Sneek Peek - One Classy Lady

Morning Peeps,

Hope you've all had a fab weekend, I've spent mine most catching up on DT cards, so lucky me I've had a crafty weekend, with the exception of having to do the boring housework, in fact I haven't stepped oustide the door since I came home from work on Friday, lol.  Think I'm becoming a recluse!

Anyway, look what I have for you today.  A sneek peek at one of the stamps from Release 7. Yayyyyyyyy I hear you say.  And isn't she a sassy girl?  This stamp is called 5th Avenue and will be available from Funky Kits on Saturday, yep, that soon.  All the DT Girls have received their Release 7 Stamps in record time so we will be showing the whole release in a hop on Saturday, so be sure to check the Sassy blog for details.

I've followed the sketch over at the Sugar Bowl and added my own touch as I do.

So what do you think?

Materials used:-

Image 5th Avenue - will be available from Sugar Nellie at Funky Kits HERE

Papers - Nitwits

Corrugated Cardboard  distressed with vintage photo ink and painted with lilac acrylic paint

Lace and seam binding, Start Dust Stickles from stash

Magnolia Doohickey Die

Martha Stewart Punch around the page

Sentiment  and stamp die - Whimsey Stamps

Lasercut chipboard corners - Make It Crafty

Nesties

Butterfly - K & Co

 

Simply Squares

Hey there, thanks for stopping by today for my second installment of Sassy Inspiration.. ;)

This time I thought I would break out an older stamp that I hadn't inked up - Hippy Love, available HERE from Funky Kits. Isn't she gorgeous? She was a dream to colour (aren't they all?!) I love her hair - it's beautiful!

Some of you may know about the Facebook Group challenge that has been running all week - Squares from Scraps. This was the perfect challenge for a 'quilting' technique which can be done with paper with help from an intricate embossing folder.

Here is the card. A simple square Kraft cardbase which I have distressed using Frayed Burlap DI, I have also stamped a leaf design in Crumb Cake ink down one side. The 'quilted' area measures 3.75x3.75". I used a 1.25" square punch to ensure all squares were the same size and adhered them onto some standard thin computer paper to make one panel. I then put the panel in an embossing folder - Snow Cap by Sizzix for Basic Grey (okay, its a Christmas EF, but I won't tell if you don't..) and ran it through my CB. I then went over the raised surface with more Frayed Burlap DI and around the edges. I wrapped some SU! Old Olive taffeta ribbon around the panel and tied it in a bow - then adhered the whole lot at an angle to the cardbase.

I coloured Hippy Love using ProMarkers - if you would like a colour list, let me know - then fussy cut her out and placed on the 'quilted' panel. I custom made the stick pins to coordinate with the colours on the card and attatched them under the bow using glue dots.

I stamped the sentiment in SU! Old Olive ink with a mini alphabet set from Studio G, rounded the corner and added the smallest button I could find from Basic Grey. I then distressed the edges again using Frayed Burlap DI.

I hope this has inspired you today! :) Be sure to check back tomorrow for Tracey's inspiration 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

Our headder girls...

Who made it to our header??

First I want to than all of you who entered my little challenge, 

I was not sure anyone would even enter when I got the idea but my dt said go for it and that they would enter a competition like this, so I waited until we had our new guests join us and then I put this up.

So thank you so much! I will make another one like this in end of July :)

So as you can imagine I would put many more in our header if I could..

but our header girls for the summer is..

Vicky

and...

Coops 

Vicky and Coops will also get their cards in our sidebar linking to their blog 

for as long as their images are in our header .

(But please girls I need a few days to make the new header ;) )

Thanks again to all who entered 

Maria Therese 

A little birdcage

I found this gorgeous tutorial on a birdcage made with Tim Holtz birdcage die 

in sweet Ragnhild's blog  

I bet all of you will understand the tutorial if you want to try 

as the pictures say so much more than what she's writing :) 

I used Spread your wings and colored her with copics.

Just cut away the bird as that one is inside the cage haha

Here you can see the birdcage before I closed it

..a little more fuzzy picture as this was taken with my phone.

What I did a bit different from the tutorial is that I padded up the middle flower.

My sweet design team has all but one received Simply Sassy set 7! And wow I bet you will love it. It's a bit different from the sets before. I just got mine today and have started coloring up one for our blog hop ( so watch out for that one.. we will let you know a few day's in advance..) And as a result of me being new to this Anita also got set 7 so Yaaaaaay for us she will stay on for one more set :) 

That's it for me for this week.

Thank all of you for the continued support of this blog, we truly appreciated all your kind comments and all of you stopping by   ♥

Teacher Appreciation Card

I am so excited to bring you my card today - she is one of my favorites - but then I probably say that with each new stamp that I ink up! haha I received my Set 6 this week and couldn't wait to ink up Winking Student just in time for Teacher Appreciation Week! I paired her up with some of my FAVORITE October Afternoon papers and colored her with copics. I kept it pretty simple but I think that's why I love it because the gorgeous image is showcased. I wanted to color blond hair today but I didn't want it to be super yellow so I used a new combination for me, let me know what you think!

I am LOVING my time with Simply Sassy - the girls are so awesome and just a blast to chat with from day to day. I can't say Thank You enough!

Supplies:

Stamp: Winking Student

Paper: Make it Colourful Blending Card; October Afternoon

Copics: Skin - E0000, E000, E00, E11, E93, R00; Hair - E40, E41, E42, E43, YR000, YR00; Eyes - B00, B04; Clothes/Books - BG10, G20, G24, W1, W3, W7, R24, R29, R46, YG93, YG95, G99, R01, R02, E55, E59, B91, B93

Atyou Glitter Pens: Clear, Lipstick, Red, Melon, Orange, Yellow

Adhesive: ATG, Helmar Zap Dots

boil, boil....

Hello Simply Sassy friends!
It was "Walpurgisnacht" here in Germany last weekend - the night from the 30th of april to the 1st of may where all witches come together at a special mountain called "Brocken". I am sure there is a little witch in all of us and so I was inspired to make this card in its special cauldron shape.

The image I used is

Witches Cauldron

from the newest Simply Sassy collection.

I cut the cauldron shape by hand and made an easel card from it. The clouds were made using some vellum - I like how you are able to see the different layers and that "eye" that seems to be popping out of the cauldron. Well, the green stuff behind was meant to be some green smoke but honestly, I think it kind of looks like wrench.LOL

I stamped some swirls to the left side of the cauldron using an embossing pad and added a clear embossing powder with tiny sparkling pieces in it. And the perfectly matching sentence is by Studio G, stamped using a dusty durango stamp pad by Stampin´up.

I needed to add a place to write on since the card base is black - and so I used this label frame from Inkadinkado and added another sentiment from Studio G.

For the coloring I used these Copics:

So, here´s witching all of you a happy weekend!