SoSS #205 - V is for Vibrant

Greetings and salutations snarky pals!

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

Edna wants you to break out your brightest colours for V is for Vibrant.

My "brother from another mother" requested a few "thinking of you" cards for some of his photog friends, so while no snark on these, I am pretty happy with how they came out.

Frig glossy paper is tough to get a good picture of...oh well...you get the idea!

Shite I used to make these cards:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Green and Red design paper (CTMH)
• We Totally Click stamp set (Paper Smooches)
• Sentiment Sampler stamp set (Paper Smooches)
• India Black Ink (Hero Arts)
• Polaroid die (Paper Smooches)
• Rambunctious Red, Yellow Blaze, Key Lime, Hot Aqua markers (Bic)
• 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 love and comments with our reigning Queen of Snark and the rest of the sisterhood.

SoSS #144 - G is for Gross

Greetings and salutations snarky pals!

Thanks for joining Edna and the sisterhood of snarky stampers for our latest challenge.

Sister Majo is our lovely and talented host this time around and our theme is:

G is for Gross

Seems kind of fitting for the challenge after L is for Liquor right??

I am pretty good with gross, you name it, blood, poop, barf...I am on it, no issue...but snot???? 

Nope, that is absolutely where I draw my "too gross for me" line. So of course, that's where I went with my project.

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Paper Studio)
• Black Soot & Twisted Citron distress inks (Tim Holtz)
• Gorgeous Grunge stamp set (SU)
• Healthy Vibes stamp set and dies (Paper Smooches)
• Googly eyes
• Sentiment made with my handy P-touch 1290 label maker

As always, we would love you to share your grossness with 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 with our reigning Queen of Snark and the rest of the sisterhood.

Now, go get a Kleenex and wipe your nose!!!

Shopping Our Stash #404 - Dog Days of Summer

Greetings & salutations crafty friends!

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

Yours truly is hosting and our theme is Dog Days of Summer.

That means we want to see a dog or something dog related somewhere on your project.

My kid is started 12th grade this past week and in our house, back to school always means a return to an onslaught of teenage slang...fun times my friends...fun times...

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Paper Studio)
• Chubby Chums stamp set (Paper Smooches)
• Slang Gang stamp set (Paper Smooches)
• My Friend stamp set (SU)
• Black Soot, Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade, Peacock Feathers, Mustard Seed, Twisted Citron & Wilted Violet distress inks (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 crafty love and comments with the rest of the crew!

Shopping Our Stash #402 - Gone Fishin'

Greetings crafty pals!!

Thanks for visiting today to check out the latest challenge from the crew at SHOPPING OUR STASH

The lovely and talented MiMi is our host and our theme is Gone Fishin'

That means we want to see something fishy (ha ha ha) on your project.

I used a round-ish shaped stamp block covered in Peacock Feathers ink and water spritzed to make the water background.

Now that I see my coloured in fish, I think they should be on an episode of The Simpsons!

This picture seriously disappoints me, the fishies are so much brighter and colourful IRL...but after about 15 pictures, I gave up.....sigh...

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (The Paper Studio)
• Birthday Buddies stamp set (Paper Smooches)
• Peacock Feathers & Black Soot distress inks (Tim Holtz)
• Yellow Blaze, Hot Aqua, Key Lime, Sunset Orange, Fandango Pink markers (Bic)
• 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 with the rest of the crew.

Shopping Our Stash #399 - The Dreaded ONE LAYER CARD

Greetings & 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 this week and for some reason I picked the dreaded  ONE LAYER CARD as our theme

I struggle making one layer cards, but if you check out the SHOPPING OUR STASH BLOG you will see exactly how it's done by my crewmates!

So here's what I made:
(warning this post is about to get picture heavy)

Not bad right?

I made the background by inking up a stamp block and spritzing it with water then pressing it on the paper, once, twice, maybe a few more...

Then easy peasy lemon squeezy I added the image and sentiment in black.

I was SO impressed with myself for making a one layer card that I kinda liked, that I made six more   LOL

Here they come:
(this is the pic heavy part of the post)

Shite I used to make these cards:

• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• Clear stamping block (SU)
• Candied Apple, Peacock Feathers, Mustard Seed, Twisted Citron, Wilted Violet, Spiced Marmalade, Picked Raspberry & Black Soot distress inks (Tim Holtz)
• We Totally Click, Green Acres, Slang Gang and Chubby Chums stamp sets (Paper Smooches)

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 comments with the rest of the crew!

Shopping Our Stash #388 - Ode to Jessi

Greetings crafty friends!

Thanks for stopping by today for the newest challenge from the crew at SHOPPING OUR STASH

Our theme this week is an "Ode to Jessi"

Our teammie and friend Jessi Fogan lost her most courageous battle last month.

We want to honour her in the best way we know how, through her art.

Our challenge to you this week it to visit Jessi's blog and make something inspired by one of her projects. Be sure to link back to her blog so we can check out the project that inspired you.

Here is a link to Jessi's blog:

http://onecraftymama-onecraftymama.blogspot.com

I love Jessi's use of paper smooch stamps and of course googly eyes.

I picked this card of Jessi's:

Which you can find on her blog HERE

This is my take on her super cute card:

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• Cut & Paste design paper (My Memories Eye)
• Life in Color design paper (Simple Stories)
• Summer Red Raspberry Soup design paper (Jillibean Soup)
• Chubby Chums stamp set (Paper Smooches)
• Sunset Orange and Yellow Blaze markers (Bic)
• Dear Lizzy enamel dots (American Crafts)
• Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)
• Word Bubbles framelits (SU)
• Googly eyes

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

Help us honour Jessi for the amazing artist that she was.

Keep her friends and family in your hearts and in your thoughts.

Love and miss ya sistah 💔

Shopping Our Stash #379 - Raining Cats & Dogs

Greetings friends!!

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

This week Alica is our host and our theme is "Raining Cats & Dogs"

That means we want to see cats, dogs...or both on your project.

I went with a cute paper pieced pup which required FAR more fussy cutting than I usually like to do!

Shite I used to make this card:

• Crumb Cake cardstock (SU)
• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• Polariod die (Paper Smooches)
• Chubby Chums & Slan Gang stamp sets (Paper Smooches)
• Sunday Afternoon mat stack (DCVW)
• Fishtail & Banner die set (Your Next Stamp)
• Small heart punch (SU)
• Paper piercer & mat (SU)
• Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)

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 #75 - S is for Stencils - Part Two

Look at me go!! Two blog posts in a day! 
Can't remember the last time that happened! 
AND I used more stencils!! Woot Woot Woot!

I was inspired by my snarky sisters and their awesome use of stencils for this week's SoSS challenge, so I thought I would try another stencil based project.

Not sure about your part of the world, but here in Southern Ontario we are in the full throes of winter...and that means lots of flu and colds going around.

That was the inspiration for these two quick and super cute cards using the speckles stencil, some lemon citron distress ink and the healthy vibes stamps and dies by Paper Smooches -their stamps are super cute!!

And if you think it looks like someone sneezed all over the front of these cards...perfect...that's exactly what I was going for!!

I call these snot one and snot two 😉

Sister Jessi often uses googly eyes with her Paper Smooches stamps, so I thought I would give that a go on snot two.

Shite I used to make these cards:

• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• Speckles stencil (Tim Holtz)
• Twisted Citron distress ink (Tim Holtz)
• Mini ink blender tool (Tim Holtz)
• Water spritzer (SU)
• Healthy Vibes stamps and dies (Paper Smooches)
• Fishtail / Banner die set (Your Next Stamp)
• Googly eyes (from my stash)

I am entering these cards into the S is for Stencils challenge over at SoSS. Yes, I am on the design team - but I am linkin' em up anyway...that's just how we roll at the sisterhood!

Shopping Our Stash 190 - Out of the Jar

Happy Happy Tuesday!! This week the challenge theme at SHOPPING OUR STASH is "Out of the Jar." 

For this challenge the SOS crew would like you to use anything that came out of a jar (flower soft, glitter, perfect pearls, embossing powder) or a jar image or make something using a Jar.

Here's the card I made for the challenge. I stamped the jar image twice, once on white cardstock and watercoloured it, then again on acetate to layer over top. As much as I dislike fussy cutting, I cut out the jar (twice) and the nasty little green bug.

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• Black ink (Stazon)
• Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)
• Frayed Burlap, Broken China and Mowed Lawn distress inks (Tim Holtz)
• Healthy Vibes stamp set (Paper Smooches)
• Jar stamp (Inkadinkado)
• Acetate sheets (Staples)
• Sharpie
• Paper piercer and mat (SU)
• Water brush (Tim Holtz)
• Silver sequins (Joann's)

Visit the SOS BLOG for all the details on the challenge and be sure to show my teammies some crafty love while you are there!!

Shopping Our Stash #146 - Pieces of April

Happy Happy Tuesday!!! Here's hoping the weather is warming up where you are, here in Southern Ontario...not so much...but I am ever hopeful!!  This week's Shopping Our Stash challenge is "Pieces of April" we want to see you break out your mad paper piecing skills for this one.

I don't do paper piecing nearly as much as I should...it's soooooooo much fun and a super good way to use up scraps in the craft room! All the paper on this card are miscellaneous scraps that I have been hoarding for some reason (I knew I would use them eventually!!!) and the clouds were a gift from my crafty friend Jessi.

SUPPLIES:

Kraft, pink, white & yellow cardstock scraps from my stash

Cloud cutouts from Jessi

Birthday Buddies stamp set (Paper Smooches)

Weather Report stamp set (Technique Tuesday)

Black Stazon ink

Tumbled Glass distress stain (Tim Holtz)

Kraft Core Nostalgic Collection (Tim Holtz)

Design paper scraps for the sun, hat, banner and groundhog (SU)

Transparent blue button

Visit the Shopping Our Stash blog to upload your project and be sure to visit my SOS teammies to show them some crafty love!!

Paper Smooches...my new love

I love the awesome cards that my Drunken Stamper sisters Jessi and Chris (aka the evil doublmint twins) have made with PAPER SMOOCHES STAMPS.

Our other friend Barb has a bunch of stuff for sale on her blog (you should totally check it out!!!) I couldn't resist buying three sets of Paper Smooches stamps. They are freakin' fantastic!!! Such clear crisp images...super cute and funny!! I love them!!

So here are the first two cards I made with my new Paper Smooches stamps (thanks Barb....and Jessi for being a total enabler!!!)

 

SUPPLIES:

White cardstock (gift from my friend Georgina)

Black staz-on ink

Paper Smooches stamp set "Healthy Vibes"

Retired SU DP (for the edge and paper piecing)

SUPPLIES:

White cardstock (gift from my friend Georgina), red cardstock (Joanne's)

Black staz-on ink

Paper Smooches stamp set "Birthday Buddies"

Retired SU DP

SU markers - real red, marina mist, pumpkin pie, blossom blush, lucky limeade