Craft Stamper Take It, Make It Reminder - Take a Stamp

Are you playing along at Craft Stamper Take It, Make It yet?  One lucky random entrant will win these gorgeous stencils and masks from Magenta:

Magenta are very kindly offering a $5 flat rate shipping deal to all UK CS readers on all stencils and cling stamps! Simply use the code: PromoCSUK at checkout. This offer is available from 7th-30th November.

The winner of this month's challenge as chosen by the Design Team will have their entry published in Craft Stamper magazine (so hold on to your entry in case it's you!), a feature on the blog, and will be invited to be a guest designer in a future challenge.

Decorated Jar

I'm over at A Sprinkle of Imagination today with a decorated jar.  Pop on over to see the finished product!

Purple and Magenta

I just got this fabulous Clearly Besotted sentiment set, and had to play with it straight away.  I die cut the Tim Holtz gift from Core'dinations, added the ribbon diecut in the same Core'dinations, then popped it up with foam tape.  No sequins.  No splatters (a rarity for me!).  No nothing.  I just liked it exactly how it was.

I'm entering it into Time Out where the challenge is Christmas with a twist of either pink or purple.

On another note, I took part in Magenta's ATC swap with the theme of Nature.  The full reveal is here, but here's a closer look at the ATCs I sent to Cassandra:

The poppy petals are covered in Glossy Accents, the centres in black and gold Stickles.

Watercoloured dragonflies on the background, white-embossed butterflies on the top panel which was mounted onto black card and doodled around.

I stamped and coloured the fox, masked it then stamped and coloured the background.  The red moon was inspired by the real red moon that occurred a few days before I made the ATC.

I just love this stamp!  Distress-smooshed background, stamped over, added extra colour, splattered with gold spray, distressed the edges then mounted onto black card.

Thanks again for organising the ATC Swap, Mariette!

STAMPlorations Inspiration #46

Time for another tag, I think.  When I was prepping for my guest design spot at Loll's Twelve Tags of Christmas, I prepped an extra tag by tearing some of the top layer off and smearing it with a light coating of gesso.

So today I covered it with Brushed Pewter Distress Paint, which dries to a lovely sheen, then stamped the bell from Holiday Sketches: Christmas Bells, coloured it in with Distress Inks, cut it out and added Wink of Stella, then took the clappers out of two metal bell charms and adhered them to the cut-out bells.  I added some diecut 'greenery' which I'd coated with Wink of Stella, then punched a hole and added some pewter-coloured ribbon.  Oh, and some Icicle Stickles to the centre of the poinsettia (after the top photo was taken).

I'm adding my tag to Loll's Twelve Tags of Christmas,

Inkspirational - Anything Goes with Silver (ok, technically, it's Brushed Pewter on the tag base, Iced Spruce on the bells, and metal for the clappers, but they're all in the spirit of silver :) )

Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge - Tag,

and Happy Little Stampers newest challenge, Mixed Media Challenge, which is also a Tag. (The challenge badge is the same as the one above.)

Craft Stamper Take It Make It - Take a Stamp

It's the first Friday of the month, which means it's time for a new challenge at Craft Stamper Take It, Make It. Easy peasy this month - Take a Stamp.  We're also starting the month off with some great news - sales/readership of Craft Stamper have hugely increased following the revamp of the magazine under new editor Trish's watch.  Congratulations, Trish!  If any of you haven't had chance to see the new-look magazine, I urge you to take a look.

For my card, I started with a piece of mixed media paper, and smooshed and soaked spritzed Distress Inks from a craft mat onto the paper, then I stamped images from The Bee's Knees Folk Flowers before tearing the lower portion of the paper and adhering onto my card.  The sentiment is from Dee's Artsy Impressions Balloons and Banners.

This month's challenge is sponsored by Magenta, who are generously providing these stencils/masks to one lucky random winner:

Magenta are very kindly offering a $5 flat rate shipping deal to all UK CS readers on all stencils and cling stamps! Simply use the code: PromoCSUK at checkout. This offer is available from 7th-30th November.

The winner of this month's challenge as chosen by the Design Team will have their entry published in Craft Stamper magazine (so hold on to your entry in case it's you!), a feature on the blog, and will be invited to be a guest designer in a future challenge.  What are you waiting for?  Come on in!

Seize The Birthday - No Topping

It's time for another Seize The Birthday challenge, and for this one, there's no topping, so as long as it's a birthday project, you're in!

I've used The Bee's Knees Folk Flowers to create a folk flower card, stamping the images in Versafine Onyx Black, then colouring them with Distress Inks, adding some splatter (of course!) and mounting the panel onto some patterned paper.

What will you create?  Pop on over to the Seize The Birthday blog for more inspiration from the design team, and add your project to our gallery.

Bloom

This is my second post today - click here for my Twelve Tags of Christmas With Loll and Friends.

I'm over on the STAMPlorations blog today with a short tutorial on this card.  It's short because I forgot to stop and take photos along the way!

I'm entering this into Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes.