STAMPlorations December 2020 Mid Month Challenge Inspiration

Hello everyone, welcome to the December 2020 STAMPlorations CAS Card Challenge Mid month inspiration. As usual, you need to make a CAS card, the theme for the month is Optional Color Twist: Red+Brown.

We don't have many rules to keep it easy to play along. You are challenged to create a CAS card with or without the optional color twist. You may enter up to 3 CAS cards. Remember to link to this blog post and display the challenge graphic to be eligible for the prizes. You can use any craft products you want, but if you have STAMPlorations stash, we would love to see what you create with it. And of course the most important rule - have fun! 

Here's my card:

Supplies Used:

The Merry Tree - ARTplorations Stencil

Trendy Christmas Trees - Shery Russ Designs

December 2020 STAMPlorations CAS Card Challenge

 Hello everyone, welcome to the December 2020 STAMPlorations CAS Card Challenge. As usual, you need to make a CAS card, the theme for the month is Optional Color Twist: Red+Brown.

We don't have many rules to keep it easy to play along. You are challenged to create a CAS card with or without the optional color twist. You may enter up to 3 CAS cards. Remember to link to this blog post and display the challenge graphic to be eligible for the prizes. You can use any craft products you want, but if you have STAMPlorations stash, we would love to see what you create with it. And of course the most important rule - have fun! 

Here's my card:

This was so fun and easy to put together! Just apply red glitter paster over the beautiful Tree slimline stencil on kraft cardstock and add some white splatters and the 'let it snow' white die cut sentiment and you're done!

Hop on over to the Stamplorations blog to see what my teammates have created!

Supplies Used:

Let It Snow Phrase Die

Trees – ARTplorations Slimline stencil

STAMPlorations CAS Card Challenge - November Mid Month Inspiration

 Welcome to the STAMPlorations November CAS Card Challenge Mid Month Inspiration. As usual, you need to make a CAS card, the theme for the month is Optional Color Twist: Black + Pink.

We don't have many rules to keep it easy to play along. You are challenged to create a CAS card with or without the optional color twist. You may enter up to 3 CAS cards. Remember to link to this blog post and display the challenge graphic to be eligible for the prizes. You can use any craft products you want, but if you have STAMPlorations stash, we would love to see what you create with it. And of course the most important rule - have fun! 

Here's my card:

Supplies Used:

Hey Sunshine - Clear Stickers

In Bloom: Floral Bliss Trio - Shery Russ Designs

Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle Nesting Dies - CUTplorations

November - STAMPlorations CAS Card Challenge

Welcome to the STAMPlorations November CAS Card Challenge. As usual, you need to make a CAS card, the theme for the month is Optional Color Twist: Black + Pink.

We don't have many rules to keep it easy to play along. You are challenged to create a CAS card with or without the optional color twist. You may enter up to 3 CAS cards. Remember to link to this blog post and display the challenge graphic to be eligible for the prizes. You can use any craft products you want, but if you have STAMPlorations stash, we would love to see what you create with it. And of course the most important rule - have fun! 

Here's my card:

I stamped this gorgeous lily spray onto the right of an A2 size watercolor cardstock panel and colored it in with distress reinkers in pink and gray.

I finished the card by adding some black watercolor splatters with a size 4 round watercolor brush and adding sentiments from the Hey Sunshine Clear stickers pack.

Hop on over to the Stamplorations blog to see what my teammates have created!

Supplies Used:

Blossom Sprays #3 - Dee's Artsy Impressions

Hey Sunshine - Clear Stickers

Day 5 - STAMPLORATIONS 7th Birthday Celebration

Welcome to DAY 5 of the STAMPLORATIONS 7th Birthday Celebration. There are a few ways you can join the celebrations, have a look at the graphic below to find out.

You can link up any birthday- or celebration-themed project for a chance to win fabulous prizes, including a $40 gift code to the STAMPlorations store. You can find the linky tool and more detailed rules for the linky party at the end of this post. Don't forget we will also draw winners from all the comments left on the celebration week posts and the designers' posts so we hope you will hop along to leave the STAMPlorations design team some love too! Commenting closes on November 8.

Here's a run down of the prizes up for grabs:

• ONE (1) winner of $50 gift code - randomly drawn from photos entered to the STAMPlorations stash linky giveaway
• THREE (3) winners of $10 gift code - randomly drawn from comments left on the birthday hop posts and designers' blog posts
• TWO (2) winners of $20 gift code - randomly drawn from entries in the birthday linky party
• ONE (1) winner of a $40 gift code - randomly drawn from entries in the birthday linky party
• A few surprise winners of products and/or prize codes

Until October 31, all products featured in our birthday celebration this week are 10% off instantly in the store. However, if you use a STAMPgirlJUHI 20% off code when ordering, you will receive a bonus -- a not-yet-released stencil.

My card for today features one of the stamps from the beautiful Bloomfully series of floral stamps.

I've watercolored the stamp in my favorite messy watercolor style. 

Pop on over to the STAMPlorations blog for some more fabulous inspiration from the team, and don't forget to leave a comment for your chance to win (full details on the STAMPlorations blog).  Don't forget about the linky party too!

Supplies Used:

Bloomfully Remember

Day 4 - STAMPLORATIONS 7th Birthday Celebration

 Welcome to DAY4 of the STAMPlorations 7th Birthday Celebration. There are a few ways you can join the celebrations, have a look at the graphic below to find out

You can link up any birthday- or celebration-themed project for a chance to win fabulous prizes, including a $40 gift code to the STAMPlorations store. You can find the linky tool and more detailed rules for the linky party at the end of this post. Don't forget we will also draw winners from all the comments left on the celebration week posts and the designers' posts so we hope you will hop along to leave the STAMPlorations design team some love too! Commenting closes on November 8.

Here's a run down of the prizes up for grabs:

• ONE (1) winner of $50 gift code - randomly drawn from photos entered to the STAMPlorations stash linky giveaway
• THREE (3) winners of $10 gift code - randomly drawn from comments left on the birthday hop posts and designers' blog posts
• TWO (2) winners of $20 gift code - randomly drawn from entries in the birthday linky party
• ONE (1) winner of a $40 gift code - randomly drawn from entries in the birthday linky party
• A few surprise winners of products and/or prize codes

Until October 31, all products featured in our birthday celebration this week are 10% off instantly in the store. However, if you use a STAMPgirlJUHI 20% off code when ordering, you will receive a bonus -- a not-yet-released stencil.

My card for today features the Christmas Wreaths - ARTplorations Stencil - Sanna Lippert Designs.

I used the stencil to randomly watercolor a piece of A2 watercolor cardstock. I also added a ton of white and green watercolor splatters to create a messy watercolor effect.

Pop on over to the STAMPlorations blog for some more fabulous inspiration from the team, and don't forget to leave a comment for your chance to win (full details on the STAMPlorations blog).  Don't forget about the linky party too!

Supplies Used:

Trendy Christmas Trees - Shery Russ Designs
Christmas Wreaths - ARTplorations Stencil - Sanna Lippert Designs

Day 3 - STAMPLORATIONS 7th Birthday Celebration

 Welcome to DAY 3 of the STAMPlorations 7th Birthday Celebration. There are a few ways you can join the celebrations, have a look at the graphic below to find out

You can link up any birthday- or celebration-themed project for a chance to win fabulous prizes, including a $40 gift code to the STAMPlorations store. You can find the linky tool and more detailed rules for the linky party at the end of this post. Don't forget we will also draw winners from all the comments left on the celebration week posts and the designers' posts so we hope you will hop along to leave the STAMPlorations design team some love too! Commenting closes on November 8.

Here's a run down of the prizes up for grabs:

• ONE (1) winner of $50 gift code - randomly drawn from photos entered to the STAMPlorations stash linky giveaway
• THREE (3) winners of $10 gift code - randomly drawn from comments left on the birthday hop posts and designers' blog posts
• TWO (2) winners of $20 gift code - randomly drawn from entries in the birthday linky party
• ONE (1) winner of a $40 gift code - randomly drawn from entries in the birthday linky party
• A few surprise winners of products and/or prize codes

Until October 31, all products featured in our birthday celebration this week are 10% off instantly in the store. However, if you use a STAMPgirlJUHI 20% off code when ordering, you will receive a bonus -- a not-yet-released stencil.

My cards for today feature the Winter Flowers - ARTplorations Stencil - Sanna Lippert Designs

I began by using the stencil to ink up a piece of A2 cardstock panel with distress oxide inks. I used speckled egg and salty ocean. I added salty ocean in the center of the flowers and speckled eggs at the edges. I added a layer of clear sparkly glitter paste on top of it.

Once the glitter paster dried up I inked up the entire panel with speckled egg and salty ocean distress oxide inks.

Pop on over to the STAMPlorations blog for some more fabulous inspiration from the team, and don't forget to leave a comment for your chance to win (full details on the STAMPlorations blog).  Don't forget about the linky party too!

Supplies Used:

Winter Flowers - ARTplorations Stencil - Sanna Lippert Designs

Trendy Christmas Trees - Shery Russ Designs

Day 2 of STAMPLORATIONS 7th Birthday Celebration

Welcome to Day 2 of the STAMPLORATIONS 7th Birthday Celebration. There are a few ways you can join the celebrations, have a look at the graphic below to find out

You can link up any birthday- or celebration-themed project for a chance to win fabulous prizes, including a $40 gift code to the STAMPlorations store. You can find the linky tool and more detailed rules for the linky party at the end of this post. Don't forget we will also draw winners from all the comments left on the celebration week posts and the designers' posts so we hope you will hop along to leave the STAMPlorations design team some love too! Commenting closes on November 8.

Here's a run down of the prizes up for grabs:

• ONE (1) winner of $50 gift code - randomly drawn from photos entered to the STAMPlorations stash linky giveaway
• THREE (3) winners of $10 gift code - randomly drawn from comments left on the birthday hop posts and designers' blog posts
• TWO (2) winners of $20 gift code - randomly drawn from entries in the birthday linky party
• ONE (1) winner of a $40 gift code - randomly drawn from entries in the birthday linky party
• A few surprise winners of products and/or prize codes

Until October 31, all products featured in our birthday celebration this week are 10% off instantly in the store. However, if you use a STAMPgirlJUHI 20% off code when ordering, you will receive a bonus -- a not-yet-released stencil.

My cards for today feature the Ovals Flexi-Template - Monika Skinner Designs

I used the Oval templates to create graded ink blended backgrounds with distress oxide inks. I started by arranging the templates to cover a piece of A2 cardstock. I then removed the inner most template and inked the exposed area, following which I put back the inner most template and removed the one next to it and inked the exposed are and so on.

I finished the cards by stamping awesome motivational quotes.

Pop on over to the STAMPlorations blog for some more fabulous inspiration from the team, and don't forget to leave a comment for your chance to win (full details on the STAMPlorations blog).  Don't forget about the linky party too!

Supplies Used:

Ovals Flexi-Template - Monika Skinner Designs

Do One Thing - Typografia Motivate

Do What You Can - Typografia Motivate

Day 1 of STAMPLORATIONS 7th Birthday Celebration

 Welcome to Day 1 of the STAMPLORATIONS 7th Birthday Celebration. There are a few ways you can join the celebrations, have a look at the graphic below to find out

Full information on how to play along can be found here on the STAMPlorations Blog. You can find the linky tool and more detailed rules for the linky party at the STAMPlorations Blog. Don't forget we will also draw gift certificate winners from all the comments on the Celebration week posts and the designers' posts.

Also, all products in the store are at 10% off + you can use the code STAMPGIRLJUHI for an additional 20% off +  order will include this not-yet-released stencil, Just Plaid square stencil (10 mil), how awesome is that!!

Now, to my cards. My cards for today feature two awesome slimline stencils - Overlays Slimline Stencil
and Wheels Slimline Stencil. These slimeline cards were a lot of fun to put together, I tried reverse stenciling for the first time. 

I first created distress ink blended backgrounds in bright rainbow colors on top of which I inked the stencil in black ink. The results are really striking, all I needed to finish the cards after that was to add some beautiful sentiments. The links to all STAMPlorations products is given at the bottom of this post.

Pop on over to the STAMPlorations blog for some more fabulous inspiration from the team, and don't forget to leave a comment for your chance to win (full details on the STAMPlorations blog).  Don't forget about the linky party too!

Supplies Used:

Overlays Slimline Stencil

Wheels Slimline Stencil

Be the Change - Typografia Motivate

Today is Perfect - Typografia Motivate

STAMPlorations CAS Card Challenge: Mid Month Inspiration October 2020

 Hello everyone! I'm so happy to be back with the mid-month inspiration for the October 2020 edition of the STAMPlorations CAS card challenge. The year seems to have flown by and it's already October! As usual, you need to make a CAS card, the theme for the month is Optional Color Twist: Gray + Orange.

We don't have many rules to keep it easy to play along. You are challenged to create a CAS card with or without the optional color twist. You may enter up to 3 CAS cards. Remember to link to this blog post and display the challenge graphic to be eligible for the prizes. You can use any craft products you want, but if you have STAMPlorations stash, we would love to see what you create with it. And of course the most important rule - have fun! 

Here's my card:

I've used the Christmas Wreaths - ARTplorations Stencil - Sanna Lippert Designs to create a fall wreath. I added distress inks with a wet brush over the stencil to create the watercolor wreath. 

Hop on over to the Stamplorations blog to see what my teammates have created!

STAMPlorations CAS Card Challenge - October 2020

Hello everyone! I'm so happy to be back with the October 2020 edition of the STAMPlorations CAS card challenge. The year seems to have flown by and it's already October! As usual, you need to make a CAS card, the theme for the month is Optional Color Twist: Gray + Orange.

We don't have many rules to keep it easy to play along. You are challenged to create a CAS card with or without the optional color twist. You may enter up to 3 CAS cards. Remember to link to this blog post and display the challenge graphic to be eligible for the prizes. You can use any craft products you want, but if you have STAMPlorations stash, we would love to see what you create with it. And of course the most important rule - have fun! 

Here's my card:

Fall is upon us, well, not really here in California, but hopefully, it's just around the corner. Since it's almost Fall I decided to make an autumn-themed card featuring the Trendy Leaves set. I randomly applied Hickory Smoke and Craved Pumpkin distress oxide inks on the leaves, sprayed some water, and stamped onto watercolor cardstock to get these pretty fall leaves.

Hop on over to the Stamplorations blog to see what my teammates have created!

STAMPlorations CAS Card Challenge - June Mid Month Inspiration

Hello everyone! I am back with another card for the Stamplorations CAS Card Challenge - Mid Month Inspiration.
As usual, you need to make a CAS card, the theme for the month is Optional Color Twist: Any shade of purple

We don't have many rules to keep it easy to play along. You are challenged to create a CAS card with or without the optional color twist. You may enter up to 3 CAS cards. Remember to link to this blog post and display the challenge graphic to be eligible for the prizes. You can use any craft products you want, but if you have STAMPlorations stash, we would love to see what you create with it. And of course the most important rule - have fun!
Here's my card:

The stamp is a digi available in the STAMPlorations Digi Store - you can get it here . I've watercolored it and added details with Prismacolor pencils. The sentiment is from the 

Thank You Coffee - Shery Russ Designs set.

Hop on over the STAMPlorations blog for some amzing inspiration projects by the rest of the team.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

STAMPlorations CAS Card Challenge: June

Hello everyone! I am back with another card for the Stamplorations CAS Card Challenge.
As usual, you need to make a CAS card, the theme for the month is Optional Color Twist: Any shade of purple

We don't have many rules to keep it easy to play along. You are challenged to create a CAS card with or without the optional color twist. You may enter up to 3 CAS cards. Remember to link to this blog post and display the challenge graphic to be eligible for the prizes. You can use any craft products you want, but if you have STAMPlorations stash, we would love to see what you create with it. And of course the most important rule - have fun!
Here's my card:

I tried some no line watercoloring but I'm not sure if I'm filly satisfied with the outcome. I think it looks too washed out against the stamped "thank you" and need more layers of color... sigh. No line coloring needs a lot of practice and patience but it's so rewarding!

STAMPlorations Spring Fling - 2020 - Reminder post

Hello, STAMPlorations friends! We're 3 weeks in our fun Spring Fling blog hop and linky party. Have you hopped and/or linked up a project yet? Our event's main post can be found here.  If you're just hearing about this fun event, you'll find all the details, including prizes and linky, here. If you're so inspired, we'd love to see your creations in the gallery! There are 4 more days before the linky closes so better get your craft on! 

Here's my second card for the Spring Fling:

I used distress inks with the All Blooms - ARTplorations Stencil. I dabbed the inked panel with a wet paper towel to add some texture. 

Don't forget that during the Spring Fling, the Spring Fling section in the STAMPlorations store is 15% off (no code needed). However, if you use my code STAMPGIRLJUHI at checkout, you can get up to 35% off!! 

STAMPloration CAS Card Challenge: Mid Month Inspiration May 2020

Hello everyone! I am back with another card for the Stamplorations CAS Card Challenge.
As usual, you need to make a CAS card, the theme for the month is Optional Color Twist: Lemon Yellow

We don't have many rules to keep it easy to play along. You are challenged to create a CAS card with or without the optional color twist. You may enter up to 3 CAS cards. Remember to link to this blog post and display the challenge graphic to be eligible for the prizes. You can use any craft products you want, but if you have STAMPlorations stash, we would love to see what you create with it. And of course the most important rule - have fun!
Here's my card:

I masked out a hexagon with painter's tape and watercolored the interior. The sentiment is a sticker from Good Things - Clear Stickers, the set has some beautiful sentiments. Finally, I cut one edge of the watercolor cardstock panel with the Art Edges - CUTplorations die and mounted it on a kraft cardstock base.

Hop on over to the Stamplorations blog to see what my teammates have created!