STAMPlorations 7th Birthday Celebration (part 1)

 Hello and welcome!

This week at STAMPlorations, 

we are celebrating the store's 7th birthday! All week! Yay!

And of course, what's a celebration without some prizes?!

 

 Here's a little something I created for today:

 [This post contains affiliate links. When you click on the STAMPlorations store link below and place an order, I will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you.]

 

 I've used the Wonky Stitched Grid Texture plate

for my background. I had colored the entire panel using powder dyes,

 but when I came back to check to see if it was dry, I had a big 

mud blob on one side. Grrr! But it turned out to be a happy

accident, as I just die cut another panel, and trimmed them both

to fit on my card base. The sentiment is one of the stickers from

the Happy Happy clear sticker set.

A few black rhinestones, and this card was done!

 

I hope that you will help us celebrate and join in the festivities!

For all the details on how to win some amazing prizes, please

visit the STAMPlorations post here.

If you happen to place an order at the STAMPlorations store, 

 feel free to use my personal discount code,

STAMPGIRLCHRIS

for an extra 20% off! (FYI, if you use my code when

you place an order, you'll also receive this not-yet-released stencil,

Just Plaid square 10 mil stencil!

Ok, now go forth, comment and create to celebrate with us!

Thanks for visiting! Have a lovely day!

Supplies:

CS: Strathmore mixed media paper; Bazzill; TE

Accessories: Happy Happy clear stickers; GC; CUTplorations - Wonky Stitched Grid Texture Plate; Magenta Nuance powder dyes - orange, bright yellow, scarlet, turquoise; water mister; Recollections - rhinestones

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, 3D foam squares

 

Pink poinsettias

 Hello crafty peeps! This is my second post today. A Two-For!

I have another card to share with you:

 

 

and the inside:

 

 

The poinsettia/leaves stamps are NBUS items. I think I bought them

 

about a year ago, and this was the first time they saw ink.

 

I'm getting better at lining up these layered stamps. Only took me

 

three tries this time before getting a decent stamped flower! Yay me!

 

 

It's really hard to tell, but that (ancient) green paper has a very subtle metallic sheen to it,

 

and the holly leaves are all glittered up. I did add some gold Stickles to the

 

center of the flower for a bit more sparkle.

 

I'm entering this card at:

Mojo Monday #547 

Jingle Belles - I'm Dreaming of a Pink Christmas

Christmas Kickstart #40 - Pink Christmas 

NBUS #19

 

 

 

 

 

That's it for now. Thanks for visiting. I hope that you have

 

a wonderful day!

 

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Studio Light - layering Poinsettia; Sunny Studio - Petite Poinsettia

Ink: Memento - new sprout, bamboo leaves, cottage ivy, angel pink, lady bug; Colorbox/Susan K.

Weckeser - Kiss

DP: Lawn Fawn - Snow Day Remix; Heidi Grace Designs

CS: TE; Bazzill

Accessories: MISTI; Ranger - gold Stickles

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, 3D foam squares

It's beginning to look like (PINK) Christmas

 Hello crafty friends! It seems it's been ages since I was able to

make cards that didn't have to do with design team duties or

card kits for my LSS. But yesterday I was able to.

Here's one of them:

 

 

and the inside:

 

 

I've been resisting for as long as I could to switch to this so called

 

'new and improved' Blogger interface. I'm still muddling my way

 

around it so please bear with me. Currently, I'm wondering why

 

Blogger now automatically defaults to double spaced paragraphs, then for no

 

reason, it switches to single space mid paragraph.

 

Ugh.

 

(as I typed that, the first four lines were double spaced, then,

 

all of a sudden, single spaced)

 

Again. Ugh.

 

 Anyone else getting that too? Beuller? *crickets chirping*

LOL! Oh well, anyway, I'm entering this card for a few challenges:

Jingle Belles - I'm Dreaming of a Pink Christmas

Christmas Kickstart #40 - Pink Christmas 

Freshly Made Sketch #457

 

 

Thanks for visiting. I'll be back soon with another card!

Supplies:

Stamps: Lawn Fawn - Ho Ho Holidays

Ink: Memento - Angel Pink

DP: Echo Park - Happy Days

CS: Neenah; Darice

Accessories: MISTI; MAMBI - chipboard

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, thin 3D foam squares

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #171 H is for Halloween (in pink!)

 

Hello and welcome snarky peeps!

It's time for our annul PINK HALLOWEEN challenge

at the SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS!

 Edna and the Sisters are doing their part to help

promote Breast Cancer Awareness Month,

and also Halloween!

 For this challenge, we want to see your Halloween 

projects that incorporate the color pink in it.

Here's what I came up with:

 

 and the inside:

I started with a pink panel and blended a couple colors of Distress ink on it, then spritzed and dripped 

water onto it. I splattered Dylusions black ink spray too. Once dry, I stamped the image in black ink a 

few times to get it nice and dark, then again with versamark ink. I embossed it in clear EP. I added some

 black soot DI around the edges, and also distressed the edges. Another sentiment finishes the inside.

I hope that you find some time to play along in our Pink Halloween challenge at the

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!

For more pinkish Halloween inspiration, do check out what my Sistahs and our

reigning Queen, Beverly, have created for your viewing pleasure.

Thanks for visiting, now go forth and get your pink on!

I'd like to enter this at Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps - Contagion; Inkadinkado - All Hallow's Eve

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Ranger DI - Crackling Campfire, Candied Apple, Black Soot; Versamark

CS: TE; Cardstock Warehouse

Accessories: MISTI; PFS - blending brushes; Tim Holtz distressing tool; water mister; Dylusions - Black Marble ink spray; WOW! clear EP; heat gun

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner

 

STAMPlorations Theme & Photo Prompt Challenge reminder

Good morning and welcome!

I'm just popping in with a reminder about the October

Theme & Photo Prompt challenge 

over at STAMPlorations!

Here's the card I made: 

 [This post contains affiliate links. When you click on them and place an order, I will receive a small 

commission at no extra cost to you.]

And the inside:

The main panel was cut using the Crazy Double Running Stitch rectangle dies.

The flowers are from the Bloomfully Sparkle stamp set. I heat embossed

it in gold, then used powder inks to water color the image. Once dry, I fussy

cut it and gave it a good coating of Pearl Glimmer Mist for some

major shimmer. I stamped the sentiment from the

Sketched: Simple Gift set, notched an end and also adhered on foam squares.

The inside sentiment comes from the Birthday Bash stamp set. 

 

I hope that you find some time this month to play along

at STAMPlorations Theme & Photo Prompt challenge.

We'd love to see your creations in the gallery!

 

For the Theme & Photo Prompt challenge prizes, one entry will win a $20 gift code

to be picked by one member of the design team. Also, 3 randomly selected entries

will each receive a $7 gift code.

 

If you happen to place an order in the STAMPlorations shop,

feel free to use my personal discount code, STAMPGIRLCHRIS

for an extra 20% off. 

Thanks for visiting. Have a wonderful day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Bloomfully: Sparkle; Sketched: Simple Gift; Birthday Bash

Ink: Versamark; Memento - Gray Flannel

DP: Kaisercraft - Mountain Air

CS: Strathmore mixed media paper; Core'dinations

Accessories: Magenta Nuance powder dyes - grass green, jade, golden yellow, orange, scarlet; MISTI; Stampendous - champagne EP; heat gun; GC; CUTplorations - crazy double running stitch rectangle dies; Nicole - rhinestones; water and paint brush; Tattered Angels - pearl Glimmer Mist

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, thin 3D foam squares

 

 

SHOPPING OUR STASH #431 - Happy Fall Y'all!

 

Happy Tuesday to you and welcome!

It's time for a new challenge at 

SHOPPING OUR STASH!

I'm your hostess this fortnight. The cooler temps and turning of the

leaves have inspired this challenge. We are looking for your

Autumn themed/Autumn holiday projects!

Be it Thanksgiving, Halloween, a fall birthday or thank you card, we want

to see it! Here's what I came up with:

Here's the inside:

Admittedly, this is a new stamp set, but just look at that

adorable fox image! The papers that I used are at least 6 years old, 

and of course the oval dies are probably one of the first ones I bought.

I hope that you find some time to join us in our Fall themed

challenge at Shopping Our Stash!

We'd love to see how you interpret it. For more ideas, simply visit

the blogs of my teammies to see what fantastic creations

they've made. Thanks for visiting!

 

I'd like to enter this at TGIF #285

 

 

Supplies:

Stamps: PhotoPlay - Mad 4 Plaid Fall

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Rich Cocoa; Ranger DI - Antique Linen

DP: American Crafts - Night Fall

CS: Thunderbolt; Spectrum Noir; Bazzill

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; GC; SB - Std Lg & Sm Oval Nesties; Sunny Studio - Slimline Basic Borders; MISTI

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, 3D foam squares; Ranger - multi matte medium 

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #170 - C is for Chalkboard

 

 

 

Hello and welcome snarky peeps!

There's a new challenge starting at the

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS! 

C is for Chalkboard!

Some of the Sisters went with the chalkboard technique, some

made their cards look like a chalkboard sign, others 

were very creative in interpreting this challenge.

I did a bit of both the chalkboard technique and created

my card to look like a sign:

 

Barely no effort went into the making of this card. LOL!

The sign I recreated from this inspiration pic:

 

The sentiment is from a magnet I have on my fridge. LOL!

 I hope that you find some time this fortnight to play along

in our Chalkboard challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!

For more ideas, do check out what my Sistahs, and our newest

reigning Queen, Michelle, have created for your viewing pleasure.

 Thanks for visiting!

Supplies:

CS: Taylored Expressions; scraps

Ink: Colorbox - Frost White

Accessories: GC; Darice - Wood grain EF; MFT - vertical greetings II die; Spectrum Noir Metallic

markers - Blue Topaz, Amethyst; Sakura - white Gelly Roll pen; cottonball

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner

STAMPlorations October Theme & Photo Prompt Challenge!

Good morning and welcome crafty friends! Can you believe we've made it thru to

October?! It seemed like February thru May dragged on for a whole year, then when June showed up, 

whoosh! The months started flying by! 

Well, now that the summer is just about over, the 

STAMPlorations Theme & Photo Prompt Challenge

is starting up again. Yay! 

Above is your inspiration for the month of October, and here is the

card I created:

 [This post contains affiliate links. When you click on them and place an order, I will receive a small 

commission at no extra cost to you.]

I started by creating a panel of kraft card stock and using the Mosaic Slimline Stencil

with a few Distress Inks. Over that I splattered some black ink spray.

Putting that aside to dry, I die cut the Zen Coffee Cup Layering dies, the solid in

dark brown card stock, and the detail in metallic gold. The sentiment is one from

the Literary Caffeine-ations stamp set. Once I adhered the panel to the kraft card base, I wrapped some rust floss around it, 

then adhered the coffee mug and sentiment with foam squares.

I hope that you'll play along this month! We'd love to see 

your take on the theme & photo prompt.

If you feel the need to shop at STAMPlorations, feel free to

use my personal discount code -

STAMPGIRLCHRIS

for an extra 20% off! 

Thanks for visiting, I hope you have a wonderful day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Literary Caffeine-ations

Ink: Ranger DI - Fired Brick, Spiced Marmalade, Vintage Photo; Memento - Rich Cocoa

CS: Thunderbolt; Bazzill

DP: Bazzill - metallic gold

Accessories: ARTplorations - Mosaic Slimline Stencil; CUTplorations - Zen Coffee Cup Layering dies; GC; DMC floss; Picket Fence Studios - blending brushes; Dylusions - Black Mable Ink Spray;

MISTI; SB - Std Sm circle nesties

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, 3D & thin 3D foam squares; Ranger - MMM

SHOPPING OUR STASH #430 - On Trend: Slimline cards

Happy Tuesday and welcome!

The new challenge at SHOPPING OUR STASH starts

today, and we are getting all trendy, as in,

Slimline cards!

 

Here's my take on the slimline card:

and the inside:

I've only just started to make this size card. At the time I made this a few weeks

ago, I didn't have any slimline stencils or dies....but I do now! 

I like this different size as a nice change of pace from the standard 

A2 card I usually make. I used some older DP and die cut three

scalloped squares, matted them with brown card stock and adhered

to the card base. I remembered that I had this package of flowers

and selected a few to add. A simple sentiment and some

rhinestones finish my card.

I hope that you find some time to play along in our Slimline Card

challenge at Shopping Our Stash! We'd love to see your projects

in our gallery. For more ideas, simply check out what my teammies

have created to inspire you!

Thanks for visiting. Have a great day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Lawn Fawn - Offset Saying:Birthday; Stampendous - Birthday Wish

Ink: Memento - Rich Cocoa

DP: My Mind's Eye - Indie Chic

CS: Neenah; Bazzill

Accessories: Tim Holtz - Botanical Layers; GC; Nicole - Scalloped Square die; MISTI; Recollections rhinestones

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, 3D & Thin 3d foam squares

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #169 - S is for Slider

Hello and happy Saturday!

It's time again for a new challenge at the

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS!

This fortnight is brought to you by the letter 

S - for Slider!

That's right, we are looking for slider cards!

Here's what I came up with:

and when you pull the sliders....

Here's the inside:

Now it's your turn! We can't wait to see what you come up with for 

our Slider challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!

For more ideas, and out of the box ways of making sliders, do check

out what my teammies have come up with to inspire you!

Thanks for visiting!

Supplies:

Stamps: Art Impressions - Golden Oldies Jean; Riley & Co. - Damn Girl; Technique Tuesday - Umpteenth Birthday

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

DP: Pink Paislee - Birthday Bash

CS: TE; Darice; Spectrum Noir

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; GC; Lawn Fawn - double slider surprise die; poop bag; MISTI; Ranger - Glossy Accents, Diamond Stickles

Adhesives: Score Tape; SA by 3L - tape runner, Thin 3D foam squares