A Roaming Birthday

Hello Crafty Friends!

It's Tuesday and this means it's Inspiration Time over at STAMPlorations.  I thought I'd share another birthday card, this time one with a more masculine feel ...

The Arrow Which Way stencil felt like a good background to use with the walking boots and my general born to roam theme. I sponged it in Tempting Turquoise before adding the background stamping in Pacific point and a little black Versafine using stamps from the Mixed Media Grunge and Born To Roam sets.

The boots were watercoloured and fuzzy cut.

If you feel like bagging yourself a bargain and take advantage of STAMPlorations' Birthday Month Sale check out the graphic at the end of this post. All items in this section will be 40% off when using code 7YEARS at check out.

Should you find yourself placing an order of anything not included in the Birthday Month Sale, feel free to use my personal discount code STAMPGIRLMONIKA at checkout for a 20% discount on your order. Please note that my discount code can not be combined with any other coupon code, but you can use it as often as you wish. I've got to be honest, if you use the code I will get a little reward.
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:

Walking Boots, Born To Roam, Mixed Media Grunge, Arrow Which Way Stencil
   

this is the graphic for STAMPlorations current sales

Born To Roam Mini Book

Hi Crafty Friends!

Today I got a little mini book as a way of dreaming about being out and about in our caravan. I let the book tell its own story ...

I used the following items from the STAMPlorations Shop to tell the story:

Wanderlust, Positive Vibes, Mixed Media Grunge, Born To Roam

    

Gone Camping, Wanderlust Hipster Icons, Trendy Spring Blooms Dies, Clouds Stencil

   

Clustered Hearts Die

If you feel like bagging yourself a bargain and take advantage of STAMPlorations' Birthday Month Sale check out the graphic at the end of this post. All items in this section will be 40% off when using code 7YEARS at check out.

Should you find yourself placing an order of anything not included in the Birthday Month Sale, feel free to use my personal discount code STAMPGIRLMONIKA at checkout for a 20% discount on your order. Please note that my discount code can not be combined with any other coupon code, but you can use it as often as you wish. I've got to be honest, if you use the code I will get a little reward.
You can check out all of STAMPlorations' current promotions here.

That's it for today. Wishing you a lovely day!

hugs

Monika xxx

here is what else I used:

Eileen Hull Tiny Book Die which I recently was lucky enough to win in the Craft Stamper May Take It Make It Challenge
Summer Dreams 12x12 paper, grey twine from The Works
More Mustard card from Stampin'Up!
Nuit Outremer, Aurore, Cire Izink inks from Craft Stash
charms, pearls, mini flowers, sequins, gems, white gel pen, black fine liner pen, black Versafine ink, Versamark ink, white embossing powder, kraft card, white card, brush markers for watercolouring, glitter glue from my stash

Stamping Magic

Hello Crafty Friends!

The new issue of the Creative Stamping Magazine landed on my doorstep just in time for a spot of crafting over the festive period.

May I introduce you to my spruced up 2020 diary ...

This is the front cover featuring the tree (issue 80 Cover stamps), white embossed on a rainbow background with sentiments and texture stamps by STAMPlorations.

Below you can find the reverse of the cover. I added s few smudges and streaks with a baby wipe.

Below you can see the layout of the inside. The shop bought diary on the right hand side has been jazzed up with a bit of black embossing ...

... and the left hand side has two pockets for envelopes and note cards plus a pen holder.

Keeping it short and sweet. Have a lovely day!
hugs
Monika xxx

here is what I used:
cover stamps - issue 80 Creative Stamping Magazine
Beach Vibes, Born To Roam and Mixed Media Grunge stamps - STAMPlorations
Summer Dreams design paper pack - The Works
Bermuda Bay card, Bermuda Bay, Daffodil Delight, Melon Mambo and Elegant Eggplant inks - Stampin'Up!
Versamark ink, white and black embossing powder, white card and envelopes, chip board, black fine liner pen - my stash

tools: ruler, Xcut guillotine, Hougie board, envelope punch board, heat tool, blending tools/brushes, baby wipe

STAMPlorations January Release Week Day 5

Hello Crafty Friends!

Welcome to Day 5 of the STAMPlorations January Release Blog Hop which today features the following CUTplorations Dies:

Numbers Plate Die,

Lowercase Alphabet Plate Die

and Uppercase Alphabet Plate Die ....

Here are my cards ...

First up a slightly grungy shaker card made with funky foam. I die-cut the numbers from funky foam and used only the '6' for my shaker element, the others are all filled in using the foam bits. the rest was pretty straight forward ... a bit of foiling, stamped and fuzzy cut cupcake, stamped sentiment plus a bit more die-cutting and doodling followed by Stickles and a couple of stars to finish.

Having finally started to use my Instagram account a bit more, I've started to # everything. A friend of ours is off to Greece this year for four weeks which provided the inspiration for this card. This is where it became a little tricky, I could have sworn that I had the sun lounger on the beach set which was in the Stamp Lab a while ago, but I didn't hence I went for the plane. My watercolour trees didn't work out the way I had intended, but were easily rescued by a Trendy Leaf and a little stamping.

Well I could not not do it, I had to # Happy Retirement too! 😉

Now this card was really fun to make. The cue is 'four word phrase of endearment', see, if you can find it. The idea came from these grids where you have to find words pretty much in any direction. It also gave the opportunity to use another new CUTplorations die called Clustered Hearts. a little bit of foiling finished off my card.

This is how I started off laying out the words for my little phrase. The other letters were simply filled in.

As with every Blog Hop leaving comments along the way on all participating blogs increases your chance of winning one of these fabulous prizes:

• 2 winners of $25 gift certificates randomly drawn from comments left the STAMPlorations Blog and designer blogs links to which can be found here
• 1 winner of her choice of 1 stamp set from the new release randomly drawn from STAMPlorations' Facebook page
• 1 winner of her choice of CUTplorations die from the new release randomly drawn from STAMPlorations' Instagram page

To join the fun hop, leave a comment on my blog and pop over to the STAMPlorations Blog for more commenting and all the links to the fabulous projects my teamies created.

Commenting closes on Tuesday 7th February and the winners will be announced in the January's Winners Post on Friday 10th February on the STAMPlorations Blog.

All four stamp sets and three CUTplorations die plates in this release are available at a 5% discount, no coupon needed, from the STAMPlorations Shop until Friday, 10th February. For an added 20% off enter the discount code STAMPGIRLMONIKA at checkout.

That's it from me for now, I shall be back tomorrow with more Blog Hop Inspiration.
See You then ...

hugs
Monika xxx

links to previous days: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4

here is what else 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 all their stamps, stencils and dies:
A Snarky Birthday To You, Hello You, Born To Roam, Trendy Leaves, Hashtag Authentic
    

Clustered Hearts CUTplorations Die