STAMPlorations Inspiration #183

Hi Everyone,

its inspiration time at STAMPlorations!

And here is my inspiration card:

My stamp supplies:

  

Fantastic word die, Party Time, Happy Flowers

I used the stencil, laid it on water color paper and sprinkled Brushos on it. Spritzed with water. Took the wet stencil and put it on an other piece of water color paper. Pressed it down. Let it dry. put eh stencil back and outlined the flowers with a fine liner pen. Added the sentiment and little left over scraps of patterned paper.

Throughout July to September, all products are 15% off on TUESDAYS only -- no coupon needed.

And if you use code STAMPGIRLCORNELIA

you will get an additional 20% off on all stamps, stencils, and dies on all regular- and sale-priced items in the store.

All our  Inspiration Project posts have a monthly random drawing - 1 commenter wins a $10 gift certificate. So look at all those fabulous cards the Inspiration Girls made and leave them some love! It may pay off :)

Happy Stamping!

Linking up with:

Craft Stamper TIMI challenge - anything goes
CAS Mix Up  - Stencil Monoprint

Lost Coast Design - Hard as Stone

Hi Everyone,

I am playing along at the new Lost Coast Designs challenge - the theme is Hard as Stone. And since Halloween is almost around the corner, I went with a spooky interpretation. 

I used the door from the set Door and Window and colored it with water colors. 

Stamped the skull and humerus from the articulated skeleton and fuzzy cut it. Placed them in the foreground.

Happy Stamping!

Linking up with:

Lost Coast Designs - Hard as Stone

Twofer Card Challenge #8

HI Everyone,

of course I had to play along with the current Twofer challenge. the theme is geometric - how could I not????

I did use a MFT stencil for this - turned out to actually be not allowed.....bummer. But I had a sneaking suspicion about this, so I made myself those tiny triangular stamps...... so forget the stencil  - I did use the same stamp on both cards ;)

Look, here it is:

 I don't think there is a size requirement for the stamps...perhaps I should read the FAQ's????

So I happily stenciled on both cards, as you can see. The happy birthday on the first card is by Neat&Tangled, the die cut thanks is by CUTplorations. Added my tiny stamps.

That was so much fun to make! I also cut two of the triangles on the first card - the bright blue and yellow ones and mounted them with foam tape for some dimension.

The bright pink triangles on the second card I simply masked. I die cut the thanks twice - with black fun foam and neon pink card stock.

This challenge just makes me happy!

Happy Twofing!

Also linking up with:

Inkspirational - birthday card

Creations in Pink - anything with pink

Happy Little Stampers - anything with a die cut (thanks card)

Time Out - Bright (thanks card)

Watercooler Wednesday - anything goes masculine (birthday card)

My Sweet Petunia and Crackerbox/So Suzy Blog Hop

Hi Everone,

I am delighted to be on the MISTI and Crackerblox&So Suzy Stamps blog hop!

Perhaps you came from the talented Jeanne Streiff

After all I really treasure my MISTI and rarely ever make a card without it!

I was curious about the creative corners and I am going to show you haw to use them.

Quoting from Simon Says Stamps:

These magnetic corners and positioning pieces combine to provide even more possibilities for precision stamping. Create angled designs with diagonal positions for perfectly aligned stamping, card layers, tape or embellishments. Also use as internal bumpers and additional corners for the MISTI. Magnetic corners are used to create off the edge designs, as well as opportunities for precisely layered, spotlighted or telescoped designs with no measuring. The two corners and two triangles also work in the mini MISTI. The L-ruler only works with the regular size.

And here is my card:

I put the magnetic bumper into the right hand corner and layed down the triangle. Lined up my

  magic hat stamp.

  Stamped with Catherine Pooler midnight black ink. 

Made a mask with a post it note and masked the first hat,

repositioned my stamp and stamped again.

Repeated this.

Trimmed a piece of patterned paper, although in the end I decided on the black damask paper, but forgot to take a picture.....marked with pencil, where I cut the pape.

Colored the hats with Inktense pencils.

Took the Halloween sentiment stamp and cut it apart. Lined it up 

  and stamped the top half in black and the bottom half in Versamak ink and heat embossed it in white.

Added black splatters.

 

Your next stop on the hop is the fabulous Kia Clapper

And of course we have prizes:

2 lucky commenters from the hop will win one of two prizes: 
 $50 shopping spree at www.mysweetpetunia.com 
 $50 shopping spree at http://www.sosuzystamps.com/  
please leave your comments no later than Friday, August 24th, at 11:59 PM Central time and winners will be announced on the Crackerbox & So Suzy Stamps and My Sweet Petunia blogs on August 31st


In case you get lost, here is the complete line-up:

Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps Blog

Ilina Crouse
Martha Lucia Gomez 

Jeanne Streiff
Cornelia Wenokor - you are here

Kia Clapper

Ceal Pritchett

Donna Green Idlet

Giovana Smith
Terri Burson 

Olesya Andreyeva

Stephanie Severin

Tracy McLennon

Susan Wymer
Lindsay Adreon
Teresa DeWitt Pierce 

Giada Rigamonti

Chris Dayton

My Sweet Petunia
Lydia Fiedler

Current Crackerbox & So Suzy Stamps promotions:

Current sale includes all animal stamps:

That little frog is yours free with every order this month - not sure what do do with it? 

Look HERE

We now have Catherine Pooler Inks!

Happy Stamping!

Linking up with:

Muse Christmas Visions #106

Hi Everyone,

the current Muse at Muse Christmas Visions is Chriss Blagrave from Botanical Cafe.

  She made this wonderful Christmas card:

I had an old water color background laying around, that I kept for future use and it kind of fit. Little more yellow green, but I figured it would do....I used Papertrey dies and spruced it up a bit with gold metallic paper and red metallic berries. Added the striped paper for a modern vibe. and conveniently Chriss heat embossed her sentiment in white - so here is another similarity.

I hope you will find time to play along with us.

The linky list closes at 7:59 AM EST on Monday, August 20.

See you at MCV!

Linking up with:

The Holly and Ivy Christmas challenge - anything goes

So Suzy Challenge August/September

Hi Everyone,

onto a new challenge at So Suzy and Crackerbox stamps. The theme is Halloween.

I used some of the new release stamps for my card - the broom and the hat.

I masked a room corner and sponged the walls in grey and the floor in brown. Added the hat and broom and colored them with Inktense. Added the sentiment. Lastly I finished it with Washi tape on top and some Sticker ants.

Don't forget that you get a stamp with every order free.

This month it is THIS stamp: 

I used it in this post.

We also have a sale going on at this month, this includes all animal stamps:

Happy Halloween card making! I hope I will see you at the challenge! perhaps you will win the $25 gift certificate to the store.

Linking up with:

STAMPlorations Inspiration #182

Hi Everyone,

its inspiration time at STAMPlorations!

For this post we decided to make art coins. They are circles 2.5 inches in diameter and they are a lot of fun to make!

You can use them to trade with other artists, or make cards with them.

My STAMPloration supplies:

The Birds and the Blooms, Floral Bliss, Mixed Media Grunge

Throughout July to September, all products are 15% off on TUESDAYS only -- no coupon needed.

And if you use code STAMPGIRLCORNELIA

you will get an additional 20% off on all stamps, stencils, and dies on all regular- and sale-priced items in the store.

All our  Inspiration Project posts have a monthly random drawing - 1 commenter wins a $10 gift certificate. So look at all those fabulous cards the Inspiration Girls made and leave them some love! It may pay off :)

Happy Stamping!

Linking up with:

So Suzy & Crackerbox Stamps - Eat, Drink and be Scary

Hi Everyone,

I used some of the new release stamps for my card - the bottles.

I masked away the cork on the big bottle and colored it with Inktense. The small bottle I used as is. The sentiment you can find HERE. I added the smoke with a TCW Stencil. the ants are stickers. Added Washi tape at he bottom.

We also have a sale going on at this month, this includes all animal stamps:

That little frog is yours free with every order this month - not sure what do do with it? 

Look HERE

And more exciting news - we now have Catherine Pooler Inks!

And lastly, don't forget to leave comments on our new release blog hop by the end of today - you could win a $25 gift certificate to the store

Happy Stamping!

Linking up with:

Cute N Crafty - animals (ants)

Crazy 4 Challenges - bugs

Send a Smile 4 Kids - Anything goes 4 Kids

Lost Coast Designs - anything goes