The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers Challenge #278 - L is for Leaves

Greetings, fans of snark! Over at The Sisterhood Edna and the gang are playing with leaves. Our delightful mascot, Edna, is taking a stroll through the woods and picking up a few beautiful things for the nature table!

We have Good Queen Anne on board and the sisters have created some fabulous Fall-themed cards to inspire and delight.

My card is full of squirrely fun! The squirrels who visit our garden always know when Autumn rolls around as they start grabbing and burying anything and everything. This drives my hubby to distraction as he's rather fussy about the lawn and borders.

The sweet leave die cuts were made using Impression Obsesssion Autumn Leaves and the 'sentiment' is from Funny Bones by Riley and Company. Both are oldies.

We'd all love you to come and join us! 

Jane's birthday card...

Isn't it soooo helpful when you go looking for inspiration and find a challenge that provides a perfect light bulb moment! A big thank you to the gals at AAA Birthday Card Challenge Game #83 for the creative nudge.

Here's what I made to play along...

I do love working with this big die cut from MFT - it just makes everything so easy! I thought it would be fun to add some die-cut kitties from Mini Cats by Impression Obsession and bingo, my card was made. 

I'm also going to link to SUYP Challenge #121 as I love this sweet little furry challenge.

Have a happy day, folks!

The Christmas Kickstart Challenge #104 - Just Add Antlers

 

Over at The Christmas Kickstart Challenge I'm delighted to welcome the very talented Vicki Ruta as our November Elf. I first 'met' Vicki when we were together on Dani's DT and I've been fan-girling her cards ever since. Please drop on over to the main blog to get to know Vicki and to see her card.

Here's the theme that Vicki has chosen for us...

Challenge #104 - Just Add Antlers!

Yes, it's time to Add Antlers to you cards! We think you can play this theme a few different ways and we'd love to see deer or whatever you think will benefit from the addition of antlers!

Here's what I created to get the party started. I do love this little Impression Obsession gal and her fabulous headwear and am so sad that this company no longer exists. We seem to be losing so many stamping companies lately, don't we. 

The background is from Darkroom Door who, I'm delighted to say, have moved to the UK and are still going strong. 

My second card for this challenge had to have a little surgery following a mishap with a snowflake. I'd spent ages working with this sweet image and so did a little die-cutting as a save.  He's heat embossed and looks good and glossy IRL.

Woodware Clear Magic Snowflake Reindeer

Our favourite reindeer dude, Rudolph, has a fun set on offer as his Random Raffle Prize for this month.

Vicki and I can't wait to see what you create for our challenge and really hope you'll share your antlers-added cards with us this month!

The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers - L is for Lindsey

This month the Sisterhood are celebrating the life of our much missed Sister, Lindsey. 

Lindsey passed away on July 21st, 2022, and the sistahs are taking this opportunity to send love to her husband, Burke, and to all of her family and friends. We're also sending head scritches and chin tickles to Lindsey's beloved cat, Duncan. It's hard to put into words just how much we all miss our our wise and witty friend. 

To honour her and celebrate her life, this month we invite you to create a project that was inspired by Lindsey. You'll find heaps of inspiration on Lindsey's blog or Instagram account to help you out.

Here's what I created for this memory challenge. I used Hero Arts Heart Flourish stamp and Impression Obsession Sketch Cat (currently at Summer sale price) and was inspired by this card made by Lindsey. I heat embossed the cat image as that was something that Lindsey did, and I have to say it's certainly added some oomph to the card. 

I miss you so much, Lindsey, and can only thank you for your friendship, and also for introducing me to the wonderful women who are The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers.

Card Chain Challenge - October 2021 Reveal

We have such a lovely Reveal on offer over at Card Chain Challenge this month.

We had 27 participants who exchanged cards, which brings our total number of cards exchanged thus far to 3,461. 

 

All the cards exchanged this month used at least one of the following options:

Colour Palette Option

(Exact matching is not required.)

Sketch Option

 

Theme Options: Transport / Shoes / Friendship

Product / Technique Options: Brads / Faux Stained Glass

I sent my card to fellow Brit Brenda, so it only had a short trip across the country to reach her. 

I broke out some watercolour card and stamped in blue Versafine so that I could heat emboss and then watercolour with Distress Inks. I really love these stamps from Impression Obsession. I can't find this quote in the store, so I guess it must be unavailable now.

I was delighted to receive this cheery, little beauty from Lia in the Netherlands.

Why not join our chain of friendship and fun? There's still a few days in which to sign up for our November Challenge. 

The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers - P is for Paper Piecing

The sistahs have been having a great time creating cards for our newest challenge: P is for Paper Piecing!

I have to admit that I love paper piecing. I know it's not as fashionable as it was, but it gives such cute, fun results and I was happy to utilise some scraps of DP to play along. I've used older stamps for my card and unfortunately, neither of them appear to be available. 

Similar stamps to the coffee loving gal can be found at Art Impressions Hot Java, but I've yet to spot anything similar to Impression Obsession Smell the Coffee, which is such a pity as it's a great set.

I hope you'll come and play along with us!

The Christmas Kickstart Challenge #23 - SNOW!

We have a new challenge, and another fabulous elf on board over at The Christmas Kickstart - it's the lovely Rebecca from Mellymoo Papercrafting!

Rebecca is my go-to Stampin' Up! person as well as a long term blogging buddy and I'm delighted that she agreed to wear the elf hat for this challenge.

So, what challenge do we have on offer for the next two weeks? It's...

Challenge #23 - SNOW!

Whether it's snowflakes, snow balls, snowmen, a light sprinkling or a raging blizzard we'd love to see your cards featuring the stuff we either love or hate!

My first card features for this challenge a gorgeous image from Impression Obsession I stumbled across earlier in the year. She's called 'Oh Dearie Girl' and is the work of Lindsay Ostrom. I love her illustrations and have to admit that there is a Nordic Wreath stamp calling my name very, very loudly right now! I created the background with twinkly embossing powder and Distress Inks. The stencil is from Newton's Nook and is 'sans packaging'.

Card #2 took ages to come together. I tried a several different ways of using that gorgeous Stamplorations die, but none of them seemed right. Then I thought 'white on white' with a 'pop' of red and everything fell nicely into place!

Rudolph is here again and this time he's got a beary big stamp on offer as his Random Raffle Prize.

This gorgeous guy is from Woodware and is a whopping, card-front-filling 9cm tall. He's just lovely.

I really hope that you'll come and play along with Rebecca and I for this fun challenge... Christmas is coming and those cards won't make themselves...