Vintage, Sassy Style!

 Hey all you Sassy fans, welcome to another installment of Sassy inspiration!! Autumn here with your first post of the day and today I've used...

 ... 'Vintage Boutique' available at Funky Kits here. Now it appears bloggers having fun with my pic and has made it blurry, I apologize for that, I hope this isn't a permanent thing as it was an issue with my last post as well. Anyway, I'm so proud of myself with the card, I used all scraps, yay!! Idk about you all, but I have got quite the collection of scraps going on. 

Here's a closer view...she looks a little clearer here. She is colored with copics and I was feeling a little darker skin tone with her and I really like how it turned out. 

 

Here are my copics. The skin was E33,13,&11 and her cheeks were R14&12, I'm thinking you can probably figure the rest out, but if you do have any questions please feel free to ask.

Well, I think that about does it for my card. The flowers are WOC and the lace is from my stash, all the Dp's were scraps. The butterfly was cut with my Cricut and the MS All Occasions cart.

Well thanks for stopping by and be sure to check back later to see Anita's beautiful creation!

Have a great day!

xxAutumn 

Blog hop winners

The winners of our blog hop is 

Lou - Julye
Carisa - Donna Mosley

Kathrin- Bridget/Curlybear

Autumn- Karyn S

Tracy - Jayne Howard

Erica - Sandra

Maria - Mary J

Please go to the blog where you won to send your address by Sunday May 22 :)

Can't wait to see what you all make with your prizes :)

Tuesday Spotlight on

This Tuesday we have a pleasure to spotlight Sassy fan 

Sheila

And she has got a gorgeous card for us made wit the sweet 

Butterflies & pigtails

I just love the beautiful colors and pretty coloring.

Start by telling us a little about yourself:
 I am a Scot living in North London, married to my soul mate, have two grown-up kids and two wonderful young cats. I suffer from Degenerative Disc Disease in my neck and have had recent major surgery to try to delay the degeneration process. I am also an Ovarian Cancer survivor and a strong believer that ALL women need to be aware of the symptoms of this horrid disease. Details on my blog under Ovacome website. I enjoy crafting, walking, gardening, reading, listening to music and the theatre - especially singalong musicals where I can get up and dance along too!

 When did you start card making and what made you start?
I have only been card making for about three years so am relatively new to this addictive craft! I only came across it by chance - I was off work ill with a long-term degenerative condition and was channel-hopping, discovered Create & Craft and was addicted. I no longer follow the channel but cannot get thru a day without a crafting fix and some blogging.

 What is your preferred Colouring medium?
Easily seen to be my Promarkers but, with the help of the fabulous Kerrie (Pickle), I am hoping to get into Prisma pencils very soon. I think several Simply Sassy stamps would love to be coloured by these pencils.

 What is your favourite Simply Sassy stamp?
I simply cannot answer this question as they are all stunning - I have to say tho that I am LOVING the look of Set 7 - slightly more grown up look about them so more suited to 'the older woman'! Lots of the SS stamps remind me of when I was in my late teens and dressed in those long hippy skirts that collected all the dust from the pavements!

 How did you first notice the Simply Sassy stamps for the first time?
I am a keen follower of Funky Kits and Sugar Nellie and just happened upon them one day I was browsing there.........my home town is actually where Funkykits are located so the added bonus is that when I go home soon, I will be able to visit the HOS and stock up on them all!!

 What is your favourite style?
I don't think I have a favourite style as I like to try new things from time to time, so I tend to make the cards to fit in with the stamps/images that I use. These Simply Sassy stamps are ideal for 'playing' with and look perfect on a 'busy' card or a Clean and Simple card.

 What would you like to see more of on the Simply Sassy blog?
Well....I think there is a Simply Sassy Challenge on a certain social network site that I refuse to visit so I would love to see a regular challenge here so that all us Simply Sassy followers could play away the hours getting ideas from one another because isn't that what crafting is all about?

I would just like to add a MASSIVE thank you to Maria and the girls for letting me be in the spotlight today - it is a huge pleasure for me and a great honour too!

Sheila:)X

Here are some of the gorgeous Sassy card's I found over at Sheila's blog ♥♥

Using Spread your wings

Using Carnival Balloon

Using Winking student

Using Luv A Latte

Thank You so much Sheila for letting us spotlight you and your beautiful cards!!

Before I go I just want to hijack the end of this blogpost to say

To Congratulate every Norwegian!!
Today is our Constitution Day and we go through the street in a biiig parade with Band Music.
And I usually use my National Costume that looks like this where I come from. But not this year as I need to get something fixed on it :(
So today the kids gets as much Ice-cream as they want and hopefully won't bee to high on sugar after..
(You know the best Sugar to be high on is Sugar Nellie stamps..)
And to clarify It was not me on the pictured I linked to in the National Costume..
Happy 17th of May Norway!!

Hugs Maria 

I've Been Experimenting Again!

 Morning Simply Sassy Fans,

Well, I have admired from afar the work done with prisma pencils on kraft cardstock and really wanted to give it a go, so I decided yesterday that today was the day.   I tried searching the internet for skin combos as I really didn't know what pencils to use, but that search was without success really.  It might of helped if I had actually coloured a whole image using prisma's on white cardstock before so at least I would of had some idea, but as I've said before once I get an idea in my head I run with it.  So anyway, my search didn't amount to much so I ended up with a multitude of pencils on my table and as such I still couldn't tell you what I used, lol, so if there's anyone out there that can help me or point me in the right direction I would be obliged.

I love the pastel effect that the prismas give on kraft so I will be continuing my practice and will get braver as I've played it a little safe, but overall I'm pretty pleased with the result.

Ingredients:-

Image: "Missing You" by Sugar Nellie at Funky Kits HERE

Medium - Prisma Pencils

Kraft Cardstock

Cuttlebug Script Embossing Folder

Stempleglede Sentiment Stamp

Doily from Bizzy Becs

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

Swirl Corners are lasercut Chipboard Diecuts from Make It Crafty

Perls from stash

Martha Stewart Branch Bunch

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.

Sunday inspiration

Sorry a little late today but there have been a little mix up.

Hope you are having fun with our blog hop

And there is still time to join in on our blog hop prize draw.

The image is Simply Sassy - Luv A Latte that you can get over at Funky Kits when she's back in stock.

She's colored with Copic's and the paper is mostly Magnolia paper

The sentiment is printed from my computer and I think it's bleeding cowboy 

Now on to the request 

Do YOU want to be in our spotlight??

We might have no spotlight for this tuesday 

 Our spotlight girl has been sick but if she come back to us with a spotlight card we will do two this tuesday..

You will need to have Sassy card s in your blog + answer our questioner and have a new card for us by tomorrow evening.

If more that one say yes I'll choose one of you tonight;) 

(EDIT Tuesday spotlight has been chosen watch out for being contacted ;) ) 

Lou will be back in a few hours with a sweet card for you.

Have a sweet Sunday:)

Hugs Maria 

BLOG HOP ♥♥

 So happy your here to join us on the release of set 7.

I know a few of you have already been over to Funky kits shopping.

And If your one of them I bet you still want some inspiration.

Karen is kindly giving away stamps for our blog hop so be sure to leave comments on each hop as all the girls are giving away the stamps their featuring :)

 Leave your comment by Monday 8pm to be in on the draw.

I believe Karen also was going to have something Sweet and Sassy over at the Sugar Nellie blog so be sure to pay her a visit :)

The Steampunk set of 6 stamps is available for the price of 5 for the launch weekend. £29.75

Your first stop at the Hop is at Lou 

And here is the blog hop list ,
please forgive us if there is any missing stops at the hop but I hope blogger is all back to normal.

Simply Sassy blog (you are here)
Lou
Carisa
Kathrin
Autumn
Tracy
Erica
Maria

You can find all the Sassy stamps over at Funky kits

  

Be sure to pop back after the hop and tell me what stamp is your favourite ;)