Tuesday 8 December 2015

December Stencil Hop Day 1



Hi All, welcome to Day 1 of the ARTplorations Stencil Blog Hop where we're celebrating all things stencil.

Here is my project ...


I was working with the Some Birds ARTplorations Stencil and a sentiment from True North to create this CAS card. I sponged my background using Tempting Turquoise, Concord Crush inks and a small punched circle as mask on a pieced rectangle die cut. I then added the birds and my sentiment in the darker Concord Crush and layered on my linen effect base card.

For oodles of inspiration check out what the rest of the team made! You'll find links to all our projects here.

As with any blog hop simply leaving a comment on participating blogs can win you a prize, you can find all the links here. Commenting closes on Sunday 13th December and the winner will be announced on Tuesday 15th December.

Hold on, that's not all ... there is also a Stencil Linky Party running alongside the hop increasing your chances of winning a prize. It's all explained in the details below ...

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Prizes:

FIVE (5) winners will receive their choice of ARTplorations stencil (standard size - 5x7). Winners will be randomly drawn from all comments left on the designers' blogs.
ONE (1) winner will receive a $15 gift certificate OR her choice of 2 ARTplorations stencils (standard size - 5x7). 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 December 13:

TWO (2) winners whose projects feature stencils (any brand) will each receive their choice of one (1) ARTplorations stencil (standard size - 5x7)
ONE (1) winner whose project features an ARTplorations stencil will receive her choice of three (3) ARTplorations stencils (standard size - 5x7) OR a $15 gift certificate to the shop. 

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That's it from me for today, back again tomorrow with more stencil inspirations.
Have a lovely day and enjoy hopping.


Good Luck!
Monika xxx


here is what I used in today's project, links are in the above text:
preview-web-stencil-037-somebirds SheryRuss_TrueNorth-preview
pierced rectangle sax dies - dienamics
Tempting Turquoise and Concord Crush inks - Stampin'Up!

28 comments:

  1. A beautiful piece of art. Creative Blessings, Tracy x

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  2. WOW how beautiful the birds look and your sky background is fabulous
    Cheers
    Dr Sonia

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  3. These birds remind me of the geese and swans that are frequent flyers over our house! Gorgeous. :)

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  4. Ahhh - love this card Monika. I was adding the Some Birds stencil to my purchases and it is sold out - boo hoo. BUT... that's a great thing for Artplorations!!! Thanks bunches for such beautiful inspiration. j.

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  5. Some Birds is one of the stencils I recently bought, but haven't used yet. Thanks for the beautiful inspiration.

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  6. very simple but has a large impact, beautiful, thanks for sharing
    Barb Housner

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  7. Fabulous card Monika, great inking and beautiful design. Carol x

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  8. What a lovely sky you have created for your birds flying south!

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  9. wonderful card with the birds flying

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  10. What a lovely scene created here...love it Monika! :)
    Suchi xx

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  11. Lovely BG inking, perfect for your design.

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  12. Now that's a perfect sky :) love ur incredible inking !

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  13. Such a wonderfully shaded background, great card! Thank you for the inspiration. Creative regards from stempelfrida
    http://stempelfrida.blogspot.de

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  14. Beautiful inking for the sky..loved it !

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  15. LOVE the inked background and this stylish CAS card:)

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  16. Fabulous! Seeing plenty of geese overhead these days. Great matching of sentiment to image too.

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  17. I really like the silhouettes of the birds against the blue/sky background and how they tie in with the stamped message.

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  18. Beautiful sponging!!! Love all in this card!

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  19. Lovely card with beautiful sponging !!

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  20. So serene and soothing Monika. Love all your sponging and simple framing. TFS

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  21. This is positively dreamy! I love it!

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  22. This is so pretty
    and the birds look
    like they were drawn!
    Carla from Utah

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  23. This is lovely. I really like the silhouette bird stamps against the blue background :)

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