Sweet Stamp Shop Spotlight

Hi everyone! First, a big thank you for all of the kind comments about CAS-ual Fridays. Y'all are nice. :) Second, if you celebrate Easter, I hope you had a wonderful day.

I'm excited to share two Sweet Stamp Shop cards today! I've been one of their Guest Designers for March, and today my cards are on the shop's blog. (You can check out my other cards from the March release HERE and HERE).

My first card is a little whimsical approach to the stamps:

I used the Alpha Tabs set for the sentiment--I'm in love with this alpha set! I started by using two different digital elements from Splendid Fiins--the computer from School Elements and the speech bubble from Blah Blah Blah. I recolored the computer, printed it and fussy cut it.

For the sentiment, I printed the speech bubble and stamped the sentiment from the Alpha Tabs letters. I like how this set has so many keyboard characters plus the cute little heart. Here's a close-up:

I'm entering the card in the Moxie Fab World Speech Bubble challenge. The challenge ends tonight, but there's still time to enter!


For my next card, I wanted to show a soft approach to the Kiss Me set:

I used the "You + Me" hearts from the set and masked off the equal sign. Then, I used the small circle and heart stamps in the Kiss Me set to create a faux bokeh (I do love my bokeh!). For most of the colors, I stamped off before I stamped onto the oval.

Here's a close-up:

For the rest of the card, I die cut the My Favorite Things frame out of a matte silver cardstock, and I also cut a strip of blush vellum. The lighting is so bad in my craft room in the evenings that I didn't realize the vellum was colored until I set it against the card base. Ha ha I like how the vellum looked, though, so I didn't add another color. I love happy mistakes. :)

Be sure to head over to the Sweet Stamp Shop blog to see the other releases! Thank you to Nicole for inviting me! 

Thanks for stopping by. :)

Supplies
@Dad Card
Cardstock: (Pure Poppy) Papertrey Ink
Patterned paper: (black from Bowties collection) BasicGrey
Other paper: (Premium Matte Photo Paper) OfficeMax
Clear stamps: (sentiment from Alpha Tabs set) Sweet Stamp Shop
Dye ink: (Real Red) Stampin' Up; (Tuxedo Black) Memento
Digital elements: (computer from School Elements; speech bubble layer from Blah Blah Blah) Splendid Fiins at JessicaSprague.com

You + Me Card 

Cardstock: (white) Papertrey Ink; (blush vellum) Archiver's; (matte silver) craft supply

Clear stamps: (You and Me hearts, solid circle, solid heart from Kiss Me set) Sweet Stamp Shop

Dye ink: (Tuxedo Black) Memento; (Pixie Pink, peach) Stampin' Up

Die: (Vintage Cameo Frame) My Favorite Things
Marker: Copic

Sweet Stamp Shop Release Day

For my first post today, please click HERE. 

Hi everyone! This month I'm one of the Guest Designers at Sweet Stamp Shop, and today is the second day of the March release.

For the three stamp sets being shown today, I used the Alpha Tabs set. It's a cool set--the individual letters remind me of mini alpha stickers. There are a few sentiments in the set, too, which is what I used on this card:

This was a fun card to make. :) I started with this fab woodgrain paper from Simon Says Stamp (I'm officially addicted to this paper!) and splattered some Mr. Huey's.

While the spray ink was drying, I stamped and fussy cut the "happy" and "birthday" from the Alpha Tabs set. After that, I punched some BasicGrey confetti  and added some other embellishments and stitching. Here's a close-up:

Isn't it fun? It looks pretty haphazard, but I have to admit that it took me forever to pick the embellishments and get the layout right. I'm ridiculously slow at crafting--hee hee.

Be sure to check out the Sweet Stamp Shop blog to see the rest of the cards from the other Guest Designers. A big thanks to Nicole for having me as a Guest Designer this month! I'll be showing more cards from the release in a couple of weeks.


Supplies
Cardstock: (white woodgrain) Simon Says Stamp
Clear stamps: (Alpha Tabs) Sweet Stamp Shop
Dye Ink: (Midnight Muse, Real Red) Stampin' Up
Spray Ink: (Taxi) Studio Calico
Patterned paper: (confetti papers from Fact line) BasicGrey
Embellishments: (party strip and graph mini tag from Fact line) BasicGrey; (chipboard star from Bowties collection) BasicGrey; (enamel dots) My Mind's Eye; (sequins) Hobby Lobby

Guesting With Sweet Stamp Shop

Hi everyone! This month I'm one of the Guest Designers at Sweet Stamp Shop, and today is the first day of the March release.

There are several new releases, but today, we're showing two of the stamp sets. I used the new Kiss Me set to make this love card:

Cheerful, isn't it? I wanted to combine the stamps with patterned paper, so I first stamped the row of tiny hearts from the Kiss Me set on a grid paper. Next, I stamped and fussy cut the large "love" heart. I love the writing on the stamp! 

The rest of the card is simply die cutting and fussy cutting a mix of the Sweet Girl papers from Echo Park. 

Here's a close-up:

This card is fun and funky, but I have a more elegant one I'll share in a few weeks. :)

Be sure to head over to the Sweet Stamp Shop blog to see the other releases! I'll be sharing another card tomorrow for the rest of the stamp releases. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies

Brights Love Card

Cardstock: (white) Papertrey Ink

Clear stamps: (large love heart, solid heart from Kiss Me set) Sweet Shop Stamp

Patterned paper: (grid, pink solid, chevron, yellow woodgrain, squares from Sweet Girl papers) Echo Park

Dye ink: (Taken With Teal, Melon Mambo) Stampin' Up

Twine: (Lemon twine) Divine Twine

Die: (Large Scallop) My Favorite Things