STAMPlorations Inspiration #50 - Fa-La-La-La-La

Time for more STAMPlorations inspiration.  How about a girly Christmassy card?  I've used the wedding dress from The Bee's Knees Newlyweds, sloshed some red Distress Inks over it, and embossed parts of it with Frantage embossing powder.  I stamped the fa-a-la-la-las (from Joyful) onto spare card, sloshed them, then cut them into pennant shapes.  Strung a length of red waxed cotton across the card, stuck the pennants on with red liner tape and popped a foam dot behind each one.

Pop on over to the STAMPlorations blog for more inspiration from the Design Team, and if you've not spent all your Black Friday money, there's still time for a little spree at STAMPlorations:

STAMPlorations Inspiration #49 - Ho Ho Ho

Time for some STAMPlorations inspiration.  I thought I'd have some fun with the little birdie from my stamp set, The Bee's Knees SmallBirds.  Today's he's a robin with his little Santa hat.  I stamped the image on white card, then drew a Santa hat on him, then sloshed some red and brown Distress Inks and fussy cut him.

The background is an inked embossing folder image, and I've added a sentiment from Joyful, then a little line of Star Dust Stickles to ground the robin.

Hmm - I wonder how the kookaburra and puffin would look with a Santa hat?  Pop on over to the STAMPlorations blog for more inspiration from the rest of the design team.

I'm entering this into Simon Says Wednesday Challenge, Anything Goes,

and City Crafter Challenge, The Snow Queen.

Winnie & Walter Rerun No. 6 - Happy Christmas

I'm playing along with Winnie & Walter's Rerun No. 6 - Happy Christmas.  I stamped the poinsettia six times, sloshed Distress Inks over them and just used the centres from three of the stamped images to add extra layers in the centre.  For the background, I stamped three of the sentiments in Versafine Smoky Grey and splattered some Distress Inks over the panel.  Well, I would, wouldn't I?

I got the idea for my card from this card from Jenny from Crafting In The Country, where she'd used small sentiments for a background, and die-cut images.  (I fussy-cut mine.)

I'm also playing at Simon Says Wednesday Challenge, Anything Goes,

and The Challenge, Create a Christmas card.

STAMPlorations Blog Hop - Giving Thanks

We're having a little Giving Thanks blog hop over at STAMPlorations, with a chance for one lucky winner to receive the 4x6 stamp set of their choice - just for commenting, how easy is that?

I've used a few images from The Bee's Knees FolkFlowers to create my flower and stalk from gessoed dictionary pages, and added a bit of colour with Neocolour II crayons.  The 'grass' is one of the stamps from the Mixed Media Grunge Elements and the sentiment is from Deepti's Frames and Flowers set.

Hop along to the STAMPlorations blog to see the full hop list, and leave a comment at each stop along the way before 11:55 pm pacific time on Friday 27 November for maximum chances to win!

I'm adding my card to Simon Says Monday Challenge, Thanks/Thanksgiving.

Bird In The Snow

I saw this inspiration photo for City Crafter Challenge, and just had to play along before it closes!

The little bird, top right.  The colours.  Love 'em!  I stamped the bird (Dina Wakley) in grey then sloshed some Distress inks, and added some splatters.  Added a sentiment from Clearly Besotted and matted onto the base card and finished off with some silvery grey knitted ribbon.

And I've just seen it also fits with this week's Merry Monday - blue, white and texture:

STAMPlorations Inspiration #48 - A Flower-filled Barrow

I've been playing with Deepti's set Friends and Flowers, and this pretty little flower-filled barrow image was calling out for a bit of watercolouring and splattering.  I stamped the image onto mixed media paper and painted the images using Distress Inks.  I added a sentiment from The Birds and The Blooms, a bit of splattering, a bit of machine stitching, and it's done.  BTW, I only ever machine stitch through one layer before I mount it onto the base card: (a) it's easier and (b) there's less damage if it goes wrong!

Pop on over to the blog to see more inspiration from the rest of the team, and why not play along at our CASEplorations challenge if you fancy CASE-ing this card or any of the design team's inspiration cards.

I'm playing along at AAA Cards - Anything Goes.

Welcome, Baby!

Have you been playing along with The Mixed Media Card Challenge?  Our theme this month is Family with an option of arrows.

So, if we're talking family, how about a card for a new family member?  The background is textured gesso with Distress Paints applied after the gesso had dried.  I stamped three babygros from The Bee's Knees BabyBump and coloured them with Distress Ink, fussy cut them and pinned them onto some wire with white safety pins.  The wire is secured by brads.  The sentiment is from STAMPlorations Heaven Sent.

The challenge is open until 25 November, so you've still got a few days to play along.