STAMPlorations~ Hello Sunshine!

Good Morning Coffee lovers, today marks another day in the

Coffee Loving Cardmakers Spring Blog Hop

and STAMPlorations is one of the amazing Sponsors!

Be sure to join in using any tea, coffee or cocoa images with a SPRING theme. :o)

Today, I made a card using Rise and Grind Stamp set. 

I started with a 4 x 5.25' piece of watercolor paper and added Distress Oxides in Cracked Pistachio and Wilted Violet onto my craft sheet, spritzed with water and smooshed my paper onto it - drying it in between layers so my colors didn't get muddy.

 I thenstamped the image onto Design Paper from my stash and cut them out and paper pieced it together onto my card. I used Distress Crayons to highlight the image. I stamped the sentiment from the same set in Purple Archival Ink and finished with some Washi in green and purple. 

I sure hope you've been inspired to join in this fun hop!

I'd like to enter in the

 

 

STAMPlorations~ Never Hide your Wings

Happy Sunday everyone! I'm sharing a tag I made for STAMPlorations Sunday Stencil #89. The designers have created some fabulous mixed media projects to inspire you. You can find them  here so be sure to check them out and leave them some luv! :o) 

Today I used ARTplorations Square City Stencil with STAMPlorations Trendy Butterflies 2 and Art Marks for this fun lil' tag.  

 

 I started with blending Distress Inks (Blue Lagoon, Mustard Seed and Worn Lipstick) onto my tag with a blending tool. I then Stamped the "Film Strip" from the ART MARKS set with Jet Black Archival Ink- creating blocks on my tag. I masked the "film strips" off  and Inked Candied Apple Distress Ink thru the Square City Stencil. I highlighted the "film strips" with a white Posca Pen and some of the squares with a fine Black Pitt Pen.

 I then stamped the butterflies from the Trendy Butterflies 2 Set in Jet Black Archival Ink onto spots I inked with the same Distress Inks from my tag (Blue Lagoon, Mustard Seed, Worn Lipstick and Candied Apple) and then fussy cut them out. I adhered only the bodies of the Butterflies to the tag for added dimension.  I stamped a sentiment from the same set and my lil' tag is finished. :o)

I hope you were inspired to play along in our Monthly Challenge, there is still some time to join in. Have a great weekend. :o)

LBBS~ Dream Charlie

Hello, crafty friends, today I have a cute lil' coffee inspired card using Little Blue Button Stamps

DREAM CHARLIE. 

I LOVE coffee, and I knew I had to use Dream Charlie as my first inspirational post for Little Blue Button Stamps. I mean how cute is she???

Here's she is all in spring colors:

I created a few layers with DP as I wanted to keep the embellishments simple so Charlie was the focus. I used DP's from My Minds Eye. Even cut out the tickets from the same Design paper as I thought it went with the "Dream" concept. ;o)

I finished with a sentiment from My Favorite Things "Perk Up" set. 

I colored Charlie with Spectrum Noir Markers keeping with Spring colors:

And I usually do the same "design" concept on the inside of my cards as the front:

I sure hope I've inspired you today. 

Happy craftin'!

I'd like to enter the

 

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