The newest Challenge at Shopping Our Stash is By the Numbers - create a card featuring at least one number.
I reached deep into the stash archives for a Cuttlebug Number Collage embossing folder and paired it with a long-ago pad of Graphic 45 Core'dinations Cardstock, so I could sand away the embossed numbers.
I topped the sanded numbers with a sentiment from Kristina Werner's Celebrate with some Starfruit Enamel Dots from Concord & 9th.
Red, Red Wine is the newest Challenge at Shopping Our Stash.
We're asking you to create a card using RED as your primary color OR use Wine (or another beverage) on your card ... or if you're an over-achiever, use both.
Since several local schools have RED in their colors, I used Red to create a graduation card.
The Graduation Day silhouette stamp is from Impression Obsession together with Taylored Expressions The Tassel sentiments.
The newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash is Outta This World - Create a card featuring Aliens (or Monsters), Stars, Moon or Planets.
I think these felt Monster stickers have been in my stash for over 20 years ... yes, my love affair with monsters goes a loooooong way back.
With their arm positions, it looks like they were celebrating, so I added a CZ Design Yay You Die Cut sentiment.
We can't wait to see how you shop your stash for this theme.
Hippity Hop is the newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash - we're asking you to create an Easter Card or a card featuring a rabbit or a chick.
I decided to use my never before inked (linking-up at the NBUS Challenge) Trinty Stamps Bunnies. I added color to the cheeks, ears, and several other elements in the image. I finished by coloring the coolest bunny grey.
I matted the image with orange and purple and finished with one of the sentiments from the set.
And it's a 3-2-1 week at Passion for Markers. I've got three paper layers on my card base, 2 paper layers on my sentiment and one colored bunny.
We hope you'll come join our Hippity Hop fun.
The new challenge at Shopping Our Stash is Fun Fold - to make a card using something than a standard bi-fold.
I searched for fold options and liked this fun tri-fold design by Ink It Up with Jessica. I used a 4 1/4" strip x 12", so my dimensions are a bit different. I also didn't like the wider border, so I cut my designer paper about 1/8" wide all the way around for a thinner margin.
I grabbed the first cardstock I saw, which was orange. Then I found this wonderful Scrapbook.com paper that matched perfectly.
Next I literally went on a Shopping Our Stash treasure hunt in my studio looking for some butterflies that would work with the lovely paper, so I could embellish a belly band to hold the card together (in part, so I could photograph it). I found two butterflies and a sticker sentiment that worked with my layout.
I don't think about fun folds often enough ... they made the card that much more interesting for the recipient. If you search, there are all sort of possibilities (as well as those of my fellow design team members). We hope you will come join us.
The newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash is Think Ink - we're asking you to use lots of ink, but NO COLORING ... think sponging, smooshing, stenciling, brayering, splattering, gel printing.
I chose one of my favorite techniques. I apply Distress Oxide to a stamping block, spritz some water, and then press the block into watercolor paper. I used the three colors from this week's TGIF Color Challenge.
After the ink dried, I stamped the Concord & 9th Daisy Turnabout on top of the Distress Oxide Ink.
I added a sentiment & die from the set (these were stamps from the Concord & 9th Winter Retreat) with the background cut from a light green vellum.
I finished with opalescent gems in the center of my daisy.
We hop you'll get inky and come join us.
The newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash is - One is the Loneliest Number. We're asking you to make one layer cards.
I took my inspiration from the AAA Colourful Challenge and started by painting a rainbow of Dylusions Shimmer Paints on my single layer of watercolor paper.
I added Hero Arts with Sympathy Transfers on top of the painted stripes. I finished with a stitched die around the edges.
And I'm also joining the Hero Arts/A Blog Named Hero #staycraftychallenge Build Me Up Buttercup Challenge.
And I'm joining the Faux Stitching Challenge at Make My Monday.
We hope you'll shop your stash & come join us.
The newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash is to create a card with some of those Crafty Remnants that are scattered about your craft table. In my case, they are all in a little box where I store them (something new I started ... I used to throw many of them away).
Here's the pile I accumulated from the scrap box on my table and multiple other things I had piled about on my table. Much of what I ultimately used is buried underneath ... you can see one of the digital tags peeking out of the top and the man's top hat in the bottom right.
I started with a digital tag that I received as a gift with purchase. Next I attached a torn piece of my gold asemic writing that I made for my Collage Class.
On top of that I positioned a detail cut lily and butterflies from another freebie page I've had for some time. I decided to use a kraft card base, and as I positioned the tag on the card, I added a gold glitter circle and a tiny scrap of fabric from the scrap pile.
As I was playing around with pieces from my pile to decide how to finish the card, I tried this top hat man that had also been included with an order ... I thought the contrast in size was fun. Is the many really small ... or the lily extremely big. You decide.
The final touch was a snip of leftover AA&LL Create Poets washi tape I had attached to the brim of the box together with a leftover sticker sentiment.
I love the final whimsical design and how I pushed me out of my box to use some of these saved items from my studio table. We hope you'll have the same fun and join us.
The newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash is GLITTER Me Happy - make a card featuring glitter, which can include loose glitter, glitter glue, wink of Stella, Shimmer Pens, Stickles or Glitter paper.
I decided to use glitter paper and go FULL ON GLITTER.
I chose gold glitter paper for my card base inspired by the Poppy Stamps Midas Touch Challenge. I die cut the Poppy Stamps Confetti Heart Collage from the Gold Glitter Cardstock. Next I attached it to a Raspberry Glitter Foam scrap from my stash.
I added a few Twilight Ombre Glitter Dots and a sentiment from Memory Box Big and Little Valentines.
The newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash is SuperSTAR - create a card featuring Stars.
I literally went shopping in my studio. I immediately thought of this Cuttlebug Star Embossing Folder, but then I had to find it LOL. While I was "Shopping* I found a never been used pad of Core'dinations Cardstock, and reminisced about how designing cards for Core'dinations at my local Scrapbooking store was my first "design gig" and how they "paid" me with lots of wonderful Core'dinations papers to use.
What I do is emboss, use a foam sanding block to reveal the color, then wipe with a baby wipe to pick up all of the dust and use my heat tool to dry the paper.
Then I added my favorite SuperSTAR, the awesome Ruth Bader Ginsburg from Ink Road Stamps (with her gold crown stamped with my new Lisa Horton Cloud Solid Gold Ink) inside a Memory Box Stitched Star Die Cut. The sentiment is from the same set. I finished by giving dear RBG some coordinating red earrings.
