Monday, 25 May 2015

ARTplorations Stencil Blog Hop Day 1





Hi Everyone!

Welcome to the ARTplorations Stencil Blog Hop. This is where we, the STAMPlorations Girls, put our stencils through their paces.

For today's project I worked with the Floral Mania stencil, which co-ordinates with the VIGNETTE Eclectic Florals stamp set, to make this card using the stencil only.


First, I used my stencil to de-boss the flowers by creating the correct sandwich and put it through my Big Shot. Next I sponged yellow and turquoise to create my yellow-green-turquoise background. I removed the stencil, cleaned it and inked it well up with some orange, spritzed it with water and 'stamped' it on my card making sure that I aligned the stencil as much as possible with my de-bossed pattern. Once dry, I stamped my sentiment from the Fond Expressions set, layered on my base card and finished with some paper ribbon.

Check out what the rest of the team made! You'll find links to all our projects here. Feel free to leave comments as you go along. Every comment will be entered into a prize draw. Commenting closes on 29th May and the winners will be announced on 30th May. Good Luck!

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 receive a $10 gift certificate. Winners will be randomly drawn from comments left on the STAMPlorations blog.

+ Extra prizes for those who participate in the Flash Stencil Project Linky Party and link up by May 31.

That's it from me for today. I shall be back again tomorrow with another stencil project.

Have a lovely day!

hugs

Monika xxx




37 comments:

  1. love those vibrant colors

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  2. How very clever to use the stencil as an embossing folder! Hmmm - going to give that a try.

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  3. Ooooo! A little bit grungy and a whole lotta lovely going on here! Gorgeous make!

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  4. I like this stencil! Very pretty card and beautiful colours! Thanks for the blog hop!

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  5. What a great card to showcase this stencil, love it. :)

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  6. Beautiful, soft colors. Lovely.

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  7. Once again, I'm dumbstruck. Amazing design. You've done such justice with that stencil and the color is divine.

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  8. This is so pretty Monika, gorgeous colours. Carol x

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  9. So very pretty, Monika! You've really allowed the stencil to take center stage!
    Hugs~c

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  10. that sounds great, have to give the embossing with BS a try
    TFS your amazing card
    CU hellerlittle

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  11. Very interesting result with this technique. Very pretty card. Hugz

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  12. Great card. I really like her delicacy and perfect color.
    hugs,
    Bozena

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  13. Beautiful card, love the color and texture.

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  14. Absolutely beautiful Monika, reminds me of cherry blossoms.

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  15. Wow this is pretty! Those flowers are FABULOUS! ♥

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  16. Cool technique! Thanks for describing it step-by-step!

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  17. Monika Great combo
    using the stencil and the stamp
    how are you dear
    hugs from me Monika R in Germany

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  18. Very beautiful color combo and the described technique gives fabulous results.

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  19. Love how you combined the stencil and stamp here, and I love the colors on this!!

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  20. Lovely card ! WOnderful technique to use stencil in two ways ,Thanks for sharing :)

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  21. Beautiful eye catching card - thank you for the inspiration:)

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  22. Very clever to use the stencil to deboss and then to "stamp" the design again! Love this card!

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  23. ooohhh....this card has such a beachy feeling! Love it!

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  24. Love the colourson this card, and also the fact that you used the stencil to de-boss the images.
    Blessings
    Maxine

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  25. Wow! This card is such a lovely mix of stencil techniques!

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  26. Oh my... this card could definitely be one that I would be OVER THE MOON to receive. It's WONDERFUL. The colors are FABULOUS. YES YES YES... the STAMPlorations Girls are pulling out all the stops - for sure. I just became aware of your site and products - so this is really fun for me. j.

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  27. Gorgeous technique of mixing with stencil and stamps, totally love it!

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  28. Beautiful and what a great technique.

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Thanks so much for stopping by. Your comments are very much appreciated. Have a lovely day! Hugs XXX