Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers #197

 

Lee always comes up with the best graphics for the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers challenges and today is one of my favs.  

I have three small dogs and an acre of property so we take my chances with our own poo BUT I never fail to pick up after my dogs when off my property.  Fortunately most of my neighbors are equally as considerate.  Let this post also serve as a PSA.  :-)

On to my card....

Cute, right?  

I decided on a surprise approach to rudeness.  

I've seen many cards recently that have used this same sentiment and decided it was about time I did so myself.  I'll just have to be considerate about my choice of birthday recipient.

To create my card I first stamped, colored and fussy cut my kitty.  If you're familiar with this image you may recognize that I swapped out his Christmas mug for a generic tea cup.  Next I set about determining the inside placement of Sir Kitty along with the window placement on the card front.  Once I figured out the design I set about ink blending a background on the interior of the card as well as stenciling a brick pattern on the front.  The window was finished off in black with a white ledge.  I positioned the sentiment sticker below the window so that it would only be visible once the card was opened.  Would you be offended to receive this wonderful handmade card?

Supplies:

Simon Says Stamp/Stampers Anonymous - Tim Holtz cat set from Stamptember 2020

Gina Marie Designs - Window die

Tim Holtz - Big Talk sticker book

MFT - English Brick Wall stencil

Ellen Hutson - Mini Voices in my Head stamp set (tea cup)

I invite you to visit our blog for more fabulous inspiration.  You've been given free reign to embrace your inner rudeness so come play along!

Continue to stay safe and healthy my friends.   _____________________________________________________________________________

Thank you for visiting my little crevice of the crafty blogosphere.  Your time, comments and friendship are much appreciated.  

Happy Crafting!

Jules 

Seize the Birthday #226

The gang over at the Seize the Birthday blog are back with a new prompt for this fortnight.  Colleen is asking us to create a birthday card with a sunset scene.  

I made a tremendous boo-boo on the design of this card.  I'm sure it's obvious but I wasn't about to start over again.  Let me know in the comments if you catch my error.

I began by die cutting the background so I could get a visual on my color placement.  Keeping the pieces together I masked off the background with a open circle mask to blend in my sun.  I then masked off the sun to ink blend the sunset sky and ground. I ink blended the die cut car in black to create a silhouetted look.  The sentiment is stamped in crisp black pigment ink and it continues into the inside of the card.  I popped the panel up before adhering it to a beige card base.  

I invite you to visit our blog for more inspiration from our fabulous designers.  We'd love to see your card in our gallery!

Supplies:

Ellen Hutson - Abstract Mountain die

Cottage Cutz - Cars and Moving Truck die

Avery Elle - Simple Sentiments stamp set

Continue to stay safe and healthy my friends.   _____________________________________________________________________________

Thank you for visiting my little crevice of the crafty blogosphere.  Your time, comments and friendship are much appreciated.  

Happy Crafting!

Jules 

Color Hues #28

 

The new color duo over at the Color Hues challenge blog 

has a very old fashioned Christmas vibe to it. 

I briefly thought about making something other than a holiday card but why buck the trend, right?

To create my card I first stamped the truck and tree onto some vintage-y patterned paper which I then fussy cut.  Patterned paper was also used to create the snowbank and border.  I used a snowfall stencil along with some glimmer paste to create the background onto a kraft panel.  I should have stamped the sentiment first but I wasn't thinking.  Fortunately the pigment ink covered the glittery snowfall with no problems.  I then assembled my card onto a kraft card base and added some Stickles to the ornaments as a finishing touch.

I always enjoy playing with the Color Hues crew.  If you haven't played along, I encourage you to check them out.  

Supplies:

Stampendous - Truck Stamp CLD01

MFT - Snowfall stencil

Stickles

Tonic - Moonstone glimmer paste

Continue to stay safe and healthy my friends.   _____________________________________________________________________________

Thank you for visiting my little crevice of the crafty blogosphere.  Your time, comments and friendship are much appreciated.  

Happy Crafting!

Jules 

CAS Colours and Sketches #443

 

It's time for another sketch challenge over at the CAS Colours and Sketches challenge blog.  Before we get to the sketch itself, I'd like to mention that CC&S is having a DT call.  If you're interested in joining our DT please visit the blog for all of the details.  

Now on to our fabulous sketch!  Lots of possibilities with this one.

I've been on a Christmas card kick as of late, trying to put my tremendous stash to work for me.  

For the "cloud" version of the sketch I used a vertical dangle of die cut holiday lights accompanied by a squared off stamped sentiment.  I cut the vertical sides off a bit so I could position a strip of gold cardstock on either side before popping it up on a white card base.  Super simple but very cute.

I invite you to visit our blog and hope to see your card in our gallery!

Supplies:

Spellbinders - Twinkle Lights die

WPlus9 - Sentiments #6 stamp set

Continue to stay safe and healthy my friends.   _____________________________________________________________________________

Thank you for visiting my little crevice of the crafty blogosphere.  Your time, comments and friendship are much appreciated.  

Happy Crafting!

Jules 

CAS Colours and Sketches #442

 

It's Tuesday which means it's time for another challenge over at the 

CAS Colours and Sketches blog.  This time we have a deep,

 rich color trio for you to try.

I decided to go with the navy as my background and came up with this design...

In the end I went a bit overboard with the gold splatters but oh, well.  

I began with a navy cardstock panel which I embossed with a folder.  I added some slim die cut frames over the embossed panel, generously added the gold splatters, added the die cut leaves followed by a sentiment.  (white heat embossed onto gold cardstock)  I couldn't resist adding the gold pearls to finish it off.  It looks much busier in this photo than I think it does in real life.  

I invite you to visit our blog for more inspiration and hope to see your card in our gallery!

Supplies:

Simon Says Stamp - Eucalyptus Leaves

Altenew - Window Slats embossing folder

Altenew - Many Thanks sentiment stamp set

Continue to stay safe and healthy my friends.   _____________________________________________________________________________

Thank you for visiting my little crevice of the crafty blogosphere.  Your time, comments and friendship are much appreciated.  

Happy Crafting!

Jules 

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers #196

 

Greetings and Salutations!  Edna is back on the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers blog with a twist on our annual Pink challenge.  Rather than Pink Halloween our prompt this fortnight in October is E is for Everything Pink.  

We are looking for an abundance of pink on your cards.

In true Sisterhood Spirit I went "full on" Pepto Bismol!

I began by ink blending three pink hues of Distress Oxides onto a piece of white cardstock which I then used to die cut my vintage phone elements.  I die cut the handset and phone again three times in black cardstock which I stacked under the pink for some shadow and dimension.  The background began with a panel of pink cardstock which I stamped with the text background before heat embossing it in white.  I then used the same three Oxides to ink blend the background.  The sentiment was cobbled together using stamp sets from two different companies.  I stamped it in black onto a blended panel, heat embossed it in clear and then cut it into a wide strip to use as grounding for my phone.  I finished the card off with a triad of my favorite clear droplets.

I invite you to visit our blog loads more pink inspiration.  We'd love to see your pink creations in our gallery!

Supplies:

Sugar Pea Designs - Call Me stamp set

Sugar Pea Designs - Vintage Phone dies

Hero Arts - Irreverent Birthday stamp set (sub-sentiment)

Neat & Tangled - For the Record stamp set (VINTAGE)

MFT - Text Background stamp

Distress Oxides - Spun Sugar, Kitch Flamingo, Picked Raspberry

Ellen Hutson - clear droplets

Continue to stay safe and healthy my friends.   _____________________________________________________________________________

Thank you for visiting my little crevice of the crafty blogosphere.  Your time, comments and friendship are much appreciated.  

Happy Crafting!

Jules 

Perfectly Clean and Simple October Challenge

 

It's time for another Perfectly CAS monthly challenge where the theme for October is Sympathy.

Remember, the goal is to use only 1/3 of the card front as your design space.

Trust me, it's not always as easy as it sounds.  :-)

I find sympathy cards extremely difficult to make at the time of loss, 

preferring instead to create them ahead of time.  

It's always wonderful to have a stash of unneeded sympathy cards.

I also like to keep my sympathy cards very CAS so 

this is the perfect challenge blog for the prompt.  

I began by creating my own stencil using a heart die and a piece of transparency film.  I first ink blended the lilac heart followed by the two overlapping hearts.  I then went back over the center heart to blend out the color overlap just a bit.  Once dry I stamped the sentiment in a crisp black pigment ink, popped it up onto a pink card base using fun foam and then finished it off with a trio of pearls.  

I invite you to visit our blog for more CAS inspiration and hope to see your card in our gallery!

Supplies:

The Greetery - Thinking of You stamp set

Distress Oxides - Kitch Flamingo and Wilted Violet

Little Things by Lucy - bling

Continue to stay safe and healthy my friends.   _____________________________________________________________________________

Thank you for visiting my little crevice of the crafty blogosphere.  Your time, comments and friendship are much appreciated.  

Happy Crafting!

Jules 

Seize the Birthday #225

 

We have a new challenge for you at the Seize the Birthday 

blog where Cathy has chosen our next topping.    

Use of a stencil is optional but we do ask that you stick to the birthday theme.

I pulled out a stencil that contained several diameters of circles,

selected three colors of dye ink and proceeded to 

ink blend a white card panel with overlapping circles.

Once I was happy with the background I stamped the greeting onto a small frame adding a die cut bow on top and some additional ink blending at the bottom.  I matted the panel onto black cardstock leaving a narrow border, adhered the tag to the panel and then the panel to the card front.  I think this is a great gender neutral color combination, don't you?

I invite you to visit our blog and hope the team's examples inspire you to do some stenciling on your next birthday card.  Be sure to share it with everyone in our gallery!

Supplies:

MFT Basic Shapes Circle stencil

Pink Fresh Studios - Basic Label Frames dies

The Stamp Market - Time to Celebrate stamp set

Poppystamps - Grosgrain Ribbon die  

Continue to stay safe and healthy my friends.   _____________________________________________________________________________

Thank you for visiting my little crevice of the crafty blogosphere.  Your time, comments and friendship are much appreciated.  

Happy Crafting!

Jules 

CAS Colours and Sketches #441

 

We have a new sketch up over at the CAS Colours and Sketches 

challenge blog and we'd love it if you played along.  

Here's my Halloween take on this very simple sketch.

The neighborhood stamp was designed for a wintery holiday scene but as you can see it's easily adaptable to any occasion.  I stamped it at an angle onto white cardstock using a crisp black pigment ink.  After it was fully dry I stamped the sentiment in Versamark and heat embossed it in white.  I chose a lavender piece of patterned paper for the bottom portion.  If you look closely you can still see the vertical stripes after ink blending it with Distress Oxides.  It looked a little plain so I snuck in a black heat embossed spider in the bottom corner to finish it off.  I will be sending this one off to my grandson soon as he is a big fan of purple.  (Me not so much.)

I invite you to visit the blog for more inspiration and hope to see your card in our gallery!

Supplies:

Taylored Expressions - Winter Village background cling

PaperTrey Ink - Along Came a Spider stamp set (sentiment and spider)

Tonic Studios - patterned paper

Distress Oxides in Wilted Violet and Black Soot

Continue to stay safe and healthy my friends.   _____________________________________________________________________________

Thank you for visiting my little crevice of the crafty blogosphere.  Your time, comments and friendship are much appreciated.  

Happy Crafting!

Jules 

Color Hues #27

 

I haven't had much time for card making outside of my DT assignments but I had to squeeze in a card for one of my favorite challenges.  Today's card was made with the current Color Hues duo in mind.  

I thought I'd buck the trend of autumnal and/or floral cards and create something a bit different.  

I began with a balloon stencil which I inked three times onto a white cardstock panel.  I hand drew in the strings and bows and then ran the panel through an embossing folder.  I added a narrow black mat before adhering it onto a cream card base.  I used the ink to color a matching strip before stamping the sentiment in black and finished it off with a few flat sequins.

Supplies:

MFT Big Balloon stencil

Altenew - Angled Mosaic 3D embossing folder

Clearly Besotted - A Little Sentimental stamp sentiment

Continue to stay safe and healthy my friends.   _____________________________________________________________________________

Thank you for visiting my little crevice of the crafty blogosphere.  Your time, comments and friendship are much appreciated.  

Happy Crafting!

Jules 

Happy Little Stampers - October Anything Goes with Dies

It's time for another round of Anything Goes with Dies 

over at the Happy Little Stampers challenge blog.   

I have so many 'never before used' (aka virgin)

 holiday dies so I decided to christen another one today.

I began with the candy cane background die which I cut out in red to adhere to a white card base.  I added in some white stickles to the candy stripes and allowed this to dry before moving on with the sentiment.  I die cut the merry out in heavy white cardstock, adhered it to a black stitched circle and then heat embossed the sub sentiment in white.  I finished it off with a generous amount of clear droplets.  

The HLS blog has several new month long challenges beginning so I invite you to visit us for loads of inspiration.  We hope to see your die cut card in our gallery!

Supplies:

Spellbinders - Candy Cane Card Front die

Cottage Cutz - Wacky Circles die

Concord & 9th - Merry die

Hero Arts - sentiment

Continue to stay safe and healthy my friends.   _____________________________________________________________________________

Thank you for visiting my little crevice of the crafty blogosphere.  Your time, comments and friendship are much appreciated.  

Happy Crafting!

Jules 

CAS Colours and Sketches #440

 

Happy October everyone!  It's Tuesday which means we have a new challenge up for you over at the CAS Colours and Sketches blog.  The uber talented Vicki is our new hostess for the month and she has chosen this trio of fun colors for us to work with this week.  

As luck would have it, I actually own two of these three colors in the Stampin' Up cardstock line.  (A rare occurrence here.)

I chose a bluebird/branch die and used the cardstocks to cut out different portions of the die.  It was very easy to assemble and glue these together.  I used an embossing folder to create the background texture and then added the die cut/embossed frame over top.  The sentiment was stamped in a crisp black pigment ink.  

I invite you to visit our blog and hope you're inspired to use these colors on your next card.  

Supplies:

Cottage Cutz - Bluebird die

MFT - Framed die

Fun Stampers Journey - Corrugated Cardboard embossing folder

Memory Box - Open Sentiments Birthday

Continue to stay safe and healthy my friends.   _____________________________________________________________________________

Thank you for visiting my little crevice of the crafty blogosphere.  Your time, comments and friendship are much appreciated.  

Happy Crafting!

Jules 

Happy Little Stampers - October Christmas Challenge

 

It's a new month which means the Happy Little Stampers team has new challenges up on their blog. The focus of my post today is the October Christmas Challenge.  Our new (optional) prompt is JOY.

My card is a mix of kraft and shiny metallics.  

I began by die cutting the bulb from a gold mirror cardstock.  I then die cut the word "joy" from the center and inlaid a second "joy" cut from black mirror cardstock.  I used the same two cardstocks to die cut the hook and bulb connector.  I adhered the completed ornament onto an embossed panel which was then adhered to a kraft panel using a sheet of craft foam.  A simple yet elegant holiday card.

I invite you to visit the blog where you'll find new challenges appearing this week.  We'd love to see your Christmas creation in our gallery!

Supplies:

Impression Obsession - Ornament die

Altenew - Angled Mosaic embossing folder

Carta Bella - Joyful Pine die set

Tonic - Mirror cardstocks

Continue to stay safe and healthy my friends.   _____________________________________________________________________________

Thank you for visiting my little crevice of the crafty blogosphere.  Your time, comments and friendship are much appreciated.  

Happy Crafting!

Jules 

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers #195

 

Happy Weekend to all!  It's hard to believe that it's already October.  Hopefully many of you are reaping the benefits of cooler temperatures.  Unfortunately I'm going to have to keep cranking our AC for a couple more months yet.  *sigh*

Today starts a new challenge over at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers and Edna has chosen a very universal theme ---  B is for Birthday.

Did you catch the Subtle Snark? hahahaha!

Looking at it now, I think I may have gotten carried away.

The big polkas seemed a good idea at the time.....

Groovy card Jules but where's the snark?

This time it's hidden on the inside.  

My card began with the idea of the hippie van and hued rainbow.  I stamped, colored (Copics) and fussy cut my van adding a layer of glossy accents to the windshield and tires.  I then selected cardstocks in an orange/yellow/pink theme which I die cut using a ray shaped die.  I cut the individual rays apart so I could arrange and place each one in a dark to light order.  The sentiment was stamped onto black cardstock and heat embossed in white.  I glued the van to the completed set of cardstock rays with the intention of adhering it straight to a black card base however it seemed rather plain.  It was at this point that I got the idea to add some groovy cardstock circles and white gems.  

Soooo....a super groovy card or a frightful mess?  No matter.  Someone will love it, right?  :-)

I invite you to visit our blog for more inspiration from the Sistahs and our Reigning Queen Melanie.  We'd love to see your card in our gallery!  (Snark is appreciated but not a requirement to play.)

Supplies:

Ellen Hutson - Tripping stamp set

Ellen Hutson - Silver Linings die set

Two Lips - sentiment stamp (name unknown)

HoneyBee Stamps - white gem stickers

Continue to stay safe and healthy my friends.   _____________________________________________________________________________

Thank you for visiting my little crevice of the crafty blogosphere.  Your time, comments and friendship are much appreciated.  

Happy Crafting!

Jules