A glass of Red Wine

Challenge #88 - Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers - 'W' is for Watercolour

• Stamped a favourite from Stamps Happen - Red Wine Cellar with black Versafine
• Used Distress Inks to watercolour the image
• Computer generated sentiment
• Trimmed the panel and layered with dark blue card

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A Cat Lives Here

Had some fun with this challenge at Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers..  A is for Animal

• stamped my Crazy Cat and hand drew the feet resting on a comfy cushion, fussy cut
• used Colouring Pencils to colour
• Found a background in my stash
• penned up a snarky sentiment

This is Henry our ginger cat....always snoozing

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Guest Designer for Sisterhood of Snarky Stamper 'O' for Outdoors challenge

A bit of fun this month as Edna moves "Outdoors" and with me as the invited guest designer for

   The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers challenge

I do love the outdoors and have spent the past few mornings in my garden giving it a tidy up and make over and for me there is nothing nicer than a stroll anywhere away from the house to refresh my mind ( and exercise) - so I can get back to my desk and the crafts I love

I had this outdoor tree scene already stamped in my stash so thought to use it as the background through a window card in my old stash.  Hardest part was deciding on a snarky sentiment.

• stamped the crafty objects in grey ink and coloured my images with coloured pencils and fussy cut these out.  Coloured the scene too
• found some DP to use as the table top and matching card strip for the sill
• blending ink over the textured card surface and attached all the elements
• my Word doc is working so had to dig out my lettering set and stamped the sentiment, trimmed and edge them in black

Hope you can join in the fun at 

The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers "Outdoors" challenge 

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Card Recipe 

Stamps: Flourishes - Stitched for You, and From the Desk of.. ,    We R Precision Press+ lettering, scenery stamp unknown

Dies: 

Inks:  Versafine - black and smokey grey

Other:  window card, coloured pencils

Just thought I'd share a few pics of the garden

I have installed in the garden two ends that were leftover from the girls cubby house and have been leaning about in our storage space

.....now part of the garden

and this is the quiet space where I can sit and enjoy a cuppa and the garden

Serenity

On white card I used blue shades of Distress Oxides and this lovely stencil to create a background for my stamped sentiment... also added a 'snarky' extra - because sometimes that's just how life is.

I am playing along with 

• Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers challenge #83 - M is for Monochromatic
• Lost Coast Portal to Creativity challenge #120 - Sentimentally Yours

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Card Recipe    Stamps: Artristic Outpost - Serenity,   Inks: Versafine - black,  Distress Oxides - Salty ocean, Mermaid lagoom, Blueprint sketch, Faded jeans,   Other: Simon Says - Tumbling leaves Stencil

Oh NO!!!!

"Distressing" - No, we love to have the girls over for a sleepover - last Thursday actually as it's school holidays.   But my card uses a few Distress elements - my stamped mum is from my prestamped stash, 'crackle' embossing folder with Distress Ink to colour the raised impressions, distressed edge of the paint swatch.  I used coloured pencils on the image as it's very old and the card probably not suitable for watercolouring.

I am playing along with the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers  challenge #182 - D is for Distress.

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Card Recipe 

Stamps: unknown

Dies: 

Inks: 

Other:  Darice Embossing Folder - Crackle