STAMPlorations Inspiration

Welcome to this Tuesday's STAMPlorations Inspiration Post. This week we have a little something extra for you - we are kicking off the 5th STAMPlorations Giving Thanks Blog Hop. And it's not just a blog hop, but a really incredible Giveaway too. Shery is giving away the most amazing prizes! 

I created a card using the new Gratitude Trees Dies. Of course, I couldn't resist a little bit of paper piecing for the trees. I created a background panel by inking with Distress Inks and die cut my inked panel using Stitched Spring Landscape. Last, I added a sentiment from Words of Gratitude using Distress Oxide.

For the full set of rules for the giveaway, as well as the prizes, hop over to the STAMPlorations Inspiration Post. The main prize is a whopping one year's supply of STAMPlorations products, up to $180 combined MSRP value!! That is one huge prize, and there are other prizes too so I hope you will be inspired top Hop Along for the Giving Thanks Blog Hop and Giveaway.

Stamps: STAMPlorations Words of Gratitude, 

Dies: CUTplorations Gratitude Trees Dies, Stitched Spring Landscape, Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle Nesting Dies 

Ink and Colouring: Distress Inks and Oxides

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Feathered Heartfelt Thanks

I've been having a bit of a clear out of the craft room - selling some stamps and punches I no longer used (and in some cases had never used at all...).  I made some thank you cards to go with the stamps. I had some backgrounds from when I started practicing with Distress Oxides which weren't good enough to use as backgrounds but felt like I didn't want them to go to waste so I stamped some feathers and heat embossed them in white. I will have to say fussy cutting 18 feathers wasn't the best of ideas - in hindsight I should have picked a stamp with a matching die. But I love these gorgeous feathers, so it was worth the fuss(y cutting).

After I had all my feathers embossed and cut, I die cut a square mask to ink through to create the backgrounds. I used different combinations of Oxides and splattered some water to create those gorgeous water splatters. Then I added some of my new washi tape before attaching the feathers and stamping the sentiment in Versafine black.

I'm linking up with Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge where the theme is Birds of a Feather and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge where the theme is Add a Sentiment. I'm also linking up with CAS(E) This Sketch.

Card: 350 gsm white card, 

Stamps: Trendy Feathers 2, Fond Expressions 2
Ink: Tsukineko Versafine Onyx Black, Versamark, Distress Oxides Fossilised Amber, Broken China, Cracked Pistachio, Wilted Violet, Worn Lipstick
Other: Papermania Seafoam white embossing powder, Washi tape from my stash

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.