STAMPlorations Birthday Blog Hop!!

STAMPlorations is turning a year old and is celebrating with a blog hop and new release. I am lucky enough to be joining the celebrations as a guest designer. When Shery invited me join in her celebration I was more than excited and honored. 

There's all together 14 blogs participating in the hop: 9 STAMPlorations design team members and 5 guests. Visit all the stops on the hop and leave a comment for a chance to win stamps. We're giving away over $120 worth of stamps!

FOURTEEN (14) lucky hoppers randomly drawn from the designers' blogs will each win a stamp set and ONE (1) lucky hopper randomly drawn from the STAMPlorations blog will win all the stamps in the July release. You have until Wednesday, July 2, 11:55 p.m. PDT (GMT -700) to comment here and on my fellow designers' posts for a chance to win. Winners will be announced on the STAMPlorations blog on Sunday, July 6.

Shery was kind enough to offer one stamp set of my choice from the store to create my project/s. I love all the stamps in their store but I was particularly inclined towards VIGNETTE: Retro Mod Shapes set and one lucky winner will win this set which is being offered by STAMPlorations at my blog. So, don't forget to leave a comment!

This stamp set is so versatile, I see a whole lot of possibilities when I pick this stamp set. And when ever I sat down with it I created a new card :D Here's one...

The shapes in the stamp set can be used to create much of variation in ur design :) To make this one, I stamped two of the stamps to create my candles in Hero Art Soft Granite and PTI Summer sunrise, inked the card base with Distress Mustard seed and the stamped the circle stamps from this set to create the bokeh effect. To finish the card I added the die cut birthday and hand wrote the sentiment "wishes". Hope you like my first creation :) 

I am entering this card to the following challenges -

1. CAS on Sunday #36 - BIRTHDAY

2. Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes!

3. A Blog Named Hero #46 - BOKEH

Don't forget to hop over to win a prize and be inspired...

*** The stops in the hop*** 

STAMPlorations Blog

Design Team:

Cornelia | Debra | Kylie | Maria | Monika | Nonni | Shery | Shirley | Vicki

Guest Designers:

Ardyth | Chrissie | Deepti | Melissa | Mynn

You take a peek into the new release, by clicking HERE. These stamps are available to buy on the shop during the hop and all 6 sets  are for $30 (17% off) + free shipping in the US (flat rate to other countries).

Have fun in hopping and thank you for stopping by and leaving me a comment !

ATSM #101 - Anything Goes!

Hello crafters, I am glad that you all played along with us in our 100th challenge and now its time for your favorite challenge at Addicted to Stamps and more... ANYTHING GOES !! I am sure you all enjoy this challenge as much as I do, it gives us an opportunity to explore so may unlimited ideas. So, get going and create what your heart desires. This is what I created...

To make this card, I stamped the birds, masked their tails and stamped the frame around each, I then also masked the bird frames and randomly stamped different sizes of squares in colors inspired by Be Inspired challenge and the frames from Monday Blues inspiration picture. The thought was since the birds are not in a single frame they are missing each other. Quite a logic, u see!! LOL, I also colored the non overlapping area of the green and blue squares with my pastel markers. Finally stamped the sentiment and hearts. Since the stamps are never used before I am playing along again at Darnell's NBUS challenge. 

There is a lot more lovely inspiration from the DT, Please visit our challenge blog here. The winner will receive a wonderful prize from our sponsor this week Eureka Stamps. Take a peek at their store here

I am playing this for the following challenges -

1. Be Inspired #54
2. Cure for the Monday Blue Challenge #22
2. One Layer Simplicity challenge #6 - I've been framed
3. NBUS challenge #1

   

I am excited to see what you will come up with ....
Thank you so much for visiting my blog and leaving me a comment :)

Supplies used : Stamps - TAWS Pieces, hearts from TAWS Nap time, birdies from TAWS Lighter than air set, Inks - Hero arts Shadow inks - Fresh peach, Bubble gum, Mint Julep, Distress Peacock feathers, Memento Tuxedo black; Spectrum Noir Markers; Post-it notes for masking

ATCAS #41 - SUN

We are back with a new challenge at Addicted to CAS . The code word for this week is SUN and the challenge is being hosted by our very talented Loll. I would like to welcome our talented Guest Designer Karen D back with her amazing creation.  You will be amazed by her interpretation of the code word. You can see her projects by clicking here, Snippets

Our sponsor for this challenge is Bugaboo Digi Stamps :) Winner will get 7 digis from the store.

So here's my card....

 

To make this card, I created the sun ray by masking and inking using a post it note. I had these diecuts fro Mama elephant sent by a sweet friend that I wanted to use. I also heat embossed the plane and flowers on the panel. Finally I stamped the sentiment.

I am linking this up to a few challenges -

1. Case Study #196 - Pamela Ho 

2. Color Throwdown #297 

 

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 :) 

Thank you for visiting my blog n leaving me a comment.

Supplies used - Stamps CAS-ual Friday Comfort, American crafts Blue skies, Pink Paislie sentiment series; Inks - Distress Mustard seed, Peacock feathers, Memento Tuxedo black, Versamark ink, Whisper silver embossing powder; Dies - Mama elephant Crative cuts City scape and landscape trio

Fusion with CAS(E) this Sketch!

Hello friends!! time for another Fusion :) but this time it's a very special Fusion challenge we have put together for you :) We are getting together with CAS(E) this Sketch challenge for a wonderful sketch for you which means you can link up your projects at CAS(E) this sketch too :) This is going to be so much fun!  So here's the Fusion inspiration n sketch for you...

FUSION is a very interesting, it gives us a photo and a sketch, so possibilities are endless with the freedom given in the challenge. You can just work with the sketch or just photo, in my case I went with the Fusion, I was inspired by votive and the gold, so I created this...

For my card, I first gold embossed the bullb, butterfly on vellum and then I stamped the image of the bulb on card base, drew the string with a marker, inked the card base around the bulb. Added some water splatter on ink. Gold embossed the flourish. Stamped the sentiment and adhered all the elements to finish my card. I am linking this up to the following challenges -

1. CAS(E) this sketch ! for the obvious reason

2. Simon says Wednesday Challenge - You Gotta have friends 
3. Butterfly Challenge #9 - Monochromatic

There is a lot more inspiration available for you by our lovely team and the team of CAS(E) this Sketch. Go and check out :) Also, for more details about the challenge please visit Fusion Card Challenge 

Betty J
Cathy Weber 
Dannielle Robeson
Deepti .....<you are here>
Jeanne Jachna
Julia Aston
Katie Brooks
Kelly Griglione
Kimberly Wiener 

Lyndal Higgins

Lynn Mangan 

Michelle Williams

Michelle Lupton

Sindhu
Stephanie Severin

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

Supplies used - Inks: Versamark, Distress Mustard seed and Memento Tuxedo black; Ranger Fine gold embossing powder; Stamps: Inkadinkadoo Dots and circles, TAWS - Lighter than air and Martha Stewart butterflies; Sequins from Ellen Hutson, Sharpie Black fine tip marker

The new challenge...

Hi friends! I made a card for a new and fun challenge "The Cutting Edge" started by fantastic, talented and superb Jackie Rockwell of Rockwell Designs. Jackie is back in action with not just one but two amazing challenges. The other is Tag You're it! for all the tag lovers out there :)

But my card is for The Cutting Edge and as the name suggests is for all those who are crazy about die cuts. If by chance you are not... you will definitely become one with this challenge and its amazing DT. So this first challenge is a contest for a Guest Design opportunity :)

So here's my card...

I was inspired by the card in the bottom right corner. To make this card, I die cut all the elements and inked them, drew a faint line as a guide to place my die cuts. Before placing my elements, I masked the lower edge of the card and created a sky by inking. Then I placed the elements with sun being the first, followed by trees and then birthday diecuts. I hand drew those tiny birdies. The unique thing about this is that I used the twig for marshmallows as the tree trunks :) 

I am also linking this up at Paper Crafting challenge #12 - In summer and CASology Week 100 - Celebrate as its their birthday and I wanted to be a part of this celebration :)

   

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

Supplies used - Dies: MFT Roughing it, MFT Little Lower case alphabets, CAS-ual Fri Dies Tree(to make those tiny flowers) and sizzix circle die; Inks - Distress Spiced Marmalade, Mustard seed, Mowed Lawn and Tumbled glass, Memento Bamboo leaves; Spectrum Noir markers; Martha Stewart Glue pen