{PRESIDENTS' DAY SALE} All CUTplorations Thin Metal Dies are 25% Off!

All CUTplorations thin metal dies in the store are 25% off until February 22 Pacific. 

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Stamp club subscribers, use code PREMIUM together with your personal coupon code for up to 40% off on all products in the store + don't forget to use your free shipping coupon as well!

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February Challenges Extra Projects -- Have You Played Yet?

Hello, STAMP friends! How was your Valentine's day? We're halfway through the love month -- have you played in our challenges? There's still a couple of weeks left to play and link up your projects. We've got some fun themes, sketch, color, and inspiration photo. Try and see which one will stir your creative mojo.

Some of the STAMPgirls are sharing extra projects to give you a little nudge :o)

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 she didn't follow the rules. 

  



    

    

    

{Spotlight Project} Shirley's Making Faces - Again

Hello again!  Today I'm playing with the Vogue stencil from the Faces range to make a travellers' journal cover.

{Spotlight Project} Shirley's Making Faces

Hi peeps! Have you seen the gorgeous Faces stencils that Shery has created? They're right up my street, and I've been having fun creating a few cards with them.

{Inspiration Project Post #203}

Hello STAMPlorations Friends! It's Inspiration time, and this week the Inspiration girls are showcasing stamps designed by Becca under her label Big Grins By Becca Cruger.

All of Becca's stamp sets will be on sale for the week at 10% off until Monday February 18 - no coupon needed; the discount is automatically applied. And if you happen to have a coupon code, such as a personal discount code for being a stamp club subscriber, you can use the code to get an even better deal.

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

 

 

 

{Mixed Media Tutorial} Valentine's Day Triple Tags by MariLynn

Hi MariLynn, here with a tutorial on how I made these 2 triple tags sets. 

For my projects, I used:
Clustered Hearts and Tag O Coffee Die (dies)

Clustered Hearts (stencil)

Pocket Blooms (stamps)

{JANUARY WINNERS}

Hello, STAMP friends! It's time to announce last month's winners! We also have winners of our Never-Ending Anything Goes Challenge and January Inspiration Projects post, as well as winners of our special posts: It's A Girl Thing Special Release Hop, January Special Stamp Release Hop, Inspiration Project Post #200, Hey Love Hop and Linky Party, STAMPlorations at Time Out, and Turner Syndrome Awareness Hop :o) Challenge winners were voted by the design team members, while all other winners were randomly chosen by Random.org.

An important reminder to challenge players: When playing in our challenges, please display the challenge graphic AND link back directly to the challenge post (NOT to the main blog or the challenge section) in your blog post in order to qualify for the prizes.

An important note about our winners post: winners (challenges, blog hops, and special posts) of the previous month are announced in one post (this one). All winners must claim their prizes by the deadline. If you are a regular player in our challenges or participant in our blog hops and special events, please consider following our blog, even signing up to receive email notifications when new posts are published. You'll find those links on the right side bar.

An important note about our prizes: For our challenges, we offer prizes in the form of gift certificates. For our special posts, hops, and events, we offer prizes in the form of gift certificates, gift codes (also called coupon codes and gift vouchers), and products. There is a difference between a gift certificate and a gift code and it's all explained on THIS PAGE.

Winners, please claim your prize on or before Sunday, February 24. Prizes not claimed by February 24 will be forfeited -- no exceptions. Please understand that because we have a lot of winners and give away $100 to $200 worth of prizes in the form of products, gift certificates, and coupon codes each month, it would take a lot of time to contact the winners individually. I also want to be fair to those who regularly visit our blog and claim their prizes within the time frame given.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR CLAIMING PRIZE

When claiming your prize, send an email to stamplorations@gmail.com. 

I have an email filter set up for claiming prizes so to avoid delay and to make sure I see your email in my BLOG PRIZE folder, follow this format in the subject line:

"STAMPlorations January Winner - specific challenge here"

e.g., "STAMPlorations January Winner - Mixed Media Challenge"

It also helps if you include what prize you won (a $15 gift certificate, a $5 gift certificate, a $15 coupon code, $10 gift code, etc.) in the body of your email.

If you are the winner of a tangible/mailable prize, include your complete mailing address in the email you send, even if I already have mailed to you before. (It saves me time having to look up your address.)

{Mixed Media Tutorial} Art Journal Page by Susanne

Hi there! Susanne here and I'd like to share an art journal page today. I have a step by step tutorial for you.

February CAS Challenge

Hello STAMPlorations Friends! Welcome to our February CAS challenge. Are you having a cold winter where you are? Hopefully you are keeping warm and wrapped up. Crafting is the perfect way to enjoy a cold winter's day, maybe while sipping a cup of your hot beverage of choice. 

If you played along with our January challenge, thank you very much! You were clearly very inspired by our burgundy color twist based on the gorgeous creations in the link-up and we will reveal the winners in our big winner's post on the 10th of February. If you haven't played along with our challenges before, why not do it this month? We love to see your creations and want to inspire you to share your craft, whether you are a seasoned crafter or only getting started.

If you play, make sure you include the graphic below in your post and link back to this challenge post in order to qualify for our prizes :o) Please also read our simple rules, which you'll find toward the end of this post.

Link back:

https://stamplorations.blogspot.com/2019/02/cas-challenge-february.html

Our optional color twist for February is Cerulean Blue. The ladies of the design team certainly embraced Cerulean Blue and we hope they inspired you to play along. As always, you are free to link up a card using any products you have, although we would love to see how you are inspired to use STAMPlorations products if you have any. We ask that you only link up CAS cards, and hope that you have a great time while doing so. Please also make sure you adhere to our other rules at the end of the post - we would hate for you to miss out on one of the prizes!

   

       

  

{Spotlight Project} Maria Creates A Bloomful Rainbow

Hello there STAMP friends!  Welcome to my first Spotlight of February. I'm playing with the Stamp Club stamp, Bloomful, this month. It's such a fun set and definitely puts me in a good mood. I had this idea in my head and just had to have a go at rainbow-ing it.

{Spotlight Project} Monika Plays With Pipettes And Liquid Watercolors

Hello STAMPlorations Friends! It's Monika here today trying her hand at lazy watercolouring without brushes, an idea born out of finding some pipettes during my recent clear out and one of those 'I wonder if...' moments. The new stamp club set Bloomful is great for white embossing on these lazy backgrounds. I ended up making two cards, one using mixed media card and another one using watercolour card, here they are:

February TAGplorations Challenge - All About Love

Hello, STAMPlorations Friends! Welcome to the month of love over here on the TAGplorations challenge. You created gorgeous winter projects for our January challenge, thank you so much for playing along.  Don't forget to check in on January 10th when we reveal the January winners.

Our theme for February is All About Love. As always, we also have an optional twist which this time is cupcakes.

The design team are feeling all loved up and have created some gorgeous projects which hopefully inspire you to create some lovely tags of your own. We are looking forward to seeing your entries. Your project can be anything -- from cards to layout pages, ATCs to home decor as long as there is a tag included somewhere in your crafty creations!

If you play, make sure you include the graphic below in your post and link back to this challenge post in order to qualify for our prizes :o) Please also read our simple rules, which you'll find toward the end of this post.

Theme: All About Love

Optional twist: Cupcakes

Link back:

https://stamplorations.blogspot.com/2019/02/tagplorations-february.html