STAMPlorations Spring Fling Blog Hop and Linky Party - Reminder

Have you played with the Spring Fling blog hop and linky party yet? This is a reminder that there is still time to comment and to play.

Here are
 my reminder cards:

This is a "twofer"card technique called mono printing. I first used the Up and Down stencil and blended a few color inks over a piece of card stock. Then instead of cleaning off the stencil I spritzed the stencil with water, turned the stencil over and laid it down on top of another piece of card stock to create the mono print.

Reminder about Prizes:

Prizes:

- THREE (3) winners of $10 gift code drawn from comments left on the main blog and designers' blogs

- TWO (2) winners of her choice of STAMPlorations product with a value of up to $10 drawn from comments left on the main blog and designers' blogs

- TWO (2) winners of her choice of STAMPlorations product with a value of up to $15 drawn from entries in the linky party

- ONE (1) winner of $25 gift code drawn from entries in the linky party

Commenting and linking up end on Sunday, May 31, with winners announced on June 10 in the May winners post.

May store promotion: All throughout May, products in the SPRING FLING section are 15% off instantly + with my DT code STAMPGIRLHARRIET, you can get up to 35% off.

Link to Spring Fling section in the store:
https://stamplorations.auctivacommerce.com/Spring-Fling-Instant-15-Off-C380986.aspx?sid=38054

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STAMPlorations Spring Fling Blog Hop and Linky Party

Welcome to STAMPlorations Spring Fling Blog Hop and Linky Party! We are featuring the new 6x6 stencils and clear sentiment stickers.

Here is my card using Bloomdala Bliss #11:

I used the stencil in the traditional way by blending distress inks over the stencil. After lifting off the stencil I softly blended over the white stencil marks left with the same ink I used on the stencil originally.

Here are the prize and participation requirements:

Prizes:

- THREE (3) winners of $10 gift code drawn from comments left on the main blog and designers' blogs

- TWO (2) winners of her choice of STAMPlorations product with a value of up to $10 drawn from comments left on the main blog and designers' blogs

- TWO (2) winners of her choice of STAMPlorations product with a value of up to $15 drawn from entries in the linky party

- ONE (1) winner of $25 gift code drawn from entries in the linky party

Commenting and linking up end on Sunday, May 31, with winners announced on June 10 in the May winners post.

May store promotion: All throughout May, products in the SPRING FLING section are 15% off instantly + with my DT code STAMPGIRLHARRIET, you can get up to 35% off.

Link to Spring Fling section in the store:
https://stamplorations.auctivacommerce.com/Spring-Fling-Instant-15-Off-C380986.aspx?sid=38054

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STAMPlorations December Stencil Challenge

A new month, another STAMPlorations Stencil Challenge!

I used one of my favorite stencils Leaf Prints in a straightforward way - blending ink over it. I first masked off areas of the card with painters tape to be able to create the narrow panel, then blended Distress inks over the stencil. After removing the tape I stamped the sentiment from Vignette: Trendy Feathers. The butterfly is a 3-D sticker from Little B's.

Now it is your turn to play. Create any kind of project using a stencil and then link it up to the challenge gallery.  I am looking forward to seeing your creations!

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STAMPlorations Stencil Challenge - October 2019 Mid Month Reminder

Welcome back to the STAMPlorations October Stencil Challenge. I'm sharing two more pages from my watercolor journal featuring the Flutterby Stencil.

I started with the stencil placed on the left page and blended distress inks over the stencil. After removing the stencil i misted it with water and turned it over (ink side down) onto the right page. I covered it with a paper towel and pressed down over the entire stencil before removing it.

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STAMPlorations April CAS Card Challenge

The April STAMPlorations CAS Card Challenge is Anything Goes with and optional color twist: Dark Navy.

Here is my sample card using A Bloom and Three Buds ARTplorations stencil and a sentiment from Fond Expressions stamp set:

Here are the rules of the challenge:

• Players can link up to 3 CAS cards.
• Players can enter a CAS card with or without the optional color twist.
• Non-STAMPlorations products are OK
• To qualify for the prize, players must display challenge graphic and link back to the challenge post (blogs only)
• Prizes: $15 GC for the winner (voted by the team); $5 GC to three (3) randomly picked players

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STAMPlorations February CAS Card Challenge

Welcome to a new month of STAMPlorations challenges! This month's CAS Card Challenge has an optional color twist of CERULEAN BLUE.

I made two card samples to share:

The card on the left was created by placing the Flutterby Stencil on the smooth side of a Tim Holtz watercolor card and blending in Mermaid Lagoon Distress ink over the entire stencil. Then After removing the card stock I spritzed the inky side of the stencil with water and laid another piece of watercolor card stock (smooth side down) to create a mono-print (card on the right side). This is one of my favorite techniques to do with stencils. I cut each panel with a stitched rectangle die and mounted them on an A2 size card base. The sentiment is from STAMPlorations' Trendy Butterflies 2 stamp set. I added a few rhinestones to the butterflies.

I hope you will join us in this challenge! Here are the rules:

• Players can link up to 3 CAS cards.
• Players can enter a CAS card with or without the optional color twist.
• Non-STAMPlorations products are OK
• To qualify for the prize, players must display challenge graphic and link back to the challenge post (blogs only)
• Prizes: $15 GC for the winner (voted by the team); $5 GC to three (3) randomly picked players

Also, for a 20% discount, please use my code STAMPGIRLHARRIET

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ARTplorations Stencil Blog Hop

Today the STAMPlorations design teams are featuring new stencils designed by our team member Sanna Lippert with a blog hop!  Here is some blog hop information for you:

• Commenting closes on December 4, Monday
• Prizes: (1) winner of $20 gift certificate, (2) winners of their choice of 3 Sanna Lippert Designs stencils
• Winners will be randomly drawn from comments left on the STAMPlorations blog and participating designers blogs

I have created a few cards using the Senecia 1 stencil and the Leaves 2 stencil:

 This first card is basically a one layer card using the stencil in the standard way: blending Distress inks with a blending tool. The sentiment is from Trendy Feathers (retired set).

 I used the Leaves 2 stencil to create a background. I already had a watercolored card front so I blended distress ink with the stencil over the water color. I used my stitched rectangle dies and cut out two pieces of the panel and layered them onto the black card front. The sentiment is from STAMPlorations Fond Expressions 2 set and the dragonfly from the Dragonfly Layering set.

This last card is my favorite. I blended Distress Oxide Inks on a watercolor panel. I then sprayed water onto the Senecia 2 stencil and carefully laid the stencil wet side down onto the blended panel. I used a paper towel to press the stencil into the paper and to mop up any excess water before I removed the stencil. The water removes the ink and the open or positive part of the stencil remains the original color (the darker portions). I used a Penny Black border die on the card front and then layered a portion of the watercolored and stenciled panel on top. The sentiment is from Trendy Feathers (retired set).

Don't forget to leave a comment for a chance to win a gift certificate or some stencils! Thanks for coming by!

STAMPlorations November CAS Card Challenge - Mid Month Reminder

It is time for the STAMPlorations November CAS Card Challenge mid-month reminder. There is still time to play with us.

Here is my sample that I hope will inspire you to play along:

I really love this Flutterby ARTplorations stencil! I used 2 different purple distress inks and an ink blender on the stencil. I used a die from PaperTrey to cut it out and then mounted it on top of patterned paper. The sentiment is from STAMPlorations Vignette: Trendy Feathers and the double ended banner is from Paper Smooches. Some purple bling was added to the body of the butterfly to finish it off!

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STAMPlorations November CAS Card Challenge

Wow it's November already! Time for a new STAMPlorations CAS Card Challenge! This month it is Anything CAS Goes with an optional twist: PURPLE.

This is a new to me ARTplorations stencil Bold Florals and I love it. I used small sponge daubers and Distress inks to color in the stencil. Then I added some dats to the flower centers with a Distress marker. The sentiment is from the STAMPlorations set Vignette: Trendy Feathers.

I hope you join us this month!  Thanks for coming by!

STAMPlorations CAS Card Challenge Guest Designer!

I am excited and honored to be a CAS Card Challenge Blog guest designer for STAMPlorations for the next three months! The October challenge is Anything CAS Goes - optional color twist: BLACK

Here is my card for the challenge:

I used a sentiment from VIGNETTE: Trendy Feathers and the Butterfly: ARTplorations stencil. I used an ink blending tool and Black Soot Distress ink to create the butterflies on Tim Holtz Distress Water Color Paper. The sentiment was stamped with Classic Kraft ink and the panel was adhered to Kraft card stock.

I am looking forward to seeing what you create!

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Happy Birthday

I finally took a few minutes to get a card made this evening! This really did just take a few minutes. I was inspired by a couple of challenges: Virginia's View Challenge - Geometric Patterns:

and Pinterest Inspired Challenge:

I used a mini Heidi Swapp triangle stencil and the ink blending tool with some Distress inks similar to the colors in the Pinterest Inspiration piece. The sentiment is from Winnie & Walter. The panel is mounted onto the card base with foam tape.  I used my clear Wink of Stella Glitter brush pen and colored over all of the triangles for a bit of sparkle!

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OCC: Background Check Day 1 Card 3

A third card for today's class assignments.  This was the easiest so far for me.  This is the first time I used a plastic stencil to dry emboss card stock. I love how this came out.

I blended Picked Raspberry, Abandoned Coral and Spiced Marmalade distress inks after masking off the sides of the paper (this is a one layer card).  I placed the Flutterby ARTplorations stencil on top of the inked card stock and pounced a baby wipe over it.  Once that was dry I placed the stencil back over the inked card stock and ran it through my Big Shot to dry emboss the butterflies.

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Visual Art Journaling - Last Days

The last of my Visual Art Journaling pages:

 Emboss resist with Distress Inks.

 

Distress inks misted on stamp before stamping.                             The ferns were created by                                                                                                                      blending distress inks through                                                                                                                a stencil. The rain was created by
                                                                                                     using distress ink as watercolor
                                                                                                     and painting it with a stencil.

This is one of my favorite pages in the journal.  I cased one of my camper's work.  She took three stencils and layered 3 colors of distress inks which is what I did here.  You can see how these inks can be layered over each other and mot lose their color.






















The background on this last page was created with the
Color Burst pigment watercolor powders.  In this example the powder was sprinkled on very lightly and then misted with lots of water.  While it was wet I used the Tim Holtz distress marker tool that when squeezed creates a mist of ink from the marker.  In this case I used that tool and squeezed the air onto the wet color burst to create the various lines (at the top left).  The campers LOVED playing with these powders.



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Friend

I used my friend Georgia's Hero Arts stencil to create this card.  I colored in the stencil openings with Distress inks and a dauber.  The sentiment is also from Hero Arts.

When I saw the new Fusion challenge I couldn't believe how this card is perfect for the photo inspiration part:

I am submitting this to Kathy's 30 Days of Coloring challenge:

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Love My Poppies!

When I was visiting with my stamping group last week I stamped off many Penny Black images - mostly poppies that I didn't own. This one was colored with Copic markers.

This one was stamped with Versafine Onyx Black onto water color paper.  I used my Koi water color set to paint the poppies.  I used a Memory Box stencil and very lightly stenciled some Baja Breeze circles for the background and then splattered some of the red ink along the flowers.

I left room for sentiments to be added.

I am submitting these to Kathy's 30 Day Coloring Challenge:

I am also submitting this to the monthly Penny Black Saturday Challenge: White on White (image can be colored).

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Snowman and Friend

The SCS CAS challenge today was to create a card with a snowman on it.  This is a one layer card.  I stamped the snowman on the card front and then stamped another image on masking paper and masked it off.  I used masking tape to adhere the Memory Box Birch Trees stencil over the card front. I used an ink blending tool to blend different colors of Distress Inks and then removed the stencil and masks.  The image was colored with Copic markers and I used my clear Wink of Stella on the snowman and the snow on the ground.
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SF Skyline and The Golden Gate Bridge

The color challenge at SCS is to use Marina Mist, Pacific Point and Crisp Cantaloupe.  At first I was stumped.  I decided I wanted to do something graphic with the colors and looked through my stencils. I thought this Crafters Workshop stencil would work - the blue of the SF Bay and the sunset beyond the Golden Gate bridge.  I used SU Marina Mist, Salty Ocean Distress ink and hero Arts Soft Cantaloupe Shadow ink and an ink blending tool to apply the inks.

I am submitting this card to CAS on Sunday challenge to use Stencils.

ETA: I am also submitting this to the OLW - Attractive Opposites

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OCC - Watercoloring Day 1 Last Card

This is for a technique from the first day of class and the one I found to be the most challenging.  You create your water color background and while it is still wet you lay down a stencil over it and then wait until the paint is dry.  You are supposed to see the pattern from the stencil.  So if you look really closely you can see a tiny diamond pattern at the top left and lower right.  Jen Rzasa made it look so easy!  I stamped the panel with an mage from Impression Obsession with Versafine Onyx Black and I used the smooth side of the Tim Holtz Watercolor paper.

I'll be back with more cards from today's class.  Thanks for coming by!

Happy Birthday

Another card for my Online Card Class - CAS3 homework.  This is a case of a card that Debby Hughes created for Textural Effects - this is using embossing paste and a stencil.  The Hero Arts butterfly was stamped with Versamark ink and heat embossed with white detailed embossing powder.  I then cut the butterfly mask with the companion die and placed it over the butterfly.  I stamped the Hero Arts sentiment in Versafine Onyx Black and then placed the Simon Says Stamp Falling Hearts stencil over the card front.  I applied Dreamweaver Embossing Paste over the stencil and carefully removed the stencil.  When the paste was dry I colored the butterfly with Copic markers using the colors from the Dynamic Duos Color Challenge

I added 3 small heart sequins around the sentiment which I thought gave the design more balance.
I am also submitting this card to the Moxie Fab World - Stencils and  Card Concept - Birthday.

I'm not sure which category to place my card - I think it might be Clean and Layered due to the embossing paste over most of the card.

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Thanks

I created this for the SCS color challenge - Island Indigo, Raspberry Ripple and Old Olive - really like these rich colors!  I blended Broken China Distress ink over a Memory Box stencil for the background.  The flowers are from a Penny Black die and the Thanks sentiment is a Memory Box die which I cut three times to give it some dimension.
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