Shopping Our Stash #199 - Opposite Day

 

Greetings crafty friends! Thanks for coming back to visit for the new SHOPPING OUR STASH challenge this week!  

This week's theme is Opposite Day. The SOS Crew would like you to use something that is opposite of your usual style. For example, if you are usually CAS, use a really frou-frou ribbon.

For me this was a pretty easy challenge...there are lots of things I never attempt on cards. 

1. I don't tend to use a lot of design paper on cards. If I do, I NEVER use contrasting papers on the same card.

2. I have the world's shakiest hands, so I don't ever draw borders on cards.

For this challenge, I have tried to do both, here's what I made:

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• December Documented design papers (Simple Stories)
• December Documented fundamental stickers (Simple Stories)
• Santa's Greeting stamp (CTMH)
• Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)
• Black Soot distress marker (Tim Holtz)
• Round tag (found it in my stash)

Be sure to check out the SOS BLOG for all the details on this challenge and while you are there be sure to show my teammates some crafty lovin! 

I used the most recent JINGLE BELLES sketch below as the basis for my card.

I'd like to enter my card in the Jingle Belles We Wish You a Merry Sketchmas challenge.

SOS 198 - Texture Me

Happy Happy Tuesday crafty friends!! 

Time for a new SHOPPING OUR STASH challenge!!

This week the SOS crew would like you to "Texture Me" - use your oldest embossing supply (folder, powder, or even a stylus and brass template).

My oldest embossing supply is my trusty old cuttlebug and I think this snowflake folder may have come with it?? I am not sure, but I have certainly had it for a LONG time!!

Here's what I made for the challenge:

Shite I used to make this card:

• Snowflake embossing folder (Provo Craft)
• Early Espresso & Crumb Cake cardstock (SU)
• Frayed Burlap distress ink (Tim Holtz)
• Cozy Christmas collection (Simple Stories)
• Mini ink blending tool (Tim Holtz)

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!

Hope you'll play along with us this week!!

SoSS 32 - Q is for Quick

Hellllloooooo snarky friends!! Spring is sprung!!!! Hope the weather is starting to warm up wherever in the world you find yourself this fine Saturday morning!

Edna and the snarky sisters are back at ya today with a fun new challenge...this week Q is for Quick...we wanna see you make a quick card...ten minutes or less...no overthinking it...no pulling it apart to start over...just go with it!

I found this awesome card on PINTEREST and thought it would work well for a quick card...and dontchya know it...it did!!! I got this sucker made in less than FIVE minutes...it may now become my go to need-a-card-quick card!

So here's my CASE version of the Pinterest card:

SHITE I USED TO MAKE THIS CARD:

• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• Be Loved design paper (Fancy Pants)
• Elegant Butterfly punch (SU)
• Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)
• Journaling DIY stamp set (Simple Stories)
• Bling (from my stash bag o' bling)

Want to play along with the sisterhood?? You have until 11:55 PM (EDT) on Friday May 1 to upload your project to the SoSS BLOG.

You can get all the details for the challenge there and while you are visiting, show my snarky sisters some crafty lovin!!

Until next time, may the snark be with you!

SOS 197 - Lost and Found

Greetings crafty pals! Welcome to a new SHOPPING OUR STASH challenge!! 

This week's theme is Lost and Found. The SOS crew would like you to use something you've re-discovered (could have been lost, you could have just forgotten you owned it).

My lost and found item is my paper crimper. I used to use it ALL the time...but I can't remember the last time I pulled it out of the drawer...until today!

So here's what I made for the challenge, my paper crimped piece is the cup band, it's kinda hidden behind the big green heart.

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• Crumb Cake & Early Espresso cardstock (SU)
• Gumball Green cardstock (SU / Coredinations)
• Fresh Brewed die (Tim Holtz)
• Early Espresso marker (SU)
• Frayed Burlap distress ink (Tim Holtz)
• Paper piercer and mat (SU)
• Mini ink blending tool (Tim Holtz)
• Large heart punch (SU)
• Sanding block (SU)
• Computer generated sentiment

Check out the SHOPPING OUR STASH BLOG for all the details on the challenge and while you are there be sure to show my teammates some crafty love!

Shopping Our Stash 196 - The Earth Has Music

This week the SOS crew have teamed up with WORDS TO SCRAP BY for a fun crossover challenge.

This week's theme is "The Earth Has Music."

Interpret the prompt any way you'd like: earth...music...or both! You can enter your projects on both SHOPPING OUR STASH and WORDS TO SCRAP BY this week.

Here's what I made for the challenge:

Shite I used to make this card:

• Smoke cardstock (WorldWin Cardstock)
• Caribbean twine (The Twinery)
• We Are Family element stickers (Echo Park)
• We Are Family design papers (Echo Park)
• Washi tape (SU)

Check out the SHOPPING OUR STASH BLOG for all the details on the challenge and while you are there be sure to visit the blogs of my SOS teammates and show them some crafty lovin!

CSSC #3

I am not entirely sure how I missed the second challenge...but I did...RATTS!!!

I am not missing out this time, so here's my entry for CSSC #3

Here's the awesome sketch Leslie created:

And here's my take on the sketch...for some reason this sketch screams Halloween to me...so who am I not to listen???

 Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• Black cardstock (Recollections)
• Daffodil Delight cardstock (SU)
• Thrilling design paper (Authentique)
• Happy Everything stamp set (Lawn Fawn)
• Fishtail / Banner Die set (Your Next Stamp)
• Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)
• 1 3/4" circle punch (SU)
• Bat punch (SU)

I am linking this card to CSSC #3.

Easter Bunny Silhouette - The Cheerful Stamp Pad Challenge 108

My good friend BARB is on the design team for THE CHEERFUL STAMP PAD, their latest challenge is a Silhouette challenge. I loved Barb's reindeer silhouette card so much, I decided to play along with the challenge.

Here's what I made for the challenge...an Easter bunny silhouette card. 

I love this type of card, the base is a flat piece of 5.5" x 4.25" cardstock (the Early Espresso here) and the card is a folded piece of 10" x 3.75" piece of cardstock (the white cardstock). 

So it's actually the smaller white cardstock that opens...just a bit of a different fold, super cute, quick and easy to make and flat for mailing YAY!!

You can only see the silhouette of the bunny's head through the window in the front of the card, when you open the card...luckily no-one has taken a bite of his bum (YET).

SHITE I USED TO MAKE THIS CARD:

• Early Espresso cardstock and ink (SU)
• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• 1 3/4 " circle punch (SU)
• 2" circle punch (Marvy)
• Happy Everything stamp set (Lawn Fawn)
• Bunny die )Tim Holtz)

I am linking this card up to Challenge 108 at the Cheerful Stamp Pad - Silhouette

SoSS - J is for Just Kidding

Edna's April Fool's Day shenanigans continue this weekend with the new SoSS challenge...this time around J is for Just Kidding. The snarky sisters want to see your idea of a funny card.

Now keep in mind, some of us have "different" senses of humour...or maybe it's just me...snarky and rude IS funny right???!!!???

Visit the SoSS BLOG for all the details on the challenge and while you are there be sure to show the snarky sisters and our TWO guest designers some crafty lovin!!

Here's what I made for the challenge...

Shite I used to make this card:

• Very Vanilla cardstock (SU)
• Design paper (SU)
• Early Espresso ink and marker (SU)
• Mini ink blending tool (Tim Holtz)
• Paper piercer and piercing template (SU)
• Say What You Mean stamp set (Dyan Reaveley)
• Wondering Midge stamp (Riley and Company)

Want to join the sisterhood and play along?? Of course you do!!

You have until 11:55 pm (EDT) on Friday April 17 to upload your project to the SoSS BLOG

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