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...

SoSS #265 - A is for Alien

Greetings and salutations snarky friends!

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

While it might be likely we don't need to depart our planet to find some, for the next month we are looking to the stars (or outerspace) to spot some aliens.

Making cards has not been floating my boat for some time now, you know you get to that place where you just go meh...I don't wanna...well that's where cards and I are right now.

I am however finding great zen, mind peace and distraction in making silly little mini books. I am seriously obsessed. 

These ones started as 6" x 6" pieces of paper and end up as a 1.5" x 1.5" little book. 

The note pages inside are 1.25" x 1.25".

They are so tiny and fun and fiddly and a great way to use up some of my hoards of paper.

I used papers from the "To the Moon & Back" collection by PhotoPlay that has lots of fun little aliens, planets and outerspace themed papers.

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 also 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!

SoSS #264 - H is for Hot Hot Hot (summer)

 

Greetings and salutations snarky pals!

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

For the next month we are getting hot hot hot and we hope you will play along!

I had an entirely different card and blog post ready for this challenge and then thought EFFFFFFFF it, I want to make something snarky.

So here it is, using a sentiment stamp from our very own SISTER CHRIS and Stamplorations which perfectly sums up my state of mind these days!

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

You can find all the details over on the SoSS BLOG and while you are there, please leave some crafty love and comments for our reigning Queen of Snark and the rest of the sisterhood.

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