SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #94 - P is for Pink Halloween

Hello and happy Saturday snarky peeps!

Today starts one of our most favorite challenges at the

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS:

P is for Pink Halloween!!

We've been doing this challenge for the last 4 years, to acknowledge

both Halloween and Breast Cancer Awareness Month!

So create anything Halloween themed, but the color 

pink must be the predominant color on it! 

(You can use other colors)

Here's card #1:

 and the inside:

My background was made using Magenta Nuance Powder Dyes in Hot Pink and Grey.

I used a grungy, painty stamp on all corners (NBUS), and had to ink up this 

fabulous skeleton family. (Also NBUS. Look closely at that

little one in the bottom corner! LOL!)

For my second card, my background is made using

Strawberry Cream Glimmer Mist. I die cut that awesome haunted house, colored and die cut 

the Grumpling Kitty. (All NBUS)

 and the inside:

 Look at all the shimmer!!

So now it's your turn to create your pink colored Halloween masterpieces! Be sure

to link up at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers so that we can admire it!

For more inspiration, please do yourself a favor by visiting the blogs of my

Sisters in Snark, and also our newest Guest Designer, Gina!

Thanks for stopping by!

I'd like to enter both of these cards at Darnell's NBUS challenge

Supplies Card #1:

Stamps: Viva Las Vegas Stamps - skeleton family; Rubber Dance - Sarcasm Superpower; Inkadinkado - All Hallow's Eave; Stampdendous - Brush Strokes

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Range DI - Antique Linen, Vintage Photo; Hero Arts - Neon Pink

DP: mystery polka dot scrap

CS: TE; Strathmore Mixed Media paper

Accessories: Magenta - Nuance Powder Dyes; water mister; heat gun; MISTI

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

Card #2:

Stamps: Taylored Expressions - Grumplings in Costume; Stampendous - Tricky Words

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Brilliance - Platinum Planet

DP: mystery polka dot scrap

CS: TE; Thunderbolt Kraft; Strathmore Mixed Media paper

Accessories: Prisma Color pencils; GC; TE - Grumplings in Costume die, 13 Dead End Drive die, grass die; Tattered Angels - Strawberry Cream & Candy Apple Red Glimmer Mist; Magenta Nuance hot pink powder dye; MISTI; Wink of Stella pen; Faber Castell black sm. Artist PITT pen

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, thin 3D foam squares; Ranger - Multi Medium Matte; Recollections - tacky tape; scotch tape

SHOPPING OUR STASH #322 - Not Your Momma's Card

Hiya crafty peeps!

Sooo excited for this week's challenge at

SHOPPING OUR STASH!

This week's challenge: Not Your Momma's Card,

is all about saying something on your

card that a proper lady would never say!

If you know me, that's never been a problem.

Snark and swear words on anything I create

just makes me happy. LOL!

But, I challenged myself to keep my

card rated PG - so no swear words.

GAH!!

Luckily, it worked out for me:

This sassy little red head is Scarlotte. She is part of a rubber stamp set that I've never

inked before. Wait, a Bugaboo stamp set in rubber, not digi? Yep, there was

a company called Totally Stampalicious who carried Bugaboo stamps in rubber form.

Sadly, they closed their store in 2013. As it happens, they had a blowout 

stamp sale, and I 'may' have stocked up.

My sentiment, although admittedly bought last month, has a born date of 2013

on it, so I feel justified using it.

So, now it's your turn to get snarky, or even better, a little risque' on

your card creations, and link up those bad boys at Shopping Our Stash!

I can't wait to see what you all come up with!

Thanks for visiting!

I'd like to enter this at Sketch Saturday #482

Supplies:

Stamps: Totally Stampalicious/Bugaboo - Scarlotte Cafe'; Hampton Arts - If you don't...

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Teal Zeal

DP: Graphic 45 - Bohemian Bazaar

CS: TE

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; GC; SB - Modern Stationery nesties; May Arts ribbon; Wink of Stella pen

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

One Bad Ass Art Journal 2017 week 7

Hello and happy hump day peeps!

Today I'm sharing another page (or in this case, pages), completed for

my Bad Ass Art Journal class.

I completed week 7! Woo Hoo!

This week's instructor is none other than

Tracy Weinzapfel of Tracy Weinzapfel Studios blog!

Here are the pages I created following her tutorial:

I didn't have the weathered wood medium, but I do have crackle paste, and that's what

I used for this project. I layed it on thick in some areas, and thinner in others to 

achieve different sized crackle. I just used a paint brush to apply it, and I love the

added texture that left on my pages!

I also happen to own this awesome stamp set by Tracy called Wine Time,

so of course I needed to use it. I masked the grape bunch to make it look

like they were hanging off the edge of the page. Using DecoArt Americana and Media Fluid

acrylic paints, I painted the images. Once dry, I went over the outlines using

both a small and bold F-C Artist PITT pens.

My sentiment was not my first choice. I had printed and cut out the quote,

"Wine is bottled poetry" by Robert Louis Stevenson. But when I adhered it

with matte medium, it smeared so bad! Lucky for me, I happen to

have accrued almost a dozen various stamp sets all to do with

drinking alcohol of some type, and found one large enough to cover

my oops. Crisis averted.

Here are some close ups:

So that's it for now. Thanks for visiting, and thanks to Tracy Weinzapfel

again for such a fun tutorial!

Have a great day!

I'd like to enter this at:

Craft Stamper Magazine - Take It Make It September challenge

Mixed Media World #29 - ATG

 

Supplies:

hand made art journal

DecoArt Americana acrylic paint - Irish Moss, Ultra Blue Deep, Holly Green, Raw Umber, Napa Red, Dioxazine Purple, Purple Pizzazz

DecoArt Media acrylic paint - Carbon Black, Titanium White

Golden Gesso

various paint brushes

water mister

Delta - Metallic 14K Gold acrylic paint

Dreamweaver - Crackle embossing paste

Ranger- Adirondack acrylic paint - Stream

Dare2BArtzy/Totally Tracy stamps - Wine Time

STAMPlorations - Mixed Media Grunge stamps

Hampton Arts - LOL stamps - Wine On

Staz On - Jet Black ink

Faber Castell - PITT Artist pens, bold & small

General's black pastel chalk pencil

Strathmore - mixed media paper

heat gun

Inkadinkado masking paper

DecoArt - Americana gloss sealer spray

SHOPPING OUR STASH #321 - Apple of My Eye

Hello crafty friends!

This week at

SHOPPING OUR STASH

we'd like to see apples of some sort on your projects.

That could be apple images, paper, pies, etc. Some of my

teammies got creative and used pineapples on their projects!

Very clever! Here's my card:

 And the inside:

I remembered that I had this apple stamp from

The Alleyway Stamps. It's the first time this image was inked!

(sadly I have many images like that - non inked yet)

I even found some paper with apples on it. Score!

Now it's your turn! Simply create something with some type of apple(s) on it

and be sure to link up at Shopping Our Stash so we can admire it!

For more ideas, please check out what my teammies created.

Thanks for visiting!

I'd like to enter this at:

Case This Sketch #239

Seize the Birthday - ATG

 

Supplies:

Stamps: The Alleyway Stamps - It's Fall About You; Taylored Expressions - Taylor; Paper Smooches - Happy Birthday

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

DP: DCWV - Simply Autumn Stack

CS: TE; Recollections

Accessories: MISTI; Inkadinkado - black EP; heat gun; Recollections - vellum

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

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #93 L is for Lost and Found

Hey there snarky peeps!

So I guess my Sisters and I at the

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS

have been stumping you all with the last couple of challenges.

(But isn't that the point of a challenge?)

So hopefully with this new one: L is for Lost and Found, we 

can get you to come back to the fold, as it were. LOL!

This fortnight, we challenge you to resurrect

something you used to do or use. Perhaps a technique you loved

to do, but haven't done it in years. Or maybe you bought

that "must have crafting tool" but it's been sitting neglected 

in a drawer for a few years. Now is a perfect time to

try your hand at it again!

(Please be sure to let us know what your Lost and Found thing is!)

For my card, I dug in a drawer and found my Sew Easy tool.

Remember those?

I used the blanket stitch piercer around the edge of my main panel.

(Obviously, I still need to master this tool, as seen by the crappy

sewing all around, especially at the corners. LOL!)

I tried this paint swiping tutorial from Splitcoast Stampers and love it! The

image was one that I colored when I was on vacation a couple weeks ago. I really

like how the purple background makes this doggy walking faerie pop.

So, now it's your turn. Break out those long lost tools, that paper collection

you had to have and never used, that one technique you did all the time but 

haven't tried in ages. We'd love to see what you create. Just link up

at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers so we can admire it!

Thanks for visiting. Now go forth and get your craft on!

I'd like to enter this at:

Craft Stamper Magazine Take It Make It September challenge

Mix It Up challenge #5 - ATG (no twist this time)

Supplies:

Stamps: Viva Las Vegas Stamps - faerie from plate 1474, She was a freaky little thing #19684

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

CS: Crafter's Companion; Strathmore Mixed Media paper; Taylored Expressions

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; Ranger - Glossy Accents & Crystal Stickles; DecoArt - Americana Acrylic paints - dioxazine purple, purple pizzazz; DecoArt Media - carbon black acrylic

paint & Modeling Paste; TH - sponge tool; TH- burlap stencil; paint brush; water mister; DMC floss; 

WRMK- Sew Easy tool; MISTI

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

SHOPPING OUR STASH #320 - Emboss Like A Boss

Hello and welcome friends!

This week at

SHOPPING OUR STASH

we have an easy challenge for you:

Use heat embossing AND dry embossing on your projects!

For my card, I heat embossed the floral background stamp in gold, then

water colored it using various Memento inks smooshed onto my craft mat,

and a water brush. (as always, my supply list is at the end of my post)

This particular stamp also came with a matching embossing folder (bonus!)

so I used it for the dry embossing:

 You can see the some of the dry embossed areas better here:

 and the inside:

I did use 5 inks on this card. Tangelo (mandarin), Elderberry (verve violet), Teal Zeal (turquish),

Summer Sky (resonant blue) and Nautical Blue (honorable blue). Tangelo and Elderberry for the flowers, Teal Zeal for the flourishes, and Summer Sky for the background with Nautical Blue around

the edges, using a water brush. Water coloring is not my strength. LOL! After everything was dry, I used a couple PrismaColor pencils to add dimension to the flowers, then I ran the panel through my Grand Calibur using the accompanying embossing folder. I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment onto vellum and attached it to the main panel, then die cut a stitched frame to adhere over it. 

Another stamped sentiment finishes 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 challenge! If you need more ideas, then simply

visit the blogs of my teammies to see their amazing creations!

Thanks for visiting!

I'd like to enter this card at:

Sunday Stamps #161 - Autumn Rainbow

The Flower Challenge #12 - tic tac toe (embossing, water color, blue)

Naughty or Nice #43 - framed (I went Nice this time around. LOL!)

 

Supplies:
Stamps: Hero Arts/Sizzix - floral background stamp & matching EF; Gina K - Sweet Thing;  Stampendous - Wishing you many...
Ink: VersaMark; Memento - Tangelo, Teal Zeal, Elderberry, Nautical Blue, Summer Sky
CS: TE; Strathmore Mixed Media paper
Accessories: MISTI; Kuretake water brush; Stampendous - champagne EP; Inkadinkado - black EP;
heat gun; PrismaColor pencils; GC; MFT - Stitched Rectangle Frame die; Recollections - Vellum;
Hampton Arts - rhinestones
Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner; Recollections - tacky tape

Trick or Treat (or whatever)

Hello crafty friends!

Boy, it's been almost a month since I've blogged! Hubs and I went on vacation from August 19th

through September 3rd, driving back to Illinois and Wisconsin to visit with

both our families. In there was a 50th Wedding Anniversary party, my 

niece got married, and my great niece and nephew (twins) had a party to 

celebrate their 5th birthday. Lots to do!

Most of my posts from August until the beginning of September were scheduled.

This is a rare post: it will go live as soon as I hit the publish button - not scheduled!

While on vacation, I was able to get a little coloring in.

(I can't leave on vacation without SOME type of craft supplies, so I took

my pencils and markers along with a bunch of images to color)

Since it's getting on to my favorite holiday - Halloween, I took

along some Grumplings in Costume stamps. Here's one of

the images made into a card:

 and the inside:

This grumpy cat-o-lantern was colored with PrismaColor pencils on kraft card stock.

I used a Faber-Castell PITT artist pen to re-draw the outline, since

the pencils tend to make them fade.

You know what I realized? I don't have a Halloween

themed embossing folder. Not one.

I need to fix that.

And I will. (wink)

It was great to get back to my craft room again. So I'll

be making more cards soon.

But not sure when.

Hubby and I just started binge watching Game of Thrones so....

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

I'd like to enter this card at:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Stamp It

Freshly Made Sketches #304

CAS on Friday #116 - Color me Pretty

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Taylored Expressions - Grumplings in Costume; SSS - Trick or Treat

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Tangelo

DP: DCWV - Spooky Delight Stack

CS: Recollections, scraps

Accessories: GC; Taylored Expressions - Grumplings in Costume die; SB - Sm & Lg Std Circle

Nesties; PrismaColor Pencils; Faber-Castell Artist PITT pen; MISTI; Cuttlebug EF; Jolee's 

Boutique rhinestones

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

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #92 J is for Jumble

Greetings Snarky peeps!

Edna and the Sisters welcome you to our new challenge at the

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS:

J is for Jumble!

What's that mean? We want you to try your hand at a collage! 

Whether it be on a card, layout, canvas, whatever, we want to see it!

I created a mixed media canvas board:

As usual, I stalked Pinterest for inspiration, and came across this lovely collage by Pamela Towns.

(Thank you Pamela for being my muse!) Of course, I took the bones of her

gorgeous creation and went off on a mixed media tangent. 

I really intended to take pictures along the way, but I only got so far, and then 

I got so in the creative zone, I forgot to take more pictures. 

watered down acrylic paint - still wet.

I let this dry overnight.

Once the paint dried, I attached the long strip of ephemera with matte medium.

After that dried, I used a stencil and embossing paste in a couple corners.

I left this to air dry overnight.

At this point, I totally forgot to take pictures.

The hemp cord I braided myself. Except for the flower, sentiment and cord, all

the bits and pieces came from one ephemera pack. The flower was stamped

and fussy cut, and the swirl stamp is from the same stamp set.

 I thought it needed some bling, so I found some

ancient pearls to stick to the center of the flowers.

I'm actually quite pleased by how well this turned out. Collage is

not my strength, so I really fussed about placement of items forever on this.

I hope you find some time to play along in our Jumble challenge at the 

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers! I can't wait to see what you create!

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

Guest Designer - Ike have made to inspire you!

Thanks for visiting!

Supplies:

US Art Supply - 5" x 7" canvas panel

DecoArt Americana Acrylic paint - Ultra Blue Deep, Berry Red, Purple Pizzazz

DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic paint - Carbon Black

water mister; various paint brushes

K & Co. - ephemera pack; Words & Phrases stickers

Dreamweaver - embossing paste; pallet knife

TCW - stencil

Golden - Matte Medium

Herschberg Schultz - hemp cord

Dare 2B Artzy/Totally Tracey stamps - Power of Flowers

Recollections - card stock

Staz-On - black ink

Ranger - Multi Medium Matte

SA by 3L - 3D & Thin  3D foam squares

Studio 112 - pearls