Wednesday 19 August 2015

STAMPlorations August Blog Hop Day 3




Hi Everyone!

It's Blog Hop Time again over at STAMPlorations! Welcome to Day 3, where we're shining the spotlight on Fond Expressions 2, a set designed by Shery aka Shery Russ Designs.

Here is the set which is fast becoming one of my favourites ...


and here is what I made of it ...


The little stars from the Balloons and Banners set really reminded me of a smile and gave me the inspirations for this card. Again I masked off a strip and sponged some yellow and orange before stamping the starry smiles in yellow, my sentiment and another big smile in black and my card was finished,

Strange how the colours change depending on light when you take a photo ... here is another look to illustrate the point ...


Back to the Hop ... every comment you leave will count and increase your chances of winning one of the great prizes on offer. Commenting closes on Sunday 23rd August and the winners will be announced on Monday 24th August on the STAMPlorations Blog.

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

Prizes:

FIVE (5) commenters randomly drawn from the designers' blogs will each win the stamp set featured for the day.
ONE (1) commenter randomly drawn from the STAMPlorations blog will win a $25 gift certificate

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links to previous days:
Day 1 - Day 2

That's it from me for today. I shall be back again tomorrow with more inspiration. Until then, Have a lovely day!

hugs

Monika xxx

here is what else I used:

Daffodil Delight and Pumpkin Pie inks by Stampin'Up!

25 comments:

  1. Love this card, super simple but with the masking you did it really makes it a stand out!!

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  2. Monika this is a fabulous CAS card and great idea of the strip of colour combined with the sentiment.xx
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  3. I love this simple card very much

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  4. Sweet CAS layout! I have the same my camera is temperamental with different lighting, too.... sometimes that's a good thing as it turns out better than in real life. ha!

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  5. Fabulous CAS card Monika. Carol x

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  6. That photo lighting is a tricksy beast, isn't it?! The masking here is perfection!

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  7. Lovely CAS card - thanks for the inspiration:)

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  8. Wow - perfect Monika. Great look. Thanks bunches for such a great inspiration. j.

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  9. A really clever CAS card, always need inspiration for them! Thanks for the blog hop and great inspiration Karen

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  10. I love the strip of color. Fabulous card. TFS

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  11. Wow! So simple yet so impressive!

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  12. WONDERFULLY done and so CASliscious!!!

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  13. Beautiful CAS! Thanks for the hop! :)
    Suchi xx

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  14. Fab! I like how you've repeated the stars in the panel, and they look great with the sentiment.

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  15. I'm also often baffled by how much colours change in photos, and then I always keep thinking about whether other people will perceive the colours in the same way I do, maybe their eyes pick up colours differently or maybe their computer screens are set differently... Photography can be such a tricky media! Your card is very beautiful, I love all the stars, especially the ones in the sentiment.

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  16. Masking and then sponging on ink to add colour to a strip of paper is something I haven't tried yet. Heading to my crafting space right now!

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  17. Beautiful masking and inking, I also like the look of tone on tone stamping :)

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  18. Love the single stripe of colour and the use of all the little starts. Beautiful card.

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  19. Love your CAS card! I love these big sentiments!

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  20. Love the glow on your panel and your added stars to the sweet sentiment. TFS Monika

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  21. Great CAS creation, wonderful masking and sponging with these bold sentiments!

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  22. love this card!! It's really clean and simple and very beautiful!!

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