Up, Up And Away

 Welcome to a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash for this fortnight the theme is Balloon(s) hot air or party your choice. I went with Birthday Balloons.

Digging deep for this card  a Stamping Bella cling mount stamp from the Uptown Girl collection I have had for a long time, I coloured her up and fussy cut her out (not sure why I need to stress myself), but she needed to by flying high with her helium balloons. Background is smooshed distress inks on watercolour paper. The balloon girl is popped up. The base is a plum shade from Stampin'up and I can't remember it's full name, one of the last few loose pieces I have.

As if fussy cutting wasn't stressful enough I made an easel card note pad. I like making fun fold cards and I find them easier and quicker to make up. 

I am adding this to:

Seize the Birthday ~~ Anything Birthday

Addicted to Stamps and More ~~ #473 Birthdays

Thanks for stopping by today and check out what the rest of the design team have made for the challenge then did in your stash for some hot air or party balloons and enter our challenge.

Just Fold It!!!

 Welcome to another new monthly challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers and here is Edna to introduce the new theme.

Edna has been very busy folding newsprint into a Hat or is that a Boat on her head, do you remember making these paper creations as a child? Well we don't want a newsprint hat/boat we want to see some Fun or Fancy folds. I love making different folds I find them easy and fun so here is what fold I did.

It's a Circle Easel card and I finally had chance to use the House Mouse stamp and I found this fruit designed patterned paper at Dollarama and matched perfect the sentiment I found on Pinterest, used more circle dies and popped it up to hold the top portion of the card.

Close up of the sentiment, it's a bit out of focus so your eyesight hasn't gone downhill.  Since I used my favourite "meeces" I toned the snark.

Side view so show ow the easel part works.

Best part it folds flat for mailing as long as you don't pop things up too high and it fits in a square envelope.

I'm adding this to:

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge ~~ Use Some Patterned Paper {nailed it)

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge ~~ Diecut and/or Stencil

Critter Crazy Challenge Blog ~~ Anything Goes with a Featured Critter.

Inkspirational Challenges ~~ Word Prompt ~~ Fold

Thanks for stopping by to check out what the Sisters are making this month,  so head over to the 

MAIN BLOG and check it out then get your thinking cap on and make us a fancy/fun fold card, they are much easier than you think. 

Spring Has Sprung!!

 Spring has Sprung at Shopping Our Stash so for SOS518 we want to see your Spring or Easter projects. Now here in SWO (southwestern Ontario) I thing we have sprung into Spring at least 3 times, my daffodils and tulips were totally out of the ground when we got our last blast and wow it was cold, fingers crossed they will survive. I went with the "spring" part although there were plans for Easter so if you see it on the blog it's a surprise. 

As you see I jumped on the bandwagon and made a Fractured card or Faux Shutter fold card, be nice it's my first attempt and they are so much fun. Next one will have a smaller "diamond" in the center. 

Since this is Shopping Our Stash I used long retired dsp from Stampin'up and a Studio G stamp that I remember it was from the $1 bin, I had three out to play with but two of them need some conditioning as they didn't want to ink up properly. 

Close up of the bargain bin image, I did a tiny bit of colouring, added wink of stella to the bee's wings and flight tail. 

I'm adding this to:

Addicted to Stamps and More ~~ Any Occasion

Thanks for stopping by today and head over to the MAIN BLOG to check out the rest of the inspiration the design team have created. 

Out on a Limb!!!

 My goodness I'm on a roll this week 3 posts in 2 days  but it's nice to be making fun cards for challenges and to build my Holiday stash. I actually had the patterned paper on my desk for the Jingle Belles challenge "text me" so I just carried on with it even though the challenge ended at 6 p.m. I decided that I hadn't played along with Christmas Kickstart or Rudolph Days this month and if I don't reach of quota of 5 a month then it will be a November marathon. 

To start my card I had an already stamped Fluffles image in a pile so coloured it up, die cut with a pair of spellbinders circle dies. Patterned paper is Peppermint from Crate Paper. Sketch is from Sheetload of Cards February 2022.

Finished the inside with a couple of scraps of paper and a Stampabilities (no longer in business) steamp.

I am entering this in:

Christmas Kickstart Challenge ~~ Out on a Limb

Rudolph Days ~~ February

ABC Christmas Challenge ~~ C is for Cats

Addicted to Rubber Stamps and More ~~ Christmas

Thanks for stopping by to see what I have been crafting. 

Text Me!!

 Finally I have a card made for the Jingle Belles Rock!! I have tried to get to all the challenges since January 1st and there never seems to be enough time so today I MADE time and got one done. Now my last post I said I was green challenged and what did I make today another green card nothing like pushing my luck. 

This is a mini slimline card 3 1/4 X 6 1/4 and is the perfect size for putting money or a cheque in for a gift. The sketch is from a Sheetload of cards January 2023 which makes 8 cards but there are instructions for a single card. Patterned paper is Holly Jolly from American Crafts, the cute owl is a Stampendous mini clear stamp and was stamped and coloured last year so I just fussy cut him, flat attached his feet and popped the rest of him up. 

Finished the inside with a scrap of patterned paper and a vertical sentiment from Stampabilities.

I'm entering this in:

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Text Me

Addicted to Stamps and More ~~ Christmas

Thanks for stopping by today and check out the challenge at the Jingle Belles and get a jump start on the Holiday cards. The challenge ends Wednesday at 6 p.m. but I new one will appear on Friday. 

It's a Snippits Kind of Day!!

 Hello friends, family and followers surprise I'm not blogging a design team card, I'm playing along with a couple of challenges, yea for me!! First it's using snippits, those off cuts, extra cuts, images you have already coloured, it makes you think outside the box. I have oodles of snippits but rarely enough to make a whole card....here is how it started.

These are my snippits, I made a card a while ago and the circles were too large so I cut them smaller leaving rings that matched together, as I was designing the card I also cut the white scalloped piece and the nave pinked edge, the pink in the background is a perfect size for the base, I also had a few scraps that were used to make a border. Now here is how it all went together.

The die cut sentiment is one I've never used before (NBUS) The card is a 5 1/2 inch square side opening card. 

Finished the inside with some left over scraps and a sentiment from Impression Obsession. 

I rarely find 2 challenges to enter but I planned for all 4.

Challenges I'm adding this to:

Color Hues ~~ #35 Navy & Pink

Seize The Birthday ~~ #233 Dichromatic (navy/pink)

Addicted to Stamps and More ~~ challenge 423 Birthdays

Snippit's Playground Challenge ~~ Challenge #422

Thanks for stopping by and stay safe, stay healthy.

I Tried a new Sketch.

 A few weeks ago we had a sketch challenge at Shopping Our Stash, well there were 4 sketches and I picked one that fit my image and the time I had (sometimes I run late) Well this sketch is one I really wanted to try, I love layers and this one was perfect and it fit my image too. I have had my image coloured for a few days in hopes that I would get a chance to enter it in the ABC Christmas Challenge blog. The letters are P, Q and R. I chose to do P is for Plump, I haven't played along for a while but when I saw the super cute plump bird from Stampendous (mini stamp) I knew I wanted to play.

I used Sketch #1 from Craft with Sarah  this is a great sketch to use up scraps, I stamped and coloured the Stampendous mini stamp bird and coloured him I (don't laugh) drew the tree branch for him to perch on. The snowflakes are from Impression Obsession, I cut two of each and layered them, and popped them up. 

Close up of the snowflakes, I had some colour samples given to me and this one a gossy white and layered quite nicely. 

Finished the inside with a super cute sentiment from Impression Obsession and a few patterned paper scraps.

I am entering this in:

ABC Christmas Challenge ~~ the Letter P for Plump

Addited to Stamps and More ~~ #412 Christmas

Thanks for stopping by today and now I have one more holiday card to add to my stash.