Shopping Our Stash #378 - Witching Hour

Greetings friends!!

Thanks for coming by to check out the latest challenge from the crew at SHOPPING OUR STASH.

I am host again this week, and since tomorrow is Halloween...our theme is "Witching Hour."

We want to see something spooky, Halloween-y or witchy on your project.

I made two ATCs for the challenge.

I love the cute wee vintage Halloween images that came as part of the "Thrilling" design paper pack from Authentique...I used a few of them for my ATCs.

Shite I used to make these ATCs:

• Cardboard ATC bases
• Thrilling design paper (Authentique)
• Black cardstock (Recollections)
• Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)
• Fishtail / Banner die set (Your Next Stamp)
• Spookytown Assortment brad (Doodlebug Designs Inc.)
• Halloween Epoxy Eyelet charm (Making Memories)

As always, we would love for you to join our crew and play along.

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

While you are there please share some crafty love and comments with the rest of the crew!

Shopping Our Stash #377 - Not Your Average Card

Greetings and salutations crafty pals!

Thanks for stopping by to check out the latest challenge from the crew at SHOPPING OUR STASH.

This week Chris is our host and the theme is brought to you by Barb.

Our theme this week is "not your average card"  that means no square, rectangular, round or oval cards. We want to see a card or project with a unique shape.

The two crafty projects I struggle with most are...shaped cards (lol) and masculine cards...so I decided to do a two-fer!

We are very blessed to have the most wonderful neighbours and one of these wonderful neighbours is having a big birthday this week, so I knew I wanted to make him an extra special card.

I used THIS tutorial for my screen divider card.

I love using metallic papers, but they are a sonofa to photograph!!

Here's a closer look at each panel:

Shite I used to make this card:

• Black & metallic silver cardstock (Recollections)
• Diamond plate embossing folder (Provo Craft)
• Decorative label punch (SU)
• Craftsman chipboard stickers (Prima Marketing)
• Craftsman tiny alpha cardstock stickers (Prima Marketing)

As always, we would love for you to join our crew and play along.

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

While you are there please share some crafty love and comments with the rest of the crew!

SoSS #121 - S is for Skulls

Hello 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 year!! Not only is Halloween approaching, but this challenge is one of my fave fave faves!! I might been keen on all things skull...yeah probably...just a little...

I recently picked up a new Tim Holtz Halloween set that had stamps, dies and an embossing folder, so of course I used them ALL on my Halloween coaster.

This was a super fun inky mess to make, between inking and spritzing the background to dying the ribbon to match, it's a good thing it's the weekend and I don't have to go to work with orange and black fingers!

Shite I used to make this coaster:

• Chipboard coaster
• Black Soot, Carved Pumpkin & Frayed Burlap distress inks (Tim Holtz)
• Hocus Pocus stamp, die and embossing folder set (Tim Holtz)
• Crinkle ribbon (Tim Holtz)
• Water brush (Tim Holtz)
• Water spritzer (SU)
• Googly eyes (Michaels)

As always, Edna would love you to play along 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!

Shopping Our Stash #376 - Pink is the New Orange

Greetings friends!

Thanks for visiting to check out the newest challenge from the crew at SHOPPING OUR STASH.

This week Mimi is our host, and she has chosen "Pink is the New Orange" as our challenge theme.

You can use primarily pink, or primarily orange, or you can live dangerously and use both together!!

Remember, October is breast cancer awareness month, so we'd really like to see some {{GAH!!}} pink in there!!

I went the dangerous route and am overwhelmingly pleased with myself at how my card came out!
Who knew pink and orange worked so awesomely together?? 
Well I guess Mimi did!!!

I blame Chris for my new smooshing addiction, yep, that is ANOTHER smooshed background using Carved Pumpkin and Picked Raspberry distress inks.

Once I made the background piece, I ran it through the cuttlebug in the Halloween Words embossing folder, then rubbed the whole thing down with black ink. Sweet right???? 

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• Pixie Pink cardstock (SU)
• Picked Raspberry & Carved Pumpkin distress inks (Tim Holtz)
• Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)
• Halloween Words texture fades embossing folder (Tim Holtz)
• Pumpkin punch (Martha Stewart)
• Acetate
• Water spritzer (SU)

As always, we would love for you to join our crew and play along!

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

While you are there, please share some crafty love and comments for the rest of the crew!

Shopping Our Stash #375- Giving Thanks

Greetings friends!!

Thanks for visiting today to check out the latest challenge from the crew at SHOPPING OUR STASH.

This week, yours truly is hosting and with Canadian Thanksgiving this week, our theme is "giving thanks."

Now, fear not, if you are not quite ready to jump into Thanksgiving, you could also make a generic thank you card.

I have a lot of Halloween paper in my stash, you can never have too much Halloween paper right??!!??

I made this Thanksgiving card with some of my Halloween paper:

And I liked it so much I made a bunch more (cuz you can never have too many Thanksgiving cards right??!!??)

Here are two of my other faves:

Shite I used to make these cards:

• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• "Thrilling" design paper (Authentique)
• Maple Leaf ounch (EK Success)
• Happy Everything stamp set (Lawn Fawn)
• Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)
• Twine (The Twinery)
• Scallop Border punch (Fiskars)
• Black rhinestone sticker (Michaels)

As always, we would love for you to join our crew and play along!!

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

While you are there please share some crafty love and comments with the rest of the crew!!

SoSS #120 - Pink Halloween

Greetings snarky pals!

Thanks for coming by to check out the latest challenge from Edna and the sisterhood of snarky stampers!!

As Halloween approaches, we are continuing with our spooky themes.

October is breast cancer awareness month and we at the sisterhood are all about the two-fers (and boobies)...that means it's time for our annual PINK HALLOWEEN challenge!

I smooshed a pink background with distress ink (spritzed with water) on a piece of acetate (thanks to Sister Chris for teaching me all about smooshing!!!)

Shite I used to make this card:

• Black cardstock (Recollections)
• Text design paper (SU)
• Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)
• Picked Raspberry ink (Tim Holtz)
• Black embossing powder (Recollections)
• Versamark ink
• Heat gun (Marvy)
• Trick or Treat stamp set (Inkadinkado)
• Rhinestone stickets (Michaels)
• Acetate

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 and the rest of the sisterhood!

Shopping Our Stash #374

Greetings & salutations crafty friends!

Thanks for stopping by to check out the latest challenge from the crew at SHOPPING OUR STASH.

This week Mimi is our host and she has chosen this inspiration quote to base your project on:

Here's the tag I made:

Shite I used to make this tag:

• Manilla craft tag (Ranger)
• Twisted Citron, Picked Raspberry, Wilted Violet distress inks (Tim Holtz)
• Broken China distress paint (Tim Holtz)
• White acrylic paint (DecoArt)
• Scallop stencil (Colorbox)
• Bubble stencil (Tim Holtz)
• Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)
• Versamark ink
• Black embossing powder (Recollections)
• Heat gun (Marvy)
• Fine tip Sharpie
• Pearl stickers (Michaels)
• Pondering Midge stamp (Riley & Co)
• Alphabet stamp set (Studio G)
• Pencil eraser

As always we would love for you to join our crew and play along.

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

While you are there please share some love and comments with the rest of the crew!!