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Sweet 'n Sassy Sweet Peek #8 - Season of Change

I'm thrilled to be Sweet Peeking a wonderful new stamp set today designed for SNSS by the uber talented Dina Kawal called Season of Change!

My panel of leaves is stamped on watercolor paper and layered behind the front panel (also watercolor paper it has such a nice texture!) - framed by a cut out of a Mega Rectangle Nestability. I popped the front panel up on foam tape to give it depth. I used the same rectangle to emboss the frame on the right where I stamped this wonderful quote.

I layered the the panel to green and then burgandy panels, added the rhinestones and tied the wrinkled seam tape around it tying it in a double bow.

I hope you'll hop over to the Sweet 'n Sassy blog to find the links to Mary and Janette - the other Design Team members Sweet Peeking this wonderful leaf set today!

All of the new sets will be available for purchase on Aug 16th! (that's tomorrow guys!!) Be sure to check it out!

More big news!!! - Sweet 'n Sassy stamps has also just become a Split Coast Stampers associated company. I hope you can come to the release party tonight at SCS. We will be in this forum showing the full reveals of all the new sets, a few challenges and there are prizes to be won.

Hope you can join us from 8:00-10:00 EST pm tonight. It should be a fun night!

Stamps: Sweet 'n Sassy - Season of Change (available 8/16/11)
Paper; Watercolor paper - from art store, scarlet jewell + Ripe avocado - PTI
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Adirondack - Raisin, Lettuce + Sunset Orange
Accessories: Mega Rectangle Nestabilities, foam tape, rhinestones - Kaiser, wrinkled seam tape - Prairie Bird Boutique Etsy Shop.

Button It Up!

Good morning all! Yesterday started a new challenge at Dustin Pike's blog...Pike's Playground! This week's theme is to use buttons! Don't forget your Doodle Dragon image to win! ;O)

What better card to use buttons on than a baby themed card, right? So sweet!

We'd love to see what you have up your sleeves for this challenge! Pop on over to check out all the other cards!

Rubbernecker Scooter Kids & Friends Blog Hop

Welcome to our little HOP!! We are SO happy that you could join us in celebrating some NEW stamps!

Mr. Rubbernecker released some SUPER cute images, on the down low, a few weeks back and we wanted to share them with you!! They are SO adorable that we just HAD to show them off! We have sweet SCOOTER KIDS, some new ANIMALS, and we even got some cute new FRIENDS!!!

You can find them by visiting RUBBERNECKER STAMPS and clicking on the 2011 NEW RELEASES!!

Hey, wait, there is MORE!! We also have something else to CELEBRATE!!! Our design team has a NEW name!! We are SO excited!! I bet you were wondering what was up with that!! Weren’t you?! We are NOW the……………………………..

Cool, huh? We are going to have SO much to share with you!! It will TRULY be a SISTERHOOD , for sure!!! OK now, a HOP would not be a HOP without a little PRIZE!! Right? Of course!! SO, in honor of our news AND our new images, if you visit ALL the participants and leave some LOVE? You will have the chance to WIN a……………………

$25 RUBBERNECKER STAMPS CERTIFICATE!!

WOW, more coolness!! Our winner will be announced on TUESDAY, so you will have plenty of time to hop! OK, better get HOPPIN’!! Thanks SO much for being a part of our excitement!! You will find the HOP ROUTE and my creation below!! Have an AWESOME day!!!

Now that you have all the deets from DT Coordinator Jacquie - Here is my card!

I used two of the Scooter kids on my card today - Alex and Audrey - and they're off for their first day at school! Their back packs are filled with paper, pencils, rulers and crayons!

I did a little hand stitching on the side of my card - piercing holes and stitching with some bakers twine. I even put a little sequin flower on Audrey's headband!

Now off you go to my fellow Stampin' Sisterhood blogs to see what stamps they're playing with today!

Charlene Merrick

Frances Gumprecht

Jacquie Peifer

Jen Charboneau

Joan Ervin

Judy Rozema

Julia Aston You're here!

Juliana Swanson

Kecia Waters

Kittie Caracciolo

Stamps: Rubbernecker - Scooter Kids: Alex #570-14, Audrey #570-09

Paper: True Black, Vintage Cream, White - PTI, DP Red school paper - unknown, alphabet paper - unknown, Lined paper - We R Memory Keepers Grandmas Kitchen/Pen Pals

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories: glue dots, foam tape, paper piercer, twine - PTI, Rhinestones - Kaiser, Pencil Sticker - EK Success, Copics - R20, R37, RV02, BG10, B45, E00, E13, E33, YG95, Pinking circle and circle Nestabilities, flower sequin - Cartwrights.

Sweet 'n Sassy Sweet Peek Day #6 - Rhubarb's Autumn Days

To see my WMS Saturday sketch card - please scroll down to the post below.

I know you've seen lots of Korin's sweet little bear, Rhubarb on cards everywhere, as a digital image - and now he's in the flesh - well in clear acrylic anyway!! This fun little set includes 3 fall Rhubarbs and 6 wonderful sentiments to go along with him.

Today I made a round card to show off Rhubarb totting around his two 'punkins' in his little red wagon!

I used circle and scallop circle Nestabilities for my card. I colored Rhubarb and his wagon with Copics, cut around the edges and adhered it to my card with foam tape. I punched the sentiment and scallop oval and layered them with foam tape too so everything is popped up. Isn't this a fun little fall card?!

Now it's time to hop over to the Sweet 'n Sassy Blog to find the links to Lorie's and Cathy's cards using this sweet Rhubarb set!

It's been quite a Sweet 'n Sassy week! I'll be back on Monday with another sweet peek - hope you'll stop by to see!

Stamps: Sweet 'n Sassy stamps - Rhubarb's Autumn Joy (to be released on 8/16)
Paper: white, orange zest, Text Style Bitty Dots - PTI
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Foam tape, large oval and scallop punch - SU, circle & scallop circle Nestabilities, Copics: E39, E35, E37, R29, R32, W6, YR04, YR07.

Anything Halloween Challenge

Good morning all and a happy weekend to ya! It has cooled off quite a bit here over the last few days, and boy is it a relief! It's nice when the AC can kick off for a bit!

I'm here with a new challenge over at Simply Betty Challenges. The new theme? ANYTHING HALLOWEEN! As you all know, we LOVE Halloween! If you missed it, we released some new Sweet Gothic Kids images last week in the Halloween genre, so that's what we have all used for the challenge. I made a cute little milk carton treat box and used Franken-Scott for the tag. He is too fun, right?!

Be sure to check out the SBC blog to see how you can be our next winner! ;O)

Saturday Waltzingmouse Sketch - Halloween Greetings!!

Another wonderful sketch design by Mischief Maker Kelly today! You could go all kinds of ways with this don't you think??!!

Well - here is the way I went:

I'm definitely in the Halloween mode with the release of Claire's wonderful new sets Cicely at Halloween and Gracie at Halloween. Today I used stamps from the Cicely Set - the sentiment, the bats and the little poem!

I used my Martha Stewart 'drippy' punch on the top panel and on a little panel under the poem (can you see it??)

I embossed the top sentiments with Ranger Distress Antique Linen Embossing Powder and embossed the poem with black. I sponged the poem after die cutting it but before taking it out of the die.

What will you do with this sketch??? Check out all the details on the Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge Blog:

Kent and I are spending the day at Merry Meeting Lake in New Durham, NH with a lot of his cousins - an annual event - hopefully we're enjoying the sun and the beautiful lake!

Stamps: Waltzingmouse - Cicely at Halloween
Paper: Orange Zest, True Black, Textstyle Hocus Pocus - PTI
Ink: Versamark, Ranger Distress Antique Linen
Accessories: foam tape, rectangle Nestability, Black embossing powder, Antique Linen Distress Embossing Powder - Ranger, Tiny Twinkles - Taylored Expressions, drippy punch - Martha Stewart, Wrinkled seam tape - Prairie Bird Boutique Etsy Shop, lemondrop bakers twine - the Twinery.

Sweet 'n Sassy - Sweet Peek Day #5 - Autumn Bounty

Welcome to Sweet Peek Day #5 of the Sweet 'n Sassy August 16th release! Korin's stamps this month are all about the coming fall season - can you smell the crisp fallen leaves and feel the thrill of finding that perfect pumpkin in the patch?!

I actually used the stamp from Korin's Sweet Peek poster - but with a different sentiment from the set. (there are a whopping 15 words/sentiments and a beautiful potted fall bouquet included for all your fall/Thanksgiving card making needs!)

I paper pieced all the parts of this wonderful image - the two pumpkins, and all the leaves. I love how you can bring texture to an image using figured patterned papers! And if you're not big on coloring - this is a great way to get it done! Here I used papers with dots and grid patterns.

First I stamped the image on a white panel. I colored the pumpkin stems and scrollies with brown Copics. Then I stamped the different pumpkins and leaves on scraps of my patterend papers, cutting out each piece and adhering it over the white stamped image with a glue pen. I sponged the edges and adhered the panel inside an embossed rectangle Nestability with foam tape.

I kept the card clean and simple to accent the wonderful pumpkin patch! I stamped the sentiment directly on the card base and adhered gold rhinestones on either side.

Please hop on over to the Sweet 'n Sassy Blog to find links to fellow DT members, Neva and Cindy who are also sweet peeking this lovely set today!

I'll be back tomorrow with another Sweet Peek so I hope you'll stop by!

Stamps: Sweet 'n Sassy - Autumn Bounty (to be released 8/16/11.)
Paper: white, Orange Zest, Textstyle Bitty Dot Basics and Bitty Box Basics - PTI
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Ranger Distress Scattered Straw.
Accessories: Foam tape, Rectangle Nestability, blue pen, gold rhinestones - Micheals, Copics: E34, E37

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