Snowflake Christmas

Hi Crafty Friends!

Sharing a slimline Christmas card today with a white and silver theme ...

Some scored and embossed lines, a few snowflakes and a die-cut sentiment and my card was finished; snowflake punch by Creative Memories, sentiment die by STAMPlorations.

Wishing you all a lovely day!

hugs
Monika 💕

Noel

Hi Crafty Friends!

Sharing the third card made in support of STAMPlorations owner Shery. It uses the Sketchy Yule Trees from the Holiday Stamps Bundle. Have a look ...

The background was made using the Circles Flexi-Template and Crackling Campfire DI, I think. I then added a bit of tacky glue and gilding flakes before finishing off with a die-cut sentiment and a touch of glitter glue.

Thanks to Jo's pointer, Ill be linking up at the Christmas Kickstart Challenge #68 - Trees, trees,trees. 

 

Wishing you all a lovely Saturday!

hugs

Monika 💕

You can read more about the challenges Shery faces here.

Snowy Delivery

Hi Friends!

Just a quick post today sharing my DT piece for the Inspiration Post over on the STAMPlorations blog ...

I used the snowman ATC, and added a bit of stamping using the Gone Postal set. It was pooped up on a piece of red card embossed with some stars from the Oh, My Stars! stencil.

My card was finished off with a die-cut sentiment, doodles and some glitter.

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

Gone Postal, Christmas Background ATC #1, Oh, My Stars! Stencil, Christmas Sentiments Phrase Dies

   

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

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.

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

I shall be back with more Christmas makes tomorrow on my Instagram @tinkercards. Until then ... have a lovely day!

hugs
Monika ❤

A Brusho Christmas

 Hi Friends!

Just sharing a card I made from bits I had on my crafting table. Here it is ...

The background was made using Brusho powders and the Circles Flexi-Templates. I simply added some snowflakes ...

... and finished off with gems and a die-cut sentiment.

Here are the affiliate links to the STAMPlorations products I used today:

Circles Flexi-Template, Christmas Sentiments Phrase Dies

 

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.

Hope you're having a lovely week!

hugs
Monika xxx

The Brusho Powders I used are available from Crafty Roo Designs, the gems from HomeBargain. Sorry, can't remember where the snowflake dies were from.

Christmas In The Air - November

Hi Crafty Friends!

Well, what can I say? The days are getting shorter around where I live, it's most certainly time to make some Christmas cards.

Today I'm sharing a couple of projects made for November's Christmas In The Air feature over at STAMPlorations. In this special feature Nancy and I are sharing a couple of Christmas projects each.

Both of today's cards are using backgrounds involving pigment powders to show off the new festive coffee themed stamp sets, Holiday Mocha Feels and Falalalalatte.

My first card uses both sets in combination with the Confetti #1 Slimline Stencil. Here it is ...

So how did it come together, probably easier than it looks. The speckled background was started off by sprinkling Golden Sands Infusion powder onto my craft mat, spritzing with water and mopping it up with a piece of card. I then added some stencilling (Confetti #1 Slimline Stencil) and stamping (Falalalalatte stamp set) using Thé Izink ink before blending around the edges.

Next I stamped around the edges by only inking up the floral spray from the large coffee cup stamp (Holiday Mocha Feels).

TIP!: Using part of a larger focal point stamp in the background creates a cohesive look and helps you get more out of your stamps.

My focal image was coloured with metallic pencils and the sentiment stamped with Roasted Coffee and Red Brick Prism inks.

Here are my affiliate links to the products used from the STAMPlorations Store:

Holiday Mocha Feels, Falalalalatte, Confetti #1 Slimline Stencil

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My next card uses the Falalalalatte set in combination with a sentiment from the Christmas Sentiment Dies and one of the Bloomdala Bliss Festive Dies. Here it is ...

Inspiration for my card came from Christmas Markets and Mulled Wine or Glühwein as I would call it.

The background was created on photo paper/card using Violet and Sea green Brusho powder with a touch of Iridescent Gold SprinkleIT spritzed with water.

TIP!: Using photo paper/card give you this nice richly textured look and the colours keep more of their intensity once dried. 

I really like how the purple seems to look like a Christmas Tree. The subtle shimmer is really pretty too.

Sadly, it was impossible to capture the shimmer on a good photo, but you'll be able to get a sense of it from the close-up below.

My image was coloured with a mix of watercolour, pencils and white gel pen, fuzzy cut and layered with a die-cut Bloomdala Bliss Festive shape. The sentiment was cut twice, once from Elegant Eggplant card and once from withe card before being layered. I finished my card off with some white stars from my stash.

Here are my affiliate link to the products used from the STAMPlorations Store:

Falalalalatte, Christmas Sentiments Phrase Dies, Bloomdala Bliss Festive Dies

Pop over to the STAMPlorations Blog to check out the lovely projects my teamie Nancy made. The Christmas In The Air feature also doubles up as a mini blog hop. Shery will randomly draw one winner of a $15 gift code from all the comments left on the Christmas In The Air posts on the STAMPlorations Blog, on Nancy's blog and on my blog.

Should you find yourself placing an order, 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 and/or the link to the STAMPlorations Shop I provide in my posts for your purchases, I will get a little reward.

Hopefully Nancy and I have inspired you to add to your 2020 Christmas stash.

I am linking my projects up at:

2020 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Hop

Wishing you lots of fun hopping along.

hugs
Monika ❤

Belated 7th Birthday Celebrations at STAMPlorations - Day 2

Hi Crafty Friends!

Welcome to Day 2 of STAMPlorations Belated 7th Birthday Celebrations. It's an opportunity to showcase some of their newer products too.

Today I am putting the focus on the Beyond The Trees Slimline stencil with this two-for-one set of cards ...

For the right hand card the inks were sponged through the stencil and for the left hand card I simply spritzed the stencil with water and took a print. To finish I added the die-cut Stitched Snowhills with a glitter edge, the deer and fox, a die-cut sentiment and a couple of gems. 

There are several ways of joining the STAMPlorations Birthday Celebrations:

• you can linkup your STAMP stash photo
• you can comment on the participating designers blogs links to which can be found here on the STAMPlorations Blog
• you can create a celebration themed project and link it up

Prizes: 

• one (1) winner of $50 gift code randomly drawn from the STAMPlorations stash link-up found here 
• three (3) winners of $10 gift code randomly drawn from comments left on the birthday hop posts (STAMP blog and designers' blogs) 
• two (2) winners of $20 gift code randomly drawn from entries in the birthday linky party 
• one (1) winner of $40 gift code randomly drawn from entries in the birthday linky party 

Commenting and linking up to the birthday linky party close on November 8 
Linking up to the STAMPlorations stash $50 gift code giveaway closes on October 31.

To celebrate, all products in the STAMPlorations Store (main, digital and outlet) are on offer at 10% off, no coupon needed.

Should you find yourself placing an order, feel free to use my personal discount code STAMPGIRLMONIKA at checkout for a 20% discount on your order.

If you do use my personal discount code and place an order during the Birthday Celebrations, STAMPlorations owner Shery will include the not yet released Just Plaid square stencil in your order for free.

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 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.

That's it from me for today. Pop over to the STAMPlorations Blog to check out the full celebration details and to join the fun.

I shall be back tomorrow with more makes. Have a lovely day!

hugs

Monika xxx

Links to previous days: Day 1, 

here is what I used from

- STAMPlorations Shop:

Beyond The Trees Slimline Stencil, Stitched Snow Hills Edge Dies, Christmas Sentiments Dies, Woodland Friends
   

More Christmas Latte

Hello Crafty Friends!

It's Tuesday and this means it's Inspiration Time over at STAMPlorations. For today's project I am sharing another Latte card using one of the digis I had originally coloured for my Spotlight Project here. Given that I used alcohol markers rather than pencils, it never got a mention in the Spotlight post.

It is taking center stage in today's card ...

I simply finished it off with bits I had on my table and some stamping.

Just giving you a little heads up, STAMPlorations are their last sale of the year and there are still a few days left to bag yourself a bargain, for details feel free to check out the graphic at the end of my post.
You can check out all of STAMPlorations' current promotions here.

Again, I am keeping it short and sweet today. Pop over to the STAMPlorations Blog to check out the fabulous projects my teamies made.

That's it from me for now. Have a lovely day!
hugs
Monika xxx

here is what I used from the

- STAMPlorations Shop:

Art Marks, Bloomdala Bliss - Festive Dies, Trendy Spring Blooms Dies, Christmas Sentiments Dies
   

- STAMPlorations Digital Store:
Holiday Lattes Digi Stamps

this is the graphic for STAMPlorations current sale