Shopping Our Stash: Sticker Lion..

Hey,

Happy Monday!

Hope you had a good weekend?

I am starting the week off with another challenge entry, I had an epic challenge playtime at my desk on Saturday.

I was lucky enough to get a top 3 spot over at Shopping Our Stash from one of their recent challenges, which was a nice surprise. I love their current theme 'Stuck on You' - use your stickers!

I have been saving the awesome Lion sticker, for something, I was never sure what and then SOS came along with this challenge and I felt it was time for him to shine.

I bought a random pack of Project Life stickers ages ago on sale and I have used quite a few of them, but most are just sitting around needing a home..

I die-cut x2 panels using scalloped, dotted, stitched rectangle dies from The Works in London. I went with a yellow palette as I felt it coordinated nicely with the Lions crown.

I stamped part of the sentiment onto the yellow panel and the other part I stamped into the speech bubble and fussy cut it out. The sentiments and the speech bubbles are both by Avery Elle (Rawr and Speech Bubbles sets).

He came together so well and it makes me so happy to see the sticker finally on a card.

Cx

Shopping Our Stash: Under the Sun, Moon and Stars..

Hey,

So, my Retro Rubber teammate, Maria is DT over at Shopping Our Stash and I saw her card, so I went to check out the challenge.

They have a theme of Sun, Moon, and Stars.

I knew exactly which stamp set I was going to use and I am 100% embarrassed to say that this beautiful set 'Late Nights' by Pink Fresh Studio (retired) has been owned by me since 2017 and had not seen ink until Thursday night..

I really didn't have to do much, the stamps are so beautiful, they just pop off the card and don't need to be over-embellished. I love all of the details in the stamp and the smiling moon is lovely.

I made x2 cards because the set was out and I have ALWAYS wanted to play with it, but just kept neglecting it.

I used Altenew Starlight ink - love Altenew inks.

I die-cut navy cardstock as a mat, so the white stamped panel would pop even more.

Can't lie, I am feeling super pleased with myself at how gorgeous these are. I hope the stamp set will forgive me for the terrible neglect.

Lockdown can be a wonderful thing..

Cx

Message in a Bottle...

Hey,

I recently managed to get my hands on a second-hand Stampin' Up set 'Message in a Bottle'.

I've been doing this more and more, to try and keep my craft expenditure down and it's also nice to 'shop someone else's stash' LOL.

This is my first card using the set and I love it!

I thought it was a perfect fit for the current Shopping Our Stash challenge - Mythical & Magical.

I stamped the bottle first, then added the mermaid and masked off the edges of the bottle, so I could add a little bit of water 'in' the bottle.

The sentiments are also from the set.

I die-cut it using Lil Inkers wonky stitched dies and did the same with the already embossed and coloured anchor panel (which has been staring at me for weeks). No idea where the anchor embossing folder is from, probably Darice or Sizzix, I have a lot of embossing folders by them.

Simple card for one of the many mermaids in my life.

Cx

Shopping Our Stash: No Ink...

Hey,

Happy Good Friday,

I saw Lauren Bergold's card for the current Shopping Our Stash challenge and I was intrigued by the idea of no ink!!

I mean, no ink at all, no markers, no ink pads, no sprays, etc...

So I decided to rise up to the challenge and shop my stash to make a card.

The starting point for my card was the awesome Llama sticker from Michael's, I bought it a while ago and it's just been sitting on my desk staring at me!

Also on my desk were 3 scraps of paper that I also used on my card - the lilac strip, a pink piece (Happy die) and a green piece (Birthday die).

I embossed a piece of turquoise paper using a leaf embossing folder - also from Michael's - to use as the central piece of my card.

I love the crazy, bright, weird card I ended up with.

I am betting whoever I send it to is going to be a little bit surprised by it's craziness.

Have a great weekend.

Cx

Awesomesauce...

Hey,

Happy Friday..

Happy for me as I have Monday off, so I can hang with Ma before she heads to Philly and we hook up again next weekend..

Today I am playing along with this week's Shopping Our Stash challenge 'Say What?!'

I have had the Dachshund stamped (by Scraptastic Club) and sitting on my desk for a couple of weeks now, so I decided to colour him and use him finally!!

Anyone that knows me knows that Awesomesauce is a most overused word in my world.. So I couldn't resist using it here - it's from a cute TAWS set that had not seen ink yet..

I mounted the Dachshund panel onto a spotted Lawn Fawn card blank and voila! completed card.

I am super pleased with it and the fact that I finally used what has been lurking on my desk.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Cx

Dressing up...

Hey,

Happy Sunday.

This week has been a fun week of challenge entries and so what better way to end the week than with another challenge entry :)

I really liked the theme over at Shopping Our Stash this week - It's always a bridesmaid - use a dress or dressform.

I have these amazing Spellbinders dress dies, that I overused and have sadly been neglected for a while, so it was a perfect excuse to bring them out of hiding.

I also have lots of scraps from a Lawn Fawn 'Let's Polka in the Meadow' paper pack that I thought would work well with the dress.

I layered the papers and the dress together and felt it was missing something, so I used a notepaper die from Clearly Besotted on a piece of grid scrap paper that was on my desk, suddenly it all worked together.

I secured everything with staples - big and small ones.

The sentiment is a SSS stamp and a die-cut birthday that was on my noticeboard (it's been there for MONTHS), so another great use of old stash elements..

I added a bit of bling to finish it off and now I am happy :)

A great card to add to my personal birthday card stash..

Cx

Go paperless..

Hey,

So I am really liking the Shopping Our Stash challenge right now, the themes are fun and are working with my stash :)

This week the theme is 'Go Paperless' so no patterned papers.

I took the opportunity to break out my new Kaleidacolor rainbow ink pad in Spectrum - it is awesome and brings new life to my stamps..so much so that I have ordered 5 more pads in different tones..

Once again another super simple make from me - 2 stamps and an inkpad!! I think that is a record even for me.

The flower is by Penny Black and the sentiment is by Clearly Besotted.

Cx

Double challenge...

Hey,

Happy Friday.

I am currently off for a few days, I have some friends in town and I also wanted to spend some QT at my desk..

My card today is a double challenge entry - I am still easing myself back into challenges gently!

The Shopping Our Stash and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenges worked really well together I felt.

Shopping our Stash this week is caffeine fix and SSS is wrap it up.

I dug out the great SSS Oct 2014 card kit and used paper, a stamp and a die from the kit. The twine is by Lawn Fawn and the bright pink button is from my stash.

Really simple card. Once again I am loving simple right now.

Tonight my friend Denise arrives from San Diego and we are off to class at The Inkpadnyc - where the lovely Cheiron is teaching.

Whoop whoop - starting the weekend right.

Cx

Wooden it be nice..

Hey,

Happy Saturday!!

Its pretty rainy and windy here in NYC due to Hurricane Joaquin, perfect excuse to stay in and play at my desk.

I came across the Shopping Our Stash challenge during the Summer when I was on a challenge hiatus..but that is over now, so this is my first time playing along.

The theme for this week's challenge is 'Wooden it be nice' - essentially use wood on your project.

The minute I saw it, I thought 'Now I can use that pair of glasses that have been sitting on my desk for 4 months...'

I thought they would go really well with the Hippo from an Avery Elle stamp set (Hipsterpotomus) and I think I was right :) I coloured the hippo using Promarkers and added the glasses using UHU.

The sentiment is from the small talk set by Mama Elephant.

I decided to keep him nice and CAS.

I love him, I can't wait to send him to someone and its given me some ideas about some other wooden items hiding in my stash.

Cx