SoSS #273 - H is for Happy Birthday

 

Greetings and salutations snarky pals!

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

Edna is inviting you to the party as we celebrate H is for Happy Birthday.

I always struggle to make masculine birthday cards, so I pulled out my very favourite birthday stamp sets by LRDS Creative from the March 2023 Crop & Create, a few Tim Holtz stencils and some distress inks to make this card for a special someone who celebrated their 40th birthday this year.

As always, we hope you will come to the party and show us your birthday projects.

You can find all the detals 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 #271 - Black Black Heart

 

Greetings and salutations snarky friends.

The season of love is upon us.

Edna, as you can see, is thrilled by this prospect.

Much like Edna, I myself have never been much of a lovey dovey kinda gal.

Love is really best expressed through sarcasm and snark no??

I knew exactly the stamp set I wanted to use for this one, a la our Sister Chris and her "Some Snark" sentiments.

I also wanted to use one of my new TWC stencils (layered rose banner) cuz roses are dead romantic no??

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 for our reigning Queen of Snark and the rest of the sisterhood.

Until next time...

SoSS #270 - N is for New or Never

 

Greetings, salutations & happy new year snarky friends!

Hope the holiday season was kind to you and yours and that 2026 brings all the good.

Edna and the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers are back with our first challenge of 2026.

Did you get some new crafty things for Christmas? 

Do you have loads of stuff in your craft room that you've never used?

Here's your chance to show it off!

We want to see something new, new to you or never been used on your project.

My crafty resolution for 2026 is to break out some of the many many many things I have in my craft room that I have never used.

For this challenge I went back to a class by Simon Hurley that was part of the March 2023 Crop & Create that for some reason I have not done until now. For my project I used the stencils, masks and stamps from that class.

These colours are pretty far out of my comfort zone but I loved the stenciling and masking to get the layered effect. The sentiments are from a Strawberry Jude Stamps set that were gifted to the Sisterhood a number of years ago.

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.

SoSS #264 - H is for Hot Hot Hot (summer)

 

Greetings and salutations snarky pals!

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

For the next month we are getting hot hot hot and we hope you will play along!

I had an entirely different card and blog post ready for this challenge and then thought EFFFFFFFF it, I want to make something snarky.

So here it is, using a sentiment stamp from our very own SISTER CHRIS and Stamplorations which perfectly sums up my state of mind these days!

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

You can find all the details over on the SoSS BLOG and while you are there, please leave some crafty love and comments for our reigning Queen of Snark and the rest of the sisterhood.

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

SoSS #263 - P is for Pride (and rainbows)

Greetings and salutations snarky friends!

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

For the next month we are celebrating all things Pride and rainbows and we would love for you to play along!

I was pleased as punch to recently get my greedy little hands on this long coveted Schitt's Creek themed stamp set from Ink Road Stamps called "Simply the Best."

Not only that, but a few years ago (2020 to be exact) one of my lovely crafty buddies MADE me two Schitt's Creek themed stamps - one of them is the Eww David sentiment stamp.

If you know me, you know I make Schitt's Creek references on the regular and have a lot of Schitt's Creek themed stuff around my craft room / office. 

I have serious love for the writing, the cast and the themes of the show. If you haven't watched it...what are you waiting for?? 

I had some fun mucking about with distress inks, acetate (first card) and blending brushes (second card) to make the rainbow backgrounds. 

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.

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

SoSS #261 - M is for Manly

Greetings and salutations snarky friends, thanks for visiting to check out the latest challenge from Edna and the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers.

Our challenge theme for the next month is M is for Manly.

I went back to a stamp set and class (one of my faves) from the March 2023 Crop & Create with a base stamp set from LRDS Creative, added my "Walter" image from Riley & Co and a snarky sentiment from Frantic Stamper Inc and my super old (maybe the oldest other than swiss dots??) happy birthday embossing folder.

As always we would love for you to join the sisterhood and get your green on!

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.

Until next time...best wishes, 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...

SoSS #256 - C is for Critters

 

Greetings and salutations snarky friends!

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

In this challenge we are celebrating all the critters and hope that you will play along.

I went with a  "mythical critters" birthday theme using the "celebrate" triple slim layering stencil and "mythical grumplings" stamp and die set from Taylored Expressions.

Not sure I am super digging the colours that I picked, but meh - it is what it is - yellow is totally outside of my wheehouse lol.

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

You can find all the details for the challenge at the SoSS Blog.

While you are there please share some crafty love and comments with our reigning Queen of Snark and my snarky sisters.

Until next time, best wishes and 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...

SoSS #229 - I is for Inks

 

Greetings and salutations snarky friends!

Hope all is well and safe in your corner of the world.

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

Edna appears to have been working on her ink collection in more way than one - check out those awesome sleeves and maybe a wee tat under her eye?? Makes me want another tattoo...sigh...

Anywho...break out your inks and show us what you've got!

I drew inspiration from 2 of my crafty friends for this card.

HELEN who showed how you can print random imanges and photos to use on crafty projects, and DEENA who insists I follow the rule of three for bling and not just randomly drop 1 or 2 (LOL).

Shite I used to make this card:

• Pre cut card base (American Crafts)
• Twisted Citron, Peacock Feathers and Black Soot distress inks (Tim Holtz)
• Bit of Burlap stamp (Market Street Stamps)
• Small Talk Snarky sentiment sticker (Tim Holtz)
• Random image from the internet printed on photo paper
• Bling(Michaels)

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.

Best wishes, warmest regards...

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