Never Be Afraid

Hi Crafty Friends!

Just sharing a little card I made using some of the trees I coloured a while ago and shared on IG in combination with a messy background I made when playing with Shirley's new set.

For the background, I first stamped the solid layers from the Layered Cake Bake and spritzed with water before stamping the outlines. It didn't quite turn out how I imagined it might, so I kept going and added some stencilling and more stamping and colouring before attaching my trees and sentiment.

I am keeping it short and sweet today. Thanks for stopping by. Have a lovely day!
hugs
Monika xxx

Here is what I used from STAMPlorations:
Layered Cake Bake, Gratitude Trees, Leaves Of Thanks, Mixed Media Grunge, Life In Full Color
    

Retro Circles

STAMPlorations October Stamp Release Blog Hop

Hi Everyone!

Welcome to Day 2 of the STAMPlorations Stamp Release Blog Hop and Flash Fall Flowers Linky Party! Today we'll be shining the spotlight on HOPE BLOOMS by Shery Russ Designs.

Again I made two cards for you starting with another tall slim one. I recently discovered a pack of these base cards in my stash somewhere at the back of a cupboard. They are coming in very handy.

For my first card, I simply stamped the brush stroke from the Celebrate Artsy set in pale yellows and a greyish green before stamping my main image and sentiment (Friends and Flowers) in black and finishing off with a couple of sequins.

TIP!: When using stronger colours for the brush strokes, use the 2nd or 3rd generation images for your card. This helps to keep the focus on the flowers.

For my next card, I combined the Hope Blooms set with the Retro Circles ARTplorations stencil which is dry embossed as part of my background.

I simply stamped and coloured the butterflies using alcohol markers before adding some glossy accents to one of them. It slightly changed the colours which adds a little more interest. I then stamped my sentiment down one side of my base card, edged my panel using a gold leaf pen, another treasure I recently found, and layered everything as seen.

As always with a blog hop there are prizes to be won for commenting on the posts. Commenting will close on Sunday 25th October. You can also link up a floral themed project (one entry per person, you can use stamps from other companies) for an extra chance to win one of the sets from the release, the link up will close on the same day commenting closes, October 25th. The winners will be announced on October 27th.

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

Prizes:

• SEVEN (7) 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.
• THREE (3) players randomly drawn from the Fall Flower Flash Linky Party will each win a stamp set from the new release.

links to previous days: Day 1

That's it from me for today, back again tomorrow.

Have a lovely day!

hugs

Monika xxx

what else I used:

Celebrate Artsy and Friends and Flowers stamp sets and Retro Circles ARTplorations stencil, links in the above text