All the Furry Things!

Hello Snarky Friends! Edna loves fur so much she is even wearing it in August! Edna wants you to make a project with furry critters for the latest challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers. I made three different cards with furry critters.

You have August 18 at 11:55 p.m. EST to enter Challenge #90: M is for Mink. Please stop  by the home page to see what my Snarky Sisters and our current Queen of Snark have made for this challenge. Thanks for stopping by my blog.

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers Challenge #82: E is For Elegant

E is for Elegant this week at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers. Look at how well Edna cleans up!

I chose to be elegant and a bit silly for this challenge.  Audrey Hepburn is often thought of as elegant, and by adding the phrase, "Stay Classy," my card isn't too serious. This is a great card to send to a friend.

http://snarkystampers.blogspot.com/2017/04/soss-82-e-is-for-elegant.html

If you would like to enter this challenge, click HERE. You have until Friday, April 28 at 2355 EST to upload your project.

Please visit our current Queen of Snark, JOSEFINE FOUARGE, and my fellow sisters to see what they have made for your inspiration. 

Jane

Majo

Jo

Lindsey

Chris

Donna

Barbara

Thanks for stopping by my blog and having a look! We hope you play along.

Slap Me and Call Me Silly

We're getting silly at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers. Everyone, including Edna, has gotten quite goofy. I made this card with my WRMK Precision Press. I may have gotten a bit NUTS!

The stamp reads,"Thank an English teacher! You know the difference between feeling your nuts and feeling you're nuts! 

To play along with Challenge #81: S is for Silly, you have until 2355 on Friday, April 13 to upload your project here. Please visit our current reigning queen,  MARGO,  and my Snarky Sisters to see what inspiration they have provided. 

SISTER JANE

SISTER MAJO

SISTER CHRIS

 SISTER JO

SISTER LINDSEY

SISTER DONNA

Thanks for stopping by my blog!

I'm the Queen

HRH Queen Ednatoria

Challenge #80 is brought to you by the letter "Q". "Q" is for Queen. Make us something queenly, which can be a Mother's Day card, a birthday card for your bestie, or hate mail for your lady boss. Show us something majestically snarky.

I used a bunch of fun toys on my tag. I finally used my new Precision Press stamping tool by WRMK. Those letters are individuals, so this tool was really handy. Also new were the Distress Oxide inks in Broken China and Worn Lipstick. Other supplies: black Staz-On, Inktess Blocks, white embossing powder, my Silhouette, and gold calligraphy ink. Enough about me.

You need to go get busy. You have two weeks, until 2355 EST on Friday, March 31st to upload your project onto the Snarky Sisters blog. Please visit my snarky sisters and our guest designer, Paula, to see what inspiration pieces they have made for "Q" is for Queen.

Thanks for stopping by my blog!

Jane

Majo

Donna

Jo

Lindsey

Chris

Barb

Living Off the Edge

Welcome to my "extreme" posting! When we think "extreme," we think of living on the edge.  Since we are crafty ladies, we actually think of the edge as the edge of our cards. You can center and line everything up perfectly, but now the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers want you to go off the edge. 

I am snarkless today, as I could not be doubly edgy. This card is also CAS (clean and simple) for me.  I've only used black and white, but I have mixed dots and stripes.  The star is chip board that I cut with my Big Kick and a Sizzix die, which is so old that it is red. I covered it with polka dotted patterned paper and trimmed it to go off the edge of my card. The sentiment is embossed.  See? Easy and simple. 

Please visit our guest designer, Emily and my fellow sisters to see how they will inspire you for this challenge:

Jane

Majo

Jo

Lindsey

Barb

Chris

If you feel up to the task, you have until 11:55 pm EST on Friday, March 3rd to upload your project here. You could be our next Queen of Snark!

Altoids Paint Tin

I solemnly swear that I will not make a card during this challenge. Edna won't let me. But I can make anything else I want. Welcome to challenge #60: N is for Not a Card!

I've been wanting to make a travel watercolor kit out of an Altoids tin that I saw on Pinterest and this challenge gave me the perfect opportunity.  Here are some pictures of my kit.

That blue thing on the paper is supposed to be a cat.

The top

I started this project by making a Gelli print.  Don't even ask me the last time that I used my Gelli plate. Once the paper was dry, I used my Silhouette to cut out the Altoids tin pattern.  You just need to look up "mint tin" in the Silhouette search bar if you are interested.

The papers were stamped and edged with black ink.  On this top layer I affixed the vintage lady and my bit of snark. I used matte medium to glue the papers to the tin.

The bottom

Once the tin was papered, I made a mini watercolor book.  I cut four 2 inch by 3 1/4 inch pieces of watercolor paper, and a cover from the gelli print.

I stamped some images onto shrink film to add little arty charms to the bookbinding thread.

The watercolor palette is from gum packaging.  I squirted the primary colors into the gum container and left one empty for a place for water. This shorty brush fits perfectly into the tin. The book, brush, and paint all fit into the closed tin.  Now I have watercolors wherever I go!

Enough of my photos! If you want to not make a card and play along, you have until 11:55 p.m. EST on June 10th to enter your creation! Please stop by the home Snarky Sisters Blog to see what inspiration pieces my Snarky Sisters have made for you!

Thanks for stopping by!

Embrace the Embossabilities

It's time to play along with the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers again!  Our latest and greatest challenge is E is for Embossing.  You can emboss your favorite way, with a folder,  or with a heat tool and  embossing powder. To join in all you need to do is include embossing (if you can serve your embossing up with a side of snark, even better)!

I went with heat embossing on my altered playing card.  First I used clear gesso on the card, heat embossed and finally painted the card and rubbed the paint off from the embossed areas. I also added a bit of ink to tone down the bright blues.  The background paper was first painted, then embossed, then painted in black.

My gentleman is from Tumble Fish Studios and the brilliant words are from Lisa's Altered Art.

Wanna play along and join the Sisterhood?? Of course you do...

You have until 11:55 pm EDT on Friday April 29 to upload your project on the Sisterhood homepage.   Please take a look at what my Snarky Sisters and our guest designer, Jane, have made for you this challenge. Thanks for stopping by!

I really liked my card and thought I would enter these challenges:

613 Avenue Create: Anything Goes with an optional Masculine Twist

Frilly and Funkie: Boy Oh Boy!

Leaping Leprechauns!

The Snarky Sisters are going green!  Challenge 29 is brought to you by the letter "L" as in "L is for Leprechaun!"  

Lucky Edna has found her pot of gold!

My take on this challenge is clean and simple.  I found the free image from The Graphics Fairy and colored it with Distress Markers and water.  I printed out the sentiment on my printer, stamped some four leaf clovers and voila!  

You have two weeks to play in our challenge.  If you are selected as Queen of Snark, you'll get a guest designer spot!  Please check out the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers Blog and see what our design team, and our current Queen of Snark, Dana, has created for your inspiration.

V is for Vintage

   Hello and welcome to our 22nd challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!  This time round Edna wants to see what you bring for vintage.  Be cool, be retro.  

Here is my take on vintage:

and the inside:

   My card is autobiographical.  My husband has said that he thinks I was a house cat in my past life.

   This stamp set is from Crackerbox Palace.  They are a little independent store in Wisconsin and they have a great selection.  Hint, hint.  And no, I'm not affiliated with them.  The papers are from G45's Domestic Goddess collection.

   If you have enjoyed my card, please visit my sisters and see what they have for this challenge.

Thanks for stopping by!

P is for Profanity at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers

Challenge #21 is brought to you by the letter "P."  P is for Profanity: Swear if you dare.  You know you want to play along.  Who hasn't wanted to unleash their inner naughty crafter every now and then?  Come on and play with us, Edna is giving you profanity permission!

I don't think that Edna would use profanity unless she dropped a bowling ball on her foot or spilled a pan of lasagna on her new white sweater.

Please join us at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers for our newest challenge. You have until 11:55 pm (EST) on Friday, November 28 to upload your project.  Please visit my Snarky Sisters, and our guest designer, Lauren, to see what they have created, and I will warn you, they have met this challenge with gusto. If blue language offends you, don't visit their links.

Lauren

Chris

Lynne

Jessi

Barb

Michelle

Donna

Lindsey

Karen

Thanks for stopping by.  

How Distressing!

Hello and welcome to the new Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers biweekly challenge. #17 is brought to you by the letter "D." "D" is for Distressing, my dears. Edna surely appears to be in distress. Show us your distress techniques!

I stole was inspired by a recent tutorial by France Papillon.  You can visit her and see what I stole was  inspired by HERE. I think her work is amazing.

You have until Ocotober 3rd to get get your distressful entries loaded here.  For more distressing examples, stop by and visit the rest of my Snarky Sisters and Sandra, our guest designer.

Jessi    Lindsey    Lynne    

Chris    Karen   Donna    Barb    

Quick and Dirty How To:

My card began with a layer of gesso on 8.5 x 11" white card stock. A few strips of sheet music were added and also gessoed over. Using gel medium, I stenciled on some stars, which then were coated with glitter. The stars were given a second coat of gel medium, which did not stop them from picking up the color of the mists. The spray mists were followed with another stencil (tiny dots) which I used with tinted blue texture paste. The card edges were then distressed and inked. The sentiment (Dylusions) and the embellishments were then added. 

Edna says O is for One!

It's that time again!  Time for the next challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers.  Edna challenges you to use one color, making a monochrome card.  

Here is what I put together for this challenge.  I found a piece of light blue cardstock that matched Tumbled Glass Distress ink.  The card stock became my foundation for the card.  I then used the Tim Holtz Sizzx die and embossing folder to make this dragonfly.  May I insert my pet peeve here?  Of course I may.  It's my blog.  This die and embossing folder set does not match.  The embossing folder has the antennae of the dragon fly while the die does not.  Even though I had the die, I still wound up fussy cutting the embossed dragonfly so it could have antennae!

Rant over.

I used Tumbled Glass and Broken China Distress inks on the dragonfly and its shadow.  Then I found the piece of blue fiber in my ribbon stash.  I had just enough fiber to edge the card with.  It's only taken me seven years to use that fiber up!  

Show us your one color card.  You have two weeks to complete this mission if you choose to accept it.  Link up your entry here.  And please, stop by and visit my fellow snarky stamping sisters to see what they have put together for this challenge.

Our guest designing current Queen of Snark,

Anne.

and the DT

Chris

Donna

Lindsey

Jessi

Karen

Michelle

Thanks for stopping by!  It's always a pleasure to have you visit!

K is for Kraft

We are ready for the next challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!  Edna is making us use KRAFT paper in our projects.  

Edna didn't know that I had never made a kraft card before. I've used kraft paper in scrapbooking projects, but have never tried to scale it down for a card. I googled some images on the google machine and found some very lovely examples. I also decided that I liked red with my kraft. At the time I was also wearing a brown shirt with red flowers, but this may have been coincidence.   

Here is my card.  I was digging through my stamps and found the sentiment first, then I ran across the image and thought, perfect!  While I was putting this card together, I realized that one of our snarky challenge players had made a card with this sentiment for one of our challenges. I hope you don't mind that I copied you subconsciously! 

Please visit our challenge blog and take a peek at what my sisters have put together for this challenge.   If you like Christmas, this is the perfect time to stop by.

Details about my card: image and sentiment inked with Staz-On Timber Brown, colored with Distress  Marker Red Brick and white charcoal pencil.  

B is for Buttons or Brads

It's time for challenge number 12 at the Snarky Sisterhood.  We want to see your buttons or brads.  Edna prefers Brads.  I think she has pretty good taste!

I went with the brad option myself.  

The image is from Rubber Dance, which I cut apart so I could reattach the limbs with brads.  Both backgrounds are made with Tim Holtz products.  I have used a layering stencil, Distress Paint and Distress Ink on this card.

Please check out what my Snarky Sisters have made for this challenge.  Thanks for stopping by.  If you want to be the Queen of Snark, you have until July 25 at 2355 PDT to enter your project.

S is for Steampunk

Who is ready for a steampunk project?  Get your gears in gear!  The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers is going to challenge you to share your Steampunk creation.

Here is the inspiration that I have made for the challenge. I used colored pencils and acrylic paints on the stamped image.  I added lots of metals and a jaunty feather.

I framed my image with chipboard and decided to leave the rest of the card unembellished.  I did play around with other embellishments, but felt that they made the card too busy.  Best to keep the star of the show happy on this card.

Please check out the work of my fellow Snarky Sister's for this challenge.  We had a great time creating our inspiration pieces. 

Lindsey

Chris

Donna

Michelle

Barb

Lynne

Jessi

Karen

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers Challenge #9 Ribbon

Welcome to the 9th challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers. Your mission is to use ribbon on your project. You can use a little, or you can see what our reigning Queen of Snark Guest Designer, Shoni, made for this challenge. (Wow!) Please have a look at her project, as well as what my Snarky Sisters made for this challenge.

Alas, my card is without snark, but it's kind of pretty. I used the April Scraps of Darkness "His & Hers" Kit for this card. It was filled with Prima goodness. The stamps I used are two "oldies but goodies" out of my hoard, and I used the Lindsey's Stamp Gang that were included in the kit. This time I even finished the inside of the card.  I know. I was like, "Whoa!"  

There is a reason that this card is finished inside and out. I also made it for the dress form swap at Scraps of Darkness. You can find out about the kit and all the fun swaps on Facebook or on the SOD blog.

You have until the end of 13 June to enter the SoSS ribbon challenge.  Good luck to our potential queen and princesses!

C is for Crap

Welcome to the 8th Challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky of Snarky Stampers.  This challenge is brought to you by the letter "C."  "C" is for Crap, as in, "Why did I buy that Crap?"

All of us have an item or two (or more) that we have bought and then later wondered why we ever bought it in the first place.  Was it on sale?  Were we immersed in the madness of Crafter's Shopping Frenzy?  Or have we held onto it for so long that our tastes have changed?

Here is my crap.  I bought this paper pack online- seven years ago.  It has moved with me three times (from Illinois to Kansas, to Wisconsin, and most recently to Germany) and I have never used any of the paper pack.  

If you know me at all, you know that I ordered the paper pack for the gnomes.  There just weren't enough gnomes.  Why wasn't the gnome on every single piece of paper?  I'm glad that this challenge came up.  I actually made a cute card that is nice.  Now I will have to find someone nice to send it to.

You have until May 30 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time to enter our challenge.  Show us the crap you have purchased and haven't used.  If you have time, visit my snarky sisters at their blogs.  

And if you know any good gnome jokes, feel free to leave them in the comments.  Thanks for stopping by!

Y is for Yo Mama!

Challenge #7, "Y is for Yo Mama," is ready to be played at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!  Mother's Day is coming up, so if you need to do a card, you can enter it into our challenge.  You could make your mother the lovely and sentimental card and enter our challenge.  Then you could make a card for your mother (or mother-in-law) that shows your true feelings and you could enter our challenge.  We are excepting sweet or snarky cards.

I made a sweet card.  I pulled out my secret weapon, Graphic 45, and used papers from the Secret Garden line.  

All the layers were slightly distressed.  On the bird and pattered paper I used Old Paper Distress Ink.  The plain card stock was given the dual treatment of Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink and Peach Bellini Glimmer Glam.  

I embossed the front of the card with a translucent embossing powder. On the inside of the card I used the same stamp, so I will spare you all that view.  ;)

I embellished the card with metals, flowers, fibers and a drop "gem."

Hope you like it Mom!

Please visit my snarky sisters' blogs to see what they have come up with for Mother's Day.

Shari, our current Guest Designer

Lindsey

Jessi, who made both kinds of cards!

Barb

Chris

Donna

Karen, also made both cards.