Greetings & salutations snarky friends! Hope that all is well in your corner of the universe!

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

Looks like Edna perfected her tie dying skills at summer camp...and now she'd like you to show us YOUR vivid creations!

I totally took the easy way out on this one and used a "Done For You" alcohol ink sheet from Taylored Expressions.

I am having one of those no mojo times, so this worked super well for the challenge and hey, it does have vivid colours!

The image is from a stamp set I picked up at Scrapfest in Kitchener this past April and then of course, a snarky sentiment (is it snarky if it's the truth???)

Shite I used to make this card:

• White and black cardstock (Recollections)
• Done For You Alcohol Ink Series 2 sheet (Taylored Expressions)
• A Little Snarky stamp set (Sweet'n Sassy Stamps)
• Nocturne ink (Tsukineko)
• Small Talk Snarky sentiment sticker (Tim Holtz)

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.

Lindsey's Legacy Hop

Greetings and salutations crafty friends!

Thanks for stopping by to check out this special blog hop in honour of our beloved Sister Lindsey. 

Today, we are hopping in memory of our dear friend and fellow cardmaker, Lindsey Martin-Penny, who sadly passed away last year from a rare and aggressive form of ovarian cancer. 

September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month and Lindsey’s husband Burke thought it would be a great time to sell off her many craft supplies, with all of the proceeds going towards Lindsey’s Legacy Fund for Clear Cell Ovarian Cancer Research in cooperation with The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre.

The purpose of this hop will be to honour Lindsey, celebrate her life and all that she loved, as well as help spread the word to raise funds for clear cell ovarian cancer research.  You can help in one of several ways!

1. Purchase a Flat Rate Mailer stuffed with loads of fabulous craft supplies.  These can only be mailed within Canada and there will be no tax receipts provided with the purchase of these boxes.  A box of craft supplies would make a great gift for yourself, a crafty friend or a child/classroom!  For details about the boxes and how you can go about purchasing one, please email lindseyslegacyfund@rogers.com with the message "Craft Box" or visit Lindsey’s original blog, Bashful Blogging.  Every craft box purchase in September will be entered into a draw and one lucky winner will win a $100 gift certificate to Scrap ‘n Stamp.

2. During the month of September, shop at Scrap ‘n Stamp using the code LINDSEY10 at checkout.  You will get 10% off your purchase (sale items excluded) and Scrap ‘n’ Stamp will donate 10% of their proceeds to Lindsey’s Legacy Fund.

3. Any donations over $15 made directly to Lindsey’s Legacy Fund will receive a digital tax receipt.

4. Repost this hop on your social media and encourage others to share!

Longtime followers of The Sisterhood already know what a joy Lindsey was to so many of us.  Her wit, intelligence and creativity brought so much light into our lives and she is dearly missed. 

Today we are hosting our own little Happy Hour in honor of Lindsey who did love a good cocktail.  There won't be a gallery however we will be back tomorrow with our regularly scheduled programming.  

Here's what I made for the hop - please join us in raising a glass and a heartfelt cheers to our beloved snarky sister.

Shite I used to make this card:

• Black and white cardstock (Recollections)
• Barn Door, Spiced Marmalade, Twisted Citron and Mustard Seed distress oxide inks (Tim Holtz)
• Margarita blending stencil (Picket Fence)
• Confetti Dots turnaround stencil (Concord & 9th)
• Small Talk Snarky sentiment sticker (Tim Holtz)

As always, and especially for this one, we would love for you to play along and join the sisterhood of snarky stampers.

SoSS #242 - R is for Retro

Greetings and salutations snarky pals, hope that all is well in your corner of the universe!

Thanks for stopping by to check out the latest challenge from Edna and the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers as we celebrate all things retro!!

I attempted retro look along with a few retro crafty supplies.

I have no idea how old are those little plastic dots are, but I have a LOT of them!!

And really - who says hip hip hooray??

Here's a little video of the movement of the card, I am obsessed with the little swinging leg dies from Spellbinders - even with all the teeny tiny parts - my crafty pal Deena would be SOOOO proud of me!!!

Shite I used to make this card:

• White, red, blue, black and yellow cardstock (Recollections)
• Let's Dance die (Spellbinders)
• Seaside Post die (Concord & 9th)
• We Can Just Stay Home design paper (PhotoPlay)
• Ohuhu marker (for skin tone)
• Sentiment stamps (HoneyBee Stamps, from March 2023 Crop & Create kit)
• Nocturne ink (Tsukineko)
• Plastic dot bling

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

You can find all the details 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 #240 - A is for ATC

 

Greetings and salutations snarky pals, hope that all is well in your corner of the universe.

Edna and the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers are back with a new challenge, one of my favourites (I know I say that a lot). I love making ATCs. I make cards more often then coins, but I like em both.

If you've never made one before, an artist trading card is 2.5" x 3.5" and an artist trading coin is a 2.5" circle.

Everything is supposed to fit within that space, so I have cheated a little as the twine and little sign hang off the edges. These will go off in the mail to a few of my fave littles as bookmarks. 

The little hearts are dancers, their legs swing when you tip them back and forth.

Shite I used to make these ATCs:

• White, pink, red, blue and black cardstock (Recollections)
• Dancin' Hearts die set (Spellbinders)
• Sweet Talk design paper (Simple Stories)
• Black Soot Distress Oxide ink (Tim Holtz)
• Mini ink blender (Tim Holtz)
• Pearl sticker (Recollections)
• Twine (The Twinery)

As always, we would love for you to take up the challenge and join the sisterhood!

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 #239 - L is for Lindsey

 

Greetings and salutations snarky pals, hope all is well in your corner of the universe.

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

This one is close to our hearts and we hope that you will join us and play along.

We lost our wonderful and dear sister Lindsey one year ago this week.

We miss her dearly and wanted to find a way to honour the person and crafty sister she was to us, so we bring you L is for Lindsey.

We want your project to somehow reflect or be inspired by Lindsey.

You can check out her blog Bashful Blogging to see some of her amazing crafy work. 

Some of the many things I admired about Lindsey were her sense of whimsy, her amazing colouring skills, her love of lawn fawn critters and teeny tiny die cuts as well as who she was as a person; lovely, sweet, funny and genuinely a rainbow on a cloudy day.

Cheers sister!

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• My Rainbow Stamps and Lawn Cuts (Lawn Fawn)
• Cloud border stencil (Lawn Fawn)
• Picked Raspberry, Mustard Seed, Seedless Preserve and Peacock Feathers distress inks (Tim Holtz)
• Ink blending brushes
• Alcohol art markers (Ohuhu)
• Nocturne ink (Tsukineko)
• Stickles

As always, but especially for this challenge, 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 #238 - U is for Upcycle

Greetings and salutations snarky pals, hope all is well in your corner of the universe!

Thanks for stopping by to check out the latest challenge from Edna and the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers as we bring you U IS FOR UPCYCLE.

We want to see what you can reuse, repurpose or upcycle on your project.

I upcycled a library card from my crafty pal MIMI, used a piece of amazon bubble packaging and watercolour markers to make the coloured pattern on the library card and a (yep I did) toilet paper roll in black ink to create the pattern on top of the bubble wrap.

If you look super close, you can kind of see the toilet paper roll in the bottom left of the picture and the card is sitting on the bubble wrap.

The snarky sentiment was sent to my in the most awesome gifty package from my crafty pal DEENA

(I know, I have the best crafty pals!!!)

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Library card (from Mimi)
• Watercolour markers (Colorista)
• Water spritzer (Stampin' Up)
• Amazon bubble packaging
• Nocturne ink (Tsukineko)
• Diecut sticker (Capitol Chic Designs)
• Paper piercer and mat (Stampin' Up)
• Fine tip Sharpie
• Foil Ready Basic Cheeky Sentiments (Ink Road Stamps, gift from Deena)
• Color Study paper pad (Vicki Boutin)

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

You can find all the details for the challenge over 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 #237 - O is for Ombre

 

Greetings and salutations snarky friends, hope that all is well in your corner of the universe.

Thanks for stopping by to check out the latest challenge from Edna and the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers where we are celebrating all things ombre.

I fully admit I full on cheated for my ombre effect - it's design paper.

And these cards are from the March 2023 Crop & Create (which I didn't make until now) so I had both a guide book and video on how to make them.

I've been so sick the past few weeks, that's about the best I could hope for was a step by step tutorial and curses but I am coming to love these teeny tiny soooooooo many piece layered die cuts! My craft pal Deena would be ever so proud!

Here are the two (very belated) Father's Day cards  I made today (I mentioned I have been sick right?? Sorry dads!)

Shite I used to make these cards:

• White and kraft cardstock (Recollections)
• Crop & Create March 2023 cardstock / design paper (Honey Bee Stamps)
• Lovely Layers Owl die set (Honey Bee Stamps)
• To The Wise One stamp set (Honey Bee Stamps)
• Nocturne ink (Tsukinek)
• White paint pen (Artistro)

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

You can check out 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.