My Last Post Here

Hiya Sassy Fans,

Sadly this is my last post here on the Simply Sassy site.  I hope I have brought inspiration to you all over the last 8 months and if you don't already follow my blog and you like my work, that you'll make your way over. I've enjoyed my time working with the Sassy's and of course Maria and the Girls have all been fab and thank you to Karen for initially inviting me to contribute on the Sassy Site.  We will be staying friends and also teamies, as I am on a couple of DT's with Maria and Kathrin, and of course I will be popping on here too to leave some love.

I have inked up one of my favourites and an oldie in the Sassy range, Fashionista, and I have also followed Maria's sketch over at the Sugar Bowl.

Don't you just love this image.  You can find Fashionista at Funky Kits HERE

 

And look what fell into my basked on Saturday.  

This is Ollie.  He is a Bichon Frise, although he won't be having a bouffon hairstyle when he's older, it will be kept just like he is now. He is 8 weeks old and is just sooooooo adorable! 

Ingredients:-

Image Fashionista by Sugar Nellie at Funky Kits

Papers by Pion (gorgeous)

Medium - Copics

Stempleglede Grunge Stamp

Lasercut Chipboard Flourishes and side panel from Make It Crafty

Tim Holtz Ticket, Pearls and Lace from stash

Tea Dye and Vintage Photo Distress Inks 

Magnolia Doohickey Die

That's it from me.  Thank you to everyone who has left comments for me here and on my blog and I hope to still see you still on my blog or somewhere in blogland. 

Merging your Rubber Stamps with your Digital Stamps

Hiya Peeps,

I have written this tutorial for those wanting to try merging digital images with your existing rubber stamps. I have used Word but the principal should be same with whatever package you are using.  Please note all pictures will expand when clicked on.

In word you have two ways of bringing your image in. Firstly by copying and pasting. Go to where your digital image is saved on your computer and right click.  Choose Copy.

Open up a new page in word, right click and choose Paste, or a quick way to do this is to press the control key and "V".

Now your image is on the page you will want to be able to move it around.  Right click on your mouse, Choose Text Wrapping and then Square.

OK, now you are free to move your image around the page but you may need to resize.  You will see the square around the image.  Right click on the top left hand corner of the box and Wthen hold down the left click button on your mouse and move it up or down to resize.

When you think you have it in the right postion print out on paper, not your stamping card.  I then put my image against it to see if I have the right height.  Adjust as necessary for your image.  Once I have it in the right place I need to mark where I will need to stamp my image.

 
 

 Now you need to get out your stamping card.  You may want to test different cards with the inks in your printer.  For printing digi's with my HP printer I have to use the cheapest black ink I can find.  It is all down to the pigment in the ink.  If I use the original ink, then it smudges with my copics.  I also set to print on draft but again your printer may be different, so please experiment and don't give up.

Place your draft copy with the mark in position on top of your stamping card.  I use a very sharp pencil to go through the marker and pierce the paper and inserting the dot onto the stamping card. This is where I will need to stamp my image.

Stamp your image where you have marked.

 

Now yo need to mask off your image.  You will need a masking tape, I have used woodware, staz on ink, this is important and the only ink you can use on shiny surfaces and of course your choice of image.  Stamp out your image using the staz on onto the masing tape/film and cut out.

Match the mask over your stamped image on your cardstock and you are now ready to put the image through the printer to add your digi background.

Remove your mask and you are now ready to colour.  Be careful when removing your mask as the printer ink on top of the mask will come off on your hands and you do not want to get this over your image.

And here is my finished card. 

 

 

Again I have had drawn the clouds and used B91, B000, C1, C3, C00 

I have embossed the doily and dragonfly with moonglow embossing ink, so it changes from a blue to a gold colour in the light.

Here is the complete list of copics I have used.

 Ingredients:-

Butterfly Girl Image is by Sugar Nellie Simply Sassy HERE

Tulip Garden Digi by Make It Crafty HERE

Lasercut Chipboard Dragonfly and Corner Flourish by Make It Crafty HERE 

Papers by Prima

Moonglow Embossing Powder

Martha Stewart Frond Punch and Border Punch

Pearls and Flowers from stash

I hope you have found this tutorial helpful and I look forward to reading your feedback. 

 

City Girl

Hiya Sassy Fans,

This is a scheduled post as I am still sunning myself in Turkey, hopefully having a relaxed time, knocking back the pina colada's, well not too many as still watching the calories, lol,  and hopefully I will be refreshed and ready to craft upon my return.

I have used Simply Sassy's new "City Girl" , isn't she a darling?

Ingredients:-

Image City Girl by Funky Kits HERE

Papers by Pion

Nestabilities

Martha Stewart Frond Punch and Border Punch

Doily, Pearls from Stash

Flowers by WOC

Here's the copics I have used:-

Looking forward to reading all your comments on my return, for which I thank you.

Because Your Wonderful

Hiya Sassy Fans,

Me again with my Monday  Sassy inspiration and I'm excited today.  Tomorrow I fly off to Turkey for my holiday, yayyyyyy.  Goodness it's certainly been a busy month and of course I'm at the Stamperama Show on on the Sunday after I return, so I have had to be super organised with getting my cards done as no time once I return.  Hopefully I will get some chill time in August!

Right, today's card is using Team Spirit available from Funky Kits.

 

I've kept this quite simple for me, don't you think.  Here's the copics I used. 

Ingredients:-

Simply Sassy Team Spirit available from Funky Kits HERE

Papers by Magnolia

Lasercut chipboard corners and leaf flourishes from Make It Crafty HERE

Magnolia Doohickey Die

Rose flower and ribbon  from stash 

Sentiment LOTV

Ticket by Tim Holtz

Nestie for the shape

 

Lost in Music

Morning Peeps,

I hope you enjoyed the Simply Sassy Blog Hop over the weekend, you gals certainly love your Sassy's and I'd like to thank you all for such wonderful comments that were left for me and my teamies. Krista's designs certainly get better and better with each release, I'm looking forward to no. 10.

Well hopefully you still need some inspiration, and today I have used "Lost in Music" and I know you all loved this image and so I do. I can see lots of uses for this one.

This is me with my ipod on when I'm in the gymn. Only not as relaxed, bright as a beetroot and panting for breath, lol.

Ingredients:-

Lost in Music available from Funky Kits HERE

Medium - Copics 

Papers by Prima

Doily

Dienamics border die

Flowers from stash

Sentiment is whiff of joy

Apple of My Eye

Morning Sassy Fans,

Where does the weekend go.  Seriously you blink and you miss it.  I did manage to do an hour in the gymn on Saturday, goodness knows what's come over me and yesterday I visited my niece and the new addition to the family, baby Nikita.  She's gorgeous, so now I'm a Great Aunt!

I also had a little accident with acrylic paint, oh my word.  I only needed a little for the project so I unscrewed the lid. Biggggggg mistake.  I knocked the bottle off the table and it landed upright.  Good you may think. Notttt. It hit the floor with such speed that the contents splurted up and covered me, my sewing machine, printer, radiator and the carpet. Opps!  As i woke up early I just put on my hubbys T-shirt and my linen trousers and went to my craftroom whilst everyone was still sleeping, so my hubby's black Firetrap T-shirt now has splatters of white paint all over it. I was so lucky it didn't splatter the cards I had on the side, typical crafter more worried about my cards than OH's T-shirt. Who would of thought there was that much in a bottle, lol.  My hair still has white streaks, lol.

I have a little sneek peek for you. This is Apple of my Eye and will be available on Saturday from Funky Kits.

Ingredients:-

Image "Apple of my Eye" Funky Kits from Sat 23rd July

Pion Papers

Lasercut Chipboards leaves, corners, flower centre in ribbon by Make It Crafty/Quixotic Paperie

Acrylic Paint

Martha Stewart border punch

Magnolia Butterfly Die

Magnolia fence die

Sentiment is Whimsey

Bling, ribbon and flowers from stash

Naughty or Nice

Morning Sassy Friends,

This is the last of my Christmas Set Stamps and you know what that means...... yep next time it will be a sneek peek....... The image is called "Puppy Love" and is available from Funky Kits HERE.

I have again created another scene, which is a bit weird trying to create that warm feel with the snow outside when in reality it's a lovely summer's day.  Nevertheless I now have 7 Christmas cards done and I'm well pleased with that.

I've made a stair step card. The background images are from Make It Crafty.  I cut the window out and added some snow mesh and backed it with blue card.  Hopefully it looks like it's snowing outside whilst she is sitting in a nice cosy living room.

Ingredients:-

Image Puppy Love available from Funky Kits HERE

Background Images from Make It Crafty

 Medium - Copics

Marianne Design Poinsetta Die & Leaves

Acrylic Paint

Have a good week.

Christmas in July

Morning Peeps,

Hope you all had a fab weekend.  I had to go shopping to Tesco on a Saturday afternoon, all I can say is never again!  I hate shopping at the best of times. Yesterday me and OH went out on our bikes, a gentle 6 mile ride..... NOT.  Hubby's idea of short cuts again, up steep hills, sharp left and up a vertical rock hard mud  hill, so much so I nearly fell off me bike, well actually nearly a couple of times.  We were going up a one way street so had to go on the path and got stuck behind two people so I came to an abrupt stop and as I can't quite touch the ground with my feet I nearly fell into the road, lol.  Anyways, 355 calories burnt off so it had its plus points.

Anyways, are you guys having problems with Blogger, I can't leave comments, sometimes my page is all over the place. Even having difficult writing this post with the text all across the icons at the top. I usually swtich browser but it seems to be a problem on both that I use. Grrrrrr.

Today's card is made using All Wrapped Up available HERE.

 

Ingredients:-

Image by Sugar Nellie "All Wrapped Up" available from Funky Kits HERE 

Medium - Copics 

Snowflakes and corners are lasercut chipboard pieces available from Make It Crafty and Quixotic Paperie

Martha Stewart Branch Punch

Puff Paint heated to create snow

Magnolia Doohickey Die

Candy from Craftwork Cards

Gift Tin

Hiya Sassy Fans,

My Mojo is missing lately so I thought I'd show you something really simple.  We had a tin of travel sweets in our office and when the last one was taken it was time for me to confiscate the tin.  Everyone in my department knows there's a use for boxes, tins, bags etc, lol.

All I've done is covered it with paper.  I did think about painting the tin first but thought it may be difficult to fit the lid on afterwards, plus I liked the metal showing.  So here is my simple gift tin using "Christmas Kisses" available from Funky Kits.

Oh and by the way, I have received the next release, wow weeeeeee, that's all I'm saying.......

 

Ingredients:-

Image by Simply Sassy Sugar Nellie "Christmas Kisses" available from Funky Kits

Papers "Father Christmas" by Pink Paislee

Medium - Copics

Poinsetta - Making Memories

Marianne Design Flourishes

Roses from stash

Have a good week.

Not Just For Christmas

Morning Peeps,

I hope you all enjoyed the hop over the weekend and if you haven't done it yet there's still time and you could win the whole set of 6 stamps.  I've had a non crafting weekend, oh my goodness I know, but so many family things to deal with and  not enough time, plus I have to admit my craftroom is also in need of a clean.  Whoops!

This release isn't just for Christmas and to demonstrate this I have used Retail Therapy as a Birthday Card.

I fancied trying my hand on the kraft with prisma pencils again, I really do like to flit in and out of different styles, and as Paula commented once, you never know what your going to get from me.  Lol, exactly!

Ingredients:-

Image "Retail Therapy" available from Funky Kits HERE

Papers by Websters (love these)

Lasercut Chipboard available from Make It Crafty and Quixotic Paperie here in the UK, yay

Martha Stewart Frond Punch

Sentiment from LOTV

Acrylic Paint and Lace from stash

Have a good week all and thanks for any comments you may leave, I really do appreciate it.

Ho, Ho, Ho

Morning Sassy Fans,

Where does the weekend go? Seriously I seem to be living for the next bank holiday or day off work lately.  I think we should do 3 day weeks, wonder whether my boss would agree with me, ummmmm, best put that on the back burner.

I love making Christmas cards and usually aim to start in July and still never have enough.  I have used Sugar Nellie's Simply Sassy "Secret Santa" which will be available for sale after our blog hop this Saturday, oh yeah put that date in your diary, this release is not one you'll want to miss.

I have used lots of texture on this card with Geso, Acyrlic Paint, Dimensional/Irredescent paint and also puff paint heated with my heat gun to give it that puff.

Ingredients:-

Image "Secret Santa" availalbe from Saturday 18th at Funky Kits HERE

Stempleglede stamp around the edges

Websters papers

Corrugated Card

Flowers by Wild Orchid Crafts

Martha Stewart Frond punch

Lasercut Chipboard Corners

Mulsin Cloth

Magnolia Doohickey Die

Puff Paint

Dimensional Paint

Geso and Acrylic Paint 

Scrunched Flower Tutorial

Hi there again this week,

I have pondered over what to create for you but with the dreadful news I received last week I have had to create something simple for you, although I love the result.  By the way don't forget Maria posted a challenge for you HERE.  If you use any of the tutorials from this site you could win a prize.

Today, I wanted to show you how to create the scrunched flower and this is what you will need.

3 Punches or Dies

Doublesided cardstock

Mini Mister filled with water

Brads

Ink if liked

Heatgun

 Punch 4 large, 3 medium and 3 small Flowers, I have used punches for this tutorial but I have also used Dies, so experiment with whatever you have available

You will need to pierce a hole in the centre of each flower.  I tend to do this individually as it you do it when all 10 are together it can be quite hard to pierce through.

 Ink the edges if you like this style, bear in mind that once we add the water the ink will spread, but I love the look of this.  Add your brad to the centre

Spray the flower with the water mister and fold up each petal to the centre.  The more scrunchier the better, so don't worry about being particular.

It will look like this. You can either use your heat gun and gently unravel the petals and heat or you can leave it to dry naturally.

I used the centre petals closed.  You could add a pearl centre and some glimmer mist for that sheen and sparkle finish.

For the smaller ones I used 4 medium flower punches and 4 small and followed the same procedure.

Voila!

And here's a card I made earlier using this technique.