C is for Cheeky Christmas

 Oh my it's December? So it means a new challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers and as always the theme for December is C is for Cheeky Christmas. And here is some eye candy for you.

I had a bit of trouble coming up with a plan for this month as I'm still in a state of disorganization after the summer, stamp I wanted to use is MIA so on to the second choice the snarky cats, and there are so many to decide from but here is my mini slimline card which will be used as a money holder for Christmas.

I coloured and fussy cut the snarky cat on the sled and popped him up precariously on a snow hill, the sky was blended with distress oxide inks. The sentiment was also on the same set.

A side view to see the elevation, inside is not finished yet but will include a "fence" to hold the cash.

Thanks for visiting today and I'm sure you can come up with something a little more cheeky than I did. Do check out the SoSS blog and see what the rest of the design team have made. 

It's a Banner Holiday Card

 One of my favourite prompts at the Jingle Belles Challenge is the Banner inspiration one although I love all their prompts (some better than others) although I didn't manage to do a lot of the challenges I'm going to try harder in 2026 because I am scrambling to get enough cards to mail.  My card zeroed in on the pale teal and the muted trees, the glittery "Jingle" and instead of snowflakes I used trees. Check below for the inspiration banner.

I used a 3D embossing folder, mirror cardstock for the trees and some glitter cardstock for the Merry, Christmas was stamped on a scrap of pale teal as stamping on the embossed part would be messy.

Finished the inside with a scrap of teal, a hero arts sentiment and some more silver trees.

I am adding this to:

Jingle Belles Challenge ~~ Banner Holiday

Thanks for stopping by and keep on crafting.

Forever Young

Welcome friends, family and followers and welcome to a new month and a new challenge. For the next 13 days we are promoting "Forever Young" and want to see your projects made for the young ones. This is a welcome distraction from the holiday cards I should be making, but what I made was a fairly simple mini slimline card using lots of older items even a NBUS (never been used stuff)

I haven't used Penguin Party (SU) for a long time and thought it perfect for a little one.  I stamped and fussy cut the panda and he/she is popped up. I used a cloud stencil from Essentials that I had to have in 2022 but never got it out to try until now and it wasn't as scary to use as I thought it might be. The large birthday die was cut twice and layered for a bit of elevation. 

Side view on how it is elevated, the balloon was coated with s nuvo glitter brush.

Finished the inside with a very old birthday sentiment woodblock set from Stampin'up 

Thanks for stopping by and check out the inspiration from the design team.

A Quick Thank You

 Hello and glad you are here to check out the new challenge at Shopping Our Stash which is to make a quick thank you card in under 30 minutes, don't forget to time yourself.  Since I seldom make CAS cards mine took the full 30 minutes, I probably could have stopped the clock while I washed the glue off my fingers.

I haven't made an eclipse card in a long time and I hoped I could manage the 30 min time challenge. The first thing that makes a quick card is dies, second is a fabulous winter paper pad with gorgeous scenes. There is nothing on this card that is over 2 years old. 

A better look at the eclipse element. 

Thanks for visiting today and check out the fantastic quick cards the rest of the gang at Shopping Our Stash have made,  then get your timer out and see if you can do it!!

Leftovers~~Jingle Belle Style

 Finally some time to make a card for the Jingle Belles Christmas Challenge and one prompt I am very fond of and usually have lots of leftovers except this year I have not been keeping up with my holiday cards. So first on the agenda is the bits, bobs and some bigger parts.

As you see lots of bits and even partially finished images.

This was almost like cheating as most parts of the card were ready to glue together for an earlier challenge but never made it.  The patterned paper has a gold undertone so I layered it and the stamped image on gold (which is hard to photograph) I added the red Merry Christmas sticker sentiment to balance the cardinals. The stamped image is popped up.

Finished the inside with a Hero Arts sentiment 

Adding this to:

The Jingle Belles ~~ Holiday Leftovers

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to get at least one more leftover card made. 

These are a Few of my Favourite Things

 Hello and welcome November and a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash. Challenge #560 is A Few of My Favourite Things which means make a card with two or more of your favourite things and tell us what they are. Here is what I came up with some of my favourite things.

My first favourite item is House Mouse Designs stamps, I bought my first one from a yard sale before I even started stamping over 25 years ago, second item is "fun folds" I love to pair a fun fold with the House Mouse images I am constantly looking for and trying new folds, my third item is fussy cutting as you see the leaves are fussy cut and popped up on the image.  I could make a huge list of favourite things.

Here is the back of the card, perfect for my "favourite" vertical Hero Arts Stamps.

Thanks for stopping by and check out the SOS blog and see the favourite things the rest of the team have used on their cards. 

 

Hey Ghoulfriend

 Hello and welcome to October and a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash. Along with fall and the Canadian Thanksgiving October brings HALLOWEEN, so we would like to see your spooky, cute, scary Halloween cards. This is my second spooky card and I used a favourite "sheetload" sketch I would still like to get a oouple more done, perhaps when I get all my Halloween stamps and dies in the same place. 

Two sheets of  6x6 patterned paper made two cards, my stash is a pack of 6 stamps from Hero Arts, 2001 you can see them in the picture. I am positive these were my first Halloween stamps. Of course Monica looks cute in her flower costume this stamp is dated 2008, the patterned paper is a Halloween pack from Bo Bunny I think as there was no cover so I've had it for a long time. Both the image and sentiment are popped up more than I usually would but they are not being mailed this year due to Canada Post being on strike for the second fall in a row. 

Inside was finished with a couple of the stamped imaged and left over patterned paper made into flags. I will add the inside sentiment when I'm home. 

I am adding this to:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge ~~ Anything Halloween

Thanks for stopping by today and check out the rest of the Halloween cards on the Main Blog.

Spooky

 Hello and welcome to my blog and a new month, October and you know what that means...........witches and goblins, bats and ghosts so for the month of October the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers are helping you get some Spooky cards made, don't forget to read the updated rules on the main blog then add your creation to the gallery. Here is your invitation from Edna on our behalf.

Lee has outdone herself with this visual so we hope you will join the fun.

Here is my not very snarky offering, I had more plans but I haven't made the transition to crafting at home from the cottage and forgot the items I had planned on using but as you know every crafter does not have one idea she/he usually has many options so I found this cute Halloween cat set, coloured a couple (my markers came home) and decided this one looked a little more "Spookier", the sentiments are from the same set. First time using the 3D skull/web embossing folder, I'm already seeing more ideas for the folder.

Closer look at the EF and the Halloween cat.

I am adding this to:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge ~~ Anything goes

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to check out the SoSS blog and see what the rest of the design team has made.

With Sympathy

 Hello and welcome back to Shopping Our Stash for a new challenge. For this fortnight we are designing a very difficult type of card....Sympathy, You are in my Thoughts & Prayers even being difficult to make you know they bring some comfort to the recipient. I rarely have any "on hand" so each one is personal  and unfortunately this one was needed.

The die was cut twice and layered and attached to a background I made by blending distress oxide inks and trimmed around the die cut. It is layered on a swiss dot embossed panel which has a black layer. I don't normally make cards with a wide border but it does really make the focal point pop. The sentiment was stamped, fussy cut and flat attached. The card is 5 1/2 inches square.

Inside using a sentiment from a sympathy word set, the wildflower die was on my desk and seemed to want to be part of it, 

Thanks for stopping by today, stop by the main blog and check out the rest of the heartwarming cards the team have made, I am looking forward to checking out your creations on our challenge.

Santa in September

 Hello all my crafty friends, I finally finished a card for Christmas Kickstart Challenge, It's sad when I miss the deadline, it means I'm not keeping up with my holiday card stash and when November arrives it will be crunch time.  Wen I am in a crafting slump I dig out a sketch, most of the time it is a Sheetload sketch with measurements and pictures. You can make multiples with patterned paper and cardstock  ( 8 to 12 sometimes) or the cutting measurements are there for making one. This is one of my favourite ones.

I love using my Stampendous mini acrylic stamps, perfect for a 2 1/12 inch circle. I could have made 2 cards with 2 sheets of patterned paper 1/2 sheet of cardstock and 2 bases. 

Inside of the top fold A2 card with scraps of patterned paper and a sentiment from a Kraftin' Kimmy set, all stamps and paper are many years old. 

I'm adding this to:

Christmas Kickstart ~~ Santa in September

Thanks for stopping by and have an awesome day!!

Cat in the Bag

 Hello and welcome to a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash the theme is Cat in the Bag so feature a purse, backpack, beach bag and/or a cat. Many choices and we are looking forward to seeing how you interpret the theme. I chose a stamp set I've had for over 7 years it makes a 3D card but I didn't have the time or brain power to attempt it, so I did my variation.

Kitty Vanity is an Art Impressions set many parts to the set but I only used 2 for the front image. Since I wasn't attempting the 3D part the dies wouldn't work so I fussy cut both the vanity and drawer. As you see there is a purse along with 4 adorable kittens. 

Inside of the card using one of the cute kitty stamps that come with the set, a scrap of patterned paper and a very old hero arts sentiment 

I popped the drawer up for dimension and this picture gives a much better look at the colours.

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check out the Main Blog and see what the rest of the team have made....you will be surprised. 

Finally Fall!!

 Not that I had Fall to arrive so fast this year but we have to roll with the weather we are served. Here's hoping for a rerun of some summer. Challenge #266 at the Sisterhood is.........

I don't think Edna is appropriately dressed for leaf diving and I'm not ready either.

I hope you can join the challenge and adorn our blog with some Fall Leaves.

First time all summer I have had a chance to take a picture by the lake, I especially like when I take photos of my Holiday cards.

My card is made with an embossing folder on brown cardstock and I used the metallic wax set with my fingers all over using the red, green and copper. I added it to a holographic layer then I had to decide if I wanted a red or brown base and as you see the red one. 

On the inside I added a strip of holographic paper and a couple of leaves and a favourite sentiment stamp.

Thanks for stopping by and checking the new challenge at SoSS, don't forget to check out the blog and see the great leafy creations the design team have made. 

Did Someone See a Winter Dragon?

 Finally found time to play along with the Jingle Belles, the heat here at the cottage (not a breeze to be found) has been brutal and made it hard to craft, everything I touched stuck to my fingers but I got it done.

      Before I show you my card I will show you the great sketch that Stephanie did for the challenge.

Here is my take on the sketch

I used a Lawn Fawn stamp & die set I got on sale  3 years ago I am very happy that I lined up the 3 stamp sentiment almost perfect. I used a ornament embossing folder on the red piece. I believe the cloud die is from Impression Obsession. The watercoloured sky was leftover from the card I posted earlier.

I popped the Winter Dragon up on the cloud, and a better look at the sentiment.

I am adding this to

Jingle Belles Challenge ~~ 'Twas the Sketch Before Christmas

Thanks for looking today & I have one more holiday card, but I need to step up the pace.

Hot! Hot! Hot!

Another 2 weeks of this never-ending heat and humidity in SWO, it's even too hot and sticky to craft.  Of course I could be home in the A/C but summer is short and in a couple of months it will be time to close for the winter.  It did take me much longer to make my card and of course there are always a couple of speed bumps along the way, I am happy to say even though I didn't plan for the theme I had a couple of Photoplay stamp sets that worked. Now the theme at Shopping Our Stash for this fortnight is Hot, Hot, Hot so what we want to see is a card inspired by something HOT, the weather, food, fire  we are looking forward to seeing what you decide is HOT.

I had never used this set before and it's circa 2018 and has matching dies gifted to me from a friend. I made the background with distress oxide inks, stamped and coloured the bear sunbathing by the lake and used the coordinating die and popped him up on the beach scene. The patterned paper reminded me of a beach blanket or a table cloth and felt it fit the bill

Closer look to see how the bear is elevated.

  

Thanks for stopping by at the beach party of one today and check out what the design team has decided what is HOT.

A is for Aliens

 For the month of August we are delving into outer space and Aliens at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers.

Beam Edna up Scottie

For the second Alien challenge I have not located my alien stamps so I went the second option a Galaxy.

I made the galaxy background with blending shades of distress oxide inks an then using an IO stamp inked with yellow brilliance ink for the milky way, the sentiment is from a SU set long retired. It was fussy cut and popped up.

Thanks for rocketing by today and check out the rest of the design team projects, especially the mini books.

Juggling Raspberries

 Hello and welcome back to a NEW challenge at Shopping Our Stash the prompt is Eat Five a Day!! that is important information from the food guide, do you follow the "rule"? Make a card with either a fruit or vegetable or both, looking forward to see what you like the best. One of my favourites is in season right now, I picked a House Mouse stamp that has Amanda juggling raspberries. 

As always when I go to the cottage I forget things and one item was pop dots so I picked some up at Len's Mills but they are really much thicker than mine that are home. I seem to be in a Red/Pink phase but when I saw this paper in the pile I thought how it matched the raspberries. 

side view to see the elevation.

Finished the inside with some scraps of paper and I have a couple of fussy cut raspberries to attach yet. As I said earlier travelling with crafty things takes planning, evidently birthday sentiments was not on my mind, but I have lots of Holiday ones. 

I am adding this to 

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge ~~ Summer Fun

Seize the Birthday ~~ Use your Favourite Colour (mine this week is Red/Pink)

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check out the great projects the rest of the design team have made. 

Juggling Act

 I'm back again with another Holiday card because it's Rudolph Days and it's my first one this year, of course there are a couple other challenges that I worked into the card. My post might be short today it is so humid at the lake my fingers are sticking to the keys, there is no A/C here.

Since Christmas Kickstart's prompt was Merry go Round, there are oodles of circles on this Circle Easel card. Next in line was the Jingle Belles Tic Tac Toe board and woohoo I did 2 lines with one card.

I used a House Mouse designs image nothing fancy in the design I only have circle dies with me.

As you see the easel folds flat for mailing in a 5 1/2 inch square envelope although I have no picture the sentiment is on the back of the card.

I'm entering this in:

Rudolph Days ~~ Anything Christmas

Christmas Kickstart ~~ Merry-go-round

Jingle Belles Challenge ~~ Tic/Tac/Toe

top horizontal row and right vertical row

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge ~~ Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope where you are is a lot cooler and less humid than here.