Joy to you and yours

 Hello crafty friends and welcome!

I wanted to pop in and share a card I made

incorporating a couple challenges:

I used my Spectrum Noir markers to color these gorgeous

Christmas Baubles then added a bunch of sparkle to them with

Nuvo Glitter Drops. I used the Wonky Stitched Grid Texture Plate

on the back panel before adhering everything to the card base.

For my card, I used the current challenges at Freshly Made Sketches #716

and also Color Hues #123.

You may have heard that after over 3-1/2 years, Shery Russ is

re-opening her online store, STAMPlorations! She's having a big

sale to make room for all the new goodies she'll have in the store:

I'm so thrilled for her and can hardly wait to see the

new products she has coming to the store!

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

Supplies:

Stamps: STAMPlorations - Christmas Baubles

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Taylored Expressions - Bubblegum

CS: Spectrum Noir; Neenah; Taylored Expressions

Accessories: STAMPlorations - Wonky Stitched Grid Texture Plate; Spellbinders - Std Lg Circle & Scalloped Circle dies; MISTI; Nuvo White Blizzard Glitter Drops; green marker (for string)

Adhesives: Scrapbook Adhesives - tape runner & foam squares

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #269 C is for Cheeky Christmas

 

Hello and welcome snarky peeps!

It's time for one of our most favorite challenges at the

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS:

 

CHEEKY CHRISTMAS!

That's right, time to see those raunchy, racy holiday projects!

(Or for the faint of heart, perhaps just a snarkier project. LOL!)

Here's what I made:

Yes, I did find a meme (again) as inspiration for this card.

I can't help it; there's some outstanding ones floating around 

all the time! I started by unearthing an ancient stamp that

is wood block mounted, stamped and colored up with

Spectrum Noir markers. To make it more festive, I printed out

a couple of free clip art Santa hats. Again colored, fussy cut and 

glued to the ladies' heads. My sentiment is also

computer generated. I used a white Posca marker to add the 

'special words' onto the ladies' tops. I finished with gold Stickles

for their earrings, bracelets and belt buckles.

Another stamped sentiment finishes the inside:

I hope that you'll play along with our Cheeky Christmas

challenge at the 

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!

For more hysterical inspiration, please check out what

 my sisters have created to make you laugh!

I wish you all a happy holiday season, whichever one

you happen to celebrate!

Thanks for visiting!

Supplies:

Stamps: Hero Arts - Make Your Own; Sunny Studio - Petite Poinsettias

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

CS: Spectrum Noir; Neenah; Taylored Expressions

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; Sunny Studio - Rounded Rectangle Mat dies; free clip art - Santa hats; computer & printer; sentiment computer generated; MISTI; white Posca marker; Ranger - gold Stickles

Adhesives: Scrapbook Adhesives - tape runner & foam squares; Bearly Art glue

A musical birthday card

 Hello and happy Friday to you!

I'm back with another birthday card.

Earlier this year I made at least 5 panels

using this technique by Gina K. This is the

last panel to be used.

I cut the guitar from red cardstock and used a black marker

to color the neck, bridge and bolts. The pickguard was cut

from black cardstock with a shimmer to it.

The sentiment was white heat embossed onto black cardstock.

And now I have a dude card for my stash!

AAA Birthday challenge #79 is a music themed challenge, so

I am entering this card there.

That's it for now. Thank you so much for visiting.

I hope that you have a great rest of your day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Sunny Studio - Inside Greetings: Birthday

Ink: Versamark; Ranger DI - Antique Linen, Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain

CS: Cardstock Warehouse; Neenah; Bazzill; Thunderbolt

Accessories: MFT - Rock and Roll dies; Darice - sheet music EF; Stampendous - white EP; heat gun; MISTI; Faber Castell black Artist Pitt Pen

Adhesives: Scrapbook Adhesives - tape runner & foam squares: Bearly Art Glue

Hooray It's Your Birthday!

 Hello and welcome!

It's been kind of a ghost town here lately, as I've been

busy making my annual Christmas cards. Now that I got

that done, I've switched to some much needed

birthday cards. Here's one:

I love to use collection kits that have a sticker sheet included. It takes

the guess work out of trying to match totally unrelated items together.

I wanted a really thin matte around the main panel, so I traced

around the die and fussy cut it. The panel is adhered with foam squares.

Another simple sentiment finishes the inside:

My card is based off of this fabulous sketch from Freshly Made Sketches #712.

That's it for now. Thanks for visiting, and I hope you have a great day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Honey Bee Stamps - Mini Messages: Birthday, Inside Birthday

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

DP: Echo Park - Fairy Garden

CS: Taylored Expressions; Neenah; Cardstock Warehouse

Accessories: Echo Park - rainbow sticker from the Fairy Garden collection; Sunny Studio - Rounded Rectangle matte die; MISTI

Adhesives: Scrapbook Adhesives - tape runner and foam squares; Bearly Art glue

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #268 D is for Drink

 

Hello and welcome, snarky peeps!

Can you believe that it's November 1st already?!!

A new month means a new challenge at the

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS!

This month, we want to see projects that feature DRINKS!

Now, as most of my sisters did, they went the 

alcoholic beverage route, but not me:

(Shameless plug.)

I used a sentiment from one of my own STAMPlorations stamp sets, Hot Mess. 

I paired it with the Wonky Stitched Grid Texture Plate, along with

the Zen Coffee Cup Layering dies. I had made a panel smooshed with

Picked Raspberry and Mustard Seed DOX ages ago, and used that

to cut out the detail coffee cup die.

I hope that you get a chance this month to play along in our Drinks challenge at the

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!

For more inspiration, check out what my sisters and our reigning Queen, Beverly have created for your viewing pleasure.

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

Supplies:

Stamps: STAMPlorations - Hot Mess

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Ranger DOX - Picked Raspberry, Mustard Seed

CS: Cardstock Warehouse; Strathmore Bristol paper; Neenah; Recollections vellum

Accessories: STAMPlorations - wonky stitched grid texture plate, Zen coffee cup layering dies; Lawn Fawn - steam whisps from Build-A-Cauldron die set; MISTI

Adhesives: Scrapbook Adhesives - tape runner & foam squares; Bearly Art glue

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #267 S is for Spooky

 

Hello snarky peeps and welcome!

Can you believe that it's October already?

A new month means a new challenge at the

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS!

No surprise here. We want to see your spooky

projects! Also, this being 

Breast Cancer Awareness Month, as an option,

use the color pink on your creation.

I decided to make an art journal page:

I went all out spooky for this page,

my inspiration being the movie, The Shining.

What started it was the two girls (Tim Holtz Halloween

Paper Dolls). I coated them with Liquitex matte gel and once

dry, colored them using a water pen and Derwent

Inktense Block 0400. I used a spiderweb stencil with

crackle paste. After it dried, I painted orange and raw umber acrylic 

paint over it. Random stamping, splatters, and gold Stickles were also added.

I added some themed paper and boarders, and finally alpha Thickers 

to spell REDRUM.

Here are some process photos:

I hope that you'll join us this month at the

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers for our Spooky challenge!

Please do yourself a favor and check out what my 

sisters created and also our reigning Queen, Wendy! 

Thanks for visiting. Have a fabulous day!

Supplies:

Strathmore: art journal; mixed media paper w/vellum

Golden Gesso

Ranger Texture Paste - opaque crackle

Echo Park - Spooky Spiderweb stencil

DecoArt Americana - bright orange, raw umber

Stazon ink - Timber Brown & Jet Black

Indigo Blu - Tasty Textures stamps

Ranger - gold Stickles

Tim Holtz - Paper Dolls Halloween; water mister

Liquitex - matte gel

Derwent inktense block 0400

American Crafts - Thickers alpha stickers

Authentique - Enchanted papers

Recollections - Halloween boarder stickers

EK Success - Vampire die cut borders

Bearly Art glue

various brushes & pallet knife

Creepy, kooky, freaky, spooky

Hello and welcome!

It's been some time since I've posted anything.

Lots happening this month. First, I got the

worst case of food poisoning I've ever had.

It took 1-1/2 weeks to finally get over it,

with a trip to Urgent Care thrown in.

Then we drove home to visit family in Illinois

and Wisconsin for a couple weeks.

Now we are home and I'm back to making cards.

For this card, I used an image that I colored when

we were up in Wisconsin visiting my MIL.

I brought a bunch of images to color with my

Prisma Color pencils. The pencils are much easier

to haul cross country than my markers.

(But I do often haul the markers. I was just lazy)

To make the clear bottle pop more, I did use a

Spectrum Noir marker (LG1) to color the background.

The sentiment is from Tim Holtz's Small Talk Occasions 

sticker pad. A stamped sentiment finishes the inside.

I'd like to enter this at the Paper Players #757 challenge.

Thanks for visiting. Have a wonderful day!

Supplies:

Stamps: The East Wind - Dragon Tears digi; Queen & Co. - Halloween

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

DP: Graphic 45 - Rare Oddities

CS: Spectrum Noir; Neenah; Cardstock Warehouse

Accessories: Prisma Color pencils; LG1 Spectrum noir marker; Sunny Studio - Lg & Sm stitched oval dies; Tim Holtz - Small Talk Occasions sticker; MISTI; Computer & printer

Adhesives: Scrapbook Adhesives - tape runner & foam squares

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #266 F is for Finally Fall

 

Hello and welcome snarky peeps!

Isn't this graphic by Sister Lee absolutely amazing?!!!

It's time for another fun challenge at the

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS!

This month, we'd like to see your Fall themed projects!

Here's what I came up with:

No snark this time, but I did add a punny sentiment. 😁

I tried that technique that I keep seeing on Simon Says Stamp,

where you blend color on the debossed side of cardstock embossed

with an embossing folder, then swipe a black ink pad over the whole

panel to fill in the background.

This is what it looked like before swiping the black ink pad over it:

That adorable mouse was hard to see with the busy background,

so I used a strip of the same green cardstock as my card base,

and embossed it (debossed?), lining it up with the colored panel

to keep the design flowing. Make sense?

Another sentiment finishes the inside:

I hope that you find some time this month to play along in

our Fall challenge at the

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!

For more ideas, do check out what my sisters and our

reigning Queen, Michelle, have created!

Thanks for visiting. Have a fabulous day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Lawn Fawn - You Autumn Know & dies, Offset Sayings: Birthday

Ink: Taylored Expressions - Pineapple, Granny Smith, Sweet Potato Pie, Guava, Gumball: Memento - Tuxedo Black

CS: Taylored Expressions; Neenah; Spectrum Noir

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; Darice - Fall Leaves Swirl Embossing Folder; MISTI

Adhesives: Bearly Art glue; Scrapbook Adhesives - tape runner & foam squares

It's a mile marker challenge at Freshly Made Sketches!

 Hello and welcome, crafty friends!

I'm joining the festivities at

Freshly Made Sketches for their 700th sketch challenge!

That's quite the mile marker, congrats!!

Here's what I came up with:

Does that heart sticker match exactly with the background colors?

Nope. Am I stressing out about it? Also nope. LOL!

This is such a versatile sketch. I'm planning on making another

or 6 more cards using it. 😊

ETA: Well, the blog said that it was open until 3 PM, but the linky already

closed. Got to remember not to enter at the last minute, even though

it's only 2 pm. Oh well. Congrats anyway! 😏

Here's to many more FMS sketches! 🥂

Thanks for visiting!

Supplies:

DP: Queen & Co. - Bring On Spring

CS: Neenah; Cardstock Warehouse

Accessories: Paper Rose - Stitches Square die; Honey Bee Stamps - Big Birthday dies; Doodlebug Designs - heart sticker from the Party Time collection kit

Adhesives: Scrapbook Adhesives - tape runner & foam squares

Not a day over fabulous

 Hello and happy Friday to you all!

Here's a festive card I'd like to share:

I used markers that matched as close as possible to the colors

of that background panel. For some sparkle,

I dotted the centers of all the stars with some Nuvo Glitter Drops.

Of course, with my crack photography skills,

you can't see that. LOL!

I liked this so much, that I made a couple

more cards with the same design,

I just changed either the sentiment or the

background paper:

The new challenge at Seize the Birthday #311 prompts us to NOT use

any flowers on your card, so I'll be linking up there.

Also, Just Us Girls #788 has a birthday challenge this week.

Thanks for visiting. I hope that you have a great weekend!

Take care.

Supplies:

Stamps: Spellbinders - Awesome Birthday; Avery Elle - Inside Birthday Greetings

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Dandelion

DP: Doodlebug Designs - Lot's O' Luck; Simple Stories - Hello Summer

CS: Spectrum Noir; Neenah; Taylored Expressions

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; LDR Design- Arched & Scalloped Arched dies; Queen & Co. - Stitched Rectangle die; MISTI; Nuvo Glitter Drops - white blizzard

Adhesives: Scrapbook Adhesives - tape runner & foam squares