Stempel Spass

Hi Everyone, its inspiration time at  STAMPlorations ! My stamp supplies:    The Birds and the Blooms ,  Fond Expressions 2 , Artsy Border Stamped the flowers, water colored them, splattered, added the border and the sentiments as well as a few sequins. What's new for our Inspiration Project posts? We'll 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 :) Linking up with: Paru's card making challenge - anything goes Basteltraum - Nature Craft Stamper TIMI challenge - Spring flowers CAS on Sundays - Flowers Lost Coast Designs - anything goes Happy Stamping!

Hi Everyone, its INSPIRATION day again at  STAMPlorations !  The DT girls made some beautiful cards to entice you playing with your stamps or stencils - STAMPlorations or otherwise. Today I have been playing with the Marigold from the new stamp club set The Birds and The Blooms .         I first stamped the Marigold 3 times on Kraft, then masked it with rubber cement. After that dried I gessoed it over, let it dry again and then rubbed of the cement. I still am learning how to do this correctly, since it did not cover everything consistently and little specks of Gesso remained on the paper....That did not make me happy, so I made myself a post -it mask and repeatedly stamped onto the Gesso. Still not happy.... stamped the flower onto white card stock and fuzzy cut it and mounted it with foam tape. Now I liked it..... Added the sentiment from the set Fond Expressions Linking up with: Snippets Playground - use a snippet Simon Sa...

Hi Everyone, this is my second blog post today - if you are looking for the STAMPlorations blog hop, click HERE Its challenge time at  ATSM ! For the next two weeks our theme is Anything Goes - don't you just love this? I used that wonderful Cardinal from the brand new STAMPlorations set  The Birds and The Blooms  and colored him with water colors. Added the branch  - by  Memory Box and stamped the leaves, which are form the set  Rosebuds  and colored them in, too. Added splatters, what else...? And then I added Stickles to the beak - it has to glitter somewhere... Our wonderful sponsor for  this  challenge is no other than - you might have guessed that -  Prize is a $10 gift certificate Linking up with: Amusing challenges  - Birds and Bees Crafty Calender  - Things with Wings My time to Craft  - Zoo animals - they certainly have songbirds at the zoo Sweet Sta...