Guess What Time it is!! It's Challenge Time!! Q is for Quilts (paper piecing)

The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers has a challenge for you.....Q is for Quilts which means do some paper piecing, if it makes a quilt, awesome. I went with the plain paper piecing, so much fun fussy cutting the image....NOT, but here it is.

Well I had an image all picked out and when it came time to create it was MIA so I went with my second choice. I paper pieced the couch or sofa, The image is from Art Impressions (gotta love the girlfriends) coloured it with copics and added flowers and the sentiment.

Finished the inside with a bit of humour or maybe reality lol.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you will have some fun with this challenge, head over to the main blog check out the rules and what the other design team members has done for the challenge.

Merry Monday Christmas Challenge #202 ~~ Let it Snow!!!

Well I don't really want it to snow, we are heading to the cottage Saturday for the weekend, it's our first trip and there is "work" to do but I wanted to get this card done before the challenge at Merry Monday Christmas Challenge  closes.

This card was built around a piece of BoBunny paper, as soon as I saw it I knew I wanted to use my super cute Impression obsession snowman stamp. I added the mounds of snow, the sentiment from Stampabilies and the snowflake from my odds bucket. Stickles was added to the white dots on the paper, it sparkles IRL.

Finished inside with a sentiment from Impression Obsession.

I would like to enter this in:

Merry Monday Christmas Challenge #202 Let it Snow

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend.

It's Tuesday and Time for a NEW Challenge at Shopping Our Stash ~~ Think Ink!!

Happy Tuesday morning and it's time for challenge #249 at Shopping Our Stash ~~ Think Ink use lots of ink but NO colouring. So I use a water colour technique I've sort of used before but not exactly. First I stamped a Magenta Rose with versamark watermark and embossed it in white, then I using tombow and Stampin'up markers I scribbled them on a small acrylic block just so I had control where the ink went. spritzed it with water and played until I had the look I was happy with.

There isn't a sentiment as I like a few generic cards that can be finished quickly as I have an occasion. This could be used for sympathy, get well or birthday.

Close up of the rose.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you will get inky and join us at SOS for "Think Ink" 

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Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Washi Tape!!!

Friday morning the Jingle Belles Rock posted their new two week challenge Washi Tape go check it out and the inspiration cards. Now as I've said it many many many times I'm washi tape challenged so off to Pinterest to check out washi tape cards just to see what people do with that sticky stuff and I got a few ideas, Here is one......

I stamped the snowflake with versamark and embossed it in pewter.  The washi tape I got at Michael's Art Store with a 50 % off coupon specifically for Recollections washi tape. I added a sentimen and bling, although there is still way too much white space for me.

Finished the inside adding some washi tape with the sentiment.

I would like to enter this in:

Jingle Belles Rock Walking in a Washi Wonderland

Thanks for checking out my progress with my holiday cards.  Have a great week and please visit anytime you are always welcome.

Purple, Silver and White......

Merry Monday Christmas Challenge #201 ends in less than 24 hour, gee I'm sliding in almost last again but the challenge is colours that I love....Purple, silver and white, so pretty.  I had a lot of fun deciding what to use and while looking for some silver paper I found purple papers too, I've had them forever as well, nice to use up stash. Here is my card.

I used the memory box snowflake ornament and I made one silver on purple and reversed the colours for the second, added a silver thread and place them on embossed white cardstock.

Finished inside.

I would like to enter this in:

 Merry Monday Christmas challenge: #201

Thanks for visiting today and have a great weekend.

Shopping our Stash #248 ~~ Chip off the old Block!!

Looking for my Clear it Out post scroll down or click HERE.

Shopping Our Stash is giving us one really great challenge this week....chip off the old block which means use chipboard.  Now I have not had a lot of experience with using chipboard so this challenge (as with most) I didn't know where to go with it then I saw a chipboard snowflake, wow there is where I would start. I'll explain more as I show photos.

As you see the snowflakes are glittered.....so am I and the table, the floor and anything else that was in a 3 foot radius. I first taped soowang tape on a piece of cereal box, home made chipboard, then put the turquoise glitter on it of course it isn't glitter ritz so it flaked off ..... a lot so in to the bathroom grabbed my hairspray (never use it for my hair) and sprayed it. Well the "real" chipboard snowflake was a bit more trouble, I versamarked it then used heat and stick then glitter, duh the chip board colour showed through shoulda painted it white.(insert head slap here) so I embossed it in white then did the whole thing all over again. Whew what a job, now I have more glitter all over.  When hubby goes for walks he often (like a crow) picks up shiny things and the center of the snowflake is an odd earring he found. The embossed layer was slated for another project but I didn't use it so SCORE!

Here is a close up of the chipboard snowflake and the recycled  earring.

Finished inside

Now I can go on with my story, the colour I wanted to use was Tempting Turquoise, I went to where I keep my cardstock and that slot was EMPTY, panic then I found one scrap of the colour in my scrap folder and voila enough to do the front and the inside, Not over yet....I find a full package that hadn't made it to the rack. 

I really need to enter this in:

Jingle Belles Rock Celebrating Earth day by recycling something (earring)

Thanks for joining me today and dig out that chipboard and show us what you can do with it.

Clear it Out Tuesday Challenge #109 ~~ Nature

Clear it Out Tuesday challenge #109 ~~ Nature is the theme and the stash item is greenery, leaves, ribbon, paper. Check out the main blog to get all the information on the challenge. Two sponsors for this challenge, Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and Crafty Sentiments Designs. My card was made with an image from Robyn's Fetish.

I used this really nice cabin scene from Robyn's Fetish and my greenery is the Impression Obsession die cut trees. The background is made with a retired background stamp from Stampin'up called Weathered. I added a strip of Faux leather to hold the buckle.

Close-up of the faux leather

Finished inside.

Thanks for stopping by today and please join us for the Nature challenge.