SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #240 A is for ATC

 

Hello snarky peeps and welcome back!

It's time for another challenge at the

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS!

This fortnight, we are revisiting a popular

(to some of the Sisters 😉) theme, the ATC,

or, Artist Trading Card/Coin.

A little tiny work of art on a little tiny canvas of your choice.

The sky's the limit with these gems!

Here's what I came up with:

I used some particle board for my substrate, and mod podged some

scrap bits of gel printed paper, and various papers. I smudged black

paint around the edges. I stamped and colored the fox images, as 

well as stamped the words with an alphabet stamp set.

Here's a closer look:

I hope that you'll join my sisters and our reigning Queen,

Granne, and create one or more ATC for our ATC challenge

at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!

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

Supplies:

Substrate: particle board

Stamps: Some Odd Girl - Hipster Pets; Studio G - alphabet stamps

Ink: Memento - tuxedo black; Staz On - Jet Black

Papers: scraps

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; Prismacolor pencils; scrap gel prints, stamped book paper, mystery paper; DecoArt Americana black acrylic paint; 

Adhesives: Mod Podge; 3L - thin 3d foam squares

Happy Beer-day

 Hello and welcome crafty friends!

Here's a fun and punny guy card:

 ...and the inside:

I used embossing paste and the Dots and Dashes stencil

for my background. After cleaning the stencil off, I sprinkled

copper embossing powder onto the paste, and tapped off the excess. 

While the paste dried, I stamped, colored and fussy cut the beer mug.

I used alpha stamps to stamp my punny sentiment and heat embossed.

Once the embossing paste was dry, I heat embossed the copper

embossing powder that I covered it with.

I blended some brown ink around the panel's edges before adhering

all the components together.

I have a lot of nephews in their 20's so this will be sent to one of them. LOL!

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

I'd like to enter this at:

CAS Mix Up Stencil Challenge - heat embossing

Seize the Birthday #207 (no topping) 

Addicted to Stamps and More #398 - birthdays

Happy Little Stampers stencil challenge - ATG 

Supplies:

Stamps: Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous - Beer; Studio G - alpha stamps; Taylored Expressions - Another Year Older

Ink: Versamark; Memento - Tuxedo Black, Rich Cocoa

CS: Spectrum Noir; Thunderbolt; Bazzill

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; MISTI; STAMPlorations - Dots and Dashes stencil; pallet knife;

Stampendous - Detail Copper EP; heat gun; PFS - blending brush

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

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #177 - G is for Glitter

 

Happy Saturday, snarky peeps!

The SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS

is back with their next challenge: G is for GLITTER! 

Be it the get-everywhere-and-stay-forever kind, some

version of glitter glue, or perhaps glitter paper,

 we want to see what you make with it!

 I played it safe and used some glitter paper: 

As a card maker, I'm not really big on Valentine cards. (gasp!)

But, I get around it by adding a snarky sentiment. LOL!

I hope that you get the chance to link up to our glitter challenge

at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers.

Looking for more ideas?  Simply check out what my Sisters, and our

reigning Queen, Michelle, have come up with.

Thanks for visiting. Have a great day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Studio G - Alphas

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

CS: Thunderbolt; scraps

DP: Core'dinations - red glitter

Accessories: GC; Pinkfresh Studio - Ornate Banner die; Memory Box - Leafy Heart die

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

SHOPPING OUR STASH #401 - Base it off a Book

Hello crafty friends and welcome!

We have a fun new challenge at

SHOPPING OUR STASH this fortnight:

Base it off a Book!

For my card, I chose The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum:

and the inside:

I love it when the designer paper you pick does all the work for you!

All I did was some fussy cutting, and then added red glitter embossing powder to 

Dorothy's shoes. They really do sparkle in real life. ☺

I always loved this book, and the friendship between the four main characters,

 so I stamped the simple message for the inside sentiment.

Now it's your turn! We hope that you find some time to play along

in our Based off a Book challenge at Shopping Our Stash! Looking for

more ideas? Simply check out what my teammates created for

your viewing pleasure. Thanks for visiting. Have a great day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Studio G alphas

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

DP: Graphic 45 - The Magic of Oz

CS: Taylored Expressions - Darice

Accessories: Versamarker; Whispers - Red Glitter EP; heat gun

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

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #134 - W is for WTF!

Hey snarky peeps, welcome back!

It's time for the new challenge at the

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS!

This time around, the letter du jour is

W for WTF!

Whether you interpret that to mean using 'WTF' on your project, or
making something that makes you think: WTF?!, we want to see it!

I went with the latter for my art journal spread:

Once again, a meme that I saw on the internet was my spark of inspiration.

Here's some pics on how I created this:

Brayer various pink, red, and orange paints.

Add same paints plus white through various stencils.

Doodle around stenciled images with various markers.

Stamp, fussy cut and glue the faces onto flowers with matte medium.

I found the perfect horse image in a NatGeo magazine.

(unbelievably, it only took looking through five of them to find it)

I drew the horn, colored with Spectrum Noir markers and fussy cut.

Stamped, colored and fussy cut the lady image, then glued them down

using matte medium. I swiped a green ink pad

along the edges.

 

Smudged a black pencil around the unicorn and lady.

I used some gelli print leftovers to die cut the grass border a gazillion times,

then glued them down with matte medium. Once it dried, I trimmed 

around the edges.

I used an alphabet stamp set to stamp the sentiment on typing paper,

fussy cut and glued down. Once dry I doodled around the words

with a couple markers.

One more time:

So now it's your turn to show us your WTF creations! We'd love
to see them in the SOSS gallery. Need more ideas? Simply check out
what my Sistahs, and our newest Queen and GD Granne, have
created for your viewing pleasure.
Thanks for visiting, and I hope you have a great day!

I'd like to enter this at:

Mix It Up challenge #25 - ATG Mixed Media

Supplies:

Strathmore Art Journal

DecoArt Media gesso

paint brushes - Loew-Cornell; Plaid

DecoArt Americana Acrylic paints: Tangerine, Dragon Fruit, Electric Pink, True Red, White

DecoArt Media Acrylic paint: vermilion

Imagine Crafts - craft sponges

StencilGirl stencils: ATC Mixup-Dailey, ATC Mixup-Dube, ATC Mixup-Evans

Faber-Castell: Artist PITT pens - black, green olive, pink carmine

Sakura - white and silver Gelly Roll pens

Stamps: VLVS - plate 1503; Dylusions - black diamonds; Studio G - alphas

Memento ink: Tuxedo Black, Grape Jelly; Staz On - Emerald City

CS: Darice

typing paper

Spectrum Noir markers

DecoArt Media - Matte Medium

horse picture from a National Geographic magazine

Generals - pastel chalk pencils - black, grass green

Ranger - Diamond Stickles (on horn)

scraps of gelli prints

Grand Calibur

Taylored Expressions - grass border die

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #122 - F is for Fantasy

Hi there snarky peeps!

It's time for a new challenge at the 

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS!

F is for Fantasy: this could be anything related to mythical/magical

creatures, or you can go the way a few of the Sisters did, just as I did:

And just because I wanted to, here is

my second card:

Chris Hemsworth. Yummy!

So now it's your turn to play along. We'd love to see your take

on the Fantasy challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!

Need more inspirations? Do check out what my Sisters and our new

Guest Designer, Helen, have created for your viewing pleasure.

Thanks for visiting. Have a great day!

Supplies:

1st card:

Stamps: Riley & Co. - winking Midge

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

DP: Teresa Collins - Fabrications

CS: Thunderbolt; TE; Darice

Accessories: computer & printer (sentiment); MISTI

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner

2nd card:

Stamps: Studio G - alpha stamps

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

DP: Teresa Collins - Fabrications

CS: TE; Neenah

Accessories: computer & printer (that 6-pack!)

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

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #116 - D is for Denim

Hello snarky friends and welcome to another fun challenge

starting at the SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS:

D is for Denim!

Look at Edna, spitting in the face of the fashion police, and getting

her double denim on! Such a rebel! LOL!

I haven't made an art journal page in months, so that's what I did for this challenge:

I found a quote to use while searching on Mr. Google.

I couldn't find the source of this quote, so if anyone

knows, leave me a comment so I can give credit. Thanks!

I tried using rubbing alcohol and a scrap of denim as a resist on the gal's dress,

to make it look as if her dress was denim.

On my first attempt, the scrap of denim was too saturated, and 

bled way too much. 

My second attempt worked much better!

Tip: if you try this technique, do this step first, and

be sure the rubbing alcohol is completely dry before coloring the

rest of it, otherwise what you color next will bleed.

I colored her with Spectrum Noir markers and added details

with Prismacolor pencils. I fussy cut her out and set aside to

work on my page.

I used pink, coral and orange acrylic paints for the base, then added

different stenciled images using the coral plus white and blue. I used

too much paint on some of the stencils, but decided to embrace the mess.

To hide the blobby blue mess I made with the blue paint, I simply

put the stencil back over it when it was dry and traced the image with a black

Artist PITT pen. I used alpha stamps to stamp the sentiment on copy paper.

I trimmed and glued them along with my peace gal onto the page with

matte medium.

After everything was dry, I added a shadow under her to ground her,

and doodled around the words and also added white dots to the blue leaves.

I still wasn't finished stenciling, so I used another one and traced some

flowers with a gold pen. I also added Stickles to her flower tiara and the 

peace sign she's holding.

Here's another pic of the finished page:

Yay, you made it to the end! LOL!

Now it's your turn to make something pertaining to denim, and link up at

the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers! We'd love to see your take on

this challenge. Need some ideas? Simply visit the blogs of my Sisters to

see what amazing creations they came up with, and please leave some

bloggy love while there. We all love comments!

Thanks for visiting, now go forth and get your craft on!

I'd like to enter this at:

Craft Stamper Magazine - August TIMI

More Mixed Media challenge - ATG with brights

Happy Little Stampers Mixed Media challenge - words 

Supplies:

Strathmore Art Journal

Stamps: MFT - ALM Groovy Girl; Studio G - Alphas

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Staz On - Jet Black

CS: Crafter's Companion; copy paper

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; PrismaColor pencils; Ranger - Stardust Stickles; Golden gesso;

DecoArt Americana acrylic paints - coral blush, tangerine, cotton candy, blue harbor, snow; various

paintbrushes; Dylusions stencils - fronds of foliage, old school numbers; Simon Says Stamp stencil - jazz dance; STAMPlorations stencil - daisy play; Faber Castell - bold & medium black Artist PITT pens; Sakura - gold and white Gelly Roll pens; General's black & brown chalk pencils; DecoArt Media matte medium; rubbing alcohol; scrap of denim