Reminder March STAMPlorations CAS Challenge

 

Happy Mid-March! Have you had a crafty month? I have learned a new craft this month - I have started to learn yarn dyeing and I love it. I love all the aspects of colour theory it involves, just like I love those aspects of crafting. Which colours to pick and how will they go together? But for today's card I didn't have to think about colours, as I went with the colour twist for the March STAMPlorations CAS challenge.

If you haven't had a chance to play along with the challenges yet this month there is more inspiration for all challenges from the design team over on the STAMPlorations blog today. For my card, I used the dark green and mint green colour twist for my CAS card. I stamped the leaves from Leafy in the two greens, die cut the panel with Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle Nesting Dies and sponged some ink around the edges of the panel. I stamped the cute little bunny from Woodland Friends, coloured him with Copics and fussy cut him. Last, I added a sentiment from the same stamp set. I hope you find all the Design Team's creations inspirational and find some time to play along with the challenges this month.

Stamps: STAMPlorations Leafy, Woodland Friends

Dies: CUTplorations Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle Nesting Dies

Ink and colouring: Tim Holtz Distress Oxides, Copics, Tsukineko Versamark

STAMPlorations discount code: If you want to save 20% when shopping at the STAMPlorations store you can use the code STAMPGIRLKAROLA at checkout. The code cannot be combined with other discount codes. And if you use my code you also get to pick a freebie to the value of $7 (for details see the badge below).

Note that as a STAMPlorations affiliate, I get a small commission on any orders you place in the STAMPlorations store using the links in my blog post or my coupon code STAMPGIRLKAROLA. This is at no added cost to you. Thank you for your support to keep my craft addiction going :) 

March STAMPlorations CAS Challenge

March?!?! It's March?!?! March 13th (which incidentally last year happened to be Friday the 13th...) marks one year of working from home for me. I feel so very grateful that I have a job to go to every day but more than that, a job I can safely do from home. And if I'm totally honest, working from home has improved my quality of life a lot as I have a relatively long commute, so I'm saving loads of time and money. We have been told that we will not be expected to return to the office until September, so I will enjoy this spring and summer and the flexibility that working from home gives me for a little while longer. But I'm sure you didn't pop in to hear me talking about work but to see what is going on with the STAMPlorations CAS challenge, and I'm so glad you did.

The optional colour twist for the March CAS challenge is dark green and mint green. I decided to stamp some spring inspired leaves on my card using Deepti's beautiful Leafy stamp set. Sometimes I think it's nice to work with just one stamp set, and also if I'm thinking of buying a stamp set I like seeing examples of that stamp set used on its own to give me ideas of what I can do with it without having a ton of other stash at hand too. So I used two pieces of scrap paper to mask off a strip of my card front and lightly inked it with Cracked Pistachio Distress Ink. Then I stamped the leaves in Lucky Clover Distress Oxide and added a sentiment from the same stamp set. If that isn't CAS, I don't know what is :) 

Stamps: STAMPlorations Leafy

Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink Cracked Pistachio, Distress Oxide Lucky Clover, Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black

STAMPlorations discount code: If you want to save 20% when shopping at the STAMPlorations store you can use the code STAMPGIRLKAROLA at checkout. The code cannot be combined with other discount codes. And if you use my code you also get to pick a freebie to the value of $7 (for details see the badge below).

Note that as a STAMPlorations affiliate, I get a small commission on any orders you place in the STAMPlorations store using the links in my blog post or my coupon code STAMPGIRLKAROLA. This is at no added cost to you. Thank you for your support to keep my craft addiction going :) 

STAMPlorations New Release Reprise

Have you enjoyed the STAMPlorations February 2020 release week? Have you checked out all four posts introducing the new stamp sets? We introduced Layered Vase, Leafy, Softly and Sweetly. I hope you enjoyed hopping along with us. Today we are back quickly to show a few more projects which didn't make it into the main posts. And don't forget you have a few more days to comment for a chance to win a $20 gift code or one of the new stamp sets.

Today I'm showing two more projects I made using Leafy. For the first card, I stamped the solid leaf stamps using light Distress Ink colours onto linen textured card. I then added the Typografia Motivate: Just Be Better in black and splattered a bit of ink for added interest.

For my second card, I inked Wilted Violet Distress Ink through the Bubbles Mini stencil. I inked a piece of white card using green Distress Inks, stamped the leaves and fussy cut them. Last, I inked up a bit of card using green and purple Distress ink and die cut the sentiment using Skinny Sentiments.

For a chance to win a $20 gift code or one of the new stamp sets, comment on the blog post over on the STAMPlorations blog and the participating designer's blogs. You don't have to comment on all blogs, but every comment will be entered in the random draw. Commenting is open until February 19th and the randomly drawn winners will be announced on February 21st. Also, the new stamps are 10% off automatically until February 19 in the STAMPlorations store and if you use my discount code STAMPGIRLKAROLA you will get an extra 20% off.

Stamps: STAMPlorations Leafy, Typografia Motivate: Just Be Better

Dies: CUTplorations Skinny Sentiments

Stencil: ARTplorations Bubbles Mini

Ink and colouring: Tsukineko Versafine Onyx Black, Distress Ink 

STAMPlorations New Release Leafy

Welcome to day two of the STAMPlorations February 2020 release week! Did you get a chance to check out our release of Shirley's Layered Vase? Today we are showcasing Dee's new Leafy stamp set which contains pretty much every single leaf you could ever need. 

For my first card, I stamped the different leaves all around the edges of a card. I started by stamping the solid leaves in lighter green Distress Inks and then added some of the outlined leaves in darker colours. I finished by adding Typografia Motivate: Quitting in black Versafine ink.

For my second card, I started with an ombre background panel. I stamped one of the leaves multiple times in Versafine and heat embossed them in copper. I die cut the sentiment using Skinny Sentiments using copper card and some more of the ombre card I used for the card panel.

For a chance to win a $20 gift code or one of the new stamp sets, comment on the blog post over on the STAMPlorations blog and the participating designer's blogs. You don't have to comment on all blogs, but every comment will be entered in the random draw. Commenting is open until February 19th and the randomly drawn winners will be announced on February 21st. Also, the new stamps are 10% off automatically until February 19 in the STAMPlorations store and if you use my discount code STAMPGIRLKAROLA you will get an extra 20% off.

Stamps: STAMPlorations Leafy, Typografia Motivate: Quitting

Dies: CUTplorations Skinny Sentiments

Ink and colouring: Tsukineko Versamark, Versafine Onyx Black, Tim Holtz Distress Inks