Category Archives: Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps

Sunflowers are pretty faithful, aren’t they? The way they keep their face to the sun…focused on the brightness. That’s what I’m trying to do during this Polar Vortex that’s crippled much of the country… keep my face to the sun… focused on the brightness.

This image from Prim Blessings is a Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps favorite. The sunflower is stamped with Espresso Truffle ink onto XPress It Blending Card and colored with Copic Marker.

The leaves are a more traditional smooth blend of ink, but the center of the flower was done with a stippling technique for texture rather than a smooth blend that you often see with Copics. The colors are simply dabbled onto the image, lightest color (filling the entire circle of brown) to darkest, just like you see in the close up. No blending required.  The petals are a combo Y32, Y35 and Y38. The center of the sunflower is a reddish brown: E33, E35, E37 and in the outer-most ring, E39.

I have been focused on using up scraps from my basket in the past week or so, and I honestly can’t tell you the name or manufacturer of the patterned paper. If I were the betting kind, I’d say My Mind’s Eye. I put my card together with a combination of dies from the MFT Blueprints line. For this card I used both Blueprints 3 and 5. A button, some twine and a few ivory sequins made quick work of this one.

Stay warm, and stay faithful. Summer will come again, just not today, my crafty friends.

Good morning! Welcome to the 5th Birthday Blog Hop for my friends at Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps! I remember getting to know Korin at Splitcoaststampers when she was just opening the store. Five years later, I have enjoyed working with her so much. Korin is truly a lady of grace and a joy to work with. I’m so happy she asked me to be hopping with Friends of Sweet ‘n Sassy today!

When I was laying out my project, I chose one of my favorite set/die combos from Sweet ‘n Sassy, Christmas Light. Look at the gorgeous detail on both the candle and the die. Love this!

My image is colored with Copic Marker – I love the brassy look of Y28. It’s not a color that I use a ton, but it sure is perfect for this image. I put a little glassy glaze over the top of my candle wax drips, and just a hint of Spica glitter pen over the flame.

My card is put together with cranberry paper from Core’dinations that has been embossed with an embossing folder and distressed just a touch with a sanding block, decorative oval die from Spellbinders and some scraps of lace that I found in a bag of cast-offs.

I hope you have time to visit our hoppers today. Korin has chosen 4 secret participant blogs where she’ll choose a random commenter to win a $15 gift certificate, so while you are browsing at the eye candy, leave the ladies some love. Comments must be made by midnight EST on Friday, November 30th. The winners will be announced on the SNSS Blog on Saturday, December 1st at 8am EST.

You can find the full hop line up HERE.

Looking through my pictures, working on getting back on track with Project Life, and I realize I have this Sweet n Sassy card to share with you. I had colored the Coneflowers and Butterfly image and made this card back in April when I met Miss Sherrie in Seattle for a weekend of Copic classes.

I taught the Standard certification one day, and Sherrie taught the Intermediate class the second day. We had some GREAT students in Seattle. While Sherrie gave them the razzle-dazzle on day 2, I took notes, colored and had the most amazing green tea/lemonade drink – recommended by one of the students. *IF* by chance you took that class, and you know what you told me to order that morning at Tully’s, please let me know. That lemonade/green tea thing was AWESOME!

Here is Sherrie getting one-on-one with the class participants. Since Sherrie does all of our Canada classes, this was a rare treat to see her state-side. She’s such an awesome teacher, and I am very fortunate that I got to work with her on this trip. Love that girl!

I have a few touristy shots to share with you. This was such a great short trip. Mount Ranier in the morning from our hotel room. What a majestic beauty!

The first afternoon, we met at the hotel and then headed straight for Public Market Center. The plan was to walk around and take pretty pictures because I’m secretly stalking Sherrie’s photography prowess.

Beautiful fruits at the Public Market.

Remember this was April – tulips and daffodils galore. Such vibrant color. It was beautiful in there.

One of my favorite bouquets. All fresh flowers. I think this bouquet was $8 or $9. Steal!

Because I had my priorities in line, a trip to the Mother Ship where I found a new pair of running shoes and some pressed powder.

We spent all day near the Public Market, and for dinner, my friend Susan Holton from Tsukineko met us on the water. On a recommendation from Sherrie’s brother-in-law, we ate at Elliott’s. Sherrie and I both ordered cheek meat and risotto. Delicious. Fabulous meal.

When we met Susan for dinner, the new Memento Dew Drops had just arrived, and she was so sweet to bring Sherrie and a little care package. Love the new colors!

Here’s one more sight from our dinner view. Being the good midwestern girl that I am, this one mesmerized me. It seems like manufacturers are always talking about their goods being ‘in the container … on the ship’ or in the case of the Memento Dew Drops – they’ve just arrived. I knew the containers were basically pods that held the product. What I didn’t realize was the size and the amount on each ship. The containers are each about the size of a railroad car. And, on this ship, you can see them stacked 5 and 6 high just on the deck. This ship was loaded and headed out, and it will go all the way across the ocean with that cargo stacked like that. The sheer volume of goods on that one ship amazed me.

Here’s Sherrie and I after dinner..final shot of the night before the sunset.

{love} Seattle.