STAMPlorations Inspiration - August 10th 2015

Hello friends! Today at the STAMPlorations blog, we have got more inspiration for you. You can check out the Inspiration Posts HERE and we invite you to CASE one of our cards and link it up to the Inspiration CASE Playground. You are not required to use STAMPlorations stamps to play along, You can use any stamps from any company as long as you are making the card for fun.

At the end of the Inspiration Post on the STAMPlorations blog you will find InLinkz which will be open until the September 5th and wait we also have prizes. One winner will be randomly drawn from all entries to win a $15 gift certificate towards your purchase at STAMPlorations (or your choice of any 2 ARTplorations stencils). We will also be highlighting the best CASEs.. Sounds like fun !!

So let me show my first inspiration card for the month of August...

To make this card, I did some no line watercoloring using my new set "Lotus love"
If you are interested in learning more tips and techniques in watercoloring, you can join in my class at Craftsy using this 33% off link  "Watercolor cards made simple"

Head over to our STAMPlorations blog to get more inspiration. Thank you for stopping by and leaving me a comment.

STAMPlorations Special Release Blog Hop!

Today we are having a Special Stamp Release Blog Hop at STAMPlorations. It is even more special to me because another one of my stamp set is being released. This set is inspired by lotus, hence the name "Lotus Love". I have designed this set so that we can create cards with numerous design variations. I also wanted to make a set that would include the shadow of the lotus, just the way we see in a pond :) I am super excited about this set.

We are doing a mini Blog Hop to showcase the versatility of this stamp. You are welcome to hop along and leave comments on STAMPlorations blog and all the Design Team blogs for your chance to win this set. The Winner will be drawn randomly from comments made on all the blogs. The commenting closes on August 7th and the winners will be announce on August 9th.

Here is a preview into the set "Lotus love".

Let me show you the cards I created with this set... 

My first card uses water coloring and the second showcases the use of markers. I am sharing this card at Chocolate, coffee and cards #96 - Flower, Addicted to stamps and more #156 - Anything Goes!, Simply create too #91 - Anything Goes, Happy Little Stampers August CAS challenge - masking and Runway Inspired challenge #89

 

Hope you enjoyed the cards I designed and I would love to know how you like this set :) Also, until August 12 (one week), Lotus Love is available at 10% off ($10.80 instead of $12), Click HERE

Please click HERE to find all the stops in the hop for your chance to win this set.

Thank you for stopping by and leaving me a comment :)

CAS-ual Friday's Stamps Feature - Aug 4th 2015

Hello friends!! Today I am here for CAS-ual Friday's Stamps  feature post. For this post I created cards that focused on sentiments. CFS have some amazing collection of sentiment stamps with fabulous fonts and I wanted to make them the focus of my designs.  I am sharing the details on how I made these cards on the CFS blog! Click HERE to check it out.

Here is a sneak into the cards I created...

 and here is a peek into my second card... colorful one :)

I have used the Wait for it, In the cards, Wall flower, Snowflake splendor, Bold wishes and Shuffle Fri-dies to make this card, please head over to CFS blog, HERE for details

It was fun creating this card, I hope I was able to inspire you. Thank you for stopping by and leaving me a comment :)

CASEplorations #7 - Karen Dunbrook

Hi friends! it's time for CASEplorations inspiration post at STAMPlorations. On the first of every month, the STAMPlorations girls share CASEs of some of our favorite cards - maybe even one of yours. Be sure to stop by the blog  for the seventh installment of CASEd inspiration.

CASEplorations will serve as a starting off point for our Inspiration Project Posts. We show you how we CASE a card so you can, in turn, CASE the inspiration cards we share throughout the month. You can find more details HERE.

Our artist for the month of August is none other than the very creative, know for her gorgeous water colored, artsy and creative cards Karen Dunbrook of Snippets. I am a big fan of unique designs, you will fall in love with her beautiful cards. So let me show you her beautiful card (click HERE to see her original post) and my CASE...

It is obvious how I got inspired by Karen's card, here is my card.

To make this card, I water colored the water color paper panel and stamped the text and brick background from STAMPlorations Mixed Media Grunge in black and blue inks. I also heat embossed the poinsettia in white using STAMPlorations Holiday Sketches :Christmas flower, Water colored and fuzzy cut it and adhered it to the water color panel. To finish the card I stamped the sentiment from the same set. I am sharing this at Crazy 4 Challenge #297 - Include "Happy", Chocolate, Coffee & Cards Challenges #96 - Flower, Mixed Media Monthly challenge #15 - get Texty (thank you Kimberly for suggesting) and Christmas Stamping all Year long #52 - Anything Goes!

Hope you enjoyed it. Check out the amazing CASE creations by Karen and our team, HERE

Thank you for stopping by and leaving me a comment :)

ATCAS #69 - Banners

We are back with a new challenge at Addicted to CAS . This time the host of the challenge is very talented Bhavana and she has chosen the code word... BANNERS. We can make tonnes of designs with this theme be it birthday or baby shower... ideas are tremendously huge. I would like to welcome our very creative and talented Guest Designer for the month of August Linda of PaperCutting kind of day, with a beautiful card :)

Our winner will win $5 gift voucher from our amazing sponsor Scrappiness My store

 

I went with a really simple design and all I wanted was to make it CAS and colorful. Here's my card...

To make this card, I stamped the banners (from Recollections set) and fuzzy cut them. On the card base I added a coordinating color patterned paper. I also cutout the edge of white panel (using PPP Borders -1 die) that will lay on the base panel. I then adhered the banners with foam dots and stamped the sentiment (from CFS Wish Big set) and added some Pretty Pink Posh sequins. I am sharing this at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes!, 613 Avenue Create #134 - Anything Goes and Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes!

Our DT has come up with some amazing projects this week. Pop over to our ATCAS challenge blog here and take a peek. I am looking forward to the challenge this fortnight and am very excited to visit your blogs.

Have fun in creating CAS card :) and thank you for visiting my blog.