O is for Ombre

 Hello there my crafty friends and not so crafty ones too, Happy you can join the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers for a NEW challenge, I will give Edna the honour of introducing the theme.

Now there are many ways to create an Ombre project and the Design team has created many of them for your inspiration. For my mini slimline card I chose to make an ombre background.

4 distress oxide ink were used to make my ombre background, I wanted a tranquil look for the yoga cat, I kept colouring to a minimum with a couple of grey shades and used the Namaste to ground him  while he is doing a modified tree pose.

close up of the sentiment on the front and now the piece de resistance ..... 

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to check out the different Ombre techniques the rest of my teamies have done. 

B is for Birthday

Summer is winding down and my time at the lake will be put on hold for the winter, it's nice to have a change of scenery for the summer and I love taking the pictures down at the break wall. Well this week I didn't get done in time to use the lake as a backdrop, in fact I think I left my camera there and I have no recollection of packing or not packing it. I have been toting a bag of things back and forth so when the end of September (I have to close early this year) comes I won't have 5 boxes of supplies there. I still haven't managed to make up kits to take so I have everything I need as this past trip I took Christmas patterned paper pads but nothing to make the birthday card with. Without further adieu here is the challenge graphic.

Edna is celebrating a birthday and I'm sure the ginger kitty has been licking the icing.

It's a rather busy background but taking pictures with my camera and then sending them to myself was very stressful, by the time I saw the picture I just couldn't do it over for a third time. Of course I used my AI girlfriends and a sentiment from a set of snarky birthday sentiments which has no label. Patterned paper is from Dollarama as well as the floor planks, I added a white strip to look like a baseboard. 

Finished the inside with scraps of leftover papers and a sentiment.

I'm adding this to:

Seize the Birthday ~~ Anything goes

Thanks for stopping by and head over to the MAIN BLOG to check the rules for entering and to see what projects the rest of the team have made. 

Challenge #187 T is for Texture

 Hi!! thanks for tuning in to the latest challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers and for your viewing pleasure here is Edna all texturized via Sistah Lee.

I only wish I was this good. 

Here is my offering.

First what a comedy of errors, I had everything almost done when I was at the cottage last Monday, I didn't have skin tone copics with me, so when I got home to finish the card all was good, until I found out I had no camera with me,  so got ready to use my phone and found out, even though I kept telling myself to glue the embossed panel the right way I didn't, so fortunately I had a second one I really deemed a fail but had to use it anyway, This was a Jennifer Maguire technique to sand the matte metallic paper but I got carried away with this one which is why I said fail. At least it had Texture. 

I used my favourite AI girlfriends and the sentient too, which is why it looks better with water drops instead of balloons lol.

Finished the inside with a scrap of the metallic paper and a sentiment from the snarky set.

Thanks for visiting today and don't forget to check out the MAIN BLOG and see what the rest of the Sistahs made. 

You are My Besht Friend

Doesn't Edna look so jazzy in her animal print dress thanks Lee for the awesome grapic.

Time for a new Challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers....A is for Animal, I went a bit smaller with my animal and you get a two-fer!!!

Several years ago or longer I found a box of note cards at Winners for $5.99 and thought one day they would work for a challenge, there are 5 cards each of 4 designs. Because the paper is shiny it was a tad difficult to colour  

Closer look at the image

As I said it's a two-fer so here is another of the cards that  I altered.

I guess the picture says it all,  I did some colouring on this one as well and added te nuvo drops (don't look too close I'm still a novice)

Close up of the image I think they look like I would if that was my icecream but it wouldn't be strawberry......it's Chocolate all the way.

I'm entering this in:

Show us your Pussycats challenge ~~Furry Thing Goes

Thanks for stopping by today and stay tuned I will have two more for you next Saturday see you again next weekend. 

Don't forget to check out the MAIN BLOG and see the animals the rest of the Sistahs have made.

Zoom Meeting?

 Hello and welcome to a new challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers.....Z is for Zoom Meeting, since zoom meetings seem to be the on trend thing these days we decided to jump on the pandemic bandwagon and highlight them. 

I picked a favouite snarky AI girlfriend for my image as she looked like she had lots to say at a Zoom Meeting. I see I missed a spot of "hair colour" must fix that before it goes in the mail.

Now for the TIP

I can thank Pinterest for the sentiment and then I computer generated it. 

I am adding this to:

Color Hues ~~ Challenge #13 Blue and Yellow (I like this combo)

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to head over to the MAIN BLOG and check out the hilarious zoom meeting cards.

F is for Friends at The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers

This fortnight at the Sisterhood of Snarky stampers we are celebrating Friends we all have one that is there with you through thick and thin, available to cry on their shoulder when something goes wrong. How many still have a friend that you went to school with and you are still friends?  I do and I have my snarky sisters that even though we don't live close they have come to my rescue many times.

Well the only way to go is with one of my Art Impressions Girlfriends 

Love this stamp it just reminded me of what friends do (besides enable with wine) giggle and have fun. I added the friend stamp tediously added the s (took a lot of practice runs)  Kept the design feminine and simple with Elizabeth Craft Designs Dies.

A close up of the image.

Of course I had to use one of my sort of snarky sentiments. I will probably add Happy Birthday sne send it to one of my "friends".

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to check out the Main Blog and see what the rest of the design team have made.

O is for Ocean at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers

Here I am a week late for the challenge, it's been a comedy of errors trying to get this one done,  I have worked on it for days it seems, I went to put it together on Friday and I had used the Ocean background intended for this card, I had to make a new one, well you know it needs time to dry and at the lake where it is humid it took over 12 hours to dry.  So with that done this morning I started early and got the card done guess what.......no internet, no phone line either. Neighbour called Bell it will be Wednesday, (never mind what I'm thinking) I called the internet provider, said the wait time was 45 minutes so left my number to call back, two hours later I phoned them back, not very happy. You would think this was my first rodeo by the way she talked to me, anyway long story short appointments made for NEXT weekend (had trouble with her accent) and when I heard $175.00 charge I cancelled the two or three appointments I think I might have had.  Got busy and fixed it myself. By then it was well after 3, so now I'm ready to show you my Ocean card.

Last week I coloured and fussy cut the images sadly one crab had a bit of an accident which I have ingeniously covered up and the eye surgery worked too.  I'm rather impressed with this ocean background it's much better than the original. 

The sentiment was the genius from one of my sistahs and stamped with a timy alpha from Studio G.

Close up of the slightly snarky sentiment (thanks Lindsey)

The look of astonishment one the other ocean critters is priceless.

Thanks for stopping by today and looking forward to your ocean creations you have until Friday at 11.59 to enter at The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers.

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.

The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers is going RETRO.....

R is for Retro

R is for Retro at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers, lots of choices for the challenge and if you check out the rest of the design team projects you will see how diverse it is.  I decided to go back to the age back when I was born to the Black and White era. Photos were all in black and white, t.v. was black and white (in the 50's).  Now people are taking their coloured photos and haveing them done in....you guessed it, Black and White.

The stamp is from Riley & Company, Wonderin Midge and the sentiment is from Art Impressions and seemed rather appropriate for the image. The background paper reminded me of the wallpaper in the apartment Mom and I lived in way back in the 50's, except it was green. 

Close up of the sentiment and it ws cut with speech bubbles dies from Stampin'up.

Finished inside with some leftover paper and a sentiment from the $2 bin at Michaels.

Thanks for joining me here today and head over to the main blog and see the Retro projects the rest of the design team have made. 

K is for Kids at The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers.

For the next fortnight its K is for Kids at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers. Of course being a snarky bunch it's not all about the "kids". Have a look at what the rest of the Design Team have made you will be surprised.  I knew immediately I had to use a Dolly Mama stamp, I don't use them often and they are borderline snarky, almost subliminal so that being said here is what I made.

As I said a Dolly Mama stamp, coloured with copics and spica glitter pens, die cut with the spellbinders long rectangles. Patterned paper is from a Project life pad (like the smaller images on it) And the paper looks much better now that the birds are not on their heads.  

Stamped an extra sign fussy cut it and popped it up. 

finished the inside with one of my few vertical sentiments and some leftover paper.

I'm entering this in:

Seize the Birthday ~~ Toppings ~~ A touch of Green.

Thanks for visiting today and head over to the Main Blog and check out the hilariously funny snarky projects the rest of the design team have made.  Since most of us are "at home" now is your chance to get your "craft on" and make us a K is for Kids card. 

Base it on a Book!!!

Hello friend, family and followers I hope you commented last challenge for a chance to win a prize celebrating Christmas in July, my winner will be posted.

A new challenge is up and running at Shopping Our Stash....Inspired by a book, wow so many books to pick from. Of course I'm at the cottage and had forgotten to check the list before I came so I had to use the supplies I had on hand, lucky for me I have 75% of my dies here and managed to come up with something that was inspired by a book....and here it is.

I was inspired by "The Great Gatsby" written in 1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Of course my first inspiration was looking through the box of dies and spotting the lady die and then looking to see what it would fit. I have never used the die and it is probably 1 1/2 years in my possession. The background die is about the age but has been used once. Hello die gets the most use. 

I die cut the fashionista in cream then in black, a few snip, snips and layered them on the cream image. The shoes were coloured with a marker. Added the rhinestone necklace for bling.

I'm really fond of this large Hello die, the set included Thanks and Smile, might be one more but not sure as it isn't with them. 

Finished the inside with a great Stampendous sentiment, I thought it matched the front quite nicely.

Thanks for visiting today and head over to the Main Blog and check out what books the rest of the design team have picked.