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Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge #85

Dec 212012

It’s Friday again, which means it’s time for another Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge! This time the challenge is Favorite Colors. We encourage you to make a project using a digital image and your favorite colors. Share your project with us at the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge site by midnight eastern time Thursday, January 3. (Yes – because of the Christmas holiday season, this challenge will run for two weeks!) You’re not required to use a Sweet ‘n Sassy digital image for your project, but we do love when you use those (and you get the chance for perks if you do – see the Digi Challenge site for more details).

At Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenges, today we’re celebrating the new release of two digital images and a sentiment set! There are two sweet girls dressed up to keep warm – Bundled Autumn and Bundled Ava. The Winter Wishes sentiments work perfectly with either of these images, or with most any other winter images. Best of all with this new release – one participant in this fortnight’s challenge will be randomly chosen to win the entire release! Wow!

I’ve used Bundled Ava for today’s card. I’ve always liked the color blue, in most any shade, but bright cobalt blue is probably my most favorite shade. I also love the richness of deep red. So I’ve used those colors for my color scheme. The layout for this card is the current Splitcoaststampers.com weekly sketch challenge sketch. The blue panel has some embossed snowflakes to help carry out the wintery theme. Liquid Applique gives Ava’s earmuffs and the trim on her coat and boots a fluffy, furry look. This sentiment seems to me like a particularly good one for Operation Write Home cards; I chose to color in the heart. The color scheme works for this week’s OWH Midweek Throwdown challenge, too.

Thanks for stopping by today! Be sure to visit the other SNSDC Design Team members’ blogs and give them some love on their projects, too!

Supplies:
Digital Images: Bundled Ava, Winter Wishes (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Cardstock: Pure Luxury White (Gina K. Designs); Cherry Cobbler, Brilliant Blue (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: printer ink
Other: markers (Copic); Liquid Applique (Marvy); petite oval Nestabilities dies (Spellbinders); Snowflakes embossing folder (Sizzix); dimensionals (SU)

Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge #84

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Dec 142012

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

This week’s challenge is Tag, You’re It! Use a tag on your project – or make your project a tag, such as a gift tag. Just be sure you use at least one digital image for the focal point of your project. You’re not required to use a Sweet ‘n Sassy digital image, but we do love it when our participants use them (and you get the chance for extra perks if you do – see the SNSS Digi Challenge site for more details!).

A recent Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps sketch featured a tag as the focal point of the card layout. I’ve used the mirror image of that sketch for today’s card. I’m still trying to get some Valentines and love-themed cards made to send to OWH by the end of December, so I decided to use one of the images and some of the sentiments from the You & Me digital stamp set. The colors one would typically imagine for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches aren’t usually perceived as Valentine colors, but luckily I had this retired Basic Grey paper with hearts on it and it seemed pretty near perfect. The tag is adhered with dimensional adhesive, so I kept the embellishments pretty simple in order to keep the card from becoming too bulky and difficult to mail.

So, now it’s your turn to show us what you can do with a tag (or two or even more)! Link your project at the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge site by midnight eastern time Thursday, December 20. Remember that for every project you submit throughout December, you will get one entry to be eligible for winning 3 digital images of your choice from the Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps store! If you use a Sweet ‘n Sassy image on your challenge submission, it will earn you an additional entry for the prize. 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 Image and Sentiments: You & Me (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Cardstock: More Mustard, Naturals Ivory (Stampin’ Up); designer papers from Fusion collection (Basic Grey)
Ink: printer ink
Other: markers (Copic); dimensionals, Eggplant grosgrain ribbon (SU); mini heart brad (Making Memories)

Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge #83

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Dec 072012

We’ve made it through another week, and now it’s Friday again, which means it’s time for another Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge! This week’s challenge should be pretty easy: Create a Christmas project using a digital image. Share your creation over at the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge website before midnight eastern time Thursday, December 13. We’d love to see what you create! Although we especially enjoy seeing what our challenge participants make with Sweet ‘n Sassy digital images, you can use a digi from any stamp company.

Today I have a clean and simple card I created for Operation Write Home. The sentiment is something I came up with on my own and printed using Microsoft Word. I thought since the image is from Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps, I’d put a little sass into the sentiment. The Santa Owl image was printed several times on different patterned papers so I could paper piece it. I added some white flocking to the hat. I received this fluffy stuff in a Secret Santa swap 9 or 10 years ago, and I have no idea what company makes (made?) it. Honestly, I think this is the first time I’ve used it. 😳

Thanks for stopping by today! Be sure to see what the rest of the Design Team has created and give them some comment love. Links to their blogs are in the left sidebar. Then join us in our challenge this week!

Supplies:
Digital Image: Santa Owl (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Cardstock: Kiwi Kiss, Very Vanilla (Stampin’ Up); designer papers from Ambrosia, Blitzen, and Fusion collections (Basic Grey)
Ink: printer ink
Other: flocking (source unknown)

Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge #82

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Nov 302012

Happy Friday! It’s time for a new Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge! This week our challenge is Interior Decorating. You’ll need to create a card using a digital image, and embellish the inside of your card as well as the outside! 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!). Link your card at the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge site by midnight eastern time Thursday, December 6.

I’ve been trying to work on some “love” cards for Operation Write Home, so my card this week fits into that category. I chose one of the Rhubarb bear images; this time he’s holding a heart. I decided to paper piece the heart with some designer paper. I added a short phrase from a Valentine-themed digital stamp set, and then repeated the phrase and printed that on a strip of coordinating designer paper for the inside of the card. The layout for this card is this week’s Splitcoaststampers.com sketch challenge, turned on its side.

Here’s the outside of the card:

I didn’t want to get too fancy and fussy with the inside; with the cards I send to OWH, I like to maximize the amount of space our heroes have to write home to their loved ones. So I kept my embellishing down to a 1-inch wide strip:

Supplies:
Digital Images: Rhubarb’s Heart, Valentine’s Day Greetings (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Cardstock: So Saffron, Gable Green (Stampin’ Up); Solar White (Neenah); designer papers from Sugar Rush 6″ x 6″ paper pad (Basic Grey)
Ink: printer ink
Other: petite ovals Nestabilities die (Spellbinders); markers (Copic)

Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge #81

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Nov 232012

Hello! Happy Friday! I hope all my American readers had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday. My family is spending the holiday with my husband’s family. We don’t see them often, so we’re all trying to enjoy our time together as much as we can.

Since it’s Friday, that means it’s time for a new Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge! This week our challenge is Gifts. Use a digital image to create a gift, or simply use a digital image depicting a gift. 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!). Link your card at the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge site by midnight eastern time Thursday, November 29.

I wanted to make a holder for a gift card. A few weeks ago I saw this one that looks like a gift box and decided to give it a try. I made a few modifications to it – one, I kept the top of the “box” separate instead of hinging it to the bottom with a brad ; two, I simplified the “bow” on the top of the box. I printed the Cookie Mouse image several times so I could paper piece her bow and her present to match the gift card holder, and so I could pop up her head and paw so it looks like she’s really peeking around the present. So, first I’ll show a photo of all the components:

This one shows how the insert slips inside the “bottom of the box”:

Here’s another view, showing the gift card:

And finally, here it is, all put together:

This turned out just a bit too tall to fit in an A2 envelope (for example, if you wanted to mail this to someone). If I’d made the box shorter and wide enough so the gift card insert would go into it horizontally instead of vertically, it would work.

Supplies:
Digital Images: Cookie’s Gift, Christmas Sentiments (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Cardstock: Pure Luxury Ivory (Gina K. Designs); Fruitcake Plaid designer paper from Fruitcake collection (Basic Grey)
Ink: printer ink
Other: markers (Copic); 5-petal Flower punch, dimensionals (Stampin’ Up); iTunes gift card

Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge #80 and New Release!

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Nov 162012

Hello! Happy Friday! I have a lot of information to share with you today, so I’m just going to jump right into it.

First of all, it’s new digital image release day at Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps! There are three new items available for purchase now: Kiwi Koala’s Cuppa digi stamp, Eskimo Kisses colored digi stamp, and Eskimo Kisses Sentiments, which is a set of 3 sentiments. You can click on the pink words to see what the new images look like. All of the SNSS Digi Challenge design team members are featuring at least one of the new images and/or sentiments on their blogs today, so be sure to check out the links in the left sidebar here to see what they’ve been up to, or head over to the SNSS Digi Challenge website.

Next, it’s time for another Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge! This week’s challenge is to make a shaped card using a digital image. Your card can be any shape other than a rectangle or a square. Using a Sweet ‘n Sassy digital image isn’t a requirement, but we really enjoy seeing what our challenge participants can create with them. One of our challenge participants who does use a SNSS image will be chosen as a Spotlight Participant in next Friday’s challenge post.

I chose to use Kiwi Koala’s Cuppa for today’s card. I cut the card base with my largest Nestabilities Labels Eight die, making sure that the card fold was within the label shape. Then I used the same die to cut my designer paper, which I attached to the card front so that the fold is hidden. (It’s on the left side.) The image panel was cut with a smaller die from the same Labels Eight set. The sentiment comes from another Sweet ‘n Sassy digital image set. I thought it worked well with this image to create a wintery card for Operation Write Home. The button and bow were a bit of an afterthought. Without them, the card was too plain. So I wanted some sort of embellishment that wouldn’t look “lost” against the designer paper, but that wouldn’t be so bulky that mailing the card would be a problem.

Thirdly, as part of this month’s birthday celebration at Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps, all digital stamps will be on sale today through November 21, 2012! You’ll save 25% off the purchase of any digital image. If you haven’t worked with digital stamps before, this is a terrific time to try them out. There’s a wide variety to choose from – the cuteness of Kiwi Koala, Cocoa Mouse, and Rhubarb the bear, as well as realistic birds and flowers, various seasonal images, and lots of great sentiments. Here’s the link to the store: Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps – Digital Stamps Have fun shopping!

I’ve saved what I think is the most exciting part of today’s news for last: All participants in this week’s Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge will be entered into a drawing for a $20 shopping spree toward the purchase of Sweet ‘n Sassy digital stamps! If that wasn’t incentive enough to join in the challenge, participants who use a Sweet ‘n Sassy digital image in their challenge project will have their names entered into the drawing twice! So chose a favorite digi to create a card that’s any shape other than a square or a rectangle, and share it with us at the SNSS Digi Challenge website! You have until 11:59 pm eastern time Thursday, November 22 to link your work there. Good luck to all the participants – I’m really looking forward to seeing what everyone makes!

Supplies for today’s card:
Digital Image: Kiwi Koala’s Cuppa (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Digital Sentiment: Stanley Penguin (SNSS)
Cardstock: Pure Luxury White (Gina K. Designs); Kraft (Stampin’ Up); designer paper from Aspen Frost 6″ x 6″ paper pad (Basic Grey)
Ink: printer ink
Other: Labels Eight Nestabilities dies (Spellbinders); linen thread (SU); button (Bazzill)

Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge #79

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Nov 092012

We’ve made it through another week, and now it’s Friday again, which means it’s time for another Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge! This week’s challenge should be pretty easy: Create a Thanksgiving project using a digital image. Share your creation over at the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge website before midnight eastern time Thursday, November 15. We’d love to see what you create!

I’ve chosen to use an image of sweet little Cocoa Mouse nestled in a fall harvest arrangement, along with one of Sweet ‘n Sassy’s digital sentiments. The layout for the card is the weekly sketch at Splitcoaststampers.com. I generally don’t make cards for Thanksgiving Day, but I felt the “many thanks” sentiment worked both for that occasion as well as any other time someone might want to show gratitude. I have to apologize for the lighting; in real life the gourd matches the green leaves in the designer paper better than in the photo.

Supplies:
Digital Images: Harvest Cocoa, Many Thanks (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Cardstock: Pure Luxury White (Gina K. Designs); Chocolate Chip, designer papers from Autumn Vine collection (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: printer ink; Chocolate Chip (SU)
Other: markers (Copic); sponge

Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge #78

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Nov 022012

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

This week’s challenge is to create Anything But a Card using a digital image. There are loads of possibilities here! Just to offer a few examples, you can make a gift bag or gift box, or alter a clipboard or a tin or a notebook, or create a scrapbook page, a bookmark or a magnet. So long as you use at least one digital image for the focal point of your project, anything goes! You’re not required to use a Sweet ‘n Sassy digital image, but we do love it when 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 try making a mini calendar because I thought if it goes together easily enough, it would be fun to make these as Christmas gifts. Calendar templates can be found pretty easily online; I got mine from the templates forum at Splitcoaststampers.com and then tweaked it to suit my style and to fit an entire year’s worth of calendar months on one page. I figured I’d start off with January, and I thought that one of Sweet ‘n Sassy’s Cocoa Mouse images would be good because there are more than enough Cocoa images to pick one for each month of the year. A lot of people appreciate a hot drink on a cold January day, and so does Cocoa. He’s snuggled up to the cup here to keep warm! I paper pieced the mug sleeve from designer paper that coordinated with the background paper I chose, and the rest of the image was colored with Copic markers. I slipped this into an old acrylic photo frame that I had here; this allows the calendar to stand on its own on a desk or other horizontal surface. I can’t remember if I bought the frame at Walmart or Dollar General, but it was really inexpensive.

So, now it’s your turn to make Anything But a Card! Link your project at the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge site by midnight eastern time Thursday, November 8. Remember that for every project you submit throughout November, 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 Image: Cocoa’s Latte (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Cardstock: Basics White (Papertrey Ink); designer papers from Holly Jolly Christmas 6″ x 6″ paper pad (Echo Park)
Ink: printer ink
Other: markers (Copic); acrylic photo frame (source unknown); corner rounder punch (EK Success)

Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge #77

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Oct 262012

We’ve made it through another week, and now it’s Friday again, which means it’s time for another Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge! This week the challenge is Stitching. We encourage you to make a project using a digital image and embellish it with stitching. It doesn’t matter if you hand sew your stitches, or use a sewing machine, or even draw faux stitches on your work – it’s all good! Share your project with us at the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge site by midnight eastern time Thursday, November 1. You’re not required to use a Sweet ‘n Sassy digital image for your project, but we do love when you use those (and you get the chance for perks if you do – see the Digi Challenge site for more details).

I decided to go clean and simple with this week’s challenge, and I used a lot of older supplies to create my card. The layout is based on an OWH Stars and Stamps blog sketch from 2010, but I centered the focal panel. The card base is one of Stampin’ Up’s first In Colors which was offered in their 2006-2007 catalog. The designer papers I used for the strip along the bottom of the card and for paper piecing the puppy are from one of my first Basic Grey 6″ x 6″ paper pads. And the embroidery floss I used for the stitched border is from my cross-stitching days, so that goes back at least to the mid 1990s! I used two colors – one strand of blue, and one of brown – in the needle at the same time. The vanilla cardstock isn’t too old; I’ve had it for maybe 6 months or so. However, the digital image is brand new to me. It’s from a Sweet ‘n Sassy digital set that includes the puppy image, a bone, paw prints, and two sentiments. I used the mirror image of the puppy because it was easier for me to align the sentiment with the image that way and print it all at once.

My card also fits the Hope You Can Cling To challenge being presented today at Splitcoaststampers.com. I hope you’ll check out the HYCCT challenges there and participate in spreading some cheer and good will to cancer patients and their families.

Supplies:
Digital Image: Puppy Love (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Cardstock: Cool Caribbean, Very Vanilla (Stampin’ Up); papers from Blush 6″ x 6″ paper pad (Basic Grey)
Ink: printer ink
Other: embroidery floss (DMC); dimensionals (SU)

Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge #76 and Blog Hop!

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Oct 192012

It’s time for another Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge, but we have some extra fun this week! Along with our challenge, the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge Design Team is having a blog hop to introduce you to the October Digi Release. We are all pretty excited about that! Links to all the participating blogs are below.

This week’s challenge is Using Metal. Use any sort of metal embellishment on your creation – brads, decorative clips, ribbon slides, even wired ribbon. Use one piece of metal or several – it’s up to you! 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 October 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 SNSDC76.

I’ve used the new Kiwi’s Gift digital image for today’s card. Isn’t Kiwi adorable? Although all the images being released today are Christmas-y in nature, I wanted to show how this one can be used any time of the year. So I’ve created a birthday card with it. I chose photo turns for my metal embellishment. The sentiment is from Masculine Birthday Greetings, another SNSS digital stamp set. I took my color scheme from this week’s Splitcoaststampers.com color challenge, and the layout is this week’s SCS sketch challenge.

Now, here’s the list of the blog hop participants. While you’re hopping, be sure to leave some love on each of the blog hop posts. One of the team members is a mystery blogger and she will be picking a random winner from the comments on her blog post! The winning prize will be the whole October Digi Release! How incredible is that?!? The winner will be announced on the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge site on Friday, October 26.

Tricia Traxler
Cynthia Olheiser
Crafty Math Chick
Ceal Pritchett
Patricia Hays <— you are here!
Stephanie Wright

I hope you’ll have fun hopping along with us, and that you’ll share your metal challenge creation with us this week!

Supplies for today’s card:
Digital Images: Kiwi’s Gift, Masculine Birthday Greetings (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Cardstock: Pure Luxury Ivory (Gina K. Designs); designer papers from Razzleberry Lemonade and Spring Flowers paper packs (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: printer ink
Other: photo turns from Hodgepodge Hardware, twill ribbon (SU); classic rectangles Nestabilities die (Spellbinders); Premier colored pencils (Prismacolor); odorless mineral spirits (Houston Arts)

Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge #75

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Oct 122012

Hello! It’s Friday! I am SO definitely looking forward to this weekend! Tonight is our high school’s homecoming, so I’m looking forward to the football game. Our whole family will be out at the stadium tonight supporting the team and the marching band. Then on Saturday, my older son and I will be going to the Virginia Tech football game with some of our band friends! Whether Tech wins or loses, it’s bound to be loads of fun!

Another fun thing about it being Friday is that it’s time for a new Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge! This week our challenge is to use a digital image and a craft item you’ve been hoarding to make a card of appreciation. 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!). Link your card at the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge site by midnight eastern time Thursday, October 18.

I have to admit I really had to think about what craft item(s) I would relinquish my hold on for this challenge. I finally decided using some of my Purely Pomegranate supplies would be a sacrifice. I just LOVE this color and because Stampin’ Up has retired it, once I use all of it up, that’s it. No more. Ever. (Unless I manage to find some at a reasonable price on the secondary market…) So I’ve used some Purely Pomegranate cardstock and stitched ribbon on today’s card. I paired it up with chocolate brown, kraft and cream for a warm color scheme. I also used some of the chocolate satin ribbon that I love. I adhered the largest mat to the card front with dimensional adhesive, which has the unfortunate effect of distorting the appearance of the left side of the card and making the borders look uneven. Maybe one day I will remember that when I photograph my cards, and angle them differently.

I wanted to combine this challenge with one of the Hope You Can Cling To challenges and decided to go with Giovana’s. I used three different punches for the flowers, and added in the corner punch for good measure. The flowers were sponged with a little Purely Pomegranate ink. I thought this sentiment was particularly suitable for one of the cancer patients to use to thank a supportive friend. The layout for this card is this week’s Freshly Made Sketch, flipped horizontally and turned on its side. I’ve substituted the largest flower for the bow in the sketch.

Supplies for today’s card:
Digital Image: A True Friend (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Cardstock: Naturals Ivory, Chocolate Chip, Purely Pomegranate, Kraft, Prints Sampler designer series paper (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: printer ink; Purely Pomegranate (SU)
Other: 5-Petal punch, Spring Blossoms punch, Boho Blossoms punch, ticket corner punch, Chocolate Chip satin ribbon, Purely Pomegranate stitched ribbon (SU); brads (Making Memories); sponge

Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge #74

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Oct 052012

We’ve made it through another week, and now it’s Friday again, which means it’s time for another Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge! This week we have a Tic Tac Toe challenge for you. Use any three challenge ideas in a row from the following tic tac toe board to come up with the elements you need to include in your creation, along with a digital image.

I decided to go straight down the middle of the board for my card. I chose the digital image of Rhubarb the bear holding a sunflower. The corners of the image panel were punched to give the concave rounded shape, and then highlighted with teeny brads. I drew in the grass by hand so Rhubarb wouldn’t look like he was just floating around randomly. Although I do have the “I {heart} you” sentiment in digital form, I decided to use the clear stamp version of it today because it was easier to get that positioned on the card where I wanted it.

I also tied in one of the Splitcoaststampers.com Hope You Can Cling To challenges with today’s card. Victoria’s challenge is to use strips behind the focal image. I used three different colors of ribbon for my strips. This was the first time I tried putting ribbon through my Xyron machine and using that for my ribbon adhesive. It worked wonderfully, except that the ends of the ribbons that I peeled off the backing first frayed. So I put those ends on the right where the focal panel covered that up.

We’ve had some changes in the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Design Team. We’re sad to see several people leave, but happy that Cynthia and Tricia have joined us! Please go check out everyone’s blogs, which are all linked in the left sidebar, and give them some bloggy love. Then go play tic tac toe and share your creation over at the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge website! You have until midnight eastern time Thursday, October 11 to link your work. We’d love to see what you create!

Supplies for today’s card:
Digital Image: Rhubarb’s Sunflower (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Sentiment Stamp: Love From Cocoa (SNSS)
Cardstock: Kraft, Chocolate Chip (Stampin’ Up); Pure Luxury Ivory (Gina K. Designs)
Ink: printer ink; Chocolate Chip (SU)
Other: mini brads (Recollections); Apricot, Taupe and Chocolate grosgrain ribbons, ticket corner punch (SU); markers (Copic)

Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge #72 and Blog Hop!

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Sep 212012

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)

Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge #71

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Sep 142012

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)

Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge #70

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Sep 072012

We’ve made it through another week, and now it’s Friday again, which means it’s time for another Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge! This week’s theme is Take Me Away. We encourage you to make a project using a digital image that shows some means of transportation. It could be a car, a bus, a bicycle, a train, or even a hot air balloon! Share your project with us at the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge site by midnight eastern time Thursday, September 13. You’re not required to use a Sweet ‘n Sassy digital image for your project, but we do love when you use those (and you get the chance for perks if you do – see the Digi Challenge site for more details).

Last week I was perusing the Sweet ‘n Sassy digital images, trying to decide which one to use for my challenge card. When I saw the Blast Off set, I knew I had the perfect designer paper to pair with it. So I’ve combined them in this week’s card. The layout is Freshly Made Sketch #51 turned sideways. I wanted the rocket image tilted up on the die cut piece so that it would look like the rocket is blasting off up into the atmosphere. I flipped the rocket image horizontally (like a mirror image) so it wouldn’t look like it was shooting off the edge of the card. That’s one of the fun things about digi images – being able to manipulate them to best suit your project! I thought about doodling a border around the edge of the die cut, but I decided against it because I didn’t want to risk messing up that piece after I’d already colored the rocket. (OK, I’m a wimp like that.) The sentiment I used, along with a few others, are included with the rocket image. This card also meets this week’s OWH Midweek Throwdown Challenge, to create a card with scallops on it that can be sent to a child.

This month, the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge team would like to welcome Cynthia O. and Sarah M. as guest designers! They earned these positions by using Sweet ‘n Sassy digital images on the projects they made for some of our recent digi challenges. Their blogs are linked in the left sidebar along with the rest of the design team’s blogs, so go check them out for some great inspiration!

Thanks for visiting today! Have a fabby weekend!

Supplies for today’s card:
Digital Images: Blast Off (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Cardstock: Pure Luxury Ivory (Gina K. Designs); Basic Black (Stampin’ Up); Marigold and Dawson papers from Oh Baby! Boy collection (Basic Grey)
Ink: printer ink
Other: markers (Copic); scallop die and decorative plaque die (SNSS)

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