Praying Through

Hello everyone!  Just sharing a card I made for a man at our church who just suffered a stroke.  I'm hoping this card will bring encouragement to him and his wife.  Since I'm hosting the Sketch Challenge today over at Splitcoaststampers, SC541 was used for the design of my card.

Creative Nugget:  This sailboat image from The Sea clear stamp set is perfect for masculine cards and was stamped on watercolor paper using a waterproof ink...Versafine Onyx Black.  The edges were taped down to a cutting board creating a frame around the image.   Kuretake watercolors were brushed onto the dampened paper.  The panel was propped at an angle and enough water was added to the ocean allowing the color to drip down the image, stopping at the taped edge.  Each layer of color was air dried before the next color was added.  The same method was used to apply the colors to the sky, but the panel was left flat to dry, eliminating the drips.  When completely dry, the sentiment from the God is Bigger stamp set was added along with a few black pearls.

Here are the beautiful stamp sets from the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Store 

that were used to create this card:

This card will be submitted for the following challenges:

Splitcoaststampers - SC541

Just Us Girls - #293 Color Challenge

Crafting From the Heart - Challenge 60 Anything Goes

Thanks so much for stopping by…hope you've been inspired by your visit!

Have a wonderfully blessed day!

Hugs,

Cathymac

Just Believe

Hello, Sweet Friends!  Just a quick post with a card to share with you today.  I had an idea for a card which followed the Sketch Challenge from Wednesday over at Splitcoaststampers.  The whole card was finished except for the main panel and when I reached for the stamp set I had in mind to use, realized I did not have that set!  What…a Sweet 'n Sassy stamp set NOT in my collection?  Well…you can be sure I will be taking care of that promptly, but out came two favorite stamp sets to mimic the one I had in mind…Leafy Flourish Background and More and Majestic Monarchs.

Creative Nugget:  The background on the large circle was sponged with Distress Inks and one of the images from Nature Silhouettes was stamped repeatedly across the grass line.  A trail for the butterflies was made with one of the flourishes from the Leafy Flourish Background and More stamp set.  The Majestic Monarchs were colored with Copic Markers and cut with the matching Monarch Dies.  A sentiment from God is Bigger was stamped onto a Mini Tag die cut to finish the card.

The following supplies from the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Store were used for my sample today:

Thanks so much for stopping by…hope you were inspired!

Have a wonderful day!

Hugs,

Cathymac

God is Bigger

Hello, Sweet 'n Sassy friends!  I hope you've been enjoying the January Release Feature Hops!  You're in for a real treat again today.  I love sentiment sets…especially those that remind us of God's ability to take care of any circumstance in which we happen to find ourselves.  This new stamp set does just that…and more!

Welcome to Day 4

Today's feature is

God is Bigger

•Clear stamp set includes 24 sentiments
•Set measures approximately 4" x 6"
•Longest sentiment measures approximately 2/8" x 2.5"
•Designed by Korin Sutherland
•Stamp set - $15

Here is my clean and simple sample for this encouraging stamp set:

Creative Nugget: The inspiration for this card came from a sketch on the Freshly Made Sketches Blog.  Banners were cut from Bo Bunny and Cosmo Cricket designer papers and stitched to the card front.  The sentiment from the God is Bigger stamp set was stamped and attached above the DP banners.  I thought a butterfly was the perfect accent for this sentiment.  Two sizes of the Majestic Monarchs were stamped on sponged card stock, cut with the new Monarch Dies which we will be featuring tomorrow, and layered onto the card.

Check out more fabulous samples made by our talented DT starting on our SNSS Blog.

Be sure to leave a comment on each of the blogs along your journey because we're giving away (5) $15 store credits (1 winner will be chosen from each of the 5 blog hops). 

The deadline to comment for a chance to win is midnight EST Friday, January 17th. The list of winners will be announced on our website homepage by Monday, January, 20th. 

Thanks so much for joining us! 
Enjoy the hop!

Hugs,

Cathymac