Shopping Our Stash #536 - Winter But Not Christmas

 

Greetings and salutations crafty friends!

All the best of the holiday season to you and yours!

Joining in on the latest challenge from the crew at SHOPPING OUR STASH - WINTER BUT NOT CHRISTMAS

Always looking for ways to use up the many, many, many, many paper collections that I have hoarded, I found this great link on youtube making 18 cards from the Carta Bella Snow Much Fun collection (yep, I have that one).

So I didn't make all 18 cards, but I did make 5!

Cards got a little wet taking pictures in my driveway, not sure if you can see the tiny snowflakes that landed and melted on them - hey it is a winter themed challenge!

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

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...

Shopping Our Stash #533 - Birds of a Feather

 

Had a day with a little bit of down time today (whhhaaaaattt?????) so I decided to play along with a few challenges including SHOPPING OUR STASH and their latest challenge - "Birds of a Feather" and  SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY challenge #294 - Feather

Some of you may know that I have a weird unwarranted terrifying fear of birds, so I don't have a lot of bird related craft supplies LOL

Last year my crafty friend Christa gifted me a few stamp sets, including this "Dream" set from Lawn Fawn...I knew I had feathers somewhere!

I based my card on this one I found on pinterest:

Here is my watercolour rainbow of feathers (I need to find the coordinating dies now!)

Shite I used to make this card:

• White and black cardstock (Recollections)
• Nocturne Versafine ink (Tsukineko)
• Dream stamp set (Lawn Fawn)
• Barn Door, Spiced Marmalade, Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint, Peacock Feathers and Shaded Lilac distress inks (Tim Holtz)
• Watercolour brush (Tim Holtz)

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

Shopping Our Stash #523 - Sketch Challenge

Best wishes and warmest regards crafty friends!

Playing along with the new challenge from SHOPPING OUR STASH based on the sketch below.

Here's what I made using the Dragons & Dreams collection by Becky Moore for PhotoPlay

Thanks for hopping by!!

Going Green with Shopping Our Stash

 

Best wishes and warmest regards crafty friends!

Up WAY too early with the time change this morning (weird) and thought I would make a few cards.

Made a few (ok 5) cards for Shopping Our Stash #516 - It's Not Easy Being Green.

I do send out some St. Patrick's Day cards, I married into an Irish family and I got married on St. Patrick's Day - so Kevinator always gets a card with some lucky sharmocks!

I used the Tulla & Norbert's Lucky Charm collection by PhotoPlay for these cards. 

Shopping Our Stash #508 - Colour Challenge

Cute fall card using the September 2023 Let's Stamp Together kit from Scrapbook & Cards Today and The Stamps of Life.

Love the stamps dies and stencils in this kit!

Entering this card for the Colour Challenge at Shopping our Stash.

Even More Christmas Cards!!!!

Getting a jump start on my 52 weeks of crafting for 2023 and shopped my stash this morning to make a set of Christmas cards (isn't that what you do on December 29???).

I used a card kit from December 2014 featuring the "Jingle All The Way" collection from Echo Park.

Entering these cards into the following challenges:

SHOPPING OUR STASH #486 - TIME FOR PRESENTS

CHRISTMAS KICKSTART CHALLENGE #69 - IF ITS CHRISTMASSY LINK IT UP

Shopping Our Stash #479 - Hey (h)Ombre!

Greetings and salutations crafty friends!

Wanted to share with you a few ink blended cards I made for the Hey (h)Ombre! challenge at Shopping Our Stash.

These make great little happy mail notecards.

Shite I used to make these cards:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Picked Raspberry, Wilted Violet, Carved Pumpkin, Spiced Marmalade and Mustard Seed Distress inks (Tim Holtz)
• India Ink Black ink (Hero Arts)
• Blending brushes
• Pumpkin Spice stamp set (Lawn Fawn)
• Little Gnome stamp set (Woodware Craft Collection)
• Sticky notes for masking

Shopping Our Stash #476 - She Sells Seashells

Greetings and salutations crafty friends!

It's been a hot minute since I had a chance to play along with Shopping Our Stash - I couldn't resist this one...

She Sells Seashsells

(and nope, I can't say that 5 times fast)

Being near the ocean is my happy place (bring on October!!!) and I knew I wanted to use one of my favourite collections - Monterey Bay from PhotoPlay.

Here are the three cards I made for the challenge:

Shite  I used to make these cards:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Monterey Bay design paper, cardstock ephemera and element stickers (PhotoPlay)
• Foam tape (Dollar Tree)

Challenges Entered:

• Shopping Our Stash -#476 - She Sells Seashells

SoSS #210 - I is for Ink

Greetings, salutations & happy new year snarky pals!

Thanks for stopping by to check out the first challenge of the year from Edna and the sisterhood of snarky stampers! We are kicking off the year with I is for Ink.

That means we want to see lots of ink on your project - show us your favourite inky techniques!

I did some ink blending to create a background and then used more ink through a stencil to create a pattern on top.

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Peacock Feathers, Picked Raspberry, Mustard Seed distress inks (Tim Holtz)
• Bubble stencil (Tim Holtz)
• Moonlight White archival ink (Tsukneko)
• Mini Ink Blender (Tim Holtz)
• Die cut image sticker (Capitol Chic Designs)
• Sentiment sticker (Krissyanne Designs)

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 of Snark and the rest of the sisterhood!

I'd also like to enter the following challenges:

Shopping Our Stash for the "Something Starting with S" challenge (stencil).

Just Us Girls for Trend Week #614 - Inked or Sprayed Backgrounds.

Happy Little Stampers - Anything Goes with Stencils

Shopping Our Stash #460 - Do You Want To Build A Snowman

Greetings and salutations crafty friends!

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

Our challenge theme is Would You Like to Build a Snowman...that means (obviously) we want to see a snowman (or more than one) on your project.

I went WAYYYYYYYY back to a 2016 card kit for these cards.

Basically 2 variations of the same card.

I even used a fancy (lol) blue background in my photobox to take the pictures!

Shite I used to make these cards:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Hello Winter cardstock (Echo Park)
• Hello Winter chipboard accents (Echo Park)
• Hello Winter die cuts (Echo Park)
• Blue cardstock (Bazzil)
• Large snowflake punch (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 with the rest of the crew.

This will be my final challenge with the SHOPPING OUR STASH design team. 

After a few years, much hmmmmming and hahhhhhhhing, sadly lacking crafty mojo...I finally decided that  I am going leave it up to the other members of the design team to take up the reigns. I hope that you will continue to visit the blog and play along with the very awesome design team!

Shopping Our Stash #459 - Triple Threat

 

Greetings and salutations crafty friends!!

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

Our challenge theme is Triple Threat...that means we want to see three of something on your project...three buttons, three stickers, three images, three pieces of washi tape...you get the idea.

My triples are three trees, three words "fun fun fun," three blue enamel dots and three pink enamel dots.

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Snow Much Fun design paper (Carta Bella)
• Snow Much Fun elements cardstock stickers (Carta Bella)
• Snow Much Fun ephemera frames and tags (Carta Bella)
• Enamel dots (from an old kit - no idea who made them)

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

You can find all the challenge details 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 #458 - Tic Tac Toe

Greetings and salutations crafty friends!

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

We have a tic tac toe challenge for you this time around based on the image below.

I went with the diagonal line of Thank You / Stamps Over 3 Years Old and Leaves.

Lovely as a Tree has always been one of my fave stamp sets from SU and I think it's one of the oldest sets I own - it's still wood mounted!!

Shite I used to make this card:

• White and kraft cardstock (Recollections)
• Lovely as a Tree stamp set (SU)
• Iced Spruce and Frayed Burlap distress inks (Tim Holtz)
• Woodland embossing folder (SU)
• Jute string (Tim Holtz)
• Accent and Phrase sentiment sticker (Pebbles Inc.)
• Foam tape (Dollar Tree)

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

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 #457 - You Don't Bring Me Flowers

Greetings and salutations crafty friends!!

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

Here in Southern Ontario - fall is in full effect...chilly, windy, rainy, dark earlier...all our beautiful summer flowers are gone for the season...hence our challenge theme You Don't Bring Me Flowers (ok that might be a bit of a stretch??)

Here's what I made (for the record I do NOT suggest stitching with hemp thread, lol, although it took a LONG time, I do like how it looks in the end...)

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Belle Fleur design paper (PhotoPlay)
• Turquoise Gem chalk ink (VersaMagic)
• Paper piercer and mat (SU)
• Hemp string

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 comments and love with the rest of the crew!

Shopping Our Stash #456 - Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice

 

Greetings and salutations crafty friends!

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

It really is the most wonderful time of the year...and we are celebrating all things autumn with a Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice challenge. I am one of THOSE people who love love love all things pumpkin and pumpkin spice...mmmmmmmm sooooooooo good!!

I had set out for this challenge to make some cute little Thanksgiving notecards to send to friends and family...then realized I didn't have time to get them in the mail. I thought Thanksgiving was at least another week away (for us Canadians) but it wasn't....UGH...oh well...I'll save em for next year lol

Shite I used to make these cards:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• My Favorite Fall design paper and element stickers (Echo Park)
• Small Talk Occasions sentiment stickers (Tim Holtz)
• Ruler (SU)
• Fine tip Sharpie

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 with the rest of the crew!