Happy Birthday & Christmas In July

I created this card for the Sweet Stop Sketch and for the Jazzy Inspiration Challenge. I hope you have time to play, hey, you could combine the two like I did...yeah....getting them both done! Slide over to the Sweet Stop Blog and check out the DT's fabulous creations. Also, be sure to check out the Jazzy Blog, Tenia is looking for a new DT and has all the details on the blog. Todays Jazz album is by Joe Lovano and we are to use the colors red/orange, yellow, black, and white. I used the new stamp from SNSS called Birthday Buddies, these are super cute images for coloring and make great Birthday cards for kids of all ages. I jazzed it up by adding snowflake glitter to the white part on the skunk's back and adding black gemstones around the scalloped circle. I hope you like my jazzed up Birthday card...enjoy!

Wooo, wooo I almost forgot, this is the best part of todays post, are you ready for this Korin has come up with a great deal for you.....here are the deets

For the entire month of July, our Christmas & Winter stamp sets will be 15% off! But the fun doesn't stop there! When you spend $25 in Christmas & Winter stamps, you will receive a FREE Holiday Greetings stamp set.

Hold on, there is still more!!!
Wanna order our other stamps and products instead? We have something for YOU, too!
~Place a $20 order-receive Stanley the Penguin digi set
~Place a $35 order-receive Stanley the Penguin digi set AND Do Not Open Till Christmas digi set
~Place a $50 order-receive Stanley the Penguin digi set, Do Not Open Till Christmas digi set AND You Light Up My Life digi set, these exclusive digis can only be earned through our Christmas in July Celebration and will not be available to purchase. You can see the sneak peaks on the Sweet 'N Sassy Blog.

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Stamps: Sweet 'N Sassy Birthday Buddies

Paper: SU Riding Hood Red, So Safron, Black, White, and DP

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black and Copics C9, N2, and W9

Accessories: SU Circle Punches, Scalloped Circle Punch, Black Gemstones, Janome, Martha Stewart Snowflake Glitter, and Glue Dots

Have Faith

I created this card for several challenges, first its for todays Sweet Stop Sketch SSS05 and for this weeks JAZZ12. Korin from Sweet 'N Sassy has brought this fabulous sketch and Tenia from The Jazzy Inspiration Blog has brought this awesome jazz album with fun colors. I hope you can play along and upload your card to each blog under Mr Linky! I used the stamps set from SNSS called Pond Pals, I luv this darling little frog. I colored him with copics, I masked the cattails behind the frog. I hope you can visit SNSS, all of the spring and summer sets are on sale.

The colors from the Miles Davis Bags' Groove jazz album are Taken with Teal, Green Galore (bright green), black, and white. Check out both of these blogs for all the info. I hope you have an enjoyable Memorial Day weekend.

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Stamps: Sweet 'N Sassy Pond Pals and the sentiment is from Elegant Blessings

Paper: K & Copmany DP, black, and white

Ink: Momento tuxedo black and copics

Accessories: Nesties, ribbon, brads, scissors, Janome, and glue dots

Big Bloom

Good morning all, I luv the mornings. It is sooo peaceful and relaxing, I like to get my cup of joe and sit outside on the deck and enjoy the scenery....aahhhh! Well, I hope your day is off to a great start. Todays card is for the JAZZ11 challenge, Tenia has brought to us an album by Charlie Parker called Charlie Parker with Strings. For those who do not know who Charlie Parker(Bird) is/was.....he was a great alto saxophonist...probably the best in the Bebop era in jazz, to here this great album head over to the Jazzy Challenge Blog, Tenia has it playing for your enjoyment. Well as you can see the colors of the CD are: basic black, real red, yo-yo yellow, and white. I used summer sun instead of yo-yo yellow and riding hood red instead of real red. I hope you have time this week to play along with us, you can see all the other Jazz Cats creations at the Jazzy Blog.

For my card today I made one of the paper flowers that I made last month. You can head over to Emilys Blog to see how they are made, super easy and fun! Cut out imperfect circles, distress, sprinkle with water and crunch them up, then let them dry, add embellies and then add to your creation. I think they really make a statement with these colors.

My card is also for The Pink Elephant Challenge #13 to use circles and scallops, my scallops are distressed edges of my flower..hehehe, head over to play along with TPE gals, I am sure they would luv to see your creation. I hope you have a wonderful day and hug someone today and tell them you love them!

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Stamps: Verve

Ppaer: SU white, riding hood red, summer sun, black, and white

Ink: Momento Black

Accessories: Black checkered ribbon, yellow corduroy brad, black brads, distressing, water spritzer, and glue dots

Red Flower Bloom

Hello and good morning to everyone! I am in PA enjoying my time with some of the SNSS DT. I can't wait to share the deets when I return. This card is for the Jazzy Inspiration Challenge, JAZZ10, you can learn all the details at the Jazzy Blog. I used the flower blom that was released last night at the Verve release party. It is from the set called Wishful Elegance. I colored the bloom with copic R39, cut it out, and popped it up on glue dots. I also used the small emboosing die from SU called sweetest stem to stem this pretty flower bloom. I used the new scalloped oval from SU and older dps from SU. This is also one of the sketches Julee created for the release party challenges you can see this one and the others here. I hope you have time to play along this week, if your card is chosen as the jazziest card of the week you will win the honor of being Jazz Cat of the week!

Stamps: Verve Wishful Elegance

Paper: SU chocoalte chip, riding hood red, white, and older SU dp's

Ink: SU chocolate chip, stazon, and copics

Accessoreies: SU embossing die, chocolate ribbon, punches, jumdo chcolate brad, and glue dots

Rejoice

I am so excited to bring you todays card, it is for the JAZZ09 challenge. Tenia has given you a website of jazz art inspiration and you can chose what you want to inspire you. The site is Jazz Art Rotterdam , I luv using pictures or objects for inspiration. I am very visual; I learn and remember by seeing. I chose this piece of art, it is a water color painting here by Horst Liepolt. I was drawn to the colors. I hope you have time to play along and upload your card to the Jazzy Inspiration Blog, we chose our favorite card every time we play, if your creation is chosen you wil be Jazz Cat of the week and be spotlighted next time we play. Be sure and add the keyword JAZZ09 if you upload your card to SCS. This is also Mojo80 sketch, I told ya it was one of my favorites...hehehe. Enjoy this beautiful day!

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Stamps: Verve

Paper: SU so safron, baja breeze, black, and SU sweet slumber dp

Ink: stazon black

Accessories: checkered ribbon, american crafts brads, Janome sewing machine, bridal confetti flowers, and pop dots

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Hello everyone, this card is for the JAZZ08, Tenia has brought to us this week the album cover of Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane. The colors are fabulous riding hood red, pacific point, gray, and white. I hope that you can find time to play with us this week, you could be chosen for the JAZZ Cat of the week. Be sure to upload your card to the Jazzy Blog, if you upload to SCS use the keyword JAZZ08. Enjoy your day!

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Stamps: Verve

Paper: SU pacific point, riding hood red, basic gray, white, and good morning sunshine dp

Ink: SU pacific point

Accessories: Punches, ribbon, bling brads, and pop dots

Blinged Butterfly

I created this for the Jazzy Inspiration Challenge, JAZZ07. I used a Sweet 'N Sassy Digi Butterfly image, colored with copics and SU markers. The colors this week are fabulous.They are taken with teal, green galore, black, and white. I used wild wasabi instead of green galore, I do not have but one BB color and that is real red. I luv these colors, they are from a new album from a group called the Soulives. I added bling to the back panel and then added bling to the wings. Enjoy your weekend!

Stamps: Sweet 'N Sassy Digi Butterfly Image

Paper: Bazzil, su wild wasabi, black, white, and k&comcpany dp

Ink: su wild wasabi, su markers and copics

Accessories: black ribbon from Michael's, nesties, and pop dots

Happy Birthday Digi Image

I create this for this weeks Jazzy Challenge, use keyword JAZZ06. Tenia has brought to us an Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers album cover. The album cover has some fantastic colors pumpkin pie, eggplant envy, rose red, kraft, and white. They really do look wonderful together, play along and see what you can come up with. I used the new Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Images, I am so luvin these. All you do is purchase, download, print, and color...how cool is that. With some images I can print six to eight images at a time on a sheet of white cs. These are a wonderful additions to our stamping fun....it is so worth it just to give it a try. This is from the birthday images available called Sweet Birthday. I am learning the coloing technique of copics, so bare with me as I continue to work at perfecting copic coloring. I used a pumpkin pie dp, added the wide rose red ribbon, and purple brads....these are super fun birthday colors. Play along with the Jazz cats and enjoy your stamping time!

Jazzy Green Frog

Well, I am sooo excited to tell you about this weeks Jazzy Challenge, Tenia has brought to us the Grant Green jazz album and it uses fabulous colors; black, kraft, and old olive. You gotta check out the other jazz cats creations to see the fabulous cards they created with these colors. If you can fit it in to play and upload your card to the Jazzy Challenge Blog, you could when blog candy and be chosen for the Jazz Cat of the week.....I would say that is worth playing for......can't wait to see your fabulous creations! I am also excited to share these wonderful Sweet N' Sassy Stamps, I am guest designing this month for Korin from SNSS and am making every effort to spotlight these fabulous stamps. I can only promote what I believe in and Korin's stamps are worth showcasing. This adorable, cutie pie of a frog is from the set called Pond Pals, and so are the cattails. Here I go again telling you this is one of my favorite sets, but it is true! I am sure most of you, like me could not pick just one stamp set as a favorite. We can have lots of favorites, right? The scripture stamp is from the set called Love of a Friend. I stamped the cattails onto the dp, stamped the little frog, colored him with markers and layered in on three curly label cut outs. I made a tag for the scripture, added ribbon and doodling. I then added dew drops to the side of the card. I hope you enjoy this sweet little frog card, I luv him...he is soo cute, doesn't he look so happy? If you upload to SCS use keyword JAZZ05

Best Blues On Blue

Hello everyone, I do hope you have had a wonderful Saturday. I am excited about this weeks

Jazzy Challenge, Tenia is doing an awesome job of bringing us some great jazz music and combining it with fabulous challenges. This weeks challenge is from the best jazz artist of all time Miles Davis and the album is Kind of Blue. Her challenge to you this week, you guessed it to use all blues. If you play along upload your work to your blog and if you don't have a blog upload to SCS using the keyword JAZZ03. You can upload to SCS even if you have a blog, so we can see everyones work together. This also fits the OCC challenge to use two different blues. Enjoy your visit and hop on over to the

Jazzy Blog and enjoy some fantastic jazz music!

Verve Flourish

I am soooo excited to bring you this Jazzy Inspiration challenge, check it out and play along. It is based on the jazzy album cover seen here., you are to use the colors red, balck, and white. I used my Verve stamps for this one, it is called Filigree Fantasy. It has so many flourishes with it, that means endless possiblities. I embossed them with black ep on the white cs and white ep on the black cs. I also used this past Wednesday sketch, SC208 at SCS. I used a piece of real red dp from SU and I added a red gem brad to the center. Check out the Jazzy challenge and play along. Upload your creations to the Jazzy blog under the comment thread and if you would like to load your creation to the SCS use the keyword JAZZ02. I can't wait to see what you come up with, enjoy your play time!