Stencil Time at STAMPlorations

Hello and Welcome. As it is the first of the Month

it's time for my post for the

 June Stencil Challenge at STAMPlorations

For this challenge I decided to  head back and use

a few of the older stencils and the main focus is on one of my favourites
 ARTplorations Flowers 1 Stencil.

I started my background smooching with

 Autumn Maple Crimson Magical's

then added Texture Paste through the 

ARTplorations Dots All Over Stencil

and while wet sprinkled some Martha Stewart glitter.

(You may need to click on it to get a better view)

On to my topping. I used the

 ARTplorations Plaid Maker Stencil

randomly then the flowers with texture paste.

After that was dry I put the flower stencil back and

sponged a mix of the above Magical's

and Lindy's Bougainvillea Fuchsia.

To highlight the flowers I added Art Alchemy Indian Pink Wax.

Distressed the edges and added a small popped frame.

Sentiment is from 

STAMPlorations OUT-OF-STOCK Bloom Happy

Finished by adding to white card base.

Here are the products I used

Hope you like my colourful make.

Check out all the art work from all the Designers

and would love to see your stenciled creation

in our Gallery this month.

#Reminder

When playing in our challenges, you must display the challenge graphic 

AND link back directly to the challenge post 

(NOT to the main blog or the challenge section) 

via TEXT link in your blog post in order to qualify for the prizes. 

I will have a reminder for you in the middle of the month

just in case you get sidetracked.

Also there is a 20% discount if you use my code

STAMPGIRLINA to purchase goodies.

Thanks for popping in

Time to 'Layer' it Up at Happy Little Stampers

Can you believe we are half way into the year!

I know I can't. 

Our Challenge over at Happy Little Stampers

starts with our Watercolour Challenge.

This month our Anything Goes Option is Layers

Every now and then it is nice to go back to a technique

or something in your stash that is a favourite.

This is what I did here. I got out two that go so well together - 

SU Manhattan Flower EF and Fifth Avenue Floral Stamp Set.

Heat embossed the flowers in white then watercoloured  with

Nuvo Powders and fussy cut, popping up the smaller one .

This was attached to hand cut Manhattan Flower.

To add more layers I added more dry embossing with

Kaisercraft Leaves with paper to blend with the flower.

Corner rounded for effect. 

To finish my card I added Diamond Dust to the

 embossed background and front flower

instead of adding a sentiment.

Finished by adhering to my white card base.

Pop over and see what my Team Mates chose to inspire you

and join us in our Gallery this month.

It's 'Wild Card Week' at Just Us Girls

Hello and Welcome to my Saturday post for

Just Us Girls

Since we have 5 Saturday's this month it's time to

Play the 'Wild Card' and choosing how is

Our Host Sue!

and we ALL have a plentiful supply in our stashes don't we?

No excuses for not getting just a smidgen out to play with us this week.

I was happily crafting along with my favourite
Visible Image Creative Chaos stamp set
when I realized that one I had made
moons ago for another challenge goes live in a few days
so if you pop back then
you will see a double take on this great stamp set.
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The gorgeous grungy papers I used here are from Paper Rose.
I inked up the flowers on one of the papers
and fussy cut the heads in another, adding stamping
here and there for interest. Coloured a few circles with
a white gel pen and stenciled some splatters.
Glitter was sprinkled on to the main floral centre.
Sponged TH black soot around the edges before
adhering to white card base.
A simple stamped sentiment finished it off
Thanks Annie for again adding a cool grungy frame to my photo.

Pop over and see what Deborah and the Team
created using different patterned papers.
Come join us in the Gallery!

Steampunk in September

Are you a Steampunk Enthusiast and looking for

somewhere to showcase your creativity?

Look no more. There's a New Exciting Steampunk Blog 

in the making and come September it's all Go!

Check out the Steampunk Challenge which includes a bit of

grunge and industrial bits thrown in. Join up

so you will be ready and itching to get started

and add a Note to your Diary.

First one starts on the 1st September and runs for the month

so check back often for more details a little bit down the track.
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PS In the meantime if you are itching to see some
amazingly talented Steampunkers showing their style
 there is a Blog Hop going live on the 19th June.
There are 14 sponsored prizes for commenting.
More details on that coming soon also.

Photo Week at Just Us Girls

Hello and Welcome to my Saturday post for

Just Us Girls

Bobby is Hosting and picked an awesomely colourful one.

Here's a close up!

As soon as I saw this I KNEW what stencil

I was going to use. 

It's  ARTplorations Evolution 

and isn't it just perfect!
My inspiration came from those chair covers.
Bobby was thinking the same as she has used the
same stencil on her card. How cool is that!

I kept it really simple. I love how when you 

use oxide inks on photo paper and after your inking dries

you wipe it over with a paper towel and the colours 'explode'

I did that multiple times shifting the stencil

to get lots of colourful layers.

I used Tim's Distress Glaze to seal

adding the die cut Hello from Pink Fresh Studio.

Attached to bright orange card stock to finish.

Pop over and see what our Guest Deborah

and my Team Mates created.

Hope to see your take on this fab photo in our Gallery.

Thanks for popping in

What lies 'Under the Sea'

We have the most beautiful photo at

Addicted to Stamps and More for this weeks Challenge.

I couldn't go past the sea shell covered in pearls.

As you can see that is where my inspiration came from.

Lots of smooching for my background,

stamping some fish netting, adding grit texture paste,

ink splatting, fussing cutting my coloured sea shells

 and popping them. Added lots of glitter, pearls

and gems. Finished with an appropriate sentiment.

Pop over and see how the Team were inspired

and come add yours to the Gallery.

Thanks for popping in.

It's Stencil Overload 2

Welcome back! Here is my second overloaded stencil card
for this month's CAS Stencil Challenge

I multi layered
ARTplorations Square Lots   Broken Glass   Bubble-Dance  
again with Tim's Oxide Inks then
Gel Medium to Just Flow and sprinkled with glitter.
Cut with a Spellbinder Die and framed.
Sentiment is an Impression Obsession Die cut.

Thanks for popping back in again.

It's Stencil Overload

I had a fun afternoon playing with my stencils for the

current CAS Stencil Challenge where we are
required to layer them.
Hello and Welcome!

I made two cards using some of the same stencils 

with totally different layouts. The first one is below.

I inked several of Tim's Oxide Inks through
ARTploration Sencils -  Weaving  Just Flow
Square Lots and Texture Paste for dimension with Barley.
 Cut on an angle and distressed the edges.
Sentiment is from STAMPlorations Bloom Happy.
Attached to white card base.
It was such fun playing with all my stencils,
some got inked for the first time too.
Why not give it a go. There are several videos
to check out if you need a helping hand.

Thanks for dropping in today.
My second overloaded stencil card
will be posted a bit later.

My CAS Mix Up Resist Make

Hello and Welcome.
It's always fun to try new techniques and this month at
CAS Mix Up we are asked to try our hand at Gesso Resist.

This is something I haven't done with gesso.

 I chose to create my card with the technique that Susan used
from a You Tube Tutorial by Kim Schofield Here.
 I made several attempts and a few didn't make it
but after inking this one above maybe those throw away ones
may not have been so bad after all.

I blended Tim's Oxide inks and once dry
added some water splatters.
Continued on by randomly stamping Prima Marketing Fire Fly
 with some circles from the top of a water brush.
My main image is from Inspired by Stamping
which is unfortunately no longer in business.
I have had this set for quite a few years and this is
it's first inking. Shame on me!
I wanted to brighten the colours so
brushed on a coat of gloss gel medium.
I was undecided what colour to use as my base.
I had a black frame on white base then vice versa
but liked neither and came up with just a touch of black
and scoring around the white card base.
My sentiment is a sticker from Tim Holtz.
Thought it fitted nicely with the stamped  image.
That's my card done.
My Mix is - Gesso Resist, Gel Medium, Stamping,
Inking, Scoring, Stickers
I am popping this over to the
NBUS Challenge #14 where we play with
Never before Used Schtuff
(mine is the stamped image)


Thanks for dropping in today.
Really appreciate your kind comments.

Colour Me 'Brightly'

It's our Colour Week at Just Us Girls

and Hosting is Lisa and looking for bright colours!

 

I made a really simple card as I wanted to ink up

a new to me (second hand) Dreamy Penny Black Stamp 

and decided to heat emboss in black.

Inked up my background with the above colours 

using Tim's Distress and Oxide Inks,

adding some black stenciled splatters

also from Tim.

Sentiment is from STAMPlorations and

heat embossed with glitter powder

which turned out a little different especially with the
smaller stamping not so clear.

Attached to bright pink card base.

Check out how our Guest Deborah and

the Team chose to showcase these bright colours

and hope to see yours in the Gallery this week.

Till next time

Reminder for STAMPlorations Stencil Challenge

Time for my reminder post for STAMPlorations 

Detail for the Stencil Challenge are Here

I have used the same shaving cream technique as

my earlier card using 

 SU Mossy Meadow and Calypsol Coral with

ARTplorations Bloom-Doodled-Trio Stencil

for my background. Once that was dry I

put the stencil back in the same place and

applied Dreamweaver Crackle Embossing Paste

After that had dried and cracked I added

Art Alchemy Waxes in Fire Ruby and Vintage Gold

to highlight the flower.

Added some gold splatters and heat embossed

my Blossoming Sentiment.
Unfortunately that set has been discontinued
and I will have to be more careful what stamps
I use in the future.

Sorry it is a little hard to read. It says
Every flower is a Soul
blossoming in nature.

Pop over and see what everyone else has created

as you still have time to join us this month.

Thanks for dropping in

A 'Mini Trend for Just Us Girls

I'ts Trend Week at Just Us Girls

and Host this time round is Carol

choosing a very different Trend

and one maybe some of us wouldn't do very often.

It was a lot of fun working out just what to make.

After many attempts - some a bit too big and other -

well just weren't quite right.

Eventually I landed up with a few.

This is a regular size card with just a 'mini'

fussy cut frame and a Kaisercraft flower,

popped onto an embossed background that

I had lying around.

This is a much smaller card size (approx 4"x 4")

with a simple flower which has a bit of glitter in the centre,

some grunge and an appropriate sentiment.

I did have a third but could not get a decent photo 

so skipped that one. 

Pop over and see what our Guest Deborah Frings

and the Team created and join in

with yours in the Gallery.

Till next time - 

It's a 'Spring Fling Thing' at STAMPlorations

We are having a SPRING FLING
with a blog hop and linky party
at STAMPlorations

Welcome to my post for this special event.

Check it all out HERE

There are a bunch of us STAMPGIRLS participating

so you will want to go over and check them out and

get involved by entering your projects as there are

prizes (see below) to be won and also a

Spring Fling Discount over on the
Spring Fling Section at the Store.
By using my code STAMPGIRLINA
you can get up to 35% off.
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I stenciled my blooms (this is the new 6x6 size stencil)
with texture paste and lifted the wet texture
with my fingers to get a raised effect.
I then did lots of waxing with Nuvo Mouse -
Aloe Vera and Coastal Surf.
For more colour I used
Art Alchemy Mermaid Sparkle Sparks
on the biggest bloom.
More colour was added with Art Alchemy Waxes in
Vintage Gold, Mink Sparkle and Peacock.
As I was going to use the black clear stickers I
inked the edges with Mixed Media Grunge
with Tim's Black Soot Oxide Ink.
Finishing with the fussy cut stickers
as you can see below using the sentiment
from two of the clear stickers.
Added black pearls to the centres of the blooms,
a black mat backing and on to metallic card base.

Here are the products I used
ARTplorations Bloom-Doodled-Trio Stencil
STAMPlorations Mixed-Media-Grunge
April-Showers-Clear-Stickers



and the 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.

Better get cracking after you have seen what us
STAMP GIRLS created!
Hope to see yours there.

It's the 'Holiday Theme' at Addicted to Stamps and More

Hello and Welcome to my post for

Addicted to Stamps and More

As you can see it is our Holiday Challenge.
This is my first Christmas Card for the year!

I have used one of my favourite stencils from ARTplorations
My background is a bit of smooching and after I
heat embossed my deer I covered him in gold
then carefully inked in a darker blue.
Sentiment and die are from Hero Arts.
Backed with gold paper on to blue card base.
Pop over and see what the rest of the Team created
and hope you will add a holiday card to our Gallery.
Thanks for dropping in