Wednesday 1 July 2015

STAMPlorations Birthday Blog Hop Day 3




Hi Everyone,
Welcome to the STAMPlorations 2nd Birthday Blog Hop Celebrations. Yes, STAMPlorations is celebrating its 2nd birthday and true to form we, the STAMPlorations Girls, are having a party and you are invited. to join us for 5 days of blog hop fun. Each day we'll be joined by a different guest designer ... and today the talented lady joining us is KEREN BAKER from Keren Baker's Blog.

Shery, Deepti and Shirley designed one stamp set each to celebrate this special birthday occasion. These are the sets we'll be using throughout our celebratory hop. For my third project I decided to work with Party Girl to create this fairy tale inspired card:


I started off by stamping, colouring (peacock feathers, victorian velvet and tea dye) and masking Party Girl, Next I stamped my frame for the mirror from the Blossom Overture set and the mirror image of the face inside which was first stamped on an acrylic block and from there on my card. I then added some stenciling using the ARTplorations Retro Circles stencil and blending (tumbled glass, peacock feathers and pickled raspberry) before stamping my sentiment, layering on my base card and finishing off with some sequins.

I decided to only use the 'you are' from City Girl as my sentiment and leave the options open to such as 'one in a million', 'beautiful', 'awesome', 'amazing', 'a diamond', 'a star' ...... These can easily added to the inside of the card depending on use.

Here she is again in a slightly different light ...


I am entering my card at:
Addicted to Stamps and More - Anything Goes
Sisters of Craft - Anything Goes
Card Mania - Anything Goes
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes, optional twist: add a rose or pearl
Stempelsonne - Anything Goes

Back to the blog hop ...

There are two ways you can join us in the celebrations and ways to be entered into prize draws, firstly by hopping along and leaving comments on our posts and secondly by joining in at our Linky Party over at the STAMPlorations Blog by linking up your party themed cards inspired by this photograph:



The linky will be found on all 5 birthday blog hop posts. Commenting and linking will close on Monday, 6th July and the winners will be announced on Tuesday 7th July.

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

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The prizes up for grabs are:

Prizes for commenting on the STAMPlorations blog, STAMPlorations designers blogs, and guest designers blogs:
1 winner of $25 gift certificate
5 winners of $10 gift certificate

Prizes for linking up a party/celebration/birthday project:
3 winners of the party stamp sets (1 winner of Party Mates, 1 winner of Party Time, 1 winner of PartyGirl)
1 winner of $25 gift certificate (if STAMPlorations stamps/stencils are used) or $15 gift certificate (if non-STAMPlorations stamps/stencils are used)

That's it from me for today, I shall be back again tomorrow with another project.
Have a lovely day!

Hugs
Monika xxx


links to previous blog hop days:

DAY 1 - DAY 2

stamp sets and stencil I used, links as always in the text

37 comments:

  1. How fun to use that stamp as a mirror!! Your party girl looks fab!!

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  2. Now this is just too darn clever!!!!!!!

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  3. What an inspired idea- looks like the set was created just to do that! Love it! x

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  4. This is very creative - just love it! Love the background! And of course, the mirror is genius! Beautiful coloring.

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  5. Wow! Brilliant...a reflection is a terrific idea. Really clever.

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  6. Well, this is beyond clever! I'd never have thought to do that, love it!

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  7. wow. amazing idea! that's gorgeous!!

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  8. This is awesome! The reflection is so clever - stunning card! xxx

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  9. Such a delicate card with a great color palette. Thanks for joining us at 613 Avenue Create and I hope you'll join us again soon.

    Hugs,
    Em AKA Creative Em
    613 Avenue Create DT

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  10. This is GENIUS! You, dear girl, are so innovative with the way you used these stamps! I laughed and then marveled!

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  11. This is so darn clever, Monika. Wonderful idea.

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  12. Fabulous job creating a "mirror" -- Perfect for a 16 year old :)

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  13. Absolutely brilliant, Monika! I agree with Becca: genius! Especially love that you've left the sentiment open...oh, the possibilities!
    hugs~c

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  14. Very sweet! Love the reflection idea! Quite ingenious ♥

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  15. Oh, wow - awesome design, Monika!! I think I "need" this set!

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  16. beautiful... love the mirror.. very nice..

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  17. Oh just too too fabulous and clever and creative! Bravo!

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  18. Oh how wonderful. Love this sweet party girl checking out her look in the mirror ;-)

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  19. Every girl would relate with this card !! Who dosent't loove to look in mirror..Awesome card !

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  20. Pretty card..and mirror image is cute!! :)
    Suchi xx

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  21. Darn cute! Love the mirror image with perfect coloring!

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  22. What a cool idea! Love the background. :-)

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  23. What a clever idea, the party girl checking herself in the mirror before she hits the town! :)

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  24. Sweet card. I love the reflection in the mirror. TFS

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  25. Another genius of a design! Love this idea :D

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  26. Monika this is stunning - love how you did the reflection, and the soft background.!
    Blessings
    Maxine

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  27. Gorgeous card and great design. Thanks for joining us at Card Mania Challenges. Good luck and hope you'll join us again.

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  28. What an awesome use of the stampset! That mirror reflection is just briliiant!!!

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  29. This is the most gorgeous choice of colours and I love the pastel background it works so well with the main image of the card

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  30. Fabulous card!! Love the soft coloring!! Thanks for playing with us at Addicted to Stamps and More!!

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  31. Wow! This is spectacular! The mirror was an amazing idea!

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  32. Lovely card and colored beautiful, I love the mirror ! Thanks for showing us your card and good luck in the draw. I hope you'll join us again next time,
    Hugs
    Willeke
    DT Stempelsonne Challenges

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  33. Lovely card. Thanks for joining us at Card Mania Challenge! zetkaArt

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