SOS 439: All about family

The latest challenge at SOS is ALL ABOUT FAMILY!

In spite of all of the hilarious snarky statements about family, I actually love my fam, LOL, and of course ended up with a cute card... not snarky at all!  These are my girls:

Supplies and notes:

• Starry paper by Pink Paislee 2016
• The wooden stars are from Studio Calico from years ago.  These ones were actually pulled from a project I apparently didn't like... no recollection of what it even was.
• Stamp carved by Yours Truly based on a picture of my girls in Tahoe at the end of 2019. I used Speedycarve rubber and I think Flexcut tools... can't remember.
• Ranger EP in Princess Gold (I already have a replacement jar but I'm finishing up my original jar.  Funny how long a product lasts when you are at the tail end!)
• Ranger Letter It embossing ink
• Vellum "moon" cut from some packaging
• Glossy Accents and Tombow adhesive
• Park Lane gold paper (This came in a little 6x6" pad from Joann's and it is sooo nice... it's such a nice matte gold, it matches the Princess Gold perfectly!  Recommend!)
• Tim Holtz Metallic Quotations

Thank you for visiting, folks! Look forward to seeing what you make for this challenge!

Tahoe, 11/2019

SOS 438: Love is in the air...

 Hello, and happy February!  So 2021 *DOES* have other months!

This fortnight at Shopping Our Stash, LOVE IS IN THE AIR!  Here's my heart-inspired card using stash from years past:

Supplies:

• Distress Oxide in Seedless Preserves and Picked Raspberry
• Distress Oxide spray (new... just trying for the first time on this project) in Wilted Violet
• Distress crayon in Seedless Preserves
• Fiber from Andrea at Snapping Monsters a few years back
• Tim Holtz Idea-ology Quotations from 2017
• Thickers from 2012
• Stickles ice
• Nuvo Drops in Ivory Seashell
• Stamplorations stencil from many years ago

Thanks for visiting! Head on over to SOS to see what my awesome crafty teammates made!

SOS 436: What's NEW with you?

Hello!  Bet you can tell that at Shopping Our Stash our hostess Chris is asking us to use our new stuff! 

Here are my offerings:

Supplies:

• Paper from a brand new Park Lane pad 
• Studs by Recollections, 2015
• Rose dimensional stickers by Jolee's Boutique years ago
• Pearl Nuvo drops from a few years ago
• Making Memories paper distresser, probably 10 years old
• Red fringe from Recollections (I think) from several years ago

Thanks for visiting! Be sure to visit my teammates' pages, and playalong!

SOS 433: Tic-tac-toe

Hi, guys!  

This fortnight at Shopping Our Stash we have a fun Tic-tac-toe for you!!! I love Tic-tac-toe challenges-- really gets my mind going. 

Here's the board:

I primarily went with PLAID/TWINE/NEUTRALS plus I added kraft and die-cuts.

(...and a bonus picture of Maude and Millie... I guess I accidentally tapped it with the upload!)

This is the second project I made for this challenge*:

Supplies and notes:

• Perfect Medium pen, have had it for years, still works great.
• Recollections embossing powder in Snow (a.k.a. white) from 2015, still pretty clean!
• Kraft scrap from the making of the kraft card
• Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Stripes stencil.  I have had this for years, probably one of my first stencils. 2013 maybe?  Anybody know?  I used it to make a plaid background.  I want to say I first saw this technique from Autumn at SewPaperPaint like a lifetime ago.
• Stencil was inked in the following DOx: Iced Spruce (which is more grey than green), Antique Linen, Frayed Burlap, Walnut Stain
• Leaves cut using a Tim Holtz die long ago.  I cut things with my dies and store them for future use in empty CD cases on a CD rack. It's a good system for someone like me who doesn't often want to get my BigShot out...
• Twine from a package, stashed in my fiber jar.
• Ancient button added at the last minute using Glossing Accents.
• Hard to tell from the picture but the whole panel is popped up, as is the sentiment.

Thanks for visiting,  and I hope you are planning to play along!

*I was WAY into my first project, all the way through... I was totally digging it.  Somehow, I didn't execute on the finished product.  I think I will change the yarn and the sentiment. 

SOS 432: Hot beverage for a cold night...

This week at SOS, the theme was chosen by Alica!  Good one! "A hot beverage on a cold night!"

Supplies:

• Focal image was carved by me this month and hear embossed using a Ranger Emboss It pad and Ranger embossing powder in Princess Gold and Lindy's Stamp Gang embossing powder in Hyacinth Blue Jade, both several years old. 
• This was stamped on a piece of scrap watercolor paper.
• This panel was then inked with Seedless Preserves DOx and splattered with Blueprint Sketch DOx.
• The background panel was inked with DOx in Wilted Violet, Black Soot, Blueprint Sketch and Seedless Preserves.  
• Water was spritzed through a Hero Arts stencil (at least 3 years old and maybe used twice for nothing memorable) and water was mopped up.  Then I splattered some leftover DOx across the panel.   
• I also splattered some pretty old Tattered Angels spray across the panel.  It was a black ink with gold flakes.  
• The gold paper in the background was from a bulk paper pack.  Great stuff! Buying the whole pack was worth the 3 gold sheets! 
• Tim Holtz Quotations from 2017 added as the sentiment. 

Thanks for visiting!  Please go visit my teammates at Shopping Our Stash! 

SOS 431: Happy Falll, Y'all!

Yay!  My favorite time of the year (except for what comes next!)  

These are my contributions for the challenge:

Supplies and notes:

• Strathmore watercolor paper
• Prisma Watercolors from the Odyssey palette.  This is actually new, so not such a stashy item, but I am so addicted to this palette right now!  It is 100% fall to me, and so I am using it like crazy!  For those of you who love watercolor (I am addicted to watercolor and pretty much do it daily-- not lying), this is my first Prima palette and I am liking it.  It was pricey, but on par with what a quality set of 12 costs. I'm having some issues with graininess, but I am finding that the grains dissolve quickly.  It's only been two weeks but I would definitely buy another Prima set in the future.  The palettes are really terrific.  The thing is, I am also obsessed with my Jane Davenport palettes so I really don't need any more palettes! 
• All fiber from my stash and over three years old.  Most of it is vintage and likeley 50 years old more.
• Ranger Glossy Accents used to adhere the fiber.  
• Diecuts from the 2018 Carta Bella  "Fall Break" set.  I used a bunch of these last year for a similar challenge.  
  
  
• Tim Holtz DI in Vintage Photo added to accent any edges or anything pure white.
• Tim Holtz Chit Chat stickers from 2012... well, I probably bought them a few years ago, but maybe not in 2012...
• The sentiment on the "Fall" banner card is from an old Graphic 45 set from maybe 4 or 5 years ago. 

I love these and was thinking of the friends I am grateful for when I made these.  I feel blessed (OMG how cheesy) but I really do have some great friends.  Including the rad chicks on the SOS design team!  So... go ahead and check them out via our SOS page... then join us with your fall-ish cards!

Cheers,

Mary/Mimi :)

SOS 430: Slimline cards

Ooh, Donna has cooked up a great challenge for us at Shopping Our Stash! I love the look of slimline cards!  These cards are 8.5"x3.5" but I have to confess: I made mine to fit a narrow envelope that I had, so my card is 8"x4"... hey, I am just being honest!  

Here is my card:

These are my supplies:

• Basic Grey 2013 paper... just a scrap left of this awesome paper!
• Goldenrod cardstock from Tuesday Morning probably in 2019
• Liquid Pearls in Gold Pear from 2011 (!) for the eyes
• Tim Holtz die (Ornate Owl) that I've had for at least three years.
• The sentiment was printed by me ten years ago
• Nuvo Drops in Antique Rose
• Sizzix adhesive on the back of the owl-- I am on my second pack.

Thanks for stopping by... please go see what my rad teammates have done at Shopping Our Stash