{Spotlight Project} Shirley Uses Mop Up Panels for Color

 

Hello peeps! I tend to have a lot of mop up panels in my stash. I use Distress Inks as watercolour paints on an acrylic block, and when I've finished I spritz and mop up the colours onto a piece of card, so I'm left with lots of multi-coloured inky panels. I decided to put some to good use, and save me some colouring time!

{Inspiration Project Post #291}

Hello STAMPlorations Friends! The Inspiration girls are back with celebratory projects for a variety of occasions showcasing stamps, dies and stencils of their choice.

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 $15 prize code to the STAMPlorations store.

STAMPlorations Belated 7th Birthday - Day 5

Happy Friday, STAMPlorations friends! Can you believe it's the last day of our belated birthday celebration? The week sure flew by! The STAMPlorations girls and our talented guest designers have been wowing us all week with their beautiful creations -- and here they are for their final projects. You'll find Day 1 post here. It has all the info you need, including prizes and the birthday linky party.

Linking up your birthday projects as well as entering the STAMPlorations stash linky giveaway end on October 31. Commenting on our birthday posts and designers' posts closes on November 8.

Until October 31, all products featured in our birthday celebration this week are 10% off instantly in the store. However, if you use a STAMPgirl's 20% off code when ordering, you will receive a bonus -- a not-yet-released stencil.

Have a look at what the STAMPgirls cooked up for day 5!

STAMPlorations Belated 7th Birthday - Day 4

Happy Thursday, STAMPlorations friends! We're back to celebrate our 7th year. All week we're going to inspire you with beautiful projects by the STAMPlorations girls and our talented guest designers. You'll find Day 1 post here. It has all the info you need, including prizes and the birthday linky party.

Linking up your birthday projects as well as entering the STAMPlorations stash linky giveaway end on October 31. Commenting on our birthday posts and designers' posts closes on November 8.

Until October 31, all products featured in our birthday celebration this week are 10% off instantly in the store. However, if you use a STAMPgirl's 20% off code when ordering, you will receive a bonus -- a not-yet-released stencil.

Have a look at what the STAMPgirls cooked up for day 4!

STAMPlorations Belated 7th Birthday - Day 3

Happy Wednesday, STAMPlorations friends! We're back to celebrate our 7th year. All week we're going to inspire you with beautiful projects by the STAMPlorations girls and our talented guest designers. You'll find Day 1 post here. It has all the info you need, including prizes and the birthday linky party.

Linking up your birthday projects as well as entering the STAMPlorations stash linky giveaway end on October 31. Commenting on our birthday posts and designers' posts closes on November 8.

Until October 31, all products featured in our birthday celebration this week are 10% off instantly in the store. However, if you use a STAMPgirl's 20% off code when ordering, you will receive a bonus -- a not-yet-released stencil.

Have a look at what the STAMPgirls cooked up for day 3!

STAMPlorations Belated 7th Birthday - Day 2

Happy Tuesday, STAMPlorations friends! We're back to celebrate our 7th year. All week we're going to inspire you with beautiful projects by the STAMPlorations girls and our talented guest designers. You'll find yesterday's post here. It has all the info you need, including prizes and the birthday linky party.

Linking up your birthday projects as well as entering the STAMPlorations stash linky giveaway end on October 31. Commenting on our birthday posts and designers' posts closes on November 8.

Until October 31, all products featured in our birthday celebration this week are 10% off instantly in the store. However, if you use a STAMPgirl's 20% off code when ordering, you will receive a bonus -- a not-yet-released stencil.

Have a look at what the STAMPgirls cooked up for day 2!

STAMPlorations Belated 7th Birthday - Day 1

Hi, STAMPlorations friends! So glad you could join us today, as it's time to start our late 7th birthday celebrations. We have a week full of inspiring and creative projects to share with you to celebrate 7 years of STAMPlorations. 

Today we also start our 7th Birthday Linky Party so you can celebrate with us. You can link up any birthday- or celebration-themed project for a chance to win fabulous prizes, including a $40 gift code to the STAMPlorations store. You can find the linky tool and more detailed rules for the linky party at the end of this post. Don't forget we will also draw winners from all the comments left on the celebration week posts and the designers' posts so we hope you will hop along to leave the STAMPlorations design team some love too! Commenting closes on November 8.

Here's a run down of the prizes up for grabs:

• ONE (1) winner of $50 gift code - randomly drawn from photos entered to the STAMPlorations stash linky giveaway
• THREE (3) winners of $10 gift code - randomly drawn from comments left on the birthday hop posts and designers' blog posts
• TWO (2) winners of $20 gift code - randomly drawn from entries in the birthday linky party
• ONE (1) winner of a $40 gift code - randomly drawn from entries in the birthday linky party
• A few surprise winners of products and/or prize codes

Until October 31, all products featured in our birthday celebration this week are 10% off instantly in the store. However, if you use a STAMPgirl's 20% off code when ordering, you will receive a bonus -- a not-yet-released stencil.

Now let's see what the STAMPgirls have for our opening salvo!

STAMPlorations 7th Birthday Celebration Starts Tomorrow!

Hey, STAMPlorations friends! Are you ready for tomorrow? We'll (finally) be celebrating our 7th birthday!

The STAMPlorations girls will be coming in full force and we're going to be joined by three super-awesome, fabulous, and creative guest designers. Joining the STAMPlorations girls for 5 whole days are:

Becca Cruger

Esther Asbury

Maura Roby

I invited these wonderful ladies because I've seen what they can do with STAMPlorations products -- and sure enough, they blew me away with the projects they created featuring the goodies they received!

Speaking of new products...throughout the week, we're featuring the following:

- new Sanna Lippert Designs stencils (featured in this post)
- new Monika Skinner Designers Flexi-Templates (featured in this post)
- new ARTplorations slimline stencils (featured in this post)

- 2 new texture cover plate dies

   

Circles All Over | Wonky Stitched Grid

and

- TEN (10) new 4x4 stamp sets in the Bloomfully series! These beautiful floral stamps will be available in the store beginning Sunday night. (Don't panic if you visit the page now and don't see anything there. The stamps will be visible tonight.)

Here's a preview of the stamps:

   
Bloomfully: Beautiful | Bloomfully: Celebrate

   
Bloomfully: Faith | Bloomfully: Forever

   
Bloomfully: Kindness | Bloomfully: Radiance

   
Bloomfully: Remember | Bloomfully: Sparkle

   
Bloomfully: Thankful | Bloomfully: Wonderful

Hopefully these have whetted your appetite! We hope to see you back here Monday at 6 am Pacific!

PS: While you wait for the celebrations to start, why not take a photo of the STAMPlorations stash you have and then link it up to the STAMPlorations stash linky giveaway? You could win $50 spending money!

October Challenges Inspiration - Have You Played Yet?

Hello, challenge fans! Have you already played along with our October challenges? It's great to see so many of you back sharing your gorgeous projects for our new challenge season. If you are planning to play along but haven't had time to do so yet, you still have two weeks to join in the fun! The ladies from the design team are back with more inspiration to help you get creative if you feel your mojo needs a kick-start. I hope you find some time and inspiration to play along with us this month!

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.

  
        

    
    
     
   

FALALALALATTE + HOLIDAY MOCHA FEELS 4x6 Stamps Pre-Release SALE

Heya, STAMPlorations friends! On November 6, we'll be releasing two holiday coffee-themed 4x6 stamp sets: FALALALALATTE and HOLIDAY MOCHA FEELS.

FALALALALATTE features 3 images (to-go cup with poinsettia, poinsettia tag, and a cozy mug) and seven sentiments.

HOLIDAY MOCHA FEELS features a top view image of a coffee cup with coffee beans and poinsettia + 8 sentiments that fit right inside.

Both sets are available to pre-order together at a special price: $20 + free worldwide shipping. These stamps are in production and will ship first week of November. (Update: The first shipment is coming this Friday so the first several pre-orders will start shipping on the week of October 19.  First shipment is sold out! All other pre-orders will ship on the first week of November.)

pre-order here

Happy stamping and hurray for coffee! ;o)

PS: If you are a member of Amy T.'s Coffee Loving Papercrafters group on Facebook, I have a giveaway over there that ends Saturday night.

{Inspiration Project Post #289}

Hello STAMPlorations Friends! The Inspiration girls are back with colorful projects for a variety of occasions showcasing stamps, dies and stencils of their choice.

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 $15 prize code to the STAMPlorations store.