SHOPPING OUR STASH #224 - Caffeine Fix

Hello and happy Tuesday to you all! This week at SHOPPING OUR STASH, it's all about getting caffeinated: using coffee or tea themed items on your card or project! Here's my card:

I don't care for coffee (I don't even like the smell of it), but I am a tea drinker, so that's what I went with. I dug through my massive pile of paper collections to find the one with an oriental flare. I used both sides of one paper from the collection, and just snippets at that. The patterns are so gorgeous, I think I've only used it once before. *cough - paper hoarder - cough* 

Wanna play along? Sure you do. Just be sure to link up your card or project at Shopping Our Stash. Don't forget to check out what the other ladies made to inspire you! Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you have a great day!

I'd like to enter this at the Crooked Stamper Sketch Challenge #9
Paper Smooches  Sparks challenge - anything goes 

 





Supplies:
Stamps: Paper Smooches - Cyber Cafe
Ink: Memento - Gray Flannel
DP: Graphic 45 - Bird Song
CS: Bazzill
Accessories: GC; Paper Smooches - Coffee & Tea dies; Fiskars - corner rounder
Adhesives: S by 3L - tape runner, #d & thin 3D foam squares

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #45 - H is for (Pink!) Halloween

Hello and welcome! It's time for another challenge at the SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS! For the next two weeks, we want to see your Halloween projects. But not just any ol' colors, no. As a nod to Breast Care Awareness Month, we want to see PINK in your Halloween projects! We did this last year and had a great time with it, so we decided to bring the challenge back again this year! Here's the card I made:

 The finished inside:

Ever have an idea stuck in your head, and it won't go away until you do something about it? Yeah, that's how the stitched spider web came to be. That puppy is thick: 6 strands of black and 3 strands of silver floss! And bonus, it worked out better than I thought it would! LOL! The 'eek' is an old dimensional sticker, and the spider I die cut 3 times, stacked, glued and added googly eyes and Glossy Accents. Love it! 

So, ready to try your hand at a pink Halloween project? Of course you are! Just be sure to link it up at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers so that we can be awed at your genius. While there, please do check out the amazing creations of my Sistahs and leave some love on their blogs! Our newest Queen is on vacation, so she will be joining us for our next challenge. (That means we will have two Queens! Wonder if there will be a cat fight? LOL!) Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

I'm entering this card at Mojo Monday #419

Supplies:
Stamps: Inkadinkado - All Hallow's Eve
Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black
DP: DCWV - The Spring Mix Stack; American Crafts - Haunted
CS: Darice
Accessories: GC; Lifestyle Crafts - Inverted squares dies; DMC - floss; Anna Griffin - dimensional sticker; Slice die cutting machine and Toil & Trouble cartridge; Nicole - googly eyes; Ranger - Glossy Accents; piercing tool
Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, 3D foam squares

JUST US GIRLS #315 - Color Week

Hello and good morning crafty peeps! It's COLOR WEEK at JUST US GIRLS, and I'm your hostess! With Halloween just around the corner, (and it being my favorite holiday!), I picked Purple, Orange, and Black for you to get creative with! Here's the card I made:

Here's the finished inside:

I'm on a shaker card roll apparently, and I had a lot of fun putting this card together. The background was sponged with a few Distress Inks and spritzed with some pearl Glimmer Mist. Then I went to town adding seed beads, micro beads, and shaped confetti for the shaker part. (Note to self: confetti is really static-y and even though I went over the background and the acetate with my anti-static pillow, they still stuck!) Oh well, it's still a fun card to shake! LOL!

I hope you get a chance to play around with these colors and link up at Just Us Girls! You'll notice that even though these are Halloween colors, some of the gals used them in a completely different way, and that's awesome! Please do check out what the design team, and our October Guest Designer - Julie Gearinger, have created for your viewing pleasure, and leave them some love on their blogs! 

For October & November Only: If you are picked as Chic of the Week for any of our October and November challenges, you'll be in the running to be chosen as one of two Guest Designers for the month of January 2016! The Team will be taking a 2 week break in December, so we will not have a Guest Designer for December. Good luck and happy crafting!

Supplies:

Stamps: MFT - DC Trick or Sweet

Ink: Range DI - Black Soot, Spiced Marmalade, Dusty Concord; Memento - Tuxedo Black

DP: Graphic 45 - An Eerie Tale

CS: Bazzill, Darice

Accessories: GC; Memory Box - Sleepy Hallow Oval Frame; Crafter's Companion - acetate; Tattered Angels - pearl Glimmer Mist; Cousin/The Craft Outlet - seed beads; mystery confetti

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner; Recollections - foam strips; Ranger - Glossy Accents

SHOPPING OUR STASH #223: I Can See Clearly

Hello and welcome crafty peeps! The new challenge at SHOPPING OUR STASH is all about using acetate on your card or project. This is a great way to make a shaker card, not that you need to make one. But I did. So here it is:

I found a package of 4" x 6" transparencies by Webster's Pages that I forgot I had (for a few years, at least) so I used one of them. The 'dream.Big.' was already printed on the acetate. (Score!) To add to that 'big' theme, I added the biggest butterfly die cut I have, using a paper collection I was lucky to win last year. (Love those comment to win blog posts!) 

I hope you find some time to play along. You know you've been wanting to try making a shaker card. Here's a great excuse to try it out! Just link it up at Shopping Our Stash so we can see it. Be sure to check out the amazeballs creations from my teammies and leave them some bloggy love! Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great day!

Supplies:
DP: Bazzill - Lucy's Crab Shack
CS: Darice
Accessories: Webster's Pages - transparencies; GC; Avery Elle - Double Pierced Rectangle dies & sequins; Memory Box - Sorona & Lydia butterfly dies; Cousin - seed beads
Adhesives: Recollections: foam strips; Ranger - Glossy Accents

JUST US GIRLS #314 - Trend Week

Good morning and welcome! It's Trend Week at JUST US GIRLS. Nancy is your hostess and she's picked STENCILS as your trend! It's still a very popular one, so we hope you have fun with it! Here are a couple cards I've made:

the inside:

My embossing paste started out white, but I smooshed Teal Zeal and Gray Flannel inks on my craft mat, then took some paste and blended the colors into it with my pallet knife. The sentiment was inked a couple times using my recently purchased MISTI. I LOVE this tool! The rest of the card is pretty self explanatory.

Here's card #2:

 and the inside:

I used that white embossing paste again for the skull stencil, and after washing off the stencil, I sprinkled neon green embossing powder over it, tapped off the excess, and let the paste completely dry before heat embossing. 

I hope you find some time to break out those stencils and make something with them! Please be sure to link up at Just Us Girls so we can see your wonderful creations! While there, please check out what the Design Team and our October Guest Designer, Julie Gearinger, have made to inspire you! Remember, that if you are picked as Chic of the Week for any of our October & November challenges, you'll be in the running to be our Guest Designer for the month of January! Good luck and happy crafting!

I'd like to enter my first card at Nacho Average Challenges #162

Supplies: First card

Stamps: MFT - DC Truck or Sweet; Unity - Octover 2012 KOM; Simon Says Stamp - Trick or Treat

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Teal Zeal, Gray Flannel

CS: Bazzill, Core'Dinations, Darice

Accessories: Gourmet Rubber Stamps - Climbing Wall stencil; Dreamweaver - embossing paste; Darice - sequins; Fiskars

- corner rounder; Coats & Clark - thread; MISTI

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, 3D foam squares; Glue Dots; Ranger - Glossy Accents

Skull card:

Stamps: Hampton Arts; Stampendous

Ink: VersaMark; Memento - Tuxedo Black

CS: Darice

Accessories: GC; Hampton Arts - stencil; Dreamweaver - embossing paste; Recollections - neon green EP; heat gun; SB - Deckled Rectangle Nesties; Fiskars - corner rounder

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

Color Throwdown #363 - Guest Star Stamper!!

Hello crafty peeps! I'm excited to be the Guest Star Stamper for The Color Throwdown #363! And boy, were these some challenging colors to work with! Tammy described them as pale mint green, saffron yellow, and ivory. I've tried to match up these colors as close as possible with what I have in my stash. Here is the card I made:

And the inside:

I really searched my paper stash for these colors. (Apparently, I'm not a big fan of pastels! LOL!) I finally found a couple mystery designer papers hidden in a bin that stores papers dated 2010 and older! Whoa! The ivory paper has this amazing design on it, and I swear it feels like a thick, starched paper towel! LOL! The very pale mint green paper that I stamped on was soooo pale, I decided to accent it with a slightly darker mint green. I used the two green papers for the die cut leaves. The flowers were stamped and heat embossed in white on vellum, and the outline stamped and fussy cut from saffron cardstock and layered. The sentiments on both the front and inside are heat embossed in gold.

                             

Ooooh! Shiny!  

I hope you find some time this week to play along and create something with these pretty colors at the Color Throwdown! You should also do yourself a favor and check out the amazing creations the Design Team came up with! WOW! Thanks for stopping by and I hope that you have a great day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Winnie & Walter - The Big The Bold & Party, " " & Extras

Ink: VersaMark

DP: mystery paper from my stash

CS: Bazzill; Darice

Accessories: GC; Winnie & Walter - In Bloom: Maggie's Roses Cutaways; Avery Elle - Double Pierced Rectangle dies; Recollections - vellum; Stampendous - Champagne EP; WOW! - white EP; heat gun

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, 3D foam squares; Ranger - Glossy Accents; Scotch - Scrapbooker's Glue

SHOPPING OUR STASH #222 - Birthday

Good morning and welcome! This week at SHOPPING OUR STASH we'd like to see you dig up your oldest birthday themed items and make a project with them. (Paper, stamps, stickers. Whatever is the oldest in your stash) Here's the card I made:

 Here's the inside:

I've used stamps from a couple kits from 2012. The paper and alpha stickers, while not technically birthday themed, also date back to 2012. (I don't own any birthday themed paper) Plus, I used more of my stash of stickers. Yay me!

I know you have friends and family with birthdays coming up. Why not make a card or five and link it up at Shopping Our Stash?  Just be sure to use your oldest birthday supplies. ☺ Also, please check out what the other gals have created and leave them some bloggy love! Thanks for hanging out with me.

Supplies:
Stamps: Unity Stamp Co. - February and July 2012 KOM
Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black
DP: Echo Park - This & That: Charming
CS: Darice
Accessories: GC; Avery Elle - Double Pierced Rectangle dies; Provo Craft, Recollections, Echo Park - Alpha Stickers; Fiskars - corner rounder; Sakura - white Gelly Roll pen; Faber Castell - black Pitt artist pen
Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, 3D foam squares

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #44 - B is for BOOBS!

(Look at Edna's Ta-Ta's! Who Knew!!!)

That's right crafty peeps, this fortnight at the SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS. we are celebrating National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so of course we had to do a challenge that focuses on boobs! I actually had no clue what to make until the other day, and only after stalking Pinterest for ideas. (Pinterest saves the day, yet again!) I found this template and wound up having a lot of fun putting my card together. Ok. Enough blathering. On to my card:

Here's the inside:

I did give my card some implants, as I thought the bra should be filled out more. *snicker* The lace started out white, but after I swirled it in a Dixie cup that had some drops of black re-inker added in, wah-la: black lace! I even found a bag of those tiny roses, hidden in a long neglected shoe-box-o-embellies! The inside sentiment, while not snarky, is a bit punny. And that's just fine by me. ☺

So, ready to make a boob themed card or project? Do you even need a reason to?! Just make sure you link up at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers, because you know we want to see it! Please be sure to stop by the blogs of my Sistahs in Snark, and our newest Guest Designer, Emily Leiphart, and leave them some love! Thanks for stopping by, now go get your craft on!

I'd like to enter this at the Simon Says Stamp World Cardmaking Day challenge

Supplies:

CS: Darice

Ink: Ranger DI - Brushed Corduroy; Staz On - Jet Black re-inker

Accessories: GC; Darice - Damask Background EF; SB - Lg Std Circle Nesties; May Arts lace; Offray ribbon; flower from my stash; sentiment is computer generated

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner; Recollections - red tape; Glue Dots; Scotch - Scrapbooker's glue

JUST US GIRLS #313 - Word Week

Hello and good morning all! It's Word Week at JUST US GIRLS. Sue is your hostess, and she's picked the word SYMPATHY. It's always difficult to make sympathy cards, at least it is for me. I don't like that I need to make them, but we all do, from time to time. That being said, I persevered and came up with this card:

 Here is the inside:

This was the result of experimenting with my water based markers. I cut a thin panel from water color paper, then took stamps and colored directly onto them with different colors of markers, stamping onto the panel as I colored the stamps. Then I took my water mister and gave the panel a light misting so the colors would bleed. Once dried, I backed it with black card stock before adhering it to my card base. I stamped the sentiment and added a row of rhinestones underneath it. 

I hope you find some time to make a sympathy card or project, and link it up at Just Us Girls. We'd love to see what you create! While there, please check out how the ladies interpreted this challenge. Oh, and since it's a new month, I'd also like to welcome Julie Gearinger as our October Guest Designer! 

For our October Chic of the Week winners, we will be doing something a bit different this year. The gals decided that we will take a short break in December for the holidays. And since we didn't want to short change our October winner, if you are picked as Chic of the Week for any of our October and November challenges, you'll be in the running to be our Guest Designers for the month of January. That's right, two Guest Designers for January! (I'm not good with my words, so I hope I didn't completely confuse you! LOL!) I hope to see your entry linked up! Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great day!

I'd like to enter this at the Simon Says Stamp World Cardmaking Day challenge.

Supplies:

Stamps: Paper Smooches: Botanicals 1 & 2, Reflections; MFT - Essential Sentiments; Inkadinkado - May you find...

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

CS: Bazzill; Strathmore Water Color Paper; scraps

Accessories: Marvy Uchida markers; water mister; Nicole - rhinestones

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner

THE HOP TO STOP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

My blog friend, Becca Cruger, of the DAMSEL OF DISTRESSED blog, is the creative genius who has spearheaded The Hop To Stop! October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. To quote Becca, "the hop is designed to help raise awareness of domestic violence, an issue that impacts 1 in 3 women, and the resources that are available to assist victims of domestic violence."

If you'd like to find out more information, and the resources that are available, please check out the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence. 

A bit about the blog hop: The link up starts today and will close on October 14th. If you'd like to participate, you can make anything you want, (card, layout, mix media project, etc.) as long as it features the color PURPLE. (Domestic Violence Awareness color) The link up is at THE DAMSEL OF DISTRESSED blog. Winners will be announced on October 17th.

Wait.

Whaaaa?????!!!! Winners? There are prizes?

Why yes, there ARE prizes! Becca, in her rockstardominess, (is that a word? It is now!), has accrued a boat load of sponsors that have generously donated prizes!! 

Get a load of them apples!!! Holy Cow! All you need to do is make a new project (no back linking), display the sponsor graphic, and comment on the three entries before yours. (Spread the bloggy love!) Now, on to my card:

I found that dreamy patterned paper in my stash and pulled different shades of purple from it.Except for the stamps and die cut, everything used on this card has been in my stash for at least a year. Yay me! LOL! My card is based on the current sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches #320. 

Thank you, Becca, for inviting me to participate in this amazing hop! You Rock!!!

I'm off to check out the amazing creations of everyone! Have a great day all!!

Supplies:

Stamps: Winnie & Walter - The Big, The Bold, & Party

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Memento LUXE - Wedding Dress

DP: HOTP

CS: Bazzill, scraps

Accessories: GC; SB- Marvelous Squares Nesties; Winnie & Walter - The Big, The Bold & Party Cutaways; Petaloo/Offray - flowers; Simplicity/Offray - lace and ribbon; Nicole - rhinestones; Spectrum Noir PL5 marker (to color the rhinestones)

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner; Ranger - Glossy Accents; Glue Dots; Recollections - red tape