I stamped the sentiment, did some fussy cutting and added the chevron butterfly panel to the card front with foam tape.
Thanks so much for stopping by!
I hope that you have been inspired to play along with us this game. Make sure you stop by AAA Cards and visit all of the design team members blogs.
Grace & Peace,
Melissa
Places I’m Playing:
Would you like to be part of the AAA Cards Design Team? Well we’re looking to add a few new team mates at the moment. If you’d like to be considered simply make a card for this new challenge and add DT after your name when you link up. Want to know more about what being on the AAA Cards DT involves? Scroll on down to the bottom of this post.
DT Call Info
1. You will need to have a blog.
2. You will need to have time to create a CAS card and submit it on time for each fortnightly challenge.
3. Your card will need to match both the challenge theme and the AAA Cards definition of CAS.
4. You will be assigned a column from the link ups and need to have the time to leave positive comments about player’s cards.
5. You will be involved in voting to help pick the winner and runners up for each challenge.
6. It would be good if you have a facebook account as we have a DT facebook group where we chat about ideas etc.
The DT Call will remain open for the duration of this challenge and all successful applicants will be notified by 28th May at the latest. We’re aiming to introduce the new DT on the challenge that starts 11th June.
How to Enter:
Link up your CAS card
Mention us in your post
Display our challenge image
Leave a comment on three other blogs – let’s spread the love!
Remember to keep itClean And Simple
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P.S. This week’s challenge theme reminds me of this hymn:
Welcome back to Happy Little Stampers’ Watercolor Challenge. We are very excited about this challenge and are guessing by the number of you who joined us last month that you are too!
This month’s challenge:
As always at Happy Little Stampers’ challenges……..we have a prize for you!
We would like to welcome our Guest Designer, Linda, for this challenge!
I love this stamp press! So much so, that I have 2.
I have to give a shout out to Fiskars. I had an issue with one of the presses (some of the hardware, little rubber O-rings, got stretched out and went missing) and after telling them about it via their website they sent me a new one! I did not have to return the one with the problem.
Using my “background stamp” I stamped the butterfly and flower images all at the same time, making 4 cards for a private challenge while I was at it. These cards remind me of The Secret Garden, the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. With loving, tender care the children in the book, with the help of an elderly gardener, discover the joy of caring for a neglected garden. They see life flourish in the garden, and in themselves, as they spend time there nurturing it.
After smooshing and stamping, I added the fussy cut flower, the sentiment, and some white gel pen accents.
I love how these cards turned out! Try making your our “background stamp” and let me know what you think.
All of our Happy Little Stampers’ Watercolor Challenges are Anything Goes with an optional twist. The only rule is that you use water coloring or a watercolor technique on your entry. You may enter as many times as you like and you do NOT have to use HLS products to enter.
My teammates and I are excited about this monthly watercolor challenge and we sure do hope that you are going to enjoy joining in too!
Thanks for stopping by!
Grace & Peace,
Happy Little Stampers’ Products:
Thankful:
Places I’m Playing:
(this post published on March 1rst AEST (UTC +10))
Want to warm up with some tea? I love me a BIG cup of tea, especially on a day like today. It was 16°F (that’s about -9°C, right?) when I checked the temperature this morning! BRRRRR! You’d never know that I grew up in Maine!
I’ve become a WEATHER WIMP! I’d better toughen up because my family and I are moving back to Maine this Spring!
Anyway, nothing like warm tea on a COLD day!
Thanks so much, Amy, for inviting me!
🙂
I have 4 (+ 1 = 5) CAS cards to share with you today.
I’d like to play this red version along at FUSION. I flipped the sketch and used the photo for inspiration too. Happy 3rd Anniversary!
I decided that I needed to increase the number of masculine cards in my stash, so I took this opportunity to do so.
I used the CUTplorations die to make my stamp.
I have a fun discount code for you! Shery, of STAMPlorations, has generously given me a code to share with you.
Use COUPON code STAMPGIRLMELISSA and receive 20% OFF at STAMPlorations!To make these cards, first, I created a homemade foam stamp, using the die, and stamped the cup with steam. This is a new technique to me and was inspired by Jennifer McGuire in one of her recent videos on how to stretch your supplies. I stamped 3 blue cups and 1 black one and 1 red one.
Here’s a quick slideshow of the process that I used to make the red stamped card.
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For this blue card, I used a CUTplorations ‘thanks’ word die, sponged with Hero Arts blue dye ink.
Then, I triple-stacked for the sentiment on this first card. I’d like to play this card at CASology. The blue is a cool/cold color and I love to drink tea when it is cold outside. Using the negative from the die cut on the first card, I made a ‘thanks’ stencil and sponged the thanks onto this next card.I fussy cut my stencil out and added that as the sentiment on this third card.
I kept this next card very basic and B&W.
I cut around the negative space that remained from one of the white ‘thanks’ die cuts from the first card (above – the card with the blue ‘thanks’ stacked on top of several white ones) and attached the white outline as the sentiment on this card.
I had a lot of fun using this technique. I loved how the homemade stamp printed the image. I enjoyed it so much that I have 2 more cards to share with you next week. Those two are less CAS and I’m excited to share those with you too. 🙂
Thanks for stopping by!
Grace & Peace,
Melissa
P.S. Here’s a fun video for your encouragement. Happy New Year!
P.P.S. Here’s the coupon code again. There’s no expiration, as long as I’m a STAMPlorations Girl, this code will be valid.
Hi! I’m so happy and excited to be here with as a member of the STAMPlorations Mixed Media Design team with a project for Stencil Sunday and the August Mixed Media Challenge.
Remember to add the following challenge graphic to your post in order to be eligible for the prizes each month.
The winner will receive a $15 STAMPlorations gift certificate or 2 ARTplorations stencils. And the top picks receive an ARTplorations stencil of their choice.
The calendar measures approximately 5 3/4″ x 8 3/4″ or 14.5 x 22.25 cm matted.
I repeatedly sponged a variety of blue-hued butterflies onto my panel of cardstock with the Shower of Flutters mask/stencil.
See them fluttering around in the background? 🙂
Then I stenciled the Happy Flowers with red and green ink, sponged embossing ink over the flowers and heat embossed the them with clear embossing powder.
I matted the panel with black cardstock and then, using the ARTplorations Retro Circles stencil, I sponged on white pigment ink and embossed with white embossing powder.
I designed the little calendar as a word document and printed it onto white cardstock. It measures about 4″ x 2 1/4″ or 4 cm x 5.75 cm.
I inked the edges of the calendar by swiping it across a black ink pad and attached it with foam tape. Lastly I matted the entire project in white cardstock.
I had a lot of fun creating this calendar page and I hope that you have been inspired to create your own mixed media projects! I’d be very glad to have you join us for the mixed media challenge this month. I’m so excited to be here with you and I can’t wait to see what you make!
Please remember that this is not a card challenge…it’s anything BUT a card. 🙂
Your project(s) can be anything mixed media except a card (so no cards, please!).
You must use a stencil or stencils (any brand) in your project(s).
You can enter as many projects as you wish as long as they are in separate blog posts.
You must display our STAMPlorations/ARTplorations mixed media challenge graphic in your post and link back to the challenge post (not just the main blog) in order to be eligible to win (and receive the corresponding prize).
Link up by August 31st, 11:55 p.m. Pacific time (GMT-7).
Hi! I’m here with a card inspired by STAMPlorations CASEplorations February challenge, CASEing Anita in France.I was so excited to CASE Anita’s card! I just made time to do so within the past couple of days. I ended up making 5! I have one to share with you in this post. I’ll be back with the others in two subsequent posts.
I stamped the sentiment, did some fussy cutting and added the chevron butterfly panel to the card front with foam tape.
Thanks so much for stopping by!
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I fussy cut my stencil out and added that as the sentiment on this third card.
Honey Bee Lane 