{Stencil Sunday} Monica Creates Simple Stenciled Christmas Cards

Happy Sunday, STAMPlorations friends! It's time for some stencil inspiration. You'll get to see projects that show off how to creatively use ARTplorations stencils. And each month, we'll pick one winner of a $15 gift code -- the winner will be drawn from all comments left on the Stencil Sunday posts for the month, as well as from the designers' blogs.

STAMPgirl Monica took one of our Christmas stencils to create a couple of quick holiday cards.

Here's Monica with her projects:

Hi everyone! I am excited to be featured this month for our Stencil Sunday Series. With it being December and so close to Christmas, I decided to create a couple of very simple Christmas cards using the Christmas Trees stencil.

I added lucky clover Distress Oxide Ink to white texture paste to get a nice green color for my trees.

Once I was happy with the color, I used a pallet knife to spread the texture paste through the stencil.

Green Glitter washi tape was a nice addition to the bottom of the card stock.

I stamped a sentiment on the top as well as under the tree using the Hello Christmas stamp set. I used coordinating green ink for my sentiments.

I finished off the card by layering it onto some Green card stock and adding it to a white card base.

You can find more details over on my blog Taylormadecards4u.

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Simple but effective Christmas cards, aren't they? For a chance to win a $15 gift code to the STAMPlorations store, leave a comment here and on Monica's blog by January 8. We'll announce the winner in the December winners post on January 10.

Did you enjoy today's featured post? Monica will be back in two weeks for two more awesome projects so check back here then :o)

December Challenges Inspiration - Have You Played Yet?

Hello, crafters! Welcome to your mid-December challenge reminder and additional inspiration post. Thank you to all of you who have already supported our challenges and shared your creativity with us this month. If you haven't had a chance to play along yet, there is no time like the present to do so.  As always, our design team have created new gorgeous projects to inspire you to play along with our challenges. You still have a few more weeks to join in on the fun.

If you're new to our blog, please take a moment to become familiar with the challenge guidelines -- we would hate for anyone to be voted by the team as a winner or be randomly chosen as a top pick and then not qualify for the prize because they didn't follow the rules. 

    

     
    
    
    
       
           
   
  

{Spotlight Project} Maria Recycles Old Christmas Cards As Gift Tags

Hello there STAMP friends! It's Christmas TIME. And I don't know about you, but TIME is the one thing I seem to be short on this month. Actually, it happens to me every year...

So how about a super simple idea that's environmentally friendly plus it delivers the goods that you need when it comes time to wrap presents?

Here are my gift tags ready to add to presents.

{Digital Wednesday} Monika Gets Creative with Festive Printables

Happy Wednesday! It's been a while but this month, Digital Wednesday is making an appearance. This time around, we're putting the spotlight on a few Christmas-themed printables that were recently added to the STAMPlorations digital store.

STAMPgirl Monika created Christmas cards + a set of tree decorations combining our printables, stamps, stencils, and dies.

  

{Inspiration Project Post #245}

Hello STAMPlorations Friends! Welcome to Tuesday's Inspiration Post. The team is back showcasing stamps, digital stamps, dies, stencils and stickers of their choice in today's artsy and festive makes.

We'll still randomly draw a winner from all the comments left on our Inspiration posts, have a look and leave a comment for your entry to win a $10 gift certificate.