Hooray! It’s Friday! That means that the weekend is almost here, AND it’s time for another Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge! Today is a little different because the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge ladies are also bringing you a blog hop for our new September release – and we are all excited about that! 🙂

This week’s challenge is Scoring. Use scoring somehow and somewhere on your creation to embellish it. Just keep in mind the guidelines for Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenges:

• Please use digital images ONLY for the focal point of your creation(s) for this challenge.
• Be sure to link your creation(s) to the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge blog. Every card you enter in our challenges throughout the month of September gives you one chance to win 3 digital stamps of your choice from the Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps store! So the more you play, the more chances you have to win!
• Sweet ‘n Sassy digital images are not required, but we really love it when our challenge participants use them! Every week, one participant who uses a Sweet ‘n Sassy digital image is spotlighted. We feel that our challenge participants who use Sweet ‘n Sassy images deserve a little extra recognition.
• When uploading to online galleries, please use keyword SNSDC72.

I’ve used the new Happy Flowers digital image for today’s card.  The image may look familiar to you if you enjoy using Sweet ‘n Sassy clear stamps because it’s also part of the Happy Place stamp set.  However, being a digital image allows the flexibility of resizing the image to suit any project.  You can make it small for a little area on a card, or make it really large to use as a background paper for a scrapbooking layout.  The choices are up to you!  To meet the scoring challenge, I scored and folded a strip of designer paper to make a pleated paper ribbon.  It’s not easy to see in the photo, but the card also has scored lines above and below the paper ribbon. I kept the layout clean and simple so it would showcase the image and the paper ribbon.

Here’s the list of all the blog hop participants. Be sure to leave a comment on each Design Team member’s blog post. One DT member is a mystery blogger, and she will be picking a random winner from the comments on her blog post! The winning prize is the entire September digital release! How awesome is that!?! The winner will be announced on the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge blog next Friday, September 28.

Cynthia Olheiser (Guest DT member)
Sarah Miller (Guest DT member)
Ceal Pritchett
Cyndi Bundy
Makiko Jones
Melinda Gleissner
Crafty Math Chick
Patricia Hays <— you are here!
Stephanie Wright
Wendy Jordan

Supplies for today’s card:
Digital Image: Happy Flowers (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Sentiment Stamp: Make a Wish (SNSS)
Cardstock: So Saffron, Pretty in Pink, Tea & Crumpets designer paper (Stampin’ Up); Pure Luxury Ivory (Gina K. Designs)
Ink: printer ink; Onyx Black (VersaFine)
Other: markers (Copic); scoring board (Martha Stewart Crafts)

Hello! Happy Friday! Are you ready for another Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge?

This week we have a technique challenge for you. We’re asking that you create a pop-up card using a digital image. There are many different pop-up card tutorials easily found online. You don’t have to use a Sweet ‘n Sassy digital image, but we do enjoy seeing our participants use them (and you get the chance for extra perks if you do – see the Digi Challenge site for more details!).

I decided to make a sliding pop-up card, using a tutorial I found at Splitcoaststampers.com.  I had never made one before and I’ll concede that it was a good learning experience.  🙂  I added a piece of designer paper in a subtle paisley print to the back piece of the card.  That really wasn’t a good idea in the end.  It made it more difficult for that back piece to bend and stand the way it’s supposed to.  It also added an extra layer of thickness to punch through when I needed to punch the thumb notch.  So if you decide to make a sliding pop-up card, I suggest that you decorate your back piece differently, either with stamping or dry embossing.  The image I chose this week goes along with the pop-up theme, which my 13-year-old will probably think is really corny if and when he sees this card and blog post.  (Ha – see what I did there?  Yeah, my son would definitely roll his eyes at that!  He doesn’t like puns.)

So my first photo shows the card standing up.  The back piece doesn’t stand up as straight as I’d like, probably because of that extra layer of designer paper.  I free-hand cut around the popcorn box image.  The sentiment was cut with a cloud die, but I trimmed some of it to make it look more like a popped kernel of corn.  I added some sponging to both the sentiment kernel and the popcorn in the image to make it look “buttered”.

The thing that I really liked about this style of pop-up card is how nicely it folds flat (or relatively flat), so that it can be mailed in a standard A2 envelope.  The part you’d write your message on (which is extending out the front on the first picture) slides back behind the part with the image.  Here’s a photo of it flattened out:

So, now it’s your turn to try a pop-up card!  Link your card at the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge site by midnight eastern time Thursday, September 20.  Remember that for every card you submit throughout September, you will get one entry to be eligible for winning 3 digital images of your choice from the Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps store!  Be sure to play along every week, and to go visit the rest of the design teams’ blogs for more inspiration.  Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies:
Digital Images: Poppin’ By (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Cardstock: So Saffron, Real Red, Prints designer series paper, Delicate Dots designer series paper (Stampin’ Up); Pure Luxury White (Gina K. Designs)
Ink: printer ink; So Saffron (SU)
Other: Clouds & Raindrops die (SNSS); sponge; 1/2″ circle punch (SU)