make fun

 hello there stampers!

I'm joining in the fun today over at the sisterhood of snarky stampers. This fortnight their challenge is #197 R is for Rude and Edna is showing her true colours!

So many choices for rude cards, I found it hard to choose! hahaha

I began by blending distress oxide ink using Paper Rose Striped stencil over the card front. Then stamped the Darkroom Door Flourish texture stamp in the same colour. The image is printed from the net and fussy cut, and the foliage was die cut using Altenew Leaf Mix die set from a coordinating card colour. The sentiment is a Tim Holtz Big Talk sticker, mounted on card, edges inked and popped up on foam tape. Nuances of Bette Davis!

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drink on a weekday

 hello again crafty stampers!

It's time for the new challenge at the sisterhood of snarky stampers and Edna's theme this fortnight is: B is for Birthday

Edna certainly looks like she's having an f'ing great birthday, and of course why wouldn't she, accompanied by her cupcake-loving feline friend! lol

I based my card around the snarky sentiment.

I began with this amazing holographic paper - beautiful but so hard to photograph 😓 The martini glass was die cut using Paper Rose Martini Glass 3 times glued together with 1 black. The black glass was slightly offset to create a shadow look and make the glass stand up to the very busy background. The olive was also die cut 3 times for dimension. The sentiment from Tim Holtz Big Talk stickers was adhered to a black card and popped up on foam squares. 

I do love the background but it's oh so LOUD!😎

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*Edit: thanks to the lovely sisters for crowning my card Princess.  I am delighted! Might be martini time...

thoughts

 hello again stampers!

I'm on a roll and onto the second card challenge for today - the rain is not easing up, so I'm taking advantage of some free time!

I found an interesting challenge at As You See it yesterday where you had to complete a card in under 10 minutes AND make it funny! Oh okay...

I had an idea for a card, based on a sentiment I had picked out but I had no idea how long it would take, I mean, how long is a piece of string? so I planned it out, got out the inks and supplies, began the timer and started with the first step - ink blending... Well that probably was my undoing.  I stopped the clock after 11 minutes with blurry stamping and still having not done the sentiment.  Doh!

Okay let's rethink this... I simplified the ink blending, making it only 2 colours, carefully cleaned off the stamps and made sure I didn't overink, decided not to cut down the panel but just adhere it to the card base. 2nd try was a success!

The stamps are from Darkroom Door Under the Sea, and the sentiment is a Tim Holtz Big Talk sticker. I stopped the timer at 9:22:03 but the distress oxide ink was still wet. I guess that still counts?

Great challenge! I'll be joining in more in the future for sure.

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