A is for Aliens

 For the month of August we are delving into outer space and Aliens at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers.

Beam Edna up Scottie

For the second Alien challenge I have not located my alien stamps so I went the second option a Galaxy.

I made the galaxy background with blending shades of distress oxide inks an then using an IO stamp inked with yellow brilliance ink for the milky way, the sentiment is from a SU set long retired. It was fussy cut and popped up.

Thanks for rocketing by today and check out the rest of the design team projects, especially the mini books.

It is a Dark and Moonlit Night.............

 My great grandson's 12th Birthday is today and he loves wolves, now it's not something I would make for a 12 yo but in this case it was perfect. His mom messaged me that he loved it and said "Whoa Grandma is talented" well that made my day. 

I made a galaxy background and also used Distress Oxide  for the moon.  The wolf is from Gina Marie Designs and I think I might have used it before but I'm not sure, the evergreen line is new and it's the first time cutting with it. The main image was cut out of black foam core. As you see there is no sentiment on the front, it was too nice to add one.

I finished the inside with a couple of scraps of silver paper and some trees,  and a favourite sentiment along with the happy birthday from stampin'up.

I would like to enter this in:

Cardz 4 Guyz ~~ #266 for a Teenager 

Happy Little Stampers ~~ Anything goes with Dies

Well I can cross the first masculine card off my list for this year, only 6 to go, every year I seem to struggle with what did I make last year, this year they are going in a folder so I can see what I made.  It's so much easier to make girlie cards.

Thanks for stopping by today and have a fantastic week. Stay safe.

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Happy Little Stampers April ATC Challenge is live!!!

Wow I can't belive we are in April already, it's a beautiful day, sunshine and some warmth is in the books for today. Unfortunately we have to look at it from our homes, so many more businesses are being relagated to on-line and pick up at the store. I just tried to manouver a site and gave up it was very discouraging, I'm really not out of anything, I took three separate days, 7 a.m. three different stores and got almost everything I needed. The good thing is I have more time for crafting.  Well on to the Happy Little Stampers April ATC challenge.

There you are the challenge is make your own background.  I'm not really big on making my own background I'm not very proficient with stencils, paste, sprays or anthing mixed media related but I do like to make galaxy backgrounds which works well with some cute little alien monsters.

The aliens were coloured with spica glitter pens and cut out with the accompanied dies, I also cut three more "aliens" and layered them o it popped them up on the 2 1/2 X 3 1/2 base. added a scattering of tiny sequins (I am so sequin challenged) and a sentiment. 

First is my "greeter" coloured him like Mikey.

I picked smile for her sentiment because she has a big smile .

Laugh because he needs a good tickle. 

Now this guy is just FUN!!

There you have my ATCs that I made my own background, now it's your turn to join in and make your own background and post it for the HLS April ATC Challenge. Now for more   awesome handmade backgrounds check out the Main Blog.

Z is for Zaphod Beeblebrox

So happy to be able to find time to make a card for the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers, As I said before I was having trouble coming up with something for theme until it was too late to make it. this time I had an idea and ran with it. I googled the theme and came up with nothing but anything space related will work so it's aliens and a galaxy background, and to my astonishment it's pretty CAS for me.

I bought these super cute aliens and dies from a friend, I knew they would come in handy one day. I made the background when I was at the lake last week and decided I liked it without the black soot layer. It was much prettier to go with those adorable aliens.

Close up of the adorable alien.

The sentiment came with the stamp set, and is perfect.

Thanks for stopping by today and checking out my card, head over to the Main Blog there are many more really cute Z is for Zaphod Beeblebrox cards on display.

W is for Winter at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!!!

W is for Winter at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers, Edna want to see some Winter cards I'm sure that's easy, I send a lot of Winter cards as I am usually late mailing so they can't say Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays or Seasons Greetings so they need to be snow/winter cards.

Look at Edna all bundled up in the middle of a snowstorm, Lee has done a fabulous job of our graphics, and I hope you will add them to your blog post when you enter.

I have not made many Snowman cards this season, I suppose this is going to be what I'm making for the next little while. I did a galaxy background, I left the black soot off as I really liked the look I had already. Toto our kitten saw me picking through the box with the oxide inks and decided she was helping me, (not really much help) I made a white frame with the wonky stitched die. Although you can't see it I flicked touch of stella ink on it.  The super cute snowman is from the Lindsay Ostrom collection at Impression Obsession.  I think he is the cutest little guy. 

Close up of the little guy, 

Finished inside using a Stampendous cling sentiment and the same die as I used on the front.

I am entering this in:

Sweet Stampin' Challenge Blog ~~ Snowmen/ladies

Thanks for joining me here today and head over to the MAIN BLOG  to see the rest of the Winter cards from my teamies.

M is for Monster

The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers invites you to play along with M is for Monster!!!  

For this challenge I made an Artist Trading Card with the thought I would make it into a Birthday card for my hubby, I'm hoping to do this on Monday, Artist Trading Cards are fun they are 2 1/2 X 3 1/2 inches and are never sold, they can be given away and traded. I've been in a few swaps and have a binder with "sports" trading card holders to house all the swaps and the odd ones I make just for fun and challenges. I found this cute monster on pinterest when I searched monsters.

I saved what I thought was a failed galaxy background and  it worked great for my background, I layered it on silver then on black. "monster" was coloured with copics and fussy cut. The sentiment is computer generated. 

Closer look at the atc and the sentiment I think it's perfect for my hubby.

Thanks for joining me here today and head over to the MAIN BLOG and check out the 

Snarky FAQ. (especially no more than 10 other challenges and please add our grapic when you link up your project.)

 then check out the rest of the monster cards/tags/ATCs

Jingle Belle's Challenge ~~ Take Two of a Colouring We Will Go.

I'm back again with my second card, both my cards I have had the ideas since the challenge was announced February 9th.

For this card I used what I thought was a failed galaxy background which was left over from the Galaxy challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers (you have until Friday at 11.59 p.m.to enter) You will have a real good chance for the Queen of Snark and no snark required.  For the background I used three shades of blue distress inks and Black soot. The snowman was coloured with copic markers.  This is an Easel card but didn't take a picture of it as an easel.

This is the card opened, I used white enamel dots from the Eyelet Outlet store.

The spellbinders dies I used are Labels 8 and Fancy labels 8

I added the sentiment to the back of the easel card.

I am entering this in:

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ A  colouring we will go

Happy Little Stampers ~~ Christmas anything goes (no twist)

Thanks for visiting today and have a fabulous week!!