Shopping Our Stash #560 - A Few of My Favourite Things

 

Greetings and salutations crafty friends!

I am trying to make the most of my days off this week, including getting a start on my holiday cards and participating in a few challenges.

I made a few Santa cards specifically for the A FEW OF MY FAVOURITE THINGS challenge at SHOPPING OUR STASH.

A few of my favourite things on this card are:

• shaped cards
• stenciling
• distress oxide inks
• Christmas
• SCT Let's Stamp Together kits (this one is from 2024 and this is the first time I've used it!)

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #104 - Just Add Antlers

 

Greetings and salutations crafty friends!

I was super excited to see the "Just Add Antlers" challenge theme over at Christmas Kickstart Challenge.

Some time ago, my lovely crafty Sistah Chris had gifted me some super cute moose die cuts (Poppystamps). 

I have some free time this week, so I grabbed some distress oxide inks, blending brushes and stencils and made 3 cards (2 without snowflakes as I decided after that the moose popped {not pooped}) better without the snowflakes.

When hubby and I were in Newfoundland in September, we saw these 2 (antlerless and sadly sweaterless) moose. They were so close to the car we could hear them chewing, and mama moose was keeping a keen eye to make sure we didn't get to close...meh, it was a rental car.

OK so here are the cards I made:

With or without snowflakes??

Maybe if I had done the stripes in brown and the snowflakes in blue - next time...

Now I gotta figure out where locally I can get my hands on those dies, I mean really a moose in a holiday sweater...come on now!

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 #233 - F is for Flowers

Greetings and salutations snarky pals!

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

Spring will hopefully arrive soon, and with it bring all of the pretty flowers - so that's what we are celebrating with this challenge - F is for Flowers

I know, with an F, you were probably expecting something a little different from us? Check out the creations of the sisterhood...there might be a few other F's floating around...just sayin...

I used a beautiful set from Gina K from the March 2023 Crop & Create cardmaking event for my project, I am a fan of stenciling, I like it soooooo much better than colouring!

Shite I used to make this card:

• White and black cardstock (Recollections)
• Curved Floral banner die (Gina K)
• Curved Florarl layering stencils (Gina G)
• Black Soot, Weathered Wood, Squeezed Lemonade, Peeled Paint, Seedless Preserve, Picked Raspberry distress oxide inks (Tim Holtz)
• Hot Mess stamp set (Chris Dring designs)
• Bling (Recollections)

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 & Christmas Kickstart Crossover

Greetings and salutations crafty friends!

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

Did you know that our very own SISTER JO has her very own Christmas Challenge Blog??

It's called Christmas Kickstart Challenge, and she has invited the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers to be her helper elves for challenge #68 - Trees Trees Trees

One can never ever ever have too many Christmas cards in ones stash, so I took the opportunity of this challenge to try out my new Create in Quads "Peaceful Pines" stencil set from Taylored Expressions to make 4 card fronts.

As glitter opposed as I am, I even used some stickles on the last layer of stenciling to create faux snow.

Shite I used to make these cards:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Peaceful Pines Create in Quads stencil set (Taylored Expressions)
• Weathered Wood, Hickory Smoke and Black Soot distress oxide inks (Tim Holtz)
• Mini ink blender tool (Tim Holtz)
• Star Dust stickles

We would love for you to take up the challenge and show us your Trees Trees Trees!

You can find all the details for the challenge on the Christmas Kickstart Challenge Blog.

While you are there please show some crafty love and comments for Sister Jo and her helper elves!

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

A Tiny Craft {ATC} Challenge #9 - Flowers

Greetings and salutations crafty friends!

Thanks for stopping by to check out the latest challenge from the A TINY CRAFT{ATC} design team.

We are still celebrating spring, this time around our theme is FLOWERS

We all have some of those in our stash right? Whether they are stamps, punches, dies...or in my case doodles.

That's right, for the first time EVER I drew (and coloured) the images on my ATCs.

I figure I doodle flowers ALL the time in notebooks, why not doodle an ATC.

Shite I used to make these ATCs:

• Cardstock ATC base
• Black cardstock (Recollections)
• Text design paper (Simple Stories)
• Fine tip Sharpie
• Crayola coloured pencils
• Fossilized Amber distress ink (Tim Holtz)
• Blending Brush (Gina K Designs)
• Hexagon stencil
• Big Chat sentiment stickers (idea-ology / Tim Holtz)
• Ruler (SU)

As always we would love for you to take up the challenge and play along with us!

You can find all the details 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.

SoSS #208 - L is for Layers

 

Greetings and salutations snarky pals!

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

Much like my personal clothing style because I am either freezing or overheating...yep even at this time of year...our theme for the challenge is L is for Layers.

How many layers can you fit on one project??? The sisterhood wants to know!

I was lucky enough (along with a few of my snarky sisters and other crafty pals) to attend (virtually) a Crop & Create weekend in March...THREE whole days of crafting and card making!!

Now, I could NOT keep up for the life of me...so I am slowly going back through the videos of the classes to make my cards...for this challenge, I made a card based on a class from The Stamp Market featuring the Friendly Hello stamp set, dies and stencil.

I also learned how to do some ink blending (like WAY out of my comfort zone) but how lucky am I that my generous SISTER MICHELLE gifted me a set of blending brushes before this event! I sure put them to good use! 

I don't even want to hint at the length of time it took me to make this one card - with the video AND with written instructions LMAO - hopefully you can see the 5 layers in the die cuts in the "friend" on the card.

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Color Crush cardstock (The Stamp Market)
• Friendly Hello stamp set, dies & stencil (The Stamp Market)
• Honeysuckle, Oceanside, Sprout and Grapefruit inks (Concord & 9th)
• Mustard Seed distress ink (Tim Holtz)
• Watering Can archival ink (Wendy Vecchi / Ranger)
• Ink blending brushes
• Sequins

As always, we would love for you to take up the layers challenge and play along with us.

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!