#18-27 - ATC CARDS

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to make an artist trading card.  They are cute little cards that are 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches and can be collected and sent to people.  I chose to make one for each of our design team members and will be mailing them this week.  I played with a few techniques like foiling and embossing and oxide inks...play along with us, will you?

#15-17 - best friends day

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is celebrating friends day.  You are to do a project honouring friendship...to me, nothing emits friendship more than these ladies and gents....they just look like life-long trouble.  Play along with us, will you?

#14 - fabulous February

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to celebrate February - or at least the colour of it's birthstone - amethyst or it's flower violets or irises.  I was close on the violets, but they are really violas...as close as I could get to violets in my stash...I made this card for my mother-in-law as they are her favourite flowers.  Play along with us, will you?

#11 - 13 - make your mark

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to colour anything you want using markers...I thought I would whip up some little otters and give them quick colouring (I made and coloured 40 otters ready for other projects because they were so fun and easy to do).  I made a couple of birthday cards and some valentines too.  Play along with us, will you?

#10 - remembering Jessi

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is a bittersweet one...sad as we lost a close design team member and happy because we are remembering her style and sass.  We are to choose a blog post of Jessi's (onecraftymama) and make a project that is inspiring to you.  I chose the following as this is the first time I worked with her on our design team...http://onecraftymama-onecraftymama.blogspot.com/2012/08/my-first-post-at-shopping-our-stash-65.html
tried to follow her clean style on this card and used up some of my few epoxy dots in her honour.  She will be missed dearly by me.  Please play along with us and make a huge tribute to one truly special lady.

#9 - inspired by quilting

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to make a project that is inspired by quilting...I went for some layers and squares and a little pieced giraffe for my project and I thought it looked quite Quilty when it was done with the different patterns and polkadots.  Play along with us, will you?

#8 - hearts on fire

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to do a project with a heart on it...doesn't have to be Valentine's Day related but something loving would be nice.  This little mouse is the cutest ever and I had to ink him up - a lot of fussy cutting on this one but he was worth it...play along with us, will you?

#1-7 Winter Blues

Welcome to a new year and new projects.  This year I am trying to do 300 cards or paper projects and am trying to use up some of my ridiculous paper stash.  I am also going to try to make sure that at least once every month new stamps meet ink.  I have so many that haven't been used so that is my goal this year. We are playing with the winter blues at Shopping our Stash this week after a bit of a holiday rest.  The goal of this challenge is to use blues or winter or a combo of the two.  I made a few playing with one of the new die sets I purchased just prior to Christmas...the layers are fun so I made a few.  Play along with us, will you?

131-143 - seasonal projects

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to do a seasonal project...we are getting ready for Christmas so I whipped up a few projects...the first one is a pop up box card that I made for an entry into a contest at our local radio station - hoping to win a gift card...the next ones are paper frames that I made for some quick decor (well, not really quick, that is kind of a lie) for the fireplace mantel and one for the mother in law.  Finally, I made some grinch cards because who doesn't love the grinch.  They aren't old stash though as I just got the stamps on Friday but I couldn't wait to play with them.  The sparkly paper however is quite old so I felt they could qualify.  Play along with us, will you?

#130 - happy birthday dude

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to make a masculine birthday card.  I always find making masculine cards to be a challenge, but the easiest way for me to do it is with minimal embellishments.  It is hard for me to not go overboard and make them girly, but I think I achieved masculine with this one.  Play along with us, will you?

#129 - washi, Washi, Washi

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to use washi tape on your project...I have an addiction to buying this stuff and then not really using it too often on projects...I love the look of what others do   with it and am always envious of their projects...but I find that when I use it, it doesn't always stick down and the ends peel up.  I think I figured out a solution with this project - die cutting - it seems to put enough pressure on it that the ends do not come up - so I may now be hooked into using up some of my hundreds of rolls of it.  The trees are die cut out of 8 different rolls of tape.  Play along with us this week.

#120-#128 - food for thought

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to use a food package as inspiration.  I chose pop cans for mine and found some soda flavoured lip balms to complete this challenge. I am making tags for all the nieces and nephews and my girls friends. They will go on all the Christmas presents.  Play along with us, will you?

#119 -tic tac toe

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to use the tic tac toe board below and make a card using three things in a line.  Mine can follow the bottom line or diagonal from the left bottom to right top...this card was inspired by Pintrest... it has heat embossing, the ribbon is from my wedding nearly 25 years ago, there is smoothing, it's a happy birthday and there are powder pigments (which I have had forever)...please play along with us, will you?

#117-118 - it's raining cats and dogs

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is "it's raining cats and dogs". We are to use a cat, a dog or something rain related on our projects...rain has pretty much ended here and the snow is upon us so I chose the cats and dogs part of the challenge...we had a "Scrap chicks gone wild " convention here this weekend and these are a couple of cards I finished with the leftovers from last year's paper pack.  Play along with us, will you?

#116 - witching hour

As Halloween approaches this week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to use something witchy on your project...or something halloween related.  I made this cauldron for my witch to fall into...I didn't have anything cauldrony to use so you may recognize this as an upside down snow globe with the base on backwards...I thought it worked well...play along with us, will you?

#111 - not your ordinary card

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to make a card that is an unusual shape - no circle, squares or rectangles...mine was easy with this stamps of life die that makes a present shaped card...can't beat the simplicity of that...play along with us, will you?

#112-115 - jingle belles pink challenge

The Jingle Belles are having a pink challenge for Breast Cancer month and they are donating for every card entered...so I thought I would whip up a couple for the last minute entry category...here they are:

#110 - pink is the new orange

this week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is pink is the new orange - it can be inspired by pink or orange and pumpkins or breast cancer awareness and friendship- I sent this card to my auntie who was  going through treatments for cancer...nothing is nicer than a hug...play along with us, will you?

#109 - thanks

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to give thanks for something - it was Thanksgiving here in Canada this past weekend so we have reflected on all we have to be thankful in our house.  This card was made as thanks for a friend - says it on the inside (so you will have to trust me)...play along with us, will you?

#108 - pearls

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to follow the inspiration photo below.  I took the pearls as my primary choice for the challenge and added several to this simple card.  Play along with us, will you?