SoSS # 22 - V is for Vintage

Happy Saturday snarky friends!! Super excited that it's time for a new challenge from the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!! This week Edna and the sisters would like you to get your vintage on.

Visit the SoSS BLOG for all the details on the challenge and to show my sisters some crafty lovin!

For me, nothing says vintage / shabby chic / serious awesomesauce quite like the amazing TIM  HOLTZ...yes, we all know he is my (not so secret) crafty crush!

I was lucky enough to attend a class recently taught by the super talented VICKY BOUTIN and we made a very cool vintage configuration box project using Tim Holtz crafty goodness!!

Here are a few pictures of my project:

Front cover:

 
Inside of the configuration box:

Back Cover:

Want to get in on the fun??? You have until 11:55 pm (EST) to upload your project to the SoSS BLOG

Maybe YOU will be our next Queen or Princess of Snark!!

Scraptures - Finally Friday - November 28, 2014

Happy Happy Happy Friday!! Can you believe it's going to be DECEMBER in a few days???

Friday means it's time for a SCRAPTURES Finally Friday project!!

Thanks Christa for asking me to do the Finally Friday projects this month...was great motivation to do some layouts from last year!

Next I want to work on first day of school and Christmas (2013 of course) then I can move on to 2014!!!

Here's my last Finally Friday 8x8 layout using last month's card kit featuring Harvest Lane by Simple Stories.

Grandpa de Jong and Joel at Howells doing some pumpkin slingshotting (is slingshotting a word????)

Shite I used to make this layout:

• Harvest Lane "Made with Love" design paper (Simple Stories)
• Harvest Lane "Expressions Cardstock Stickers" (Simple Stories)
• Harvest Lane "Fundamentals Cardstock Stickers" (Simple Stories)
• Harvest Lane "Border Strips" design paper (Simple Stories)
• Acorn Hollow design paper (Little Yellow Bicycle)

• Kraft cardstock (Recollections - not in the kit)
• Green chevron washi tape (not in the kit)

SOS 179 - Free is Good!!

Hey hey crafty peeps! Last Tuesday of November and it's time for a two week challenge at SHOPPING OUR STASH

This week the SOS crew would like you to use something that you got for free...and don't forget to tell us what it is!

I received an awesome thank you gift pack at a crafty workshop that I attended. The cardstock, design paper, stamp set and ribbon slider I used on my project this week were all in the gift pack! I am so lovin' on the pinecone design paper and stamp!

FREE shite I used to make this card:

• Dark Denim Journal cardstock paper (Bo Bunny)
• Powder Mountain design paper (Bo Bunny)
• Powder Mountain clear stamps (Bo Bunny)
• Brown ribbon slider

Other shite I used to make this card:

• Scallop border punch (SU)
• Corner rounder punch (Creative Memories)
• Ink blending tool (Tim Holtz)
• Vintage Photo and Peacock Feathers distress inks (Tim Holtz)
• White ribbon (Recollections)

Want to play along?? You have two weeks to upload your project to the SOS BLOG. While you are there be sure to share some crafty lovin' with my SOS teammies!!

We'll be back on Tuesday December 9th with a new challenge for ya!

Scraptures Finally Friday - November 21, 2014

Wow, has this week ever gotten away from me. Friday was here before I knew it and I completely forgot to post my Finally Friday layout for SCRAPTURES today!!!

Still working away with the October card kit which featured Harvest Lane by Simple Stories. It's a great collection to work with for layouts from our family trip to Howell's last fall (yes I am more than a year behind!!).

One of Kevin and Joel (and Grandpa's) favourite activities at Howell's were the pumpkin slingshots. You buy a bucket of mini pumpkins and shoot them off across the field at targets they had set up including an old car! Grandpa's goal was to bypass all the targets and shoot the pumpkins into the forest!

Shite I used to make this layout:

• Harvest Lane 12x12 Expression Cardstock Stickers (Simple Stories)
• Harvest Lane Border Strip Elements (Simple Stories)
• Harvest Lane 12x12 Fundamental Cardstock Stickers (Simple Stories)
• Acorn Hollow design paper (Little Yellow Bicycle)

• Kraft cardstock (Recollections - not in the kit)
• Washi tape (SU - not in the kit)
• Stapler & staples (not in the kit)

SOS 178 - Thankful

The theme for this week's SHOPPING OUR STASH challenge is "Thankful."

With US Thanksgiving right around the corner, the SOS crew would like you to make a Thank You, Grateful or Thanksgiving themed project.

Check out the SOS BLOG for all the details on the challenge and while you are there share some crafty love with my teammies.

We probably don't take enough time to count our blessings and to think of all the many things we have to be thankful for...that's the direction I went with my card...give thanks for all the awesome I have in my life.

Shite I used to make this card:

• Fundamental Cardstock Stickers (Harvest Lane, Simple Stories)
• Made With Love design paper (Harvest Lane, Simple Stories)
• Notebook design paper (Harvest Lane, Simple Stories)
• Bingo Cards (Harvest Lane, Simple Stories)
• Crumb Cake cardstock (SU)
• Corner rounder punch (Creative Memories)
• Dimensionals (SU)

SoSS 21 - P is for Profanity

That's right!! This week's SoSS challenge is "P is for Profanity" the snarky sisters have nicknamed this challenge "use a swear if you dare."

Head on over to the SoSS BLOG (if you dare) for all the details on this challenge and while you are there show some crafty (maybe profanity laced) lovin' to my sisters and our awesome guest designer for this challenge...the lovely LAUREN

Here's what I made for the challenge. This past week was Remembrance Day in Canada and Vetrans'  Day in the US. My card is an ode to our brothers and sisters in arms, past and present. Thank you for your service and for all you do for those of us back home, for kicking ass and taking names!

Here's a quick pic of my military hero, my granddad Fred, this picture was taken in 1940...handsome fella. Are those hands a dead giveaway that he was a boxer???

Shite I used to make this card:

• Whisper White cardstock (SU)
• Masters of Disguise design paper (Bella Blvd. "Max")
• Treasured & Text (Bella Blvd. "Max")
• F Bomb stamp set (Kelly Purkey)
• Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)
• Real Red ribbon (SU)
• Jumbo paper clips (Staples)
• Stapler and Staples (Staples)
• 1 3/4" circle punch (SU)

And if that one was too tame for you, have no fear, I also made a few more snarky cards with my F Bomb stamp set.

Shite I used to make these cards:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• F Bomb stampp set (Kelly Purkey)
• Sentiment Sampler stamp set (Paper Smooches)
• Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)
• 1 3/4" circle punch (SU)

Want to get in on the fun and let your profanity fly with the snarky sisters???

You have until 11:55 pm (EST) on Friday November 28 to upload your project to the SoSS BLOG

Scraptures Finally Friday - November 14, 2014

Happy Happy Friday! Hope you are staying warm as the weather gets colder, we've seen a few more flurries in the Niagara Region this week...good excuse to bundle up and stay in the craft room!!

I finished off another 8x8 layout this week for my Finally Friday challenge. Still trying to use some of the pictures I already have printed. This one is a mish mash of two different SCRAPTURES card kits, I thought they worked well together.

I used the March 2014 kit featuring Bella Blvd. "Max" and the May 2014 kit featuring Fancy Pants "Be Different"

This picture was taken last fall...and I can't for the life of me remember if Joel took it of himself or if I took it...either way it's a pretty cool picture...nice eyelashes for an 11 year old boy huh???

Shite I used to make this layout:

• Yellow cardstock
• Be Different "Personality" design paper (Fancy Pants)
• Be Different Ephemera Pack (Fancy Pants)
• Max "Borders" design paper (Bella Blvd)
• Max "Treasures & Text" letter stickers (Bella Blvd)

SOS 177 - NOT Ready for Christmas

Happy Tuesday crafty friends!! Time for another SHOPPING OUR STASH challenge!

Don't know about you but the SOS crew are NOT ready for Christmas! So, for this week's challenge we'd like you to use a use a holiday stamp set to make a non-holiday card or project.

Visit the SHOPPING OUR STASH BLOG for all the details on the challenge and while you are there please show my teammies some crafty love!!

Here's what I made for the challenge (try and look at this card and NOT sing "wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle YA" - I dare ya!! LOL)

Click HERE if you don't get that reference.

Not sure if you can see it in the picture, but I ***tried*** to use some flowersoft on Santa's beard and pom pom. I hope I made JESSI proud by actually using some of what she gave me and not just hoarding it :)

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Colour Me Christmas stamp set (SU)
• Sarcasm Superpower stamp set (Rubber Dance)
• Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)
• Happy Holidays Assortment brads (Doodlebug Designs)
• Green & white twine (The Twinery)
• Paper piercer and mat (SU)
• Fishtail / Banner die set (Your Next Stamp)
• Green Dot / Grid design paper (Doodlebug Designs)
• Fine tip black marker (Sharpie)
• Real Red, Basic Black & Garden Green markers (SU)
• White Flowersoft gift from JESSI

Scraptures - Finally Friday - November 7, 2014

I'm on tap for the SCRAPTURES Finally Friday challenges for November.

I am determined to get caught up on some 2013 layouts before 2015 arrives!!

I have a bunch of 8x8 scrapbooks (SU) that I need to fill, for some reason I don't find 8x8 layouts as intimidating as 12x12 layouts LOL

This week's Finally Friday layout is from our visit to Howell's Family Pumpkin Farm last October.

It's crazy looking at these pictures of Joel with Grandma and Grandpa de Jong and seeing how much he has grown / changed since last year. He doesn't have those cute chubby cheeks anymore!

I used the September card kit which featured "Harvest Lane" by Simple Stories for the layout. It has fantastic fall themed design papers and embellishments.

Shite I used to make this layout:

• Acorn Hollow design paper (Little Yellow Bicycle)
• Harvest Lane 12 x 2 title strip elements (Simple Stories)
• Harvest Lane fundamental stickers (Simple Stories)
• Harvest Lane expressions stickers (Simple Stories)

• Cherry Cobbler cardstock (SU - not in the kit)
• Washi tape (SU - not in the kit)
• Corner rounder punch (SU - not in the kit)

Shopping Our Stash #176 - Leaf Me Alone

Happy Happy Tuesday!!! It's the first week of November!! Have you had any snow where you are?? We had a few flurries this past weekend, but nothing that stuck to the ground yet.

Are you ready for a new SHOPPING OUR STASH challenge?? This week the crew would like you to "Leaf Me Alone" and by that we mean we'd like you to use leaves - images, paper, real, silk, or whatever on your project.

You can check out all the challenge details on the SHOPPING OUR STASH BLOG and while you are there show my crewmates some crafty lovin'!!

Here's what I made for the challenge:

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Harvest Lane 2 x 12 Title Strip Elements (Simple Stories)
• Harvest Lane Bingo Cards (Simple Stories)
• Harvest Lane Cardstock Stickers (Simple Stories)
• Corrugated Shapes (Little Yellow Bicycle)
• Brown buttons

Want to play along with the SOS crew?? Link your project to the SOS BLOG by 11:55 pm EST on Monday November 10th.

Jingle Belles - Not a Creature Was Stirring...

If you have not yet played along with the challenges at JINGLE BELLES, you are totally missing out!! Their mission is to avoid holiday mayhem by making unique and inspiring Christmas cards, in the company of friends, January through November.

OK so maybe I am a little late out of the gate, seeing as it is already November...and I did play along with the Pink Christmas challenge...

Their most recent challenge is "Not a Creature Was Stirring"...to create a holiday card that features a *creature*(a mouse, a moose, a bird, a robot, elves, reindeer, snow-people ... or yes, even a Monsta).

Here's what I made for the challenge:

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Santa's Workshop Cutouts (Doodlebug Designs)
• Santa's Workshop Icon Stickers (Doodlebug Designs)
• Petite Prints Grasshopper Dot / Grid design paper (Doodlebug Designs)
• Bling (Queen & Co.)
• Green and White twine (The Twinery)
• Paper piercer and template (SU)
• Black marker for the faux stitching (Sharpie)

SoSS 20 - T is for Thanks (...for nothing)

Happy Happy Happy Saturday!!! Hope you are like me and TOTALLY overindulged on Halloween treats!!! Mmmmmmmmmmm Reece peanut butter cups!!!

The snarky sisters are back with another fun challenge this week....T is for Thanks (...for nothing). You can make a Thank You card...or a Thanks for Nothing card...ha ha ha ha ha ha I love any challenge that allows me to get my snark on!

Visit the SoSS BLOG for all the details on this challenge and while you are there, show our Guest Designer MAJO and the rest of the sisters some crafty lovin!!

I call my project for this challenge "Donna and Chad go Trick or Treating." Donna, that would be me...and Chad, that would be my younger brother. I don't know about you, but we never appreciated raisins in our trick or treat bags LOL

SISTER JESSI pointed out to me that the silhouette trick or treaters reminded her of It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown....when poor old Charlie Brown got a rock in his trick or treat bag.

WARNING...SLIGHT PROFANITY AHEAD

OK, you've been warned...

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)
• Frightful Glitter Accents (Little Yellow Bicycle)
• Sarcasm Superpower stamp set (Rubber Dance)
• Just Sayin stamp set (SU)
• Word Bubble framelits (SU)
• Gumball Green core'dinations paper (SU)
• Sanding block (SU)

Want to play along?? You have until 11:55 pm (EST) on Friday November 14 to link up your project to the SoSS BLOG

Maybe you will be our next Queen or Princess of Snark!!