For the love of kitties!

So my friend Lydia (aka understandblue) and I are having a grand ole time sharing our love of kitties lately, especially on FB. I think most of our friends think we are insane because some days we really do get quite carried away, but it's great fun....and we really ARE crazy, so there ;).

We've been chatting it up about my cat's kittens quite a bit and mostly picking on, if you will, the largest of the four kittens, "Tank". He is a whopper, let me tell you. So, just for giggles, here's one of the more recent pics I posted on her wall...


See??? Great fun :). Who wouldn't love to get a funny kitty pic on their FB wall? Right?

Wanna see how big the kittens are getting? Of course you do! They will be 3 weeks old on Friday. Oh, they grow up so fast! Before you know it, they'll be off to kitty college....*tear*.... ;)

As Lydia would say....Tank's got back!

They are very wobbly but they are trying to walk some now....I am sure I will have LOTS more fun pics to share with you soon ;).

There really isn't much cuter than a kitten....come on, really....admit it :).

Ok, back to business.....as I mentioned in my last post, SCS Virtual Stamp Night was this weekend. Lydia and I participated and got all 17 challenges done! can you believe it!? That's a lot of cards for 2 days! I decided to dedicate this card I made for one of the challenges (Lori Craig's Brand It challenge) to my cat loving friend...so Lydia, this one's for you :).

Stamps: Purrfect Friend (Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps)

Paper: It's the Little Things (Fancy Pants)

Ink: Copics, Memento, Versafine

Accessories: seam binding ribbon, button, hemp, border punch

Tomorrow, I just may have another fun VSN card to share so see ya then!

For the Happy Couple

I'm playing along with the Splitcoast VSN event this weekend and having so much fun!!! I made 5 cards last night and already have a card done this morning :). YAY!!! I made this one for today's Sweet Stop Sketch, the SCS Inspiration challenge and last night's 10pm VSN challenge to use twine. Three challenges in one...pretty crazy, huh?


For my card I used the fun new Happy Days papers from Echo Park and our Love is Like a Tree stamp set.

If you are inside this weekend due to the hurricane storms, why not head over to SCS & The Sweet Stop and join the fun!!

Thanks for stopping by!! Prayers still be lifted for those who are in the path of Hurricane Irene. May God protect you!!

Away in a Manger

Are you ready for Christmas yet? I'm not....but I do like getting a head start on my cards ;).


Every once in a while we release a new stamp set without making a big fuss about it....just a random "surprise" to keep things fun. That was the case for this new set called Away in a Manger which was just added to the store yesterday. I love the detail of the image in this set. It was illustrated by Rachel Zimmerman. She is a local Mennonite woman and her work has such a wholesome feel to it :). As she might say, a "plain people" style.

In honor of this "secret" release I thought it would be fun to make a card with the set so I went to SCS to see what today's challenge was and decided to play along. The challenge is to use something "recycled" on your card. I had to think about that one a bit but then it came to me.....When I am making display boards for our shows I can only use card fronts, so I often cut the backs off of whole cards I want to display. I always save the card backs for future cards like this one. The brown cardstock I used for layering is from a card back.

I didn't want to take from the beautiful image, so I kept this card very simple. I hope you like it. I think it's message is quite clear :).

Thanks for stopping by today! If you are in the path of Hurricane Irene, you are in my prayers!! May God keep you safe from harm's way!

Naught Changeth Thee

Have you been to our new Member Company forum at SCS yet? Taylor is hosting a brand new inspiration challenge every Tuesday and they are fabulous for getting the mojo flowing :).

Here is this week's challenge:

Isn't it awesome?? As I mentioned yesterday, I haven't had a whole lot of time for stamping lately, but this inspiration challenge was calling to me so I sat down last night and whipped up this quick CAS card using Dina's new Season of Change set.


Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you'll play along with our inspiration challenge. Be sure to share in our forum if you do :)!!

Have a blessed day!

Been a tad busy....

I am sure you think I fell off the planet again, but truthfully I just have had no time for blogging and stamping :(. Between our new release and filling all those orders, piano lessons, doctor appointments and school starting again, I am being pulled it many directions.

I wanted to take a quick minute to share some fun pics of those kittens I was telling you about last week....

About 1 day old...

About 2 days old...

About 4 days old..

About 8 days old...

About 10 days old (taken last night)...

You may notice they all have extra toes on their paws....their daddy is polydactyl which means they are, too. Here's an interesting link if you want to learn more about polydactyl cats. :)

Hopefully soon, I will have a card or two to share with you :)....but until then, I hope you enjoyed looking at our little furballs :).

Hugs and blessings,
Korin

August Sweet Peek #8-Season of Change

We've got a couple more fun surprises for you today...have you heard them yet???

First, we are thrilled to welcome the lovely and talented Dina Kowal to the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps team as a stamp illustrator/designer! Dina and I have become great friends over the past year and I am just over the moon about her joining us in this capacity. I am sure you will LOVE what she has to bring to our line :)!

Here is a peek at her very first set designed exclusively for Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps....but please be sure to scroll down, because we have another surprise for you....


And second....we are adding exclusive DIES to our line!! Our first set will include 4 dies which will coordinate with the 4 leaves in this beautiful Season of Change stamp set :).

Our Season of Change Die Set will be available for preorder later tonight after our release party and will sell for $18.50 OR you can grab the stamp set and die bundle for ONLY $30!!
Season of Change dies will begin shipping early September.

Here are a few more snippets of this gorgeous new stamp set....be sure to check out the DT blogs for the full cards. They are fabulous and you won't want to miss them :)!!

by Dina Kowal

by Mary Marsh

by Janette Olen


by Julia Aston

That wraps up our week of Sweet Peeks, but the fun DOES NOT stop there! Join us tonight in our NEW company forum at Splitcoaststampers for a Fabulous Fall Release Party!! We're sharing full reveals, plus we've planned some fun challenges which will give you a chance to win a brand new set from this release :). The party starts at 8pm EST. See you there!!!

August Sweet Peek #7-Peace of God

Happy Sunday to you!! What a great day for sharing today's Sweet Peek....Peace of God...


This new sets features this lovely bird image, a titmouse for those of you who may not recognize it, as well as encouraging sentiments and scriptures that focus on the peace of God.

I paired the image up with some fabulous papers from the Valise line by Memory Box.

Check out the other amazing creations done by some of the DT....

by Jessica Fick

by Mary Marsh

by Neva McMullen

Tomorrow we'll be sharing our final Sweet Peeks plus a couple more BIG announcements :) to be sure to stop back here and the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps blog.

And on a completely different note.....I'm a grandma!!!....ok, well, not exactly ;)....my kitty had her kittens this weekend :).....4 of them....I'll be sharing pics in the days to come so keep checking back :).

One more thing....be sure to stop by our NEW forum at Splitcoaststampers tomorrow.....the forum goes live at 8am EST! And don't forget our release party at 8pm EST :). It's going to be a fun-filled day for sure!!

August Sweet Peek #6-Rhubarb's Autumn Joys

Before I get to today's Sweet Peek.....have you heard the news??

The day has finally arrived.....we've been keeping a secret and it's time to spill the beans :)!!! SQUEEEEE!!!!!

I am sooooo thrilled to announce that Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps is joining Splitcoaststampers as a Member Company!! What a wonderful opportunity!! God is so good to us!

Our company forum opens on Monday, August 15th at 8am EST. I hope you'll stop by and see us! But guess what....the fun doesn't stop there... we've moved our Fabulous Fall Release Party from The Sweet 'n Sassy Connection to our NEW forum at Splitcoaststampers.

The fun starts at 8pm EST on August 15th. We'll be sharing full reveals of our 8 new stamp sets, our Free w/ $50 Stamp of the Month, our fantastic August Kit of the Month plus another fun surprise that hasn't been revealed yet :). Of course, we can't forget the fun challenges hosted by our DT which will give you the opportunity to win some fabulous prizes from our new release. You definitely won't want to miss it! See you there!!

How's that for awesome news? :).....now for that Sweet Peek.....

I am LOVING this adorable new set, Rhubarb's Autumn Joys, and I think you will, too. The images are so much fun to colors and the sentiments are perfect. And guess what....our August Kit of the Month features this set!!

Here is just one of the cards you can make with this awesome kit....


The paper is BoBunny's new fall line, Forever Fall, and it is gorgeous!!! We are selling it in the store now. The kits comes with 12 sheets of this fabulous paper plus lots of other goodies :)....be sure to join us at our release party for the full kit reveal.

See you tomorrow!

August Sweet Peek #5-Autumn Bounty

It's a gorgeous day in PA today.....almost feels like Fall! In fact, I am wearing JEANS! LOL! So what better day to have a Fall Sweet Peek :)?

My card today features our fabulous new Autumn Bounty stamp set. I love all wonderful sentiments that come in this set. And look at that gorgeous paper!! It's called Forever Fall from BoBunny and it's available NOW on our website :)!!

Here are some more fabulous samples from the DT....

by Neva McMullen

by Julia Aston

by Cindy Coutts

I'll be back in a bit with a BIG announcement :)!......

August Sweet Peek #4-Flowers in Bloom

Today's Sweet Peek may be my favorite of all of them. I just love the image and sentiments in this set, Flowers in Bloom. The lovely papers I used for my card are from the Desert Blooms 6x6 pad by First Edition.

I added some pretty lace and ribbon to really give this card a feminine touch :).

Don't forget to check out the rest of the samples below.....they are gorgeous!

by Bridget Finlay

by Taylor Usry

by Harriet Skelly

by Kim Schofield

See you tomorrow with another fabulous Sweet Peek!

August Sweet Peek #3-Fall Time Cocoa

He's baaaaack! Did you miss him? I know some of you have ;).

Today's Sweet Peek is our new Fall Time Cocoa stamp set. If you love Cocoa and you love Fall, you will LOVE this set :).


I paired him up with some fun new papers from American Crafts. Don't you just love that sweet sentiment :)?

Be sure to stop by these fabulous blogs for more inspiration!

by Jessica Fick

by Sandy Domelle

by Harriet Skelly

by Lorie Ames

See you tomorrow! I can't wait to share the next peek with you!

August Sweet Peek #2-Many Thanks

It's day #2 of the Sweet 'n Sassy Sweet Peeks and today I am happy to share with you a brand new sentiment set called Many Thanks. This set is perfect for letting someone know just how much you appreciate them. Being thankful isn't just for the Fall season....we have so many reasons to be thankful the whole year through.



A fun way to use sentiment stamps is to use them to create your own patterned paper as I did with one of the sentiment stamps along the side of my card base above. From there I added my Chapter One Kaiser Kraft DP on top. I also used a fun die cut that came with the paper pad to frame my sentiment.

Here are two more DT sample snippets....check out the blogs below for the full projects.

by Lorie Ames

by Cindy Coutts

See you tomorrow with another Fabulous Fall Sweet Peek :)!

Let the Sweet Peeks begin!

I am so excited to about this month's release and the fun surprises we have in store for you!

Today we are sharing a gorgeous new set called Autumn Leaves. It features 4 beautiful leaf images and 2 lovely Autumn sentiments. It's a set you will be reaching for again and again!


For my card I am showing you just how quickly you can whip up a card with this set. You know how much I love layers so this card is really a different kind of card for me, but even a one layer card can be beautiful :). I simply stamped the leaf images, and the sentiment on kraft CS and colored the leaves with chalks (can you believe it?? no Copics!!) and viola!

Thanks for stopping by today. I sure hope you'll take a few minutes to check out the SNSS blog for more information about this set and don't miss the other fabulous peeks the DT has for you....how about a couple teasers to whet your appetite...

by Bridget Finlay

by Taylor Usry

by Kim Schofield

Stop back tomorrow for another fabulous peek at a new set!

Old Becomes New

I'm a day late with this post due to another busy week and I do apologize. The Sweet Stop sketch this week is a super simple one that lends well to almost any image. In fact, I went with a different approach and used a sentiment with a offset image. I hope you'll grab the sketch and join the rest of the Sugar Babies this week. We can't wait to see what you make!

For my card I used the New Creature stamp set (also available as a digi) and Valise papers from Memory Box. I actually colored the butterfly with CHALKS! Can you believe it, no COPICS? I know, it's amazing isn't it ;)? I wanted to stick with a softer look so I think the chalks helped me achieve that.

Thanks for stopping by today. Be sure to check back everyday this week. The Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Sweet Peeks begin tomorrow and we have some amazing new sets to share with you :). I can't wait!! Our Release Party is scheduled for August, 15th at 8pm EST. There is some big news coming with this release....you won't want to miss it :)!!!

Happy Sunday!!