Wishing You Well

Hello Crafty Friends!

Just sharing the first card I made using the Vignette: Tree Silhouettes with the Just Flow ARTplorations Stencil as my Inspiration Round-up project for STAMPlorations.

As you can see, simply changing the colours and the way the trees are stamped gives this card a completely different feel to the one I posted yesterday as my blog hop project.

The initial idea was to go for a landscape type of colouring hence the green and yellow simply sponged through the stencil. The trees and sentiment are stamped in black Versafine.

Pop over to the STAMPlorations Blog to see what my teamies created for you and to leave a comment for your entry into their prize draw. Whilst there, have a look around, there is always lots to see, learn and fun to be had.

That's it from me for now, I shall be back in an hour with the second helping for the STAMPlorations January Stamp & Die Release Blog Hop.

See you shortly ...
hugs
Monika xxx

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:

Vignette: Tree Silhouettes, Just Flow ARTplorations Stencil
 

STAMPlorations January Release Week Day 1

Hello Crafty Friends!

Welcome to Day 1 of the STAMPlorations January Release Blog Hop which today features Noteworthy 2, a set of 9 encouraging sentiments ....

For my DT card I went with the 'choose happy' one and created this bright and cheerful card ...

The trees look a bit like dancing the can-can on this rainbow coloured background sponged using the Just Flow ARTplorations Stencil and turquoise, pink and yellow inks (Tempting Turquoise, Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight).

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


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:

Just Flow ARTplorations Stencil, Vignette: Tree Silhouettes
 

December Stencil Hop Day 3

Hi All, welcome to Day 3 of the ARTplorations Stencil Blog Hop where we're celebrating all things stencil.

Here is my project ...

Something a little more CAS today using the Old Rose Prints ARTplorations Stencil with a sentiment from the Vignette Tree Silhouettes STAMPlorations stamp set.

I used a pierced rectangle die cut and sponged it using Crisp Cantaloupe ink to create my base colour before adding the roses with Calypso Coral. I stamped my sentiment, die cut a golden flourish, layered everything as seen and finished off by adding a few sequins.

For oodles of inspiration check out what the rest of the team made! You'll find links to all our projects here.

As with any blog hop simply leaving a comment on participating blogs can win you a prize, you can find all the links here. Commenting closes on Sunday 13th December and the winner will be announced on Tuesday 15th December.

Hold on, that's not all ... there is also a Stencil Linky Party running alongside the hop increasing your chances of winning a prize. It's all explained in the details below ...

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Prizes:

FIVE (5) 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 December 13:

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.

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links to previous days:

Day 1 - Day 2

That's it from me for today, back again tomorrow with more stencil inspirations.

Have a lovely day and enjoy hopping.

Good Luck!

Monika xxx

here is what I used in today's project, links are in the above text:

flourish - Britannia dies

Crisp Cantaloupe and Calypso Coral inks - Stampin'Up!

Back To Basics

... or so I thought ;-D

Hello All!

It's time for me to post another Spotlight Feature over at STAMPlorations and as usual I share my projects here on my blog too.

Well, the new Stamp Club set called Mixed Media Grunge arrived in the post the other day. Luckily I was able to have a little playtime recording a video as I went along. My initial idea was to use some of my chalks with the swirly flourish stamp from the set. I cut my panels to size, stamped my image with watermark pigment ink, picked up some chalk and ... arrrgh ... it didn't work the way I wanted it to. All I ended up with was a coloured panel or two or three ... that's when plan B kicked in. I had wondered for some time how this technique might work with some old eye shadows I have ... out came the Clarins luxury ones, at least for me, I got some years ago. I couldn't bring myself to throw them out despite my eyes struggling with makeup. Well, what can I say, I found another use for them. See for yourself ...

Yes, in my first card I highlighted the watermark stamped images with eye shadow which I found a lot easier to use than chalks. For my second card I used the panels which I had coloured using my shimmery chalks. The image was then stamped with black VersaColor ink.

Full descriptions on how I made the cards can be found on the STAMPlorations Blog here where you can also leave a comment to win a prize.
That's it from me for today. I shall be back again tomorrow with another couple of projects for you, until then ... have a lovely day!
hugs
Monika xxx

the stamp sets I used:
Mixed Media Grunge - VIGNETTE Tree Silhouettes - Mixed Media Grunge is the Stamp Club set for April/May 2015

  

Wishing You Well

Hi Everybody,
thanks for all your lovely comments.
I am back again today with another easy project for you forming part of the Inspiration Post over at STAMPlorations.

I used the bouquet from the The Bee's Knees: Newlyweds Extras and a sentiment from the VIGNETTE: Tree Silhouettes. I simply die cut a circle from a piece of white card, spritzed it with turquoise and green inks, stamped the bouquet in Rose Red and the sentiment on a strip of card in Lost Lagoon, assembled as shown and finished off by rounding some corners and adding a tiny heart and some gems.

Next I got another card which I made as a Get Well Soon card for a friend. I was meant to pop it through the door yesterday on my way home from town .... and forgot ... hoping to do it tomorrow.

It is actually for her husband, he loves narrowboats. I am hoping that this will help cheer him up. I just simply stamped and coloured the narrowboat by Amanda Loverseed/Stamposaurus and combined it with a sentiment from the VIGNETTE: Trendy Feathers set by STAMPlorations. Given that the narrowboat is so detailed and I chose to colour it brightly, which is quite traditional, the card didn't really need any additional embellishments.

I would like to link this card to:
Bloggers/Splendiferous Creations - Travel Challenge
Stempelsonne - Anything Goes with stamp as main focus

Thanks for stopping by today.
Back again soon with more inspiration.
hugs
Monika xxx

here is something to look forward to:


stamps I used: