So Suzy Stamp of the Month December

This is my last post featuring the So Suzy Stamp of the Month. This month all who subscribed will receive this sentiment stamp plus a bonus stamp AND .... everyone who signed up for the entire year will be receiving a couple of fabulous surprises with December's kits!

Together with all the previous months you'll have a wonderful collection of nautical/coastal themed stamps.

I have two cards for you today because the So Suzy website and store are closing down the second half of December to come back in the new year with a brand new and fabulous new site and store.

On my first card I only used sentiment stamp.

I stamped the sentiment with versamark ink and heat embossed it with WOW earthtone mint embossing powder. The paper is digital paper from this Etsy shop. I thought the waves and arrows pattern fits the sentiment very well.

I've added a few enamel dots and wood veneer arrows. I've painted the wooden arrows in the same colors as the paper.

For my second card I played around with watercolor paints on watercolor paper until I was happy enough with the ocean kind of look. I used a MFT die to cut out the frame.

On a scrap piece of watercolor paper I heat embossed the sentiment using white embossing powder.

I stamped the sand dollar 3 times with brown ink (one is second generations stamping) and fussy cut them.

I've never seen a sand dollar in real live. I don't think they can be found on beaches here in the Netherlands, but I do like them as I love all shells.

I hope you are inspired by my examples with the December stamp of the month.
For more card creations please visit the So suzy stamp of the month facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/sosuzystampofthemonth/   

or the So suzy stamps facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sosuzystamps/.

It's been a real pleasure working with the So Suzy Stamps of the Month this year. Thanks to Suzanne for giving me the chance to be on the So Suzy Design Team!! It was my first DT experience and it's been a wonderful time.

Thanks so much for stopping by. 

Hugs, Henriëtte.

So Suzy Stamp of the Month November II

Today I'm sharing another card I've made with the november So Suzy Stamp of the Month, a beatiful nautilus shell.

For the so suzy stamp of the month club you'll get a stamp in the mail that is "coastal themed" (beach, nautical). The program includes a great mixture of sentiments and images. You can sign up for three months to try it out or sign up for the whole year - regardless of where you are in the world! At the end of the year, you''ll have a great collection of coordinating stamps.

So Suzy Stamp of the Month November

It's time for revealing the So suzy stamp of the month November. This month all subscribers receive this cute shell stamp (I think it's called a nautilus shell).

For the so suzy stamp of the month club you'll get a stamp in the mail that is "coastal themed" (beach, nautical). The program includes a great mixture of sentiments and images. You can sign up for three months to try it out or sign up for the whole year - regardless of where you are in the world! At the end of the year, you''ll have a great collection of coordinating stamps.

So Suzy stamp of the month August

Today I'm sharing two clean and simple cards I've made using the So Suzy Stamp of the Month August.

Here are the two card I made. Both are very easy to make and I used a wooden sailing ship embellishment on both cards. I wanted to be the So Suzy sentiment the main focus.

If you would like to become a member of the So Suzy club, you can sign up for the full year (and you will be send all the stamps from January-July straight away) or you can test the waters and sign up for 3 months. Each month you will receive a stamp in the mail (and sometimes even a bonus stamp!), plus we have a fun, exclusive Facebook group where you will gain inspiration from members and the Design Team plus a video every month done by Justine Hovey. More information on So Suzy stamp of the month club.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!

Hugs, Henriette.

So Suzy stamp of the Month July

Here is another card using the So Suzy Stamp of the Month July.

If you would like to become a member of the So Suzy club, you can sign up for the full year (and you will be send all the stamps from January-July straight away) or you can test the waters and sign up for 3 months. Each month you will receive a stamp in the mail (and sometimes even a bonus stamp!), plus we have a fun, exclusive Facebook group where you will gain inspiration from members and the Design Team plus a video every month done by Justine Hovey. More information on So Suzy stamp of the month club.

The July stamp is a wonderful compass and this time I made a clean and simple card.

Materials used:

So Suzy Stamp of the Month

Sand and white cardstock

Versamark ink

White Embossing powder

Vellum

Varieus dies

Digital paper 

Sequins

Twine

First I stamped the compass stamp on vellum and heat embossed it with white embossing powder.

I used a circle die to cut out a circle,

The digital paper used to cut out two other circles is from Magical Studio on ETSY.

I also cut out a rectangular shape from white cardstock using a MFT dienamic.

I organized the circles and the sequins on the white panel and stamped a little bon voyage sentiment underneath. I do like the little shell sequins, I had them for years and now they came to good use. The twine matches the second circle.

I hope you like it and are inpired by this card.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a wonderful day.

Hugs, Henriette.

Pretty Cute Stamps July Challenge

Today I'm sharing my card(s) as one of the DT member for pretty cute stamps July Challenge "by the sea".

I have used a few of the July Release Stamp sets to create 5 gift/note cards.

All the digital images are colored using photoshop and the sentiments are also placed on the images in this awesome computerprogram (I love working in Photoshop, it's also useful for coloring digital images).

Then all I had to do was to print the finished images on little white cards (about 4 by 3 inch).

I like it how the images are falling off the edge of the cards.

I hope you will join in on the Pretty Cute stamps July Challenge. You have until August 6 to upload your creation and the chance to win a $ 15 gift certificate to spend in the pretty cute stamps store.

Thanks so much for stopping by. 

Hugs, Henriette. 

So Suzy Stamp of the Month July Release

It's the 10th of the month which means the reveal of the So Suzy stamp of the month July.

For the So Suzy Stamp of the Month Club, you'll get a stamp in the mail that is "coastal themed" (beach, nautical). The program includes a great mixture of sentiments and images. You can sign up for three months to try it out or sign up for the whole year - regardless of where you are in the world! At the end of the year, you''ll have a great collection of coordinating stamps.

This month all the subscribers will receive a great compass stamp which can be used in so many different ways.

When I was thinking about a way to use this compass I remembered a wonderful movie I did see a few times called "The Golden Compass". A great fantasy/action movie. I loved it. Too bad there wasn't another sequel.

This movie inspired me to make my card with a golden compass. I wanted to make a gold and blue themed card.

Supplies:

So Suzy Stamps of the month July

Copper cardstock for the cardbase

Blue and gold metallic cardstock

Digital paper from Silvercrystalscouk on Etsy

Versamark

Wow Golden embossingpowder

Distress ink

Star punch (Dutch store HEMA)

First I made the compass using versamark ink and Wow gold embossing powder and a round die to cut out the circle.

I used distress ink to give the paper more ancient look.

I cut out a circle from gold metallic paper and one from copper paper and place all layer on each other.

The background panel of the card is digital paper (I altered the colors abit in Photoshop).

Behind this piece I glued blue metallic cardstock.

I also used a scrap piece of gold metallic paper to punch out little golden stars. The sentiment I typed in Word and printed it on a piece of yellow cardstock and distressed the edges.

It's a very shiny card I hope you can see this on this little movie I made.

You can find much more examples with this great July stamp on the So Suzy Blog and on the two Facebook groups: So Suzy Stamps flaunt it FB group and So Suzy stamp of the month. 

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Hugs, Henriette.

So Suzy Stamp of the Month May

Whoot Whoot, my first blogpost as a Design team member for the So Sozy Stamp of the Month Club.
This month the stamp is a beautiful scene with sailing boats.

For the So Suzy Stamp of the Month Club, you''ll get a stamp in the mail that is "coastal themed" (beach, nautical). The program includes a great mixture of sentiments and images. You can sign up for three months to try it out or sign up for the whole year - regardless of where you are in the world! At the end of the year, you''ll have a great collection of coordinating stamps.
For more information and to join in on all the fun visit the So Suzy Stamp of the month club site.

Here is my first card.

The night sky background I made by blending four colors of Tim Holtz distress inks together and
adding drops of white linen ink spray.

I placed the panel on silver cardstock.

Then I stamped the sailing ship with versamark and used white embossing powder to heat set the image. 

After that I used the same colors distress inks and blended them over the embossed image.

Using my cuttlebug I punched the image out.

On a scrap piece of paper I printed the sentiment which I typed in Word.

Finally I added some white stars and a nautical wheel as embelishments.

My second card is really nautical. Here are the supplies I used.

• So Suzy Stamp May. 
• Neenah Classic crest white card stock
• Metallic red cardstock 
• red foam
• Background paper is from a cardmaking magazine
• Embelishments: felt anchor, blue rope, little blue buttons
• Bon Voyage stamp (is from a local store)
• Mini Misti for stamping the sentiment. 

I used the foam behind the red metallic cardstock to lift it and to make it look like a porthole.

I hope you'll find inspiration from my cards. You can find much more examples from my fellow So Suzy DT members on the So Suzy Blog and on the two Facebook groups: So Suzy Stamps flaunt it FB group  and So Suzy stamp of the month.

Thanks for visiting and I do appreciate all your comments.

Hugs, Henriette.

Anchor

Hi,

Nautical is not really my theme but I had this cute felt/fabric anchor in my stock for a long time and wanted to use it.
It happens that I signed up for the Inspired by Stamping newsletter and there was a free gift: nautical digital paper.
The perfect paper for my sea themed card.

The card is kept clean and simple. I just cut out a few hexagons in different sizes using the nautical paper.
Looked for a nice sentiment and added the anchor.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

craftin desert divas: red white and blue (I hope this is ok, it's not 4th july)

CASology: nautical

always playing with paper: nautical



who is tracy:Monday Mood Board: inspired by the sea

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Henriëtte.

Ahoy, matey!

Ahoy,

I made a card using this month sketch at happy little stampers.

The little pirate is a digital stamp from jelly park.

I did the coloring in Photoshop and printed the digital on the cardstock.

The sentiment I made in Word.

Entering this CAS card in these challenges:

http://www.happylittlestampers.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/hls-november-sketch-challenge.html

http://partytimetuesdays.blogspot.ca/2014/11/ptt-challenge-190-anything-goes-theme.html

http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.nl/2014/11/ttcrd-challenge-nov-18th-24th-2014.html

http://cardmaniachallenges.blogspot.nl/2014/11/cmc60-use-digi_17.html

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day.

Hugs Henriëtte.