Sweet 'n Sassy "Love is in the Air" Blog Hop

Welcome to the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps "Love is in the Air" Blog Hop!! I'm so delighted to be a part of it SNSS's first customer blog hop!! I'm sure there will be lots of fun cards and projects along the way so be sure and start at the beginning HERE and keep going back to see all the new additions throughout the weekend.
So without further ado here is my card:

Ingredients: Stamps: Cocoa (Digital); Paper: Little Yellow Bicycle (Cupcake Love); Card stock: Bazzill and Neenah, bright white; Spellbinders Nestabilities, circle and scallop circles; Cocoa is colored with Copics and I don't have the list of markers my dh bumped into my TV tray this morning and all my markers ended up on the floor (that will teach me to go into the living room and leave my craft table!) Ribbon, Crystal Tiny Twinkles, sentiment stamp (inside) and heart accessories (Taylored Expressions) Finished card A2

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a delightful comment! Have a wonderful Valentines Day and share the love!!

Cup of Tea Anyone?

Hello Delightful friends and family,

SSS#93

Another crazy busy week gone by and I need to sit and have a cup of tea and just take a timeout! And who better to spend time with me but the adorable Cocoa! He is so fun to color and I think coloring with Copics is my therapy that melts the stress away! Of course, I must admit that praying is at the top of the stress reducing remedies so I highly recommend that first and foremost!

Well, I must ask what is your favorite tea? I have many favs but the one at the top of the list is spiced chai by Big Train. It's probably a little sweet for most but something about it just makes me go ahhhhh reeelaaax! It's also wonderful cold with crushed ice and a big dollop of whip cream. Yum! Of course right now I'm all about hot tea, too cold to add any ice! I happen to have a free drink card I need to take advantage of and you guessed it, it will be spiced chai 16 oz. extra hot, nonfat milk and whip cream!! (I know whip cream with the nonfat, why bother!!) You know, I think I'm already starting to relax... ahhhh.

Here's my card which inspired this post! It's another Sweet Stop Sketch and of course Cocoa from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps! I'm too late to post over at the Sweet Stop but couldn't resist sharing this fun creation. Korin the owner of Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps which is one of our partnering companies at Christian Paper Crafts and she is a delight, check out her blog at Rejoicing Every Moment.

I'm still a novice at the Copic coloring but they are a lot of fun to work with - makes me feel like an artist (ha!).

Here are the ingredients:

Paper: Basic Grey, Hopscotch; Card Stock, Bazzill and Neenah; Stamp, Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps, Ink, Palette black; Ribbon, American Crafts; Button, Making Memories; Copic Markers to color; Distress Ink, Worn Lipstick for blending around image; Spellbinders, Nestabilities Deckled Rectangle.

Thanks for visiting now go grab your favorite cup of tea!

Cocoa's Goin' Cupid

Happy Saturday to all my Delight Friends and Family!

Hope you are having an incredible day! I've had a pretty easy day, studied for quite a while and prepared the online Gospel of John Bible Study at Christian Paper Crafts. We are in chapter 10 and looking at the illustration Jesus shares about the Good Shepherd. Fascinating! And I always learn so much and can only put so much down in the post but I've hid it in my heart and I'm sure the Lord will get it poured out of me so I can get filled back up again!! This weeks study will be posted tomorrow evening but if you've not checked it out please head over to CPC and get involved! Love to read the comments and see how God is working in the lives of the readers. Quite a few of the ladies are so good about sharing and it really adds to the study! Be sure and join us and be inspired!

Well Cocoa is at it again! Valentine's Day is just around the corner so he is getting those cards ready to give out to his friends. This adorable image is a digi stamp that I bought at Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps and Cocoa is the sweet creation of owner Korin Sutherland. Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps is one of our Partner Companies that we are so blessed to have at Christian Paper Crafts. Saturday is the Sweet Stop's Sketch challenge day so I grabbed (er.. bought) a couple of the digi's last night and was excited to play along!

Here is this weeks sketch, it's an easy one so if you are new to sketch challenges this would be a great one to try. It definitely gets the creative juices flowing and you'll be surprised with what you end up. I love playing along with the sketches!

(SSS90) I apologize the pic is a little dark, the other pic was better but the "bling" did it's "thing" in the picture!

Here is a list of the ingredients: Designer paper is scraps I had and I'm not sure of the company (sorry! It is a double sided paper however!) polka dots on one side and a flower pattern (click to enlarge if you want to see it!) on the other. The cardstock is Bazzill and Neenah bright white. The ribbon is from my stash also, I'm not much help here! And the bling rhinestones are from Kaiser. I also used my new EK Success border punch, scallop diamonds. Cocoa was colored with Copic Markers.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend! Be sure and get into fellowship with a Bible believing and teaching church and get involved - they need you! Please remember our family I have two grandbabies sick with a fever and cough and a daughter in law with the stomach flu. We also have a few ladies at CPC in need of prayer: Abby, Brenda, Jennipher and Randi are at the top of the list. Thanks so much and I love reading your delightful comments!

Cocoa's Keeping Cozy!

Hello and Happy New Year to all my delightful friends and family!

I love this sketch from Korin at The Sweet Stop! I wish I had not gotten sidetracked and attached my ribbon before placing my circle! I guess my creative juices decided to go a different direction! But I love this sketch (I know I already said that but I really, really do!!) and I really wanted to follow it to the "t" (boo-hoo) so I may just have do another card!

Isn't Cocoa the cutest, I mean for a mouse you just gotta smile! This happens to be a digi image from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps and Korin Sutherland is the illustrator of this darling rodent. Have you EVER used the word darling in a sentence with rodent? This may be a first for me. I have to admit the photo does not do it justice, you may have to click to enlarge to see some of the elements (like the Glossy Accents and the Crystal Tiny Twinkles). Well, thanks for looking and I hope you are keeping cozy in your neck of the woods! You can catch all the ingredients to this card at the end of the post.

Ingredients:

Paper: BoBunny (designer paper); Neenah, bright white card stock, Bazzill cardstock; Stamps: The Greeting Farm (sentiment); Cocoa, digital image from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps; American Crafts ribbon; EK Success, Scallop Diamond border punch, Marvy Uchida, scallop circle punch; Spellbinders, Nestabilities Classic Circle Die; Crystal Tiny Twinkles (Taylored Expressions Key Ingredient Kit); Ink: Palette, black (sentiment) and Copic Markers to color are cute 'n cozy Cocoa!

Be sure and check out and join Christian Paper Crafts. There are lots of great changes and challenges going on over there! We would love for you to join us.

For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another... 1 John 3:11