Valentine's Card - another take

Hi Friends!

Here is another take on yesterday's Valentine's card using a slightly different technique ...

Instead of printing the heart like I did in yesterday's card, I simply used the stencil to lightly sponge it before enhancing the edges, still sing the same inks.

Apart from that, the leaves were swapped for florals and the sentiment simply stamped and attached in a different place.

Here are the STAMPlorations products I used in today's card:

Blooming Buds, Funny Kinda Love, Mixed Media Elements, Sketched Hearts Stencil

 

Should you feel like browsing STAMPlorations' shop, check out their latest offer below.

Using my personal discount code STAMPGIRLMONIKA at checkout for a 20% discount on your order makes you qualify to pick a free product from their store up to the value of $7.
I've got to be honest, if you use the code and/or the link to the STAMPlorations Shop I provide in my posts for your purchases, I will get a little reward, at no extra cost to you of course.

I shall be back tomorrow with another make. Until then ... have a lovely day!

hugs
Monika ❤

Flowers Whisper

Hello Crafty Friends!

It's Tuesday and this means it's Inspiration Time over at STAMPlorations.  I had this card already stamped with the Blossom Sprays 2 and uncovered it the other day when I was moving bits about to sort them out. It was time to turn it into this one-layer card ...

I simply watercoloured the flowers and surrounding area, adding some splatters into the wet paint as I went along. I then finished off with a gold embossed sentiment and a few tiny gems.

If you feel like bagging yourself a bargain and take advantage of STAMPlorations' Love/Spring Sale and/or their Stencil & Sticker Sale check out the graphics at the end of this post.
You can check out all of STAMPlorations' current promotions here.

That's it from me for today. Pop over to the STAMPlorations Blog to check out my teamies' beautiful makes.

Hope you're having a lovely week!

hugs
Monika xxx


here is what I used from

- STAMPlorations Shop:

Blossom Sprays 2, Blooming Buds
 

these are the graphics for STAMPlorations current sales

CUTplorations March Reminder

Hello Crafty Friends!

Over at STAMPlorations the CUTplorations Challenge  is in full swing, and I just wanted to post a little reminder project for you to get your creative juices flowing. Here it is ...

I was playing with Brushos the other day to make some ATCs for my post here. As always I try to get as much out of a messy crafting session as I can hence I got some prints of the stencils I used, see my card here, and whatever was left over on my craft mat got mopped up with cream card, a piece of which I used for today's project.

The cream card made the colours look a little peachy, exactly what I needed given the colours of the March Inspiration Photo, especially the dress on the right hand side ...

image source: Stylecaster

... which I combined with the idea of the three panels.

The background already was quite textured, and I felt a single flower from the Blooming Buds set would go well. Once I'd stamped and coloured (Cocktail and Antique Pink, Tan and Cinnamon Promarkers) my flower, I used my craft knife and scissors to cut a strip around the flower and layered on my kraft base card.
I then added the die-cut Hello and the stamped sentiment from the Bloom Sketches set to finish.

Pop over to the STAMPlorations Blog to see how my teamies interpreted the photo and to link up your entry too. There are prizes for the winner ($10 gift certificate) and the two runner-ups ($5gift certificate each) as voted by the DT plus, if there are 30 or more entries, one randomly drawn winner can choose any 2 of the CUTplorations Word/Phrase Dies the DT used in their projects. That's well worth creating for, what do you think?

That's it from me for now.
Have a lovely day!
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:


CUTplorations Dies used: Hello Word Die

STAMPlorations Stamps used: Blooming Buds, Bloom Sketches
 

*** Discount code works on sale items too

Flowers Whisper

Hi All,
another quick post from me. This time I worked with the Blooming Buds set designed by Deepti (Dee's Artsy Impressions). It is the first card I made using this set of beautifully drawn blooms. I decided to keep it CAS and use my at present favourite colour Bermuda Bay.

I stamped my image using archival ink and watercoloured it using Bermuda Bay, Crushed Curry and a touch of Always Artichoke inks before stamping my sentiment and adding a little spritzing in gold Artiste Ink for added interest and shimmer. Once dry I layered on my base card, Bermuda Bay of course, and my card was finished.

I am entering at:
Addicted to CAS - Splash
Addicted to Stamps and More - Photo Inspiration


Next up just a quick reminder ...



... details about the birthday bash can be found here.

As always there is fun to be had before that too, you can CASE any of my/our cards and link up at the Inspiration CASE Playground, short playground, to share your creation with us, enter in the blog challenges, comment on Spotlight Projects and more is already happening over at the STAMPlorations Blog.

GIVE AWAY reminder: I will email a copy of my digi stamp, the sentiment of the butterfly card here, to every new follower of my blog. Anyone who joins between now and 10th July 2015 will get one. Remember to click on the small green/blue squares to the right of the 'join this site' button to join. To claim your free stamp email me at tinkercardsATgmail.com, please replace AT with @.


That's it from me for today. Back soon.
Have a lovely week!


hugs
Monika xxx


the set from STAMPlorations I used, link is in the text above:

Bermuda Bay ink and card stock, Crushed Curry and Always Artichoke inks by Stampin'Up!

Gold Artiste Spritzing ink by docrafts