SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #89 - U is for Up Yer Kilt

Hiya snarky peeps and welcome!

Looks like Edna is the creamy center of a Scottish oreo! LOL!

Which brings us to our new challenge at the

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS:

we want to see plaid on your projects!

Here's my card:

and the inside:

Now it's your turn to break out that plaid and put it to use! We'd love to

see what you make at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!

For more ideas, check out what my Sisters and our Guest

Designer, Melissa, have created for your viewing pleasure.

Thanks for visiting!

Supplies:

Stamps: Katzelkraft - Les Chiens; For The Love of Stamps - Pampered Paws Purrfect Sentiments;

Paper Smooches - Happy Birthday

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

DP: Echo Park - This and That

CS: Crafter's Companion; TE

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; GC; MFT - single stitch frame dies

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, 3D foam squares; Scotch - scrapbooker's glue

SHOPPING OUR STASH #312 - You Light Up My Life

Hello crafty friends!

This week at

SHOPPING OUR STASH

we want to see some type of light fixture on your projects.

This is the card I made:

and the inside:

I hope you can join us at Shopping Our Stash this week. For more

ideas, please check out what my teammies came up with and

leave some bloggy lovin!

Thanks for visiting,

I'd like to enter this card at Happy Little Stampers July CAS challenge

Supplies:

Stamps: Unity December 2012 KOM; Technique Tuesday - Umpteenth Birthday

Ink: VersaMark; Memento - Tuxedo Black

CS: Strathmore mixed media; TE

Accessories: Magenta - Nuance powder dyes: Bright Yellow & Old Yellow; Stampendous - black EP;

heat gun; GC; Lawn Fawn - scalloped rect. dies

Another Bad Ass Art Journal page - Sisters

Hello crafty friends.

I'm popping in before the next line of thunderstorms hit, and knock out my

cable service again.

I'm very slowly working on my Bad Ass Art Journal classes.

I'm on week 6 now. Check it:

 I used Magenta Nuance powder dyes to water color my background. For the next layer I 

used white ink and a few stencils for a subtle pattern. (I'm not sure if it was that 

particular ink pad, or stenciling onto the first layer, but that ink took

3 DAYS to finally dry! Even hitting it many times with

my heat gun! Holy crow!)

You can see some of the patterns in the next couple of pics:

My people bodies were made using spray inks.

 (Don't do what I did and use water reactive sprays for this, as they are, well,

reactivated with any liquid. Or if you lean your hand on them whilst painting the heads.

Ask me how I know)

I painted the head and shoulders. In the class, these were left as is, but

I felt compelled to add hair to mine. Personal choice)

Stamped some grungy thatched marks, and went over them with the edge of an old credit card

and black paint where the stamp didn't touch the paper. Also stamped and fussy cut the flower.

Some scribbling and doodling, and it was all finished!

I did spray this (carefully) outside with a sealer, in the hopes

that it won't smear, if someone were to touch it. LOL!

Thanks for visiting!

I'd like to enter this at:

Craft Stamper Magazine - Take It Make It July Challenge - use stamps

STAMPlorations - never ending ATG

Supplies:

Golden Gesso;

Magenta Nuance powder dyes - Hot Pink, Orange, Bright Yellow; 

Colorbox/Susan K. Weckesser - Snow ink pad; 

STAMPlorations - Dragonfly Waltz, Delicate Lines, Dots All Over stencils; 

STAMPlorations - Mixed Media Grunge, Big Bloom Factory stamps; 

DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics - Titanium White, Carbon Black, English Red Oxide Antiquing Cream; 

Dylusions Spray Inks - London Blue, Vibrant Turquoise

Maya Road - Eggplant Purple spray ink;

DecoArt Americana Acrylics - Warm Beige, Dark Chocolate, Natural Buff;

General's - multi pastel pencils - Van Dyke Brown, Black;

Faber Castell - Sm black artist PITT pen;

Sakura - Gelly Roll pens - white & silver;

StazOn - Jet Black ink; VersaMark ink; Stampendous - black embossing powder; 

heat gun; baby wipes

DecoArt Americana sealer

SHOPPING OUR STASH #311 - CAS for National Simplicity Day

Hello crafty peeps and welcome!

July 12 is National Simplicity Day!

So for the new challenge at

SHOPPING OUR STASH,

we want to see your CAS cards!

 In the spirit of NSD, you can also include

something recycled or upcycled on your CAS project, but it's not mandatory.

For my card, I recycled a bit of cardboard from a box:

 and the inside:

Also in the spirit of NSD, I've recycled a birthday age. (wink!)

The pineapple and festive drink was die cut, colored, then I covered both

with a layer of Wink of Stella for some subtle shimmer.

 Now it's your turn to create a CAS card! (you know you want to!) Just link up at

Shopping Our Stash so we can admire it! For more ideas, please visit the blogs

of my teammates and leave some lovin while there!

Thanks for visiting!

I'd like to enter this at:

Paper Smooches - July 2017 ATG challenge

Happy Little Stampers - July 2017 ATG with Dies

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Paper Smooches - Pineapple Crush, Getta Outta Town, Birthday Sampler

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Tangelo

CS: TE, Crafter's Companion

Accessories: STAMPlorations - Merry Go Round stencil; Recycled cardboard from a box; MISTI; Spectrum Noir markers; Wink of Stella pen; blending tool

Adhesives: Recollections - red tape; Ranger Multi Matte Medium

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #88 K is for Kids

Good morning peeps and welcome!

Our new challenge at the SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS

is all about KIDS!

Whether you make a card specifically for a little one, or make something

about a child but not necessarily for one,

or just use an image of a kid on your card, we want to see it!

Here is my offering:

 and the inside:

My mojo has slowly been making a come back in my craft room.

(And it's about f%$#ing time)

I took a mixed media paper panel and sponged first with Tumbled Glass DI, then

using a brick wall stencil, sponged over randomly in Mermaid Lagoon DI. I stamped the typewriter key stamp a few times on the panel, stamping off first. The edges are sponged with Vintage Photo DI.

I spritzed some Aquamarine Glimmer Mist onto the panel also, because I could.

The gas mask girl was stamped, fussy cut, edged with Vintage Photo DI and adhered with

foam squares. I found a tiny pink flower sticker in my stash and added it to the image. I used alpha stamps for the sentiment, and drew the hashtag, cut out and

edged again in Vintage Photo DI.

A very heartfelt sentiment finishes the inside.

I hope that you can find some time to play along at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers! 

For more ideas, do check out what my Sisters and our Guest Designer, Donna Mundinger, have created for your viewing pleasure.

Thanks for popping in!

I'd like to enter this card at:

Viva Las Vegas Stamps July challenge - I was inspired by the colors, the main image barely colored, and the hashtag stamp.

More Mixed Media Challenge - ATG + Pastels
Craft Stamper Magazine TIMI - July

 

Supplies:
Stamps: Viva Las Vegas Stamps - Banksy Gas Mask Flower Girl, Typewriter keyboard from Plate 1487; Studio G - alpha stamps; Paper Smooches - Happy Birthday
Ink: Ranger DI - Tumbled Glass, Mermaid Lagoon, Vintage Photo; Memento - Tuxedo Black; StazOn - Timber Brown
CS: Strathmore Mixed Media paper; TE; scraps
Accessories: MFT - brick wall stencil; Tattered Angels - Aquamarine Glimmer Mist; Sandylion - flower sticker; Faber Castell - Sm & Bold Artist PITT pens; Spectrum Noir IG2 marker
Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, Thin 3D foam squares

SHOPPING OUR STASH #310 - Flag Day

Hello crafty friends and happy 4th of July to you!

With Canada Day just passed and Independence Day today,

at SHOPPING OUR STASH

we want you to use the colors of your flag in your design! 

Here's my card:

I let the embossing folder do most of the work.

I even 'painted' over the embossed image with my

Wink of Stella pen!

Oooh! Shimmery!

Now it's your turn! Regardless of what country you live in, we want

to see your creations using the colors of your flag. (Bonus points for

showing an image of your flag in your post!)

Can't wait to see what you create in the Shopping Our Stash gallery!

I'd like to enter this at:

Less Is More #335 - Country flag colors

Just Add Ink #366 - A for AMERICA! (ok, maybe I'm stretching that...)

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Hero Arts - Celebrate Everyday

Ink: VersaMark

CS: TE; scraps

Accessories: GC; Darice - fireworks EF; Wink of Stella pen; Whispers - silver EP; heat gun; Recollections - star rhinestones

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

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #87- A is for Arty

Hello snarky peeps. I'm back. Somewhat.

It's been over a month since I've blogged. We took our annual vacation to

the beach towards the end of May, and while we were driving down, one of my sisters

called to say that my Dad was being moved into hospice care.

I've mentioned this a few times before, but my Dad had Dementia. We knew

this was going to be happening, as his health really started taking a nose dive in March.

The day we left the beach, my sister called again to let us know that his health was

failing, and that he had stopped eating and drinking the Thursday before. On May 30th,

my Dad passed away peacefully in his sleep. The amazing staff at the

 VA hospital/Alzheimer's Unit in Manteno, Illinois has taken such good care of my Dad 

for the past year, and I'm so grateful for all they've done to make him feel safe and comfortable.

Needless to say, we flew home later that day, and I stayed for almost two weeks

with my Mom, for the memorial service, and just to make sure she was ok. 

As weird as this sounds, she did well, perhaps because she had already been living 

on her own for the past year. 

I know he's in a better place now, with his family and friends who've gone

before him, laughing and joking and dancing. I miss him so much.

And now that I've made you cry, I want to make you smile.

One of the things that I inherited from my Dad was his arty gene. He played drums

in a jazz trio at one point in his life. (I play air drums like nobody's business) He loved to dance. 

(I love to dance too. I'm no good at it, but I still dance. (wink)) He also liked to draw and doodle.

That more than anything keeps him close to my heart, since I'm an artsy fartsy gal.

And speaking of Arty, 

it's time for the next challenge at the SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS.

A is for ARTY

We want to see your mixed media creations!

I just started to come back to my craft room, from lack of mojo, and really

I just wasn't ready to come back to it. In early May, I started an art journal page

for week 5 of the One Badass Art Journal class I signed up for.

(yes, it's finished now, 19 weeks of arty goodness, but I'm slowly catching up)

This week's class was taught by Cristin Stevenson, and it was fun to finish this

page finally. The main tutorial was to use a transfer technique using a printed 

picture and matte medium to transfer it.

It was an epic failure for me. The lady above was not the image I tried

transferring. Luckily, I had foresight to print out a backup image, you know,

in case it didn't work, which it didn't for me.

first layers: gesso; stencils spritzed using black and turquoise sprays; torn up library

card applied with matte medium. The library cards are a gift from Mimi!

(Check me out. I actually used one! LOL!)

This was the image I tried to transfer. 

And this is how it turned out. Epic failure.

At this point I covered it up with gesso, dried, and glued the other image to my

page using matte medium.

This was as far as I got before I came back to it last week.

added paint and moon phases, using a toilet paper tube to trace the circles!

Ta-dah!

used a chevron stamp and bubble wrap for the next layer

found a cool quote to use and wrote it on

added some doodling around the moon phases and it was done!

So now it's your turn to get inky/messy/painty and have fun! We'd love to see what you

come up with. Just add your project at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers so we

can admire it! Need more ideas? Then do yourself a favor and check out what my Sisters and

our Guest Designer, Toni Maddox, have created for your viewing pleasure. 

You won't be disappointed!

This page is dedicated to my Dad. 

I love you to the moon and back,

to infinity and beyond, 

for ever and ever.