SOS4 - Shimmering Seahorses

Are you ready for another Shopping Our Stash Challenge? This week it's a fun and easy one:
Use any combination of one or more items/themes from one or more of the following categories:

S- products from companies that start with S - Stampin' Up, Stampavie, SEI, etc.
O-ocean or nautical, seashore, underwater creatures, etc.
S-things that start with an S like seashells, silver, seambinding...

Here is my card and collection of S-es plus an ocean theme:
Shinny Silver Seahorses Silently Swimming through Shimmery Ocean made with Stampin Up inks and are layered with Silver cardstock. Not enough S?
I also added Stitching and Seam binding from Steam Trunk Craftworks.

Challenges:
The Crazy Challenge - Monochromatic
Craft Your Days Away - Monochrome
Phindy's Place - Water
Digi Doodle Shop - No patterned paper
Art Impressions Stamps - Monochromatic

Cupcake anyone?

Feel like having a cupcake? I have 2 to show you, sadly they are not edible - the real carrot ones were gobbled down last night ;)
It's the last day of Ribbon Rewind challenge over at Shopping Our Stash so my cupcakes are ribbon covered. They are actually paper mache boxes, painted with acrylic paint and then "iced"with ribbon. For the first one I used sheer turquoise ribbon, ruffled it and attached the ruffles with hot glue. Sheer ribbon is probably not the best choice, as you need to really use a LOT of it and then you end up with a puff ball like this one ;)
So on the second one I twisted the ribbon like when you make the ribbon roses and attached them with the hot glue too. I kind of like this one better, it's more sleek and elegant ;)

SOS1 - Ribon Rose Wreath

Good morning and welcome to the first Shopping Our Stash challenge. The first challenge is called Ribbon Rewind and you need to use your oldest ribbon or the color you have most of. If you would like some ideas or inspiration, you can visit SOS resources page where you'll find tons of links to beautiful ribbon creations and tutorials.
When I opened my ribbon drawer I realized I have loads of pink and green ribbon so I decided to use those and here is what I created:
I made lot's of twisted ribbon roses and secured them to a small foam wreath with hot glue. As you can see, I tried our different size and kind of ribbon, some were easier to work with than other. The empty spaces are filled up with Wild Orchid blossoms and added a little white butterfly.
It's already in use, hanging on our naturally rustic door (naturally rustic = old and flaky) ;)
I'm entering it into the following challenges:
Really Reasonable Ribbon challenge - Anything Goes
Digi Design House - Anything but a card
Polka Doodles - Anything but a card
Fab 'n' Funky - make your own blooms

SOS Challenge Blog Kick-Off

Welcome to the Kick-Off Challenge for the new Shopping Our Stash Challenge Blog! We thought the best way to start the ball rolling is to host a virtual 2-week long "open house" where we share a look at our crafty spaces and stashes! It's always fun to see behind the scenes where we spend so much of our time and money!

First I planned to take the pictures when my room is nice and tidy, but miracles are not happening... I realized that waiting to see this room clean is pointless - I'm always in the middle of some project/projects so I took advantage of nice morning sunshine and took my pictures:

here is a look at my whole room - I have 2 tables, but as you can see they are both COVERED with stuff - if you are wondering how can I create like that - well, sometimes I wonder too ;)

my craft table covered in stuff and magazine holders with papers on the left - 12x12 papers are just loose in the shelf, markers in various plastic containers.

here are my drawers with ribbon - the only organized thing in my room - I have 2 12x12 drawers of it and I actually manage to keep it tidy - yay me!

here is how I store my Nesties - on a magnet strip - need to install more, my collection more than doubled since I installed the strip. So now you seen it all and you can see that I REALLY need to use my stash - how is yours (stash/craft space)?