Welcome to the STAMPlorations™ blog! This is where we run a never-ending anything goes challenge, spotlight projects by the design team, publish tutorials, host fun blog hops, and announce new products. Our goal: encourage you to "stamp with all your ART!" through our hops, inspiration projects, and products.
Sunday, December 13, 2015
Stencil Sunday #24
Saturday, December 12, 2015
{LAST CALL} ARTplorations Stencil Blog Hop Extra + Link Up to the Flash Stencil Project Linky Party
Heads up, STAMPlorations friends! Tomorrow is the last day to hop and leave comments here on the blog and on the designers' blogs for the ARTplorations Stencil Blog Hop! Get to hopping by 11:55 p.m. Pacific (GMT-8) tomorrow to win some awesome prizes! We'll announce winners on Tuesday, December 15. The hop starts here.
Here's one last helping of projects featuring ARTplorations stencils.
That wraps up the hop! The STAMPlorations girls have shared 40+ projects over 5 days -- that's plenty of ideas you can use in your own stencil adventure! We hope you had a great time. More importantly, we hope our projects have inspired you to creatively use the stencils in your stash...or if you don't have stencils yet (or wish to add more to your stash!), check out the shop -- we've got 60 designs to date!
Did you make projects using stencils in the past month (from November 1)? Link 'em up to our Flash Stencil Linky Party for extra chances to win more prizes! Link up by Sunday, December 13, 11:55 p.m. Pacific (GMT-8). You'll find the details and linky here.
Here's one last helping of projects featuring ARTplorations stencils.
That wraps up the hop! The STAMPlorations girls have shared 40+ projects over 5 days -- that's plenty of ideas you can use in your own stencil adventure! We hope you had a great time. More importantly, we hope our projects have inspired you to creatively use the stencils in your stash...or if you don't have stencils yet (or wish to add more to your stash!), check out the shop -- we've got 60 designs to date!
Did you make projects using stencils in the past month (from November 1)? Link 'em up to our Flash Stencil Linky Party for extra chances to win more prizes! Link up by Sunday, December 13, 11:55 p.m. Pacific (GMT-8). You'll find the details and linky here.
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FREE STENCIL on all orders!Just for our stencil blog hop participants, place an order in the shop between today and December 18 and get a free ARTplorations stencil! Just add products to your cart, including the stencil you want for free, and when you're ready to check out, use coupon code DECSTENCILHOP. The price of 1 standard size (5x7) stencil will be deducted from your total amount. Limit 1 free stencil per customer. Claim your free stencil here.
+ 20% off on all stencils too!All ARTplorations stencils are 20% off until December 18! Just add the stencils to your cart and the discounted price is automatically reflected -- no coupon needed :o)
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Thank you so much for hopping along with us. We truly, truly appreciate your support!
Friday, December 11, 2015
{Mixed Media Tutorial} Stretching Stencils by Carol
For the Winter/Holiday Coffee Lovers Blog Hop + Comment to Win, click here.
Carol shows you how to use the ARTplorations Old Rose Prints stencil along with STAMPlorations Fond Expressions 2 stamps to upcycle a gorgeous gift box. Click the graphic below for the step by step photo tutorial she has on the ARTplorations blog. See you there!
{DAY 4} ARTplorations Stencil Blog Hop Extra + Link Up to the Flash Stencil Project Linky Party
Hello, everyone! You guessed it -- we have more stencil inspiration for you. If you missed the main post of the hop (with all the info on how to hop + prizes), click here.
Have a look at what the STAMPlorations girls have to share today.
Did you make projects using stencils in the past month (from November 1)? Link 'em up to our Flash Stencil Linky Party for extra chances to win more prizes! Link up by Sunday, December 13, 11:55 p.m. Pacific (GMT-8). You'll find the details and linky here.
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FREE STENCIL on all orders!
Just for our stencil blog hop participants, place an order in the shop between today and December 18 and get a free ARTplorations stencil! Just add products to your cart, including the stencil you want for free, and when you're ready to check out, use coupon code DECSTENCILHOP. The price of 1 standard size (5x7) stencil will be deducted from your total amount. Limit 1 free stencil per customer. Claim your free stencil here.
+ 20% off on all stencils too!
All ARTplorations stencils are 20% off until December 18! Just add the stencils to your cart and the discounted price is automatically reflected -- no coupon needed :o)
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{Inspiration Project #51)
For the Winter/Holiday Coffee Lovers Blog Hop + Comment to Win, click here.
Happy Friday, fellow stampers! The girls in the Inspiration team are back to share their cards. Hopefully, they'll also inspire you to do a little CASEing.
You can CASE the super cool card by our guest designer this month, Amy Tsuruta, in this post. Or you can CASE the CASE of the Inspiration girls. Or you can CASE the cards below. You'll find the CASEplorations challenge guidelines here.
STAMPlorations and the Winter/Holiday Coffee Lovers Blog Hop + Extra Prizes!
For the ARTplorations stencil blog hop and linky party, click here.
Heads up, STAMPlorations friends! There's a fun blog hop starting today for those of us who love or enjoy a cup of coffee (or tea or chocolate)! The hop is hosted by Amy Tsuruta and Chaitali Narla.
Amy and Chaitali have invited lots of sponsors for the hop, including STAMPlorations, who are offering tons of fabulous prizes! Play along by creating a winter/holiday-themed coffee, tea and/or cocoa project. Post it on your blog and then link it up at the linky found on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog. The linky is open until Friday, December 18. Winners of sponsor prizes will be randomly drawn!
Here's a card to inspire you:
MOCHA CHRISTMAS
One Layer Card
One Layer Card
To create this card, I stamped the coffee cup and masked it before using the snowflake stencil for the background. I added faux texture with the grunge stamps and stamped the sentiment. Finished the card by coloring the coffee cup with watercolor brush pens.
Products I used to create the card:
And here's a free digi stamp you can use to create your coffee projects. It's the digi stamp we currently offer on our Never-Ending Anything Goes Challenge page. If you use the image, be sure to link up your project there too because we draw two winners of gift certificates or stamp sets whenever we reach entries in multiples of 50 (we're at 629 entries and counting).
(Right-click and save the image to your computer.)
BLOG CANDY ALERT!
Winter's here and we're in the thick of the holiday season. To celebrate, we're giving away extra prizes in case you're not able to link up a project or two by next Friday.
Here on the STAMPlorations blog, you could win a $10 gift certificate to use on the shop or the Caffeinated Christmas stamp set.
To win, just answer this burning question: HOW MUCH COFFEE (or TEA or CHOCOLATE) HAVE YOU HAD TODAY? :o)
You can increase your chances of winning by:
- commenting on this post and following our blog (via Google Friend Connect)
- following the STAMPlorations board on Pinterest
Click here to go to the STAMPlorations board on Pinterest and then click on the "Follow Board" button on the top right of the page. We've got notifications on so we'll know who has started following us.Already following us on Pinterest? Leave a comment on this post with the name you're using on Pinterest so we can make sure to throw your name in the hat for the random drawing.
Happy hopping!
Thursday, December 10, 2015
{Spotlight Projects} Create a Quick Christmas Card Set with Deepti
So, here's a look into the finished card set...
{DAY 3} ARTplorations Stencil Blog Hop Extra + Link Up to the Flash Stencil Project Linky Party
Hello, everyone! Welcome to yet another day of stencil goodness! If you missed the first day of the hop (with all the info on how to hop + prizes), click here.
Want to see what the STAMPlorations girls have to show this time around? Here you go!
Did you make projects using stencils in the past month (from November 1)? Link 'em up to our Flash Stencil Linky Party for extra chances to win more prizes! Link up by Sunday, December 13, 11:55 p.m. Pacific (GMT-8). You'll find the details and linky here.
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FREE STENCIL on all orders!
Just for our stencil blog hop participants, place an order in the shop between today and December 18 and get a free ARTplorations stencil! Just add products to your cart, including the stencil you want for free, and when you're ready to check out, use coupon code DECSTENCILHOP. The price of 1 standard size (5x7) stencil will be deducted from your total amount. Limit 1 free stencil per customer. Claim your free stencil here.
+ 20% off on all stencils too!
All ARTplorations stencils are 20% off until December 18! Just add the stencils to your cart and the discounted price is automatically reflected -- no coupon needed :o)
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Wednesday, December 09, 2015
{DAY 2} ARTplorations Stencil Blog Hop Extra + Link Up to the Flash Stencil Project Linky Party
Hello, everyone! If you missed DAY 1 of the hop (with all the info on how to hop + prizes), click here. The next four days worth of posts are where the STAMPlorations girls will share their extra stencil projects. They're also days for you -- because we'd love to see your take on stencils!
We mentioned extra prizes for those who participate in the Flash Stencil Project Linky Party so now it's your turn! We want to see projects where you used stencils!
- Link up projects where you used stencils (any brand). It can be any type of project, even non-card ones.
- No need to make a new project for this flash linky party -- although if you're inspired to create, be our guest! You may link past projects -- so long as you made them within the last month (from November 1, 2015 to the present).
- To give everyone a fair shot at the prizes (winners will be randomly drawn), please link up a maximum of 3 projects.
- Link up your projects to the linky below by Sunday, December 13, 11:55 p.m. Pacific (GMT-8).
We'll randomly draw THREE (3) winners:
- TWO (2) winners who used stencils (any brand) in their projects will each receive their choice of one (1) standard size ARTplorations stencil
- ONE (1) winner who used ARTplorations stencil(s) in her project will receive her choice of three (3) standard size ARTplorations stencils OR a $15 gift certificate to the shop.
So will we see you in the linky party? We hope so! We'd love to see your take on the stencils and be inspired by YOU this time around!
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FREE STENCIL on all orders!
Just for our stencil blog hop participants, place an order in the shop between today and December 18 and get a free ARTplorations stencil! Just add products to your cart, including the stencil you want for free, and when you're ready to check out, use coupon code DECSTENCILHOP. The price of 1 standard size (5x7) stencil will be deducted from your total amount. Limit 1 free stencil per customer. Claim your free stencil here.
+ 20% off on all stencils too!
All ARTplorations stencils are 20% off until December 18! Just add the stencils to your cart and the discounted price is automatically reflected -- no coupon needed :o)
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Tuesday, December 08, 2015
{Spotlight Project} Maria Creates with a Stencil and Spray Inks
Welcome to my Spotlight post about creating with a stencil and spray inks. Have you seen our stencil hop going on right now? Well, I decided to pull out some fun colors of Dylusions spray inks and use them with a stencil to create two cards, one light and airy, one bold and beautiful. Meet bold and beautiful.
{DAY 1} ARTplorations Stencil Blog Hop with the STAMPlorations Girls!
Hey, STAMPlorations friends! We're back with another fun ARTplorations stencil blog hop! The hop starts right now and you're in for a whole lot of stencil goodness from the STAMPlorations girls! This week, we're sharing projects showcasing ARTplorations stencils and STAMPlorations stamps, of course!
For our third stencil blog hop, you'll see the STAMPlorations girls once again unleashing their creative stencil mojo. And what's a blog hop without prizes for those of you who hop along? Here are the deets:
- FIVE (5) winners will be randomly drawn from comments left on the designers' blogs to each win their choice of 1 standard size ARTplorations stencil.
- ONE (1) winner will be randomly drawn from comments left on this post (Day 1) to receive a $15 gift certificate to the STAMPlorations shop or her choice of 2 standard size ARTplorations stencils.
- We've got extra prizes for those who participate in the Flash Stencil Project Linky Party (linky opens on December 9 and closes on December 13).
Ready to hop? Simply leave a comment on this post and on the designers' blog hop posts between now and Sunday, December 13, 11:55 p.m. Pacific (GMT-8) for a chance to win. Only one comment per blog, please. We'll announce the winners on Tuesday, December 15, right here on the blog. Become a follower of our blog or follow us by email to receive updates when we post something here. How easy is that? Have fun!
(Note: There are 21 stops in the hop, including this blog. You're not required to visit every stop on the hop to be eligible to win, but commenting on all the stops will increase your chances of winning. In case you click on a designer's link and you get a page/post not found error, just go to her main blog and scroll down to find the post for the ARTplorations Stencil Blog Hop. You can also go back here to our main blog; we'll update the links throughout the day.)
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Thanks for hopping along! Don't forget to comment on this post for the chance to win a $15 gift certificate to the shop or your choice of 2 ARTplorations stencils! Check back again tomorrow at 7 a.m. Pacific (GMT-8) when the linky opens for you to link up your own stencil projects!
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FREE STENCIL on all orders!Just for our stencil blog hop participants, place an order in the shop between today and December 18 and get a free ARTplorations stencil! Just add products to your cart, including the stencil you want for free, and when you're ready to check out, use coupon code DECSTENCILHOP. The price of 1 standard size (5x7) stencil will be deducted from your total amount. Limit 1 free stencil per customer. Claim your free stencil here.
+ 20% off on all stencils too!All ARTplorations stencils are 20% off until December 18! Just add the stencils to your cart and the discounted price is automatically reflected -- no coupon needed :o)
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Monday, December 07, 2015
{Winners} November Theme & Sketch Challenge + Mixed Media Challenge + Anything Goes Challenge + Spotlight Projects Random Winner
We've got NOVEMBER winners and top picks to announce -- and there're plenty of them!
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