T is for Tags at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers.

 Another two weeks has flown by and the weather has gone from Winter to summer and now we are having spring, so nice to have comfortable temperatures. 

Here is Edna to announce our newest challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers.

Wow so many tags Edna is sporting on her dress. 

Here is what I finally came up with for the challenge. sadly it is a "snarkless" project. 

I am not sure why I went this route for my tag, it never occured to look up one of my AI beauties or a Stella digi from my computer but I did take myself way out of my comfort zone. Yellow/orange combo is not a favourite and I really don't do mixed media but I blended the oxide inks, added a few bubble from a stencil flicked water on it before I added the wild flower die cuts and the Smile die cut which I cut 3 times to pop it up.

closer look at the sentiment and you can see the stencil bubbles. 

I used my TH tag sizzix die to make the tag. 

I'm adding this to:

Happy Little Stampers ~~ Anything goes with Dies

Thanks for stopping by today and head over to the Main Blog there is much better inspiration there from the rest of the team. 

It's Ornamental, My Dear Watson....

It's a new challenge at the Jingle Belles and since my hair appointment was rescheduled I had s bit of free time to make a card for the challenge and get it done before the linky closed, well surprise I'm early, wow, it doesn't end until next Wednesday. 

I was inspired by a teamie's sunset scene you will find it HERE although I think I was a little more heavy handed when blending. I uses Gently Falling embossing folder for the background on navy stardream cardstock the ornament is silver and I layered it with two heavy cardstock layers, The Merry also cut out of Silver posterboard and 3 additional layers were cut to elevate it .

Since I kput Merry on the front with no room for Christmas I added "and bright" ancient rub on from Stampin'up and a sentiment from Stampendous.

I'm adding this to:

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Ornamental My Dear Watson

Just Us Girls ~~ #609 Word Week Merry

Happy Little Stampers ~~ Anything Goes with Dies

Thanks for stopping by today and there is still time to make more ornament cards. 

Pink Christmas is the Challenge at the Jingle Belles.

 So much to do so little time. It's turned pretty cool here in SWO but at least the sun is out now, I am so tired of the rain and damp weather. Although I have heat at cottage but it's just not fun when it's raining. A couple more trips to bring things home for the season and of course to drain the water and winterize it. I had an idea for my card but then
realized some of my Christmas things are not home and neither is my embossing equipment. I have doubles of a lot of things but a heat gun isn't one of them.  

After many months of looking I found some metallic poster board at Len's Mills there are 5 colouts but unlide the ones I have bought at Dollar Tree one of the colours is deep pink not red.  I used Elizabeth Craft Designs Entwined Circles and the snowflake die from the sset as well. added a few rhinestones and a die cut JOY, the background was embossed with a Stampin'up sequin embossing folder

Finished the inside with an embossed strip and some leftover snowflakes. And a holiday sentiment from Stampendous. 

A closer look so you can see the metallic die cuts are very pink.

I'm adding this to:

Jingle Belles ~~ I'm Dreaming of a Pink Christmas

Happy Little Stampers ~~ Anything Goes with Dies

Let the Pink Marathon begin now.......

Thanks for stopping by but stay tuned I'm not leaving it as one entry the more the merrier as for every pink Christmas card the two ladies donate $2 each for Breast Cancer research. 

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Yellow ~~ Not my Favourite Colour!!

Look at Edna all dressed up for the prom and all that YELLOW.

Hello peeps it's time for a new challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers and it's Y is for YELLOW, as I said not my favourite colour but I took my self out of the pink phase and made a yellow card, actually it's a Crushed Curry card.

When thinking of snark my go to stamps are Art Impressions and Bugaboo so for this challenge I decided to go with "girlfriends" As you see she has a glass of wine and of course my favourite is Pino Gregio as it went better with yellow. The die cut is an ancient one from Stampin'up and I rarely use it but it went well with the Elizabeth craft designs stitched circle die I quite often paper piece the couch on this image but decided to just do grey stripes (just like the packaging) much easier than paper piecing. The patterned paper and the crushed curry cardstock are also years old so I'm digging to the bottom of the pile. 

The sentiment is from a Creative Impressions Wine Not 20 piece set of clear stamps and was die cut with a EC designs stitched circle, a wink of stella on the wineand paper glaze on her glasses.

Finished the inside with the off cut from the front die and a few scraps of patterned paper and a Studio G sentment. and looking at this I realized I forgot to stamp Happy Birthday. 

I would like to add this to:

Happy Little Stampers ~~ Anything goes with Dies May Challenge.

Seize the Birthday ~~ #190 

Monochromatic

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to have a peek at what the rest of the design team have made for the challenge. Click HERE to check them out.

Happy Birthday!!!

At Shopping Our Stash we are going to be helping you get that stash of Birthday cards done. Challenge #416 is Happy Birthday, that is self explanatory. I am always needing birthday cards, I quickly had to make one for my Great Grandson on Saturday, that's what happens if you don't have a stash.

Talk about shopping my stash, I found this super cute computer generated image already coloured in my "parts" box so just added some co-ordinating paper and voila' a birthday card for a little one.

Finished the inside with some scraps left over from the front and a very old long retired Birthday sentiment set from Stampin'up. 

I'm entering this in:

Seize the Birthday ~~ #185 A Touch of Green.

Time Out Challenges ~~ #157 Birthday

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you find time to join in the Birthday fun at Shopping Our Stash.

25 Days of Christmas Tags 2019 ~~ Day 3

I have created a tag today without feline help, it's a miracle I got it done. Well it's Day 3 at the 25 Days of Christmas Tags and so far I'm keeping up. The sponsor for today's tag is Newton's Nook Designs. There sure was a bevy of awesome tags today and the one that inspired me was Andrea Shell's red tag with the music on it. I did have to do some fiddling with the design. I don't have a music stencil but I have a music die.

I used the outside die of an ornament set to cut the red then cut the music die out of white cardstock,  I did have a Noel Die but it was too tiny to use so instead I used the JOY die from Tim Holtz Holiday die set. (first time using it too) Since my red and white bakers twine is not in the box with the other 6 or 7 others I used some red and white cotton yarn. 

Close up of the music and joy.

And here is the inspiration tag from Andrea Shell 

I am entering this in:

25 Days of Christmas Tags 2019 ~~ Day 3

The sponsor for Day 3 is:

Thanks for checking in today and have a fabulous week.

Dashing Through The Snow...................

Here I am again sneaking in close to the end of the Jingle Belles Rock Challenge to use Music on your project. I had two cards planned but one of them just didn't make the "cut".  Here is the one that did make it.

My card was created around a piece of oxide ink background I found in my stash, so while looking for "something" I found this already die cut horse and sleigh....I'm on  a roll, as you know I love turquoise whether it be green or blue toned, this time I dug around to find some Bermuda Bay cardstock as I knew it was the perfect colour to accent the sky.  The music background is a stamp from Stampin'up that I haven't used in a while and I inked it up with Peacock Feathers distress oxide ink. 

Close up of the focal point.

Finished the inside with a strip of washi tape and a tree out of the die-cut extras bin.

I would like to enter this in:

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Hark the Herald Angels Sing

Christmas Kickstart Challenge ~~ #6 Moves on Hooves

Just Us Girls challenge ~~ Trend Week #478 Use a Background Stamp.

Happy Little Stampers ~~ Anything Goes with Dies March.

Thanks for visiting today and I hope you are working on your Holiday card stash as you see I'm making progress, It helps when there are such awesome challenges to play along with.