SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #141 - R is for RIP

Hello and welcome snarky peeps!

We have a new challenge starting today at the

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS:

R is for RIP!

My Sistahs came up with various ways to interpret this. You could

simply rip up some paper, use the letters R.I.P., or use the American

slang term, 'Let one rip', (which means to pass gas! LOL!)

I decided to rip up parts of the paper I used on my card:

and the inside:

I scored this paper kit cheap last year at Tuesday Morning and it's the first time

I've used it. The glittery, dimensional witch sticker has been in my stash for quite a few 

years and went perfectly with the sentiment sticker I used from the paper kit.

A stamped sentiment on the inside plus more ripping and distressing finishes

my card. Now it's your turn to play along! Simply link up your ripped creations

to the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers so we can admire them!

Looking for more ideas? Do visit the blogs of my Sistahs, and our reigning

Queen, Samantha, for their creative takes on the challenge. 

Thanks for popping by!

I'd like to enter this at Addicted to Stamps and More #353 - Holiday

Supplies:

Stamps: Inkadinkado - All Hallow's Eve

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Ranger DI - Ground Espresso

DP: Echo Park - Hocus Pocus

CS: Taylored Expressions; Thunderbolt

Accessories: Anna Griffin - witch sticker; blending tool; Tonic - distressing tool; MISTI; Recollections - spider sticker; Faber Castell - black Artist PITT pen

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

SHOPPING OUR STASH #239 - Fantastic Plastic

Happy Tuesday crafty peeps! We have a new challenge starting today at SHOPPING OUR STASH! This week, we would like to see you use plastic of some type on your card or project. Whether that be acetate for a shaker card, plastic buttons, you could even recycle something plastic! Many options out there, I went with recycling some plastic mesh. Have you ever bought one of those little crates of tangelos, and there's that plastic mesh covering them to hold them in the crate? Yep, that's what I used. Check it:

 Here's the inside:

I am so over with all the red/pink/kissy/mushy Valentine's Day stuff, that I made a Halloween card! LOL! I cut the mesh very wonky and adhered, then just searched my mega stash of Halloween supplies for some dimensional stickers. On the inside I inked the sentiment with red on the bottom and black on top before stamping to the card.  

Ooh! Shiny!

Want to play along? Sure you do! Just make sure to link up at Shopping Our Stash so we can see what you made! While there, please do check out what my teammies created for your viewing pleasure, and leave some love on their blogs! Thanks for visiting!

I'd like to enter this at:

Case This Sketch #159

Supplies:

Stamps: Hampton Arts - Beware

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Lady Bug

CS: Bazzill

Accessories: Anna Griffin - Boo sticker; Jolee's Boutique - spider sticker; red plastic mesh from a tangelo box!

Adhesives: Elmer's glue stick

JUST US GIRLS #308 - Wild Card Week!

Hello and good morning! Since there's an extra Saturday this month, JUST US GIRLS has a Wild Card Week! Nancy is your hostess this week and she came up with a great sketch for you to try! Here is my take on it:

 And the inside:

So the only stamping done is on the inside. But that's ok. I used up some of my Christmas stockpile, and I feel really good about that. You can't really see it from the photo, but all the stickers have bits of glitter added for some subtle shimmer. Awesome!

I hope you find some time this coming week to play along at Just Us Girls! Please be sure to check out what my teammies created and leave them some bloggy love. Also, it's our GD, Karen Bourke's last post with us. Thank you, Karen, for guest designing this month with us! Your card creations were amazing, and I hope to see you playing along with us in the future!

Just a reminder, if you are picked as Chic of the Week for any of our August challenges, you'll be in the running to be our Guest Designer for the month of October. Have fun and get crafty!

I'd like to enter this at Merry Monday #169

Supplies:

Stamps: Hero Arts

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

CS: Bazzill; Darice

Accessories: GC; Avery Elle - Double Stitched Rectangle dies; Anna Griffin - 3D stickers and holly border; Kaisercraft EF

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

Drunken Stampers #144: Person - Neil Armstrong

Good morning friends! It's time for another challenge at Drunken Stampers! Challenge 144: Person - Neil Armstrong.

As you may know, this term's challenges will be either a person, place, or thing. This week we pay homage to the first person to walk on the moon! (Side note: when we were coming up with the challenges, I asked my hubby to name a person off the top of his head. Yep, you guessed it: he picked Neil Armstrong! Not surprising as hubby has a PhD in astrophysics! I'm sure Spike decided to pick this person for our challenges because, well, this IS a challenge blog! We want to challenge you!) Anyhooo, it's team Tropical Hooters turn this week and here's what I came up with:

Here is another pic that shows the debossing on the "moon":

I stamped, colored and fussy cut the Earth and astronaut. My flag is made from red and white striped ribbon that I adhered around a tooth pick. I cut a teeny tiny piece of blue card stock and used a white marker to make the "stars" then adhered to the flag. I love the paper I used for the moon. It almost glows just like it! I die cut a piece of it from a grand circle nestie then used a bubble wrap embossing folder to deboss it, to emulate meteor hits. I wanted a goofy sentiment so I heat embossed the 'Hi ma'. ☺

Ok, so there you have it. I hope you find some time to play along with the Drunken Stampers this week! Don't forget to check out what the other members of Team Tropical Hooters came up with!

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Card Making Day!!

Craft on my friends!
Chris
Supplies
Stamps: Paper Smooches - Space Cadet, Green Acres (sentiment)
Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Versa Mark
DP: Graphic 45 - Happy Haunting (stars); Anna Griffin (moon)
Card stock: Recollections
Accessories: Grand Calibur & Grand Circle Nesties; Sizzix/TH Bubble Wrapping EF; Spectrum Noir markers; Stampendous detail white EP; Sakura - White Gelly Roll pen; Ribbon from stash; toothpick; heat gun; SA by 3L & Recollection red tape adhesives

That Sucks...

Hi all and good morning! I want to share a card with you that I made using the current sketch from Sweet Sunday Sketch #194, and since I used Paper Smooches stamps, I'll add this one to the current Sparks - Anything Goes challenge:

Here is the inside:

Based my card from this sketch:

I have a bat theme going on all over this card. See the gray DP with the black bats? Those bats are flocked! Awesome! I keep petting this card! Hahahaha!! Found the perfect sentiment to go with that cute hanging bat image! LOL! I really wanted to stamp an arrow that had a 90 degree angle to it, but I couldn't find one, so I went with the straight arrow above the sentiment. The branch was masked (badly) from a tree image and didn't come out dark enough, so I went over it with a marker. Glossy Accents was added to the eyes.

This past weekend I stamped a bunch of images and colored them with my Spectrum Noir markers. I think I'm starting to get the hang of how alcohol markers work. (But I'm still a work in progress!) ;) You'll see more in future posts.

Well, that's all for now. Thanks for hanging out with me! Have a fabulous day!

Craft on my friends!
Chris
Supplies
Stamps: Paper Smooches - Falling for you, Halloweenies, Squeaky Clean, Fancifull Fall, Teen Routine
Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Gray Flannel
DP and ribbon: Anna Griffin - Esmeralda
CS: Bazzill; Recollections; Xpress It
Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; Ranger Glossy Accents; SA by 3L adhesive