WHITE-out

 Welcome back to a NEW challenge at Shopping Our Stash, the challenge for this fortnight is a White-out challenge, create a card that features NO WHITE.  I thought it was an opportunity to make a non-traditional holiday card, I really need to work on my stash. I shopped "as usual" in my parts box and found some die-cuts, probably from last years holiday crafting and I made a card around them using not a speck of white. 

I started out with a teal base, a layer of aqua mirror cardstock and a layer of pale aqua which was embossed with a Darice music folder. The bells are silver and bows are in the aqua mirror cardstock. The sentiment is silver as are the chains hanging the bells, both I believe are from Starform. 

The inside was finished with a scrap of aqua mirror cardstock a silver bell and a bow and the sentiment is a very old Hero Arts vertical stamp. 

I am adding this to:

Jingle Belles Challenge ~~ We Three Kings

Thanks for stopping by today, check out the rest of the design team cards then put away that white cardstock and dig out the pretty colours and add a card to the gallery. 

I'm Counting On You!!

 Another two weeks has flown by, am I the only one that thinks days and weeks just fly by? It just seems like we were celebrating the new year and now it's March and closer to spring. All the huge piles of snow have melted with the warmer weather and it didn't take as long as I thought. That being noted I need to tell you about the new challenge at Shopping Our Stash, I'm Counting On You which we want to see a number or numbers on your card and since it's March guess what number is on my card.

Yep you are right March 17, St. Patrick's Day!! I used my super cute Shamrock Fluffles Stamp and using a "sheetload" sketch a couple of patterned papers from a 6X6 pad. And there is more.....

As per the cutting guide of SUYSNov2024 using the two 6X6 pieces of patterned paper 1 piece of cardstock and two A2 bases it made two super cute cards 

Finished the inside of both cards with a sentiment and a couple of left over scraps of patterned paper, there very little waste. I didn't have a proper St. Patrick's sentiment with my old printer I would find a free sentiment site and computer generate it but I have not tried with the new printer yet. 

Thanks for visiting today and I hope to see your project in our gallery. 

C is for Cold

 Welcome to a new challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers, the prompt or the month of March is C is for Cold. I heard we will be having another "cold" snap next weekend so I'm going to enjoy the double digits while I can. Sorry no Edna prompt this challenge, my laptop was being a pita and I finally lost patience after 2 hours of trying to get pages to load, good job there was only one photo to edit.  

I used the snow-bear grumpling and  the sentiment from the same set, I found the sky, snowbanks, and trees in my "parts" box so I was half way  already. I fussy cut the snow-bear flat attached the base but popped up the head and body, wasn't sure about doing the fussy cutting as my scissors are mia, and I just fussy cut a santa yesterday. I'm going to blame the cat on this one. 

Thanks for stopping by today and hope to see your C is for Cold project on our gallery. 

The Golden Years

 Hello and welcome to a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash, the Golden Years yep I think I'm there LOL, kidding aside we want your to make a card featuring the colour GOLD. Lots of great ideas for the colour gold, golden anniversary, wedding card, confirmation and the one I chose was Christmas mainly because  I need to build my Holiday card stash.

 
I have gone the "easy route" and used some patterned cardstock from a paper pad from the dollar store I bought 2 years ago, I might have bought more than one. The snowflake wreath is really hard to see, it was plan "b" as I could not find the original die (found it after I was finished). The JOY die is one I have had a long time but never used, there is a word die and a shadow and because I wanted to pop it up I cut the shadow out of gold mirror cardstock. (also from the dollar store)

Finished the inside with a scrap of the patterned paper and a sentiment I found in the off cuts box.

Thanks for stopping by today and check out how the rest of the design team have featured gold.

Bent Out of Shape

 Welcome to a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash and the theme is Bent Out of Shape which is just make a shaped card (no squares or rectangles allowed). I have received really cute shaped cards one was a gorgeous layered butterfly birthday card and a super adorable mitten card for Christmas swap and if you have been to the main blog there are yummy cupcakes, now for me it's a circle easel card.

I had already decided I was making a "rocker" card but for some reason, being in a hurry I could not locate my infinity circles that I use so on to plan B I knew where this die set was so thought I might be able to adapt it to make the rocker card but when looking for it I found this whole set die cut and was never glued together BONUS. I have had it several years and it's so pretty. The gems I used are from my stash they are many years old. I had 3 packages of purple to pick from too.

Side view of the easel and the Birthday sentiment is popped up.

Best part is it folds flat for mailing in a square envelope.

Thanks for stopping by today and check out the shaped cards the rest of the design team have made.

B is for Black Black Heart

 Hello and welcome to a new month and a new challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!!

The theme is Valentine with black or anti Valentine. Took me a while to figure something out but I saw a meme that caught my fancy and went with it and a snarky cat.

Since my great grandson is all Halloween I'm giving this to him for Valentines day, he might agree with the quote. 

I found the scrap of glitter black cardstock in the black file folder, I cut the heart and flat attached it all but the top bit so I could tuck the cat in it. The snarky cat is flat attached under the heart but the rest is elevated as you can see in the photo.

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check out the rest of the design team cards on the  Main Blog.

Love is in the Air

Or at least for the new challenge at Shopping Our Stash. Welcome to Love Me Do! which for the next 13 days it will be all over the gallery so get your hearts, hugs, love notes out and make a Love themed card with your stash. 

I have made a mini slimline card with a favourite sheetload from January 2023 which is on rewind right now so check it out. I am so sorry for the terrible photo, I am not sure what gremlin is living inside my laptop but I literally fought the edit program and I lost the fight. That was just the last pitfall, the first was "where is my valentine paper pad?" I still am in the dark on that one, but in my loose papers I found 2 that co-ordinated and some cardstock that matched. Of course I just had to use the super cute gnome with the hearts all aver his hat popped him up, added a few "who knows how long I've had them" pearls  and a valentine sentiment. 

Finished the inside with an "elderly" sentiment. 

Thanks for stopping by today and stop by the SOS blog and check out what the rest of the design team have made.