STAMPlorations Inspiration #100

Hey everyone!  I hope all my Canadian followers had a great Thanksgiving weekend.  Ours was quiet but good.  Yummy turkey dinner.  Only marred by the fact that I got a bad head cold.  Hoping I feel better tomorrow.  :-)

We've got a new inspiration post over at STAMPlorations today.  Lots of great projects to share.  Plus, it's our 100th Inspiration post so we've got a special prize drawing.  More details at the end of this post.  Anyway, here's my card today....

I took the floral stamp (Bloom Happy set) and stamped it four times in the following Memento ink colours: Bamboo Leaves, Teal Zeal, Dandelion and SU! ink, Rich Razzleberry.  I had to measure and lightly mark where to stamp these and do it by eye as I don't have any fancy tool to help in that regard.  I think it worked out rather well.  I die cut my sentiment (Celebrate Word Die) and glued it to my card.

Well, I hope you go on over to the main blog and check out the other fab DT projects.

Thanks for visiting with me and I hope you all have a fabulous day!

100th post Special Drawing

Just for this post only: we'll draw one winner from all comments left on the STAMPlorations  inspiration 100th post and the designer blogs to receive your choice of 4x6 stamp set featured in today's projects.

Inkspirational Designer Challenge - Nonni's Choice

Happy Thanksgiving weekend to all my Canadian friends!  It's time for turkey and pie and family time!  We are having our turkey dinner on Sunday.  Yum!  Can't wait.

Anyway, it's time for another challenge over at Inkspirational!  This time our lovely teammate, Nonni, had the honor of picking what the challenge would be.  She chose "Use 5 Stamps (or more)".

Well, I had a fun time figuring out what stamps to use for my card.  I decided to do a Halloween theme since that fun holiday is coming up.  Here's my card....

I masked of my area and sponged on black ink along the bottom. I stamped my haunted house (Michaels: Craft Smart) in black and then created a mask for it and covered it up. Next, I sponged some orange from the top down and went over lightly the black again. I stamped my branches (Inkadinkado) next then my fox (Fiskars).  I removed all the masks and then stamped the sentiment (Michaels: Craft Smart).  I stamped the spider (Inkadinkado) and made it look like it was hanging by a web thread with a black marker.  I added a bit of yellow to my house windows with a marker as well.  I quite like how this card turned out.

I hope you enjoyed your visit today. Please, make sure to go and check out what the rest of the team made as well as our wonderful Guest Designer.  There are some wonderful cards to look at!

Have a lovely weekend and thanks for stopping by!

I'd like to link up to the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Halloween
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Halloween
Addicted to Stamps and More - CAS
AAA Cards - Masking

STAMPlorations CUTplorations Challenge

Hey everyone!  There's been a bit of a change over at STAMPlorations.  We say goodbye to the CASEploration challenge and say hello to a new one.  Today we start the CUTplorations Challenge!  So, break out your dies and start creating!  Every month we'll have an inspiration photo to inspire you and all you have to do is make something using a die cut and link up.  It's not necessary to use STAMPlorations dies but we love it when you do!  Check out this months inspiration photo....

Isn't it great?!  This is what I came up with....

I stamped and embossed in white my snowflakes (Framed Christmas: Believe in the Magic, Framed Christmas: Peace Love Joy, Vignette: Christmas Block) on watercolour paper.  Then using the Distress inks, Abandoned Coral, Broken China, and Mustard Seed, I watercoloured over top.  Then using the same snowflake stamps and ink colours I randomly stamped.  I cut my panel so it would be on an angle on my dark grey card base and attached it.  I die cut my sentiment (Season's Greetings Phrase Die) out of black cardstock and attached to my card.

I hope you'll all join us for this fun new challenge.  As always there is a prize to be won if you link up!

Have a fabulous day and thanks for stopping by!


CUTplorations CHALLENGE GUIDELINES
This challenge starts on the fifth of the month and ends on the last day of the month.

• Create a project inspired by the inspiration photo for the current month. You can create any type of project -- card, ATC, altered project, mixed media, art journal page, scrapbook page, etc. -- but make sure you use die cuts and at least one STAMPlorations product. (A STAMPlorations product can be a stamp, stencil, thin metal die, or even a page from our coloring book. If you don't own a STAMPlorations product, you can still join by using the free digital stamp we are offering here.)
• Please don't link up projects that you create solely to promote another stamp company.
• Include the challenge graphic and link back to the CUTplorations post in your blog post.
• Don't forget to link up your project(s) to the CUTplorations gallery!

Prize

• One player randomly picked from all entries will win her choice of any 2 word/phrase dies from the dies that were used by the design team for that month's challenge.

STAMPlorations Inspiration #99

Happy Tuesday everyone!  It's a lovely Fall day here in Jemseg. The sun is shining, the leaves are starting to turn such gorgeous colours and there is a crisp coolness in the air.  It's a perfect time of year, I think.  😀  I was out and about our property yesterday and took some pictures of the brightly coloured leaves.  Take a look....

Anyway, it's time for another Inspiration post over at STAMPlorations!  We've got a lovely bunch of projects to share with you today.  And, yes, I've got another Christmas card to show you.  Check it out....

I've seen a few cards on Pinterest that used this technique and thought I'd give it a try. I stamped and heat embossed in white my pine bough (Christmas Bell Medley set) and then stamped it in white pigment ink on my black card base.  I stamped and heat embossed in white my sentiment (Holiday Sketches: Christmas Flower set).  Lastly, I added some red pearls.  I really love the look of this card.

Well, I hope you go on over to the main blog and check out the other fab DT projects.  Don't forget to comment there for a chance to win a prize too!

Thanks for visiting with me and I hope you all have a fabulous day!

I'd like to link up to the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - anything goes
Christmas Card Challenges - there's an optional photo inspiration but I decided not to use it
CAS on Sunday - Heat Embossing

STAMPlorations Inspiration #98

Oh my goodness it's the last day of September!  Where does the time go?!  Canadian Thanksgiving is just around the corner (turkey dinner, yum!). Soon it'll be Halloween.  This year my son has decided to be Harry Potter.  We started reading him the books and once we finish one we watch the movie. He just loves it!  :-)

Anyway, it's the last inspiration post over at STAMPlorations for September.  I've got another Christmas card to share today.  I almost have enough made for this year. :-). Check it out....

First, I stamped my stitched frames (Frames and Flowers set) in black.  Then, masking around them, I stamped my reindeers (Reindeer Games set), mittens and gift (Warm Hands, Warm Hearts set) and mistletoe (Christmas Bell Medley set).  I coloured them all in with my Spectrum Noir markers.  I stamped the sentiment (Reindeer Games set) in black.  I find those reindeer so cute and funny!

Well, I hope you go on over to the main blog and check out the other fab DT projects.  Don't forget to comment there for a chance to win a prize too!

Hope you enjoy your weekend and thanks for stopping by!

I'd like to link up to the following challenges:

CASology - cue card is Cute
52 Christmas Card Throwdown - masking
Addicted to Stamps and More - Holiday
AAA Cards - masking

STAMPlorations Inspiration #97

Hey there!  Tuesday has rolled around again and you know what that means. Yep!  It's time for an inspiration post over at STAMPlorations!  There's loads to see and inspire!  This is what I made....

I broke out my poinsettia (Holiday Sketches: Holiday Flower set) and using Seedless Preserves and Abandoned Coral Distress ink I inked it up and spritzed with some water before stamping.  I then splattered some watered down Abandoned Coral ink as well as Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls mist.  I die cut my sentiment (Merry Christmas Phrase Die) from white cardstock and then sponged on Seedless Preserves ink.  I attached this to my card and voila!  I'm really digging the non-traditional colours of this card.

Well, I hope you go on over to the main blog and check out the other fab DT projects.  Don't forget to comment there for a chance to win a prize too!

Thanks for visiting with me and I hope you all have a fabulous day!

I'd like to link up to the following challenges:

Christmas Card Challenges - anything goes

Inkspirational Challenge - Prompt Word - Glamour

Happy Saturday everyone!  It's time again for another Inkspirational challenge.  This time it's a word prompt.  And that word is, Glamour.

Now, I had a bit of a problem with this word.  I just didn't have any stamps that fit any of the ideas I had.  Then I had a lightbulb moment and approached it from a different angle.  Glamour, when thought about in terms of magic and fairies, is a spell that makes you appear as something else.  Well, I thought I have several fairy images so I went with that.  :-) Check it out.....

 

I've had this stamp forever.  It's the first one I ever bought when I first got sucked into this amazing world of stamping.  It's by Stamps Happen Inc. and I'm pretty sure they don't exist anymore.  But it's  a lovely stamp and I bring it out every so often to play.  So, first I stamped my fairy in black Memento ink and then made a mask for it and covered it up.  Then I stamped my tapestry background (Stampabilities) using Mustard Seed Distress ink that I faded the intensity of here and there.  I stamped it a few times (sometime spritzing with water) without reinking it.  Then I removed the mask and coloured in my fairy with my Spectrum Noir markers.  I added a bit of sparkle to the dress and wings with my Wink of Stella pen.  You can see it better in the detail picture.  I coloured in the star of the wand with a gold Pentel marker.  Lastly, I stamped the sentiment (STAMPlorations) in black.

I hope you'll take a trip on over to the Ink blog and check out the other fantastic cards by the rest of the team.  They knocked it out of the park, once again.  :-)

Have a lovely weekend and thanks for stopping by!

I'd like to link up to the following challenge:

Addicted to Stamps and More - "make your mark"