Simply Fabulous :D

Hi Sassy fans, it's me again with your Sunday inspiration! For today's card I've used the fabulous

Strike A Pose

Isn't she cute? She reminds me a bit of Yasmin from Aladdin, waiting on her magical cushion for her prince to sweep her away... Such imagination for a Sunday morning eh ;o)

Card Ingredients:

Stamps: Simply Sassy "Strike A Pose"; sentiment from My Favorite Things;
background from Stempelglede
Paper: Bazzill Basics cardstock; Maja Design design paper "Vintage Winter"
Embellishments: Zva Creative pearl swirls; Kars adhesive pearls
Tools: My Favorite Things Die-namics label and flowers; Tim Holtz film strip
Copics:
E00, E51, E93, E21 (skin, cheeks)
E44, E43, E42, E41 (browns)
E29 (red)

Rights, that's it from me, I'm off to put the Christmas decorations up :D! Have a great day, see you next week!

Hugs,
Erica

Tuesday Spotlight

This week we have a very sweet crafter called 

Joyce with us...

I had not seen her pretty cards before my friend Elaine showed me her blog.

Thank you Elaine for finding her for me ♥

And wow does she make pretty cards ,tags and mini books!

Here is what Joyce made for us

 Using All wrapped up

Using Christmas Kisses

*Start by telling us a little about you:
  I am Joyce 33. Married to Lars and together we have 2 beautiful kids. Randy 5 and Duncan 3.
I work at a store where we sell garden furniture and Spa's.

*When did you start card making and what made you start?
When Randy was about 3 he loved to make things with paper and coloring

and at the time i started to scrapbook.
 Then my neighbor showed me how to make cards with stamp and all these little things on them....
oooh my i got the addiction...And now i craft almost every evening

Using Butterfly girl

Using City Girl

*What is your preferred coloring medium?
i started with prisma pencils but when i discovered copics, there was another addiction......

*What is your fav Simply Sassy stamp?
i LOVE them all, that is a really hard choice. But when i have to pick one it would be "Lost in Music"

Using Lost in Music

*How did you notice the Simply Sassy stamps the first time?
I saw them on the club "Kaarten maken met Tiets" it is a Dutch forum about card making.
And when i used one of of the stamps on a card i fell in love with them

Using Strike a Pose

*What is your favourite style (card making)?
With a lot of embellish..... I LOVE to use lace, flowers, pearls and all the little things

*And what would you love to see more of at the Simply Sassy blog?
I think the blog is perfect the way it is now.

Using Apple of my eye

Thank you Joyce for letting us Spotlight you ♥

Please leave Joyce some sweet worlds ♥

Tuesday Spotlight

Hello Sassy fans today we would like to put the spotlight on....

Janette

I asked Janette to make a card for us and she came up with a real beauty for us...

Using: Strike a pose, Lost in Music, and Pillow Talk

Here's a little about Janette and some wonderful cards from her blog:

Start by telling us a little about you:
I am a work from home mom to three rowdy boys. With a very
supportive husband that doesn't mind me spending time with my crafts;
I think this will be the case until he finds out how much money goes
into buying paper and stamps...Hehehehe I am of Mexican descent and I
love my Mexican culture!

Using Strike a Pose

*When did you start card making and what made you start?
I started making cards to swap with my two cousins and sister. I had
never ever had done a card before; but it was fun and i really enjoyed
it. We did one card a month; but as life often gets in the way the
swap ended almost a year ago now. After having my third son and being
in a new home where I have my craft/office room I am way into making
cards and can't stop!

 Using Apple of My Eye

Using Pillow Talk

*What is your preferred coloring medium?
This is an easy one; Copics by miles!

*What is your fav Simply Sassy stamp?
I will have to say Pillow Talk since she was the one that caught my
eye and is the stamp that I have used the most out of all of my
stamps. I think that if I had Retail Therapy she would be a close
second; poor baby is still on my wish list!

Using Lost in Music

Using Pillow Talk


*How did you notice the Simply Sassy stamps the first time?
I saw them on Autumn's blog and I think she is one of the first blogs
that I began to follow. I just fell in love with the BIG hair and
eyes.

*What is your favourite style (card making)?
Hummm this is a toughy; I don't think that I really have a defined
style other that I like to try new things. I like doing 3D projects
and love to embellish til I cannot embellish no more:0)

Using Pillow Talk

*And what would you love to see more of at the Simply Sassy blog?
I love the blog the way that it is! The only thing that I would love to
see more boy stamps(cuz I do have 3 of them) and cowgirl/cowboy images
would be a dream come true. I have told Krista this already and am
patiently waiting for that day; I know it will come!

Thanks so much Janette for letting us Spotlight you and your gorgeous creations and for letting us get to know you a little better!

Simply Striking ;o)

Hi Sugar addicts! For today's inspiration post I have chosen the delectable Strike a Pose, which seems to be temporarily out of stock over at Funky Kits, small wonder I guess as it's such a gorgeous and, again, very versatile stamp!

I have used the sketch from Pink Ink Sketch Challenges and for the style I have tried to emulate our very own Maria Therese, hope I did a good job there ;o). It's just fun to try something different every once in a while, I know we all have our own style but it's not good to get stuck in a rut is it!

Card Ingredients:

Stamps: Simply Sassy "Strike a Pose"; sentiment from Creashop Duymelot
Paper: Elzybells Arts Stamps cardstock kraft; My Mind's Eye "Blush"
Embellishments: Papertrey Ink ribbon; Kars pearls; Prima Marketing roses
Tools: Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Oval and Scalloped Oval; EK Success Retro Flower punches; Heidi Swapp paper distresser
Copics:
E00, E51, E93, E21 (skin, cheeks)
Y28, E53, E50 (hair)
R85, R83, R81 (pinks)
G21, G20 (greens)
E41 (stockings)

Right, that's all from me this Sunday, hope you have a great day, thank you for stopping by and I'll see you next week!

Hugs,
Erica

Strike a Pose

Hello Sassy Fans!
This is my last post...

No, don't worry, it's just the last one I am able to check if everything went up correctly because we'll leave for our summer vacation beginning of next week. So I am going to schedule the next friday inspiration posts and hope Blogger won't play up again.

Today I have made a tag. I used

Strike a Pose

here.
To me she looks like she created her dress on her own and is now proudly presenting it. So I used some sewing elements to decorate the tag but also a film strip die cut to fit the model in her. I liked the black and white color mix for this image but also wanted to add a little color so I did the rose in pink with a natural green leave. To put the image and the tag together I only used a pink rose and green leave as colorful embellishments and combined those with some black lace and a scissors charm.

For the coloring I used these Markers -
the E04(1) color is a lighter shade of E04 that I made myself. You can see here how to make your own custom Copic colors.

So wishing you all a wonderful rest of august and see you in september!

Strike a Pose!

Hello Sassy fans and welcome to another wonderful Sassy Day! Today as you have figured out, I'm sure, I've used the wonderful Strike a pose(Funky Kits is not coming up for a link right now, but I'll try again later, sorry) and followed the current sketch over at the Sugar Bowl and I've come up with this...

 

Sugar Bowl Sketch

I was orginally going to use the City Girl image to give you all something different, but after i had her all colored up I messed up the background and had to cut her and and then she didn't work, and to be honest I wasn't completely thrilled with the card anyway, so I decided to color up Strike a pose and much prefer how the card came out this way. 

The optional theme at the Sugar Bowl is lace and so I added that and even made a flower with some and broke out my feathers and put a few of those in there too...I think they're quite fitting.

Here's a close up of my girl. I do find that coloring in black can be rather difficult for me, so I hope she turned out ok...the hair is probably the hardest part, but I wanted to do something different. I added  some stickles the her flowers, but left the rest of her glitter free. 

That's all for me today. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

xxAutumn 

Tuesday Spotlight...

This Tuesday we have sweet Lisa in our spotlight

And she made this beautiful card for us ♥♥

Using: Strike a pose 

*Start by telling us a little about you:

I’m Lisa, and I live in Sheffield with my husband and 2 young sons – oh, and one spoilt cat :o)

*When did you start card making and what made you start?
I've always been fairly crafty, starting out with knitting and embroidery as a child. Then 4 yrs ago, after a normal full term pregnancy, we had a stillborn son. For a few months I went to pieces, work (kindly) offered me voluntary redundancy as I couldn't have gone back and eventually I needed something to fill my days while our eldest son was at school. I wandered into Hobbycraft, picked up a card making magazine and the obsession began! I think I was convinced making my own cards would actually save us money, but I dread to think how much I've spent over the years! Cardmaking has kept me going though when I've had some very low days, so it's been worth every penny, and I now have a great 'hobby' that I don't think I'll ever get bored of.

*What is your preferred coloring medium?
I nearly always colour with promarkers, but I often add a bit of shading using koh-i-noor pencils.

*What is your fav Simply Sassy stamp?
That's a really difficult one! I like lots of them, for all different reasons, but I do have a bit of a soft spot for Bella Bunting.

*How did you notice the Simply Sassy stamps the first time?
I’m going to be totally honest – when I saw the first set of Simply Sassy stamps on the Sugar Nellie blog, I wasn’t sure if I liked them!… however, once I’d seen them around blogland for a while I fell in love with them and bought all of the second set when it was released.

*What is your favourite style (card making)?
I love all different styles, but I’m a fairly CAS cardmaker myself… I really admire people who make beautifully embellished designs, because they just don’t come naturally to me at all.

*And what would you love to see more of at the Simply Sassy blog?
I think it’s just right as it is – lots of lovely regular inspiration and I love that Simply Sassy fans get a chance to be in the spotlight too.

I want to show you some of the beautiful Sassy card from her blog too, but you need to go over there and see the rest for your self ;)

 Using Luv a Latte

Using I give you my heart 

Using Bella bunting 

Thank you so much Lisa for letting us Spotlight you and getting to know you ♥

Please leave Lisa some L♥VE 

Hugs Maria Therese 

 

You're Fantastic!!

Stepping in for Erica today.. 

This is my first ever time coloring red hair.. I see I need more deep orange copic's but I likehow the image POP's with red hair coloring... Don't think it will be the last time I will try out this..

Silly me forgot to write down the colors so next time I'm trying red hair coloring again I'll have to start over again with the color matching.. 

The Sassy girl I used is Strike a pose 

Once again I want to remind you about the gdt call we're having..

Only 2 day's left..

Hope your all having a nice and peace full  Sunday where ever you are♥

Hugs Maria