Marigold Birthday

Hello Crafty Friends!

It's Tuesday and this means it's Inspiration Time over at STAMPlorations.  Here is today's DT project ...

I found the French Marigold among the stamps in STAMPlorations Digital Store (link at the end of this post) and had to make it the centre piece of my card.

It was simply coloured with pencils. The grey stencilling, stamped sentiment and doodled border finished my card off, best of all it's one-layer and easy to post.

Here is a closer look ...

The new STAMPlorations Store is fully open now, it's got an easy search facility. Why not pop over and have a little browse.

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.

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:

- Digital Store
French Marigold

- Main Store
Little Love Birthday Wishes, Delicate Links Stencil
 

this is the graphic for STAMPlorations current sales

January Mixed Media Challenge

... and sprinkling a little fairy dust ...

Hello, Crafty Friends!

Welcome to January 2017 and the start of a new Mixed Media Challenge over at STAMPlorations. As you know Anything Mixed Media Goes as long as it is not a card and you use at least one stencil.

My DT contribution for January is ... an Art Journey page ....

I wanted to do a piece of work on canvas trying out a few things, and given that this week the Inspiration Girls were showcasing Shirley's stamps from The Bee's Knees Range, which are still available at a 10% discount apart from World Birthday Cakes at 20% discount until Monday 9th January, I thought I might go for some sprinkling of magic.

I made a little slide show video to take you through my process ...

Well the Art Journey page is based on the idea of an art journal, but I had to give it my own spin. Check back tomorrow for my Mixed Media Tutorial to find out more.

I am entering my little canvas at:
Craft Stamper Make It Take It - Anything Goes
Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #32 - Put A Stencil On It 

I hope you feel inspired to dig into your crafty resourcefulness and create something to enjoy  .... why not link it up with the Mixed Media Challenge over at STAMPlorations. The theme for the Mixed Media Challenge is always Anything Mixed Media Goes except cards which means projects such as tags, ATCs, canvases, layouts, art journal pages etc,are perfect for entering, and you must have used at least one stencil (any brand) in your project. The challenge will close at the end of the month. You can find the full challenge details plus more Mixed Media inspiration here on the STAMPlorations Blog.

Ooops, almost forgot to mention the prizes: one winner as chosen by the Mixed Media DT will receive a $10 gift certificate and two Top Picks will receive a $5 gift certificate each, all of course redeemable at the STAMPlorations Shop ... but that's not all ... if there are 25 or more entries one lucky randomly drawn winner will receive two standard sized stencils of their choice.

That's it from me for today. I shall be back soon with another project to share.

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:

ARTplorations Stencils: Bubble Dance, Delicate Links
 

STAMPlorations Stamps: Faerie Door, Birds Of Paradise, Folk Flowers, Winged Things
   

CUTplorations Dies: Magical Word Die

*** The personal discount coupon STAMPGIRLMONIKA works on already reduced items too, but can not be combined with any other coupon codes.

October Stencil Sunday

Hello, Crafty Friends!

Welcome to another Stencil Sunday in October, May I take the opportunity to remind you of the current Mixed Media Challenge over at STAMPlorations. As you know Anything Mixed Media Goes as long as it is not a card and you use at least one stencil.

My DT contribution for this Stencil Sunday is ... a tag ....

... and here is how I made it:

• create a tag in the same way I created the covers for my Die Storage Booklet from my Mixed Media Titorial here using the ATC/Gift Card Envelope CUTplorations Die
• colour the tag using magenta watercolour (Liquarel)
• sponge turquoise ink through the Delicate Links ARTplorations Stencil (Tempting Turquoise SU ink)
• stencil the flying birds from the Some Birds ARTplorations Stencil using paste and lightly colour their edges using turquoise ink
• randomly sprinkle with embossing powders and heat set (Cosmic Shimmer tropic Pink Blaze, WOW Primary Marshmallow, Heat It Up! Enchanted Gold)
• ink up the rose from the Blossom Overture set, sprinkle and heat some Ultra Think Embossing Powder to one side and whilst still hot stamp the rose into it, allow for a little cooling time before lifting the stamp off (Cosmic Shimmer Tropic Pearl, Ink It Up! Lavender Pigment Ink)
• stamp some swirls from the Distressed Floral Swirls using Archival Ink (Blue Violet)
• stamp and attach your sentiment from the Trendy Butterflies set
• finish off with gold edging, sequins and fibers  

Here are a couple of photos from a different perspective:

I hope you feel inspired to create something different, maybe even do some up-cycling or re-purposing .... why not link it up with the Mixed Media Challenge over at STAMPlorations. The theme is always Anything Mixed Media Goes except cards which means projects such as tags, ATCs, canvases, layouts, art journal pages etc,are perfect for entering, and you must have used at least one stencil (any brand) in your project. The challenge will close at the end of the month. You can find the full challenge details plus more Mixed Media inspiration here on the STAMPlorations Blog.

That's it from me for today. I shall be back soon with another project to share.

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:

ARTplorations Stencils: Delicate Links, Some Birds
 

STAMPlorations Stamps: Blossom Overture, Distressed Floral Swirls, Trendy Butterflies
  

CUTplorations Dies: ATC/Gift Card Envelope

Feeling Blessed

Hi All,

It's time for a little Inspiration over at STAMPlorations. To create my DT project I used a print of the Delicate Links Artplorations stencil I took when making my card here. When taking the print, after spritzing the stencil which still had the ink from blending on, I aligned my piece of card to get the actual frame of the stencil to form a border as you can see in the bottom left hand corner. I then simply combined it with stamps from the Strong Women and Smile sets to make my card...

... the rest is pretty straight forward. I added a little black ink spritzing, stamped my sentiment and added my stamped, coloured and fuzzy cut lilies to finish. Here is another look ...

I am entering my card at:
Craft Stamper Make It Take It - Spring Flowers

Pop over to the STAMPlorations Blog for more inspiration and to leave a comment for your entry to win a $10 gift certificate.

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

hugs
Monika xxx

Here is what I used:
Smile, Strong Women, ARTplorations Stencil: Delicate Links
  

ARTplorations Stencil Blog Hop Day 3

Link the graphic or your text to the April 15 post:

http://stamplorations.blogspot.com/2016/04/artplorations-stencil-blog-hop-day-3.html

Hi All,

welcome to Day 3 of the Flash Stencil Linky Party over at STAMPlorations. Today's piece of stencil inspiration cam about when I decided that I wanted to use some form of watercolour with the stencil. I also wanted to try out how my Twinkling H2Os would look on black card ....

First I dry embossed the Delicate Links stencil on a piece of black card using the appropriate Big Shot sandwich. With my stencil still attached, I picked up some of the pattern using Navajo Pearl and Plumeria Twinkling H2Os, before adding some gems and dots using my glittery gel pen. I heat embossed my sentiment from the Bloom Sketches set in gunmetal Kerpowder! and layered everything as seen ...

That's it from me for today. Pop over to the STAMPlorations Blog to join the party. I shall be back soon.

Have a lovely day!

Hugs
Monika xx

here is what I used:
ARTplorations Stencils: Delicate Links, Bloom Sketches
 

ARTplorattions Stencil Blog Hop Day 2

Hi All,

Welcome to Day 2 of the Flash Stencil Linky Party over at the STAMPlorations Blog. Today's inspiration piece features one of the prints I took from my Delicate Links stencil after I finished the sponging for yesterday's card. You can just see a bit of it on the right hand side. To make best use of this partial print, I decided to combine it with the Shower Of Flutters stencil and its matching stamp set Trendy Butterflies plus a sentiment from the Strong Women set.

I did my sponging using Daffodil Delight and Melon Mambo ink and my stamping using Bermuda Bay and Melon Mambo. To finish the look I added a black doodled frame and a tiny die-cut butterfly.

Pop over to the STAMPlorations Blog to join the Linky Party, remember, you can use any make of stencil to join the fun.

That's it from me for today, I shall be back gain tomorrow with another project with a more masculine feel.

Have a lovely day!
hugs
Monika xxx

here is what I used:
ARTplorations Stencils: Delicate Links and Shower Of Flutters, Trendy Butterflies, Strong Women
   

ARTplorations Stencil Blog Hop Day 1

Hi All,

Welcome to Day 1 of the ARTplorations Stencils Blog Hop. This is where we, the STAMPlorations Girls, are putting stencils through their paces. Over on the STAMPlorations Blog you can see all the gorgeous projects from CAS to Mixed Media the team have created. Here is my DT project using ARTplorations Stencils: Delicate Links and a sentiment from SMILE ...

I sponged a piece of white card using Daffodil Delight ink, attached my Delicate Links stencil and partially sponged it with Melon Mambo ink.

At this point I started to think ahead ... I removed the stencil, spritzed some water on it and took a few prints which I used for a couple of other cards, one for tomorrows project and the other one for next week Tuesday's Inspiration post project. But now back to my card on today's post ...

I stamped my sentiment in black Archival ink, layered on my white base card and added some sequins to finish.

As with every Blog Hop, leave a comment on ideally all of the participating blogs for your chance to win one of the fabulous prizes on offer. Check out what the rest of the team made! You'll find links to all our projects here. Commenting closes on Sunday, 17th April and the winners will be announced on Tuesday, 19th April. Good Luck!

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Prizes:
THREE (3) winners will receive their choice of ARTplorations stencil (standard size - 5x7). Winners will be randomly drawn from all comments left on the designers' blogs.
ONE (1) winner will receive a $15 gift certificate OR her choice of 2 ARTplorations stencils (standard size - 5x7). Winners will be randomly drawn from comments left on the STAMPlorations blog. 

Extra prizes for those who participate in the Flash Stencil Project Linky Party and link up by April 15:
TWO (2) winners whose projects feature stencils (any brand) will each receive their choice of one (1) ARTplorations stencil (standard size - 5x7)
ONE (1) winner whose project features an ARTplorations stencil will receive her choice of three (3) ARTplorations stencils (standard size - 5x7) OR a $15 gift certificate to the shop.

That's it from me for today. I shall be back again tomorrow with more stencil inspiration.

Have a lovely day!

hugs
Monika xxx

here is what I used:
ARTplorations Stencils: Delicate Links, Smile
 
Daffodil Delight and Melon Mambo inks - Stampin'Up!