Saturday, April 30, 2011

Say it like it is: A Drunken Stampers Challenge

This week at Drunken Stampers we're asking you to Say it like it is!

Luckily we're sponsored by Bugaboo stamps for this challenge, which means there's plenty of fodder to choose from if you're at a loss for a sassy opinion.

Just look at my version of Bugaboo's Dottie Celebrate: She's decked out in animal print, with a martini, glittery diamond ring, rhinestone earrings and a note that Happy Hour is Whatever Hour Makes You Happy (the sentiment is made up by My Guy).

So, back to the important part: Remember that even though Bugaboo is our sponsor of the week, you don't need to own a collection of Bugaboo images or sentiments.

Share any freshly-made silly, sassy or snarky creation with us at Drunken Stampers before midnight Friday, May 6, using whichever stamps or rubons or images you prefer: Then you might walk away with your own collection of Bugaboo images!

That's right! Bugaboo is offering a fantastic seven-image prize package for the winner of our challenge this week!

OK, even though you're not required to use a Bugaboo image, there are two rules you have to follow for this challenge: Your creation must be new and can not be entered in any other challenges.

Oops, one more thing: Have fun!

Friday, April 29, 2011

Have you seen it: Haunted Design House

Craft- and art-loving bloggers everywhere know that there's no season for the mysterious, macabre or mucky stuff ... it's all around us all of the time, especially at the Haunted Design House.

Some days it's oozing out of our craft towels that were previously swiped across an ink-covered craft desk and other times, let's be honest, it hovered insubstantially above the laundry basket screaming "visit the haunted design house."

That's not just really smelly gym wear folks ... it's iggy higgy other-earthly presences trying to contact us and lead us to the Haunted Design House!

Which means that it's not for nothing that you're artist folk ... perhaps those other-earthly or just really, really lost souls are trying to drag you on to the Haunted Design House ...where it wouldn't be unheard of for them to be looking for ... aaaaccchhhh ... just go ... to .... acccchhhhh ....

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Getting on the dimension with Donna Mundinger and Do More With Less

Roughly seven years have passed since Cricut became a common topic in crafty households.

Then, three years ago, Donna Mundinger wrote her first blog post and taught all of us Cricuters that what we were doing was mundane: Her creations were, and still are, the pinnacle of Cricut-based art.

Check out what she does with a Cricut, and lots of other mediums like digi stamps, at her blog, Popsicle Toes.

After you're adequately impressed and inspired try your hand at a dimensional project, and then drop in at Do More With Less, where Donna is the guest designer for a dimensional art challenge.

I arrived at More With Less after following Donna there, so it's new to me, but I can tell you a couple of things that are apparent: The owner of Do More With Less, Yvonne Yam, has three of the most hug able nephews who ever existed and her art is gorgeous!

Anyhow, one assumes that despite creating the most beautiful art, owning the most purrific cats, and being related to the most hug able nephews, Donna and Yvonne are mere human women, so there's a chance that our creations will live up to their challenge.

Just look at my own card: If I'm not too embarrassed to share ... surely you can, too.