SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #172 - X is for fauX

 

(For an alphabet challenge, X is getting harder to figure out, so we have to get creative. LOL!)

Hello and HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

It's my all time favorite holiday. And you would think that I'd have

made a Halloween card for the new challenge at the

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS,

but alas, no. We want to see what you create using

faux...whatever! LOL! This is what I came up with:

My faux item? It's the faux tin tile I created using this tutorial.

 I may have made a couple...

This card may look elegant, but you know me,

can't resist a bit of snark:

For more fabulous faux creations, do yourself a favor and check out

what my Sistahs and our returning Queen Beverly have created for

your viewing pleasure. 

Thanks for visiting. Have a great day!

I'd like to enter this at:

Mojo Monday #548

Seize the Birthday #202 - texture

Supplies:

Stamps: Stampendous - Party Invite; Crackerbox/So Suzy Stamps - Naked and Screaming

Ink: Gina K - kraft

DP: 49 and Market - Sky; Recollections - vellum

CS: Thunderbolt; Bazzill

Accessories: recycled cardboard; tinfoil; GC; Darice - Damask Background EF; Sizzix - Christmas

Elegance EF; DecoArt Americana - bleached sand acrylic paint; foam brush; brayer; May Arts - ribbon;

 rubbing alcohol; rag; DecoArt - gold rush Metallic Lustre; Poppy Stamps - Olivia Blossoms die; Hero

 Arts - rectangle die; Tim Holtz - distress tool; MISTI

Adhesives: Liquitex gel medium; SA by 3L - tape runner, 3D & thin 3D foam squares; Recollections - 

tacky tape

SHOPPING OUR STASH #432 - Hot Beverages for Cold Nights

 

Hello crafty peeps and welcome!

It's time for another challenge at 

SHOPPING OUR STASH!

This fortnight, as the title suggests, we are looking for projects 

that feature a hot beverage.

Here's what I came up with:

 

 

 

These coffee mugs were fun, and very therapeutic to color. No

shading, just coloring to color. (My inner child had fun!)

I used a stencil to emboss the aqua panel. I think that's the first time

I tried that out, and I like it. I'll be using that technique more. 

We hope that you'll play along in our Hot Beverages challenge

at Shopping Our Stash. For more inspiration, do yourself a favor

and check out what my teammies created. So much crafty goodness!

Thanks for visiting. Have a great day!

 

I'd like to enter this at Paper Players #514

 

Supplies:

Stamps: STAMPlorations - Happy Zen Coffee Cups;  

Literary Caffeine-ations 

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

CS: Spectrum Noir; Taylored Expressions; Bazzill

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; MISTI; GC; Pinkfresh - Slim diagonal stitched rectangle die; 

SB - Std Lg & Sm Circle Nesties; WOS pen; ARTplorations - Mosaic Slimline stencil; 

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

Happy Haunting

 Hello and welcome!

I'm popping in with another card. Check it:

 

 

Here's the inside:

 

 

I colored these cute zombies while on vacation last month, and thought

 

it was high time to get them onto a card. I used papers from a

 

new (to me) paper collection and had fun piecing them together.

 

For a little extra something, I added Glossy Accents over their eyes.

 

 

That mottled, decaying green complexion is so popular this time of year! LOL!

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

I'd like to enter this at:

Freshly Made Sketches #458

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge

TGIF Challenge #287 

 

 

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Taylored Expressions - Zombies

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

DP: Echo Park - Bewitched

CS: Spectrum Noir; Darice

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; GC; TE - zombie dies; MISTI; Ranger - Glossy Accents

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

Christmas wreath

 Hello there, I'm back with another card:

 

 

Here's the inside:

 

 

It's hard to tell from my excellent photography skills, but the green paper I

 

used to cut the wreath from is pre-glittered, for some extra sparkle.

 

A simple sentiment finishes the inside.

 

Guess I should get off my butt and get some things done. LOL!

 

Thanks for visiting. Have a great day!

 

 

I'd like to enter this at:

Case This Sketch #395

The Flower Challenge #49 -circle(s) 

Merry Little Christmas Challenge #27 - ATG

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Sunny Studio - Petite Poinsettias

Ink: Memento - tuxedo black, lady bug, rhubarb stalk, bamboo leaves, cottage ivy; SSS - lipstick red

DP: HOTP; Darice - green glitter

CS: Thunderbolt; Darice

Accessories: MISTI; GC; Memory Box - Bubble Circles die; Darice - snowflake EF; 

Ranger - gold Stickles

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, 3D & thin 3D foam squares; Ranger - MMM

Man of the Moment

 Hello and welcome crafty friends! I've been up in the ol' craft room

creating some cards, and here is one of them:

 

 

...and the inside:

 

 

I used some metallic gold paper to emboss the back panel, using the

 

Brick Wall EF by Darice. I found this funny sentiment 

 

to cut out from the sheet and the fish DP from 

 

the same collection. Ooh! Shiny!

A snarky stamped sentiment on the inside and this card was done!

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

I'd like to enter this at:

Let's Squash It #1 - geometric & metallic

Seize the Birthday #202 - texture 

Supplies:

Stamps: Taylored Expressions - Another Year Older

Ink: Memento - Nautical Blue

DP: Kaisercraft - Mountain Air

CS: TE; Bazzill - metallic gold

Accessories: GC; Darice - Brick Wall EF; MISTI

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

Final day: STAMPlorations 7th Birthday Celebration

Happy Fri-Yay and welcome!

It's Day 5 of 

STAMPlorations Belated 7th Birthday celebration! 

 

 

 

Yesterday, I showed you how you can take a slimline sized

 

stencil to create an A2 sized card. Today, I'll show you how to use a 

 

standard sized stencil to create a slimline sized card:

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It's pretty easy, but you need to use a stencil that has a

 

repeating design on it. Once I had my panel cut to size, 

 

 I used modeling paste to cover as much as I could of the panel

using the Winter Flowers stencil.

 

I removed the stencil and washed it, and left the panel to dry.

 

When dry, I placed the stencil back over the embossed part to line up

 

and covered the remaining part of the panel with modeling paste.

 

Once that was dry, I decided to get crazy and repeated these steps, but this 

 

time I used Glitz Gel over the embossed design.

 

It's hard to see, but there is SO much glimmer and sparkle on this card!

 

 

 

I wrapped some ribbon around the panel and used matching glitter

paper to frame it. The sentiment is one of the stickers from the

Tis the Season clear sticker pack.

 

I used another one of the stickers on the inside:

 

 

I hope that you will help us celebrate and join in the festivities!

For all the details on how to win some amazing prizes, please

visit the STAMPlorations post here.

If you happen to place an order at the STAMPlorations store, 

 feel free to use my personal discount code,

STAMPGIRLCHRIS

for an extra 20% off! (FYI, if you use my code when

you place an order, you'll also receive this not-yet-released stencil,

Just Plaid square 10 mil stencil!

Thanks so much for visiting. I hope that you have 

 

a fantastic day!

 

 

Supplies:

CS: Bazzill; Darice

DP: American Crafts - glitter paper

Accessories: ARTplorations - Winter Flowers stencil; Tis the Season clear stickers; May Arts - ribbon; DecoArt Media - Modeling Paste; Gina K. - Glitz Glitter Gel; pallet knife

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

 

STAMPlorations 7th Belated Birthday Celebration

 Hey there and welcome back!

It's Day 4 of the 

STAMPlorations Belated 7th Birthday celebration!

We've been partying all week and it's not yet over! LOL!

Here's what I created for today:

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I've made an A2 sized card using the Burst Slimline stencil

 

along with the Squares Flexi-Template.Using just the center of the

 

slimline stencil, I blended a few Distress Inks onto my card stock.

 

 This is a great way to get more mileage from your stencils! 

 

For the sentiment, I die cut a couple times and stacked the

 

Happy Birthday from the Everyday Sentiments word dies.

 

Super easy and I was able to use up some of my card stock

 

remnants in the making too! 

 

 

I hope that you will help us celebrate and join in the festivities!

For all the details on how to win some amazing prizes, please

visit the STAMPlorations post here.

If you happen to place an order at the STAMPlorations store, 

 feel free to use my personal discount code,

STAMPGIRLCHRIS

for an extra 20% off! (FYI, if you use my code when

you place an order, you'll also receive this not-yet-released stencil,

Just Plaid square 10 mil stencil!

Thanks for visiting!

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Birthday Bash

Ink: Ranger DI - Twisted Citron, Peacock Feathers, Wilted Violet; Memento - Grape Jelly

CS: Neenah; Bazzill

Accessories: ARTplorations - square flexi-template and Burst slimline stencils; PFS blending brushes; GC; CUTplorations - Everyday Sentiments word dies; WOS pen; MISTI

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner; Range - MMM

 

 

Part 3: STAMPlorations 7th Birthday Celebration

 Hi there and welcome crafty friends!

It's Day 3 of the 

STAMPlorations Belated 7th Birthday Celebration!

 

 I made a goofy Halloween card using a stencil in a different way:

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When I turned the

 

Abstract April Showers stencil upside down, I realized that the 

 

images kind of looked like ghosts. I decided to create a

fun panel, blending white pigment ink through the stencil, then adding

googly eyes to many of my 'ghosts'.

 

 

 

 All I added were a few strips of card stock and some glittery alpha stickers to 

finish my card!

I hope that you will help us celebrate and join in the festivities!

For all the details on how to win some amazing prizes, please

visit the STAMPlorations post here.

If you happen to place an order at the STAMPlorations store, 

 feel free to use my personal discount code,

STAMPGIRLCHRIS

for an extra 20% off! (FYI, if you use my code when

you place an order, you'll also receive this not-yet-released stencil,

Just Plaid square 10 mil stencil!

Make sure you visit my teammates blogs and comment for

a chance at winning some fabulous prizes!

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Supplies:

CS: TE; Darice

Accessories: ARTplorations - Abstract April Showers stencil; finger dauber; Nicole - googly eyes; Anna Griffin - alpha stickers

Ink: ColorBox/Susan K. Weckeser - Snow

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner; Ranger - MMM

 

 

Day 2 STAMPlorations 7th Birthday Celebration

 Hello and welcome back!

It's Day 2 of the

STAMPlorations Belated 7th Birthday Celebration!

Here's my card:

 

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I've used the Wonky Stitched Grip Texture Plate 

 

for my background panel. The flower and sentiment are from

 

the Bloomfully: Sparkle stamp set.

 

I heat embossed the flowers in gold and colored them with

 

Spectrum Noir markers. For a bit more sparkle, I added

 

some gold rhinestones. 

Oh! Shiny!

I hope that you will help us celebrate and join in the festivities!

For all the details on how to win some amazing prizes, please

visit the STAMPlorations blog post here.

If you happen to place an order at the STAMPlorations store, 

 feel free to use my personal discount code,

STAMPGIRLCHRIS

for an extra 20% off! (FYI, if you use my code when

you place an order, you'll also receive this not-yet-released stencil,

Just Plaid square 10 mil stencil!)

 Thanks for visiting! Have a wonderful day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Bloomfully: Sparkle

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Versamark

CS: Neenah; Strathmore Mixed Media paper; Bazzill

Accessories: GC; CUTplorations - Wonky Stitched Grid Texture plate; Spectrum Noir markers; MISTI; Stampendous - champagne EP; heat gun; Wink of Stella pen; Tattered Angels - Pearl Glimmer Mist; Nicole - rhinestones; DecoArt Americana - black acrylic paint; toothbrush

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