May TAGplorations Reminder

Hello Crafty Friends!

May's TAGplorations Challenge is in full swing over at STAMPlorations. There is still time to play along ...

The theme for May is: All About Mom

The optional twist is: to use Vellum

Here is my artsy looking tag ....

It doesn't need much colouring, just a little bit on the butterflies.

I used the Fluttery Garden digi stamps, resized them and printed out two, one was for a full card front, which I cut the tag from, and the other one was for half a card front, which I needed for the layered butterfly.

Next I pencil coloured the butterflies and wings and added splatters using my spritzing inks. I heat embossed and die-cut my sentiment, added the fuzzy cut butterfly and finished off with ribbon and candy dots.

If you love tags, why not give it a go and play along? Your project can be anything as long as it features a tag. You can enter as many projects as you want, but one per blog post please, and you don't have to use STAMPlorations products, yet we'd be thrilled if you would. There is currently a free image to download at STAMPlorations Never ending Anything Goes Challenge here. Please check out the full revised challenge guidelines here on the STAMPlorations Blog.

One lucky winner, voted for by the DT, will win a $15 STAMPlorations gift certificate and 3 randomly picked players will win a $5 STAMPlorations gift certificate each.

Ready for more tagtastic inspiration? Pop over to the STAMPlorations Blog to see the gorgeous projects my teamies created and, of course, to link up your tag project/s too.

More challenge and tag inspirations can be found here in the May Challenges Reminder post over on the STAMPlorations Blog.

That's it from me for today. Have a lovely weekend.

hugs

Monika xx

here is what I used from:
- STAMPlorations Digital Store:
Fluttery Garden A2 Card Fronts Digital Stamps - set of 6 plus bonus colouring page


- Stamplorations Online Store:
Funny Kinda Love, Uppercase Alphabet Plate Die, Stitched Tags Nesting Dies
  
Feel free to use my personal discount code STAMPGIRLMONIKA at checkout for a 20% discount off their stamps, dies and stencils. Happy shopping!

here is what else I used:

Pink Heidi Swap Spritzing ink, Gold Artiste Spritzing ink, colouring pencils, glittery candy dots, strip of white vellum, black, gold and white card, ribbon, black WOW embossing powder, VersaMark ink

Easter Wishes

Hello Crafty Friends!

There is still time to join the Spring Fling fun over at STAMPlorations as they they are celebrating Spring. Each day during the run-up to Easter their DT will feature Spring themed makes plus there'll be lots of prizes to be won.

Here is my DT piece ...

Again I used another one of the soon to be released digi stamps and turned it into an Easter card using the little bunny from the Pets set and a made up die-cut sentiment.

As mentioned earlier, each day there is a prize to be won ... and toady's prize is ...

As with any blog hop, you need to leave a comment on the participating designers' blogs and on the STAMPlorations Blog itself. All the links to the participating blogs can be found here on the STAMPlorations Blog. Commenting closes Friday 19th April with the winners being announced on Easter Monday 22nd April on their blog.

During the Spring Fling event and throughout April, all the products listed under the SPRING FLING section in their shop are on offer at 25% off, no coupon needed. Using my personal discount code STAMPGIRLMONIKA at checkout gives you an added 20% off which would mean a whopping 45% discount on all the products from the Spring Fling section.

Here is a another look at my project ...

That's it from me for now. Have fun hopping along!

Wishing you all a happy and sunny Easter!
hugs
Monika xxx

here is what I used from the STAMPlorations Shop:

Pets, Uppercase Alphabet Plate Die, Sweet Spring Wishes
  

Spring Bloom Frame Sunflowers digital stamp soon to be released

Cupcake Love

Hello Crafty Friends!

February's TAGplorations Challenge over at STAMPlorations is in full swing and there is still time to play along.

The theme for February is: All About Love

The optional twist is: to use Cupcakes

Well, as you can see, I'm 'playing' the optional twist ...

I used the rose stamp for my background, splattered with red watercolour. The hearts and cupcake were watercoloured and fuzzy cut, the rest are layered die-cuts and a piece of decorative tape.

Have you noticed that the Bloomdala Bliss die-cuts make perfect doilies?

If you love tags, why not give it a go and play along? Your project can be anything as long as it features a tag. You can enter as many projects as you want, but one per blog post please, and you don't have to use STAMPlorations products, yet we'd be thrilled if you would. There is currently a free winter/holiday image to download at STAMPlorations Never ending Anything Goes Challenge here. Please check out the full revised challenge guidelines here on the STAMPlorations Blog.

One lucky winner, voted for by the DT, will win a $15 STAMPlorations gift certificate and 3 randomly picked players will win a $5 STAMPlorations gift certificate each.

Ready for more tagtastic inspiration? Pop over to the STAMPlorations Blog to see the gorgeous projects my teamies created and, of course, to link up your tag project/s too. You can also find additional inspiration in the Challenge Reminder Post here on the STAMPlorations Blog

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

hugs

Monika xx 

here is what I used from the STAMPlorations Shop, you can use my personal discount code STAMPGIRLMONIKA at checkout for a 20% discount on their, stamps, dies and stencils

Boxed Blooms, Sketched: Cupcake, Romantic Expressions #2

  

Stitched Tags Nesting Dies, Uppercase Alphabet Plate Die, Bloomdala Bliss Festive

  

Good Luck

Hello Crafty Friends!

Today I am sharing a quick card with you using the Lighthouse - Large, the Uppercase Alphabet Plate Die and the Good Luck Word Stamp & Die set by STAMPlorations.

I went for a muted colour scheme mainly because I wanted to use the negative from the Alphabet Die in my card. I also didn't want to be precise with straight lines and purposefully cut some wonky lines, highlighted of course by some doodles.

Pop over to the STAMPlorations Blog for more Roundup Inspiration.

That's it from me for today. Have a lovely week!
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:

Lighthouse - Large, Uppercase Alphabet Plate Die, Good Luck Word Stamp & Die Set
  

*** Discount code works on sale items too

Amazing Vintage - A Real Classic

Hello Crafty Friends!

It's Wednesday today and over at The Male Room challenge log their new bi-weekly challenge has started. As the name says, their challenges are all about making cards for the men in our lives. Here is my DT project ...

Each challenge, of course, has a different theme. For challenge #77 we are looking for Vintage inspired makes. Lots of scope there!

#77 - Vintage

The inside of my card will eventually read something like 'a real classic, getting better with age 😁'. I don't normally do Vintage hence I thought a little outside the box with my approach to making this card.

A bit of pretty paper, stamping, die-cutting plus a classic car image were all I needed for this cheeky take on the Vintage theme.

Fancy creating your own Vintage inspired make, pop over to The Male Room for more inspiration and to link up your masculine makes.

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

here is what I used:
Designer Paper - We R Memory Keepers
classic car image - Crafty Individuals
Cog dies - Xcut by docrafts

from STAMPlorations:
It's All About You, Uppercase Alphabet Plate Die
 
remember to apply my personal discount code STAMPGIRLMONIKA (not case sensitive) at check out for a 20% discount on STAMPlorations stamps ***, stencils and dies:
*** Discount code works on sale items too

CUTplorations April

Hello Crafty Friends!

A new month ... an new challenge, over at STAMPlorations the April CUTplorations Challenge has started. Here is my DT piece ...

How did it come about? Well, the CUTplorations Chellenge is a monthly challenge requiring you to use die(s) and take inspiration from the monthly changing photo which for this month is ...

image source: Alexas_Fotos pixabay.com

Looks interesting, when I saw, it I immediately thought of Easter and the coloured eggs turned into a colourful die-cut Easter sentiment. the bird is heat embossed and was masked before adding a little blending and stamping daffodils.

Pop over to the STAMPlorations Blog to see how my teamies interpreted the photo and to link up your entry too. 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:

CUTplorations Dies used: Sweet Spring Wishes Phrase Die, Uppercase Alphabet Die plate, Lowercase Alphabet Die Plate
  
STAMPlorations Stamps used: Trendy Birds, The Birds And The Blooms, Mixed Media Elements
  

*** Discount code works on sale items too

CUTplorations February

Hello Crafty Friends!

Over at STAMPlorations they have a new challenge ... The CUTplorations Challenge ... It's a monthly challenge requiring you to use die(s) and take inspiration from the monthly changing photo which for this month is ...

image source: Smashing Magazine

So what have we got ...

• Uppercase Alphabet letters
• multi colour letters
• stripy effect colouring
• Passion

I pretty much tried to go with all of them to make this birthday card ...

I used watercolours on white pearlized card, layered on the black negative cut from the Uppercase Alphabet Plate Die and layered it on my linen effect base card.

It is amazing what one can find routing through stash! I was looking for some vellum (Never can remember where it is when I need it!) and found this mesh with white bits in it. I cut a heart from it and it became the perfect backdrop for my XOXO sentiment to which I added the stamped birthday and a couple of hearts from the Clustered Hearts die to finish.

Pop over to the STAMPlorations Blog to see how my teamies interpreted the photo and to link up your entry too. 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:


CUTplorations Dies used: XOXO, Uppercase Alphabet Plate Die, Clustered Hearts
  
STAMPlorations Stamps used: Sentiment Builder: Happy

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