Sweet 'n Sassy Facebook Contest & FREE Digi

Yesterday, Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps released an adorable new character.  Rhubarb is a cute little teddy bear that will be giving Cocoa a run for his money (in my opinion anyway).   In honor of Rhubarb's release, Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps is running a contest on Facebook and today and tomorrow you can get a free Rhubarb digi.  You have until July 15th to submit your card.  You can check out all the details here:  Sweet 'n Sassy Facebook Contest.

SNSDC10 -- Use Scripture On Your Card

This week's challenge at the Sweet n Sassy Digi Challenge Blog is to use one of the Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Scriptures on your project.  I chose to use Ecclesiastes 3:1 from the Encouragement Scripture Digital Stamp set.  I also used the Gardening Cookie digital image.

Supplies:
Sketch: MOJO124 
Card base: SU
Cardstock: Bazzill, Georgia Pacific, Recollections
Patterned Paper:  BG (Ambrosia)
Stamps: Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps - Gardening Cookie, Encouragement Scripture Digital Stamp Set
Ink:  Colorbox fluid Chalk (chestnut roan)
Embellishments: Cuttlebug EF (Swiss Dots), Prismacolor pencils, Fiskars border punch (threading water), Oriental Trading pearls, Zig journaling pen, Spellbinders nestabilities standard circles

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
Paper Sundae's #76 - Stitching (real or faux)
Simply Scrapping Crafts July challenge - Embossing
Simon Says Stamp...A Stitch in Time - Stitching (real or faux)
Design Divas Challenge 5 - Die Cuts & Punches
Craft Your Passion #65 - Anything Goes


Thanks for stopping by!  Come play along with us this week.

Philippians 4:6 - SIWS4

It's my turn to host the Say It With Scripture Challenge (#4) over at the Sweet 'n Sassy Connection.  This month we're looking at various verses on prayer.  Our focus verse this week is Philippians 4:6  "Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God."

This verse is a reminder to me that I'm not to worry about anything.  Instead, I'm to take my concerns, circumstances and difficulties to the Lord and ask for His help.  Life can bring us some pretty difficult things so where does the thanksgiving come in?  For starters, we can be thankful that we have a Heavenly Father who has all things under His control.  Nothing takes Him by surprise and He already knows how things will turn out.  While we don't know the end from the beginning, He does!  We can also be thankful that our Heavenly Father wants us to bring our cares and concerns to Him.  He never tires of having us talk to Him and He is available to listen to us anytime - day or night.  A third thing we can be thankful for is that our God actually has the power to do something about our situation.  For those trials that, in His infinite wisdom, He chooses not to remove from our lives, He will give us the grace to endure and will stay right there with us the entire time.

So this week, as you think on this verse, come to the Lord with your concerns with a thankful heart.  Be thankful that we serve a mighty God.  We don't need to worry...He has everything under control.

For my card I used this week's Sweet Stop Sketch #115.  While I sometimes have another image with my Scripture verse, this time I chose to have the verse be the complete focal image.

Supplies:
Card base - SU
Cardstock - Recollections
Patterned Paper - Bo Bunny (Olivia)
Stamp - Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps (Pray Without Ceasing)
Embellishments - Ribbon (Offray), Pearls (Oriental Trading), Fiskars Border Punch (Apron Lace), Spellbinders Nestabilities (Deckled Rectangle Large)

I hope you'll play along with us this week at The Sweet 'n Sassy Connection.

Thanks for stopping by!

SNSDC9 - Patriotic Card

This week's challenge at the Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge Blog is to make a Patriotic card.  I chose to use the Cocoa Supports the Cause stamp and color it like a small flag.  I used a ruler & black marker to draw the dividing lines and then colored it with my prismacolor pencils.  The sentiment is computer generated.  I gave the starts in the background paper and on Cocoa's ribbon a little sparkle with a glitter pen.

I used one of the sentiments in the Because of the Brave set for the inside of the card.

I used sketch #224 at CPS for my card design.

I'm also entering it in the following challenges:
Stamptacular Sunday #117 - Stars & Stripes
Stampin' Sisters in Christ #95 - Red, White & Blue Thank You Card
Tuesday Throwdown #55 - Red White & Blue


Supplies:
Card Base - Strathmore bristol
Cardstock - Georgia Pacific, Recollections
Patterned Paper - Frances Meyer
Stamps - Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps (Cocoa supports the Cause)
Computer Font - Constantia
Embellishments - American Crafts (Brads), Sakura Gelly Roll Pen (Clear Star), SU Ink (Night of Navy), Spellbinders Nestabilities (Petite Oval, Petite Scalloped Oval)

Sew How Was Your Day? - SNSDC8

This week's challenge at the Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge Blog is a sketch challenge.  Here's my take on the sketch:

I added a sentiment circle to the sketch but isn't that called "making it your own."  *grin*  I really like these summery papers and thought they went well with the cheery question in the sentiment.  If you look closely at Cocoa's tail, you can tell I used the "out of the die" cutting technique.

Supplies:
Cardstock:  Georgia Pacific, DCWV
Patterned Paper:  Colorbok
Stamp: Sweet 'n Sassy (Sew Happy Cocoa, Sew Many Greetings)
Other:  Prismacolor Pencils, Baker's Twine, Nestabilities (Petite Oval, Petite Scalloped Oval, Circle, Eyelet Circle), Zig Writer (Teal)

I'm also entering this card in the Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge #94 which is to doodle on your card.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you'll play along with us this week.

Say It With Scripture Challenge #2 - Habakkuk 3:18

Today I have the privilege of hosting the Say It With Scripture Challenge over at the Sweet 'n Sassy Connection.

The challenge is to use Sweet 'n Sassy Scripture digis or stamps.  Each week we focus on a different Scripture and that verse is offered as freebie Scripture digi stamp.  You may use the freebie or another Scripture stamp on your card/project.  You may use another Sweet 'n Sassy image as well but must use a Scripture digi/stamp.

Today's verse is Habakkuk 3:18 which says:  Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.  If you read the verses preceding this one, you will find that the prophet is facing some things that truly have him afraid.  Verse 16 says that his belly trembled and his lip quivered.  However, even in the face of these troublesome circumstances he says, "Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation." The word that jumps out at me is "yet."  No matter what we're facing, we can choose to rejoice in the Lord and find our joy in the God of our salvation.

This really hit home to me.  3 1/2 weeks ago our daughter had emergency surgery and spent 11 days in the hospital.  Her recovery has been slow and painful.  Like most parents, watching our daughter suffer has been very difficult.  And YET we can find our comfort, strength & joy in the Lord.  And like the prophet says in verse 19, "The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places..."

Here is the card I made using this week's freebie Scripture:

I chose to make a criss cross card.  I used a tutorial and card design I found at SCS:  Criss Cross Card tutorial.  I decided to just use the Scripture verse for this card.  I printed it out on cream colored cardstock and cut it out with a circle nestie.  I backed it with some patterned paper cut with an Eyelet Circle nestie and accented it with some faux stitches.

Supplies:
Cardstock:  Recollections, Bazzill
Patterned Paper:  BG Origins
Stamp:  Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps (Rejoicing in the Lord digi stamp set)
Other:  Ribbon-JoAnn's; Nestabilities (Circle, Eyelet Circle); Fiskars Border Punch (Threading Water); SU Journal Writer (Close to Cocoa).

I am also entering this card into the Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge #94.   For this challenge you are to doodle on your card/project.

Be sure to stop by the Sweet 'n Sassy Connection to snag your freebie Scripture digi stamp and play along with us this week.

Thanks for stopping by!

Owl Thanks

I used Mojo #194 for this thank you card.  It was such an easy sketch...I will probably return to it again.  I used my owl punch from Stampin' Up to make the owl.  The pupils of his eyes are black diamond stickles.

Supplies:
Cardstock: Recollections, Georgia Pacific
Patterned Paper: Adornit (Fern Collection)
Stamp:  Impression Obsession
Ink:  Memento (Tuxedo Black), SU (Creamy Caramel)
Embellishments:  SU Owl Punch, Bakers Twine (Misc.), Marvy 1" Circle Punch, Spellbinders Nestabilities (Standard Circles large & small), Stickles (Black diamond)

Thanks for stopping by!!

Altered Paint Bucket - SNSDC5

Before our daughter got sick and went to the hospital, I had worked ahead and had this project completed.  The hospital internet would not let me post to my blog so I was not able to post it in time.

This project is for the Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge Blog Challenge #5 which was to make anything but a card.  I chose to alter a small clear paint bucket.  I used two digi stamp sets from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps -- Everyday Miracles Digital Stamp and New Creature Digital Stamp.  I paper-pieced one of the butterflies from the New Creature set three times and accented them with a Sakura glitter pen and some rhinestones.

Here is the front of my bucket:

The back of the bucket:

The lid:

Supplies:
Paint Can:  Oriental Trading
Patterned Paper:  BG (Ambrosia)
Cardstock:  Bazzill, Georgia Pacific
Stamps:  Sweet 'n Sassy (New Creature & Everyday Miracles)
Ink:  Memento (Potter's Clay), Colorbox Fluid Chalk (Charcoal)
Embellishments: Sakura Gelly Roll Pen (Clear Star), Ribbon - SU (white), Offray (gray), MAMBI Rhinestone Singles, Recollection Bling, Spellbinders Nestabilities (Petite Ovals Large, Petite Scalloped Ovals Large, Standard Circles Large, Fancy Tags 3

Thanks for stopping by!!

SNSDC7 - All About Summer

This week's challenge on the Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge Blog is to make a card focusing on summer.  I also used this week's sketch at The Sweet Stop - SSS112 for my design.

I chose the newly released Ocean Paradise digi stamp and one of the sentiments from the Feminine Birthday set for my card.  I sponged the sky portion of my image and the sentiment circle with ink .  I don't think you can tell in the picture but I added a little sparkle to the water & the umbrella with a glitter pen.

Supplies:
Cardstock: Georgia Pacific, Recollections
Patterned Paper:  Fancy Pants
Stamps:  Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Stamps (Ocean Paradise, Feminine Birthday)
Other:  Prismacolor Pencils, SU Ink (Bliss Blue), Best Occasions Metal Dots, Sakura Clear Star gelly roll pen, Spellbinders Nestabilities (standard circles large & small, petite ovals large, petite scalloped ovals large)

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to play along with us this week at the Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge Blog.

World's Best Dad!

I'm sorry I've been MIA for so long.  On May 27th, our daughter had emergency colon surgery.  Her recovery has not been the smoothest so my focus for the past 3 weeks has been on doing what I can to help her feel better.  We are praising the Lord that we are now seeing daily improvements -- it will just take time for her to reach full recovery.

My card today uses SSS112 from The Sweet Stop.  The focal image is the Let's Go Fishing Puppy Digital Stamp at Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps.  I colored this sweet pup with my prismacolor pencils and used a metallic marker for his collar tag.

My sentiment is from the Father's Day Sentiment Digi Stamp Set also from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps.  I cropped the sentiment in Word to make it go to two lines so that it would fit in my circle nestie.  I love that about digi images-- you can crop & re-size them to fit your project perfectly.  I popped the sentiment medallion up on foam tape.

Supplies:
Cardstock:  Georgia Pacific, Bazzill Dotted Swiss & Misc (green)
Patterned Paper:  Fancy Pants Designs
Digital Stamps: Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps (Let's Go Fishing Puppy, Father's Day Sentiments)
Other:  Spellbinders Nestabilties (Standard Circles Small, Eyelet Circles), SU Journal Writer, Prismacolor Pencils, AC Metallic Marker (silver)

I am also entering this card in this week's challenges at:
Stampin Sisters in Christ Challenge #93 -- Father's Day card
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #115 -- Dad or Grads
Technique Tuesday's #53 - any 3 past challenges (I used Animal Image, Die Cuts, & Stitching)

Thanks for stopping by!