STAMPlorations April 2022 CAS Challenge~Anything CAS Goes (optional twist: purple and green)...I Love Coffee and You Ephemera Tiles

Hello,

Happy April 1st and welcome to STAMPlorations April 2022 CAS Challenge! This month, Blue and Purple are the optional twists.

My simple card features new paper goods joining my collection - Coffee Tiles - Ephemera. I paired them with a sentiment from Coffee Happy, then added them to Circles All Over Textured Cover Plate background. I know the sentiment square looks crooked-ish but I promise, I used a ruler to line up everything! In real life, it's straight! I'll blame shadows for the illusion of  slightly wonky! 

That's it from me; time for you to play along.

• You can find Challenge details here. PLEASE READ.
• If you decide you 'need' some of the products I - or other designers have used - head over to the STAMPlorations Online Store (always great deals to be had!)
• To receive an additional 20% off your purchases, I invite you to use my discount code: STAMPGIRLCAROLM

Looking forward to seeing your CAS cards in the gallery, with or without the twists!

Thank you for dropping by!

STAMPlorations March 2022 CAS Challenge~Anything CAS Goes (optional twist: Pink & Green)...

Hello,

The STAMP girls are back after a February break, recharged and ready to play! Welcome to our March 2022 CAS Challenge, where Anything CAS Goes, with an optional twist which, this month, is Pink and Green.

As you've figured out by now, I'm a mega fan of Shery's paper goods products (the subscription is fabulous) and take opportunity whenever I can to showcase them. Here, I've used my new arrivals - Bloom Burst Ephemera - and paired a trio of blooms and leaves with sentiments from Hello You, and a  Circles All Over Texture Cover Plate background. Super simple! Love when pretty images to all the work and I just assemble.

That's it from me; time for you to play along.

• You can find Challenge details here. PLEASE READ.
• If you decide you 'need' some of the products I - or other designers have used - head over to the STAMPlorations Online Store (always great deals to be had!)
• To receive an additional 20% off your purchases, I invite you to use my discount code: STAMPGIRLCAROLM

Looking forward to seeing your CAS cards in the gallery, with or without the twists!

Thank you for dropping by!

STAMPlorations January 2022 CAS Cards Challenge....Rainbows For Brightening My Day

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Welcome to STAMPlorations January 2022 CAS Cards Challenge, where Anything Goes is always the theme, with an optional twist which, this month, is RAINBOW! No rainbows where I am at the moment...just snow and frigid temperatures! 

Playing with the awesome STAMP ephemera products once again (yes...addicted to them).  Here, I've combined a sentiment from Thank You Coffee with a strip of the Rainbows - Ephemera Tiles, placed atop a background using Circles All Over Texture Cover Plate, Inside reads 'Thank You', so the full message is "For Brightening My Day...Thank You". 

That's it from me; time for you to play along.

• You can find Challenge details here. PLEASE READ.
• If you decide you 'need' some of the products I - or other designers have used - head over to the STAMPlorations Online Store (always great deals to be had!)
• To receive an additional 20% off your purchases, I invite you to use my discount code: STAMPGIRLCAROLM

Looking forward to seeing your CAS cards in the gallery, with or without the twists!

Thank you for dropping by!

STAMPlorations December 2021 CAS Cards Challenge~Anything Goes (optional twist: Metallic + 1 other colour)...For the Love of All Things Merry and Bright Ornaments

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Welcome to STAMPlorations December 2021 CAS Card Challenge, where Anything Goes is always the theme, with an optional twist that, this month, is Metallic + 1 Other Colour. 

I actually used the twist this time! Yayyy! My tree ornaments - Christmas Baubles #1 Layering Die, Christmas Baubles #2 Layering Die - are cut from lovely shimmery silver cardstock (Sizzix) and paired with paper from Craft Consortium's Ink Drops *Vivid* collection. One of my favourite sentiments from one of my all-time favourite STAMP sets - Warm Hands, Warm Heart - finishes it off. Simple to make...and I may well do that as the card-making rush looms closer!

That's it from me; time for you to play along.

• You can find Challenge details here. PLEASE READ as they've been updated.
• If you decide you 'need' some of the products I - or other designers have used - head over to the STAMPlorations Online Store (always great deals to be had!)
• To receive an additional 20% off your purchases, I invite you to use my discount code: STAMPGIRLCAROLM

Looking forward to seeing your CAS cards in the gallery, with or without the twists!

Thank you for dropping by!

STAMPlorations November CAS Cards Challenge~Anything Goes (optional twist: Neutrals Only)

Hello,

Welcome to STAMPlorations November CAS Card Challenge; Anything Goes is always the theme, with an optional twist which, this month, is Neutrals Only. 

I'm absolutely besotted with STAMPlorations' Paper Goods products, so be warned: you'll be seeing plenty of them in action here on my blog! Today, I'm sharing a perhaps not-so-clean card, but definitely a simple one. Simple? Yes...because the fabulous products I chose - Coffee Word Die, And Coffee - The Bee's Knees, For the Love of Coffee - Ephemera - did all the work.  Foam tape added to the back of the coffee images, cut/stacked the coffee die and a quick sentiment stamp: easy peasy! 

I love the splash of pink mixed in with the neutrals!

That's it from me; time for you to play along.

• You can find Challenge details here. PLEASE READ as they've been updated.
• If you decide you 'need' some of the products I - or other designers have used - head over to the STAMPlorations Online Store (always great deals to be had!)
• To receive an additional 20% off your purchases, I invite you to use my discount code: STAMPGIRLCAROLM

Looking forward to seeing your CAS cards in the gallery, with or without the twists!

Thank you for dropping by!

STAMPlorations October 2021 Anything CAS Goes Challenge (optional colour twist: Ombre)...Newsprint Autumn Thank You

Hello,

After a few months off to recharge and refresh our batteries, the STAMPlorations teams are BACK! New challenges, new products! Exciting things to be revealed in the weeks to come!

Welcome, today, to the October CAS Card Challenge, where Anything Goes is always the theme, with optional colour twists which, this month, is ombre!  

The new paper goods collections at STAMPlorations have caught my eye and ohmystars! Some real delights to be had! Beautiful images; sturdy cardstock; a variety of sizes from card fronts, to ATCs, to tiles to die cuts. Something for everyone who loves 'pretty paper' as I do. That said: you'll be seeing plenty of these paper products in play for my inspiration posts.  Today, my CAS card features the new Newsprint Autumn Ephemera Tiles (swoon!!), framed with pink cardstock and paired with a sentiment from Thank You Coffee (one of my all-time favourite STAMP sentiment sets).  This sheet of tiles comes with 6 images; you'll see the other two down the road.

That's it from me; time for you to play along.

• You can find Challenge details here. PLEASE READ as they've been updated.
• If you decide you 'need' some of the products I - or other designers have used - head over to the STAMPlorations Online Store (always great deals to be had!)
• To receive an additional 20% off your purchases, I invite you to use my discount code: STAMPGIRLCAROLM

Looking forward to seeing your CAS cards in the gallery, with or without the twists!

Thank you for dropping by!

STAMPlorations 8th Birthday Celebration...Day 3 Featuring Birthday Bundle #3

Hello, 

WHEW! We are having a major heat wave here in Alberta; the meteorologists weren't kidding when they described this as an *historic event*! I'm beyond melting...good thing I have crafting as a distraction!

Welcome to Day 3 of STAMPlorations' 8th Birthday Celebration! Happy Birthday, STAMPlorations! Wishing you an awesome birthday and many, many more birthdays to come! 

I'm delighted to share a quartet of cards using the Birthday Bundle #3 collection.

My first card, which Shery shared last week as a 'teaser', uses the XOXO (at least, that's what I see when I look at it) art border die, repeatedly cut on a piece of cardstock, to fill the heart aperture. I paired it with a new So Loved sentiment and ta dahhh...a little lunch box note.

  

Again, I used the Art Borders die and the same sentiment to create a bunch of XOXOs mini slimline.

I'm not skilled with colouring florals, so I left this beautiful arrangement 'as is' for my third card. Black and white, with a touch of gold...simple and, I hope, striking. 

My final card was an 'experiment' using one section of the Design Blox Template #7 that has two half circles with triangle edges.  Every time I looked at it, I saw a 'sun' so...I went with the muse! First, I inked one circle half on my panel and the corresponding edges, then rotated the stencil several times to create a halo of rays. A couple cloud die outlines and a sentiment from So Loved completes my sunny card. Now, to figure out what else I can see in this Design Blox!  

This bundle, along with the two previous, is such fun!

Hope you'll hop along to see all the creativity with these new sets. 

Prizes to be had; it is a celebration, after all! 

Thank you for dropping by!

STAMPlorations October 2019 CAS Challenge Reminder Post~Anything Goes (optional twist: any shade of ORANGE)

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Have you played in any of the STAMPlorations challenges yet? If not...still plenty of time! Today, I'm sharing a reminder post and card for the October 2019 CAS Challenge~ Anything Goes, with the optional twist of ORANGE. 

My play-date companions were the: 

Frames and Flowers (sentiment)

Broken Glass stencil

Various shades of orange distress and distress oxide inks.

• You can find Challenge details here: https://stamplorations.blogspot.com/2019/10/cas-challenge-october.html
• If you decide you 'need' some of the products I - or other designers have used - head over to the STAMPlorations Online Store (some great deals to be had!)
• To receive an additional 20% off your purchases, I invite you to use my discount code: STAMPGIRLCAROLM

Looking forward to seeing your CAS cards, with or without the twist!
Thank you for dropping by!

STAMPlorations CAS October 2019 Challenge~Anything Goes (optional colour twist: any shade of ORANGE)...Peeking Dahlia

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WE'RE BACK!!  The STAMPlorations gals are returning with three new challenges - Theme & Photo Prompt, CAS and Stencil - that launch on the first of the month. You have alllll month to play along! Mid-month, you'll see a reminder post...more incentive for you to play along and fill the galleries to bursting! With that brief intro....

Welcome to STAMPloration CAS October 2019 Challenge~Anything Goes, with orange as the optional colour twist.

I got a 'bit' carried away with one of my favourite stencils, as you'll see below:

Peeking Dahlias

Hey, Sunshine Clear Sticker

A WHOLE lot of Glitter! 

Peeking Dahlias
Vignette: Trendy Feathers
MORE glitter

One more (slightly not as CAS), but so pretty because I dry-embossed first so the edges of the dahlias are raised prior to inking.

Peeking Dahlias

Frames and Flowers

• You can find Challenge details here: https://stamplorations.blogspot.com/2019/10/cas-challenge-october.html

• If you decide you 'need' some of the products I - or other designers have used - head over to the STAMPlorations Online Store (some great deals to be had!)

• To receive an additional 20% off your purchases, I invite you to use my discount code: STAMPGIRLCAROLM

Looking forward to seeing your CAS cards, with or without the twist!

Thank you for dropping by!

Pretend to Hug You Until You Get Here...STAMPlorations April 2018 Challenge #1: FOCUS ON THE SENTIMENTS

Hello,

I'm excited to be joining with my awesome STAMPlorations teammates for the April 2018 Challenge #1: FOCUS ON THE SENTIMENTS

My card was originally intended for Valentine's Day - hence the pink/red - but with modifications to the schedule to allow Shery and her family a "Winter" break to play catch up and adjust to life with two little ones, I decided to save it for this challenge.  A simple change in colours makes the sweet image and heart-warming sentiment an 'any time someone is distance and we miss them' combination.  A timeless sentiment, indeed! 

A Full Heart - Big Grins by Becca Cruger

Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle Nesting Dies

As a reminder, we have only one challenge for you this month, with only one theme: Focus On the Sentiments. As long as you follow the theme, any type of project is welcome! We'll return to our regular programming in May...yayyyyy!

How will your inspiration for this theme take shape? Perhaps a big word or phrase die? An oversized sentiment? A sentiment stamped into little snippets to make it the focus of your design? An entire panel stamped with sentiments. Oh my...the possibilities!

Looking forward to seeing your 'sentiment sensations' in the gallery!

For more details about how to enter and prizes (gotta love the prizes!), head here. 

As well, Shery is offering a generous 10% off (no coupon code needed) all stamps, stencils, and dies in the store through April. Retiring products are excluded. With a discount code from your favorite designer for 20% on top, this is definitely the time to pick up items you may have on your wish list!

To receive 20% off STAMPlorations stamps, stencils and dies, I invite you to use my code: STAMPGIRLCAROLM. The code applies to regular and sale-priced products, but cannot be combined with other discount codes you have. Happy shopping!

Thank you for dropping by!

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