Shopping our Stash #262 - A Stitch in Time...

Good morning! This week's Shopping our Stash challenge is right up my alley - stitching! Woot! I went with my recent obsession with random cross-stitching:

Supplies: From the Heart image & sentiment; Bo Bunny paper; Spectrum Noir markers; classic small oval Nesties; googly eyes; buttons from stash; Tim Holtz design ruler & embroidery supplies

Now usually I wouldn't put googly eyes on this birdie - his expression is just too perfect to cover up. However, I coloured his eyelids orange...and boo-booed onto his eyeball. At the end of colouring. Googly eyes to the rescue :)

Don't forget to check out what my talented team mates have created: 

Alica

Deena

Lauren

Donna (off this week)

Chris 

Barb

Chana 

Stacey

Cyndi

Mimi

Maria

Come link up by Monday, August 1st!

xoxo,

Jessi

Tuesday Morning Sketches #362 - A Day for Daisies!

Good morning! This week at Tuesday Morning Sketches we're sponsored by the lovely A Day for Daisies - be sure to check out the lovely images the design team featured.

Last week I went looking for a stamp set I KNEW WAS HERE SOMEWHERE and ended up finding a bunch of older paper pads while I was at it - mostly scraps but still "might come in handy/too pretty to recycle." You know the kind I mean. Since this week's sketch has a variety of layers and elements I decided to use only scraps to create - yes, even the large chevron pattern had the corner cut off!

Supplies: Papers all from Fancy Pants; Wplus9 banner die; unknown banner die; 1.5" circle punch; Neat & Tangled sentiment; Versamark & white EP; MME enamel dots

Here's the sketch - I adapted it to a vertical card, rather than rotating it - the chevron paper looked funny sideways :)

This challenge will be open until next Sunday,July 31 - hop on over & see what the rest of the team has made! 

Debbie

Jenee 

Melissa 

Patti

Wanda

xoxo,
Jessi

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers - R is for...

...resist! There are so many resist techniques, and the Sistahs have a great mix of old & new that we tried. I found a tutorial for Watercolour Lifting on Splitcoaststampers, which is like a reverse resist. (As a note, I found I needed a LOT of water for the colour lifting - instead of my water brush I used a regular paint brush and dish of water)

Supplies: Distress inks for background & watercolouring; Waltzingmouse sentiment; Ranger embossing ink & clear EP; wonky rectangles Nesties

Check out the amazing Sisterhood's creations -

Majo

Dotty Jo

Peggy

Barb

Chris

Lee

Lindsey

Lynne 

Michelle

And don't forget to leave some love for our guest designer, HELEN!

You have until August 5 to come play along :)

xoxo,
Jessi

Shopping our Stash #261 - You are Matchless!

We have a really fun challenge for you this week at Shopping our Stash - to create a matchbook or matchbox, any size or shape you like!  This was definitely a challenge for me, since I hadn't made one before (and this took a couple tries):

Supplies: paper from AC; everything else from stash

The box measures about 1 7/8" by 2.5" - perfect for a little trinket!

Come link up by Monday, July 25 :)

Don't forget to check out what my talented team mates have created: 

Alica

Deena

Lauren

Donna (off this week)

Chris 

Barb

Chana 

Stacey

Cyndi

Mimi

Maria

xoxo,

Jessi

Tuesday Morning Sketches #361 - Di's Digis!

Good morning! Di's Digis is our sponsor this week at Tuesday Morning Sketches - there's a $12 voucher up for grabs to one of our players!

Supplies: Peacock Feathers distress ink; Flourishes cake stamp; sentiment from Reverse Confetti; papers from MME; button from stash

Debbie's designed a fabulous classic sketch for us this week - 

This challenge will be open until next Sunday,July 24 - hop on over & see what the rest of the team has made! 

Debbie

Jenee 

Melissa 

Patti

Wanda

xoxo,
Jessi

Shopping our Stash #260 - Get Inspired by Your Bedding!

Good morning! This week at Shopping our Stash we'd like you to get inspired by your bedding! I had quite the trouble getting going with this challenge, because we just don't have a pretty grown-up bedroom with matching things. However, what we DO have is a bed with messed up blankets, and cats and dog tucked in, and it's cozy as all get out. Plus there's a purple sheet on it right now....and thus:

Supplies: stamp from Stampers Anonymous (Tim Holtz); Palette Noir ink; Lil Inkers stitched rectangle die; Wilted Violet distress ink to watercolour; purple gems from stash

A plus? I used all the gems in the package!

Come link up by Monday, July 18 :)

Don't forget to check out what my talented team mates have created: 

Alica

Deena

Lauren

Donna (off this week)

Chris 

Barb

Chana 

Stacey

Cyndi

Mimi

Maria

xoxo,

Jessi

Tuesday Morning Sketches #360 - Sami Stamps!

Good morning! This week at Tuesday Morning Sketches our sponsor is Sami Stamps, home to some incredibly sweet illustrations. And since the sketch was my design, of course I struggled with using it...always the way!

Supplies: Covered in Kitties digi from Sami Stamps; Spectrum Noir markers; unknown sentiment; Memento Tuxedo Black ink; Tim Holtz design ruler; WRMK embossing folder; buttons from stash; embroidery supplies

A close up of the embossing & vellum layer.

Here's the sketch:

This challenge will be open until next Sunday,July 17 - hop on over & see what the rest of the team has made! 

Debbie

Jenee 

Melissa 

Patti

Wanda

xoxo,
Jessi

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers - B is for...

Booze! (You kinda saw that coming, didn't you?) The Sisterhood (hic) would like to sheee yer boozy creashuns and yahhhh you should make the stufff. Whaddaya call that? 

Supplies: Image & sentiment from Bugaboo; Spectrum Noir markers; Liquid Pearls; Diamond Stickles; Mod Podge Dimensional Magic; black gems from dollarama 

Check out the amazing Sisterhood's creations -

Majo

Dotty Jo

Peggy

Barb

Chris

Lee

Lindsey

Lynne 

Michelle

And don't forget to leave some love for our guest designer, HELEN!

You have until July 22 to come play along :)

xoxo,
Jessi

Shopping our Stash #259 - Say WHAT???

This week at Shopping our Stash we want you to say something - with speech bubbles! Use a die cut, a stamp, or even freehand one :)

Supplies: Paper Smooches stamps; Palette Noir ink; distress inks for watercolouring; American Crafts papers; MME enamel dots; speech bubble die (unknown) 

This is one of those layouts where I was determined to use the leftover paper strips - the yellow paper had a fishtail cut out of one end, and I fiddled and fiddled with different papers from the same pad until I was finally (mildly) satisfied with the result ;) I'm super proud of myself for recycling those teensy triangles I cut off! lol

So what have YOU got to say?  come link up by Monday, July 11 :)

Don't forget to check out what my talented team mates have created: 

Alica

Deena

Lauren

Donna (off this week)

Chris 

Barb

Chana 

Stacey

Cyndi

Mimi

Maria

xoxo,

Jessi

Tuesday Morning Sketches #359 - Jennifer Tomasic, CTMH Demo!

Good morning! This week Tuesday Morning Sketches is sponsored by Jennifer Tomasic, a CTMH demo - and you'll have to take a peek at the fun stamp set up for grabs for a random player! Sadly this is also Kris' last week with us - please make sure to stop by & wish her well!

Patti designed our sketch this week, and to me it just called out for some pretty lace and a simple design:

Supplies: paper from MME; Mint Julep Hero Arts ink; Memento Gray Flannel ink; everything else stash/unkown

The sentiment wasn't quite bold enough stamped just in the mint ink, so I slightly offset it and stamped again in grey. 

Here's the sketch:

This challenge will be open until next Sunday,July 10 - hop on over & see what the rest of the team has made! 

Debbie

Jenee 

Kris

Melissa 

Patti

Wanda

xoxo,
Jessi