SoSS #270 - N is for New or Never

 

Greetings, salutations & happy new year snarky friends!

Hope the holiday season was kind to you and yours and that 2026 brings all the good.

Edna and the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers are back with our first challenge of 2026.

Did you get some new crafty things for Christmas? 

Do you have loads of stuff in your craft room that you've never used?

Here's your chance to show it off!

We want to see something new, new to you or never been used on your project.

My crafty resolution for 2026 is to break out some of the many many many things I have in my craft room that I have never used.

For this challenge I went back to a class by Simon Hurley that was part of the March 2023 Crop & Create that for some reason I have not done until now. For my project I used the stencils, masks and stamps from that class.

These colours are pretty far out of my comfort zone but I loved the stenciling and masking to get the layered effect. The sentiments are from a Strawberry Jude Stamps set that were gifted to the Sisterhood a number of years ago.

As always, we would love for you to join the Sisterhood and play along.

You can find all the details for the challenge on the SoSS BLOG.

While you are there, please share some crafty love and comments with our reigning Queen of Snark and the rest of the sisterhood.

SoSS #269 - C is for Cheeky Christmas

 

Greetings and holiday salutations crafty friends!

Thanks for stopping by to check out the latest challenge from Edna and the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers.

It's the most wonderful time of the year! 

Time for our snarky holiday challenge. 

I look forward to this one every year as my snarky sisters always come up with some doozies!

Mine is pretty tame, but very much reflects my "meh" Christmas spirit this year.

That and I do love Taylored Expressions grumplings!

As always, we would love for you to show us your cheeky Christmas spirit by joining the sisterhood to play along.

You can find all the details for the challenge on the SoSS Blog.

While you are there please share some crafty love and comments with our reigning Queen of snark and the rest of the sisterhood.

However, whatever and with whomever you celebrate this holiday season, we hope you wrap up the year in festive happiness. We will see you again in early 2026 for our next SoSS challenge.

Shopping Our Stash #560 - A Few of My Favourite Things

 

Greetings and salutations crafty friends!

I am trying to make the most of my days off this week, including getting a start on my holiday cards and participating in a few challenges.

I made a few Santa cards specifically for the A FEW OF MY FAVOURITE THINGS challenge at SHOPPING OUR STASH.

A few of my favourite things on this card are:

• shaped cards
• stenciling
• distress oxide inks
• Christmas
• SCT Let's Stamp Together kits (this one is from 2024 and this is the first time I've used it!)

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #104 - Just Add Antlers

 

Greetings and salutations crafty friends!

I was super excited to see the "Just Add Antlers" challenge theme over at Christmas Kickstart Challenge.

Some time ago, my lovely crafty Sistah Chris had gifted me some super cute moose die cuts (Poppystamps). 

I have some free time this week, so I grabbed some distress oxide inks, blending brushes and stencils and made 3 cards (2 without snowflakes as I decided after that the moose popped {not pooped}) better without the snowflakes.

When hubby and I were in Newfoundland in September, we saw these 2 (antlerless and sadly sweaterless) moose. They were so close to the car we could hear them chewing, and mama moose was keeping a keen eye to make sure we didn't get to close...meh, it was a rental car.

OK so here are the cards I made:

With or without snowflakes??

Maybe if I had done the stripes in brown and the snowflakes in blue - next time...

Now I gotta figure out where locally I can get my hands on those dies, I mean really a moose in a holiday sweater...come on now!

SoSS #268 - D is for Drink

 

Cheers to you Edna!

Feels totally like drinky season. Maybe it's just me...

Join the party won't you?

You can find all the details over on the SoSS BLOG.

While you are there share some crafty love, comments and toasts with our reigning Queen of Snark and the rest of the sisterhood.

Slainte!

#shortestblogpostever

SoSS #267 - S is for Spooky

 

Ghostly greetings and spooky salutations snarky friends!

Thanks for stopping by to check out the latest challenge from Edna and the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!

It's the most wonderful time of the year, time to celebrate all things pumpkin spice and Halloween!

Edna wants to see your spooooooooooooooooooooooooooooookiest creations.

With October being breast cancer awareness month, we give you the optional addition of pink!

I got some great Halloweeny craty supplies over the summer at the Stamplicity warehouse sale, including some stencils and distress crayons that I couldn't wait to try out.

I "fingerpainted" sort of with the crayons for the background and then overlayed with water, stencils and more distress crayons on top.

As always, we would love for you to join the sisterhood and play along.

You can find all the details for the challenge on the SoSS BLOG.

While you are there, please share some crafty love and comments with our reigning Queen of snark and the rest of the sisterhood.

SoSS #266 - F is for Finally Fall

 

Seriously, how cool is this Edna graphic that Sister Lee created for us for this challenge???
She truly puts the awesome in our awesomesauce!

Here in Southern Ontario, summer seemed to end all of a sudden-ish and our days of hot humid 30 degree + weather are behind us. YAY!!! I am not going to complain about that, I am all about the fall. Bring on the pumpkin spice and sweater weather!

Over the past few months I have joined a few penpal groups on FB. I really enjoyed swapping letters with people around the world when I was younger and thought this might be a way to boost my crafty mojo as well. By the time you see this, my fall card will be well on it's way to a penpal in the UK. 

Papers, ephemera and sticker from the "My Favorite Fall" collection by Echo Park.

Trying to use up some of the (many) paper collections in my stash!

As always we would love for you to join the sisterhood and play along!

You can find all the details for the challenge on the SoSS BLOG.

While you are there please share some crafty love and comments with our reigning Queen of Snark and the rest of the sisterhood.

Until next time, best wishes, warmest regards...