F is for ....

...FUGLY.

I have received the esteemed honor of being crowned the 

Queen of Snark 

by the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers.
Along with my shiny new crown I get to guest DT for this week's challenge.
When it comes to fugly (so ugly it deserves an eff in front of it) I have no shortage
of unattractive papercrafting supplies. I have a ridiculous amount of ugly ass papers.
You know when you buy a paper pad for that one or two gorgeous sheets of paper,
but then the rest of the pad is inundated with just blech?! Yeah, I have a bunch
of those. Especially old papers I've had for years but never seem to part with even on
my best purge days. This was a perfect opportunity to part with some of those papers.
The hard part was deciding which ones to try and work with for a usable card.

These papers came in a set that I bought at Ross or somewhere.

Most of them have glitter and embossing and are in the purple range.

These however are not purple, but at least they play well off of each other.

And for the record, baby blue is probably my least favorite color ever.

This guy on the other hand is one of my favorite images.

He's 'Gobsmack', from Sweet November. Sadly, I don't think he's available any longer.

He does however go fabulously with the snarkiest of sentiments.

I used some new stamps from StudioL2E and Snarky Stamps from Paper Issues.

Thanks to my new Snarky Sisters, we were able to share links to some new stamps

for each other. Snarky Stamps from Paper Issues are awesome! Lots of cursing,

so be warned if you choose to check them out. The same goes for StudioL2E.

My buddy Jessa from Useless Trinkets was kind enough to hook me up with

the 'Potty Mouth' set as a gift. She rocks. I had to expand my collection with the

'Suckyday Part-1' set as well.  

The inside sentiment is from the Snarky Stamps 'Ahh Real Birthday sentiments',

which are currently on sale. It looks like they may be phasing these sets out, 

as they are all on sale now. Grab 'em while you can!! 

Overall, this card is pretty cute. I managed to use up some papers that I thought

were basically unusable, and they do work well together. 

Even with baby blech. I mean baby blue. 

Well, that's gonna do it for me today.

Now to narrow down who to send this fugly little gem to for their 

special day. The list is long since I have a lot of good humored people in my life

who will totally appreciate this card.

Thanks to the fabulous ladies at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers.

They get me over there. Check 'em out!! And join in on the fugly challenge

going on right now. Just do it. All the cool kids are there.

    

Vera Lane Xmas Snark

I am still not done trying to make Halloween schtuff,

but I'm coming to the dreaded realization that Christmas is eminent.

Gah!

I decided to have a go at transforming some Vera Lane digi images 

from their everyday quirkiness to Holiday Cheer Quirkiness.

I am always in need of last minute Christmas cards, and this little lady seemed

like the perfect focal point for a fun and simple holiday card. 

I used the Wednesday image and added a hat from the 

Boutique Hats set. I also gave her a cool sweater that was

offered as a freebie on the Vera Lane Studio facebook page.  

I went completely non-traditional with a purple and black color scheme,

and a snarky sentiment for this card. I used some TH snowflake border

and a MS skull border punch to mimic  a sweater design.

I am having a blast transforming these deliciously fun and quirky images

for Christmas cards. I may have forgotten to mention that I am using Gimp

to manipulate the images. I think I need to look for an update as my version is pretty

dated, but it still works for what I need.

I'll be back soon with a couple more cards using Vera Lane images and Gimp.

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

ABC Challenge - V is for Violet 

Whimsie Doodles - Naughty or Nice? 

Glitter N' Sparkle - #164 purple and black 

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes Christmas

Always in the Naughty Corner

Growing up as an only child meant that I was

always in trouble because there was no one else around

 to blame shit on. I was easily bored, what can I say?

I was always on restriction or grounded. Most of my summers

and school vacations were spent with a chore list, and a

consequence if the list wasn't completed by end of day. Which actually

meant end of business day, so 4 PM when my Mom got home from work.

And even though I crossed stuff of the list as I went, I always

managed to miss something, or more often than not, I just

didn't do it right. Which makes sense in retrospect because

I didn't start doing stuff on the list until about 3:30PM.

Kids are so dumb. Or maybe it was just me... 

Which brings me to my card for today.

The new challenge at HDH is The Naughty Corner.

What's really nice about these challenge themes is that you can 

interpret them any way you'd like, as long as they're creepy,

risque, Gothic, Steampunk, or Hallowe'en inspired in some way.

No cute shit in the dungeon. That doesn't fly with the Minions. 

Anyhoo, this schmexy sistah is from a now defunct(or renamed?)

shop that is no longer carrying her, so I'm going to call her,

"Helllloooooo Nurse!". Any Animaniacs out there?

Nevermind... 

I am quite pleased with how her mask turned out. 

I made the mistake of coloring it with flesh tones first, but

after some colorless blender and blue greens, I think it 

gives the impression I was hoping for.

  

She works perfectly with this sentiment set from

Hambo Stamps. I just love their funny two part sentiments.

But, it looks as though they are selling off the last of their stock,

 so snatch 'em up while you still can.  

See? 

Perfect snark in all it's glory!

Say goodbye to the pretty lady....

I hope you'll join us over at Haunted Design House for some

naughty good times and play along in our month long challenge.

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers - A is for Accident

Sir Stampalot challenge - One for the Guys 

  

I miss those Wicked Wednesdays.....

I used to be on the Wicked Wednesday ATC challenge DT

a while back. I miss those days. So fun to create mini art

like that. I've been meaning to play along lately, but can never

find the time. Until today.

The current theme is Girly Stuff, and the sponsor is

Vera Lane Studio. 

I have been meaning to pick up a digi or two from

Vera Lane, and figured now was as good a time as any,

plus she offered a 10% discount to WW challenge players.

How could I say, "No!"? She has a fun and quirky feel to her 

art, and most of the girls look kinda snarky, and I really like that. 

I colored her up with Copics, highlighted her using a 

white Gelly Roll pen and Stickles. I matched her with

a fun saying from the Smeared Ink Love Lil' Grumpies set.

I think it's supposed to sound weird and stalker-ish, but 

I used it to sound like she is not happy with your attire.

That works, right?

Thanks for stopping by today.

Be sure to check out Wicked Wednesday ATC, Vera Lane,

and Smeared Ink for more inspiration, and fabulous stamps and digis. 

    

Naughty or Nice?

Naughty!

Definitely naughty!

There is a relatively new challenge blog called, Naughty or Nice,

and I have been dying to play along with them.

Their current challenge is Anything Goes, so I had to make sure to 

get in on this one. The main idea of their challenges is to make something 

naughty or nice. I have a ridiculous amount of snarky sentiment stamps,

and don't even get me started on naughty images. 

It's called, Naughty or Nice, not foul and inappropriate. 

But I can do both if need be. 

I decided to create a wall hanging out of 

corrugated cardboard that has been peeled.

I really love the look and texture this creates.

When I decided to do something snarky, I knew I had to reach for my

all time favorite bad girls, Karin and Newt from Stampotique. 

These girls are all attitude and creepiness. Perfection.

I had fun using Pearl Mica Flake medium on the corrugated cardboard.

It added such a lovely sparkle, and another cool texture.

I used a Sizzix die for the frame, and used Platinum Stickles on it for

some highlights and more sparkle.  

I ordered a bunch of metal elements like this piece, and finally worked one

 into one of my projects. I swiped it with some gold rub n' buff to make the

details really pop. I think it adds a nice bit of fanciness here.   

The addition of the gold dew drops is a subtle touch, while reinforcing the 

gold and white color scheme. Also, this is a good picture of that mica flake.

That stuff is so cool! 

This falls under the naughty title. I'm not sure I can even do nice.

Thanks for checking out my schtuff today.

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

Naughty or Nice - Anything Goes

Altered Eclectics - Anything Goes

Rhedd's Creative Spirit - Anything Goes Altered Art

Tando Creative Challenges - Lovely Layers