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!)

Shopping Our Stash #340 - Olympics

Greetings crafty friends!

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

With the winter olympics starting soon, we are turning our attention to sports!

That means that your project needs to feature a sport...any sport!

I am both a #proudcanuck and a hockey fan, so I tried to replicate a Team Canada hockey jersey (albeit a short sleeved one)

You know how hockey jerseys have that meshy kind of texture to them? I used the reverse side of the swiss dots embossing folder to try to recreate that.

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• Red and black cardstock (Recollections)
• T shirt die
• Swiss Dots embossing folder (Provo Craft)
• Maple leaf punch (EK Success)
• Fishtail / Banner die set (Your Next Stamp)
• Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)
• #proudcanuck stamp (Michaels)

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.

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

Shopping Our Stash #327 - Halloween

Greetings ghosts and ghouls!!

Thanks for coming by while you are awaiting the arrival of the Great Pumpkin to check out the latest challenge from the SHOPPING OUR STASH crew.

Seeing as it is Halloween, we will make it nice and easy for ya...show us your spookiest Halloween project!

What says Happy Halloween more than a jar full of eyeballs??

Shite I used to make this card:

• Black cardstock (Recollections)
• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• Haunted Manor design paper (Doodlebug Designs)
• Mason jar stamp
• Googly eyes
• Corner punch (Creative Memories)
• Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)
• Twisted Citron distress ink (Tim Holtz)
• Mini ink blender tool (Tim Holtz)
• Fishtail & Banner die set (Your Next Stamp)
• Small Talk Occasions stickers (Tim Holtz)

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 loves and comments with the rest of the crew.

Shopping Our Stash #247 - You Stamped With WHAT???

This week the SHOPPING OUR STASH crew want you to use something on your project that you wouldn't usually associate with paper crafting (well at least not in the usual way).

I created a textured background using Black Soot distress ink and a paper towel.

Once my tag was painted and stenciled, I covered the entire tag with the distress stain. Then (using a piece of paper towel bigger than the tag) I pressed down on the tag to pull up the excess distress ink and in the process got a really cool textured design in the background!

You may have to zoom in on the picture to see the paper towel design.

SHITE I USED TO MAKE THIS TAG:

• Manilla craft tag (Ranger)
• Woodgrain stencil (Tim Holtz)
• Broken China and Frayed Burlap distress paints (Tim Holtz)
• Black Soot and Gathered Twigs distress stains (Tim Holtz)
• Water spritzer (Tim Holtz)
• Paper towel
• Thrift Shop ephemera pack (Tim Holtz)
• Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)
• Mini ink blender tool (Tim Holtz)
• Big Chat stickers (Tim Holtz)
• Jute string (Tim Holtz)
• Stapler

Check out the SHOPPING OUR STASH BLOG for all the details on the challenge. While you are there please share some crafty lovin' with the rest of the crew.

As always we would love for you to play along with us!!

Rural Roots Handmade Treasures

Looking for a place to buy cool handmade stuff online (including Yellow Dog Greetings cards??)...check out Rural Roots Handmade Treasures.

Here's a link to the website:
http://www.rrht.ca/

Check it out and lemme know what you think!

Cheers!

Sugar Skull Stamps...Sugar Skull stamps...

Please - no need to tell me that my "skull thing" is a little weird, I know it, and I hear it ALL the time..
But...in really exciting skull news...Bombshell stamps is carrying a new line of Sugar Skull stamps...

Here's the link:
http://www.bombshellstamps.com/sugarskullstamps.html

I am soooooo ordering that first set :) Gotta have it (can't wait for Christmas) gotta have it!!

YAY! I bought a zutter today!!

Exciting exciting exciting! I bought a zutter today!
It is my plan to make a little note book for each of my staff (yep, all 19 of them!) for Christmas.
I figured if I start now I might (note MIGHT) have them done by then :)

Lucky for me I have an on-call zutter expert available for consultation - thanks Wenchie :)

So, I also have to tell you about the GREAT store that I went to today to buy my zutter.

Old Tyme Country Crafts in Brampton - what a great experience. I felt very at home and welcome from the moment I went into the store. Having never used a zutter before, Sandy was kind enough to give me a quick demonstration - will let you know how I make out with mine later on :)

I always like to share good experiences (we are often so quick to share the bad ones) so I thought I would mention it here and encourage y'all to check out their blog and store if you get the chance.

Here is a link to the blog:
http://scrapbookstudio-oldetyme.blogspot.com/

Here is a link to the store website:
http://www.oldetymecountrycrafts.com/

Can't wait to try out my new zutter!!

New Purchase Alert...

So my last post was the two birthday cards using the Big Bold Cupcakes set...what I found I was not loving about that is running it through the cuttlebug (no...I haven't bought a Big Shot yet...)


Then I remembered, on my recent cruise to the Caribbean (yes...I did 2 scarpbooking classes on the cruise)...they had this cute little portable Sizzix Sidekick made especially for the small sizzix die cuts and embossing folders...so guess what I found at Michael's today???






Here it is, isn't it the cutest little thing?? It has suction on the bottom so it sticks to your table. I am thinking this is going to be way easier for classes than lugging the cuttlebug around...