Craft Stamper Take It, Make It

It's a new month and a new challenge at Craft Stamper Take It, Make It.  It's Anything Goes, so as long as you've used physical polymer or rubber stamps, and don't include more than one project in your post, you're in!

I've used a Jane Davenport face stamp, sloshed some Distress Ink watercolours on, added some stencilling, and black and white pen work.  The background is a Darkroom Door stamp.  I've layered a phone diecut, Birthday diecut (STAMPlorations), crown (Crafty Individuals) and Dymo girl to complete the card.  Oh, and a little Gelli Roll Star Dust on the earrings and crown.

Our sponsor this month is Imagine Design Create.  One lucky random winner will get these two stamp sets:

The winner chosen by the Design Team will have their winning entry published in Craft Stamper Magazine along with a bio, a bio post on the blog, and the opportunity to guest design in a future challenge.  Get stamping, it could be you!

STAMPlorations Inspiration #169

It's Inspiration Tuesday at STAMPlorations, and this week we're featuring my stamp line, The Bee's Knees.  I've used my new set, Baa Baa, for a Baa Humbug card.

The background is Distress Oxides splattered with water, Sanna's tree masks and a bit of hill shading.  I stamped the sheep and hat on spare card, coloured and fussy cut them, and attached to the panel.

Pop on over to the STAMPlorations blog for some more fabulous inspiration from the team, and don't forget to leave a comment for your chance to win a gift certificate to the store.

Throughout February to April, all stamps (except retiring sets), stencils and dies are 10% off, no code needed.  But if you use my code, STAMPGIRLSHIRLEY, you'll get another 20% off.  What's not to like?

STAMPlorations Spring Release - Day 5

Welcome to the final day of STAMPlorations Spring Release.  Hope you're enjoying all these animals!  We've got some more for you with this set from Shery, Woodland Friends:

I masked off the edges of my card and stencilled Distress Inks through ARTplorations Bloom Boldly Stencil, stamped the sentiment, then stamped the fox image, fussy cut and balanced him on the sentiment.

Fancy your chances at winning in our blog hop?  Here's how:

Commenting is open from 26 March until 2 April.
Comment on all the stamp release posts on the STAMPlorations blog and on the designers' blogs to qualify for the prizes -
ONE winner of a $25 gift certificate
ONE winner of the entire release (all five stamp sets)

The stamps are now available to buy in the STAMPlorations store at 10% discount (as are all stamps except retiring sets - no code needed).  Use my code STAMPGIRLSHIRLEY to get a further 20% off.

Hop on over to the STAMPlorations blog to see what the other girls have done, you'll love it!  And thanks for hopping along!

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Seize The Birthday - Birds

We've got a new challenge for you at Seize The Birthday - Birds.

I've had these little red rubber stamps (Crafty Individuals) for a while now, and I thought it was high time I used them.  I stamped them on white card, coloured and fussy cut them, then layered them onto a piece of patterned paper,  and a diecut frame (STAMPlorations), added a Tim Holtz die cut, a sentiment from my new set Baa Baa.  Added some grunge stamping in Pickled Raspberry and Squeezed Lemonade on the base card to mimic the patterned paper and called it done.

Pop on over to the Seize The Birthday blog for some fab inspiration from the team, and our surprise birthday guest, Kim, and play along with us.  If birds aren't your thing, you can still play along with any birthday-themed project.  See you in the gallery!

STAMPlorations Spring Release - Day 4

Its' Day 4 of the Spring Release at STAMPlorations, and we're featuring Shery's Purrfectly Pawsome set.

If you're a cat person, then this set's for you.  Loads of great sentiments in eye-catching fonts, and cute cats too!  I used the Dots All Over stencil to make a monoprint on my card base, stamped the cat on spare card and fussy cut, stamped the sentiment on another piece of card, then matted everything up.

Fancy your chances at winning in our blog hop?  Here's how:

Commenting is open from 26 March until 2 April.
Comment on all the stamp release posts on the STAMPlorations blog and on the designers' blogs to qualify for the prizes -
ONE winner of a $25 gift certificate
ONE winner of the entire release (all five stamp sets)

The stamps are now available to buy in the STAMPlorations store at 10% discount (as are all stamps except retiring sets - no code needed).  Use my code STAMPGIRLSHIRLEY to get a further 20% off.

Hop on over to the STAMPlorations blog to see what the other girls have done, you'll love it!

See you tomorrow with another set from Shery.

STAMPlorations Spring Release - Day 3

It's Day 3 of the STAMPlorations Spring Release, and we're featuring my second set, Hashtag Walkies.  Well, it is the Year of the Dog.  When DS1 and his partner relocated from Australia to the UK last year, they brought their whippet with them (well, not literally, the whippet flew separately with a stopover in Dubai).  And that was the inspiration for this set.

At that time we still had our border collie, Florence, but we had to say goodbye to her last March.  We weren't going to get another dog for a couple of years, but look what happened last month:

Meet Toffee, the four-month-old whippet.  She's actually related, albeit distantly, to this year's Crufts Supreme Champion, but every dog is a champion in their owner's eyes.

So, on to the cards.  For my first card, I stamped the image then coloured it in with a black Fuseball pen, leaving some white alongside the outlines for definition.  I made a little mask out of strips of card for buildings and sponged with grey, then scored above and below the image and added the icons.

The inspiration for this one was some artwork on Pinterest.  I pencilled in the zebra crossing and buildings, then scribbled them in with a 0.2 fineliner, rubbed out the pencil then added a colour wash of Fossilised Amber.

Whippets feel the cold, so I had to include a coat in the set ;)

Fancy your chances at winning in our blog hop?  Here's how:

Commenting is open from 26 March until 2 April.
Comment on all the stamp release posts on the STAMPlorations blog and on the designers' blogs to qualify for the prizes -
ONE winner of a $25 gift certificate
ONE winner of the entire release (all five stamp sets)

The stamps are now available to buy in the STAMPlorations store at 10% discount (as are all stamps except retiring sets - no code needed).  Use my code STAMPGIRLSHIRLEY to get a further 20% off.

Hop on over to the STAMPlorations blog to see what the other girls have done, you'll love it!

See you tomorrow with one of Shery's new sets.

STAMPlorations Spring Release Day 2

Welcome to Day 2 of the STAMPlorations Spring Release.  Today we're featuring one of my sets, Baa Baa.

The inspiration for my first card cam from something I saw on Pinterest.  I stamped the images on kraft card, then used a snowball from Layered Snowman in Antique Linen, Pickled Raspberry and Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxides for the fleece, then echoed that on the background.

The next card was also inspired by some artwork I saw on Pinterest.  I stamped the images in Antique Linen Distress Ink then watercoloured with Distress Inks.  I added the pupils with black pen.

After I'd stamped, coloured and stencilled this panel, I stamped the sentiment, and part of it was sightly blurred, so I re-stamped it in yellow to create a shadow, which makes all of it look blurred, ha!

Fancy your chances at winning in our blog hop?  Here's how:

Commenting is open from 26 March until 2 April.
Comment on all the stamp release posts on the STAMPlorations blog and on the designers' blogs to qualify for the prizes -
ONE winner of a $25 gift certificate
ONE winner of the entire release (all five stamp sets)

The stamps are now available to buy in the STAMPlorations store at 10% discount (as are all stamps except retiring sets - no code needed).  Use my code STAMPGIRLSHIRLEY to get a further 20% off.

Hop on over to the STAMPlorations blog to see what the other girls have done, you'll love it!

See you tomorrow with my other new set.