SHOPPING OUR STASH #304 - Music Notes

Hi there and welcome!

This week at SHOPPING OUR STASH,

we want to see musical themed items on your projects.

Here is my card:

 and the inside:

Ok, so I saw Guardians of the Galaxy 2 last week, and that may have given 

me the idea for my card. LOL! I stamped and fussy cut a rainbow mix of 

cassette tapes, writing 'Awesome Mix 1 or 2' on them. Added some music note brads

that I've had in my stash forever, and finished the inside.

I hope you get a chance to play along this week at Shopping Our Stash! We'd

love to see your take on our musical themed challenge!

Thanks for visiting!

Hugs,

Supplies:

Stamps: Paper Smooches - BeBoppin, Hullabaloo

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

CS: TE; scraps

Accessories: STAMPlorations - Crazy double running stitch rect nesting die; MISTI; OTC- music

note brads; Faber Castell - black Artist PITT pen

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner; Scotch foam tape

JUST US GIRLS #394 - Color Week

Good morning friends!

It's Color Week at JUST US GIRLS!

Judy is hosting and she's picked Lime Green, Turquoise, and Navy

for your color pallet.

Here's my card:

These colors just said ocean scene to me, so that's what I made. ☺

I hope that you get a chance to play along this week at Just Us Girls!

For more ideas, check out what my teammates and our Guest Designer,

Kathie Durgan have created. 

Thanks for visiting, I hope you have a great day!

Hugs,

Supplies:

Stamps: Paper Smooches - Slang Gang

Ink: Memento - Nautical Blue; Ranger DI - Peacock Feathers

CS: TE, scraps

Accessories: Slice die cutter & Under the Sea cartridge; MISTI; Simon Says Stamp - Waves stencil; Fiskars corner rounder

Adhesives: SA by 3L - Thin foam squares

SHOPPING OUR STASH #303 - Project Runway

Hello and good morning crafty peeps!

This week at 

SHOPPING OUR STASH,

we want you to create something using 

FABRIC!

It could be actual fabric, fabric tape, or fabric embellishments.

I dug into my ancient stash of fabric and use some on my card:

I took a small piece of water color paper, covered it with matte medium and added 

the scrap of fabric onto it, smoothing it out as much as possible.

After it was completely dried, I cut it to size using pinking shears,

matted it onto some red card stock, wrapped some twine around it and

adhered it to my card base with foam squares.

I hope you get some time this week to play along at Shopping Our Stash!

We'd love to see your take on our challenge!

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs,

I'd like to enter this at Case This Sketch #221

Supplies:

Stamps: MFT - More Essential Sentiments

Ink: VersaMark

CS: TE; Bazzill; Strathmore water color paper

Accessories: Fabric from my stash; Golden - Matte Medium; Fiskars - pinking shears; Stampendous -

Champagne EP; heat gun; MISTI; Doodlebug - twine

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, Thin 3D foam squares

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS # 84 H is for Hatching, Matching, and Dispatching

(Sister Lee is absolutely brilliant with her graphics!!)

Hello snarky friends.
For the next two weeks at the
SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS,
we want to see your baby cards (hatching), wedding cards (matching),
or your sympathy cards (dispatching).
Clever, huh? And: choices!!

Here's my card:

I needed another pet sympathy card, and I found this card on Pinterest. Thank you!

Another fur baby in my family has crossed the rainbow bridge. This time

my other sister's dog, Max. He was a shih tzu who lived to the ripe old age of 16!

Miss you Max. But I know you are having fun playing with Sonny and Sabrina.
Much hugs,

Supplies:

Stamps: Paper Smooches - Paws for a Cause, Good Gab

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

CS: Taylored Expressions

Accessories: Slice die cutter & Paws and Claws cartridge; GC; SB - Scalloped Heart Nesties; MISTI

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner

JUST US GIRLS #393 Trend Week

Hello crafty friends!

Sue is hosting Trend Week at

JUST US GIRLS,

and she wants you to create a background using any type of ink

you have, be that Distress Inks or Oxides, or any dye inks or sprays.

Here's my card:

 and the inside:

I haven't jumped onto the Distress Oxide bandwagon yet, as I still have plenty of

the Distress Inks to play with, and that's what I used, doing the smooshing technique.

After it was completely dry, I used my MISTI to stamp the image and sentiment multiple

times to get a dark coverage.* I still felt it needed something, so I tinted some crackle embossing

paste with dark chocolate acrylic paint and applied it to opposite corners. 

Once that dried, the panel was framed with dark brown cs and adhered 

to the card base with foam tape. 

Ready to play along? Of course you are! Simply link up at Just Us Girls

so we can admire it! If you need more ideas, please check out the amazing

creations that my teammates and our Guest Designer, Kathie Durgan

have made, and leave them some bloggy lovin!

Thanks for visiting!

Hugs,

* Pay no attention to the fact that I forgot to ground the image with a shadow. Ugh!

I'd like to enter this at the Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #36 - put a stamp on it

Supplies:

Stamps: Viva Las Vegas Stamps - hippo racer; Unity Stamps - sentiments

Ink: Ranger DI - Iced Spruce, Shabby Shutters, Brushed Corduroy, Gathered Twigs; 

Memento - Tuxedo Black

CS: Darice

Accessories: GC; Avery Elle - Pierced Rect. die; MISTI; Dreamweaver - Crackle Embossing

Paste; Deco Art - Americana Dark Chocolate Acrylic paint; water mister; paintbrush

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner; Scotch foam tape

SHOPPING OUR STASH #302 - Put a Button On It

Hello crafty peeps!

This week at

SHOPPING OUR STASH,

we want to see buttons on your cards or projects.

Pretty simple, huh?

Here's my take on the challenge:

and the inside:

Ok, so I only put one button on my card. But, it came from the collection of 

buttons that my Mom gave to me years ago. And she got the collection from

my Grandmother. Back in the day, they would salvage any buttons

that they could from coats/hats/pants/shirts/etc. So I find it nice to think that

this particular button came from a coat that my Aunt Jo 

had from when she was 13 years old. 

It's a comforting thought. ☺

Now it's your turn to break out those buttons and use them! Just link up to

Shopping Our Stash so we can admire your creations! For more

ideas, be sure to visit the blogs of my teammies and while there, leave

them some love! Thanks for visiting, have a great day!

Hugs,

I'd like to enter this at:

Jingle Belles - My True Love Gave To Me - A partridge in a pear tree (well, no tree, but

there is a pear!)

Sunday Stamps #152

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Some Odd Girl - Partridge; Lawn Fawn - And a Partridge; Stampin Up - Suite Seasons (From Stephanie!)

Ink: Memento - Rich Cocoa; Ranger DI - Pine Needles, Brushed Corduroy; VersaMark

DP: Francis Meyer - Balsam and Pine (2006!)

CS: TE; Darice

Accessories: Prismacolor pencils; GC; Std. Lg Circle Nesties; Darice - Sheet Music EF; Stampendous - Champagne EP; heat gun; MISTI; button and twine from my stash

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner; Glue Dots

JUST US GIRLS! #392 - Word Week

Hello friends and welcome!

It's Trend Week at JUST US GIRLS!

Maria is hosting this week and she wants to see

your creations to honor Mom! Perfect timing

as Mother's Day is approaching. 

Here's what I made:

 Here's the inside:

I used a stencil on the card base going with a tone on tone look in aqua. After I adhered 

the frame die cut, I found some much neglected pink suede flowers and glued them on. I die cut

a flower die, snipped off the leaves and tucked them behind the flowers. Found the

perfect sized Thickers to spell out MOM. A stamped sentiment finishes the inside.

I hope you find some time to play along this week at Just Us Girls! For more

inspiration, please check out what my teammies came up with and leave them some

bloggy lovin. I'd also like to welcome our 

May Guest Designer, Kathie Durgan! 

I'm looking forward to crafting with you this month!

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you have a great day!

Hugs,

I'd like to enter this at:

Simon Says Stamp Wed. challenge - Hint of Pink

Stamp, Ink, Paper #97 - Mother's Day

Color Throwdown #441

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Hero Arts - Happy Mom's Day

Ink: Colorbox/Susan K. Weckesser - Ice; Simon Says Stamp - Lavender; Memento - Angel Pink

CS: TE; Darice

Accessories: GC; MFT - Stitched cover up diagonal Die-Namic; Poppystamps - Susanna Blossom die; Maya Road flowers; AC - Thickers; STAMPlorations - Dots All Over stencil

Adhesives: Ranger - Multi Medium Matte, Glossy Accents; SA by 3L - tape runner

SHOPPING OUR STASH #301 Back to Basics

Welcome friends!

This week at

SHOPPING OUR STASH,

we are getting back to basics. Time to

put those dies away and do some

FUSSY CUTTING!

Here's the card I made:

 and the inside:

I started by stamping the image onto a white panel, coloring the face, hands, feet, ground and outline around the doll. I stamped the doll again on bits of orange, blue, and gray scrap paper, fussy cut, and adhered. (I did add shading to the hair with a marker first.)

In keeping with the 'no dies' challenge. I broke out a much neglected decorative scissors to cut 

the black frames. (Thus the reason they look like crap.)

Now it's your turn to show us your mad fussy cutting skillz! Just be sure to 

link up at Shopping Our Stash so we can admire it!

Need more ideas? Simply visit the blogs of my teammies and while there, leave them

some love!

Thanks for visiting!

Hugs,

Supplies:

Stamps: Paper Smooches - Knick Knacks, Happy Birthday

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Ranger DI - Faded Jeans

DP: scraps from MME and DCWV

CS: TE, Crafter's Companion, scraps

Accessories: MISTI; Spectrum Noir markers; X-Acto Knife; Provo Craft decorative scissors

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, Thin 3D foam squares

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #83 - Y is for Yippee

Yippee!!

It's time to celebrate with the

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS!

What does that mean? Well, we want to see your

CONGRATULATIONS CARDS OR PROJECTS!

Here's what I came up with:

 and the inside:

I got inky again using my Magenta dye powders in turquoise and royal blue.

After heat embossing the image and sentiment in white, I sprinkled on the powders,

spritzed with a water mister, and watched the magic happen!

Here's a close up of the yumminess:

On the inside, I heat embossed the congrats in silver EP.

I know what you're thinking: Where's the snark?

Well, if you made something as pretty as this (IMHO), would

you ruin it with snark? I didn't think so either. LOL!

Now it's your turn to make a congrats themed card or project. It's graduation season. 

What better way to crank out a card or six? Just be sure to link up at the 

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers so we can admire it!

Need more ideas? Then check out what my Sisters, and our

Guest Designer, Becca Cruger, a.k.a the Damsel of Distressed,

have created for your viewing pleasure!

Thanks for popping by. Have a fantastic day!

Hugs,

I'd like to enter this at:

Simon Says Stamp Wed Challenge - ATG

Mixed Media World - ATG with watercolors

Supplies:

Stamps: So Suzy Stamps - Congrats, Always & Forever, Bride and Groom

Ink: VersaMark

DP: American Crafts - silver glitter paper

CS: Strathmore - Mixed Media paper with vellum; TE; Darice

Accessories: Magenta - Nuance powder dyes; Stampendous - white EP; Whispers - silver EP; heat gun; water mister; MISTI

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner

Sketch Saturday #461

Hello and welcome friends!

Today is my last week as Guest Designer at

SKETCH SATURDAY.

I really enjoyed crafting along with the sketches and 

wonderful design team.

Thank you again, Kelli, for inviting me!

For this week's challenge,

we are letting you pick any sketch

from #215 thru #460.

Our sponsor this week is

Lemon Shortbread Digi Stamps!

If you are the lucky winner, you will receive

three digi stamps from the store!

For my card, I am using sketch #265 and

the Rainy Days Girl with Umbrella digi:

Now it's your turn to pick one of the many fabulous sketches from 

Sketch Saturday and make something fun!

Thanks for visiting, and I hope you have a great day!

Hugs,

Supplies:

Stamps: Lemon Shortbread - Rainy Days with Umbrella digi; Paper Smooches - Cosmos

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

DP: Pebbles - Garden Party

CS: Crafter's Companion; Bazzill

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; computer & printer; MISTI; Cloud 9 Designs - raindrops stickers; Fiskars corner rounder; clear WOS pen

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, 3D foam squares