Guest Designer Darlene

Hello SweetStamps.com fans!

Darlene from Dar's Crafty Creations is with us again as a Guest Designer!!

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Today's card was created with a fabulous digi named FELICITY.

My daughter is into fitness and is currently training for a triathlon!

A wife, mother, and business owner,  I am so proud of her and thought this image

was perfect to create a card of encouragement for her. 

This is a great example of the variety of digital stamps available

at the Sweet Stamp Store ... please be sure to pop over and check it out for yourself.

Have a fabulous day!

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Please be sure to visit Darlene's Blog and leave her a little love!!

Thank you so much for joining us Darlene!!  We loved your beautiful cards!!!

Happy Stamping!

Guest Designer Darlene

Hello SweetStamps.com fans!

We'd like to give a warm welcome to Darlene from Dar's Crafty Creations!!

She's our next Guest Designer this month!!

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First a little about Darlene:

Hi!  I’m Darlene Pavlick from Akron, Ohio, USA.  My husband, Mark & I are originally from Pittsburgh, PA and that is where our families reside.  We have one daughter who is married with two children, Morgan (23) and Jonathan (18) and has her own accounting business.  She is the one who got me started in paper crafting about 12 years ago.  To make a long story short, once she introduced me to scrapbooking/card making, I’ve been paper crafting every day since.  It is my passion and mental therapy! I am retired, have the basement of our home set up as my ‘crafting cave’ and spend lots of time there spreading my creative wings!  I’ve been blessed to meet so many wonderfully talented people from around the world through this craft and many have become personal friends!

I’m honored to say that I have been on various design teams over the years but currently I am a member of The Sisterhood of Crafters (Originating sister 2010), Dies R Us Inspiration DT, Blog and DT Leader for Dies R Us Challenge Blog (March 2014), Robyn’s Fetish (2015) and a good friend and I just started our own challenge blog in January 2016 called Double D.

Please come visit me at Dar’s Crafty Creations http://www.darscraftycreations.blogspot.com/

Darlene, we are happy to have you as a Guest Designer!!

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Here is Darlene's first project with us:

This sweet digi is called CLAIRE

and, she's all ready for those warmer temperatures

that we are all longing for!!  

I've kept my card pretty simple because I wanted you to see just how fabulous these digital stamps are.  My background was created by simply sponging blue for the sky and green for the grass on a white piece of card stock.  A spring time  frame die cut and a few butterflies help set the scene for CLAIRE.

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Darlene has another card to share with us next Friday as well!!

Happy Stamping!

Guest Designer Tracey

Hello SweetStamps.com fans!

We have Tracey Mowbray from Mowbray Designs joining us again today!!

Be sure to visit her blog and leave some love on her beautiful projects!!

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Here is the card she is sharing with us today:

A lovely step card!!

She used the beautiful Denise Glam Girl Digital Stamp for her card!  Once again, she colored this image so beautifully!! 

Once again she finished up her card, by adding some beautiful flowers!!  We just love those tiny roses!!

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Thanks so much Tracey for joining us and sharing your lovely talent!!

Happy Stamping!

Welcome Guest Designer Tracey

Hello SweetStamps.com fans!

We'd like to give a warm welcome to Tracey Mowbray from Mowbray Designs!!

She's joining us today as a Guest Designer!!  Stay tuned as she will be joining us again next week!!

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First a little about Tracey:

I'm married & have 2 wonderful teenager boys who keep life busy!  I live in Oxfordshire in the UK. And my passion is crafting. I love to take a blank piece of paper or card & make something with it. I love to colour using copics, gel pens & water colours.  Have been papercrafting for over 11 years but have been crafting in one way or another all my life. 

Tracey, we are happy to have you as a Guest Designer!!

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Here is her first beautiful card with us:

She used the adorable Tween Girl Flower Digi Stamp!!

We just love her beautiful coloring of this sweet image!

The added flowers really add the perfect touch!!

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Happy Stamping!

A Snowman Treat

Josette here with another Snowman card.  This cutie is also a digital stamp:  Winter_Treats_Snowman.

 She too was colored with Copic Markers: they are available here: I Heart Paper.

Here she is colored and a listing of the markers used. Zoom in for a better look at the markers.  Visit my blog for a complete listing.
 

Here are 2 closeups after she has been embellished.  Like the previous snowman, glitter was added to the areas and then texture paste was used to create snow.  

Until Next Week,

Happy Crafting

Josette

All supplies are available at:  Sweet Stamps

My blog:  Little Bits

Hot Cocoa and the Snowman

Josette here with another fun snowman card.  This is the from the Digi Stamp Section and is  Winter Treats Snowman #3.

I used copics to color this cutie and then embellished with snow and glitter.   Copic Markers are available here and all the rest of the supplies are here:  Sweet Stamps, glitter, glue and of course the image.

Image without embellishements and markers that were used.

Here are two closeups showing the embellishments.

Thank you for stopping in,
Merry Christmas and Happy Crafting,
Josette
Supplies:
Microfine Glitter:  Red, clear, white, green
Copics:
R:     24,29,59
YG:  05,11,13,25
G:     94
B:     11,14,26
BG    0000
E:      30,31,35
R:      20
C:      00,01

A Snowman for You

Hello,
Thank you for joining me, Josette, for another Sweet Stamp Digital.  This is a sweet image.  There are in fact4 snowman and a tree in this grouping.  For my first card in December I took the tree and one snowman and brought them into photoshop and combined the images.  I will be sharing the rest of the snowmen as we go along through December.

Winter Treats 4 and Funky Christmas Tree.

This finishes as an A-2 card, is basically a flat one layer card and will be easy to mail.  

Image was colored with Copic Markers

This is a view of the coloring before any embellishments were added.  There is white and black gel pens added to this image.  The eyes and the white highlights.

All of the embellishments have been added.  Wink of Stella, Stickles and a little snow.  This was mounted on a green paper mat, a red and white bow added, and then adhered to a White Card Base.

Simple but impressive.  If you need assistance with Digital images and photoshop, drop me a line.  There are also tutorials out there that show how to import and re size digital images.

Thank you for stopping by, 

Merry Christmas and Happy Crafting

Josette

Links: All supplies are available at: Sweet Stamp Shop or at their sister site:  I Heart Paper Art

My Blog: Little Bits