Typographia Christmas Release At STAMPlorations

Hello Crafty Friends!

STAMPlorations are celebrating their new Typographia Christmas Range with a Blog Hop today! Yay, more fun to be had!
These bold stamps make for Christmas cards with impact. I just LOVED combining them with dies. Here are my DT projects: 

I simply white embossed the Joy To The World stamp, coloured with brush markers, die-cut the tag, doodles a border and added a die-cut Christmas Angel.

For my next card I silver embossed the Silent Night stamp, die-cut the Stitched Winter Landscape into the card front and sponged lightly with Soft Sky ink before piecing it all together again and stamping the star. I fed a piece of paper though the 'slot' to protect the rest of the card during sponging before adding a piece of card to the inside and filling in the bits.

For my last card I stamped the A Child Is Born stamp on a piece of white card, used some star nesting dies I had to die-cut the nested star, pieced it all together, coloured the center star and added rays using the same yellow brush marker.

Whilst I was working with Faith and Carols inspired stamps for today's projects, STAMPlorations Typographia Christmas range offers something for everyone. Check out the graphic below and you'll find sentiments such as Wishing You And Your Family A Blessed Christmas, It's Christmas In The Heart that Puts Christmas In The Air, Warm Christmas Greetings From Across The Miles, Believe In The Miracle Of Christmas and many more.

Fancy joining the celebrations??? Leave a comment and hop along to the STAMPlorations Blog for all the links to the participating designer's blogs. Commenting closes Monday 9th October and the winner, randomly drawn from all the comments left on all participating DT blog posts, of 3 Christams Typographia Stamps of her choice will be announced on or just after Tuesday 10th October. If you don't want to miss the announcement, feel free to follow the STAMPlorations Blog here.

I shall leave you with one last look at my finished projects ....

That's it from me for today. Have a lovely week and Happy Hopping!

hugs

Monika xxx

here is what I used from the STAMPlorations Shop, remember to apply my personal discount code STAMPGIRLMONIKA (not case sensitive) at check out for a 20% discount on their stamps ***, stencils and dies:

Typograhia Christmas Stamps: Joy To The World Silent Night, A Child Is Born

  

The Bee's Knees: Three Kings  Please note: All stamps from The Bee's Knees range are on sale at 15% off until Monday 9th October, no coupon needed ***

CUTplorations Dies: Christmas Angel, Tag #1 Nesting Dies, Stitched Winter Landscape

  

*** My Personal Discount Code STAMPGIRLMONIKA works on sale items too

January Challenge at STAMPlorations

Happy New Year, Everybody!!!
Hope you all a great festive season. It's my first post for 2015, and what better way to kick my blogging year off than showcasing a couple of DT projects I made for STAMPlorations' January Stamps & Ink challenge.
My first card uses their Distressed Damask Background and SAB Dare.

In brief, I created the scalloped pattern on my background stamp by inking it up with my Rich Cocoa Memento dewdrop ink pad and some masking which left me with a stamped scalloped pattern. I did this after I attached my die cut flower and blended some ink (Strawberry Slush and Bermuda Bay) over and around it. To finish I added my sentiment, a piece of ribbon and gem.
I took inspiration for my layout from the current challenge over at CAS(e) this Sketch and I would like to enter my card there. As you can see I had a little play with it and swapped a couple of elements.

For my next card I went all out inky creating a little scene and framing it using Trendy Leaves combined with the Distressed Floral Swirls and a sentiment from the TYPOGRAPHIA: Encouragement set.

There is also a craft-along video for this one hence I won't go into too much detail. I blended some inks, one of my favourite techniques, to crate a landscape background. I then stamped some swirls around the bottom edge and some leaves around the top using generational stamping and Versafine inks. I them embossed my sentiment and added some highlights using alcohol markers before adding a few birds and golden metal embellishments.

I would like to enter my card at CCEE Stampers where you are required to make a card with one or more birds. Mine has some tiny ones flying into the sun, hope that this will qualify.

This is my contribution for the Stamps & Ink challenge at STAMPlorations, head over to their blog to see the fabulous projects my Teamies prepared for your inspiration. This is also where we're welcoming Tenia Nelson from Jazzy Paper Designs as our guest designer for the month. The challenge will end 31st January and the winner will be announced on February 5th.
As always there is a great prize package awaiting the winner which includes a Guest Designer Spot in March. It could be you, pop over to the STAMPlorations Blog to check out the details and enter your creation.

This is it from me for today. If you like my creations, why not join and follow my site either through Friend Connect or Google+. Back soon with more projects ....
Have a lovely day!
hugs
Monika xxx

here are the sets I used:


Inks from Stampin'Up! I used: Straw berry Slush, Bermuda Bay, Daffodil Delight, Pacific Point, Melon Mambo, Certainly Celery, Wild Wasabi
Versafine Inks: Spanish Moss, Olympia Green, Crimson Red, Imperial Purple, Onyx Black
Die cut flower - eclips shape by Sizzix
ribbon - Stampin'Up!
Gems, Memento inks, black fine liner pen and Tinge alcohol markers