Stempel Spass

Hi Everyone, I am here to share a stenciled birthday card with you. The full tutorial on how I made this is over at the STAMPlorations blog - made this for the spotlight feature. Linking up with: Virginia's view - ombre Seize the birthday  - anything birthday - no topping for me... Make My Monday - embossing

Hi Everyone,  today is the fourth day of our blog hop at  STAMPlorations   - are you having fun? I sure do! This is a real easy card to make. Took that stencil, spritzed it with Dylusion spray , put it on watercolor paper and ran it through my Big Shot. Added the daisy and put Stickles into the center, although it dos not show well in the picture, but in real life it sparkles beautifully!!!! Lastly added the sentiment.           Daisy Dance          Bloom Sketches: Daisy 1 Sentiment Builders: Celebrate   Here is another view of my card: Check out what the rest of the team made! You'll find links to all our projects  here . And of course there are prizes to win - the details you find on the STAMPlorations blog Linking up with: Stampotique #194  - Stencils Inkspirational - purple Seize the Birthday  - anything birthday Shopping our Stash - ...

Hi Everyone,  today is the second day of our blog hop at  STAMPlorations  featuring those fabulous stencils Shery keeps designing!!!! Here is my card: Started out with yellow card stock and the stencil, sponged with black soot distress ink. Added the newsprint stamp from the Mixed Media Grungs set. Then stamped the daisy (the stencil was designed for it) and added white highlights. The sentiment is heat embossed and added some color to the word "SUN".    Daisy Dance        TYPOGRAFIA: Encouragement      Bloom Sketches: Daisy 1 Mixed Media Grunge Here is another view of my card: Check out what the rest of the team made! You'll find links to all our projects  here . And of course there are prizes to win - the details you find on the STAMPlorations blog Linking up with: Stampotique #194  - Stencils Simon Says Wednesday challenge - stencil it The Pink Elepha...

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.  For this post we are all using older stamp sets - to entice you to pull out yours and start playing! For this card I am using the set  Bloom Sketches . Stamped those gorgeous poppies once on card stock and once on a scrap piece of card stock. Colored them with water colors. Cut out the blooms on on the scrap paper piece and mounted them with foam tape, to give it some dimension. Added some gold wash and splatters.  The sentiments are from  MOM Subway Art Builders #2 - Grace in Each Step . Remember - Mothers Day is coming up..... So, if you are up for it - CASE (preferably- wink, wink) my card or any other card and link it up  HERE  over at STAMPlorations. The InLinkz gallery  will be open until the 5th of April - gives you plenty of time! One ...

Hi Everyone, this is my second post today...scroll down, if you want to see the first one, or click HERE lots of things happening at STAMPlorations this week! We are having a stencil blog hop! I made this card for it: Spritzed the background in light green, spritzed again in a darker shade of green with the stencil in place. Waited for the paper to dry. Cut it, underlayed it in black and added the sentiment. The flower I colored with pencils and fuzzy cut it. Added some leaves cut with a Memory Box die. Her is a slightly different view: Bloom Sketches: Poppies Bloom Ske ches: Daisy 2 ARTPlorations Stencils - Bubbles We have prizes: SIX (6) winners (2 winners per day) will receive their choice of ARTplorations stencil. Winners will be randomly drawn from all comments left on the designers' blogs. THREE (3) winners will each win a $15 gift certificate. Winners will be randomly drawn from comments left on the STAMPlorations bl...

Hi Everyone this  is  STAMPlorations Stamp Release Day 4  !                               Today the Spotlight is on: The Bee's Knees Newlyweds Extras  and  Sentiment Builders: Love    I also used the beautiful poppy stamp from the set  Bloom Sketches: Poppies . I tried out he no line watercolor technique, where you stamp the image with a light colored ink and then color it with watercolors. Added some light color wash around the poppies and at the bottom. And of course my obligatory splatters.... Check out what the rest of the team made! You'll find links to all our projects  here . And of course we have prizes: SIX (6) commenters randomly drawn from the designers' blogs will each win a $10 gift certificate. ONE (1) commenter randomly drawn from the STAMPlorations blog will win a $30 gift certificate. there may also be some additiona...

Hi Everyone -  sorry for the late posting, but here is our new sketch challenge at STAMPlorations - don't worry  you'll have two weeks to link up: Simple and pretty! Here is the card I made for it: I used    Trendy Butterflies   and  Mini Mixed Media Backgrounds  to make the side strip, but before I stamped the butterflies I directly applied metallic ink and chalk in to the paper to get abase coloring for the strip. I like the shimmer of it. For the sentiment I went with  Bloom Sketches  . Here is a closeup, where you can see that shimmer better: I also added tiny gems to the antennae.         So, go and visit the STAMPlorations blog - great inspiration there to find and we also have a talented guest designer for this challenge - its Maria from Bulgaria , who shares a delightful card with us. I won't be part of the challenge team any longer at STAMPlorations, so this ...

Hello my friends,  the New Year has started and we have an exciting new challenge for you, here at  STAMPlorations ! the theme is: What do you think of that? Don't we always use inks when we are stamping - there is no other way....so that got me thinking to do something different. and here is my take on it: For this card I played with alcohol INKS, have ing them drip down on glossy card stock (by Ranger). The ink kind of seeps into the paper giving you those fuzzy margins (not happy about this, but nothing I can do about it....) - I wanted clean margins. Guess I have to hunt for different paper....but regardless I loved the way this turned out.  Added some black strips on the side and the wonderful sentiment is by STAMPlorations - Subway Art Builders: Create . The pink twine of the side does not look quite as pink in real life - it is closer to the alcohol ink color... For my second card I used    VIGNETTE: Eat Drink Be ...