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...

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!

SOS #439 - It's All About Family

 

Greetings & salutations crafty friends!

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

Over the last year or so we have been spending much more time at home and with our families.

Where I live, yesterday, Feb 15 was Family Day...which has been Provincial holiday since 2008 and coincidentally always means I have a long weekend close to my birthday!

For this challenge our crew is celebrating families and we hope you will play along!

For my family, growing up and now, we have always played a lot of games, board games, card games.

Even now a visit to my parents guarantees a rousing game of Wizard, what my mum calls "How Big Is Yours" (it's actually called What's Yours Like) or a dice game I am pretty sure my dad made up!

With my hubby and son, we play a lot of Settlers of Catan (my fave) so please note that a 7 has been rolled on the dice, that means I am moving the robber to steal one of your cards!

Yep, we are a bit competitive when it comes to games! Don't even get me started on playing a game of spoons!

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Family Night design paper (Carta Bella)
• Family Night element stickers (Carta Bella)
• Foam tape (Dollar Tree)

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 #427 - Pile It On

Greetings & salutations crafty friends!

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

Last time around we wanted you to keep it simple (sister). For this challenge we want you to Pile It On.

Let's see how much stuff you can get onto one project!

This one is totally outside my comfort zone...but I am kinda happy with what I came up with based on  this instagram post from ECHO PARK using the "Family Night" collection from Carta Bella.

I piled on:

• Five different design papers
• Five stickers
• Three pieces of ephemera
• Three enamel dots
• Four enamel stars

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock base (Recollections)
• Family Night design paper (Carta Bella)
• Family Night element stickers (Carta Bella)
• Family Night ephemera (Carta Bella)
• Enamel dots & stars (from my stash, maker unknown)

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

You can find all the 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 #426 - Keep It Simple Sister

Greetings and salutations crafty pals!

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

Yours truly is the challenge host this week and our theme is Keep It Simple Sister (KISS).

That means we want to see a CAS (clean and simple) card, not too many elements, not too many layers, not too many embellishments.

I have a tough time with this type of card, I tend to want to fill every little piece of space with something LOL

Here's my attempt at a KISS / CAS card:

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Summer Market design paper (Carta Bella)

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 SOS BLOG.

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

Stay safe & be well friends!

SoSS #163 - W is for Water

Greetings and salutations snarky pals!

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

Edna looks like she is in a spot of trouble with this challenge theme W is for Water.

My pal Stacey has a birthday coming up in July (the 13th like me!) and she is also an ocean lovin' lady, so I made this card for her...sadly we are both missin' the ocean a LOT this summer!

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Ahoy There design paper (Carta Bella)
• Foam tape (Dollar Tree)

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 lovin' and comments with our reigning Queen of Snark and the rest of the sisterhood.

Shopping Our Stash #415 - Is It Summer Yet?

Greetings and salutations crafty pals!!

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

Are you over being in the throes of winter?? Then we have just the challenge for you!

Our theme is "Is It Summer Yet?"

That means we want to see something summer related or bright colours or something that will make us feel all lovely and warm like we are soaking up the rays of the sun!

What could be more summery than a big ole flamingo and some pineapple??

Not sure I would use bakers twine for stitching again, it was a bit bulky to work with and I was worried it was going to tear the paper...but it didn't...phew!

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Let's Travel design paper and chipboard elements (Carta Bella)
• Yellow / white bakers twine (The Twinery)
• Paper piercer and mat (SU)
• Foam tape (Dollar Tree)

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 craft love & comments with the rest of the crew.

Shopping Our Stash #412 - Winter Blues

Greetings and salutations crafty pals!

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

Yours truly is hosting the challenge and our theme is Winter Blues.

That means we want to see something winter related on your project or you can use predominantly blue.

I went with mostly blue and made a few mini albums with the Home Again collection by Carta Bella.

I started with THIS YOUTUBE TUTORIAL and within a day I had made ***gasp*** six mini albums. I also scored seven more to make a few Christmas themed ones...yep I am THAT kind of crafter...tad obsessive perhaps??

Anywho, I am finding these mini albums are a great way to use a stashed kit and goodness knows I have a LOT of those!

Because I am a rebel, I deviated from the tutorial quite a bit.
She started with two sheets of 12 x 12 paper, I started with one.
I thought matting each page was a waste of paper, so instead I made pockets that you could pop pictures or other mementos into.

Here are the three I made for this challenge:

I made the one on the left first, so I will show you what that looks like when it flips open.

Here's the cover:

The cover flips up and you get these two pages:

Lastly the bottom flap on the picture above flips open and you get these three pages.

The blue checked paper is popped up on three sides with foam tape to create little pockets.

Seriously, give the tutorial a go, they are super fun to make and once you've done one and got the feel for it, you can bang em out any ole way you like!

Shite I used to make these mini albums:

• Home Again design paper, element stickers, chipboard accents, frames & tags (Carta Bella)
• Corner rounder punch (SU)
• Foam tape (Dollar Tree)

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.

Getting Sketchy

I have a few January birthday cards to make and get out in the mail for a couple of my online crafty friends.

I started with this sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch:

And created these using the "Let's Travel" collection from Carta Bella. 

I love love love the soft colours and the fun designs!

I hand stitched around the edges of the journal cards to give them a fun little border.

Shite I used to make these cards:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Let's Travel design paper, enamel dots & chipboard accents (Carta Bella)
• Small Talk Occasions sentiment sticker (Tim Holtz)
• White thread and needle (Dollarama)

I would like to enter these cards for  CAS(E) This Sketch #354