SHOPPING OUR STASH #396 - Get Your Drink On

Hey there and welcome!

It's time for a new challenge at 

SHOPPING OUR STASH!

I'm your hostess this fortnight and as the title suggests,

we'd like to see what you make using your favorite beverage of choice.

No surprise here, I went with a wine themed card:

and the inside:

I used a designer paper made and purchased at my LSS, Photo Scraps, and paired it

with an ancient Jolee's Boutique wine bottle sticker. My card design

follows the now ended Freshly Made Sketch #386. (But I

was working ahead, and really liked the sketch!) 

Whether you prefer an alcoholic beverage, tea, lemonade, or coffee, etc., why not join the

fun at Shopping Our Stash! 

We'd love to see your projects in our gallery. Need more ideas? Simply

check out what the other ladies have created for your viewing pleasure!

Thanks for visiting. I hope you have a wonderful day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Avery Elle - Happy Hour

Ink: Versamark; Staz On - Claret

DP: created at Photo Scraps

CS: Taylored Expressions

Accessories: Jolee's Boutique - wine bottle sticker; Stampendous - Champagne EP; heat gun; MISTI

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

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #135 - I is for Ironmongery

Hello snarky peeps and welcome!

It's time again (see what I did there?) for
our annual Steampunk challenge at the
SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS!
This year it's I for Ironmongery!
(Yep, we are getting all fancy up in here! LOL!)
Here's the card I've made:

I couldn't resist a bit of snark on the inside.

There must be a LOT of candles on that cake!

I hope that you find some time to play
along this fortnight at the
Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers! We'd love to see your take
on the challenge in our gallery. Need more ideas? Simply
visit the blogs of my Sisters and our newest Queen and guest
designer, Tristan Dawes. Thanks for popping by, and I
hope that you have a great day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Paper Issues - Ahh Real Birthday Sentiments

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Ranger DI - Vintage Photo

DP: DCWV - Tattered Time

CS: TE

Accessories: Tim Holtz/Tonic - distressing tool; Ranger blending tool; MISTI; Oriental Trading Co - gear brads; piercing tool

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

SHOPPING OUR STASH #395 - May Flowers

Hello and welcome crafty peeps!

It's time for another challenge at

SHOPPING OUR STASH, 

and as the subtitle suggests, we'd like to see

flowers on your projects.

Here's my offering:

and the inside:

I've mentioned in earlier posts that I spent the holiday season

coloring up a lot of images. This is one of them. I miraculously

found some card stock that matched perfectly with the purple pencils

I colored with. Score! I broke out a much neglected corner punch

to add a bit of detail to one corner. A few rhinestones for sparkle

finishes my card. I hope you find some time this 

fortnight to join in our flower challenge at Shopping Our Stash!

Looking for more ideas? Simply visit the blogs of my

talented teammies to see what flowery works of art they've

created for your viewing pleasure.

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

I'd like to enter this at:

Craft Stamper Take It Make It challenge

Supplies:

Stamps: Aurora Wings - Pansy Corner 2 digi stamp; So Suzy Stamps - Happy Birthday, Enjoying you

Ink: Memento - Elderberry

CS: Crafter's Companion; TE; Darice

Accessories: Prismacolor pencils; Spectrum Noir GT1 marker; computer & printer; MISTI; Fiskars - corner rounder; Recollections - rhinestones

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner

Christmas Kickstart with the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!

Hello crafty peeps!

The new challenge is up at

Christmas Kickstart Challenge blog, and Jo asked the gals

from the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers to be 

Guest Elves! This challenge, fittingly, is

called Snarky Christmas!

Here's what I came up with:

I had so much fun making this, that I made a second card:

The inside of both cards look like this:

I apparently have been living under a rock, since I've only just discovered

a stamp company called The Ink Road. There are some pretty 

amazing snarky stamps sets there. LOL! I've paired this fun sentiment

with a couple of paper dolls. (Kinda reminds me of Ralphie)

Come join the fun at the Christmas Kickstart challenge and 

make a snarky Christmas card! You know you want to! LOL!

Thanks for popping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: The Ink Road - Happy Holla Days; Taylored Expressions - In & Out Christmas

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Ranger DI - Vintage Photo

DP: Colorbok - Retro Snowflake

CS: Thunderbolt; TE; Nicole

Accessories: GC; Lawn Fawn - scalloped rectangle die; Tim Holtz - Christmas paper dolls; MISTI;

Ranger blending tool

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

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #134 - W is for WTF!

Hey snarky peeps, welcome back!

It's time for the new challenge at the

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS!

This time around, the letter du jour is

W for WTF!

Whether you interpret that to mean using 'WTF' on your project, or
making something that makes you think: WTF?!, we want to see it!

I went with the latter for my art journal spread:

Once again, a meme that I saw on the internet was my spark of inspiration.

Here's some pics on how I created this:

Brayer various pink, red, and orange paints.

Add same paints plus white through various stencils.

Doodle around stenciled images with various markers.

Stamp, fussy cut and glue the faces onto flowers with matte medium.

I found the perfect horse image in a NatGeo magazine.

(unbelievably, it only took looking through five of them to find it)

I drew the horn, colored with Spectrum Noir markers and fussy cut.

Stamped, colored and fussy cut the lady image, then glued them down

using matte medium. I swiped a green ink pad

along the edges.

 

Smudged a black pencil around the unicorn and lady.

I used some gelli print leftovers to die cut the grass border a gazillion times,

then glued them down with matte medium. Once it dried, I trimmed 

around the edges.

I used an alphabet stamp set to stamp the sentiment on typing paper,

fussy cut and glued down. Once dry I doodled around the words

with a couple markers.

One more time:

So now it's your turn to show us your WTF creations! We'd love
to see them in the SOSS gallery. Need more ideas? Simply check out
what my Sistahs, and our newest Queen and GD Granne, have
created for your viewing pleasure.
Thanks for visiting, and I hope you have a great day!

I'd like to enter this at:

Mix It Up challenge #25 - ATG Mixed Media

Supplies:

Strathmore Art Journal

DecoArt Media gesso

paint brushes - Loew-Cornell; Plaid

DecoArt Americana Acrylic paints: Tangerine, Dragon Fruit, Electric Pink, True Red, White

DecoArt Media Acrylic paint: vermilion

Imagine Crafts - craft sponges

StencilGirl stencils: ATC Mixup-Dailey, ATC Mixup-Dube, ATC Mixup-Evans

Faber-Castell: Artist PITT pens - black, green olive, pink carmine

Sakura - white and silver Gelly Roll pens

Stamps: VLVS - plate 1503; Dylusions - black diamonds; Studio G - alphas

Memento ink: Tuxedo Black, Grape Jelly; Staz On - Emerald City

CS: Darice

typing paper

Spectrum Noir markers

DecoArt Media - Matte Medium

horse picture from a National Geographic magazine

Generals - pastel chalk pencils - black, grass green

Ranger - Diamond Stickles (on horn)

scraps of gelli prints

Grand Calibur

Taylored Expressions - grass border die

It's time for the May Theme & Sketch Challenge at STAMPlorations!

Hello and welcome crafty friends!

Today is the start of the
May Theme & Sketch Challenge at STAMPlorations!

Here are the theme and sketch for the month:

For my card, I've used a very loose interpretation of the sketch:

(But you can totally see the sketch in my card, right? *grin!*)
I started by cutting a panel from the
Crazy double running stitch rectangle nesting die 
and sponging yellow and green inks through the
Rose Duet stencil.
I die cut the Fabulous word die twice, one from black card stock and
one from a yellow polka dotted paper. I stacked and glued them offset
then added Diamond Crystal Stickles to it. Once that dried, I
stamped the 'you are' and 'mom' from the
It's all about you stamp set.

I hope you get a chance to join the STAMPgirls this month and
link up at the STAMPlorations theme & sketch challenge!
We are excited to see your creations!
Thanks for visiting, and I hope you have a great day!

Supplies:

Stamps: STAMPlorations - It's all about you!

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Dandelion, Cantaloupe, Pear Tart, Bamboo Leaves

CS: Neenah; TE

DP: October Afternoon- Party Line

Accessories: GC; CUTplorations - Crazy double running stitch rectangle nesting dies, Fabulous word die; ARTplorations - Rose Duet stencil; MISTI; WOS pen; Ranger - Diamond Stickles

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, Ranger - multi medium matte