Keep Calm & Snark On

  Greetings, salutations & happy new year snarky friends! Thanks for checking out the first challenge of 2025 from Edna and the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers! Did you get some awesome new crafty supplies over the holidays?? Or like me, do you have so many things in your craft room that you have never used?? This is the challenge for you! We want to see all of your NBUS (never been used stuff). I bought this peeking winter bear die by Hero Arts before the holidays with great intentions of making many Christmas cards, but...I did not...it sat in its package glaring at me for weeks...silver lining, I can use it for this challenge and add to my stash of winter birthday cards. 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! I'm also linking this card up for the followin...

  Greetings and salutations crafty friends! All the best of the holiday season to you and yours! Joining in on the latest challenge from the crew at SHOPPING OUR STASH - WINTER BUT NOT CHRISTMAS Always looking for ways to use up the many, many, many, many paper collections that I have hoarded, I found this great link on youtube making 18 cards from the Carta Bella Snow Much Fun collection (yep, I have that one). So I didn't make all 18 cards, but I did make 5! Cards got a little wet taking pictures in my driveway, not sure if you can see the tiny snowflakes that landed and melted on them - hey it is a winter themed challenge! Until next time, best wishes and warmest regards...

  Greetings and salutations snarky pals! Hope that all is well in your corner of this crazy little planet we inhabit together. The end of another year is almost upon us and for Edna and the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers that means it's time for on of our favourite annual challenges - H is for Ho Ho Ho (Naughty Christmas). We want to see some colossal year end snark on these ones Don't celebrate Christmas? Cool Cool...show us what you celebrate this time of the year and don't forget to bring the snark! I had this card in my little brain and I am happy it came out even better than I hoped! I am soooooooo in love with the sidekick side-order collections from Tim Holtz - I had to use a few (Letter Board and Christmas Minis) on my card.  I hope that Sister Deena is proud of me for doing some die cutting (little pieces and old eyes are not a good combination!) Shite I used to make this card: White, pink and black cardstock (Recollections) Fa La La design paper (Bella Blvd) Kraf...

Super excited that both SHOPPING OUR STASH and SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY   have masculine challenges on right now. I picked up the "Party Animal" stamp, stencil and die set by Concord & 9th not that long ago and had yet to break into it.  I always struggle making dude cards (why is that??) so I thought these ones would work for lots of things depending on the colour scheme (I also struggle not to use pink and purple all the time lol). I love the reverse stamping of the sentiment stamp, the ink stamps the black background and the text stays the colour of the cardstock underneath. The colours of balloon dogs in the background required me to number the colours in sharpie on the first stencil and use lots of sticky notes for masking. This card is almost a direct CASE of the sample card at Two Scrapbook Friends (which might have been why I bought it???) Entering this card into the following challenges: SHOPPING OUR STASH #535 0 MASCULINE SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY #296 - MASCULINE Until ...

  Greetings and salutations snarky friends! Thanks for stopping by to check out the latest challenge from Edna and the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers! In this challenge we are celebrating all the critters and hope that you will play along. I went with a  "mythical critters" birthday theme using the "celebrate" triple slim layering stencil and "mythical grumplings" stamp and die set from Taylored Expressions. Not sure I am super digging the colours that I picked, but meh - it is what it is - yellow is totally outside of my wheehouse lol. As always we would love for you to join the sisterhood and play along. You can find all the details for the challenge at the SoSS Blog. While you are there please share some crafty love and comments with our reigning Queen of Snark and my snarky sisters. Until next time, best wishes and warmest regards...

  Had a day with a little bit of down time today (whhhaaaaattt?????) so I decided to play along with a few challenges including  SHOPPING OUR STASH and their latest challenge - "Birds of a Feather" and   SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY  challenge #294 - Feather Some of you may know that I have a weird unwarranted terrifying fear of birds, so I don't have a lot of bird related craft supplies LOL Last year my crafty friend Christa gifted me a few stamp sets, including this "Dream" set from Lawn Fawn...I knew I had feathers somewhere! I based my card on this one I found on pinterest : Here is my watercolour rainbow of feathers (I need to find the coordinating dies now!) Shite I used to make this card: White and black cardstock (Recollections) Nocturne Versafine ink (Tsukineko) Dream stamp set (Lawn Fawn) Barn Door, Spiced Marmalade, Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint, Peacock Feathers and Shaded Lilac distress inks (Tim Holtz) Watercolour brush (Tim Holtz) Until next time, best wishes,...