Tuesday spotlight on..

Carisa!!

This Tuesday we have Carisa in the spotlight an boy does she make some gorgeous cards!

This is the card she made for us

Here she has used Luv A Latte 

*Start by telling us a little about you:
I married my high school sweetheart 10 yrs ago and right now I am a stay at home mom to 3 amazing kiddos. My oldest is in kindergarten, my 2nd is 4 and my youngest is 1 yr. They definately keep me busy but I somehow manage to find time to stamp and color in between! Besides stamping, I love to read any chance I can - mostly fiction. We live in Colorado right now, but I grew up in Florida. In fact, I'd never lived anywhere else till I moved out to Texas when I was 18 to live with my boyfriend now hubby!


*When did you start card making and what made you start?
I started about 2 yrs ago. I went to a LSS that was having a Stamping Bella release party with make n takes. I met Angela who introduced me to Copics, bought my first pair E00, E21 and really the addiction hasn't ended! When I found out you could COLOR stamped images, well, I knew it was going to be a life long relationship! I had always loved coloring as a kid, had tons and tons of coloring books and those big boxes of crayola's with every color imaginable. After that, I realzied that stamping and card making made me HAPPY! I love sitting down with a black and white image and seeing it come to life with color. It's like magic and it's good for the soul!

*What is your preferred coloring medium?
Definitely, hands down, COPICS!!! I love that these markers make anyone look like a coloring genius!!! It's like the adult version of my Crayola's as a kid. :D


*What is your fav Simply Sassy stamp?
That is an impossible question to answer! I honestly love them all. I really adore Luv A Latte because I'm a serious coffee drinker!! The card I made for today's post is my FAVORITE! But I really can't wait to get my hands on new favorites like Bad Hare Day, Windswept & Hippie Love!


*How did you notice the Simply Sassy stamps the first time?
I do believe I blame, or, credit my Make It Colourful DT sistah Tracy for this new obsession!!! When I saw them on her blog I just HAD to have them and I think I bought my first Simply Sassy stamps that day or the next.


*What is your favourite style (card making)?
This is a question I do NOT know how to answer! I think I am starting to find my own style now after 2 yrs of experimenting and something I have admitted recently is that I am one chick that is ridiculously addicted to pretty pattern papers! I love picking out my paper and coloring an image to match! One thing that I am seeing a lot on my cards is distressing - I love tearing the edges of my paper and inking them to add texture to my card.


*And what would you love to see more of at the Simply Sassy blog?
I actually love that you have an inspiration only blog! It's awesome to come each day and see a new DT member sharing a Simply Sassy stamp. I also love that you spotlight your fans - it's the ultimate compliment!

 It was so much fun digging into Carisa's blog to show off some gorgeous Sassy cards!!

Using Laid back dude 

 Using Fashionista

 Using Hippie chick

Thank you so much for letting us Spotlight you and showing off your beautiful cards!
And I know Carisa  will love any comment you leave her!

Guest DT Call!!!!

 Edit: Call is now closed. We will announce our choice as soon as we can.
Thank you for all entry's you are a talented bunch! 



Can I hear a yaaaaaaaaaaaay?? 

Who have been waiting for this??

We are looking for a Guest designer!!

Yes ONE and if you want to be the one keep on reading!!

I'm having a dt call for one designer to join us for release 7 and 8 of Simply Sassy.
We have now 5 sets over at Funky Kits now and set 6 is on it's way to the dt soon, so the guest will be on for  about 2 months but as we all love inspiration you are welcome to start right after being chosen using your older Simply Sassy stamps, but you need to stay on for about two months starting the release /preview of set 7. The guest designer will also post here in the Simply Sassy blog and make 1-2 tutorials within their time as GDT.

Earlier experience from a design team is not needed but I will be looking at coloring skills and good pictures of your cards. Yes you need a blog to be playing along.

What do you do to enter? 

Make a card with THIS sketch using a  

Simply Sassy stamp

Post it in your blog linking back here...

The Call ends 18th April 

Questions? Email ME

Fairy Tale Tissue Box

Morning Peeps,

Hope all the Mum's got thoroughly spoilt yesterday.  I had a lovely day with flowers, little cupcake truffles, yum, yum and a gift voucher for Top Shop from my daughter and 3 crafting stamps from my Son. Bless him, he reffed a couple of football matches, put his money in the bank and bought his mummy some crafting stamps, isn't that sweet, bless.  Then we all went out to the Harvester for a lovely family meal.  So you can safely say I had a lovely day.

Today  I have made a Tissue Box using "Fairy Tale" available from Sugar Nellie at Funky Kits HERE.

 

The tutorial I followed is from my fabby Teamie Vicky, you can see it HERE.  I adjusted the height of the box by 2 cm.  It fitted my Boots Tissue Box perfectly and also accomodated my square papers that I printed to size, that's the beauty of digital papers.

 

Just love this Stamp, all that flowing hair and that beautiful face. I have used copics to colour her and prisma's for the shading on the hair.

Here's a picture of the top of the box.  I cut out the middle section with my nesties and also made a frame out of kraft cardstock, again using my nesties,  and edged with vintage photo distress ink. The gorgeous lasercut chipboard flourish is available from Make It Crafty.  Seriously can't get enough of these!

 

I will be keeping this tissue box and I'm sure I'll be making more of them. 

Ingredients Used:-

Image "Fairy Tale" by Sugar Nellie at Funky Kits HERE

Papers are Vintage Lace from Bearly Mine available HERE

Kraft Cardstock by Bazill

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

Vintage Photo Distress Ink

Pearls and Lace from stash

Martha Stewart Frond Punch

Our first godbye

As some of you read over at Kellie's blog Kellie is cutting her term short due to health issues.

We will mis Kellie so to say bye-bye to her I'm showing off some of the Sassy cards

that you have not seen here in the blog 

This gorgeous Book cover Kellie made for the guest dt call

using Fairy Tale 

and a bookmark to go with it

using I Love to read

Here she have gorgeously used Party Frills in sweet vintage colors.

Gorgeous Vintage Hippie Chick

For our blog hop with set 5 Star Dust

and for this blog hop

Windswept

Thank you Kellie for all the gorgeous inspiration ♥♥

Simply Noteworthy ;o)

You know how you get started on a project and you're having so much fun and it just saddens you when you finish it? I had that with these notebooks, which were designed by my friend Monique for our challenge blog a while ago. They are so easy to make and so fun to give away! I'm giving one to a colleague, who was browsing through my blog, stumbled upon an earlier version I'd made and wanted one too...after weeks of her dropping not-so-subtle hints I've finally decided to give in, and here they are (be warned: picture overload *lol*):

Now this cutie pie has to be teacher's pet doesn't she, I'm surprised she's not carrying a shiny new apple for the teacher...although it might be in her lunch pail ;o). I love this Sassy for her big glasses, hair which is a dream to colour (I have hair colouring problems sometimes, but not with this one :D!) and her funky legwarmers. And don't even get me started on those shoes, Krista has done it again! They look like the kind that tone your legs and other bits when you walk don't they, what are they called again?

Anyway, listen to me waffling on again, I'd best be off to enjoy the rest of my weekend, hope you're enjoying yours too! Have you been on our vintage Sassy hop yet? Today is the last day, so if you want to see some gorgeous creations by the DT and have a chance at winning a prize, why not join us on the hop and scatter some comments on the way? You can find all the details HERE. Happy Hopping!

Speaking of hopping, did you see Kathrin's fantastic Easter project HERE? Makes me want to go out and buy some chocolate...so what else is new eh ;o)

Materials I used:
Stamps: Simply Sassy "High School Student"; sentiments by Papertrey Ink and Kaisercraft Paper: Elzybells kraft cardstock; My Mind's Eye Stella and Rose: Hazel Collection Embellishments: Zva Creative swirls and pearls
Tools: Stampin' Up! punch; MFT Die-namics
Copics: E00, E51, E93, E21 (skin, cheeks, lips)
Y28, E53, E50 (hair)
E44, E43, E42, E41 (dress, shoes, books, glasses, hearts)
BG10, BG11 (eyes, hairclip, tunic, legwarmers, lunchpail)

That's all from me on this sunny Sunday, hope you likey and if you want to make this notebook cover yourself, the description (in Dutch and English) can be found HERE. This cover holds an A6 notepad and can be easily adapted for the Post-It notes.

Have a lovely day!

Hugs,
Erica

Are you coloring up some Sassy's this weekend??

Are You here for our blog hop?? Go here

Then I thought I'd send you off to Sugar Nellie dt Chrissy

 She has done a step by step tutorial on coloring Fashionista

You will find them  here: part one,  part two, part three, part four, part five and part six

Here is another one of Chrissy's sweet Sassy girls

 Hippie chick

Karen has given me a go to dip into the Sassy creations of the Sugar Nellie dt

So I will be back now and then with some Sassy sweets from the SNdt.

Hope your still having the Sassiest of weekends.

Erica will be here tomorrow with more sweet inspirations ;)

Hugs Maria Therese

Saturday Sassy Inspiration

Are You here for our blog hop?? Go here

I'm back and I brought a card :)

This is My friend kitty
I think she  has the sweetest smile, almost like when my 5 year old has been taking something from the candy drawer and don't want me to know..
For this card I tried to use soft color so that the Sassy girl should stand out more.
The papers are from Maja design and Inkido
The postcard stamp is Stempelglede
I've colored her with Copic's only this time (no prisma pencil's well when I think of it maybe just a tiny bit!?!?)
Behind the lace I put some brown ribbon and  it really don't stand out as much as it does on my picture.

Hope you are all having a sweet weekend and for those of you who have not been to our blog hop yet please go, there are so many gorgeous inspiration cards and projects.
And many of the dt's have candy (even though their not showing any pictures of it )
so  be sure to leave comments!!

Hugs Maria Therese