Bonus Challenge!!! Happy New Year!!!

I hope you have all recuperated from the New Years festivities, I managed to wake up to see the ball drop and then go to bed. I got caught up on some sleep  which was nice. We had an invite for dinner so I didn’t have to cook and oh was it good. Ham and scalloped potatoes so nice after 4 days of turkey. The Drunken Stampers is giving you  a bonus challenge The Tropical Hooters and the Yellow Canaries have teamed together to bring you a Happy New Year challenge, check out the rules at the Challenge blog.
My card is a Stella image from Bugaboo, as is the sentiment, they came as a pair. I coloured with my prismas and OMS.

I covered the glass with crystal effects, it’s not as easy as Jessi makes it look. The patterned paper is from a Dollar Store, it is heavy and very shiny the picture just doesn’t do it justice. Next the inside sentiment which is a continuation of the one on the front of the card.

I used a scrap of turquoise and of the patterned paper on the inside, bordered the sentiment in black.
I would like to enter this in the Anything Goes challenge at Catch the Bug challenge blog

Thanks for looking today and I hope you can find some time to join us at the Drunken Stampers for the Happy New Year Challenge.

Challenge # 155 at The Drunken Stampers, it’s a Thing

Christmas is sneaking up on us, I hope you are completely ready and can join us for the challenge at The Drunken Stampers for challenge #155 Thing the thing is embossing dry or wet the choice is yours.

For my card I used a Penny Black image of penguins, it came with two sentiments, Joy to the world and Let it Snow. I used Ballet blue and gp white cardstock. I used the dry embossing technique with my snowflake folder. Head over to the Drunken Stampers blog check out the rules for the party and while you are there check out what the Yellow Canaries have made for you today. I hope you will join us in the lounge for the fun. Hope to see you there.

Have a safe, healthy and happy Holiday season, and as we say here in Canada……Merry Christmas EH!!!

The Tropical Hooters Challenge is a Place….Paris

Okay I know it’s not my week for the challenge (I’m a Yellow Canary) but I so wanted to play, I had an image from The Stamping chef and I just HAD to use it. The challenge theme is Place and the place is PARIS, now there all so many things you can do, romance, April in Paris or just the Eiffel tower the ideas are endless. I have a 12 X 12 patterned paper pad that is just travel, there was one sheet that has the Eiffel tower and I used it for the background paper, I coloured the image with my prisma pencils and oms and fussy cut it out, flat attached it to the paper. I had some stickers in my stash I can’t even remember when I bought them, so I added PARIS to the left and some bling to the right. Head over to the Drunken Stampers Challenge blog for all the important information and check out what the Tropical Hooters have made to inspire you.

The image I used is from The Stamping Chef (TSC) called bon voyage. I used turquoise and crumb cake cardstock.  Thanks for joining me today and I hope you find some time to get crafty and join the fun at The Drunken Stampers Challenge Blog.

I am entering this in the Anything Goes challenge at The Stamping chef challenge Blog.

Have a fabulous weekend!!!

Challenge Time at The Drunken Stampers

Team Yellow Canary is back to bring you another challenge, this term it is Person Place or Thing and since it is near Christmas it is Person and the person is Ho Ho Ho …..Santa Claus or anything relating to December Holidays,  Check out all the other Yellow Canaries projects and get the rules by visiting The Drunken Stampers Challenge Blog..

This week I decided Santa Claus was what I wanted to do for the Person theme. I bought the Santa Collage from Rubber Stampede a long time ago when it was on clearance after the holidays, and every Christmas it gets a work-out. The sketch I used is from one of my favourite sketch blogs, Tuesday Morning Sketches. I stamped the image with versafine Sepia, did a bit of distressing, then I did the Burnished Velvet techique using warm glitter ritz. It’s really sparkly IRL.

Here is a close up of the sparkle on the image.I’m not sure you can even see how glittery it is.

Supplies I used:
Image Santa Collage from Rubber Stampede
Card stock..Old olive, Very Vanilla, not sure who the patterned paper is from as the envelope is gone,
Spellbinders oval and opulent ovals Embossing folder from Stampin’up  Some rickrack that I’ve had for at least 6 years. Warm glitter ritz and double sided tape.
Challenge I am entering this in is.
Sketch #227 at Tuesday Morning Sketches
thanks for dropping by today and I hope you will find some time to join us at the Drunken Stampers challenge blog for the Person challenge.

Challenge time!!! The Drunken Stampers challenge #151

Team Yellow Canary brings you a new challenge…..it’s a PLACE  and the place is a DINER, alternate theme is FOOD. You remember the old fashioned mom and pop places, good home cooking and you never left hungry. There are still a few great places left but you really have to look for them.

If you didn’t arrive here from The Drunken Stampers Blog head over there and check out the rules and check out what my teamies have done for inspiration. visit their blogs and don’t forget to leave some love for them too.

A couple of years ago I was involved in a lot of Recipe card swaps and I found a 12 X 12 Kitchen stack pad, it’s very heavy patterned paper, close to being cardstock weight and I finally got to use some of it. My image is Dottie from Bugaboo Stamps and went with the colours in the paper. The sketch I used is from Tuesday Morning Sketches # 225.

Supplies

Image….Dottie from Bugaboo Stamps

Cardstock…..Pretty in Pink, Tempting turquoise, GP white

Patterned paper…DCWV Kitchen pad

Ribbon…..Pleated PIP from SU

Accessories… Bakers twine, heart charm, Spellbinders Long rectangles. turquoise rhinestones.

Challenges for this card are:
Sketch 225 from Tuesday Morning sketches
November Bingo…Catch the Bug (bugaboo image/patterned paper/charm
Thanks for looking today and come back anytime you are always welcome.

It’s Saturday and time for a new Challenge….it’s a Thing

Challenge #149 at the Drunken Stampers the theme is THING and the thing is CHIPBOARD!!! Team Yellow Canary has lots of inspiration on the blog so don’t forget to head over and check them out!!

Chipboard is not one of my usual things to work with, I have some coasters (from the bar) and some chipboard letters as well as some odd buckles and other pieces too but really don’t know how to utilize them. I have been thinking for two weeks on how to make something work, the first two ideas went out the window, I knew I wanted to make a Christmas card and once I decided on the stamp it went together quickly. Here is what I came up with…….

The stamp I used is one of the first stamps I bought when I started stamping, it is from Hero Arts  and is called Sketch Snowman. I embossed the white layer with a cuttlebug folder from the Winter Wonderland set, the ribbon was off a gift package, I knew it would come in handy one day. lol.

Here is a close up of the chipboard piece I used. I tried to paint it with acrylic silk paint but it just beaded up then realized it was shiny and wouldn’t stick so I got out my trusty Bic markers and covered the buckle with the red ink, it turned out better than I thought it would, it looks shiny and because of the pattern on the chipboard it give dimension to it. So now you have seen what I have done and have checked out the other Yellow Canaries work it’s your turn to join the fun at the Drunken Stampers for the Theme/chipboard challenge.

Thanks for stopping by today and come visit again soon.

It’s Saturday time for a new Drunken Stampers Challenge

Are you ready for the next challenge at the Drunken Stampers? It’s team Yellow Canary's turn to host the challenge. Continuing with the Person, Place or Thing themes for this term, it is Person…a Goth or you could do Halloween or live dangerously and do both.

I made my card to give to  our great-grandson for Halloween. I had the image from Bugaboo Stamps it is a Canadian company and has some great digis and every Friday there is a freebie. check them out.

I am very excited, I was playing around and found out how to crop the picture on Live Writer so you just see the card, I think I will explore further to see what else I can do.
The image is a Goth boy called Deacon wings and i coloured with my prisma colour pencils and OMS. I guess I managed both themes, a Goth and Halloween.
Supplies
Image from Bugaboo Stamps Sentiment from a clear Halloween set.
Cardstock GP Black, SU Black GP white patterned paper a DCWV Halloween stack
Accessories: Buttons, Black rhinestones, Modern label punch, Spellbinders Rectangles Large.
I am entering this in the Bingo challenge at Catch the Bug Challenge blog. I could go several lines with this but chose  Black, Orange and a Punch.
Thanks for stopping by today and get your crafty on and join the fun in the lounge of the Drunken Stampers.

It’s Saturday!! Time for a new Challenge at the Drunken Stampers

First thing……Happy Thanksgiving weekend to my Canadian friends and readers have a super weekend with family, friends and food!!

Person, Place or Thing is the themes for the challenge this term, the Yellow Canary team has Challenge 145 a Place…..specifically a Carnival….wow lots of options there although I had a tough time I got focused on a Ferris wheel. I had a “travel” paper pad I hadn’t even opened yet and one of the sheets was of the Paris world’s fair and that’s the way I went with my card. Check it out!! and don’t forget to head over to the Drunken Stampers Blog and check out the fabulous cards my “teamies” have made.

I cut the scalloped oval in the patterned paper and cut the oval in Early expresso to frame the image of the old Ferris wheel (from SU)  The card is 6 X 4.25, it was a blank cream coloured card and envelope from Dollar Tree. The patterned paper has a tinge of green so I added green rhinestones.

Thanks for looking today and please join us for the Place/Carnival challenge at The Drunken Stampers.

Have a crafty weekend!!

It’s Saturday and time for a Drunken Stamper challenge!!

Team Yellow Canary invites you to join the fun at the Drunken Stamper’s Saturday challenge. The theme this week is THINGS and the  thing is DIE CUTS, what could be easier unless you don’t have a single die.

I hope you will head over to the Drunken Stamper’s Blog and see what all my Yellow Canary teamies made to inspire you. You can also click on their names on the sidebar of my blog. Here is mine……

Just imagine I made something without an image and no colouring “gasp” it sure doesn’t happen often. But I saw this design and just had to try it. I used two dies to make the focal point. The lattice sizzix die and the Window Frames from Stampin’up. There is vellum behind the die cut. Ribbon and sentiment were added along with rhinestones which seem to have been lost in the picture. This looks so awesome IRL.
Thanks for looking today and come back again soon. You have until Friday October 4th at Midnight to enter the challenge.
Happy Crafting
Barbara

Challenge #141 at The Drunken Stampers

Welcome to another Saturday challenge at the Drunken Stampers, team Yellow Canary invites you to join the challenge. This term it is Person, Place or Thing and challenge #141 is Person…..Bartender or anything pertaining to a bartender, fitting challenge for us isn’t it.

I had a lot of ideas running through my mind and had a couple of images to use, then I remembered a digi image from Bugaboo, it is perfect as you will see.

Supplies:
Image from Bugaboo digi Stamps (a Canadian company)
Cardstock…GP white, Cherry Cobbler
Paper from a Hero Arts Kissing pad
Accessories….Flowers and Rhinestones.
I coloured with prisma colour pencils and oms, distressed the edges and added the flowers. I am not one to do a lot of distressing but thought I would give it a go and it's not too bad. Now it’s your turn to get your craft on and see what you can come up with for “Bartender”. and add your project to the Drunken Stamper’s Challenge Blog, the challenge closes at midnight next Friday.
Cheers
Barbara

It’s Saturday! Time for a New Drunken Stampers Challenge

The challenges at The Drunken Stampers is PLACE and the place is Campsite or use wood grain print or elements.  It’s team Yellow Canary’s turn for the challenge, so if you haven’t already been to the Blog then head there and check out what the design team has to inspire you.  I’m sure you have read about all my problems with trying to create in two places, well this week I out-did myself. I had planned on making my card while at home last week…..I forgot my black ink at the cottage, so you say don’t you have two? Yes both were there. We headed to the cottage early afternoon, I made my card and Oh No! I had forgotten the camera. I took the picture with my playbook and sent it to myself, it took me a bit of time to figure that one out. On with the card that almost didn’t make it.

The stamp is used is from Stampscapes, I am not really good with these images but I really wanted to use it. I used my chalks to colour the image after I stamped it in Versafine Black Onyx.  My plans were to use a different oval cut but it just didn’t work. The card base is Early Expresso and the oval is cut in Crumb Cake that I stamped the wood grain background in Versafine Sepia. I used gold Dazzles thin line border stickers to accent the edges.
Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you will join team Yellow Canary for the Campsite/wood grain challenge.
Happy crafting

Drunken Stampers Challenge #137`~~~ Twine

The second challenge for team Yellow Canary…woohoo, the theme for this challenge is Thing……Twine, string or hemp.  Head over to the Drunken Stampers Challenge Blog to check out what the other Yellow Canaries have done to inspire you to join us for the challenge.
I used one of my favourite stamp company stamps….House Mouse Designs. I just purchased this stamp at the Butterfly Moon, my favourite stamp store. Check them out on their Facebook Page.

I coloured the image with prisma pencil crayons and oms. It is a fairly large image so not a lot of room to design on an A2 card. I had made the sailor’s knot for another project but decided it wasn’t quite what i wanted, Upon finding it in my odds and ends box I knew it was perfect for the challenge. I punched holes beside the pot and threaded the twine through, I added another scrap of twine to the button.
supplies
Stamp…..The Thinker featuring Amanda
Cardstock…..Crumb Cake, Old Olive, GP white
Patterned paper….DCWV Green Stack Pad
Accessories….button from the button jar, twine from the Dollar store
Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you take time to join us at the Drunken Stampers  for the challenge.

The Drunken Stampers last challenge of the term……..

Team Bahama Mamas have the last challenge of this term, I was intrigued by the theme from the get go and knew I wanted to join them (I’m a Midnight Margarita) and I haven’t jumped in on many of their challenges. So head over to the Drunken Stampers and get all the deets on the challenge and check out what the Bahama Mamas have done to inspire you. The movie is Enchanted or Fairytales, let’s see what you can come up with for the challenge.
I had this Sassy Studio Designs digi and knew I wanted to use it for the Drunken Stampers challenge as I thought she looked like the Queen in Snow white. What do you think?

Image….The sorceress from Sassy Studio Designs
Cardstock….GP white, Wisteria wonder and Elegant Eggplant
Accessories….Spellbinder die Resplendent Rectangles, pearls, EK border punch.
Thanks for stopping by to check out what I have been up to last week, and stay tuned for the next term of the Drunken Stampers. I will give you the “heads up” when the time comes.

It’s Saturday!!! And a new Drunken Stampers challenge

This is my last official challenge for my term at The Drunken Stampers but the good news is Spike is not tired of me yet and I can stay on for another term wahoo!!! Although I have not seen many of the movies it has been a blast. This challenge is Edward Scissorhands with the alternate theme of Sewing. Hop over to the challenge blog HERE to get all the rules on entering.

I went with the sewing theme and I used a sketch from Deconstructing Jen I love her sketches and have used them in the past too.

I used my favourite stamps……house mouse, I coloured with prisma pencils and oms, used large rectangles and I even dragged out my sewing machine to plain stitch the image to the scalloped rectangle. the disp I sewed to night of navy cardstock with the feather stitch, just love that one on a card. Added blue brads and some white ribbon and bow. ||the image was elevated with pop dots.
Thanks for having a peek at my blog today, come back any time and don’t forget to play along with the  challenge at The Drunken Stampers.

Drunken Stampers challenge #129 Hangover…the movie

Okay here I am again another movie I haven’t seen, not Hangover 1, or 2 and now Hangover 3 is in the theatre. So I went with a Las Vegas theme as it says in the challenge rules you will find at the Drunken Stampers challenge Blog. Check them out and join in the fun for the  Hangover challenge.

Here is my card for the challenge, as a lot of you know I am not one that likes to distress and boy is this one distressed. I bought the 3 TH card embossing folders at Scrapfest with the challenge in mind. I used the TH core’nations cardstock and sanded them, then took my handy, dandy scissors and distressed the edges, mounted them on a page from a stack pad, but you can’t see much of it. I then mounded it on a black base.

Thanks for checking my blog today and don’t forget to join the Midnight Margaritas for the “Hangover” challenge. Just click HERE to get all the information and check out the rest of the inspiration the crew has made.

Springbank Snow Countess

Well I hope I have peaked your interest and you will join the Midnight Margaritas and the Drunken Stamper challenge blog for the movie theme Porky’s or Farm Animals. To get all the information about the challenge head over to the Drunken Stampers Challenge Blog.   Now you are wondering about my title, well I hope you are. Well way back before you and I were born there was a Holstein cow that was honoured with producing the most butterfat over her lifetime. To read the article on our famous cow just click HERE  (it is a small article.) Guess you would like to see my card for the challenge, Again I have never seen the movie Porky’s so I went with the farm animal theme, my image is a digi from Bugaboo Stamps, it was one of their Friday Freebies. The company is Canadian, out of Saskatchewan, more information on the site I posted just click “about us”.

Supplies
Image….Bugaboo
Cardstock….GP White, turquoise
Accessories….Spellbinders large rectangles, flowers and brand from my never ending stash Tulip border embossing folder from SU.
Thanks for stopping by today and I will give you a couple of things to do, check out and join the challenge at the Drunken Stampers, Check out a great Canadian company, Bugaboo and lastly check out the link to the story of the Springbank Snow Countess another great Canadian.

Saturday Challenge #125 at the Drunken Stampers

Wow another week has flown by….why do they seem to go faster the older you get? The challenges at the Drunken Stampers are all about movies, some I have seen some I haven’t a clue about, this one was no exception so I googled it. The movie is UP, it is an animated film but I never saw it. I came up with an idea for the challenge and here is the finished project.

Of course I used one of my favourite critters, a house mouse hanging on to a balloon. I paper pieced the balloon with some patterned paper from a DCWV stack pack. Mounted it on blue cardstock embossed with a cloud embossing folder. I stamped and cut out a second mouse and attached on top to give dimension  Live, Laugh and Love are metal ovals, I love that saying and the laugh was appropriate for a funny movie.
Supplies
Image….from House Mouse Designs
Cardstock, Pacific Point, Bashful Blue and GP white
Ribbon….retired 1 1/4 inch striped ribbon
Words….from my stash
Thanks for stopping by today and don’t forget to check out the rules for the challenge at the Drunken Stampers challenge Blog. While you are there check out the great inspiration the design team has for you. I hope you will play along with us for the UP/Balloon challenge.

Design Team Throwdown….Leather and/or Lace

I can’t believe I entered into a throwdown but I had and idea and ran with it, well designed around it lol. To see all the entries check out the Drunken Stampers Challenge Blog and get more information on what the throwdown is about.
What I need you to do is head over to the Smeared and Smudged blog  Voting Starts: Thursday April 25 at 12:01 am Voting Ends: Friday April 26 at midnight, to vote you will have to sign up for the challenge blog but it is free.This is what I did for the throwdown.

The image is from Sassy Studio Designs, I coloured it with prismascolour pencils and odourless mineral spirits. Cut with my large and small circle spellbinder dies. I used Close to Cocoa & GP white cardstock. The background is Faux Leather, I put the cardstock in the tiny bubbles embossing folder and put it through the cuttlebug. I then covered it with versamark watermark and clear embossing powder then heated it (The tutorial is on Splitcoast Stampers).. I cut the white with an edgelit die from Stampin’up to look like lace.

Thanks for looking today……remember vote, vote, vote. Here is the link to go and vote starting Thursday midnight.

Challenge #124 at The Drunken Stampers

When I saw the challenge I was so hoping it belonged to my team but alas it  belongs to the Bahama Mamas, I had the perfect image for the challenge so I coloured it and made a card anyway, At least I knew what this movie was all about. Head over to the Drunken Stampers and check out the challenge and see what you can do with the movie, Twilight or creatures of the night. My image is from Sassy Studios, I live the images and they have some great ones.

Supplies: cardstock, GP White, Basic Gray, DSP from a DCW stack pack. coloured with prismacolor pencil crayons and oms. Spell binder die. Decorative labels 8. Forever was already on the paper. The oval rhinestones were coloured with a red bic marker.
While getting my card ready I mentioned to my grandson I was making a card about “Twilight” and he thought I meant one of the characters in My Pretty Pony and being a budding artist he drew me a few pictures for me to use. I couldn’t disappoint him so I scanned printed and coloured the image and made the card. Here is my Twilight Pony card.

Supplies: image drawn by Mackenzie, Cardstock, Night of Navy, Lavender lace, Accessories, offray ribbon, flowers and rhinestones. Designer paper from my huge stash.
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you will join in the fun at the Drunken Stampers challenge blog.

Welcome to another Saturday at the Drunken Stampers

Challenge time at the Drunken Stampers Challenge Blog, this week it is the Midnight Margaritas and the Movie theme is Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow or Steampunk. Here I am again I haven’t seen this movie either and I haven’t done much in steampunk either. I have been at a loss with what to do for a while but since I had a deadline I had to get working. After 4 false starts (good job there are two sides to each piece) I stamped my image and was happy with it. As most of my crafty friends know I am not really big on distressing things, I even clench my teeth together while roughing up the edges. Now I have told you my story I will let you see my card. I am interested in what you think of it.

Supplies

Images….Car and sentiment from TH Collection visual artistry, Pocket watches from PTC studios, Keys from Studio G.

Ink….Images Vintage sepia , distress inks Antique linen, Walnut stain

Cardstock….TH core’dinations SU early expresso and Very vanilla

Embossing folder….clockworks

Keys,  locks and the capped eyelet have been in my stash for years.

If you haven’t been to the Drunken Stampers Blog yet, head over there and see what the other Midnight Margaritas have done for your inspiration. Don’t forget to check out the rules and then get your thinking cap on and CREATE.