Things With Wings Blog Hop and Linky Party

Hi all, and welcome to the STAMPlorations Things With Wings Blog Hop and Linky Party. If you have been following STAMPlorations for a few years you know this is an annual event where we celebrate all things with wings and get a chance to show off our butterflies, birds, dragonflies and more. 

And the great thing about this event is that you will have plenty of chances to play along for some great prizes - 3 winners of a $10 prize code randomly drawn from comments left on the STAMPlorations blog and designers' blogs. There will also be a linky where you can join by creating your own creations with things with wings and there will be 3 winners of their choice of STAMPlorations product (up to $15 value) and1 winner of a $25 prize code. And there may be some extra prizes too which are drawn from the STAMPlorations social media accounts to win some suprise prizes. The hop and linky are open until May 7 and winners will be announced on May 10 in the April winners post.

I couldn't decide if I wanted to go for a muted colour scheme or a bright rainbow and realised I don't have to choose so I made one of each :) For my white, bright and rainbow coloured card I started with three colours of Distress Ink - Squeezed Lemonade, Speckled Egg and Kitch Flamingo and blended them using foam applicators throught the Senecio 1 Stencil creating a mix of gorgeus colours where the inks blended. I stamped the butterfly from It's a Girl Thing: Kindness, coloured with Copics, fussy cut and attacehd to the card base. Last, I stamped the very apt Think Positive sentiment and little border from the same stamp set, splattering some black ink across the card. I am absolutely stunned by the lovely colours that came out where the inks blended, such a lovely pastel rainbow.

For the muted colour scheme I decided to make a tag, using a few different hues of orange and brown Distress Inks for the stencil work. I die cut the tag base using Stitched Tags Nesting Dies and used the same stamps as for my card, but the colour scheme gave the tag a very different and more natural look compared to the card. 

Stamps: STAMPlorations It's a Girl Thing: Kindness

Stencil: ARTplorations Senecio 1 Stencil 

Dies: CUTplorations Stitched Tags Nesting Dies

Ink and colouring: Tim Holtz Distress Inks, Copics, Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black

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