SoSS #259 - L is for Love

 

Greetings and salutations snarky friends - thanks for stopping by to check out the latest challenge from from Edna and the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!

Can you believe that February is already upon us?  January felt like a month of 999 days - and then pop here we are in the season of love...meh

Edna has mixed feelings about love, as you can see from her candy hearts. 

"Hard Pass" and "Ewww" are my favourites.

However you feel about love and Valentine's Day, we'd love for you to show us your love and play along.

I am generally not a lot of huggy romance lovey lovey typa gal, but I do really like making Valentine cards for my family and special littles.

I used a stand up envelope die from Pink & Main (from a past crop & create event) and a mish mash of Valentine paper collections (I have a LOT of those) to make a set of these cute stand up cards.

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!

Until next time, best wishes and warmest regards...

Heart's Quest Challenge Blog #46

 
One of the things I love about being on the snarky stameprs design team is checking out all of the amazing creations that others make. 

Sometimes I come across a new (to me) challenge blog and I just cant resist playing along.

For the Heart's Quest Challenge Blog #46 I used from part A - image of a girl and from part B heart shaped sticker.

I based my cards on the scrapbook nerd Wild Card Wednesday #48 with paper weaving.

SoSS #226 - G is for Glitter

Greetings and salutations crafty friends!

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

This time around, we are celebrating all things {{GAH!!}} glitter.

The bane of my crafty existence, shaky hands and glitter are not the best combination. I will only use loose glitter in very controlled circumstances, like a shaker card and even then, it still gets everywhere!

The shaker tag die was a freebie from Taylored Expressions (which I hadn't used yet) so I thought it would be perfect for this card and this challenge.

I can see making more shaker tags for sure, they were relatively quick and easy (after I watched a few videos lol).

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (American Crafts)
• Black cardstock (Recollections)
• Shaker Tag (Taylored Expressions)
• Shaker bits and acetate (Recollections)
• Sweet Talk design paper and cardstock stickers (Simple Stories)
• Pink extra fine glitter (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.

SoSS #202 - G is for Gel Printing

Greetings and salutations snarky pals! Thanks for stopping by to check out the latest challenge from Edna and the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers.

Looks like Edna has been busy with her gel press and she'd like you to do the same!

I love the messiness of gel printing, that you can keep adding different layers and colours and you never know how it's going to come out.

I knew I wanted to make a snarky Valentine card and I knew I wanted to use a scrap piece of bubble wrap - that's as much of a plan as I had.

The hearts were punched from the scrap piece of printer paper that I use to roll off the extra paint from the brayer, I thought they had cool little designs in them.

I also used scraps from what I trimmed from the journal page as strips to give it a bit more dimension and break up the colours a bit.

I used small alphabet stamps to make the sentiment (also on scraps from the journal page).

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Journal page (SU)
• Printer paper
• Gel plate (Gel Press)
• Brayer (Speedball)
• Red, gold and white acrylic paints (DecoArt)
• Scrap of bubble wrap
• Large and small heart punches (SU)
• Fine tip Sharpie
• Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)
• Alphabet stamps (Studio G)

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!

Shopping Our Stash #438 - Love Is In The Air

 

Greetings and salutation crafty pals!

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

Can you feel it?? Love is in the air!! That means we want to see a heart, or hearts on your project.

Here's what I made for the challenge using the Happy Heart collection from Close to My Heart:

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Happy Hearts design paper (CTMH)
• Foam Tape (Dollar Tree)

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 #413 - My Heart is on Fire

Greetings and salutations crafty friends!

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

Yours truly is hosting the challenge and with Valentine's Day just around the corner, our challenge theme is "My Heart is on Fire."

That means we want to see something related to Valentine's Day or fire on your project.

I went way deep in my stash for this design paper (which if you look really closely has snowflakes embossed on it) and the die cuts I picked up at Michael's a few years ago.

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Polka dot design paper (no clue on manufacturer)
• Small Talk Occasions sentiment stickers (Tim Holtz)
• Valentine die cuts (Recollections)
• Foam tape (Dollar Tree)
• Foam pop up dots (Michael's)

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 152 - A is for Anti Valentine

Greetings & salutations snarky pals!!

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

We are not much for the touchy feely here at the sisterhood, all that lovely dovey stuff....barf!!

We have always taken a different approach to Valentine's Day - as you can see from Edna's t-shirt.

Our very first challenge way back in February 2014 was A is for Anti Valentine...and we have celebrated it every year since!

This year, I made an ATC that soooooo accurately describes my soon to be 13 year marriage to the Kevinator...without him...who would make me tea and toast???

I bought myself a little handheld Singer sewing machine from Amazon and this was my first attempt at some crafty stitching. It went off the rails in a few spots, but the biggest oooops is under the cupcake, so it's all good LOL

Shite I used to make this ATC:

• Cardboard ATC base
• Ancient & retired SU design paper
• Cupcake die cut (Recollections)
• Heart sticker from a planner set (Recollections)
• Small Talk Snarky Occasion sentiment sticker (Tim Holtz)
• Sewing machine (Swinger)

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!

Shopping Our Stash #389 - Make Your Mark

Greetings and salutations crafty friends!

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

This week CHRIS is our host and our theme is "Make Your Mark"
That means you must use markers on your project.

Here's what I made for the challenge using possibly the oldest stamp set and design paper in my stash.

I think this will be a Valentine for my teenager this week.

I used markers to colour in the bananas and the arms, legs, butt and head of the sock monkey.

Soooooooooooooo much fussy cutting for the bananas and monkey!!!!

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• Kraft cardstock (Recollections)
• Sock Monkey stamp set (SU)
• Alphabet stamp set (Studio G)
• Black Soot ink (Tim Holtz)
• Monkey Face design paper (Reminisce)
• Forest Green, Lemon Bliss and Yellow Blaze markers (Bic)

As always we would love for you to join the 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 #127 - V is for Valentine

Greetings snarky pals!!

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

Edna's wee heart is all a-flutter. Must be all the chocolate in stores this time of the year!

To celebrate love (and chocolate) our new challenge is V is for Valentine and our host is the ever lovely Sister Toni.

My immediate family (other than my mum)  is composed entirely of dudes (even my dog!!!) so I am always in need of dude suitable card...including Valentines.

This one will likely be for the Kevinator (suitable as his birthday is July 24 - 24/7 right!!??)

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• 24/Seven design paper (Simple Stories)
• Chalkboard tape (Dollar Tree)
• Washi tape
• Small heart punch (SU)
• 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 crafty love and comments with our reigning Queen of Snark and the rest of the sisterhood!

Shopping Our Stash #386 - Hearts on Fire

Greetings friends!

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

This week Chris is our host and our theme is "Hearts on Fire"

That means we want to see a heart on your project somewhere.

I took advantage of the challenge to make a Valentine. 

I am not one for mush and sentimentality, so this works well, straight to the point lol

Shite I used to make this card:

• Black cardstock (Recollections)
• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• Chip Shapes - YUM! (PDQ)
• Small Talk Occasions sticker (Tim Holtz)

As always, we would love for you to join the 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.

I'd like to enter this card into the "Have a Heart" challenge from Moving Along With The Times.

SoSS #103 - G is for Galaxy

Greetings intergalactic pals!

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

This one is for all of us nerdsters...from wherever you are in the galaxy...whether your preference be for Star Wars (like me), Star Trek, Doctor Who, or just stars and moons and planets.

I was so pleased with how my galaxy background turned out, I added a black heart, some bling and a Darth Vader quote and turned it into a valentine card for the Kevinator!

This was my first attempt at a galaxy sky background, it was super fun and easy to make and there are loads of tutorials online to show you how to do it.

I felt they were all a bit too bright for my Darth Vader theme, so I splattered some black paint on at the end to make it a bit darker...much better!!

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• Watercolour paper (Michaels)
• Black cardstock (Recollections)
• Mustard Seed, Picked Raspberry, Wilted Violet, Faded Jeans and Black Soot distress inks (Tim Holtz)
• Mini ink blender tool (Tim Holtz)
• Large heart punch (SU)
• Silver bling (Michaels)
• Toothbrush
• White and black acrylic paint (Michaels)
• Computer generated sentiment

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

Shopping Our Stash #339 - He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not

Greetings crafty friends!!

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

Our theme this week is He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not...that means we want to see your Valentine or Love themed project.

Here's mine:

Shite I used to make this card:

• Kraft cardstock (Recollections)
• Very Vanilla cardstock (SU)
• Red glitter cardstock (SU)
• Small heart punch (SU)
• Design paper (Simple Stories)
• Sentiment sticker (Tim Holtz)
• Bakers twine
• Stapler

We would love for you to join the 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 #290 - Heartless

Happy Valentine's day from the SHOPPING OUR STASH crew!!

Thanks for coming back to check out our latest challenge. This week our theme is Heartless.

We'd like to see your romantic projects...but...no hearts allowed!!

Here's what I made:

SHITE I USED TO MAKE THIS CARD:

• Very Vanilla cardstock (SU)
• Design paper (gift from my SOS pal CHRIS)
• Big Chat stickers (Tim Holtz)
• Vintage Vogue ephemera (Pink Paislee)
• Vintage Vogue chipboard pops (Pink Paislee)

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

You can check out all the details for the challenge on the SHOPPING OUR STASH BLOG.

While you are there please share some crafty love with the rest of the crew.

Shopping Our Stash #289 - Winter Blues

Hello crafty friends!

Happy Tuesday to you! Thanks for coming by to check out the newest challenge from the crew at SHOPPING OUR STASH!

This week's theme is WINTER BLUES 

We'd like to see a card featuring the colour blue, but not a winter themed card.

Here's what I made for the challenge, a blue valentine

SHITE I USED TO MAKE THIS CARD:

• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• Pacific Point & Smokey Slate cardstock (SU)
• Light blue cardstock (Recollections)
• Stone twine (The Twinery)
• Mermaid Lagoon distress ink (Tim Holtz)
• Large & small heart punches (SU)
• Just Saying stamp set (SU)
• Mini pearls (Michaels)

As always we would love for you to play along.

Visit the SHOPPING OUR STASH BLOG for all the details on the challenge and while you are there please share some love with the rest of the crew!!

Shopping Our Stash #286 - Fantastic Beasts

I am super happy to be returning to the design team at SHOPPING OUR STASH this week. 

I have missed creating with the crew and now that I have started to get my "stuff" together, they were gracious enough to let me come back...thanks y'all!!

Our challenge this week is Fantastic Beasts. 
We want to see unicorns, dragons, monsters...whatever your idea of a fantastic beast is.

I used the super cute monster from the Falling for You set by Paper Smooches to make a love monster Valentine.

I wanted to sentiment to be darker on the design paper, so I tried heat embossing it...hmmmmmmm...didn't work quite as well as I had hoped...it didn't "bubble up" on the design paper like it does on cardstock...ah well.

Everything I used on the card is from my stash...I even fussy cut the eyes and tooth and horns on the monster from the back of the scrap of the design paper I used as the bottom layer.

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• Be.Loved. design paper (Fancy Pants)
• Newsprint design paper (SU)
• Glittery pink cardstock (gift from my crafty friend Ter)
• Falling for You stamp set (Paper Smooches)
• Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)
• Small and large heart punches (SU)
• Scallop border punch (SU)
• Versamark ink
• Black embossing powder
• Heat gun

Please visit the SHOPPING OUR STASH BLOG for all the details on the challenge. While you are there please share some crafty love with the rest of the crew...and...as always, we would love for you to play along!

SoSS #53 M is for Mixed Media

Greetings snarky pals!! Thanks for stopping by to check the latest SoSS challenge!

If you think Edna is looking a little discombobulated this week, have no fear, she is getting into the spirit for the M is for Mixed Media challenge.

Unlike some of my snarky sisters, I am NOT great at mixed media, I find I do so much overtop of other stuff you can't tell what I started with (sometimes that's a good thing).

I was thumbing through my Compendium of Curiosities (Volume II) for inspiration and came across something I thought I would be able to recreate and personalize. Check out page 74 if you want to see Tim Holtz's original project.

Here's my version

Hubby and I got married on March 17, 2007, hence the March calendar, the arrow pointing to the 17 and the bigger 17 in the corner. We went to Nevada and Arizona on our honeymoon, found a wee Nevada license plate, added that on.

I had fun making the background, I started with a page from an old thesaurus, inked it up with four different distress inks then stenciled over that, you can almost make out the honeycomb stencil in the background in green.

The fun part about mixed media projects is you can just keep adding more and more stuff until you are happy with it. I like mine to look distressed / grungy / messy and crowded. This is no time for CAS!

I had so much fun making this I see some more in my future! All in all this took just under an hour to make.

Shite I used to make this mixed media coaster:

• 4x4 chipboard coaster
• Thesaurus page
• Fossilized Amber, Fired Brick, Frayed Burlap and Broken China distress inks (Tim Holtz)
• Picket Fence, Brushed Pewter and Peeled Paint distress stains (Tim Holtz)
• Fired Brick distress paint (Tim Holtz)
• Mini ink blending tool (Tim Holtz)
• Tissue tape (Tim Holtz)
• Film strip ribbon (Tim Holtz)
• Salvage stickers (Tim Holtz)
• Seasonal chit chat stickers (Tim Holtz)
• Jute string (Tim Holtz)
• Core-dinations paper (Tim Holtz)
• Sandpaper
• mini light bulb (Tim Holtz)
• Mini heart punch (SU)
• Mini saftey pins
• Button brads
• Mini stapler
• Honeycomb stencil

PHEW!!!! That's a LOT of stuff to use on a 4x4 coaster huh??!

Visit the SoSS BLOG for all the details on the challenge and while you are there please share some crafty love with our guest designer and the rest of the sisterhood.

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

Scraptures Finally Friday Feb 19, 2016

I am having a lot of fun making Finally Friday cards and layouts for SCRAPTURES this month using the July 2014 kit featuring "We Are Family" by Echo Park.

I love the bright colours and designs in the paper pack kit.

Back to cards this week, another two quick and easy ones using the paper pack kit and some insta squares.

I think these would work well as Valentine or anniversary cards.

Shite I used to make these cards:

• We Are Family paper pack kit (Echo Park)
• SN@P Insta Squares (Simple Stories)

SoSS #52 - K for Kiss

I'm a delinquent snarky sister this week. I have been sick sick sick. Shout out to SISTER CHRIS for managing things on the SoSS BLOG while I have been napping the days away. 

Valentine's Day is approaching, Edna and the sisterhood want you to pucker up and show us your best kiss. It may be snarky, it may not, either way we wanna see it.

I made this card sometime between 2:30 and 7:00 am yesterday, under heavy influence of cold meds. I don't even remember adding the sequins, but WOW my craft room is really tidy...apparently when I am delusional I like to clean...who knew??

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• Be.Loved. paper pack (Fancy Pants)
• Be.Loved patterned photo frames (Fancy Pants)
• Silver sequins (Joanns)

Be sure to visit the SoSS BLOG for all the details on the challenge. While you are there please show the sisters and our guest designer some crafty love!

As always, we'd love for you to play along with us!!

Scraptures - Finally Friday - February 5, 2016

I like when Christa asks me to do the Finally Friday projects for SCRAPTURES because it's anything goes!!

It's an excellent motivation to go back to some older kits to make cards to add to my stash.

This month I am going back to July 2014 to the card kit which featured "We Are Family" by Echo Park.

I made two quick and easy cards this week, both of which I think would work well as Valentines or thinking of you cards

Sorry the pictures are a bit wonky, it was actually dark outside when I took them! 

Shite I used to make these cards:

"We are Family" design paper (Echo Park)
SN@P "Homespun" Insta Squares (Simple Stories)

White cardstock (Fireworx - not in kit)

Shopping Our Stash #235 - 3, 2, 1

Thanks for visiting to check out the new SHOPPING OUR STASH challenge.

This week our theme is 3, 2, 1.  We want to see three of something, two of something and one of something on your project (and we'd like you to tell us what your 3, 2, 1 are).

Here's what I came up with:

On my card I have:

Three pieces of washi tape
Two stickers
1 journal card

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• These Are The Days by Megan Hoeppner design paper, journal card and stickers (Webster's Pages)
• Washi tape (from my stash, no idea who made it)

Check out the SHOPPING OUR STASH BLOG for all the details on the challenge and while you are there please show the rest of the crew some crafty lovin!

As always, we'd love for you to play along with us, you have until 11:55 pm (EST) on Monday January 25 to link up your project at the SHOPPING OUR STASH BLOG.