetti Collection
• Copics - E0000, E000, E00, E21, E30, E31, E53, E51, E43, E37, E29, E39, E47, E49, E42, E44, R89, R81, R22, R24, R27, R29, R46, E09, BG10

Sassy Sister

[Apologies for this post being a little photo heavy - but there were so many gorgeous things to show you!!]

So how did you lovely lot enjoy our Hop last weekend?! Wasn't it fun!? I really enjoyed reading all of your reactions to the new Steampunk stamps. It is such a grown up set and so set apart from the rest - you just knew you had to have them all as soon as you laid eyes on them, am I right? Heehee.

Well, this afternoon I have a card to show you using a gorgeous stamp from Set 6.. she's called Rapunzel and is available from Funky Kits HERE. A while ago I seen Kellie Winnell stamping with coloured ink onto Kraft cardstock and was amazed with the results - so naturally the technique was filed away somewhere in the depths of my brain for later testing. I decided the time had come to test the technique, and here are the results..

My boyfriend sprang it upon me that he "wanted" a birthday card for his sister, with the specific words 'sister' inside. Well, I had already made a card for her from me, so I had to wrack my brains all over again and come up with something totally different which I thought she would like. Out came Rapunzel, I HAD to ink her up again. After my first few failed attempts at water colouring with DIs (Elaine ;)) I had never let her see the light of day again.

I stamped her in Chestnut Roan Chalk Ink onto SU! Crumb Cake cardstock. I had tried this with Bazzill Kraft before changing my mind, I found the impurities (as much as I love them - they're the reason I love Kraft so..) in that particular cardstock took the attention away from the image. Using the Crumb Cake gives a much crisper image. I then cut her out using nesties Labels Four, one of my all time faves. I LOVE nesties!! I then inked the edges using Frayed Burlap DI to make it stand out from the patterned paper.. which is from Prima BTW.

 

This beautiful bronze charm and brown gingham ribbon are both from The Ribbon Girl. They were the perfect embellishments for this, what I would like to call 'sophisticated' card. I used a little brown bakers twine to attatch the charm and created the bow using my Bow Easy tool.

Here is the inside of the card - I decided to make another gatefold, incase you hadn't already realised.. LOL. I cut the letters to make up 'sister' using the TH Vintage Market alpha die. The letters are the perfect size for cards. The letters are white patterned paper from the Prima pack and they have very light blue music notes on them, oh so pretty. I wish I had taken a close up. NVM. I cut another panel of Crumb Cake cardstock using labels four and stamped a Happy Birthday sentiment from a PTI set in Crumb Cake ink.

Here is the envelobox I created for the card using The Ulimate Pro. Another Crumb Cake labels four and the recipients name in matching patterned paper.

To make the closure I simply cut a little labels four and attatched to the flap using my regular adhesive. To the free area I applied strips of Tombow Mono adhesive and left to dry over night without closing it. This way it creates a removable adhesive strip which is strong enough to keep the envelobox shut but not enough to rip the cardstock when it is opened. Genius. It took me ages to work out a way to do that! LOL! *taps self on head* hollow? Me thinks.

Well, I hope that's enough info for ya all to go along with the mountain of pictures today! Enjoy the rest of your Sunday whatever you're doing!
Oh, and as a little side note, I thought I would share another Sassy card I made for a different DT earlier this week..

This time using Pillow Talk, available HERE from Funky Kits. If you want to know more details about this card, see THIS POST.

xo Lou.

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

Lessons Learned

Morning Peeps,

I know on my very first post  here I mentioned that I like to do different styles, and I'm sure by now you will agree with me.  Well today's card is another style.  I've been wanting to play around with distress inks for sometime so I bought some small brushes and started to have a play and learnt some lessons along the way. One of the  main differences I found with using distress inks against copics is that its difficult to create the creases in the clothes like you can with copics.  However I do still love both mediums.

This super Sassy Girl is called, "Rapunzel", and she started off being lilac and turquoise blue but I added some vintage photo to the edges of her tights forgetting that I was meant to go and work on another part of the image allowing the tights to dry first, so after adding the vintage photo they kind of blended and I ended up with green tights, lol. Good job I like lilac and green.

After completing her I decided to cut her out in an oval shape using my nesties and I placed some post it notes over the nestie and image to keep the nestie in place.  Don't know about you but I have had countless times of the nestie not cutting where I wanted it too on my bigshot and on the Grand Calibur.  Only I had a shim on it for embossing and I forgot to remove it, so my image ended up with the post it notes being embossed onto the image.  So in short these are my lessons learnt:-

1. Don't try out a new tecnique for a DT card when you don't have enough time to do another in case it goes wrong... Oops!
1. Wait for the area to dry before applying a new colour
2. Don't leave the shim in the bigshot

I followed the sketch over at The Sugar Bowl and here's how it ended up.

Don't look too closely, lol.

Ingredients:-

Image is "Rapunzel" available from Funky Kits HERE

Check paper is available from Nitwits

Martha Stewart Punch

Flowers are from Bizzy Becs

Magnolia Doohickey Die

Laserchip Corner and Butterfly painted with acrylic paint available from Make It Crafty

Cuttlebug Embossing Foler

Bazill Cardstock & Pearls from stash

Simply Rapunzel

Hello Sassy fans!  I hope you've had a wonderful day so far.  I have one of the new images to share with you today . . .

Rapunzel.  Isn't she beautiful?  I had a blast coloring her and all that gorgeous hair.  I used my copics and colored pencils to color this cutie.  I added some lace and ribbon, and then made a little lacey rosette for my embellishment.  I added a few pearls and a butterfly to finish my card.

Now, if you haven't already seen Autumn's beautiful project, scroll down to check out her post from earlier today.  And be sure to stop by tomorrow to check out another fabulous tutorial from Tracy.

Thanks for stopping by for a visit.

Stamp:  Sugar Nellie Simply Sassy - Rapunzel (which can be purchased at Funky Kits)
Paper:  My Mind's Eye; Bazzill
Other:  Copics, Caran d'Ache and Prismacolor pencils, gamsol, lace, ribbon, pearls, flower, MS tag punch, MS butterfly punch