STAMPlorations Inspiration December 27th 2016

Welcome back to STAMPlorations Inspiration post. We the inspiration team at STAMPlorations are here to inspire you with our creations using STAMPlorations products through these weekly inspiration posts and there is more to inspiration... We'll have a monthly random drawing -- 1 commenter wins a $10 gift certificate Yay!!

Let me show you my final Inspiration card for  December 2016...

Looking back at this year, I am very happy with what I created, including my son LOL
To make this card, I diecut the background panel from polka dot patterned paper, I then heat emboosed the poinsettia in gold, diecut the sentiment in gold foil paper and put it all together to finish my all gold card :).  I have used Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle Nesting Dies. Peace Love Joy Phrase die,  Holiday Sketched : Christmas Flower stamp set and Anna Griffin patterned paper :)

Hope you like it! Head over to STAMPlorations Blog, HERE for more inspiration :)

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ARTplorations Stencil Blog Hop!

Yay! Its the final day ofARTplorations Stencil Blog Hop at STAMPlorations. There have been 6 days of amazing stencil inspiration for you and today is the last day.. You can see all the details HERE.

I made a card using the Peony Number two Stencil. Let me show the card first...

Well as you can see, I did watercoloring yet again. The design layout of this card is inspired by fabulous Therese Calvird's Card, HERE. She is so amazing, I am always inspired by her stunning creations :)

So once I did all the cutting of my watercolor panel. I used the stencil to trace it on my paper with a pencil. I wanted to achieve some delicate watercoloring effects. Then I watercolored it. I also traced the central part of the peony on another watercolor card stock. Colored it and layered it over the base. Yay! you can do layering with stencils too ;)

To add more interest, I hand drew fine lines on each petal with a white gel pen and did some text stamping and sentiment stamping. I then adhered this panel on my base panel :)

I have used  ARTplorations Peony Number Two Stencil, Friends and Flowers, Mixed Media Elements Stamp set , Edge Border Dies and Gansai tambi watercolors.I am quite happy with the results. Let me know your thoughts too and don't forget to hop, HERE

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Guest Designer at Great Impressions Stamps - December 17th 2016

Hello friends and welcome to my blog. Today is my final day as Guest Designing at the Great Impressions Stamps :) I had so much fun playing with the GI stamps and want to thank GI Stamps, Ruza and entire GI team for having me over :) 

So let me show you the card I made...

For this card I decided to make the image the focal point. I stamped, colored and fuzzy cut the image. I then layered it on diecut circle and diecut scalloped circle which was inked in yellow. On the card base I added a polka dot patterned paper to match the focal image. I then stamped the sentiment to finish the card   
I have used GI Just Chicken Rubber stamp, GI Chicken Soup Rubber Stamp, Sizzix Circle Dies, Nestabilities Scalloped Circle Dies, DCWV Basics stack Paper pad and Prisma Color Pencils 

I hope you like my card. The GI stamps have their December Monthly challenge running. It's an Anything Goes challenge, so don't forget to link your cards :), HERE

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CAS Watercolor December Challenge - Reminder

I am super excited to be joining in the CAS Watercolor Challenge Team as the Guest designer :) Today is the reminder for the challenge. I had so much fun playing along with the team :) Thank you so much Loll and Bonnie for having me over :)

The challenge for this month is watercolor resist. Such a fun technique. There are a number of way sthat you can do watercolor resist. One is of course embossing resist, others are crayon/ any oil based pencil/ marker or color resist.

For my card. I did the traditional embossing resist technique. Let me show you the card first...

To make this card, I heat embossed the panel and did some wet on wet wayercoloring. I decided not to color the whole panel. To finish the card I added the diecut sentiment.

I have used Hero Arts Background stamp, PTI Hugs diecut (sent by a sweet friend) and Gansai Tambi watercolors.

Here is a closeup...

I hope you like my card :) Thank you for stopping by and leaving me a comment.

ARTplorations Stencil Blog Hop!

Yay! Its time for yet another ARTplorations Stencil Blog Hop at STAMPlorations. Not only will there be loads of inspiration for 7 days but alsp prizes to be won. You can see all the details HERE.

Today on the day one STAMP Team is ready to inspire you and so am I :) I made a card using the ARTplorations Broken Glass Stencil. Let me show the card first...

Well as you can see, I did watercoloring. I can't seem to get rid of the idea of watercoloring :) So to make the background, I laid the stencil on watercolor cardstock. Then I watercolored each piece with a brush. Once dried, I added some dot with my gel pen to add some interest. To accent the card further, I added the flowers after, coloring and fuzzy cutting those. To finish the card, I added the diecut sentiment. 

I have used  ARTplorations Broken Glass Stencil, Floral Bliss, On So Grateful Stamp set , Grateful Word die and Gansai tambi watercolors.I am quite happy with the results. Let me know your thoughts too and don't forget to hop, HERE

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