SoSS #255 H is for Halloween

 

Greetings and salutations crafty pals!

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

With October upon us, it's time to celebrate all things Halloween!

As is it also Breast Cancer Awareness month, we like to throw in the option of pink as well.

I have a plethora of Halloween design paper - like more than Christmas, I can't stop collecting (haha) Halloween paper! So in an effort to use up some of my stash (and do some crafting at the trailer that didn't require my entire craft room) I made some mini albums.

I started with THIS TUTORIAL and a few empty bear paw boxes (yes I eat like a 2 year old)

Each mini album has 12 pages, I made a few pages with pockets and journalling cards, left some for pictures or whatever. These were super fun to make - now to figure out what to do with them lol

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 the rest of the sisterhood!

SoSS #221 - H is for Halloween

Greetings and salutations crafty friends!

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

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 the year and we are celebrating all things spooky and Halloween!!

Looks like Edna may have played one too many tricks, and she may end up as a treat for the spiders!!!

Poor Edna!

I won't tell you exactly how many Halloween cards I make every year, sometimes more than Christmas cards...the set of mini slimline cards I made for this challenge will have gone out in the mail already to some of my most favourite ghosts and ghouls and I **may** have made at least duplicates of all of these cards.

Told you I liked making Halloween cards!

Shite I used to make these cards:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Gnome for the Holidays - Halloween (PhotoPlay)
• Orange and purple bling (Dollarama)

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!

A Tint Craft {ATC} Challenge #14 - SPOOKY

Greetings and salutations crafty pals!

Thanks for stopping by to check out the latest challenge from the A Tiny Craft {ATC} team.

It's the spookiest time of the year and we are celebrating all things Halloween and spooky!

I made a set of 4 ATCs to send my favourite little trick or treaters, with a wee envelope / treat on the back.

Shite I used to make these ATCs:

• Upcycled cardboard ATC bases
• Thrilling design paper (Authentique)
• Pumpkin die cuts (B2C - Back 2 Class)
• Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)
• Blending brush
• Occasional Tags die set (Brutus Monroe)
• Black and white cardstock (Recollections)
• Black twine
• Bling
• Paper clips

As always, we would love for you to get spooky with us!

You can find all the details for the challenge on the A Tiny Craft {ATC} Blog

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

SoSS #211 - W is for Wicked

 

Greetings and wicked salutations snarky friends!!

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

Edna is for sure channelling her inner Elphaba for this challenge - W is for Wicked

I love all things Halloweeny, so I was super excited to use the Gnome for the Holidays - Halloween collection by PhotoPlay for this one.

My sentiment is a combo of a cut up graphicat designs stamp and a Halloween stamp set my mum picked up for me from Michaels (yay Mum!!) - I swapped out the "bad" for "wicked"

I had to glam up her shoes a bit to match the sentiment, so I gave her gold stickled shoes...I know they should have been red, but red with orange hair...I just couldn't do that to her!

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Gnome for the Holidays - Halloween design paper (PhotoPlay)
• Bad Witch stamp (Graphicat Designs)
• Halloween stamp set (Michaels)
• Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)
• Golden Rod stickles (Ranger)

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!

A Tiny Craft (ATC) Challenge #3 - Halloween

Greetings and salutations crafty pals!

Thanks for popping by to check out the latest challenge from the A TINY CRAFT (ATC) design team.

The theme for our third challenge is Halloween.

I made cards for the first two challenges, so I thought I'd mix it up this time and make coins.

I made 4 in total (ya, Halloween and bats are my favourite!!!)... two have gone off in the mail to my design teammate  Mimi - we have a monthly ATC swap by mail....sooooooo much fun!!!!

Shite I used to make these ATCs:

• Cardboard for ATC base
• 2.5" circle punch (SU)
• Bat punch (SU)
• Thrilling design paper (Authentique)
• Small Talk Occasions sentiment stickers (Tim Holtz)
• Foam dots to pop up the bats (Rcollections)
• Black Soot and Crackling Campfire distress inks (Tim Holtz)
• Mini ink blending tool (Tim Holtz)

We'd love for you to join us and play along....you can find all the details for the challenge on the A TINY CRAFT (ATC) BLOG.

While you are there please share some crafty love and comments with the rest of the design team and our special guest!

I'd also like to submit my ATC's for the following challenges:

Anything Halloween challenge at Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge

ATCs With Heart challenge #109 Halloween

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge

 

I am very much enjoying making some spooky Halloween cards to play along with the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenges.

Their monthly theme for July is Just Anything Halloween...easy enough right?

I have a bag of miscellaneous Halloween crafty stash, I broke that open to make this card...but...I have NO idea who made the design paper or punch out embellishments...if you recognize it, please let me know.

After Halloween last year my mum picked me up this "Creep It Real" sentiment stamp, perfect fit for this card...thanks mum!

Shite I used to make this card:

• Black cardstock (SU)
• Design paper and punch out embellishments (??)
• Black Soot ink (Tim Holtz)
• Versamark ink
• White embossing powder (Recollections)
• Creep It Real sentiment stamp (Recollections)
• White paint pen (Artistro)

I would like to enter this card for Just Anything Halloween at Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge.

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge

 
When the mojo hits, you gotta roll with it. I have had NO motivation to get crafty for the better part of a month...then yesterday and today...maybe being away from home for a few days did me more good than I realized, a change of scenery and all that...

This is what the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge mood board for June looks like:

And here's the card I made based on the mood board (and I've really been wanting to break into my Boo Crew collection kit from Simple Stories).

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Boo Crew design paper design paper (Simple Stories)
• Boo Crew cardstock stickers (Simple Stories)
• Spider punch (Studio G)

As mentioned at the beginning of this post, I made this for the June Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge.

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge

Greetings and salutations crafty pals!

My awesome crafty pal and Shopping Our Stash design teammie MARIA introduced us to a new challenge blog!!

AND!!!     GUESS WHAT!!??!!     It's ALL Halloween!!!!

Woot!!!! Woot!!!!

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge    (is that a great name or what??) launched their first challenge this month with this awesome inspirational mood board:

I love the black and white and orange together, the pumpkins and the round bike wheels, I used that as my inspiration for this spooky tag:

If you love Halloween as much as I do, you'll want to be sure to check out this challenge and play along!

SoSS #171 - H is for Halloween (PINK HALLOWEEN!!)

 

Thaaaaaat's right snarky friends!!!!

It's the MOST wonderful time of the year!!!! Time for our annual PINK HALLOWEEN challenge!!

Enda is looking like a delicious little ball of cotton candy...and that dress!!!

I have been mucking about with my new gel plate (yep I got one, thanks enabling crafty friends!!).

Seriously so much messy fun, I don't know why I didn't try this before now...anyhow...

I started with a layer of pink paint, which has all but disappeared, but it's in there under the black paint and skull stencil. Thinking I needed more pink, at the end I rubbed the whole thing over with a Picked Raspberry mini ink pad.

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Spun Sugar distress paint (Tim Holtz)
• Black acrylic paint (Tri-Art)
• Skull stencil
• Gel plate
• Brayer
• Halloween Words embossing folder (Tim Holtz)
• Picked Raspberry distress ink (Tim Holtz)
• Small Talk Occasions sentiment sticker (Tim Holtz)

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 comments for our reigning Queen of Snark and the rest of the sisterhood!

HAPPY HAUNTING!

Shopping Our Stash #407 - Halloween

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 host and our theme is one of my favourites:

Halloween

Check out the super awesome sugar skull die that fellow crew member and long time crafty pal BARBARA sent me...she is so lovely and sweet!!

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Paper Studio)
• Black cardstock (Recollections)
• Sugar skull die (from the lovely Barb)
• Skeleton Scroll embossing folder (Provo Craft)
• Small Talk Occasions sticker (Tim Holtz)

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 crafty comments with the rest of the crew!

SoSS #146 - P is for Pink Halloween

Greetings and salutations snarky pals!

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

It's officially October, that means that it's time for our annual PINK HALLOWEEN challenge for Breast Cancer awareness month.

This is our 6th year of Pink Halloween!!  Can you believe that??

Here's how Edna has rocked it since 2014...

2014

2015 

2016

 2017

2018

Here's what I made for the 2019 Pink Halloween challenge:

Shite I used to make this card:

• Pink and black cardstock (Recollections)
• Decorative Dots embossing folder (SU)
• Oval dies (Sizzix)
• Trick or Treat stamp set (Inkadinkado)
• Black Soot distress ink (Tim Holtz)
• Bat punch (SU)
• Fence punch (Martha Stewart)
• Stylus (to make the ink dots)

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!

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!

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!

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 #366 - Sihouettes

Greetings crafty friends!

Thanks for stopping by today to check out this week's challenge from the crew at SHOPPING OUR STASH

This week ALICA is our host and our theme is silhouettes.

I may have gone to see my most favourite musical recently, and was inspired to base my card on it (that and I don't have many silhouette stamps).

If you are not a familiar with WICKED, it is the story of the witches of OZ before Dorothy came to town (based on the book by Gregory Maguire).

This is my Elphaba / Defying Gravity inspired silhouette card:

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• Black cardstock (Recollections)
• All Hallows Eve stamp set (Inkadinkado)
• Alphabet Stamp Set (Studio G)
• Oval die (Sizzix)
• Post it note (for mask)
• Twisted Citron distress ink (Tim Holtz)
• Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)
• Water spritser (SU)
• Mini ink blender (Tim Holtz)
• Paper piercer & mat (SU)
• Fine tip Sharpie

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

You will find all the details for the challenge on the SHOPPING OURSTASH BLOG.

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