This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is called "Thrice as Nice" - we are to use three or more patterned papers on your project. I am currently blasting out several get well cards from a Doodlebug paper pack and my goal is to use it all up in one shot. This is the first of many cards I will be making. Play along with us, will you?
This week's challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers is L is for love - making a Valentine or "anti-valentine" ... I am not one for usually making Valentine's cards but I can't resist this mouse and how his hands can hold all kinds of images so I jumped in and did it. Play along with us, will you?
This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to use up your crafty remnants from your table top or work area. I recently cleaned up my desk top so there was no actual remnant for me to work with on my desk. I filed them all in their rightful homes of binders on my counter ready to use at a moment's notice for a project just like this one. I find it is a great system to store my many die cuts and stamped images so they are available at any time to make a card. Play along with us this week, won't you?
This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is all about glitter. My card has such fine glitter on it that it is kind of hard to see but I promise you that it is there and sparkly in real life. There is glitter all over the helmet and in the background of the words plus sparkles in the space background and the bling. So hard to get it to show up in a picture though. Play along with us, will you?
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This week's challenge at The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers is to use something you haven't used before. I had this package of wooden glasses sitting around my craft room for years and decided I had to find something to do with them, so I coloured on them, stamped on them and blinged them up. My goal this year is to use enough stuff up in my room that I end up with a free drawer by the end of the year (and if you have seen how much stuff doesn't fit in the drawers and cupboards right now you will know how big of a goal this really is). Play along with us, will you?
This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to use something you have been hoarding or haven't used yet. I cracked out my coveted rainbow sparkle embossing powder circa 1993 and used it up on some of my Christmas cards this year. It still had lots of ooomph in it and I am sad that it is now gone :( but I am working on trying to use up what I have instead of buying new to make some room in my craft space and that was the first casualty. My goal for next year is to use up three more jars of embossing powder and not cry when they are done. Play along with us, will you?
This month's challenge at the Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers is HO HO HO...I always like to whip up a few snarky Christmas cards and this year with the Canada Post strike I am feeling extra salty because I made all of my cards early and now I can't mail them. I also have a whole bunch stuck in the mail system because I tried to beat the strike for all my international cards and they are hopelessly stuck all over the place. So this will be the one card everyone can see. LOL
This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is always a hard one for me - Masculine cards. I almost always end up adding bling or sparkle or something to make the card more glitzy and I did so one this one too...nothing better than some glitter pooches. The bricks were done by embossing white paper and adding several colours of ink overlapping to make them look aged. Play along with us. will you?
This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is "time for a hot drink" - use a hot beverage on your project. I am always game for a trip to Starbucks for a half sweet white chocolate mocha and this card sure gives off those kind of vibes. Play along with us, will you?
This week's challenge at Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers is to use a critter on your project. I am not really sure if a balloon animal is considered a critter worldwide, but here in my craft lair it totally is :). Play along with us, will you?
This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is birds of a feather and the challenge is how it sounds - use a bird or birds, feathers or any combination of the two. I have had this parrot sitting around for a long while and have decided it needed to be on a card - so it now is. Play along with us, will you?
This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is all about Halloween - using the traditional colours of orange, black, green and or purple or use a halloween image. I chose to make a gel plate background with different spooky oranges and black and use a trick-or-treating halloween dog. Play along with us, won't you?
This week's challenge at Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers is Halloween - this little ghostie is hauntingly cute and is enjoying trick-or-treating on a dark October night. Play along will you?
This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is called Leafing it up to you and we are using leaves on our projects. It can be fall or any other season or any type of leaf. Play along will you?
This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to use something that you have a lot of and really don't want to admit how much you truly have of that item. My craft room is full to the brim right now and I certainly don't need more hot foil, hot foil plates, stamps, dies or paper. So I have been on a mission to try and use some of the supplies up and not hoard them. Play along with us, will you?
This week's challenge at the Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers is A is for Autumn. I am not looking forward to the end of summer because that means winter is on the way but it was only +7 this morning so I know it is inevitable and almost here. The only bonus is it is time to pull out the cool weather sweaters - hence the card. Play along with us, will you?
This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to make a card for Just Because day - and send it for no particular reason. I chose this fun stamp and decided it was due to see ink for the first time. The little bees I picked up ages ago at dollarama and have decided they need to get used up. Play along with us, will you?
This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is a colour challenge...I always find these challenges fun as it makes me think outside of the box and look through my stacks of paper to find something that meets the requirements. Play along with us, will you?
This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to use balloons on your project - either hot air or party - you choose how you want to float away. I chose a hot air balloon because we are seeing a lot of them around here at this time of year...play along with us, will you?
This week's challenge at Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers is summer....something that is much too short here. We are in August and the days are already getting noticeably shorter....a sign of wintry things to come...at least we have been in the +30's for the last two weeks and the rain has finally stopped. Play along with us, will you?
