The Sisterhood is back! #176 - A is for ATC

 

Hello and welcome snarky peeps!

The SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS

is back with our first challenge of the new year: ATC's!

If you don't know what that is, it's an Artist Trading Card/Coin.

There's plenty of links you can check out on the Google.

This is what I came up with:

 A bit of recycled cardboard, some paint, splatters, ink, a stencil (NBUS!), stickers,

and of course, a snarky sentiment and this came together better 

than I thought it would. LOL!

I hope that you find some time this fortnight to play along in our ATC

challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!

For more inspiration, do yourself a favor and check out what my

Sisters, and our reigning Queen, Beverly, have created for your

viewing pleasure. Thanks for visiting!

 

I'd like to enter this at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge- use a new/unused product

 

Supplies:

Substrate: recycled cardboard

DecoArt Media gesso

Loew-Cornell paintbrush

DecoArt Americana acrylic paint - Desert Turquoise, Titanium White

DecoArt Media - Carbon Black mist

Staz On ink - Blue Hawaii

Tim Holtz blending tool

Echo Park - Catching Waves stencil

white card stock scrap

Sticko & Jolee's Boutique stickers

Simon Says Stamp - Adult Beverages Sayings stamp

SA by 3L thin 3D foam squares

 

SHOPPING OUR STASH #414 - The Great Outdoors

Hello and happy Tuesday to you!

We have a new challenge starting today at

SHOPPING OUR STASH -  The Great Outdoors!

Anything outdoors or nature inspired is good.

I focused on being outdoors, hiking! One of my favorite

things to do when the weather cooperates. LOL!

I've had this hiking boot sticker in my stash for years, and finally decided

to use it. I had to dig around, but I knew I had a stamp set that had boot tracks on it.

Luckily I found it. Some ink blending around the edges, and a simple 

sentiment finishes my card.

What does the great outdoors mean to you? Flowers? Birds? Inner tubing

down the local river? We'd love to see your take on it in the

Shopping Our Stash gallery. For more inspiration, do check out

what my teammies created and leave them some bloggy love while visiting!

Thanks for stopping by!

I'd like to enter this at Addicted to Stamps and More #376 - ATG 

ETA: Oops. Guess I read the deadline date wrong. Oh well. ☺

Supplies:

Stamps: Paper Smooches - Happy Camper, Flap Happy

Ink: Memento - Rich Cocoa, Tuxedo Black

CS: Bazzill, Recollections

Accessories: Jolee's Boutique hiking boot sticker; MISTI; Picket Fence Studio blending brush

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

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

The beach fixes everything

Hello there crafty friends!

I was having a bit of play time in my craft room yesterday

and created this card:

I used an acrylic block to 'stamp' my background.

I added a few different Distress Inks onto it, spritzed with water,

then smooshed it onto my watercolor paper panel.

Once dried, I trimmed to size, stamped the sentiment, matted,

and used a dimensional sticker that worked perfectly.

 Here's what it looked like before adding the sticker:

That sticker is awesome. It came with the sand, and that tiny chain

on the bow of the boat is real!

That's all for now. Gotta go and get some laundry cleaned. Ugh.

Have a wonderful day!

I'd like to enter this at:

Just Us Girls #452 - beach

Mix It Up challenge blog #16 - ATG + acrylic block stamping

Supplies:

Stamps: Impression Obsession

Ink: Ranger DI - peacock feathers, antique linen, mermaid lagoon, tumbled glass; Memento - Nautical blue

CS: Neenah; Strathmore water color paper

Accessories: acrylic block; water mister; Jolee's Boutique dimensional sticker; MISTI

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner

SKETCH SATURDAY #460

Welcome crafty friends!

Another week, and another card for my GD gig at

SKETCH SATURDAY!

This week's sponsor is

DigiStamp Boutique, who is gifting

one lucky winner with a £10 gift certificate!

Here is my take on the sketch:

 Here's the inside:

I used one of the adorable mice from the

Bert Christmas Set. This cute critter is colored with Spectrum Noir markers,

and I've added some Wink of Stella to the hat, scarf, stocking and ground for 

a bit of shimmer.

Ooh! Shimmery!

Ready to play along? Of course you are! We can't wait to see what 

you create with this week's sketch at Sketch Saturday! 

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

Hugs,

Supplies: DigiStamp Boutique - Bert Christmas set; Taylored Expressions - In and Out Christmas
Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black
DP: American Crafts - Wish List
CS: Crafter's Companion; TE; scraps
Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; Wink of Stella pen; MISTI; Fiskars corner rounder; Jolee's - snowflake sticker; computer & printer
Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, Thin 3D foam squares

SHOPPING OUR STASH #285 - Stickle Me Elmo

Hello friends and happy Tuesday! We have a new challenge starting today at SHOPPING OUR STASH! As our prompt suggests, we want to see Stickles, or a similar product, on your cards or projects. Here's my card:

 ...and the inside:

This card turned out totally different than how I first imagined it. I wanted to put a sentiment banner between the two groups of flowers, but I realized I left too much white space at the top of the panel. This also wasn't supposed to have bees on it. The bee under the word wishes is hiding an ink smudge. I couldn't have just one bee, so I stuck two more on it. Happy accidents, because I really like how it turned out. I used Star Dust Stickles and traced around the roses. the leaf veins, and the largest dot on the dot trio stamp. Even the bees came with glittery bodies! Bonus!

Now it's your turn to break out those neglected bottles of Stickles, Wink of Stella pens, SN Sparkle pens, or any kind of glitter glue, and create something with them! Don't forget to link up at Shopping Our Stash so we can admire it. For even more inspiration, check out what my teammies came up with and leave some love on their blogs. I'd also like to welcome our Guest Designer, Marina! I'm looking forward to crafting with you this month! 

Thanks for visiting. Now go forth and create something fun and sparkly!

Just a reminder: We are looking for Guest Designers! If you'd like to be considered for February GD, simply leave a 'DT' after your name when you link up! Easy peasy lemon squeezy!

I'd like to enter this at:

Seize the Birthday - ATG

613 Avenue Create - ATG with favorite technique twist - mine is masking

Supplies:

Stamps: Winnie & Walter - The big the bold & Extras, The big the bold & Party

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Lady Bug, Angel Pink, Bamboo Leaves, New Sprout, Gray Flannel

CS: TE, Darice

Accessories: MISTI; GC; Avery Elle - Pierced Rect dies; MFT - Stitched Rect Frames; Ranger - Star Dust Stickles; Inkadinkado - masking paper; Jolee's Boutique - bee stickers

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #70 D is for Day of the Dead

Hello snarky peeps! This fortnight at the SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS, we are celebrating the Day of the Dead!! Think sugar skulls, skeletons, roses, zombies, etc. It's gonna be fun! How about that amazing graphic by Sister Lee?! She has crazy amazing graphic arts skillz!!

So here is my card:

Here's the inside:

A couple things on this card, I was gifted by my Snarky Sistah Donna: the skulls and flair stickers (the pink/purple parts of the flair stickers are holographic, so this was a biotch to photograph). and the black background paper with the silver skull and bones. Soooo freakin awesome!! Thanks again Sistah! MUAH!!

I hope you get the chance to play along at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers with our Day of the Dead challenge! I can't wait to see what you link up! For more inspiration, please check out what my Sistahs created, along with our newest Guest Designer, Mimi, and leave them some bloggy lovin! Thanks for visiting, and I hope you have a fantastic day!

I'd like to enter this at Freshly Made Sketches #258

Supplies:

Stamps: Stampendous - Tricky Words

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; VersaMark; Ranger DI - Black Soot

DP: black w/silver bones a gift from Donna; scraps

CS: Darice

Accessories: Sugar skull stickers (Jolee's Boutique) a gift from Donna; Whisper's - Silver EP; heat gun; MISTI; TH - sponge tool

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, Thin 3D foam squares; Glue Dots; Ranger - Multi Medium Matte

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

2.10 Ruff Day?

Don't freak out or anything. Put the coffee/soda/alcoholic beverage down first. Ok? I made a layout yesterday. I know, right?! It's been months since I've made one, and making pretty things on a larger scale than an A2 sized card has been calling to me. I caved. And I'm glad! Here's what I did:

My fur baby, Colby. He's a rescue dog: he rescued Andy and me! I swear I don't know how we survived so long without him! This was taken not too long after he adopted us. He had a play date with some of the neighbor's fur babies, and got himself all tuckered out. The boy sure can take up the entire couch! LOL!

I'm participating at DCWV's February Stack-a-holic challenge, using this sketch:

I broke out the Tattered Time Stack for this layout. Love the old world vibe to this stack! (Plus all the colors in my accent pillows are represented in this stack - Sweet! LOL!) I like this sketch a lot because you get to focus on just one picture. And I love this picture! I hope you get the chance to play along also.

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you have a great day! Stay crafty my friends!

Chris
Supplies
DP: DCWV - Tattered Time Stack
CS: DCWV (rust); scraps
Accessories: Jolee's By You - paw print stickers; Studio Calico - photo frame; Clear Snap - dark brown ink; American Crafts - Thickers, black Slick Writer pen
Adhesives: SA by 3L - MyStik permanent 

Eat, Drink, and be Scary!

Happy Wednesday my friends! Do you have anything crafty going on? It's overcast and cool here in my neck of the woods. I did a bunch of housework yesterday so, other than switching out loads of laundry, I figured I'd get crafty and finish this card I started the other day. And perhaps make another card. Or two...

I'm going to enter this in the Moxie Fab World's Stickers and Tape Challenge:

Here is the inside of the card:

I cut 1" wide strips of white card stock and covered them in different Washi tape, using Halloween colors for my card. Then I rounded the corners of the strips. At this point, Andy came in the room, glanced at the strips and said, "Are you making band-aids?" LOL! Ok, yes they do look like band-aids. Ya got me there! (Note to self: purchase another corner rounder with a smaller curve.) Since I didn't have a stamp, I printed the sentiment from my computer, added some Washi tape on the ends, and stuck the ghost goblet sticker on it. All panels are adhered with foam squares. On the inside, I added three strips of Washi tape, stamped the sentiment, and I was done!

Thanks for hanging out with me for a bit. You still have plenty of time to enter this challenge, hope to see you there! Craft on my friends!

Chris
Supplies:
Washi tape: Recollections; Studio Calico (I think?? orange washi)
Card stock: Recollections
Accessories: Jolee's Boutique - dimensional sticker; Font: Showcard Gothic - Microsoft Word;  Fiskars corner rounder; Stamp: Hero Arts - Celebrate Everyday set; Ink: Ranger DI - Dusty Concord; Adhesive: SA by 3L - foam squares

Drunken Stampers #136 - Place: A Beach

Good Morning and happy Saturday to you! It's time again for another challenge at Drunken Stampers! For this term, the challenges will be either a person, a place, or a thing, and will alternate each week! How cool is that?!! You can create a project using the main objective, or the sub title, or go bold and use BOTH! HA! This week's challenge is a Place: A Beach, with the option to use water/the beach/tropics as your theme.

Team Tropical Hooters (Love that name! Our team names are based on drink names! LOL!) is up to bat this week to amaze you with their crafty genius! Here is what I came up with:

Here is the inside:

This was such a fun challenge to create for. Mainly because the beach IS my Happy Place! There's nothing more relaxing than parking your butt in a beach chair with the sun on your face, the smell of the salty breeze and suntan lotion, the sound of the waves crashing on the shore, and a cold drink in your hand! LOVE LOVE LOVE!!

I wanted to create a scene for my card, and since I have a ton of beach themed stickers, I went to town using them! The background panel was made with scraps of blue card stock and two different patterned papers to mimic sky, ocean, and sand. After those were adhered, I just picked a bunch of dimensional stickers to make the scene. Even though the umbrella already was sticky on the back, I only adhered the pole directly to the back panel, but used foam dots on the umbrella. (I wanted the top of the chair to fit under the umbrella.)  I die cut some clouds and adhered, and stamped the sentiment. Finished the inside with another sentiment and a pair of sunglasses and I was done!

I hope you have the chance to play along with the Drunken Stampers this week! Oh, and don't forget to check out what my Tropical Hooters teammates came up with! You won't be disappointed!!

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

Chris
Supplies:
Stamps: Paper Smooches - Get Outta Town
Ink: Memento - Nautical Blue
DP: DCWV (tan); EK Success (blue)
Card stock: Recollections
Adhesives: SA by 3L - MyStik; American Crafts - foam dots; Elmer's extra strength glue stick
Accessories: Grand Calibur; Paper Smooches Dies: Clouds, Borders 1; Jolee's - various stickers; Fiskars corner rounder

MFW- Birthday sketch challenge

To stamp or not to stamp. That is the question. Well, that's the challenge, anyway, that goes along with this sketch for the Moxie Fab World's Birthday sketch challenge:

To make a card using stamps only, or make a card that doesn't use any stamps. Me? I love a good challenge, so I did both! Here's what I came up with:

Here's the no stamp card:

and the inside

A little card stock, some patterned paper, and stickers. Woo Hoo!

Here's my stamping only card:

the inside

Sorry for the wonky picture of the inside. When I flipped it over, it just kept falling flat. Grrrrr! Anyway, I stamped 3 beer mugs, colored and fussy cut. The white panel was stamped with a diamond background stamp. I didn't ink it up good since I wanted a grungy look to it. Stamped Happy Birthday, and adhered the panel and mugs with foam squares. The inside was stamped in Versa Mark and embossed in white.

That's all I have for now. Have a great day!

Chris
Supplies - bee birthday card
DP: MME - Follow Your Heart
Card stock: WRMK
Adhesives: SA by 3L - 3D foam squares
Accessories: Slice die cutting machine & Basics 1 cartridge (hexigons); Jolee's Boutique - bee stickers; SRM stickers - sentiments, dots

Supplies - beer mugs birthday card
Stamps: Paper Smooches - A Magical Spring, Birthday Sampler, Graffiti; Inkadinkado - diamonds background
Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Gray Flannel, Tangelo; Versa Mark; Staz On - Jet Black
Card stock: Recollections
Adhesive: SA by 3L - 3D foam squares
Accessories: Marvy Uchida markers; Fiskars corner rounder; Stampendous white EP; heat gun