TMR 13th November - Hobbies

Hello Crafty Friends!

It is Wednesday and time for a new challenger over at The Male Room challenge blog where the bi-weekly challenge is all about making projects for the men in our lives. Our guest designer for the next fortnight is Lyn, you can check out her fabulous creations on here on Lyn's blog.

My DT project for the new challenge is ...

Each challenge, of course, has a different theme. The theme for challenge #124 is Hobbies. You might have noticed that quite a few of this year's challenge themes could fall under the heading of 'hobbies'. If you need more inspiration, simply check them out!

#124 Hobbies

I kept things simple today and went with a them for a music lover ... be it that they play the sax ... go to Jazz concerts ... or love a good tune to dance too. The mood of my card could cover any of them, but was actually inspired by my saxophone playing brother.

Fancy creating something for a male person in your life, 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

Thank You

Hello Crafty Friends!

It's Tuesday and this means it's Inspiration Time over at STAMPlorations. This week they are celebrating with a little Thanksgiving Blog Hop.

It is also the perfect time for me to say THANK YOU for the lovely comments you've been leaving. For today's project I have chosen autumnal colours to go with the new Gratitude Trees Layering Dies, have a look ...

I cut one of the trees in multiple colours and layered them as multi coloured trees on a stenciled background. I finished off with a stamped sentiment and sequin.

How can you join the Thanksgiving Celebrations ...

Shery has a little fun planned for you, in as much that there are certain tasks that need completing to be entered in a special Rafflecapter prize draw to win 1 year or 6 months worth of craft supplies. You cab check out the graphics below. All the details to this special draw can be found here on the STAMPlorations Blog in a special post from Friday 8th November.

 

Back to the Thanksgiving Hop ...

There'll be 3 randomly drawn winners of a $15 gift code each from all the comments left on the STAMPlorations Blog, the designer's blogs and the corresponding posts on STAMPlorations Facebook and Instagram pages.

Commenting closes Sunday 8th December, so does entry to the Rafflecopter prize draw. The winners will be announced Tuesday 10th December in the November Winners Post on the STAMPlorations Blog.

More details and the links to all the participating designer's blogs can be found in today's post here on the STAMPlorations Blog.

That's it from me for today. Pop over to the STAMPlorations Blog to join the fun.
Have a lovely day!

hugs
Monika xxx


here is what I used from the STAMPlorations Shop:

Gratitude Trees, Gratitude Trees Layering Dies, Dots All Over Stencil
  

You can check out all of their current promotions here.

Thanks Snow Much

Hello Crafty Friends!

Given how cold it is in the UK at the moment, I thought I'd share a wintery Thank You card. Here it is ...

I used the Zen Doodled Birthday Gifts Cover Plate Die by STAMPlorations which is a bit larger than my card and has a frame around it ... normally ... I cut it down to a different size, layered it on a piece of coloured card and edged it with some snow like fibres. The sentiment is from STAMPlorations' Winter Chill set.

This is where I discover that there is a little hair photobombing my picture 😂

That's it from me for now, back later with another make.

hugs
Monika xxx

A Little Christmas Card

Hi Crafty Friends!

I got a little Christmas card for you today using the stamp from the current issue of the Craft Stamper Magazine.

Given that it was designed by my friend Shery, I combined it with one of her stamp sets to make this card ...

I stamped the holly stamp from the magazine on mixed media card and coloured the image with watercolour pencils. After fuzzy cutting, I lightly shaped my image, popped it up on 2D foam and added it to my stamped card.

I am entering my card at:
Craft Stamper Take It Make It November Challenge - anything goes, must use stamp

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

here is what I used:
stamp from the current issue of Craft Stamper Magazine
Joy stamp set - STAMPlorations
Canson Mixed Media card - Amazon
Evergreen and Red Brick Prism inks - Hunkydory
white card, black Versafine ink, watercolour pencils - my stash

Watercolour Lilies

Hello Crafty Friends!

It's Tuesday and this means it's Inspiration Time over at STAMPlorations. For today's project I am sharing a little Birthday card.

Here it is ...

I simply stamped the lilies with Versamark on mixed media card and coloured them using my watercolour pencils. I distressed the edges, layered on kraft card and finished off with sequin and die-cut sentiment.

Just giving you a little heads up, STAMPlorations are having a Thanksgiving Sale this month, 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


here is what I used from the STAMPlorations Shop:

Blossom Sprays #3, Everyday Sentiments

 

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It's Coffee Day

Hello Crafty Friends!

It's that time of year ... it's time for the Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop ...

STAMPlorations are one of the hops sponsors and I made my card as part of the STAMPlorations DT, here it is ...

I used their Coffeeology Clear Stickers, Just Caffeinate Clear Stickers and Tag O'Coffee Dies to make my card. The little panels were die-cut and the coffee cups were die-cut from them and simply swapped around to have contrasting colours in each. I then attached the stickers, trimmed them to size and layered on dark brown card,

Here is a little tip: to secure the die-cut coffee cups in place I glued the coloured panels on pieces of white card first before attaching my stickers. That way the die-cut coffee cups could be inlaid plus it made it easier to attach the stickers too.

For more coffee themed inspiration from STAMPlorations, pop over to their blog and see what my teamies have made. There will be extra prizes for comments left on the STAMPlorations Blog plus they offer a free coffee themed digi for you to download too.

I shall be entering my card at the Coffee Lovers Hop too.

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

hugs
Monika xxx

Here is what I used from the STAMPlorations Shop:
Coffeeology Clear Stickers, Just Caffeinate Clear Stickers, Tag O'Coffee Dies
  
Feel free to use my personal discount code STAMPGIRLMONIKA at checkout for 20% off their stamps, dies and stencils

Circle Celebrations

Hello Crafty Friends!

Welcome to November and the start of another round of challenges over at STAMPlorations. Here is my DT piece for this month's Theme & Photo Prompt Challenge ...

The theme for the current challenge is Stamps & Circles and the photo prompt can be seen below. Your project can either be inspired by the theme, photo prompt or both. The full challenge rules can be found here on the STAMPlorations Blog.

As you probably already guessed, I took inspiration from the theme of Stamps & Circles when I went for these circular trees from the Gratitude Trees set. My flat circular sequins finish off the look.

As for the prizes:
Two winners, one of a $15 gift certificate and one of a $10 gift certificate, will be picked by one member of our DT.
Plus 3 randomly drawn winners will each receive a $5 gift certificate.

In order to be considered for a prize, make sure you've followed the rules here.

Pop over to the STAMPlorations Blog to check out how my teamies interpreted the challenge theme and prompt and of course to join in the fun too.

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

hugs

Monika xxx

here is what I used from the STAMPlorations Shop:

Gratitude Trees, Celebrate Big Phrase Die