Sassy & Sweet Notes

Impression Obsession: Designer Hop Day 4

Welcome to day 4 (of 5) the 2014 Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Release Blog Hop! The IO designers are sharing projects made with beautiful new stamps, and gift certificates given away each day. Yay!

The card I'm sharing today features Pumpkin Pair, Bountiful Blessings, and the Happy Thanksgiving sentiment. Click on the image for a larger view!

I stamped the image on watercolor paper in walnut Distress Ink, and painted the image with various colors of watercolor pigment. Once the image was painted and the paper dry, I stamped both sentiments in varying shades of brown Distress Ink.

 

Blog Hop Details:
The hop will start each day with a list of participants on the Impression Obsession Blog at 6am EST. Each day, visit the Impression Obsession blog. Then, hop along to see participating IO Design Team projects. Leave one comment on each blog you visit. The more blogs you visit (and comment on) each day, the better chance you will have to win a $25 Impression Obsession Gift Certificate.

Every day (Monday, July 28th – Friday, August 1st) one of the participating blogs will be chosen randomly and a winner will be selected from comments on that blog at 10pm CT. The winner will be announced the following day on the Impression Obsession blog, along with the participating blogs for that day.

Two prizes will be awarded on the last day of the hop. One will be for Thursday’s comments and another will be chosen from all the comments left throughout the week. So, if you miss a day or time deadline your comments will still count for a chance to win a $25 Impression Obsession Gift Certificate. Both Thursday winners will be announced on the Impression Obsession blog on Friday.

Both Friday winners will be announced on the IO Blog on Saturday, August 2nd.

All of the new stamps you'll be seeing on the hop are available now! Visit the Impression Obsession website for details.

Today’s hop list!

Impression Obsession Blog
Anna Wight ---You Are Here---
Daniela Dobson
Dina Kowal
Jeanne Streiff
Jenny Gropp
Karen Amidon
Kittie Caracciolo
Laura Fulcher
Vicki Garrett

 

 

Impression Obsession: Designer Hop Day 3

Welcome to day 3 (of 5) the 2014 Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Release Blog Hop! The IO designers are sharing projects made with beautiful new stamps, and gift certificates given away each day. Yay!

The card I'm sharing today features April, a sweet little girl image that is very fun to color. Click on the image for a larger view!

I stamped the image in black Memento ink, and colored the image with ShinHan Touch Twin markers.

 

Blog Hop Details:
The hop will start each day with a list of participants on the Impression Obsession Blog at 6am EST. Each day, visit the Impression Obsession blog. Then, hop along to see participating IO Design Team projects. Leave one comment on each blog you visit. The more blogs you visit (and comment on) each day, the better chance you will have to win a $25 Impression Obsession Gift Certificate.

Every day (Monday, July 28th – Friday, August 1st) one of the participating blogs will be chosen randomly and a winner will be selected from comments on that blog at 10pm CT. The winner will be announced the following day on the Impression Obsession blog, along with the participating blogs for that day.

Two prizes will be awarded on the last day of the hop. One will be for Thursday’s comments and another will be chosen from all the comments left throughout the week. So, if you miss a day or time deadline your comments will still count for a chance to win a $25 Impression Obsession Gift Certificate. Both Thursday winners will be announced on the Impression Obsession blog on Friday.

Both Friday winners will be announced on the IO Blog on Saturday, August 2nd.

All of the new stamps you'll be seeing on the hop are available now! Visit the Impression Obsession website for details.

Today’s hop list!

Impression Obsession Blog
Anna Wight ---You Are Here---
Daniela Dobson
Dina Kowal
Jeanne Streiff
Jenny Gropp
Karen Amidon
Kittie Caracciolo
Laura Fulcher
Vicki Garrett

 

 

High Hopes Challenge: Christmas in July

It's Tuesday, and time for a new High Hopes blog challenge! Christmas in July is our theme this week, so pull out your High Hopes images, and join us!

Find all the details of this week's challenge on the High Hopes blog. I hope you join us!

 

Supplies
Stamp: High Hopes Stamps
Ink: Memento Black
Paper: Neenah, Simple Stories Handmade Holiday
ShinHan Touch Twin markers
Other: EK Snowflake punch, button, twine, tracing wheel

Impression Obsession: Designer Hop Day 2

Welcome to day 2 (of 5) the 2014 Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Release Blog Hop! The IO designers are sharing projects made with beautiful new stamps, and gift certificates given away each day. Yay!

The card I'm sharing today features Scarecrow, a wonderful image with lots of line detail. Click on the image for a larger view!

I stamped the image in black Memento ink, and colored the image with ShinHan Touch Twin markers. The card stock behind the image is stamped with Witch's Chant, a really cool text background for all your spooky fall or Halloween projects!

 

Blog Hop Details:
The hop will start each day with a list of participants on the Impression Obsession Blog at 6am EST. Each day, visit the Impression Obsession blog. Then, hop along to see participating IO Design Team projects. Leave one comment on each blog you visit. The more blogs you visit (and comment on) each day, the better chance you will have to win a $25 Impression Obsession Gift Certificate.

Every day (Monday, July 28th – Friday, August 1st) one of the participating blogs will be chosen randomly and a winner will be selected from comments on that blog at 10pm CT. The winner will be announced the following day on the Impression Obsession blog, along with the participating blogs for that day.

Two prizes will be awarded on the last day of the hop. One will be for Thursday’s comments and another will be chosen from all the comments left throughout the week. So, if you miss a day or time deadline your comments will still count for a chance to win a $25 Impression Obsession Gift Certificate. Both Thursday winners will be announced on the Impression Obsession blog on Friday.

Both Friday winners will be announced on the IO Blog on Saturday, August 2nd.

All of the new stamps you'll be seeing on the hop are available now! Visit the Impression Obsession website for details.

Today’s hop list!

Impression Obsession Blog
Anna Wight ---You Are Here---
Daniela Dobson
Dina Kowal
Jeanne Streiff
Jenny Gropp
Karen Amidon
Kittie Caracciolo
Laura Fulcher
Vicki Garrett

 

CardMaker and The Stamps of Life Designer Hop

Today I am participating in the CardMaker Magazine and The Stamps of Life designer blog hop! The CardMaker Designers and The Stamps of Life Designers have teamed up to show you projects featuring stamps from The Stamps of Life.

My card features images from several stamp sets including Froggy2Love,Tea4Two, Spooky2Scare, Gum4Backgrounds, and dies from the Birthday4Cookie, Froggy2Love, and the Sizzix Snowglobe stamp/die set, by Stephanie Barnard.

Blog Hop Details:
Visit and comment on each of the blogs participating in today's hop. One winner will be randomly chosen to win 3 stamp sets of their choice ($12.95 value or less)!  The winner will be chosen July 31^st and announced on The Stamps of Life Blog on August 1^st.

Now, get yourself a good dose of inspiration and check out the other designer projects!

Hop List:

CardMaker Magazine

Tiffany Johnson

Emily Niehaus

Theresa Momber

Joana Studer

Frances Byrne

Jeanne Jachna

Vanessa Buzard

Kristine Reynolds

Penny Ward

Tanya Adams

Anna Wight ---You Are Here---

Noelle McAdams

Jeanne Streiff

Mae Nazareth

Kim Pargeter

Judy Rozema

Piali Biswas

The Stamps of Life blog

 

Impression Obsession: Designer Hop Day 1

Welcome to day 1 (of 5) the 2014 Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Release Blog Hop! Over the next 5 days the IO designers are sharing projects made with beautiful new stamps, and gift certificates given away each day. Yay!

The card I'm sharing today features Winter Scene 1, a beautiful cabin set in a wooded area. Click on the image for a larger view!

This is such a fun image to use, as you really could represent every season just by changing the colors you use. I stamped the image in a brown Distress Ink, and added various colors of watercolor pigment to color the scene. I also sponged brown ink under the trees for shadow, and sponged around the distressed edges of the card stock with Distress Ink. I used French Script to lightly stamp over the image for visual interest, and added the beautiful Love Joy sentiment.

 

Blog Hop Details:
The hop will start each day with a list of participants on the Impression Obsession Blog at 6am EST. Each day, visit the Impression Obsession blog. Then, hop along to see participating IO Design Team projects. Leave one comment on each blog you visit. The more blogs you visit (and comment on) each day, the better chance you will have to win a $25 Impression Obsession Gift Certificate.

Every day (Monday, July 28th – Friday, August 1st) one of the participating blogs will be chosen randomly and a winner will be selected from comments on that blog at 10pm CT. The winner will be announced the following day on the Impression Obsession blog, along with the participating blogs for that day.

Two prizes will be awarded on the last day of the hop. One will be for Thursday’s comments and another will be chosen from all the comments left throughout the week. So, if you miss a day or time deadline your comments will still count for a chance to win a $25 Impression Obsession Gift Certificate. Both Thursday winners will be announced on the Impression Obsession blog on Friday.

Both Friday winners will be announced on the IO Blog on Saturday, August 2nd.

All of the new stamps you'll be seeing on the hop are available now! Visit the Impression Obsession website for details.

Today’s hop list!

Impression Obsession Blog
Anna Wight ---You Are Here---
Daniela Dobson
Dina Kowal
Jeanne Streiff
Jenny Gropp
Karen Amidon
Kittie Caracciolo
Laura Fulcher
Vicki Garrett

 

Celebrate Today

Yay for weekends! I ran up to the grocery store this morning, then came home and took a nice, long nap. A much needed nap!

And I thought I'd share this cute little "celebrate today" card. For the layout of my card I used mini templates from Kiwi Lane Designs and papers from the On the Go line from The Paper Loft.

Hope you celebrated a little today! Even with something as simple as a nap!

 

Supplies
Stamp: Cheers to You cling mount set from Whipper Snapper Designs; Stampin' Up!
Ink: Memento Black
ShinHan Touch Twin markers
Paper: Neenah, The Paper Loft
Other: Thoughtful Template (Kiwi Lane Designs), thread, tracing wheel

Poodle Gift Bag

I have this fun 1950's inspired scalloped handle gift bag featured on the Sizzix blog today! Check it out!

A Friday Goose

Thank goodness it's Friday ..... this calls for a little celebration!

Happy Friday!!

 

Supplies
Stamps: Loosie Goosie by me, at Whipper Snapper Designs!
Ink: Memento Black
Dies: Spellbinders Circle and Scalloped Circle
ShinHan Touch Twin markers
Paper: Neenah, Bazzill, Paper Accents

Finger Print Stamping

My friend Jeanne hosted a fun Mix-Ability challenge on SplitCoastStampers earlier this month, and I never shared my project with you! The idea behind the Mix-Ability Challenge is to make mixed media simple and approachable, and to let you experiment using things you already have. Each Friday a new challenge is hosted, but there is no time limit, so you can participate whenever you'd like on each challenge.

The challenge Jeanne posted was MIX76 Finger Painting, and I kind of regressed to my childhood when I created this card. I quite literally inked up my thumb and fingers and stamped them onto my card stock. Then with a fine line drawing pen added character details to the prints and sketched in some bits of grass. Oh yes, yippeee, yahooo, this was certainly fun!

Visit the SplitCoastStampers Mix-Ability Challenge forum to find out more about the weekly challenges -- the challenges are very fun, very do-able, and I hope you decide to join us!

 

Supplies
Stamps: Everyday Sentiments cling mount set from Whipper Snapper Designs
Ink: Jet Black StazOn, Distress Inks
Dies: The Stamps of Life
ShinHan Touch Twin markers
Paper: Neenah

Winner!! I Love You S'More and S'More!

 
THANK YOU to everyone who entered the drawing for the S'more Love stamp set!

I always love reading your comments, and the comments for your entries for this give-away were all just as wonderful as usual.

I used Random.org to generate a number between 1-31 ...

...and the winning number is 29!

Big congrats go to Troy Louise! Here's what Troy had to say:

Troy, I will be sending you the stamp set, along with a few other assorted goodies!

Thanks for participating!

PS: This give-away was not sponsored by Cosmo Cricket. All the love comes from me. *grin*

High Hopes Challenge: Blue & Green

It's Tuesday, and time for a new High Hopes blog challenge! Blue/Green/White/Cream is our theme this week, so pull out your High Hopes images, and join us!

Find all the details of this week's challenge on the High Hopes blog. I hope you join us!

 

Supplies
Stamp: Duckie Flying Kite by High Hopes Stamps; sentiment from Inkadinkado
Ink: Memento Black
Paper: Neenah, Bazzill
ShinHan Touch Twin markers
Other: Tombow Mono Multi Glue

I Love You S'More and S'More!

I recently purchased a Cosmo Cricket papercrafting kit, and one of the items in the kit was this wicked cute "campy" themed cling mount stamp set. Lucky for one of you, since I already own this stamp set, I thought I'd do a little give-away!

Comment on this post as to why YOU would like to receive this stamp set from me. I will use random generator to select one person's comment, and that one person will receive this stamp set from me.... along with a few other non-disclosed goodies. *grin* I will select the name at 6:00pm Central US time, Tuesday July 22nd.

Comment away!

UPDATE: Comments closed! :)

Garden Buzz

Happy Monday!

 

Supplies
Stamps: Garden Buzz and Cheers to You from Whipper Snapper Designs
Ink: Memento Black
Paper: Neenah, DCWVShinHan Touch Twin markers
Other: Paper Doily, Pink Bakers Twine, Tracing Wheel, Stickles Glitter Glue

We Are Hilarious!

I recently purchased a new stamp set from Art Impressions, which features these two knee-slappin' laughing ladies and several cute sentiments. The set seemed like a must-have, considering all the funny girls in my life! I think this set is going to see a lot of ink. *grin*

I stamped the image of the ladies in black Memento ink on cream card stock and colored them with ShinHan Touch Twin markers. The cute designer paper is from the Cosmo Cricket Tea for Two 6x6 pad.

I created a sentiment spot using a label die from My Favorite Things. Once everything was colored, I lightly inked the edges of all layers using Antique Linen Distress Ink. I added a cute mother of pearl button and a twine bow for decoration.

Happy Friday!! Ooooh, I'm so glad it's Friday!!

 

Supplies
Stamp: Laughing by Art Impressions
Ink: Memento Black, Distress Inks
ShinHan Touch Twin markers
Paper: Neenah, Cosmo Cricket

Make a Splash on your Birthday

I have this fun card featured on the Sizzix blog today! Check it out!

Impression Obsession: Nautical/Beach

A new challenge is being shared today on the Impression Obsession Blog, and I hope you join the fun! The challenge is Nautical/Beach. Pull out your creativity, and join us! For this week's challenge, I chose to create a card a bit more on the rugged side. Roped Ship is stamped on kraft card stock and colored with Touch Twin markers. I stamped Beauty Text on the card base, in Distress Ink, purposely making the stamp impression less than perfect. I inked the edges of the card base and the stamped image. Pretty quick and easy!

Find all the details on how to enter the challenge on the Impression Obsession Blog. A random challenge entry will be selected to showcase on the IO blog and you can to enter to win a $25 gift certificate to IO just by playing!

Now, get ready for a wonderful dose of inspiration and check out what the other team members created for the challenge. Have fun!!

Anna Wight (that's me!)
Daniela Dobson
Dina Kowal
Jeanne Streiff
Jenny Gropp
Karen Amidon
Kittie Caracciolo
Laura Fulcher
Vicki Garrett
Impression Obsession Blog

 

Supplies
Stamp: Roped Ship and Beauty Text by Impression Obsession
Ink: Memento Black, Distress Inks
ShinHan Touch Twin markers
Paper: Neenah

Ladybug

Just a cute little 4x4 notecard, made for a friend's dog who is celebrating a big milestone event. Her name is Ladybug... and she's adorable.

Supplies
Stamps: Penny Black and StudioG
Dies: Spellbinders Circle, Pinked Circle, and Scalloped Circle
Ink: Distress Inks
Paper: Fabriano 100% Cotton Cold Press Watercolor paper; Neenah
Other: Paper Flower, Hemp Twine, Flat Back Pearls, Niji Waterbrush

High Hopes Challenge: Outdoors

It's Tuesday, and time for a new High Hopes blog challenge! Outdoors is our theme this week, so pull out your High Hopes images, and join us!

For my card I chose to use Henriettas Backside and Sm Sunnie, along with patterned paper from Bazzill, Neenah, and the Sunnyside Pebbles 6x6 pad. The images are colored with ShinHan Touch Twin markers.

Find all the details of this week's challenge on the High Hopes blog. I hope you join us!

 

Supplies
Stamp: High Hopes Rubber Stamps, Whipper Snapper Designs (Sweet Expressions cling mount set)
Ink: Memento Black
Paper: Neenah, Bazzill, Pebbles
ShinHan Touch Twin markers
Other: Tombow Mono Multi Glue, Spellbinders Circle die, MFT Scalloped die and label die, brad

Final Big Harvest

I shared these images on FB earlier this weekend, but thought I'd post them here on the blog, too. I harvested probably the last of the garden produce this weekend. Lots of acorn squash (which are what grew from the seeds that were packed in a store bought white scalloped squash seed packet!), a few small butternut squash, and even a few bush buttercup squash. Some yellow squash, a few more zucchini..... and slicing cucumbers.

Aside from yellow pear tomatoes, most everything else is being taken over by heat, and/or grasshoppers. It's always sad when the spring garden gets pulled out.

But the end of the garden does mean that we're just that much closer to fall and winter, my favorite seasons! Although, I must say, spring is the most enjoyable season here in Texas, with the wildflowers in bloom.

Hope your gardens are coming along, and providing you with yummy foods to eat!

Summertime Sandals

We are about to get our first triple digit day, and it really makes me wish for a day at the beach. Any beach.

And I think the seastar die from The Stamps of Life is just about the cutest seastar shape I've seen.

 

Supplies
Stamps: The Stamps of Life
Ink: Jet Black StazOn, Distress Inks
Paper: The Stamps of Life, Neenah, American Crafts, Bazzil
Dies: Sandal Dies from The Stamps of Life
ShinHan Touch Twin markers: YR32, YR23, R136, P88, RP291
Other: tracing wheel, flat back pearls

Rrrraaaaawwwwrrrr!

I love this bear. He is one of my all-time favorites, and I'm so glad he's been sitting on my desk for the past few weeks. He was included in the Campy Matchbook Notebook project I did a few weeks ago, and was calling out to me as I was playing with The Great Outdoors paper line from The Paper Loft. Imagine a hug from him! Jeepers!

For the layout of my card, I used mini templates from Kiwi Lane Designs. I saw them recently at a convention near Dallas that I attended. I liked the fun wavy lines of the Thoughtful templates, which turned out to be great for creating whimsical scenes!

Now come on, gimme a hug! *grin*

 

Supplies
Stamp: Under the Stars (Stampin' Up!)
Ink: Distress Ink, Memento Black
ShinHan Touch Twin markers
Paper: Neenah, The Paper Loft
Other: Thoughtful Template (Kiwi Lane Designs), hemp twine, button, tracing wheel

High Hopes Challenge: Anything High Hopes Goes

It's Tuesday, and time for a new High Hopes blog challenge! Anything High Hopes Goes is our theme this week, so pull out your High Hopes images, and join us!

For my card I chose to use Lucy's Lambs along with patterned paper from the Herbs & Honey BasicGrey 6x6 pad -- so cute! The image is colored with ShinHan Touch Twin markers.

Find all the details of this week's challenge on the High Hopes blog. I hope you join us!

 

Supplies
Stamp: Lucy's Lambs from High Hopes Rubber Stamps
Ink: Memento Black
Paper: Neenah, BasicGrey
ShinHan Touch Twin markers
Other: Tracing Wheel, Tombow Mono Multi Glue, May Arts Ribbon, Spellbinders Circle and Pinked Circle dies, MFT tab die, BasicGrey brad

Happy Hello!

Sometimes it's just nice to send a happy hello.

This card features my Inkin' Cute image, from Whipper Snapper Designs. And, a sentiment from the Everyday Sentiments cling mount set.

A happy hello to you!

 

Supplies
Stamps: Inkin' Cute and the Everyday Sentiments cling mount set from Whipper Snapper Designs
Dies: Spellbinders Circle and Petite Scalloped Circle dies
Ink: Memento Black
ShinHan Touch Twin markers
Paper: Neenah, Garden Party by Pebbles
Other: SEI pearl brad, tracing wheel

The Challenge Chicks: Halloween in July

If you're a stamper and you like challenges, or you're new to the idea of challenges and want to give one a whirl, I invite you to participate with The Challenge Chicks! We're a small group of friends and stampers hosting monthly challenges. Won't you join us?!

Our challenge for July 2014 has been issued by me! The challenge topic is Halloween in July. I was tempted to issue a Christmas in July challenge, but that's been done. Everywhere. So, why not give a little love to Halloween!? (You can do fall/autumn if you don't do Halloween cards...)

For my card I used the Rickety House and Branch Tree Sizzix Bigz dies. I die cut the house and tree from black card stock. Behind the die cut shapes is a piece of watercolor paper that I painted/smooshed with various colors of Distress Ink. I also randomly stamped a Halloween sentiment on the background, from my Spooky Expressions cling mount set from Whipper Snapper Designs.

The ghost on the card is from my Happy Haunting cling mount set from Whipper Snapper Designs. He is stamped on Neenah card stock, colored with Touch Twin markers, cut out, and adhered to the card with foam adhesive. A fun mix of cute and spooky.... just how I like Halloween.

Now, get yourself a good dose of inspiration and check out the rest of The Challenge Chicks projects:

Diane Zechman
Lydia Fiedler
Jeanne Streiff
Kelli Hull
Kelly Schirmer
Anna Wight (that's me!)

You'll find this month's challenge gallery on SplitCoastStampers using keyword CHXJUL14. We invite you to play along! Upload your project to your SplitCoastStampers gallery, add the keyword above, and your project will be automatically added to the gallery. Or join us on Facebook!

We look forward to seeing your projects!

Supplies
Stamps: Happy Haunting and Spooky Expressions cling mount sets from Whipper Snapper Designs
Dies: Rickety House and Branch Tree Sizzix Bigz
Ink: Distress Inks
ShinHan Touch Twin markers
Paper: Fabriano 100% Cotton Cold Press Watercolor paper; Neenah
Other: Gingham Ribbon, Niji Waterbrush

Impression Obsession: Colors of Summer

A new challenge is being shared today on the Impression Obsession Blog, and I hope you join the fun! The challenge is Colors of Summer. Pull out your creativity, and join us! In addition to the new challenge, we're also welcoming a new designer to the team - Karen Amidon! You are sure to be inspired by her creativity!

For the Colors of Summer challenge, I chose to create a watercolored card featuring this group of coneflowers. These flowers remind me so much of summertime meadows in northeastern Washington and north Idaho. Meadows there are always decorated with clusters of beautiful white daisies, and they are always so pretty.

Instead of painting the flowers yellow like coneflowers, I decided to paint them like daisies letting the colors mix and blend on the paper.  I stamped the image in StazOn ink and painted it with various colors of Distress Ink. Once the image was painted, I added splatters of color, and splatters of watered down gesso.

Find all the details on how to enter the challenge on the Impression Obsession Blog. A random challenge entry will be selected to showcase on the IO blog and you can to enter to win a $25 gift certificate to IO just by playing!

Now, get ready for a wonderful dose of inspiration and check out what the other team members created for the challenge. Have fun!!

Anna Wight (that's me!)
Daniela Dobson
Dina Kowal
Ellen Taylor
Jeanne Streiff
Jenny Gropp
Karen Amidon
Kittie Caracciolo
Laura Fulcher
Impression Obsession Blog

 

Supplies
Stamp: Coneflowers by Impression Obsession
Dies: Spellbinders Grand Nestabilities Oval and Scalloped Oval
Paper: Fabriano 100% Cotton Cold Press Watercolor paper; Neenah
Other: Gingham Ribbon

High Hopes Challenge: Baby/Kiddo

It's Tuesday, and time for a new High Hopes blog challenge! Baby/Kiddo is our theme this week, so pull out your High Hopes images, and join us!

For my card I chose to use Krissy's Snuggle Bear, along with patterned paper from the Storytime (girl) 6x6 pad line from Studio Calico.

Find all the details of this week's challenge on the High Hopes blog. I hope you join us!

 

Supplies
Stamp: Krissy's Snuggle Bear from High Hopes Rubber Stamps
Ink: Memento Black
Paper: Neenah, Stampin' Up, Studio Calico
ShinHan Touch Twin markers
Other:Tracing Wheel, Tombow Mono Multi Glue, paper flowers, flat back pearls and gems, Spellbinders Circle and Scalloped Circle dies