Stampendous Clear Scraps Blog Hop

Due to a strong storm followed by a power outage, I am not able to post my project for today's blog hop. I can tell you I had a blast working with all of the fantastic products from Stampendous stamps and Essentials such as Mica Fragments to the Clear Scraps acrylic albums and cards and we can't forget Tsukineko. I love Tsukineko and all of their incredible inks. My thanks to all three companies for their generosity and their continued excellence in manufacturing superior quality products.

Here is the link to a post I made earlier in the week. It features an ATC I made for this collaboration. http://mynoteworthycards.blogspot.com/2012/06/stampendous-clearscraps-blog.html

Please keep hopping and I'll meet up with you the next time around.

SNSDC60 Stars and Stripes

Stars and Stripes is the theme for today's Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge.

Please keep in mind as you play along to ONLY use digital images for the challenge. You don't have to use Sweet 'n Sassy digi images to play along but we sure love it when you do. Please share a link to your creation using the Linky feature at the end of today's Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge post. If the link feature is down, please add a link with your comment. When uploading to online galleries, please use keyword SNSDC60.

For every card you link to the Challenge Blog throughout the month of June, you will receive one entry in the monthly drawing. One lucky winner will receive 3 digital images of his/her choice from the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps store. Please note, if you use Sweet 'n Sassy digital images to create your project, you will receive two entries! Be sure to play along every week... The more you play and/or use SNS digis, the more chances you have to win!

My card uses the Patriotic Cocoa Digital Stamp. I love Cocoa! He's colored with Copics. I used the sketch from this week's SplitcoastStampers Wednesday Sketch Challenge (SC391) to create my card. The papers are from the We R Memory keepers Red White & Blue collection. To finish my card I added a rub-on from the Scenic Route "Day at the Beach" set.

Thanks for visiting today! Hope you have a safe and happy 4th of July.

Stampendous Clear Scraps Blog Collaboration

All this week, Stampendous has teamed up with Clear Scraps for an incredible blog collaboration. We all have had fun creating projects using Stampendous stamps and Essentials, Clear Scraps albums and cards and Tsukineko inks.

Today, I’m sharing an ATC. Clear Scraps sells their acrylic in 12" x 12" sheets that is so easy to cut/die-cut. After creating my ATC and rounding the corners with my Corner Chomper, I stamped the Stampendous Cling Calligraphy Sampler using StazOn Jet Black ink. I then flipped my ATC over and dripped alcohol ink onto the back. After letting the ink dry, I covered the back with Redline tape. I then sprinkled Stampendous Pearlized Mica Fragments and Gilded Mica Fragments over the tape and covered it with a piece of white paper.

The bird is the Stampendous Cling Lone Bird which I stamped on a piece of scrap paper using StazOn Timber Brown ink, fussy-cut and then embossed using VersaMark and Stampendous Deep Impression Chunky Clear Embossing Enamel. I embellished with Recollections flowers, Graphic 45 brads and Momenta metal pieces. Please click on the pictures to see the detail.

And now the fun begins. Both Stampendous and Clear Scraps are giving away really cool prizes. There are several ways to win, one of which is by just leaving comments. For all of the details, please visit both the Stampendous blog and the Clear Scraps blog.

For more inspiration, please check out these posts:

Stampendous Impressions
Clear Scraps
Wendy Price
Rita
Jennifer Ingle (Jingle)
Taylor Usry

Thanks for visiting! Please stop back on Saturday, June 30th. We will wrap up this fun week with a huge blog hop and more chances to win.

A Summer Birthday

Today's my mum's birthday. Unfortunately her card sits here on my desk, unsent. I'm so far behind that I haven't even made my Father's Day cards. How long do I have before my being late turns into being ahead for next year?

This beautiful Stampendous image reminds me of my mum and her flower gardens. I love it when the two of us walk around looking at all of her pretty flowers. We used to do this everytime we visited my grandmother as well. Fond memories. Happy Birthday Mum! I hope your day is filled with happiness and pretty flowers.

My birthday card is perfect for the Stampendous Saturday Challenge. June's theme is summer. Simply create a summer themed project of some sort and add the direct link for your project to the collection on the Stampendous blog. You have until Thursday, June 28 at 11:59 PM EST. One lucky crafter (drawn at random) will receive this fabulous new Friendly Phrases Perfectly Clear stamp set:

You don't have to use Stampendous products on your project but if you do use them, your entry will count twice, which increases your chance of winning. Due to shipping restrictions, the winner must have a US address.

It would be terrific if you would join in the fun and play along with all of us at Stampendous.

Please check out the Stampendous blog on Saturday for a roundup of all the great summer projects created this week by Stampendous Design Team members.

My card uses the Stampendous Cling Daffodil Girl image stamped on X-Press It Blending Card and colored with my Copics. I love this stamp.It is so much fun to color.

I also used the flourish from the Stampendous Cling Jumbo Tiger Lily set stamped in VersaMark ink on the teal panel. The sentiment is from the Stampendous Orchid Greetings set. Do you recognize the layout of my card? I'm playing along with this week's Sketch Challenge over at Splitcoaststampers. This is sketch SC391.

Thanks for visiting today. Please check out all of the glorious summer flowers over at Stampendous.

Happy Birthday Mum!

SNSDC59 June Digi Release Blog Hop & Challenge

It's time for another Sweet `n Sassy Digi Challenge but it is also Digi Release Day. To celebrate the new digi designs, the ladies of the Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge Design Team have put together a little blog hop.

Have fun hopping along but here's a hint: You will want to leave some love on each of the Design Team posts. One of the team members will be picking a random winner from the comments on her post but it's a mystery as to which member gets this honor.

The winning prize will be the whole June Digi Release! The winner will be announced at Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge Blog on Friday, June 29th.

And now for today's challenge...Bling It On.

Please keep in mind as you play along to ONLY use digital images for the challenge. You don't have to use SNS digi images to play along but we sure love it when you do. Please share a link to your creation using the Linky feature at the end of today's Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge post. If the link feature is down, please add a link with your comment. When uploading to online galleries, please use keyword SNSDC59.

For every card you link to the Challenge Blog throughout the month of June, you will receive one entry in the monthly drawing. One lucky winner will receive 3 digital images of his/her choice from the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps store. Please note, if you use SNSS digital images to create your project, you will receive two entries! Be sure to play along every week... The more you play and/or use SNSS digis, the more chances you have to win!

My card uses the new Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Graduate Rhubarb. The sentiment is from the Graduation Digital Stamp set. After printing the sentiment on My Mind's Eye Stella and Rose patterned paper, I created panels and added them to the card base. I then printed Rhubarb on Copic X-Press It Blending Card, colored him with my Copics, die-cut and adhered him to the base. My 'Bling' is actually Enamel Accents by Ranger.

Please hop along to see more creations using the new, June Release Sweet 'n Sassy Digital Stamps.

Cathy Wallington
Ceal Pritchett
Cyndi Bundy
Makiko Jones
Melinda Gleissner (you are here)
Patricia Hays
Stephanie Serrano
Stephanie Wright
Wendy Jordan
Korin Sutherland

Thanks for visiting!

Summer Time is the Best Time

Today, I'd like to share a layout I created for this month's Stampendous Saturday Challenge. It's a layout about the wonderful day we had when my dad taught my son how to fly a kite. He surprised my son with a beautiful butterfly kite so they spent most of the day in the backyard, laughing and carrying on. It was a good day.

June's theme is summer. Simply create a summer themed project of some sort and add the direct link for your project to the collection on the Stampendous blog. You have until Thursday, June 28 at 11:59 PM EST. One lucky crafter (drawn at random) will receive this fabulous new Friendly Phrases Perfectly Clear stamp set:

You don't have to use Stampendous products on your project but if you do use them, your entry will count twice, which increases your chance of winning. Due to shipping restrictions, the winner must have a US address.

It would be terrific if you would join in the fun and play along with all of us.

Please check out the Stampendous blog on Saturday for a roundup of all the great summer projects created this week by Stampendous Design Team members.


To create my layout, I started by stamping both butterflies from the Stampendous Cling Jumbo Butterfly Pair set randomly on the patterned paper using VersaMark ink. I also inked the edges of the orange panel with VersaMark and then sprinkled it with Stampendous Aged Gold Embossing Enamel. After heat setting, I adhered the orange panel to the base of the layout. Next, I stamped the butterflies on Stampendous Thermo Acetate using VersaMark ink and then embossed them in Stampendous Midnight Black Embossing Powder. I am very sad because Thermo Acetate is no longer being manufactured.
I am sad because it is an amazing product, a thick, high-quality acetate that you can ink, stamp and emboss without warping and melting. If you see this great product at your local store, snag it and then be prepared to fall in love. My hope is that if enough people ask, Stampendous will bring it back. I fussy-cut the butterflies and then colored them with alcohol ink. Next I sprinkled them with Aged Gold Embossing Enamel (no glue or ink necessary) and heated them from underneath to melt the enamel. I wish I was a better photographer so you could see all of the shimmer and shine.

Stampendous Products Used:

Cling Jumbo Butterfly Pair Set CRS5008
Aged Gold Embossing Enamel FREG024
Midnight Black Embossing Powder EP111
Thermo Acetate PC75

Other Products Used:

Flower Child Aquarius patterned paper from the Bo Bunny A Gift of Love line; Orange Juice patterned paper from the Jillibean Soup Watermelon Gazpacho Soup line; Sunset Orange,Red Pepper and Sunshine Yellow Adirondack Alcohol Inks

Thanks for visiting today. Happy Summer!

This Week's Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Digi Challenge: CAS with 2 Layers

It's time for a new Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge. This week's challenge (SNSDC58) is a 2 layer CAS card which of course uses only digital stamps. All of the details can be found over at the Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge blog.

My card uses two different Sweet 'n Sassy digital stamps: Opal Owl and Owl Sentiments 2. The 2 layers were created by diecutting a circle from a piece of mustard yellow cardstock and a slightly larger scalloped circle from a piece of kraft cardstock. I trimmed the negative space of the kraft cardstock to a 4" x 5-1/4" mat and printed my sentiment on it. I adhered both together and embossed them with a woodgrain embossing folder which was coated with VersaMark ink. After sizing Opal (yes, this is one of the great things about digital stamps), I printed her on white cardstock and also on two different pieces of patterned paper which was part of the My Mind's Eye Stella Rose collection. I paper pieced Opal and voila, a clean and simple card.

It would be great if you would play along with this week's challenge. I had fun, I know you would too.

Thanks for visiting!

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Digi Challenge Back to Nature

Good Morning!

Today’s Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Digi Challenge is...Back to Nature: Use images and/or elements that you see in nature for your project.

My nature card uses the very cute Gardening Cookie Digital Stamp and this week's sketch over at the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Sketch Challenge Blog. Did you know there are always two really cool challenges going on at Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps? My card also uses Jillibean Soup Watermelon Gazpacho Soup patterned paper. I colored the Cookie image with Copics (C0/C1/C3/YG01/YG13/YG17/R20/R22/R24/R27/R29/E40/E42/E44/E93/E95/E97/E99/B0000).

It would be great if you would join us this week. Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps has so many fantastic digital stamps that would work with this challenge.

Please keep in mind as you play along to ONLY use digital images for the challenge. You don't have to use SNS digi images to play along but we sure love it when you do. Please share a link to your creation using the Linky feature at the end of today's Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge post. If the link feature is down, please add a link with your comment. When uploading to online galleries, please use keyword SNSDC57.

For every card you link to the Challenge Blog throughout the month of June, you will receive one entry in the monthly drawing. One lucky winner will receive 3 digital images of his/her choice from the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps store. Please note, if you use SNSS digital images to create your project, you will receive two entries! Be sure to play along every week... The more you play and/or use SNS digis, the more chances you have to win!

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Life got in the way last week and I missed last week's challenge. Here is my card (SNSDC56):



It uses the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Wedding Day Wishes Digital Set and My Mind's Eye Lost and Found Two patterned paper.

Thanks for visiting today!