SOS152 - Birthday Bloom

Good Morning! It's Tuesday and that means a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash. It's our 3rd anniversary this week, so the challenge is to make a Birthday or Anniversary card. Easy, right?
I used my very new SU sneak-peak purchases to create this card:

The flower was colored with my new Blendabilities and the CS and ribbon are from the new in-colors too. The only old thing is the dotted background paper :)

Challenges:
A Little Bit Crafty - Flower Power
Stamploration - stamps & flowers
Open Minded Crafting - use some ribbon
Seize the Birthday - Birthday with flowers
Charisma Cardz - May Flowers

SOS150 - Clockworks

It's Tuesday and that means we have a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash. This week it's an inspiration:

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I was inspired by the clock and the colors and here is what I made:

I used a retiring SU set called Clockworks.

• Paper: Whisper White, Pacific Point, Crisp Cantaloupe
• Stamps: Clockworks, Itty Bitty Banners, En Francais
• Ink:  Pacific Point, Crisp Cantaloupe, Coastal Cabana, Soft Sky
• Tools: Scissors, Paper Trimmer, circle punches, banner framelit, distress tool

Challenges :
Lexi's Creation - for a man/boy in your life
Crafts 4 Eternity - stamp it
4 Krafty Girlz - anything goes
Seize The Birthday - anything birthday

SOS141 - Summer Silhouettes & 3-2-1

This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is called 3-2-1. We ask you to use 3 of something, 2 of something else, and 1 of something else.

for my card I used 3 patterned papers, 2 flowers and 1 ribbon

• Paper: Basic Black, Very Vanilla CS, SU designer paper
• Stamps: Summer Silhouettes,
• Ink:  Smoky Slate,  Pool Party, Basic Black
• Accessories:  Vanilla Seam Binding colored blue with Pool Party reinker
• Tools:  Pearls, Scissors, Paper Trimmer, scallop circle punch, circle punch

Summer Silhouettes in gray and blue

I finally pulled out my Summer Silhouettes stamp set and you'll be seeing couple of different cards made with it in next few days.

and a detail

I used Pool Party and Smoky Slate as my main colors

• Paper: Smoky Slate, Whisper White, Pool Party CS
• Stamps: Summer Silhouettes, En Francais, Itty Bitty Banners
• Ink:  Smoky Slate,  Pool Party, Wild wasabi
• Accessories:  White Embossing Powder, Chevron Embossing Folder. White Tafetta Ribbon
• Tools:  Pearls, Scissors, Paper Trimmer, Bitty BannersThinlits Die, big shot

Challenges:Great Impressions - Floral Images
ABC Challenges - F is for Flowers
Card Makin' Mamas - stack it up
Stampin for the Weekend - Flower Power

SOS136 - Wide Open Seas

This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is called Cabin Fever. No, we don't want you to use a cabin in your project. By Cabin Fever we refer to the time of year (at least in the Northern Hemisphere) where the weather is very cold and wet and windy and we are stuck inside, just wishing we could be OUTside. So this week we'd like you to make a card or other project with an outdoors-y theme.

 From my card is obvious I wish I was somewhere on or by the sea - preferably a warm one, with sandy beaches and palm trees :)
Stamps are all from Open Seas set, sentiment is from Bitty Banners set.

Challenges:
Stampin for the weekend -Happy Birthday
Totally Papercrafts - one for the boys
Art Impressions - Trips Ahoy
Charisma Cardz - for the boys

SOS134 - MIss You

This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is MISS YOU.
And I have a perfect stamp for that.. one from a new SU set, that you'll be able to see at the end of January :)

• Paper: Crumb Cake, Coastal Cabana, Cherry Cobbler CS, Fresh Prints Designer Series Paper Stack
• Stamps: new ;)
• Ink: Whisper White Craft Ink
• Accessories:  White Embossing Powder, Chevron Embossing Folder. White Tafetta Ribbon
• Tools:  Heat Tool, Scissors, Paper Trimmer, Circle card Thinlits Die (little stars)

Challenges:
Stampin' Up Only Challenge - new SU goodies (DP, stamp)
A Gem of A Challenge - something new - new stamps and paper
Card Mania - Anything Goes
Dream Valley - for boys/men
Card Makin Mamas - anything goes

SOS133 - Peaceful Petals in Gold

This week at Shopping Our Stash  we are using something new.
So break out some of the new stuff Santa brought you, or that you gifted to yourself, or you bought with your holiday gift cards, or maybe something new you've had for a while and just haven't opened yet.

I used new stamps (SU Peaceful Petals), new gold washi tape and gold sequins I got from taking apart the new gold sequin trim from SU.

• Paper: Whisper White CS, gold
• Stamps: Peaceful Petals
• Ink: Versafine
• Accessories:  Gold Embossing Powder, Gold washi tapes, gold sequin trim
• Tools:  Heat Tool, Scissors, Paper Trimmer

 Challenges:
Perfectly rustic - washi tape
Make My Monday - embossing
Great Impressions - use something new
Time 4 Scrap - any color with silver or gold (white + gold)