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.

L is for Lindsey

Two years have passed since Lindsey lost her battle with Clear Cell Ovarian Cancer she is still in the thoughts of her many friends and fellow crafters. Lindsey was just a text away if I had a crafting block .  So for this challenge it was difficult to just pick one thing so I picked a few, one trying to use my color burst, then I'm not good at CAS but gave it a go, next a cat and a snarky one. I hope I have made her smile.

I still have not figured out why my laptop won't work with my camera, I can eject the card but it won't open my photos to import my pictures. 

I cut the oh s#&t out of metallic poster board, popped it up on the sad attempt with color  burst powders, then coloured the snarky cat gray [Duncan approves so Lindsey would say), fussy cut and popped him up on the  computer generated sentiment.

Close up of the cat and sentiment.

Due to my hand surgery I missed my "middle" grandson's birthday so this is his card.

I will add this to 

Seize the Birthday    anything goes.

The Male Room ~~ Animals

Head over to the MAIN BLOG and check out what the rest of the design team have made.

C is for Critters

 Another two weeks has sped by and the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers has a new challenge and who better to announce the theme but Edna!!

Look at Edna in her animal print surrounded by CRITTERS.

Here is what I was inspired to make.

I decided to go with a Holiday card as I seem to be falling behind on my plan for making at least 5 per month and the Jingle Belles challenge was a perfect place to get my idea for a card.  I made a mini slimline card which measures 3 1/4 X 6 1/4 it seemed the perfect size for one snaky coffee toting cat. I fussy cut the image and the present flat attached the present and his feet but popped the ret of the image.

Finished the inside with ha Hero Arts sentiment.

I am adding this to:

Jingle Belles Rock Challenge ~~ A (Masculine) Caffeinated Christmas.

Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge ~~ Masculine

Thanks for stopping by today and check out the MAIN BLOG and see what critters the rest of the team has chosen to feature.

SOS#489 Love is in the Air

 Now is the time to get those Valentine cards made since the new challenge at Shopping Our Stash is Love is in the Air, now if you don't make Valentines there are other options like Wedding or Anniversary. I decided to make a "Sheetload" using the January 2023 instructions from Crafty Al, if you subscribe to her you tube channel and ring the bell you can download the PDF for free. I had never done anything like this before but it was easy to follow.

This was the test card just to see if everything worked. The instructions made 8 mini slimline cards with two pieces of 12 X 12 patterned paper and 8 pieces of 8 1/2 X 11 cardstock. I stamped, coloured and fussy cut 8 snarky cats added a metallic heart and the sentiment is computer generated. Look I'm in the 21st century LOL.

Close up of the snarky cat.

Finished the inside with a favourite sentiment that is generic 

I went on to make 7 more cards the recipients have hopefully received them by now. The Sheetload instructions make 8 mini slimline cards, 4 of each of 2 designs and if you use double sided coordinating patterned paper you would get 2 of each. Here ar the two designs.

The patterned paper is from a 12 X 12 paper pad I bought hmmm 3 or 4 years ago at Dollarama for $4. I like to use the 100 pound cardstock from Michaels for the bases but you have to have the force of the Hulk to crease it. The shiny hearts we cut from scraps.

Here are the 8 mini slimline "Galentine's Day" cards which by the way is February 13th.

The stash I used was mostly from before the pandemic the newest item was the sheetload skeetch. 

Thanks for stopping by today and head over to the MAIN BLOG and check out what the rest of the team have made, then dig in your stash and make us some "love" cards. 

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All Things Tim

 Hello and welcome to the June A Tiny Craft Challenge, the theme is All Things Time ( or similar style if you don't have any of his "stuff" in your stash) 

First I gathered some Tim Holtz stencils and one odd stencil that was on the table. I used Distress Oxide inks and brushes to blend the colours over the stencils (remember I'm not very good with them) I also used the sentiments that come with the Snarky Cats, I layered them on black cardstock.

And now a closer look at each one .

The back ground is a bubbles stencil (non TH) I added a die cut balloon as the sentiment suggested birthday.

The background of this one is from a 3 piece set of TH tag stencils I've had for a long time and I used the new distress oxide ink Saltwater Taffy.

Background was made with a full size TH stencil Splatters (looked like coffee rings to me) 

Another of the trio of tag stencils from TH for the background. 

Bonus ATC

The background is the 3rd of the trio of tag stencils, I needed to use it as it went right along with the sentiment and of course the Snarky Cat. 

I'm adding this to:

ATC Around the World ~~ #90 Circles

Happy Little Stampers ~~ June  Stencil Challenge.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you give these little works of art a try they are fun to make. I invite you to stop by the Main Blog and see the rest of the TH style ATCs the team has made.