Drunken Stampers #157: Anything Goes

We're bbbaaaaaacccccckkkkkk! LOL! That's right, the  Drunken Stampers are back!! This week we are making it soooooo easy for you all! It's an Anything Goes challenge! Can't get much simpler than that! LOL! 

Here's what I came up with:

and the inside:

Why yes, that IS a crocheted mat made by none other than the fabulous Jessi Fogan, one of my teammates! (You can pay me for the plug later. ☺)  This is a very simple Christmas card. Some DP, the mat, and a chipboard ornament is really all it took! A stamped sentiment on the inside finishes it off! 

Oh, and since I'm using an ornament on this card, I'm going to enter this for the Merry Monday #93: use an ornament. 

So, what are you waiting for? Go get your craft on and enter your card or project on our link! Oh, and don't forget to check out what my teammates did to impress the heck out of you! LOL! 

Thanks for stopping by!

Chris

Supplies:

DP: Recollections: Believe

CS: Recollections (white); WRMK (red)

Stamp: BoBunny - Holiday Wishes

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

Accessories: Crocheted mat by Jessi Fogan; Mambi - chipboard ornament; Fiskars corner rounder

Adhesives: SA by 3L - MyStik permanent, 3D foam squares

Drunken Stampers #156 Person: Marilyn Monroe

Hello and good morning! I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and that Santa gave you everything you wished for! LOL!

It's a new week at the Drunken Stampers challenge blog. This weeks person/place/thing challenge is a person - Marilyn Monroe! (or you can use the sub theme and make something with glam or glamorous!)

My team the Tropical Hooters are up to inspire you this week! Here's what I dreamed up:

Clip Art to the rescue! Again! A bit of glitter paper, some rhinestones, and a printed quote make for an easy card! And look at it sparkle! LOL! You may have noticed that there is no picture of the inside. That's because I haven't finished it. (a rarity for me!) I'm not sure if this will be a graduation, a congratulations, or a just because card. I'll figure it out. Sometime. ☺

That's it for me! Please make sure to see what my teammates dreamed up for your viewing pleasure over at the Drunken Stampers blog! Thanks for stopping by and stay crafty my friends!

Chris
Supplies:
American Crafts - glitter paper
CS: Recollections
Accessories: Clip Art and sentiment printed from internet; Grand Calibur; Labels One Nestie; Recollections - rhinestones; Berwick - tinsel cord
Adhesives: SA by 3L - MyStik permanent, 3D foam squares; Glue Dots; Recollections red tape

Drunken Stampers #154 - Place: Paris

Hello and good morning to you all! It's Saturday and that means it's time for another challenge at the Drunken Stampers challenge blog! This week my teammies, the Tropical Hooters, are up. This week for our Person/Place/Thing challenge is a place: Paris to be exact!

You can make a project with Paris in particular, or use romance in general. Here's what I came up with:

Here's the inside:

Yep, another snarky sentiment on the inside. Oh how I lurv to do that! LOL! After adhering the blue panel to the card base, I inked the edges with Ranger DI walnut stain. For the main panel, after stamping off first on some scrap paper,  I stamped the Eiffel Tower off the lower left edge and inked around the edges.  I added the wine glass and cheese stickers. The bread was clip art I printed and fussy cut. I also printed out the inside sentiment. I thought it needed a little something more, so I glued tiny flowers and rhinestones at the top of the main panel. Good, that's better. (at least to me. ☺)

Since I have stickers, flowers and bling, I'm going to enter this at Shopping Our Stash #130

Thanks for stopping by and please make sure you check out what the other Tropical Hooters came up with! Even better, why not challenge yourself and make a Paris inspired project via the Drunken Stampers challenge blog! You know you want to! LOL! Have a great day and craft on my friends!

Chris
Supplies:
Stamps: Unity December 2012 KOM
Ink: Memento - Rich Cocoa; Ranger DI - Walnut Stain
DP: MME - Paris & Co.
CS: Bazzill; Recollections
Accessories: Jolee's Boutique - stickers; Flowers from my stash; Recollections - rhinestones; Inside sentiment & bread clip art printed from computer
Adhesives: SA by 3L - MyStik Permanent, 3D foam squares

Drunken Stampers #152 Thing: Metal

Good Morning to you! To those living in the States, I hope you all had a fabulous Thanksgiving! As always, I ate too much. LOL! Guess I really need to get back on that treadmill soon. Ugh!

Anyway, today starts a new challenge at the Drunken Stampers challenge blog! For our Person/Place/Thing challenge this week, it's a thing. Metal to be exact.

So, of course, I was maybe/sort of/kinda stretching it when I made my card for this challenge:

Here is the finished inside:

Shopping carts are made of metal, aren't they? (Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?) Well, that's my story and I'm sticking with it! ☺ I stamped a bunch of shopping bags from scrap paper and die cut the cart from gray card stock. I glued the bags to the inside of the cart before adhering it on the card with foam squares. The center of the wheels were hand cut circles from a scrap of black card stock. I purposely cut them wonky because, well, who has ever pushed a cart that didn't have at least one wheel go wonky! Yeah, you know what I'm talking about! I tied some floss to the handle, stamped the sentiment and finished the inside. Yep, I'm being me again, going with another snarky sentiment! LOL! I thought it fitting since yesterday was Black Friday! HA!

Well, that's it for me. Be sure to check out what the other members of Team Tropical Hooters came up with to delight and inspire you! Better yet, why not play along with the Drunken Stampers this week? You may even by crowned the Life of the Party! Woot Woot!

Have a great day and stay crafty my friends!

Chris
Supplies:
Stamps: Bugaboo - Stella Christmas Psycho; Paper Smooches - Retail Therapy
Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Ranger DI - Peeled Paint
DP: Scraps
Card stock: Bazzill (red, gray); Recollections (white, black)
Accessories: Grand Calibur; Paper Smooches - Shopping Cart die; DMC floss
Adhesives: SA by 3L - MyStik Permanent, 3D foam squares; Elmer's extra strength glue stick 

Drunken Stampers Challenge #150: Person - Elvis

Good Morning friends! It's Saturday and that means a new challenge is up at the Drunken Stampers Challenge Blog! This week for our Person, Place, or Thing challenge is a person. That person is Elvis!

We challenge you to create a project based on Elvis, music, or you can go all out and combine BOTH! The Tropical Hooters team is up this week and here is what I came up with:

(here is the inside of my card:)

You can't read this without Elvis' southern accent, can you?! LOL! I admit, this challenge had me stumped at first. But when I started looking for Elvis clipart, I came across this image and knew right away what I wanted to do! I started with a white card base and covered the front with glitter paper. After printing out the image, I trimmed the main panel to size and adhered it with foam squares. I stamped the word bubble and thank you, fussy cut, and adhered with more foam squares. I then sprinkled the panel with gold sequins and clear rhinestones. I mean, really, doesn't glitter, sequins, rhinestones and Elvis go hand in hand?! ☺ I printed out the inside sentiment with a font that closely matched the font on the stamp and that was that!

I hope that you get a chance to play along this week with the Drunken Stampers! Please be sure to stop by the blogs of my teammates to see what they all came up with! Have a fabulous day!

Thank you. Thank you very much.

Chris
Supplies:
Stamps: Paper Smooches - Many Thanks, He Said She Said
Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black
DP: American Crafts glitter paper
Card stock: Recollections
Accessories: Elvis clipart from internet; Nicole - sequins; rhinestones from my stash; inside sentiment printed from Microsoft Word
Adhesives: SA by 3L - EZ Runner, 3D foam squares; Helmar 450 glue

Drunken Stampers challenge #148: A Workplace

Hello and Good Morning! It's Saturday and that means it's time for a new challenge with the Drunken Stampers! This week we focus on a place, from our person/place/thing challenges: A Workplace!

We want to see how clever you are in creating your fabulous designs! Soooo many possibilities! My team, the Tropical Hooters, is up this week to dazzle you! Here is what I came up with:

...and the inside:

See what I did there? I put my snarky, sarcastic remark on the FRONT of the card, instead of the inside! Can you just picture a secretary saying this when fielding phone calls for her boss? LOL! I used paper, a sticker and miscellany from October Afternoon's 9 to 5 collection. Love that useless info sticker! I stuck it on some scrap kraft paper, trimmed to size, then adhered. After adhering the secretary die cut with foam squares, I hand wrote the sentiment in. (Of course, they are now called administrative professionals. I Googled it to be sure! ☺) Let me tell ya, I was relieved to find a tiny alpha sticker sheet in my stash that had enough letters to finish all the words! LOL! How did I get them relatively even? I'll tell ya: I started with the word 'day' and worked my way up. I used a ruler and stuck the letters on the edge of it. Then after eyeballing how they were lined up, I pressed the tops of them onto the card while carefully peeling the ruler away. Just went over them again with my fingers to make sure they stuck well to the card.

I hope you get to play along with the Workplace challenge at Drunken Stampers this week! Don't forget to check out what my teammates came up with! Thanks for stopping by and have a fantastic day!

Chris
Supplies:
DP, sticker, miscellany: October Afternoon - 9 to 5 collection
Card stock: Recollections
Glitz Design alpha stickers
Adhesives: SA by 3L - MyStik, 3D foam squares; Recollections - red tape

Drunken Stampers # 146 Thing: Wood

Hello and welcome to another challenge at the Drunken Stampers Challenge blog! As you may know, this term is all about a Person, Place or Thing. This week is a thing: Wood. You can use any wood or woodgrain element on your project!

It's team Tropical Hooters turn this week, and here is what I came up with:

...and the inside:

Hahahaha! I lurvs me a great punch line on the inside of my cards! I colored some wood word bubbles with Glimmer Mists and used some woodgrain paper for my card. The stamp I used had four ladies on it, but I masked just this one because of how she was posed. And yes, I caved to a current trend and bought a small bag of sequins. The inside sentiment was printed out on my computer. (If you don't have a stamp that says what you want, then Microsoft Word to the rescue! LOL!)

I hope you get the chance to play along with the Drunken Stampers this week! Please be sure to stop by the other members of team Tropical Hooters to see what they came up with! Have a great day!

Chris
Supplies
Stamps: Hampton Arts/G45 - Fashionista Ladies
Ink: Memento - Gray Flannel
DP: MME - Dolled Up
Card stock: Recollections
Accessories: Recollections - wood word bubbles; Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist - Aquamarine, Yellow Daisy, Terracotta  Candy Apple Red; Nicole - sequins; Fiskars - Romantique corner rounder; inside sentiment printed from Microsoft Word.

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

Drunken Stampers challenge #143: Thing - Die Cuts

Hello and good morning to you! Did you know the current challenge at Drunken Stampers is all about Die Cuts?!

Yepper! This is gonna be a huge challenge I predict! It's the Yellow Canaries turn this week to dazzle you with their creations, but you know I just had to play along! ☺

Here is the inside of the card:

I'm also going to enter this for the current CAS(E) this Sketch #47 challenge,

also for the Paper Smooches Sparks challenge - Anything Goes

and for the  Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes challenge.

I love a simple design. I tend to gravitate toward CAS designs more than anything else. And since Halloween is upon us, I'm cranking out cards for that holiday. I used the Jumbo Squiggle Border Die-Namic from MFT in three different patterned papers. Check out that orange damask paper with the skull and cross bones! LOVE! I stamped, colored and fussy cut the cutie patootie monster (Don't have the outline die for him...yet!) and adhered him with foam squares. I also added some Glossy Accents to his eyes. I used some scrap of the die cut orange paper on the inside too. Stamped the sentiment to finish it off.

I hope you get a chance to play along with the Drunken Stampers Die Cut challenge! You have until Friday, October 4th, 11:59 pm PST to get your entry in! Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Craft on my friends!

Chris
Supplies:
Stamps: Paper Smooches - Falling for you, Halloweenies
Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black
DP: Authentique - Thrilling (orange, black); Recollections - Simply Autumn (green)
CS: Bazzill Basics (purple); Recollections (white)
Accessories: Grand Calibur; MFT - Jumbo Squiggle border Die-Namic; Spectrum Noir markers; Ranger - Glossy Accents; SA by 3L adhesives

Drunken Stampers challenge #142 Place: London

Good morning and welcome to another fun filled challenge from the Drunken Stampers! This term our challenges are based on a person, place, or thing. This week is a place: London!

I've never been there. To be honest I never wanted to. (But to visit Scotland would be awesome! Something about a man wearing a kilt...yummy!) But I digress, back to the challenge at hand! Team Tropical Hooters is up this week with their interpretations of this challenge - here's what I came up with:

Here is the inside:

If you follow me, you know I love a good punch line on the inside of my cards! LOL! I always hear that London is rainy and foggy, so I used gray card stock and some paper with umbrellas on it. The center panel looked plain so I stamped the opposite corners with this brick stamp. (I won this set and thought it was about time to start using it!) I printed the sentiments from my computer and assembled the card. Again I thought the inside panel looked plain so I stamped a big mug of beer on it! Sweet! 3D stickers with a London theme made easy work of it!

I hope you find time to play along with us at Drunken Stampers. Make sure you stop by my Tropical Hooters teammies to see what they dreamed up! Thanks for stopping by!

Pip Pip Cherrio!

Chris

Supplies
Stamps: Raisin Boat - Edgy Accents; Unity - Keep Calm Have a Beer Itty Bitty
Ink: Memento - Gray Flannel
DP: MME - Quite Contrary Jack & Jill
Card stock: DCWV (gray); Recollections (black, beige)
Adhesive: SA by 3L - MyStik, 3D foam squares
Accessories: Paper House London Stickers; WRMK - glitter brads; Provo Craft Scalloped Scissors; Font: Snap ITC from Microsoft Word

Drunken Stampers challenge #141 Person: Bartender

Good morning my friends! Today starts another challenge at the Drunken Stampers challenge blog! This week is focused on a person. A Bartender, to be exact!

The challenge is to base your card on a bartender, or use the prompts as a guide. In this case, drinks or a bar. What an amazingly fitting challenge for this blog! LOL! Also, it happens to be my birthday today, so drinks all around! YAY! (Go shorty! It's my birthday!) ☺

Technically, it's Team Yellow Canaries turn this week to inspire you, but you know I couldn't NOT make something for this challenge! LOL! Not only did I make something, but I made TWO somethings! HA! Check it out:

and the inside:

The planets must have been aligned since I just got the wine stamp from Unity, then Paper Smooches came out with drink themed stamps and dies. HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY! I started with a card base made from "wine" colored card stock. Cut a strip of patterned paper and die cut the wine glass and adhered with foam dots. Stamped the sentiment and added some rhinestones for a bit of bling. On the inside I die cut the wine glass again and added the cheers sentiment. Super easy card!

My next card I totally cased from Laura Bassen. (Thanks Laura! You are brilliant!) I just fell in love with her card and KNEW I was going to make one myself!

Here's the inside:

another angle of the front so you can see the Glossy Accents in action!

I used my new Spectrum Noir markers to color this. (My Hubby surprised me with the last 7 sets I hinted at wanting for my birthday present. And gave me my gift early so I could play with them a bit this week! He is THE best husband in the Universe!! ♥ Love you Andy!!)

I plan on giving these to my sisters later today. As you are reading this, we (including our fur baby) are on our way to the beach house we rented in NC. Even better, BOTH of my sisters will be joining us for most of the week to drink ,celebrate, drink, bake in the sun, drink, and just have fun and be goofy! (Did I mention we'll be drinking?) This just may be the BEST birthday week for me EVER! I'm SO excited I can barely sit still!!

Ok, enough about me. Go check out what the Yellow Canaries team came up with at Drunken Stampers. I guarantee you won't be disappointed!

Bartender! Another round please!

Chris
Supplies

Drink your wine card:
Stamps: Unity - Drink your wine Itty Bitty; Paper Smooches - Birthday Sampler
Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black
DP: Studio Calico - Snippets
Card stock: Bazzill Basics
Adhesives: SA by 3L - MyStik; American Crafts foam dots
Accessories: Spellbinders Grand Calibur; Paper Smooches dies - Drink Glasses; Colorbok & Studio 112 rhinestones; Fiskars corner rounder

Let's Celebrate card:
Stamps: Paper Smooches - Free Spirits, Birthday Sampler
Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black
DP: Graphic 45 - Bohemian Bazaar
Card stock: Recollections
Adhesives: SA by 3L - MyStik, 3D foam squares
Accessories: X-Press It blending card; Spectrum Noir markers; Ranger Glossy Accents

Drunken Stampers #140 Thing: Buttons

Good Morning friends! It's Saturday morning and that means another challenge at Drunken Stampers! This week's challenge is all about buttons!

Just use a button or buttons on your card! Easy peasy! It's Team Tropical Hooters turn this week to inspire you. Here's what I came up with:

And the inside:

Ok, it's the first Christmas card I made this year. A record really. I usually start making Christmas cards in November. Queen of procrastination: that's me! I dipped into my button stash. (yes I have a lot of buttons, no I rarely use them. Silly me) Well, to be honest, I store them in a mason jar which I dumped out on my desk and fished out green and brown buttons. Much more fun that way! I tied gold floss on the green buttons. I glued them with the floss on angles to make it look like the "tree" had "garland". The star is a shank button, I just took pliers to the shank and broke it off. I stamped then embossed the sentiments with champagne embossing powder. I thought it still needed a little somethin' somethin' so I traced a gold pen around the main panel. Stamped the inside in gold ink and I was done!

So, what are you waiting for? Go break out that stash of buttons you've been hording and make something pretty! But first, go check out what my Tropical Hooter teammates dreamed up! You have until Friday to link up to the Drunken Stampers challenge blog!  Happy crafting!

Chris
Supplies
Stamps: MFT - Seasonal Sentiments
Ink: Versa Mark; Clear Snap - gold
DP: MME - Ooh La La
Card stock: Bazzill Basics
Adhesives: SA by 3L - MyStik; Helmar 450 glue
Accessories: Buttons from my stash; DMC floss; Stampendous - champagne EP; Heat gun; Sakura - gold Gelly Roll pen

Enjoy!

Good mornings friends! There's a new challenge at Drunken Stampers: #139 Place - A campsite. You can use a campsite as your inspiration, or the prompts, in this case woodgrain or wooden elements. You can even go all cray cray and do BOTH!




 It's not my week to play, Team Yellow Canaries is up this week to inspire you, but I still wanted to have some fun with this challenge. I think I pulled it off. What do you think?:

Here's the inside:

Guess who's stamps I used?!! LOL! So, I made a scene. Lots of trees, some rolling hills, a tent in the distance, and a deer roasting marshmallows over a campfire. Hey, it can happen! Lots of fussy cutting on this one. Added some shading to the trees and deer. I just love how this came out!

I'm going to enter this for #116: For the Boys challenge at Shopping Our Stash and also for Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes challenge.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope that you not only check out the Drunken Stampers Campsite challenge, but play along as well!

Craft on my friends! Happy Labor Day weekend to those celebrating!

Chris
Supplies
Stamps: Paper Smooches - Happy Camper, Autumn Groves, Birthday Sampler, Forest Whimsy
Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Rich Cocoa, Gray Flannel
DP: scraps
Card stock: The Paper Co. (blue), scraps
Adhesives: SA by 3L - MyStik, 3D foam squares; Elmer's extra strength glue stick
Accessories: Spellbinders Grand Calibur, Std. Lg Ovals, Scalloped Circles Sm Nesties; Paper Smooches - Borders 1 dies; Marvy Uchida markers

Drunken Stampers challenge 138 Person: Party Planner

Good morning peeps! It's time for another fun filled challenge at the Drunken Stampers! This week's challenge is based on a Person - specifically a Party Planner.

If that throws you off your game, never fear. You can create a project that has to do with any celebration, be it a birthday, anniversary, wedding, etc. It's team Tropical Hooter's turn this week to dazzle you! Here's what I came up with:

I tried using some foil paper for the card. I really like how it looks, but it's a b*tch to photograph! LOL! Here are some different angles so you can bask in the reflectiveness! HA!

Here is the finished inside:

Yep, I used my beloved Paper Smooches stamps! It's an obsession that I do not want to be cured of! LOL! So, on to my card. I thought that a little scene depicting a happy little doggie celebrating a birthday would work splendidly for this challenge! I heat embossed him, then colored and fussy cut him out. Even added Glossy Accents to give his eyes some dimension. Here's a tip for adding a custom party hat to an image: on a piece of scrap paper stamp just the top of the head, then draw two lines to make the hat. Cut out using the contour line from the head and you will have a perfect fit for your party hat! I used some glitter glue along the bottom of the hat and added a rhinestone at the tip. Easy peasy! And what's a party without a banner, cake, and presents! To keep with the doggie theme, I used a paw print border punch along the edges of the foil paper. Super cute!

So, what are you waiting for? Go and play along with our new challenge, Party Planner, and have FUN! Don't forget to check out what my Tropical Hooter teammates dreamed up! You won't be disappointed!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope that you have a great day!

Craft on my friends!

Chris 
Supplies:
Stamps: Paper Smooches - Chubby Chums, Birthday Sampler
Ink: Versa Mark; Clear Snap - Dark Peony
DP: MME - Dolled Up; Recollections foil paper
Card stock: Recollections (white); Bazzill Basics (pink)
Adhesive: SA by 3L - MyStik, 3D foam squares; Glue Dots
Accessories: Marvy Uchida markers; EK Success - Paw Print Edger; K&Co. stickers; KI Memories - alpha stickers; Doodlebug twine; Glossy Accents; Inkadinkado - black embossing powder; heat gun; rhinestone from my stash; Glitter glue - happy mail from MFW's Cath Edvalson!