It's a LOVE TAGplorations Blog Hop

The LOVE TAGplorations blog hop is in full swing

and I hope you have had time to pop over to see what

the Talents of the Team at STAMPlorations 

have made for your inspiration.

This is only Day 3 so there is still plenty more to come. 

 

 

Here are a few tags I made for this Hop. 

 

 

Now where do I start?
1 Simply Forever - Items used are
Sizzix Tag die
Kraft card stock
Cuttlebug Swiss Dots
Red/pink/white card stock
Stencil -  ARTplorations Rows of Hearts
Gold Acrylic paint, Mulberry Paper
Small heart Punch, MFT Stitched Die
Tim Holtz Festive Berries
Sentiment - STAMPlorations floral Bliss
Own Ribbon

2 You're So Very Special -  

Manilla Tag

Spellbinders Labels 8/18

Stamps - STAMPlorations Scribbly Splattery Grunge

STAMPlorations Fond Expressions 2

Stencil - ARTplorations Rows of Hearts

Spellbinders Hearts Circles Die

Small punched heart

Tim Holtz Festive Berries/Black Soot

Memento Angel Pink

Own Ribbon

3 Forever Romantic -

Sizziz  Tag die

Stamps - STAMPlorations Floral Bliss

STAMPlorations Groovy Shoes

STAMPlorations Scribbly Splattery Grunge

Stencil - ARTplorations Rows of Hearts

Tim Holtz Distress Inks

White Embossing Powder

Clear Wink of Stella

Small Heart Punch

Own Ribbon

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These are the sets I used from STAMPlorations 

 

And there are Prizes:

 (3) randomly drawn winners from all comments left on the STAMP blog and participating designers blog will each receive a $10 gift certificate to the store

(1) randomly drawn participant in the Love TAGplorations linky party will receive her choice of stamp set (Pocket Blooms, A Full Heart, or Two of Us)

 (1) randomly drawn participant in the Love TAGplorations linky party will receive her choice of any 2 of the new love-themed dies (Love, Always, XOXO, Forever, You & Me, Clustered Hearts)

(1) randomly drawn participant in the Love TAGplorations linky party will receive her choice of tag set: Luggage Tags or ATC/Tag Builder

*Winners announced on March 10 in the February Challenges & Hops winners post.

 

Hope to see you there.

 

 

 

 

 



My first posting as Guest Designer at Shopping our Stash

I was so excited and thrilled to be invited to be

Guest Designer for February over at  Shopping our Stash

Their challenge this week is Winter Blues BUT

don't make a Winter card. Pop over to the SOS link above
to get all the details.

This wasn't too hard for me as I am

sweltering through a heat waive

and anything cooling is fine by me.

 

 

I went with a clean and simple style getting out my

neglected gelatos in navy and swiping across watercolour paper

then adding layers of white acrylic paint.

I attached 2 cut out bull rushes from Craft Emotions

  framed and popped it.

The sentiment is from STAMPlorations Noteworthy.

Isn't is a great sentiment and one we should live by?

To finish it off I added more splats of white acrylic paint.

If you haven't been over to The SOS Blog be sure to head that way

and see what the Design Team have created for you.

Such a fun challenge. Hope to see you there.

 

Thanks for coming by today.

 

 



Going to the 'Dogs'

 We are going to the 'dogs' for our Word Week with
 Lisa  as Hostess at Just Us Girls 
 

 

This is a new month and we have our February Guest

Michele Greenwood with us. Welcome!

***

I thought my Scottie Dog from Marianne Designs

was a good choice - a chance to make a male card again.

Of course I had to match it up with Tartan DP

(which by the way came all the way from Scotland)

This was a really easy cas card.

Starting with basic card colours

I added my tartan dp cut with a stitched die

cutting my dog out of black card stock

and mounted him on Spellbinder circle dies.

 Sentiment is SU cut from a JustRite die.

That's it!

 

Hope you will pop over and check out what our
February Guest Michele Greenwood
and my Talented Team Mates created.
Hope you find time to play this week and
look forward to seeing over at Just Us Girls

# Update - Going to pop this over to
Addicted to CAS for their Pets Challenge


Thanks for dropping in. Love reading your comments.

It's a Vintage/Shabby Chic/Distress with Hearts & Flowers kinda card

Hello to my Blogger Friends. I have a nice surprise for you today.

How long has it been since you saw a vintage card from me?

You can't remember can you - neither can I.

There are 2 challenges I am sending my card to  this week -

Shopping our Stash for their Day of Yore which means

Vintage/Shabby Chic/Distress. Another favourite of mine -

just don't do them often enough
and The Mod Squad for their Hearts & Flowers

(I do have a Heart here)

Here are the products I used -
Kraft cs
Collage Sheet - Pink Paislee
Scrap DP inked and distressed
 CB Heart inked
Sentiment cut from MFT stitched die
and from Inspired by Stamping
Tim Holtz Holiday Greens
(be careful not to lose them as the
ones I used are so small)
Flowers Pearls Lace and Ribbon from my stash
Tim Holtz Distress Inks
Distressing around edges.

Thanks so much for popping in today.
Love reading your comments.

 

 

 

 

 

 



It's a 'Groovy Birthday Wish'

When I saw the  CAS Card Challenge
for February over at STAMPlorations
 I knew what stamp set  I just  'had to have'

It's STAMPlorations Groovy Shoes and perfect for our
Colour Twist which is 'HOT PINK'

 

This is my second month as Guest Designer and I am having
so much fun playing with all their fabulous products.

These are the products I used

I could have done sooooooo much more with this stamp set
but since it is a CAS Challenge I had to hold back this time.
***
I have been sweating on the mail man dropping my goodies
from STAMPlorations into my box
and he finally delivered and I couldn't wait to play.
I chose a super bright pink card base
then went on to colour those groovy shoes with
Tom Bow markers in different shades of pink.
I chose to back them with the stencil -
ARTplorations Broken Glass
inked up with Memento Angel Pink.
This was cut with a stitched die.
 

I added Glossy Accents to the brighter pink on the shoes
then Pink Kindy Glitz on the bottom, also spraying
a little pink randomly to block out a bit of white.
This was cut with a Spellbinder die so too for the pink frame.
The sentiment is also from the Groovy Shoes stamp set
inked with SU Melon Mambo.
Added a bit more bling with some pink gemstones.

***

Did you know
  There are even more reasons to play -

You can link up to 3 CAS cards.

 Can enter a CAS card with or without the optional color twist.

Non-STAMPlorations products are OK

 And one winner (voted by the design team)

will receive a $10 gift certificate to the store,

while the two top picks will each receive a $5 gift certificate.

If there are at least 50 entries, we'll also draw a random winner

and she gets to choose her prize -- a 3x5 stamp set

OR 2 standard size stencils

OR 1 CUTplorations word/phrase die. 

and don't forget the 20% discount code on the side bar.

What a great way to start or build up your

STAMPloration collection.

***

If you haven't already popped over to

Our CAS Challenge head over there now and

check out all the HOT PINK CREATIONS made by the 'Team'.

 I am sure you will want to play and

with Valentine's Day this month there's no stopping you!

See you there.

 

Thanks for dropping in. I really appreciate

you taking the time to check me out.

 

 

There's a 'NEW BLOG' in Town

The heading says it all! Yes there is a new blog in town

and it is all about Christmas!

 

 

The Design Team have been chosen and I am excited

to announce that I was chosen as one of them.

Congratulations to all my New Team Mates.

***

There are 2 Teams and I am on

 

so you will see me again when our

Blog Goes Live on Tuesday February 14th.

 

To see who else will be joining me in this

New Journey pop over Here

 

Don't you just love our little Kangaroo?

and in saying that

I will hop out of here and see you soon.

 



Time to dig out an 'Old Die'

How often does an old die get put away and forgotten about

especially when there were so many more

 new ones 'you had to have'

It was timely that I got out that very old much loved

'Tattered Florals' die from the man himself - Tim Holtz.

I bet it sold zillions!

It was for the latest challenge over at Just Us Girls

that called for that very die.

 

 

Yes it's our Photo Inspiration and I am guessing that

our Hostess Nancy is wishing for 'Summer'

with this beautiful photo.

I started with the basic white card stock and
added 2 dark green strips either side of
the spotted dp. I would love to have added a little
Lady Beetle but the only one I had was too big.
I cut out the background flourish
with a Spellbinder die then added my daisy
which I cut out several times and shaped it.
Again I got out some forgotten about craft essentials
which sadly you don't see much any more -
yellow flower soft - a perfect centre!
This was popped. Added a few dew drops
and inked my sentiment which is from
49andMarket. Super font.
That's it!
Hope you get a chance to pop over to Our Blog
to check out more great inspiration.
Join in and you could be our 'Chic of the Week'
and in the running for Guest Designer in March.

Thanks for stopping by and Thanks You for
your Kind Comments.

 



Going for 'GOLD'

It's Challenge Time again over at Shopping Our Stash

 and they are going for 'GOLD' this week.

 You can find all the details Here.

How fabulous is that!

Here is the card I will enter for this challenge.

 

As you can see I went with lots of gold.

I love using my SU Four Feathers Stamp/Die Set

and this is what I used here.

I heat embossed 2 of the feathers with

Stamp It gold embossing powder

and the third I embossed with clear embossing powder

on bright blue paper for contrast.

I used the same paper for my card base.

I added a strip of gold with a stencil from

ARTplorations called Plaid Maker 

 I like the effect I got from not making 3 solid lines.

This was inked up with ColorBlast Paste.

I also added a bit more to the back of the feathers with

STAMPlorations Scribbly Splattery Grunge

and stamped it quickly cleaning it before it dried and

a few dollops of blue ColorBlast Paste

 Spritzed a little with Tim Holtz Peacock Feathers.

My sentiment is the CUTplorations Hello Word die

cut 3 times and the top one heat embossed

the same as the feather.

Finished off with a little blue bow.

I am also adding this to the 

Here
and their CUTplorations Challenge Here
 

Hope you like what you see and leave a comment.

Thanks for dropping in today. Till next time

Cherrio from

 

 

 

 



A Forever Friend

Over at Time Out the current challenge is their

Case with your own Twist and this is the card we are CASEing

from the fabulously talented Ksenija

 

 

As you can see it is so clean and simple

so I followed in those lines choosing to

copy most of the layout.
I changed the stamp sentiment and the green strip.

 

 

I started by inking up SU Creative Elements in black

then coloured it with SU Gumball Green &

Tim Holtz Festive Berries adding glossy accents

to the red.

My sentiment is from STAMPlorations

called Fond Expressions 2.

Card base is white to which I lightly inked up

a background from SU Sweet Summer

with Memento New Sprout

(if you look closely enough you can see it)

I attached my image with dimensional squares

after cutting it out with a stitched die.

To finish and to copy Ksenija's strip down the side

I inked mine with green Wink of Stella.

 

That's it for me today.

Thanks for dropping in

 

 



It's Chris's Cool Colour Challenge!

It's our Colour Week at Just Us Girls
and Hostess for this one is Chris
choosing the colours Pink Navy & Grey .

I was so undecided as to what I was going to make here
and then remembered a great grungy stamp I received
recently called - Celebrate Artsy from STAMPlorations
so decided I would stamp  one of the images with
2 of the required colours. Die cut it from a
Spellbinders die and framed it.
I seem to be in a stencil mode lately so I went
that way again for my background.
The stencils I used here are from
The Crafter's Workshop
Tim Holtz - Speckles
Dutch Doobadoo
Added a strip of  pink ribbon a button
and some cotton which I inked a little in navy.
This was popped after adding my sentiment
from Bloom Happy (love this little set)
and finishing with a few scattered gems.
A pretty simple card - and a little different.
Don't forget to pop over to Our Blog
to see what our Guest Shawna
and my team Mates have made.
They always 'impress'

Thanks for dropping in
Till next time - Cherrio from



A Mid Month 'Reminder' for CAS Anything Goes at STAMPlorations

It's that time of the month when we send out a 'REMINDER'

just in case you got side tracked and forgot to play at the

CAS Anything Goes Challenge over at STAMPlorations

Details are Here

 

 

I started my card using water colour paper and heat embossing
my flowers in white. Added some Distress Inks - Abandoned Coral

Mowed Lawn and Squeezed Lemonade from Tim Holtz

 to my craft sheet and started blending the beautiful blooms

from STAMPloration Floral Bliss

I touched up the background lightly with a bit of

stencilling from ARTplorations Retro Circles

My sentiment is STAMPlorations by Noteworthy

inked with Memento London Fog 

I just love that set. The font is fabulous don't you think?

Added some sponging around the flowers to finish

and popped.

***

I have been playing around with stencils and mixed media lately

and thought I would add this one to show you the

result I got from stencilling some Bluestone Sparkle Medium

through my ARTplorations Nestles Circles.

To add to this -

I then layered the word Happy from

CUTplorations  Happy Word Die in

grey aqua and silver.

Finished with a Birthday stamp cut from a

stitched Die from MFT and a few gems.

***

Why the Reminder? There is even more reason to play -

You can link up to 3 CAS cards.

 Can enter a CAS card with or without the optional color twist.

Non-STAMPlorations products are OK

Beginning with this challenge, one winner (voted by the design team) will receive a $10 gift certificate to the store, while the two top picks will each receive a $5 gift certificate. If there are at least 50 entries, we'll also draw a random winner and she gets to choose her prize -- a 3x5 stamp set OR 2 standard size stencils OR 1 CUTplorations word/phrase die. 

and don't forget the 20% discount code on the side bar.

What a great way to start or build up your STAMPloration collection.

Love to see you at the

 

 

Thanks for dropping by. I appreciate you taking time out

to leave me your comment.

 

'HELLO' again

I got my Lawn Fawn 'Hello' die out again to create a cas card

  at AAA Cards. It's for their Hello Challenge

How easy is that? I simply got out some water colour paper

and went for an ombre type background using

Tim Holtz Distress Inks in

Mermaid Lagoon/Cracked Pistachio

Evergreen Bough & Peacock Feather and just smooched

them till I got my background. Added some Iridescent Medium

to give a shimmer effect.

The dies I used are from Kaisercraft  -in white

and an unbranded one - in silver.

This was cut from a stitched die and popped.

Added my 'HELLO' sentiment which I cut twice

giving it a lift and added some gems to finish.

 

Thanks for dropping in today.

Love reading your thoughts.

 

 



'Bling' in on.

I'm joining in over at Shopping our Stash
for their weekly challenge.

The current one is Stickle Me Elmo 

I found this site thanks to my friend Chris. (Thank you)

All we have to do is use some kind of glitter/sparkle on our project.

How easy is that?
Don't we all love to add some sparkle here & there?

 

Well I may have gone 'overboard' with the shimmer but

what the heck! I like what the Wink of Stella

and Iridescent Medium brought out.

 

Also over at The Mod Squad  Barbara & Donna are Hosting

their Bling Challenge. I think I past on both counts.

Taking photos was challenging trying to get

the shimmer to show up.  

 

 

I inked up my craft sheet with

Tim Holtz Squeezed Lemonade Abandoned Coral

and Mermaid Lagoon spritzed and then

using an acetate sheet inking my background randomly

till I was happy with the coverage.

I then sprayed that with Iridescent Medium

I cut my butterflies from a Spellbinder die -

the bottom with plain paper and the top

inked the same way as my background.

I completely covered the butterfly with

clear Wink of Stella.

The Hello (Lawn Fawn) was cut twice.

the back one was inked also with

Wink of Stella in gold and the front - clear

which is not showing in the photographs.

Added a few gems to finish.

 

Thanks for dropping in today. Love reading your comments.

 

 

 

 



 



It's not so Perfectly Created

I found a new blog while surfin' the net called

Perfectly Created Chaos

and their current challenge is to add texture to our card.

As some of you know I have recently been delving into a bit

of mixed media and playing around

with stencils and paints. It really is fun.

 

Here is my 'little bit of chaos'

and a closer look at the texture

 

I started my chaotic page with

my base of white card stock then

went to play with

ARTlorations Retro Circles stencil

with Green acrylic paint/Inka gold and a touch of

purple colour paste using my fingers to lift it

for dimension. There were bare bits so inked up

a baby wipe and sponged part of the background

with the leftovers.

Cut the A from an old Cuttlebug die

The Happy cut several times is CUTplorations Happy Word Die

and the Hello STAMPlorations  Celebrate Artsy

 popped with dimensions and

I rounded one of the corners.

 

Dropping this over to the

Here

 

Thanks for dropping in today.

I appreciate your wonderful comments.