A is for Animals

 Hello and welcome to a new challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky stampers, Oh my word this blog post will be the death of me, my laptop is at the cottage (where I should be) and I am at home trying to work on a desktop that was bought with XP on it, windows 11 has tried to update it but I'm sure its a lost cause compounded tonight with my left hand keeps hitting the wrong keys. I also don't have Edna to show you the challenge prompt, I had enough trouble getting the photos on this dinosaur. So here we go with my very simple mini slimline card I will use as a money holder. 

When I realized I had misread the challenge I was at the cottage an it was the only animal image I had there was the moose, I printed it a year or two ago and I cannot remember the creator, The sentiment is from High Hopes a Canadian company (no longer in business) Patterned paper is from the Memory box.

Finished the inside with a scrap of patterned paper and a Hero Arts sentiment.  

Thanks for bearing with me and get your thinking caps on and show us your Animal projects.

It's Your Day!!

 Hello and welcome to my blog, it's a new month and a new challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers. June is the month of yummy farm fresh produce here in SWO, Asparagus is in full swing and the strawberries look and taste so good. Finally our weather has settled into more warm than cold and I'm finally getting to the cottage. Enough of my chit chat I'm handing the prompt announcement to Edna.

Edna and the team are waiting to see the fabulous rainbows from you.

Although I had lots of time to make a project I seem to like working under pressure and it seemed to take me forever to come up with a plan and executed it!!

I am very pleased with my decision to blend 7 distress oxide inks into a rainbow I think it turned out great, I used one of my large dies with the shadow which I cut out of the blended panel and added the black shadow behind it, I added the sentiment with the usual tilt. I framed the panel with black and added it to a yellow top fold base.

Finished the inside with a simple Happy Birthday stamp and a off cut from the front panel. 

Thanks for stopping by and check out the SoSS blog to see what the rest of the design team have made.

C is for Cheeky Christmas

 Oh my it's December? So it means a new challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers and as always the theme for December is C is for Cheeky Christmas. And here is some eye candy for you.

I had a bit of trouble coming up with a plan for this month as I'm still in a state of disorganization after the summer, stamp I wanted to use is MIA so on to the second choice the snarky cats, and there are so many to decide from but here is my mini slimline card which will be used as a money holder for Christmas.

I coloured and fussy cut the snarky cat on the sled and popped him up precariously on a snow hill, the sky was blended with distress oxide inks. The sentiment was also on the same set.

A side view to see the elevation, inside is not finished yet but will include a "fence" to hold the cash.

Thanks for visiting today and I'm sure you can come up with something a little more cheeky than I did. Do check out the SoSS blog and see what the rest of the design team have made. 

Spooky

 Hello and welcome to my blog and a new month, October and you know what that means...........witches and goblins, bats and ghosts so for the month of October the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers are helping you get some Spooky cards made, don't forget to read the updated rules on the main blog then add your creation to the gallery. Here is your invitation from Edna on our behalf.

Lee has outdone herself with this visual so we hope you will join the fun.

Here is my not very snarky offering, I had more plans but I haven't made the transition to crafting at home from the cottage and forgot the items I had planned on using but as you know every crafter does not have one idea she/he usually has many options so I found this cute Halloween cat set, coloured a couple (my markers came home) and decided this one looked a little more "Spookier", the sentiments are from the same set. First time using the 3D skull/web embossing folder, I'm already seeing more ideas for the folder.

Closer look at the EF and the Halloween cat.

I am adding this to:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge ~~ Anything goes

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to check out the SoSS blog and see what the rest of the design team has made.

Finally Fall!!

 Not that I had Fall to arrive so fast this year but we have to roll with the weather we are served. Here's hoping for a rerun of some summer. Challenge #266 at the Sisterhood is.........

I don't think Edna is appropriately dressed for leaf diving and I'm not ready either.

I hope you can join the challenge and adorn our blog with some Fall Leaves.

First time all summer I have had a chance to take a picture by the lake, I especially like when I take photos of my Holiday cards.

My card is made with an embossing folder on brown cardstock and I used the metallic wax set with my fingers all over using the red, green and copper. I added it to a holographic layer then I had to decide if I wanted a red or brown base and as you see the red one. 

On the inside I added a strip of holographic paper and a couple of leaves and a favourite sentiment stamp.

Thanks for stopping by and checking the new challenge at SoSS, don't forget to check out the blog and see the great leafy creations the design team have made. 

R is for Reindeer

 Hello crafty peeps and Happy New Year, I hope you had a great weekend and are ready to tackle the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers first challenge of 2023!!! 

Edna doing her best rendition of a Reindeer driver...is that Santa's hat she is wearing?

I went with a Bugaboo digital image I had already printed and made a mini slimline card, my card is 3 1/4 X 6 1/4 only because I have a box of envelopes that fit that size perfect (note to self ... not one cm larger either) Also on my card there is no snark, I did try but when I realized I needed one to put cash in for the great grands I figured snark was not necessary. Love this size for that reason, fits a cheque too, if you still have some. 

This digital set is so cute and can be used many ways, I can see a photo strip slimline card, I can see it used for selfies, now to remember this when any of those challenges come up. Patterned paper is from packs I bought last year at Dollarama and perfect size for a mini slimline at 6 1/2X 4 1/2.

Finished the inside with the 4th block in the set and some scraps of patterned paper.

Thanks for stopping by to see my first SoSS post and now head over to the MAIN BLOG and check out the great and snarky project of our design team and featuring one of our regular player who was crowned Queen, Stephanie. 

L is for Lindsey.

The Sisters wanted to honour our sweet, lovely Lindsey that recently lost her battle with and aggressive form of Ovarian cancer, it will be a very difficult post for me today. Lindsey was a fabulous crafter, her CAS cards were awesome, the stenciled cards were great and loved to make cards with Cats on them but always gave equal billing to Dogs. When choosing a card that inspired me I remembered one that I was particularly in awe of and it was a pair of CAS cards I saw on Addicted to Stamps and More challenge blog. Here was my inspiration.

I was so impressed with the blending for card 1, and the CAS of both. So here is my rendition of the cards using one of her favourite colours.

I made the first background and didn't like the pink/plum colour but looks fined behind the diecut white layer. The diecut was used on the second all shades of purple card. 

Closer look at card 1, I thought the sentiment appropriate.

Partially finished inside using scraps cut from the front layer.

Using the off cut of the flower die and the love as a peek-a-boo effect. I rounded the corners with the corner chomper and layered it o Blue, then on a white base. 

I would like to add this to two Lindsey tributes:

Seize the Birthday ~~ Special Tribute to Lindsey 

joining

Color Hues ~~ #46 A special tribute to Lindsey

these were her colour pick.

I chose Clean and Simple as it is something I rarely do I felt this was how I could honour Lindsey to the fullest as I was always in AWE of her designs. 

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you will join us at The Sisterhood Of Snarky Stampers for L is for Lindsey,

Here are a few of her favorite things:  

humour, cats

gardening/flowers

reading

crafting 

wine

tea

Up Yer Kilt!!!

Well we can never say there are boring challenges at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers  ~~ challenge #89 is U is for Up Yer Kilt. We want to see plaid on your card.  I use plaid a lot but usually for Christmas cards so I had to stretch my mind on this one.  I was pleased to acquire TH hipster stamps of course these stamps as well as the crazy birds are WAY out of my crafting technique but I used that age old spot on the computer called Google and found some inspiration.

I always think when in doubt Black and White is always vogue. .

Close up of the image. 

Finished the inside with a favourite "old" birthday stamp.

There you have it my off the wall card with a bit of snark, thanks for checking out my card today, you have until Friday August 4th at midnight to get your "up the kilt" projects in.  Head over to the SoSS blog, check the rules and see what the rest of the design team have made. 

Have a wonderful day!!!

I'm entering this in:
Tim Holtz ~~ get hip for summer

W is for Wine ~~~ The Reason for Living at The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers

Happy Saturday!!! Do you know what time it is? Yes it's time for a new challenge at The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers W is for Wine.....the reason for living.  I like a glass of white wine with dinner occasionally  my new favourite is an Ontario wine from Inniskillin Estate winery, it's a late autumn Riesling.  I found a great image at SLS lines just perfect for this challenge.

Since the challenge was wine I used the wine colour for the accents, the flowers were on my table, I don't even know why they were sitting there as they were the only flowers I brought with me to the cottage, So far so good this week I have had everything I have needed to craft, I keep finding more I might need here. 

Close up of the image

My little but of Snark on the inside.

I would like to enter this in:

SLS lines challenge Blog....use punches or dies

Thanks for stopping by today and we would love to see your W is for wine project on our challenge blog, Don't forget to check out what the design team has made for the challenge and I know there is "snark" running rampant there. Just click HERE.

D is for Dudes ~~~

The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers challenge is D is for Dudes ~~ make a Father's Day card or any masculine card/project. I'm always at a loss when making "guy" cards, don't want to add any frou frou stuff but they look so plain without some embellishments. This week we are at the cottage for the whole week, as soon as I start creating something  I realize what I forgot, I need to plan the cards better, I didn't bring sentiments with me except for a Christmas set...what a duh moment.  I did have the right colour cardstock with me even the patterned paper scrap I used. By the end of summer I will have 75% of my "stuff" here.

I used this Gus golfing image from Bugaboo Stamps and it even came with the slightly snarky sentiment. I also used the Stella Says Sketch from Catch the Bug Challenge blog.

Close up of Gus. As I said before I didn't bring sentiments for the inside of my cards or the Top Note die that I use to add the layer.

I would like to enter this in:

Catch the Bug challenge blog Stella Says Sketch.

Thanks for stopping by today and it's time to get that Father's Day card or any masculine card made and enter the challenge you might just become the Queen of Snark. 

V is for Vellum is the new Challenge at SoSS

And a challenge for sure for me, I had all sorts of ideas as there are so many things you can do with vellum but alas I was sort on time and ended with a very simple but nice card.

Base is Early Expresso the patterned paper is from a DCWV stack pack. I stamped the Friendship on the vellum with brown stazon added a heart brad and a glitter butterfly.

Now that little butterfly took so much time, the glitter paper is very heavy and I had to manually dig out all those little pieces,

Thanks for visiting today and you know you want to show off your projects using Vellum so hop over to the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers check out the rules and the rest of the design team’s projects you will be astounded with their creativity and snark too.