SHOPPING OUR STASH #400!! - Christmas In July

Hello and happy Tuesday to you!

It's time for a new challenge at

SHOPPING OUR STASH!

We are celebrating our 400th challenge!

Woo Hoo!

And how are we celebrating? By having a

Christmas in July challenge. HA!!

Also, since we are in a festive mood, some of the design team

will be offering blog candy on their own blogs to a lucky commenter, myself included.

My offering is a brand new 24pc set of Derwent

 Inktense Blocks!

(I ordered a set last year, was sent two sets but only charged for one.

Their mishap is your possible gain!)

So onto my card. I shopped my hoarded Christmas stash and finally used

the last ornament stickers from a package. Yay!

and the inside:

I used traditional colors paired with an old world look for this one.

But then, I decided to make another card:

and the inside:

For this one, I decided on some fun, non-traditional colors, and used

a gift builder die as my focal image. I gave the ribbon a liberal coating of

my Wink of Stella pen, but of course, with my crack photography skillz,

you can't see it at all. LOL!

We hope that you'll help us celebrate our 400th challenge at

Shopping Our Stash and play along. For a chance at my prize offering,

simply click over on the right to follow my blog, (if you aren't already

following), and leave me a comment! The winner will be randomly chosen from
all commenters/followers.

 Thanks for visiting. Have a fantastic day!

I'd like to enter these cards at ABC Christmas Challenge - N is for No Peeking/O is for Ornament

Supplies:
Ornament card
Stamps: Hampton Arts/G45 - Christmas Emporium
Ink: Memento - Toffee Crunch
DP: G45 - Christmas Emporium
CS: TE; Bazzill; G45
Accessories: K & Company - ornament stickers
Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner

Present card
Stamps: STAMPlorations - Peace Love Joy
Ink: Memento - Bamboo Leaves; Ranger DI - Spun Sugar
CS: TE; Darice
Accessories: GC; CUTplorations - crazy double running stitch nesting rectangle die, gift builder 1;
ARTplorations - dots & dashes stencil; sponge dauber; computer & printer; MISTI; WOS pen
Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, 3d foam squares; Ranger - multi medium matte

SHOPPING OUR STASH #365 - Shaker Cards

Hello and welcome, crafty friends!

This weeks challenge at SHOPPING OUR STASH is to

make a shaker card!

For my card, I used a long neglected die and some ancient dimensional stickers:

Here's the inside, using some more stickers:

Yay! Another Christmas card done! Of course, you can make

whatever you want as long as it has the shaker element included. We'd

love to see what you create. Simply link up your project at Shopping Our Stash

so we can admire it! For even more ideas, do check out what the

rest of the SOS Crew have come up with.

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

I'd like to enter this at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown - stickers

Supplies:
Stamps: IndigoBlu - tasty textures
Ink: Memento - gray flannel; Ranger DI - vintage photo
CS: TE; Nicole
Accessories: GC; SB - Labels 1 Nesties; K & Co. - glad tidings stickers; Tim Holtz - small talk stickers; Crafter's Companion - acetate; mystery star sequins and beads from my stash
Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner; Scotch foam tape; Ranger - glossy accents

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #92 J is for Jumble

Greetings Snarky peeps!

Edna and the Sisters welcome you to our new challenge at the

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS:

J is for Jumble!

What's that mean? We want you to try your hand at a collage! 

Whether it be on a card, layout, canvas, whatever, we want to see it!

I created a mixed media canvas board:

As usual, I stalked Pinterest for inspiration, and came across this lovely collage by Pamela Towns.

(Thank you Pamela for being my muse!) Of course, I took the bones of her

gorgeous creation and went off on a mixed media tangent. 

I really intended to take pictures along the way, but I only got so far, and then 

I got so in the creative zone, I forgot to take more pictures. 

watered down acrylic paint - still wet.

I let this dry overnight.

Once the paint dried, I attached the long strip of ephemera with matte medium.

After that dried, I used a stencil and embossing paste in a couple corners.

I left this to air dry overnight.

At this point, I totally forgot to take pictures.

The hemp cord I braided myself. Except for the flower, sentiment and cord, all

the bits and pieces came from one ephemera pack. The flower was stamped

and fussy cut, and the swirl stamp is from the same stamp set.

 I thought it needed some bling, so I found some

ancient pearls to stick to the center of the flowers.

I'm actually quite pleased by how well this turned out. Collage is

not my strength, so I really fussed about placement of items forever on this.

I hope you find some time to play along in our Jumble challenge at the 

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers! I can't wait to see what you create!

Need more ideas? Then do check out what my Sisters and our newest

Guest Designer - Ike have made to inspire you!

Thanks for visiting!

Supplies:

US Art Supply - 5" x 7" canvas panel

DecoArt Americana Acrylic paint - Ultra Blue Deep, Berry Red, Purple Pizzazz

DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic paint - Carbon Black

water mister; various paint brushes

K & Co. - ephemera pack; Words & Phrases stickers

Dreamweaver - embossing paste; pallet knife

TCW - stencil

Golden - Matte Medium

Herschberg Schultz - hemp cord

Dare 2B Artzy/Totally Tracey stamps - Power of Flowers

Recollections - card stock

Staz-On - black ink

Ranger - Multi Medium Matte

SA by 3L - 3D & Thin  3D foam squares

Studio 112 - pearls