Stempel Spass

Hi Everyone, Its challenge time at  ATSM ! For the next two weeks the theme is  Make your Mark - that means you must  use of anything that can make a mark - Stamping, Write, Markers of any kind, Painting, Chalks, Watercolours, Sponges, Stencils, Masks etc. etc. Not hard, right?  I went with stencils for this  challenge  and since we just had July 4th I went with the American flag theme. I used my beloved iStencils for this card - my favorite Stripes stencil  and that cool  Star Stream stencil The stripes stencil I have used several times so far ( you can check it out HERE , HERE  and HERE ). Again I did somewhat of an ombre fade with the stripes. The stars I made with embossing paste on blue card stock. The wonderful sentiment is from Hero Arts -  Year Round Sentiments . Do you know that I am now on the A2Zscrapbooking store  - a fabulous Hero Arts store and if you order your stamps from them you can get 15...

At 613 Ave Create the theme is Subway Art - and what better stamp to use than STAMPlorations for that?   I made Christmas card, using the  Vignette: Christmas Block , altough STAMPlorations has quite a few subway art stamps, including a beautiful set in the latest release . I first stamped the sentiment onto a silver metallic paper and heat embossed it. I then dropped alcohol inks on it. I popped up this panel onto another silver metallic paper, using thin foam tape. The background I used the same stamp and stamped it repetitively onto white card stock, although it looks grey in the picture - not sure why.... Here are some more photos with different angles - its kind of tricky to photograph, because of the reflection.  I am also linking my card with  Stempelkueche  - Untypische Weihnachtskarte = atypical Christmas Card and with Uniko Studio - Anything goes and a sketch Less is More - anything Christmassy, although this is not re...