Hey Dude!

Super excited that both SHOPPING OUR STASH and SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY  have masculine challenges on right now.

I picked up the "Party Animal" stamp, stencil and die set by Concord & 9th not that long ago and had yet to break into it. 

I always struggle making dude cards (why is that??) so I thought these ones would work for lots of things depending on the colour scheme (I also struggle not to use pink and purple all the time lol).

I love the reverse stamping of the sentiment stamp, the ink stamps the black background and the text stays the colour of the cardstock underneath.

The colours of balloon dogs in the background required me to number the colours in sharpie on the first stencil and use lots of sticky notes for masking.

This card is almost a direct CASE of the sample card at Two Scrapbook Friends (which might have been why I bought it???)

Entering this card into the following challenges:

SHOPPING OUR STASH #535 0 MASCULINE

SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY #296 - MASCULINE

Until next time, best wishes, warmest regards...

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 #231 - B is for Bunny

Greetings and salutations snarky pals!

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

With spring arriving and Easter approaching, we are celebrating all things bunny.

This is one of my "OMG this took me ALL day to make" cards.

The bunny is from the September 2022 crop & create (which I had not used until now!!), the postcard die is from this past weekend's crop & create event and the sentiment is from a stamp and die set I found at Michael's years ago.

I watched the video from the September 2022 event to watercolour the background, the bunny and the little pill bottle.

Several things went awry in the making of this card and it almost ended up in the recycling.

But I took sooooooo long to do the watercolouring, I couldn't bear to toss it!

A few of the many things I have learned doing crop and create events - friends, it's only paper...and...it's better than horrible!

The little pill bottle, when die cutting, the die shifted, so it has an indent in it...meh...

When cutting the background piece with the postcard die, the little pill bottle die was still stuck on the cutting plate - so there's a pill bottle size hole in the background behind the bunny...meh

Shite I used to make this card:

• White and black cardstock (Recollections)
• Watercolour paper (crop & create Sept 2022 kit)
• Feel Better stamp and die set (Mama Elephant)
• Cheeky Modern Pop stamp and die set (Recollections)
• Seaside Post Wafer Dies (Concord & 9th)
• India Ink Black ink (Hero Arts)
• Picked Raspberry, Peacock Feathers, Mustard Seed, Scattered Straw, Gathered Twigs distress inks (Tim Holtz)
• Water colour pen (Tim Holtz)
• Water spritzer (SU)

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!

SoSS #156 - K is for Kids

Greetings & salutations snarky pals!

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

Edna is all about the rugrats and ankle biters, so this challenge is dedicated to the kids.

The young, the young at heart, those that just won't grow up...

I wanted this to be a one layer card, but...alas, I didn't like the way the sentiment stamped, so I heat embossed it, cut it out and layered it on top...it's a "mostly" one layer card.

As a bonus, I think I "almost" have the knack of turning the turnabout stamp and NOT getting all the dots in the same place!! Yay me!!

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Spiced Marmalade, Twisted Citron, Wilted Violet, Peacock Feathers & Mustard Seed distress inks (Tim Holtz)
• Versamark
• Black embossing powder (Recollections)
• Bitty Burst turnabout stamp set (Concord & (9th)
• Say What You Mean stamp set (Dyan Reaveley)

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 love and crafty comments with our reigning Queen of Snark and the rest of the sisterhood!