Welcome to the STAMPlorations June CAS Challenge! June means we are seriously into summer now - let's enjoy every moment while it lasts. But a rainy day here and there is great too as the garden needs it and that makes a great opportunity to spend some time in the craft room.
The optional colour twist for the June challenge is Mahogany. It's a reddish brown (or brownish red?). I'm not really into colour theory in depth, so I have devised a cunning plan... When in doubt - do an ombre background. I'm sure some part of my background will qualify as mahogany. Right? I created the ombre background with Distress Inks Aged Mahogany, Abandoned Coral and Seedless Preserves, and after inking I splattered some water for fun and texture. Then I stamped, coloured and fussy cut the little robot from Little Robots and stamped a sentiment from Big Robots. I know a little guy who is turning 2 very soon who will receive this card! I hope you feel inspired to join the challenge: June CAS Challenge. I'm linking up with the following challenges: As You Like It - Your favourite stamp brand and why (obviously STAMPlorations - love the variety of stamps, everything from amazing florals to cakes to robots. In addition, love all the sentiment and word dies as well as the stencils. I never used to use stencils until I came across STAMPlorations and fell in love with them) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Masculine Through The Purple Haze - The Guys Have It Unicorn Challenge - For the Men/Boys
Stamps: STAMPlorations Little Robots, Big Robots Ink and Colouring: Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress inks Aged Mahogany, Abandoned Coral and Seedless Preserves, Copics
STAMPlorations discount code: If you want to save 20% when shopping at the STAMPlorations store you can use the code STAMPGIRLKAROLA at checkout. The discount applies to all normal priced and discounted stamps, stencils and dies. The code cannot be combined with other discount codes.
I love dedicating my Saturday mornings to crafting. I should be out running but sometimes I feel like it's more important to provide a work-out for my creative muscles. No comments about the fact that I still haven't managed to squeeze into most of my trousers after the Christmas binge. But crafting is cheaper than therapy and there is only so much a gal can take after a mad day at work on Friday. Why do all the big problems always creep out on a Friday evening right before you are supposed to go home? Anyhow, this Saturday I started the day with a big stash of crafty goodness from STAMPlorations, a cup of hot coffee in my trusty Unicorn mug and haven't stopped since.
The first stamps out to play from the new stash are these super adorable Little Robots from the amazing Shery of STAMPlorations. I was inspired by the colours over at Color Throwdown, although I always feel like I'm really pushing the envelope when limiting my colour palette (I had to create a rainbow card after finishing this to recover, I'll show you that one another day...). I was also inspired by the "Use markers or pencils" theme over at CAS on Friday and Masked Magic theme over at Daring Cardmakers. Last but not least I'm linking up over at Shopping Our Stash where the theme is Birthday.
I started by stamping the two robots, masking the first before stamping the one behind it. Then I masked the other robot as well and masked a rectangle in the middle of the card. I inked Spiced Marmalade Distress Oxide through the ARTplorations Dots All Over stencil. I coloured the robots with Faber Castell watercolour pencils. Last, I combined sentiments from a few stamp sets, stamping them in Hickory Smoke Distress Ink (I really have to buy the Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide as it I prefer Oxides to Inks for stamping...), I had to use a grey marker to fill in the sentiment as it didn't stamp as well as I wanted. Card: White 250 gsm card Stamps: STAMPlorations Little Robots, Noteworthy 2, Bloomin' Spring Coffee Basket Ink and colouring: Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black, Distress Oxide Spice Marmalade, Distress Ink Hickory Smoke, Faber Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils Stencil: ARTplorations Dots All Over
STAMPlorations discount code: If you want to save 20% when shopping at the STAMPlorations store you can use the code STAMPGIRLKAROLA at checkout. The discount applies to all normal priced and discounted stamps, stencils and dies. The code cannot be combined with other discount codes.
