Favourite Colour Combo

Afternoon all and welcome. 

This is a post to remind you of the ongoing challenge over at STAMPlorations. This month you can choose either our theme of your favourite colour combo or use the sketch. For this post I went with the theme, using purple and green and just a little bit of sparkle.

A really quick card that in reality took me ages, as I couldn't decide on my layout. There were a lot of coloured and cut out flowers that didn't make it onto the final card! In the end I went pretty CAS, just using a strip of sparkly purple card and some purple Stickles on the stamens.
I used one of the blooms from Dee's Artsy Impressions Blooming Buds and some of the foliage stamps coloured with Copics then fussy cut. The frame was cut using Sizzix Ornate Label #2 dies and mounted up on pads. The sentiment is a Happy Birthday sentiment from Woodware plus a phrase from the Noteworthy set.

OK, now the details of this month's challenge.

• You can now link up to 6 entries.
• You can enter a project based on the theme, the sketch, or both.
• Non-STAMPlorations products on projects are OK

Prizes:

• Winner voted by the design team receives a $15 gift certificate or choice of two (2) standard-size (5x7) ARTplorations stencils if there are STAMPlorations products used; if the winning project doesn't have a STAMPlorations product, winner receives a $10 gift certificate or choice of one (1) standard-size (5x7) ARTplorations stencil.
• Top picks voted by the design team each receive a $5 gift certificate or choice of 2 digis
• 1 winner randomly drawn from entries that have STAMPlorations products (stamps and/or stencils) receives a stamp & stencil pack or $10 gift certificate
• Winner and top picks invited to be guest designers in the December Challenge.

So for more inspiration please check out the rest of the DT's inspiration as well as our wonderful GD Ann Chuang. 

I'm also joining in the fun over at:-

     


Glitter and Shine

Thanks for stopping by. :)

Jewel Colours

Hi, and welcome to a scheduled post to let you know about the latest challenge over at Addicted to Stamps. This week it is our photo inspiration challenge and this is my card.

This is the photo that inspired it.

Now I'm not a great fan of Halloween, so I ignored the pumpkins and went with the stripes in jewel colours as my inspiration.

I had a great time at the stamp fair at Port Sunlight on Saturday. I met a few bloggy friends and spent quite a bit and one of my purchases was this butterfly image from Visible image, Butterfly INKognito, I had seen it in a magazine before and was tempted to indulge!

To achieve the striped effect I inked the butterfly image with DI's to match the colours in the photo masking as I went. I spritzed the inked stamp to make the colours come to life then stamped it onto a white panel. The feint texture on the butterfly is a left over from a previous experiment but I liked the effect so went with it, the sentiment I used is from this weeks sponsor,

who are offering a 10$ gift certificate to the winner chosen by the DT.

The stamped panel was mounted on black then a bright pink base card.

That's me done but for more fabulous inspiration please check out the rest of the team.

I'm joining in over at -

Colour week - Jewel colours

       

Stencil Blog Hop day 3

Good afternoon and welcome to day 3 of the STAMPlorations stencil bloghop.

Thanks for all the wonderful comments you've left, you certainly like these stencils!

Today I've gone with a different stencil Old Rose Prints. The pattern of roses suggested a soft delicate approach so here it my card.

I first taped the stencil over a panel of white card and using some homemade embossing paste I spread it over the stencil. I removed it carefully and set the panel to oneside to dry. When completely dry and with the stencil washed and dry I placed it back over the embossed roses and inked through it with some pink DIs. 

I thought it was kind of romantic in appearance so went with the sentiment from the Noteworthy set and embossed it in gold. I looked around for some matching pink ribbon but couldn't find any in the stash so I used a die cut and inked it in the same DI as the roses. The frame for it was die cut using a Sizzix die and a couple of pearls coloured with Copics to match were added. I also inked the pink background mounts  to match as well, it beats trying to find coordinating papers!

That's about it then for today.

Check out what the rest of the team made! You'll find links to all our projects here.

Comment on this post and the rest of the team's blogs for a chance to win one of the prizes. Commenting closes on May 29. Winners will be announced on June 1.

Prizes:

SIX (6) winners (2 winners per day) will receive their choice of ARTplorations stencils. Winners will be randomly drawn from all comments left on the designers' blogs.

THREE (3) winners will each receive a $10 gift certificate. Winners will be randomly drawn from comments left on the STAMPlorations blog.

There will be extra prizes for those who participate in the Flash Stencil Project Linky Party later on in the week and link up by May 31.

So no excuses to hop along and join in the fun. 

I'm joining in at -

                   

          Flowers                                  Use 5 or more flowers        

    Creative Inspirations - Pastel Shades    

See you back here tomorrow for some further STAMPlorations stencil fun.

The final front ear!

Good morning, if you are looking for my Cards und More post please click here.

As it's Tuesday it means a new challenge at Cardz4Guyz, where we hope to show you that making cards for the men in your life is easier than you think!

This week our theme is-

FLIGHT

That's quite a broad topic so where will you go?

I went with this as my card.

I looked through my stash for something to do with flight but couldn't find much other than a few cigarette style card images. I've wanted to try the technique for making galaxies for a while, (you will find a link on the technique tab) so thought this the perfect opportunity. I also wanted to use another greeting from my STAMPlorations Noteworthy set. To make the rocket I used some scraps of card and a few dies and punches plus a freehand flame section! The small stars and text were embossed in white after the panel was made and the whole panel was mounted onto a black base card.

So whether your card is of aircraft, balloons, birds or as mine is space we'd love to see them.

For more inspiration pop over to the blog to check out the rest of the DT's inspiration.

I would like to join in the fun at -

Loves Rubberstamps - Use at least 2 dies (at least 3 and the same number of punches!)

Blog Hop Day 3

Welcome back STAMPloration followers to day 3 of the April release blog hop. Today the team are show casing the NOTEWORTHY set.

When trying to come up with a suitable design I wanted to make the words the focus, so for my first card I kept the stamping down to that. The words 'Remember the good times' brought a sympathy card to mind.

I splodged a few spots of colour using watered down Marvey marker in eggplant onto white card then added some stems and foliage with another w/c marker and a bit of DI using a fine brush. The same DI was sponged into the square after the panel was embossed with a Spellbinders Fleur de Lys square die but before the die was removed. I'd seen something using this idea of the embossed die ages ago but not sure of the link, my apologies. I stamped the sentiment in Memento Grey Flannel. The mauve mount was plain white edged in eggplant using a water brush.

My second card is a total opposite to the first. It's very blousey in it's colouring. I was trying something different, sploshing the colour on  very loosely and a bit messy, I tend to be too controlled sometimes!

This time the sentiment echoes the bright vibrant colours of the coloured panel in this one-layer card. In the end I had to sharpen up the design with an inlaid die cut frame!

Here is the actual set with the rest of the sentiments.

NOTEWORTHY

The card for my Sketch #32 post also shows one of the new sentiments. (here)
OK, that's about from me for today.

Comment on this post and the rest of the team's blogs for a chance to win one of the prizes. Commenting closes on April 27. Winners will be announced on April 29.

Check out what the rest of the team made! You'll find links to all our projects here.

Stops on the hop:

Darnell - Guest Designer

Becca

Cornelia

Deepti

You are here     Julie - Me                

Maria

Monika

Shery

Shirley

Vicki

Prizes:

• FIVE (5) 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 $25 gift certificate
• + surprise prizes 

Thanks for calling by, see you tomorrow for more STAMPlorations inspiration.

I'd like to join the fun at

Creative Insprations - Anything Goes (Daisy card)

Paper Players - Watercolour CAS ( Daisy)

Curtain Call  (Sympathy)

Sketch #32

Good afternoon and welcome. 

It's time for a new sketch challenge at STAMPlorations. Here is my card -

and here is the sketch -

I had quite a few ideas for this challenge but eventually went for a card influenced by the challenge over at Fusion and a card made by my teamie from ATSM, Sarah. It was the colours in the photo that caught my eye with the cerise silvery mirror and blue. I must admit I added a few other colours for the flowers but the central panel and stenciled background are definitely cerise!

I started off by inking the Shutters stencil from ARTplorations with Picked Raspberry then I turned to the flower element. I used Eclectic florals to stamp using DIs and then softened the edges with a paintbrush and some water, dragging the colour into the petals. When dry I fussy cut them and shaped them using an embossing tool and some foam. I die cut the swirl of green using a Marianne die and stamped two butterflies in blue using the Trendy Butterflies set. The sunshine and warmer weather has brought out a whole range of butterflies around here so I had to include some!

For the central panel I used a polaroid frame like Sarah's card instead of a circular aperture I was going to use. I inked the central panel with the same Picked Raspberry then did some water stamping with some more of the butterfly set to give it some depth and embossed the greeting from the new Noteworthy set in silver.

I inked up the edges of a slightly larger panel in Picked Raspberry to mount the top panel on, it does help if you haven't got matching cardstock, then onto a white base card.

Don't forget you can use stamps by other companies in projects that you enter to our challenges but we ask that you please not use our challenges for the sole purpose of promoting another stamp company if you are a design team member of that company. If you have our stamps and/or stencils in your stash, we'd be tickled if you use them!

As usual Shery is offering the following prizes:-

Winner

(voted by the design team)

prize: 2 stamp sets (3" by 5") if you use STAMPlorations stamps, 1 stamp set if you don't

+ guest designer spot in a Sketch Challenge

Top picks

prize: 3 digi stamps 

+ the option to be a guest designer too in a Sketch Challenge if you will use  STAMPlorations digi stamp (to be provided )OR if you already have STAMPlorations clear stamps

All winners and top picks will receive a personalized guest designer badge that they can display on their blogs, as well as a STAMPlorations guest designer watermark.

Frequent Players Spotlight. Play in all 3 challenges for the month for entries to the random draw. Prize is always going to be a stamp and stencil pack valued at $10.

So no excuses to have a go and join us.

Pop over to the DT's blogs for more inspiration and info on their designs and check out our fab GDs.

Suchi GD

Robyn GD

 Coni  GD

Becca DT

Laura Jane DT

Sari DT

Shery DT

Tenia DT

Wei Wei DT

I would like to join in the fun at -

As you like it Challenge - Alcohol markers or Distress Inks

DIs are great if you want a softer effect for your image, I use them especially for flowers.

Thanks for calling around, see you back soon. :)