SHOPPING OUR STASH #356 - Pomp and Circumstance

Hello friends and welcome!

It's time for our next challenge at

SHOPPING OUR STASH!

Since it's that time of year for students graduating, we want to

see your Graduation cards. But, if you don't need one, as an alternative you

can just create a Congrats card. Options! Yay!

Here's what I came up with: 

 and the inside:

This was pretty simple to make. Using just two card stock colors, an embossing folder

and some ancient stickers from my stash, I created this simple yet

elegant graduation card. The stamped sentiment on the inside finishes it off.

I hope that you'll find some time this week to play along at our challenge

at Shopping Our Stash! We'd love to see what you create. Looking for more

ideas? Simply visit the blogs of my teammates to see what fabulous designs they made!

Thanks for stopping in. Have a fantastic day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Paper Smooches - Slang Gang

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

CS: Neenah; Bazzill

Accessories: Momenta and Sticko - stickers; GC; Sizzix - Dots EF; MISTI

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

SHOPPING OUR STASH #207 - For the Boys

Hello and welcome! It's the start of a new challenge at SHOPPING OUR STASH! This week, it's all about the guys: we want to see cards and projects with a guy theme! Here's the card I made:

 here's the inside:

Yes, I realized after I made the card that I just used that stamp only a couple SOS challenges ago. Let's just chalk it up to me showing you how versatile it is. (See what I did there?!) My favorite technique is the chalkboard technique. This just never gets old for me.  After making the main panel, I dug out some ancient copper brads and stuck them in the corners. I went around the edges of the base with walnut stain DI before adhering the main panel onto it with thin foam squares. Of course, there's a little snark on the inside. ☺

I hope to see you play along for our guy themed challenge at Shopping Our Stash! Please be sure to visit and leave some bloggy love on my teammies blogs. They made some fabulous creations for your viewing pleasure! Thanks for hanging out, and I hope you have a great day!

I'd like to enter this card at:
Seize the Birthday - Nothing but Neutrals
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - favorite technique (chalkboard)
Just Add Ink #267 - typography

Supplies:
Stamps: Momenta; Paper Smooches
Ink: VersaMark; Colorbox - Frost White; Ranger DI - Walnut Stain
CS: Darice
Accessories: GC; Avery Elle - double stitched rectangle dies; Wow! - white EP; heat gun; copper brads from my stash
Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, thin 3D foam squares

SHOPPING OUR STASH #194 - Neon Rainbow

Hello and good morning! We have a fun new challenge starting at SHOPPING OUR STASH! We are looking for rainbows! It could be interpreted as using a rainbow die cut, the colors of a rainbow, a picture of a rainbow, or, as the title suggests, you can use neon colors! Lots of options here! Here's the card I made:

 Here's the inside:

I started with a panel of water color paper. I stamped in VersaMark then heat embossed in clear EP. I used Distress Inks as my water colors. I smooshed the pads directly onto my craft mat, then took a paint brush loaded with water and scribbled on the colors, making sure each color touched the ones next to it so it bled together a bit. I'm digging this emboss resist technique! I rummaged around to find some iridescent rhinestones (more rainbows), and mounted the panel on my card base with foam squares. Super easy!

Here's a somewhat better pic of the embossing:

I hope that you get a chance to play along this week at Shopping Our Stash! Please check out what my teammies created - Wow! Amazing creations! Thanks for stopping by and I hope that you have a great day!

Supplies:
Stamps: Momenta; Some Odd Girl
Ink: VersaMark; Ranger DI - Barn Door, Squeezed Lemonade, Spiced Marmalade, Mowed Lawn, Faded Jeans, Dusty Concord; Memento - Tuxedo Black
CS: Strathmore water color paper; Darice
Accessories: WOW! - clear EP; heat gun; Recollections - rhinestones
Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, 3D foam squares

JUST US GIRLS! #283 - Word Week!

Good morning all! It's the start of a new challenge at JUST US GIRLS! Ina is your hostess for Word Week, and she picked the word Masculine for you to incorporate into your card or project. Here's what I came up with:

 and the finished inside:

I just scored this wooden stamp at Tuesday Morning the other day (at a steal of a price!) while gallivanting about town with my neighbor. I loaded it up first with Versa Mark then with Paris Dusk ink before stamping and embossing it with clear EP.

Oooh! Shiny!!

I used the largest deckled rectangle Nestie (which was just too small), but I solved that problem simply by tracing around then fussy cutting it. (The things we do for our art!) The inside sentiment is also stamped with Paris Dusk, although it looks black. (Trust me, it's blue.) I stamped a tweed pattern on the card base with Versa Mark ink, and took my heat gun to it before adhering the main panel with thin foam squares.

I hope that you get a chance to play along and enter your masculine card or project at Just Us Girls! Remember, if you are picked as Chic of the Week for any of our March challenges, you'll be in the running to be our Guest Designer for the month of May! Sweet! Thanks for stopping by. Also, please check out what my teammies and our March Guest Designer, Jen Mitchell, have created to inspire you! Have a great day!

I'd like to enter this at Color Throwdown #332

and Seize the Birthday - Masculine

Supplies:

Stamps: Momenta - growing old; Hero Arts - Tweed pattern; Stampendous - Party Invite

Ink: Versa Mark; Memento - Paris Dusk

DP: mystery scrap from my scrap heap

CS: Darice; Bazzill

Accessories: GC; Deckled Rectangles Nesties; WOW! - clear EP; heat gun

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