Shopping Our Stash #288 - Days of Yore

Greetings & thanks for coming by to check out the latest SHOPPING OUR STASH challenge.

This week our theme is "Days of Yore" and we'd like to see a project with a vintage / shabby chic / distressed look to it.

My new boss has a birthday this week, so I thought this was a great chance to dive into my stash and make a birthday card.

Did a quick google search for a card sketch I liked, found this one, which I found HERE:

Kraft cardstock always says vintage / shabby chic / distressed to me, so that's where I started and here's what I made:

I sooooooo adore that retired SU design paper, I will only use it in very small pieces. I have a fair amount of it in my stash still, but it's so pretty I just can't bear to cut it up...that makes total sense right??

The butterflies I punched x 4, doused with the water spritzer, carefully and repeatedly crinkled them up then heat dried them.

And would you look at that...I used a BRAD!!! I haven't used a brad on a card in about 100 years!!

The sentiment I wanted to look kind of chalk board-y, so once it was almost dry I smudged it a bit...which may or may not have been intentional (the first smudge at least). 

SHITE I USED TO MAKE THIS CARD:

• Kraft cardstock (Recollections)
• Design paper (SU)
• Gorgeous Grunge stamp set (SU)
• Marina Mist, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie and Early Espresso markers (SU)
• Sentiment Sampler stamp set (Paper Smooches)
• Whip Cream ink (Fun Stampers Journey)
• Elegant Butterfly punch (SU)
• Water spritzer (SU)
• Paper piercer (SU)
• Brad (SU)

As always we would love for you to play along with us. 

You can check out all the details for the challenge on the SHOPPING OUR STASH BLOG and while you are there please share some crafty love with the rest of the crew.

SHOPPING OUR STASH #287 - All That Glitters is Gold

Happy Tuesday and thanks for stopping by to check out the newest SHOPPING OUR STASH challenge!

This week we would like you to dig into your stash for hidden gold!!

My cousin asked me to make a Harry Potter themed birthday card for her lovely sweetie friend who is celebrating her 30th birthday this month.

AH HA!!! Perfect opportunity to use up some of that gold cardstock I have been protecting in my stash like it was real gold.

If you are a Harry Potter fan, hopefully you get the references.
I did show this card in advance to fellow SOS design team pal CHRIS and she gave me the Harry Potter thumbs up...so that made me feel pretty awesome!!

Here's the inside of the card, I even downloaded a Harry Potter font!

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• Cherry Cobbler cardstock (SU)
• Gold cardstock (Recollections)
• Black cardstock (Recollections)
• Masculine Graphic T Die-Namics and Stamp Set (My Favourite Things)
• 1", 1 1/4", 1 3/8" and 1 3/4" circle punches (SU)
• Computer generated sentiment

As always, we would LOVE for you to play along with us.

You can find all the details for the challenge at the SHOPPING OUR STASH BLOG.

While you are there, please share some crafty love with the other members of the crew.

SoSS #76 - Y is for Y did I buy that?

This is another one of my favourite annual SoSS challenges.

We all have that shite in our stash that we look at and say to ourselves...

WTF
What was I thinking
Why did I buy that

Ya, I have LOTS of that stuff...but I wanted to go another way this time around. 
I wanted to make something that made YOU think...

WTF
What was she thinking
Why did she buy that

Yes I am talking about my new poop emoji dies!!
Why does one need poop emoji dies?
How many cards can one make with poop emoji dies??

My friends...the possibilities are endless.
Similar to my S is for Stencil cards, snot one and snot two...here for your review and consideration are poop one and poop two!

POOP ONE:

POOP TWO:

Shite I used to make these cards:

• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• Red cardstock (Recollections)
• Bubbles stencil (Tim Holts)
• Poop emoji dies
• Googly eyes
• Fired Brick distress ink (Tim Holtz)
• Basic Brown ink (SU)
• Sentiment Sampler stamp set (Paper Smooches)
• Snarky Stamps (Paper Issues)
• Ink blender tool (Tim Holtz)
• Water spritzer (SU)
• Fishtail & Banner die set (Your Next Stamp)

As always, Edna and the sisterhood would love for you to play along with us. Check out all the details for the challenge on the SoSS BLOG and while you are there please share some crafty lovin' with my snarky sisters.

Shopping Our Stash #286 - Fantastic Beasts

I am super happy to be returning to the design team at SHOPPING OUR STASH this week. 

I have missed creating with the crew and now that I have started to get my "stuff" together, they were gracious enough to let me come back...thanks y'all!!

Our challenge this week is Fantastic Beasts. 
We want to see unicorns, dragons, monsters...whatever your idea of a fantastic beast is.

I used the super cute monster from the Falling for You set by Paper Smooches to make a love monster Valentine.

I wanted to sentiment to be darker on the design paper, so I tried heat embossing it...hmmmmmmm...didn't work quite as well as I had hoped...it didn't "bubble up" on the design paper like it does on cardstock...ah well.

Everything I used on the card is from my stash...I even fussy cut the eyes and tooth and horns on the monster from the back of the scrap of the design paper I used as the bottom layer.

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• Be.Loved. design paper (Fancy Pants)
• Newsprint design paper (SU)
• Glittery pink cardstock (gift from my crafty friend Ter)
• Falling for You stamp set (Paper Smooches)
• Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)
• Small and large heart punches (SU)
• Scallop border punch (SU)
• Versamark ink
• Black embossing powder
• Heat gun

Please visit the SHOPPING OUR STASH BLOG for all the details on the challenge. While you are there please share some crafty love with the rest of the crew...and...as always, we would love for you to play along!

SoSS #75 - S is for Stencils - Part Two

Look at me go!! Two blog posts in a day! 
Can't remember the last time that happened! 
AND I used more stencils!! Woot Woot Woot!

I was inspired by my snarky sisters and their awesome use of stencils for this week's SoSS challenge, so I thought I would try another stencil based project.

Not sure about your part of the world, but here in Southern Ontario we are in the full throes of winter...and that means lots of flu and colds going around.

That was the inspiration for these two quick and super cute cards using the speckles stencil, some lemon citron distress ink and the healthy vibes stamps and dies by Paper Smooches -their stamps are super cute!!

And if you think it looks like someone sneezed all over the front of these cards...perfect...that's exactly what I was going for!!

I call these snot one and snot two 😉

Sister Jessi often uses googly eyes with her Paper Smooches stamps, so I thought I would give that a go on snot two.

Shite I used to make these cards:

• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• Speckles stencil (Tim Holtz)
• Twisted Citron distress ink (Tim Holtz)
• Mini ink blender tool (Tim Holtz)
• Water spritzer (SU)
• Healthy Vibes stamps and dies (Paper Smooches)
• Fishtail / Banner die set (Your Next Stamp)
• Googly eyes (from my stash)

I am entering these cards into the S is for Stencils challenge over at SoSS. Yes, I am on the design team - but I am linkin' em up anyway...that's just how we roll at the sisterhood!

Happy Birthday Mr. Mike!!

Quick post with a card I made for my cousin's 31st birthday. He will be 31 on January 31.

Tried to make this look like a work sock...the inside says "Hope your birthday doesn't stink"

If I made another work sock, I would make the red strip at the top thinner and not add the red on the heel and toe (should have looked at a sock first), overall I am still happy with the look of it.

I wanted the sock to have some texture, so I repeatedly ran it through the cuttlebug with the lattice embossing folder. Then, because I wanted it to look like a worn sock, I sanded it repeatedly - yes I am a slightly OCD crafter!!

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• Cherry Cobbler and Basic Grey cardstock (SU)
• Stocking die (SU)
• Lattice embossing folder (SU)
• Sanding block (SU)
• Number dies (Sizzix)

I'd like to enter my sock into the SHAPE UP challenge at SHOPPING OUR STASH.

SoSS #75 - S is for Stencils

Greetings snarky pals and welcome to the very first SoSS challenge of the new year.

If you think that edna is looking a bit sketchy after her New Year's celebrations, have no fear, she is just getting into the spirit of the challenge

S is for Stencils

I have quite a few stencils...but I never really know what to do with them...as you can tell by what I made for the challenge.

Believe it or not, I used five different stencils on this coaster...kinda hard to see them once I keep layering over them...ah well.

What started off as a chipboard coaster, morphed into what you see above.

I didn't want it to look like I just made it, I love a distressed / worn look...so after I sanded the you know what out of it, the whole thing is soft as velvet!

Would you believe this had a red / green / blue stripe to it at one point???

You can kind of see green peeking through the bottom left corner if you look closely.

SHITE I USED TO MAKE THE COASTER:

• Chipboard coaster
• Texture paste (Ranger)
• Sanding block (SU)
• Brushed Pewter, Picket Fence, Tumbled Glas, Fired Brick and Peeled Paint distress stains (Tim Holtz)
• Splotches, Burlap, Speckles, Bubbles and Tiles stencils (Tim Holtz)
• Mini ink blending tool (Tim Holtz)
• Water spritzer (SU)
• Heat gun
• White embossing powder
• Versamark ink
• Sentiment stamp (Tim Holtz)
• After Midnight, Vibrant Turquiose ink sprays (Dylusions)

Yep ALL that went into that little coaster...crazy huh?

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

You can check out all the details of the challenge on the SoSS BLOG.

While you are there please share some lovin' with my snarky sisters and our guest designer.

Until next time...stay snarky my friends!