Stempel Spass

I wanted to play with my new stamps ( Artistic Stamper ) I won at the November Craft Stamper challenge with THIS card. And what better way to use them and play in their current challenge - white stamping.  I did some white stamping, but did not find it white enough, so I heat embossed it in white. Added the heat embossed sentiment b y STAMPlorations -  Trendy Feathers  and some gold Paper Candi. also added some tiny gold beads on gold thread. Playing in these challenges: AAA challenge  - use a little gold Craft Stamper - white stamping Challenge Up Your Life - Kraft Friday Mash-up - 2 layer card        

Hi Everyone,  we have a new sketch challenge at STAMPlorations : And here is my card: I used three stamp sets for this card:    Trendy Leaves ,  PATCHWORK FRENZY: Graphic Squares  and  Trendy Feathers The yellow leave I stamped first and heat embossed it, since I was too lazy to make a mask.....I partially masked the square and sponged. Lastly I added the sentiment and the stitches.  This month we have Julie from Crafted by Jules  as our GDT - she is a fabulously talented card maker. Make sure you''ll stop by her blog and leave her some love. And of course our DT girls have made gorgeous cards to entice you to play along! I am also linking this card with the AAA challenge - Thanks(giving) Our prize this month: $10 gift certificate to a par ticipant who uses a STAMPlorations image - randomly drawn $5 gift certificate to a participant - randomly drawn from all entries The challenge ends December 28; the...

 Hi, its Cornelia here today,  playing with trendy feathers from STAMPlorations! And that's how this card came together: My supplies: I die cut the Poppy fluffy feather from white cardstock. Inked up the feathers and stamped around the opening, masking off the top part Stamped the sentiment onto the die cut, cut 5 more feathers and glued them together. Still needed more definition so I sponged around the edges. Assembles the card after adding a silk ribbon to the feather and some sequins.   You like it? I do. Now in retrospect you may ask why I bothered cutting out the feather first? Well, because I originally had something else in mind, but then things took  it own course and that was what I ended up with.... I usually have a vague idea of what I'm going to do and then  I see where it takes me. How do  you make your cards? More structured? I'd be interested to know.  M...

Hi STAMPloration friends,  Cornelia  is here today! I am sure you have seen all the new STAMPlorations stamp sets that got released for  STAMPlorations's first birthday celebration . Today I want to  share  some cards with you that I made with my favorite set from this release - its  the    Celebrate Artsy Vignette set : It has soooo many possibilities! You can use it as background, but you can also use it as stand alone stamps. As you can see, I was playing around and got a little silly here. I did some generational stamping in the first card, drew the ears and tail onto the doggie. The "dear friend" is from the  Trendy Feathers set . The second card is even simpler - I can envision some Halloween theme with it too - just not in the mood yet.... The "Missing you" is from  Holiday Artsy . Added the googly eyes and those tiny punched hearts. Now go, "stretch" your stamps and get silly, too! So muc...

Hi my Friends - its time for a new challenge at  Simply Create Too !  This time we want you to use the colors of your country's flag in your card: Can you guess what country I am from - in case you don't now??? Not so hard, right? Its Germany. You have two week to play with us - I hope to see you there! And I am really curious to see where all of you come from.... Materials: Memory Box Chloe Stem die, Avery Elle die, sentiment: Stamplorations Trendy Feathers Thanks for visiting!

Hi my Friends, this is my second post today, for the House of Cards challenge inspiration p lease scroll down. It's time for another sketch challenge at   STAMPlorations . I love this sketch (see below) - it has so many possibilities! I used  using  Trendy Feathers , which I heat embossed and fuzzy cut. The sentiment is from the same set. The stitching I did with the  PATCHWORK FRENZY: Graphic Squares  set. The tilted panel is patterned paper. I sponged some butterscotch Adirondack ink onto the Kraft paper to make it look a tad more interesting. The Paper Candy I colored with Copics. I added some metallic copper colored thread and threaded everyting through an eyelet.  This time Debbie from Indy's Design  is joining us as guest designer - I am so glad she could join us. Debbie has created a really cute card - come on over and have a look! Besides that there are just wonderful cards from our DT to spark your Mojo! ...

I discovered a new challenge blog called  Steckenpferdchen . The challenge for this month is "Feathers" - Federn. Its a German blog, yeahh! (Dann sollte ich vielleicht auf Deutsch weiterschreiben.....) Since I have this beautiful feather set from Stamplorations, called Trendy Feathers I had to play in this challenge.... All stamp are form this set. The color block I made with a stencil I cut with my rectangular My Favorite Things Dienamics dies and sponged. The little "buttons" are Paper Pandy - colored with Copics - much cheaper than enamel dots and easier to ship..... I combined this with the sketch from   CAS Colours and Sketches  and the colors from Annabelle stamps - I have not played in that challenge in ages.....and since I made myself a stencil for this card, I also will link it with the  Moxie Fab STENCIL challenge  and   Less is more   - Rules of Three recipe - used 3 colors and 3 feathers!       ...

Hi my friends, its time for another sketch challenge at  STAMPlorations ! I made this card using my favorite set called   Retro Mod Shapes and combined it with  Patchwork Frenzy . I have a lot of fun, playing around with all those shapes.....The sentiment is from  Trendy Feathers . the sketch you see below: You have until March 14 to link up your card, the winner will be announced March 16. And there is a prize to win. March Prize Pack For March, here's what the winner will get: 6 assorted rolls of washi tape (10 meters per roll) The sketch challenges are sponsored by All About Scrapping . The winner gets to pick 3 DIGITAL products from the shop -- any combination of  printable sheets ,  Photoshop templates , and  digital paper packs . The winner will also be invited as a Guest Designer in next month's sketch challenge. We've got a twist in our challenges here at STAMPlorations.  We host 3 chal...

The Paper Players  have a somewhat tricky color combination this week in my humble opinion..... I concentrated on the blue and gold and kept the cantaloupe for the enamel dots.... I used the STAMPlorations set Trendy Feathers   - the sentiment is from the same set and the swirl and splot are from Papertrey Happy Trails. I masked the blue feather, before I stamped it a second time in gold. The gold is Delicata ink - I just love this ink. It so pretty in real life, the picture does not do  it justice..... Here is the inspiration photo: I am also linking this up with the  Simon Says Monday Challenge  - We Love Stamps (who doesn't???)

Hi Everybody, today I am showing the first card I made for being officially on the Stamplorations design team!  It is a SKETCH challenge , the sketch you can see below.  I took those cute little stamps from the set  PATCHWORK FRENZY: Graphic Squares  and stamped it first in pink and then added the hearts in a deeper shade of pink. It looked kind of flimsy, so I first tried embossing it with UTE, but was not happy with the result. Then I thought about using those clear sticker candies I have gotten a few years back basically for free, but never used them... I had some that were too large, but they can be cut easily with scissors. I used my corner chomper to round the corners. It really looks like candy....The card base I embossed using my favorite Papertrey Linen embossing plate. I love the sublte texture it achieves.  The sentiment is Stamplorations    VIGNETTE: Trendy Feathers .   I wrapped red metallic thread aroun...

When I saw this weeks Make It Monday I first thought there is something wrong with my eyes....sorry, Dawn , but it just looked blurry to me...But then I gave it a try at home and I was thrilled to see the result! The topic is Generation Stamping with Line Images & Multiple Colors - and Dawn McVey is doing a great video about this over at  Make It Monday  with all the  explanation  you need! I did not have any Papertrey stamps that I could use with this technique, so I took the diamond from the Hero Arts set So Kind for the generational stamping. I filled them with the little diamonds from the Happy Harlequin stamp set byPapertrey. The sentiment is Papertrey -  Cutting Garden. I really love the result of it. It looks so much better in real life than on the picture. It has real dimension! And then it inspired me to make a second card: I used my brand new Stamplorations stamp sets - the generational stamping I did with th...