It's Inspiration Time over at STAMPlorations. The theme for this month is SPRING hence I decided to work with the Spring Flower Layering Dies and combined it with a stamped frame and sentiment from the Fluttery set.
I cut the Spring Flower from my card front, added an extra layer to it and adhered it to the inside of my card to align with the aperture in my card front.
I kept my colour scheme pretty minimalist, but you can of course add more colour by inlaying the petals with a contrasting colour.
Selected products in the STAMPlorations store are on sale at 25% off during April, no coupon needed. Please check out the Spring Fling section for this offer. Using my personal discount code STAMPGIRLMONIKA at checkout can give you an added 20% off.
That's it from me for today. Hope my little card inspired you to get creative. Pop over to the STAMPlorations Blog to check out the fabulous projects my teamies created.
What do you think of my fourth make for the 25 days of celebrating Spring with all things winged?
So how did I make it? I started off creating my own mask by cutting the solid Spring Flower from a piece of card. I then sponged with Bermuda Bay, Strawberry Slush and Daffodil Delight inks before randomly stamping the butterflies and smaller sentiments. To finish I added some splatters, the golden filigree Spring Flower, the large sentiment and a few sequins.
Apart from the new range of Layering Dies, STAMPlorations have released some great Spring themed sentiment dies, floral dies and stamps too. Pop over to the STAMPlorations Blog to check them out and, of course, to join the party through commenting and linking up your winged projects. Commenting and linking up is from Wednesday 5th April to Sunday 30th April, 11.55 pm Pacific.
As always there are prizes to be won:
(3) randomly drawn winners from all comments left on the STAMPlorations blog and participating designers blog will each receive a $10 gift certificate to the store
(1) randomly drawn participant in the Things with Wings Spring linky party will receive Trendy Butterflies 2 + either Flutter Zen 1 or Flutter Zen 2 layering dies
(1) randomly drawn participant in the Things with Wings Spring linky party will receive Sweet Spring Wishes stamp set + Dragonfly layering dies
(1) randomly drawn participant in the Things with Wings Spring linky party will receive the Trendy Spring Blooms dies
(1) randomly drawn participant in the Things with Wings Spring linky party will receive the Sweet Spring Wishes phrase dies
(1) randomly drawn participant in the Things with Wings Spring linky party will receive a $20 gift certificate to the store.
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: Spring Flower
It's Inspiration Time over at STAMPlorations. This week my teamies and I are showcasing stamps designed by STAMPlorations owner Shery under her label 'Shery Russ Designs'.
I basically did some ink blending, stamping and inlaid die-cutting before giving my postcard a generous coat of Mod Podge.
I won't go into more detail right now, just a little close-up of some of the stamped detail.
There is a craft along video on how I made this card. It is a little lengthy, but you can always fast forward. It will show you the slow and a faster way of inlaid die cutting plus my usual ramblings and pearls of crafting wisdom.
As explained in the video, this card was inspired by one I made for an online swap with the theme of swirls. Feel free to leave a comment as I will pick one person at random to receive today's card through the post. The draw will be on Sunday 7th May at 7pm BST.
As mentioned earlier, this week we are showcasing stamps designed by Shery under her label 'Shery Russ Designs'. All her sets will be reduced by 10% apart from the Bloom Happy set which will be 20% off.
I shall try and make a card using the Bloom Happy set for Sunday's inspiration Round-up Post.
Of course Shery will still draw a winner at random from all the comments left on this month's Inspiration Posts over on the STAMPlorations Blog. Pop over to see what my teamies created and to leave a comment for your entry into their prize draw.
That's it from me for today. Have a lovely week!
hugs
Monika xxx
Over at STAMPlorations the CUTplorations Challenge is in full swing, and I just wanted to post a little reminder project or two ... I just couldn't help myself after Happy Mail from Shery dropped through my letter box on Monday. In it were some new dies just perfect for this month's CUTplorations Challenge hence a second post in such quick succession.
I was using another piece of my mopped up Brusho card, still got one more piece left to use. 😊
Taking inspiration from the photo, the colours, sentiment and flowers capture the summery feel quite well.
I am so loving the new dies, expect to see more of them, I die-cut quite a few yesterday. Here is another look at the finished card ...
Pop over to the STAMPlorations Blog to see how my teamies interpreted the photo and to link up your entry too. Please make sure you follow the rules of displaying the challenge inspiration photo and using at least one STAMPlorations product. If you don't have any as yet, there is a free digi stamp here available for you to download. 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:
