SoSS #179 - Q is for Queen

 

Greetings and salutations snarky pals!

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

As you can see, Edna is channeling her inner Freddie Mercury, I think she must be singing Fat Bottom Girls, which is a personal fave of mine!

Here's what I made for the challenge - I guess you would call it a mixed media coaster??

I am obsessed at the moment with wax seals and since the coaster already had crowns in the sentiment and design paper, I went with a rose. I used a gold metallic marker on the wax to highlight the flower in the centre and some of the outer circle.

The metal tag - was a gift from me old pot and pan. In his business he and my brother used to install seats in stadiums, theatres etc. so I have literally hundreds of metal tags with letters and numbers on them!

I started by covering the coaster base with design paper. 

Then I inked up the embossing folder with Frayed Burlap ink and ran it through the cuttlebug.

Next came the faux stitching around the edges, added the rose, the D, the sentiment and the bling.

Easy peasy lemon squeasy!

Shite I used to make this coaster:

• Cardboard coaster base
• Royal Charm design paper (Pink Paislee)
• Union Jack embossing folder (Tim Holtz)
• Frayed Burlap distress ink (Tim Holtz)
• Mini ink blender (Tim Holtz)
• Paper piercer and mat (SU)
• Walnut Stain distress marker (Tim Holtz)
• Wax seal
• Gold metallic marker (SU)
• Gold cardstock (Recollections)
• Metal tag (me old pot and pan)
• Pearl stickers (Recollections)

Always amazes me how you use so MUCH stuff on such a small project!

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 #357 - My Favourite Things

Greetings & salutation crafty pals!

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

This week we are featuring a few of our favourite things, if you play along be sure you tell us what yours are!

Here are a few of my favourite things:

• Making a mess & getting messy in the craft room
• Using stencils with inks & paints
• Anything & everything Tim Holtz
• England themed things

And of course:

• My wonderful and amazing parents (who happen to be celebrating their 51st wedding anniversary this upcoming weekend)

I made a 9 x 7 canvas and had a LOT of fun making a BIG mess

Shite I used to make this canvas:

• 9x7 canvas (Dollarama)
• Tiles, Splotches & Bubbles stencils (Tim Holtz)
• W stencil (SU)
• White acrylic paint (DecoArt)
• Black Chalkboard paint (Americana)
• Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)
• Barn Door & Faded Jeans distress inks (Tim Holtz)
• London Sights stamp set (Tim Holtz)
• DIY stamp set (Simple Stories)
• Vintedge design paper (Ruby Rock-It)
• Vintedge chipboard (Ruby Rock-It)
• Sanding block (SU)
• Mini ink blending tool (Tim Holtz)
• Sponge paint brush (Dollarama)

As always, we would love for you to join the crew and show us some of your favourite things

You can find all the details for the challenge on the SHOPPING OUR STASH BLOG

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

SoSS #92 - J is for Jumble

Greeting snarky pals!

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

Edna has been all jumbled up, and as usual, she would like you to follow suit.

Show us your best jumble (collage) project.

I started with a blank tag and didn't stop until I was pretty much out of room to add anything else.

I really shopped my stash for this one. I pulled embellishments from all over the place in the craft room, some of which I have NO idea what card kit it came from or how I acquired it.

I can share some crafty loves with my sisters on this one though. The pretty flowers were a gift from SISTER CHRIS and the clothes pins were a gift from SISTER JESSI

Shite I used to make this tag:

• Vanilla tag (Recollections)
• Wilted Violet, Peacock Feathers and Picked Raspberry distress inks (Tim Holtz)
• Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)
• Phrases I stamp set (Tim Holtz)
• Bubble stencil (Tim Holtz)
• Mini ink blender tool (Tim Holtz)
• Doily (Recollections)
• Filmstrip ribbon (Tim Holtz)
• Stapler
• Gold heart brads
• Miscellaneous embellishments (camera, heart, banner, number 3)

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 loves and comments with our reigning queen and the rest of the sisterhood!

SOS 193 - I Made This

Time for a new SHOPPING OUR STASH challenge!! Are you ready???

This week's theme is "I Made This"  

The SOS crew want you to make your own background, (not just stamping a background stamp) - could be collage, paint, tape, stamp, stencil, or even to alter patterned paper with doodles...fun right???

I made a 5x7 canvas for the challenge. I painted this canvas with chalkboard paint MONTHS ago...I don't even remember if I had a plan for it at the time...so there is sat on my desk.

To create my background I used that painted canvas, some texture paste over a stencil and finally some distress paints. The ridges in the texture paste were unintentional, they must be from the plastic knife I used to spread it over the stencil...but what the heck...it gives it more texture (even after I used a sanding block to try and get rid of them LOL)

For the record, texture paste smells really awful when you dry it with a heat gun and then sand it...take that as a lesson kids, learn from my mistake!! 

Shite I used to make this canvas:

• Canvas (Dollarama)
• Chalkboard paint (Michael's)
• Hexagon stencil
• Texture paste (Ranger)
• Seedless Preserves & Spun Sugar distress paints (Tim Holtz)
• Petite Diction "Durable" sentiment stickers (Authentique Papers)
• Vintage chipboard pops (Pink Paislee)
• Compostion & Colour cardstock stickers (Websters Pages)
• Pink sequins (Joanns)
• Sanding block (SU)

Check out the SOS BLOG for all the details on the challenge and while you are there show my teammies some crafty lovin!! We'd love you to play along with us!

Drunken Stampers Challenge #134 - Enchanted

Can you believe this is the last "official" challenge for this term? Thanks to all the members of the Midnight Margaritas and Bahama Mamas for making our design team so much fun this term!!

Be sure to visit the DRUNKEN STAMPERS BLOG for all the details on this challenge and to show the Bahama Mamas some crafty love!!

This week's challenge is based on the movie Enchanted and you can either use the movie or fairy tales as your inspiration. While I have never seen this movie, DH and I were in NYC while they were filming it and saw a few scenes set up around Times Square. So I went for more of a fairy tale theme for my project this time around and decided to make a mixed media canvas. This one is a stash canvas, everything on it has been in my stash for at least a year (other than the distress stain).

I started with a blank 6x8 canvas from the dollar store and coloured the base using picked raspberries distress stain (Tim Holtz). Next I added a piece of white mulberry paper, torn around the edges. I have a bunch of pink paper bags, I tore one up and used a piece of a page of a thesaurus in the middle of that. Next I added the pink ribbon on the edge, then the clock and key charms, bling and finally the wedding dress. I added butterfly wings behind the "happily ever after" and used another small piece of the mulberry paper through the top of it.

Don't forget to link up your project for this challenge on the DRUNKEN STAMPERS BLOG. You have until 11:59 pm PST on Friday July 5th....maybe YOU will be our next Life of the Party winner!! 

Drunken Stampers Challenge #122 - Singin' in the Rain

This week’s movie inspired Drunken Stampers challenge is Singin' in the Rain...I am a sucker for old time big production musicals and Singin' in the Rain is my favourite. I love the story, the songs, the dancing...

Now don’t forget, our challenges this term are based around movies and it will be an EITHER-OR-BOTH type of challenge. You can EITHER use the movie as inspiration OR use umbrellas as your theme. You may want to even kick it up a notch and use BOTH! We challenge YOU to come out and play with us!!

Be sure to visit the DRUNKEN STAMPERS BLOG for all the details on this challenge and to see what crafty awesomeness the Bahama Mamas have whipped up for us this week.

I had so much fun making a mixed media canvas for the Design Team Throwdown Challenge that I decided to make another one for this week's challenge. It's amazing what you can do with canvas and paints from the dollar store!!

  
I started the canvas by covering it in mod podge, sticking torn up thesaurus pages on the base then adding another layer of mod podge. Once that dried I painted it with a few different colours of blue and green, I tried to thin it out a bit so you could still see the word pages underneath. I spritzed it a few times with the water spritzer to get some rain spots. Next I heat embossed the birds on a wire and umbrella fella, stamped on some rain drops (not even sure if you can see them??) added the telephone pole, sun and grass, printed out the sentiment and voila...my second canvas.

SUPPLIES:
canvas and paints (dollarama), thesaurus, mod podge, versamark, black embossing powder, Tim Holtz kraft core cardstock, black ribbon, Tim Holtz / Stampers Anonymous stamp set "Life's Possibilities", Technique Tuesday "Weather Report" stamp set, ocean depth versa magic chalk ink, water spritzer

To play in this weeks challenge all you need to do is upload your project to the DRUNKEN STAMPERS BLOG using the InLinkz link. 

Please add the link DIRECTLY to your project blog post (any generic blog links will be deleted from the list). You have until Friday, April 12th at 11:59pm PST to post your link.

Drunken Stampers Throwdown

You may have read on the blog, facebook or twitter that the Drunken Stampers are participating in the Design Team Throwdown Challenges on SMEARED AND SMUDGED
The first challenge was won by HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE and they picked the theme for the second challenge - faux finishes.

Be sure to stop by the DRUNKEN STAMPERS BLOG to check out all the projects made by the Drunken Stampers design team. If you'd like to help us win a challenge (which would be awesome!!) sign up over on Smeared and Smudged and vote for us!

So here's my project...way out of my comfort zone here, I have never painted a canvas in my life...but I have to tell you it was soooo messy and sooooo much fun!! I think I will try some more (might as well since I bought some paints right???).

Believe it or not, I actually started with the tag, knowing I wanted to do some sort of faux metal, and this is what it morphed into. I wrapped the tag in tinfoil then ran it through the CB a few times to get nice deep impressions. Then I used brown and black acrylic paint to make the tinfoil look less shiny.Here's a closer look at the faux metal:

Next I got a white 5x7 canvas and painted it a mish mash of black and brown trying to get a vintage / antiquey kind of look. Next I cut and frayed the burlap, that stuff is an SOB to try and stick to canvas!!! I used some stray bits of the burlap for the "ribbon" on the tag.

For the trucks, I added distress stains (black soot, gathered twigs and mustard seed) directly to the stamps, stamped them on watercolour paper and fussy cut them out. I like that all three came out a bit different, I was attempting to get a faux photo look here (OK so I made that up). Here's a closer look:

Lastly I added the filmstrip ribbon on the left and the letters on the right and TA DA, my first canvas, altered art, mixed media thingy.

SUPPLIES:
canvas, acrylic paints and sponge brushes (Dollarama), burlap (from a Scraptures card kit), kraft tag (Michaels), tinfoil, Cuttlebug embossing folder, Tim Holtz filmstrip ribbon, Tim Holtz distress stains (black soot, mustard seed and gathered twigs), watercolour paper, Tim Holtz idea-ology alpha tiles, Tim Holtz / Stampers Anonymous stamp set - The Journey 

Thanks for lookin!!