... and it's sitting on some lovely pencil coloured sweets from STAMPlorations Sugar Rush set, images still available in digital format. Of course a couple of heart stems had to be added too.
Bunny from Charlie Und Paulchen and Heart Stems from Impression Obsession.
Wishing you all a lovely weekend! hugs Monika 💕
The stamps used for today's card are from the Sugar Rush set by STAMPlorations. It's one I've had for quite while and the images are still available in digital format.
The ice cream has been teamed up with a stencil also from STAMPlorations which adds the dimension.
Wishing you all a lovely weekend! hugs Monika 💕
After a short break the monthly challenges over at STAMPlorations are back. Here is my DT piece for March's Theme & Photo Prompt Challenge over on their blog.
The theme for the current challenge is Stamps & Numbers and the photo prompt can be seen below. Your project can either be inspired by the theme, photo prompt or both. The full challenge rules can be found here on the STAMPlorations Blog.
I've taken some inspiration from the photo for my colours and yogurt turned into ice cream. There is also a little bit of fruit in my card in form of the cherry. Rather than making numbers a big theme in my card, I added them in my collage stamped background.
You might have spotted some elements from the new Art Marks 3 set in my background. It is still on pre-order until March 5 as part of a bundle with Life is Sweeter and Super Hero at 50% off, check out the details here.
As for the Theme & Photo Prompt Challenge prizes: One winner of a $20 gift code will be picked by one member of our DT. Plus 3 randomly drawn winners will each receive a $7 gift code.
In order to be considered for a prize, make sure you've followed the rules here.
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These are the STAMPlorations products I used in today's card:
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Pop over to the STAMPlorations Blog to check out how my teamies interpreted the challenge theme and prompt and of course to join in the fun too.
That's it from me for now. Have a lovely day! hugs Monika 💖
It's time for more inspiration over at the STAMPlorations Blog where my Teamies and I are showcasing some of the older sets. I decided to work with VIGNETTE It's Your Day and Sugar Rush. Somehow things didn't go quite to plan as birdie from The Bee's Knees SMALL BIRDS wanted to have a say too...
My first card is inspired by one of my first ink pads I bought. I only realized the other day, when making my cards that it had never been opened!!! Luckily it's still in fine working order. It is one of those pigment ink pads with three colours, and I decided to use it to stamp the background using the word stamp from the It's Your Day set. I did this after I had die cut a corner off a piece of white card using one of my Li-inker Border dies. I layered my two pieces on my pink base card and tied pink organza ribbon into a bow. I then stamped the cake in black, fuzzy cut it and attached it to my card finishing off by adding some candyfloss glitter glue highlights.
I really wanted to give this card the fluffy candyfloss feel as a contrast to the wonky cake.
Next up is birdie. Let's see what his input is today ...
Can you believe it, his favourite treats are macarons!
For this card, I worked with the Sugar Rush set and die cut a cloud corner from a piece of white card, stamped both images in black, stamped two lines of sentiment in black and the word macarons using my tricolour ink pad before clear embossing it and layering all on a pink base card. To ground my image I simply added some pink shading using my PP2 Spectrum Noir Marker and blender pen.
That's it from me for today, back again latest next week Monday with lots of inspiration for the STAMPlorations April Release Blog Hop. Hope to see you there.
Hi Everybody,
Welcome to our new CASEploration feature, where each month we will showcase one card, it could be yours!, and explain what inspiration we took from it to create ours.
Our inspiration today comes from this cupcake card made by Julie Ebersole.
What stood out to me was how Julie's almost white cupcake stands out through subtle colour highlighting and the black splashes on the background. Given that Debra is our Cupcake Queen, I went straight for the Sugar Rush set. :-) I decided to blend some yellow and pink on a piece of white card before white embossing my ice cream image. Using a fineliner I added some black highlights to the cone similar to Julie's cupcake sleeve. Given the shape of my image, I felt it worked better having the sentiment banner (Sugar Rush and Chevron & Arrows) to the side. I added some black spray using a marker and colour spritzing tool, doodled a border and added some matt golden sequins and shimmery heart confetti to finish. I used the sequins instead of the golden twine, and it seems to work fine on my layout. TIP!:Sometimes it's more about adding the colour rather than exactly what was used on the original card.
Pop Over to the STAMPlorations Blog for more inspiration on how to CASE this card.
I'm keeping this short and sweet as the library is about to close!
Back soon.
Have a lovely day!
hugs
Monika xxx
Hi Everybody,
thanks so much for all your lovely comments, they are very much appreciated. Today I'm sharing with you a project I made a couple of days ago as my regular Spotlight Feature over at the STAMPlorations Blog. This time round I wanted to highlight how to heat emboss with stencils especially since my ARTplorations stencils, the new additions to the STAMPlorations Shop, had just arrived in the post the same day, and I had to have a play. I don't know about you,but I always love using my new 'toys'. :-) Here is the card I made ...
This is a really quick and easy project to make, simply attach a piece of pink card to the reverse of the Leaf Prints stencil, sponge watermark pigment ink all over, remove stencil and heat emboss using clear embossing powder. Add some Perfect Pearls and heat set, emboss the sentiment (Sugar Rush, our current Stamp Club set, and Bold Sentiments: HELLO or Boxed Blooms) in white on a piece of vellum, layer up as seen and finish off by adding a few sequins.
I love the shimmer on the leaves when they catch the light, of course you could use any colour embossing powder for a more striking contrast. Below are a couple of more photos capturing the subtle shimmer of the embossed leaves.
As always, there is a craft-along video tutorial giving you some extra hints and tips as I go along.
If you pop over to the STAMPlorations Blog and leave a comment there on my Spotlight Feature, you'll be entered into a prize draw. Also check back next week Monday for our week long Stamp Release Blog Hop. I am entering this card into the following challenges: CASology - Friend - I hope that the subtle pattern with the simple sentiment is still CAS enough Less is More - Friends 4 Crafty Chicks - Best Friends In The Pink - Pink & Pearlie, Ranger perfect pearls adds Mother of Pearl finish to embossing, hope this counts Uniko Studio - Love and Friendship, Gillian and Sarah from Sazzle Dazzle encouraged me to link up, hope it's ok given that I used the STAMPlorations watermark. if it is a problem please feel free to remove the entry. x That's it from me for today. Hoping to be back tomorrow with some more inspiration for you ... until then ... hugs Monika x
materials used:
Regal Rose card stock by Stampin'Up!
Ranger Perfect Pearls
Watermark Pigment ink, white and clear embossing powder, vellum, sequins and stamps from the following sets: or
Hi Everybody, Sounds almost like a cocktail, yet it is simply another helping of Sundae in the form of a accordion flip card. Here it is:
I thought the sundae from the Sugar Rush STAMPlorations current STAMP CLUB set had the perfect shape to go with my cutting die (by Karen Burniston) which I used to cut the basic structure and layers. The 'Happy Birthday' sentiment is from the SKETCHED Simple Gift set. Here are some more pictures from slightly different angles:
For a more in depth description on how I made the card, head over to the STAMPlorations Blog, where you can also find details about their current challenges.
As always, there is a craft-along video for you:
This is it from me for today. Back soon, in the meantime have a lovely weekend.
Hello All,
Thanks for popping by. I am back today with another one of my DT pieces for STAMPlorations. This time it's for their first Sketch Challenge of the year. Shery has given us a beautiful sketch to work with, and as always there is plenty of room to let your creativity flow.
Here is my interpretation of it:
I decided to create a summer garden feel using Sugar Rush, Trendy Leaves and Distressed Floral Swirls. I created a light yellow colour wash directly on my base card and randomly stamped one of the smaller leaves (Trendy Leaves) using the same yellow ink. I then added the leaf border (Distressed Floral Swirls) in brown before adding a piece of whits card, attaching my coloured ice creams, yummy mint and strawberry with cherries and chocolate sauce seemingly my favourite, stamping my sentiment (both from Sugar Rush) and adding a couple of sequins, some faux stitching and glossy accents to finish. TIP!: You could equally well mask the white panel off before creating your background instead of attaching a piece of card later.
Here is the sketch for you to worked with and enter this challenge:
The Sketch Challenge will end 16th January and the winner will be announced 21st. This time there will be prizes for the winner and the top picks more details can be found on the STAMPlorations Blog, where you can also link up with your finished projects. Of course as always there is plenty of more inspiration from my Teamies too in addition of our Guest Designer Kim from Art Keeps Me Sane.
That's it from me for today. Off to do some crafting ... :-D
Have a lovely day!
Hugs
Monika xxx
inks by Stampin'Up!: Daffodil Delight, Summer Starfruit, Melon Mambo, Early Espresso, Early Espresso Stamp'n'Write Marker
Hi Everyone.
Hope you all had a lovely Christmas.
You might have noticed that I changed over from WordPress. Ever since I decided on the move, I had been looking for the Google Friend Connect button and finally found it!!! YAY! Given that it has taken me so long to find the little gadget I am extending the Blog Candy, one of my hand made calendars, deadline until Sunday 4th January 12 noon GMT. I shall be drawing two lucky winners of one calendar each.
This is a quick post from me today coinciding with a Spotlight Feature on the STAMPloratios Blog. I finally got round to ordering two stamp sets I had wanted for a while. They arrived through the post the week before Christmas, and I couldn't help but playing. Here are the two cards I made using the Distressed Damask Background and the Distressed Floral Swirls plus a couple of stamps to keep you looking forward to the New Year.
I wanted to go for all out colourful and used all my little cat eye ColorBox inks for the background.I quite like the mottled effect you get from using them to create a pattern on the stamp whilst inking up. I could have added some more stamping, splashes or ink spritzes to my first card, but I decided to leave it as is given that the random inking adds a lot of interest and depth.
For my second card, I used the second imprint of the stamping and layered a pattern on top using fainter and brighter inks to add more depth.
Both sentiment stamps are from a new range Shery is going to introduce next year: The STAMP LAB! Exciting times ahead ... Watch This Space!
Given that I had so much fun, I couldn't resist making another card to sneak in before the post goes live. This time teaming both sets with our current STAMP CLUB set Sugar Rush.
This time I decided to only ink part of the stamp creating a pattern for my background. It a sort of reminded me of wafers and scoops of ice cream once I stamped hence I turned it into this ice cream themed beauty.
A more detailed description on how to make the cards can be found on the STAMPlorations Blog here.
Hope you feel inspired using the Distressed Damask Background in different ways. I for one am looking forward to seeing your makes using this technique.
Before I go, just a quick note: If you have been sitting on the fence about joining our STAMP CLUB, now is a really good time to do it. With more products being added to the inclusive package next year, joining now will actually save you money. The full details and pre-view of what's new for 2015 can be found here. The After Christmas Sale is still on until 31st December 2014, and as a STAMP CLUB member there will be extra savings for you too, details of which can be found here.
Wishing you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR full of crafting magic!
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