{Mixed Media Tutorial} Be Brave Artist Trading Coins

Hello everyone, it's Sanna here again with another mixed media tutorial share. It's good to be back after the summer break! Today I'd like to share my take on artist trading coins - here are the finished coins:

October Challenge - Theme and Sketch

Howdy again, good folks! It's the first Friday of the month, which means it's the start of our Theme and Sketch Challenge! The girls are back and wait 'til you see the super-gorgeous cards they made.

So what's the theme? For October, we're doing STAMPS & AUTUMN. We'd love to see anything autumn. Or ditch autumn and just go with the sketch -- this month's sketch is pretty groovy. Or go ahead and combine both in your project -- we dig that ;-)

And here's that groovy sketch I mentioned:

If you play, make sure you include the graphic(s) above 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.

Have a look at the STAMPlorations girls' projects inspired by this month's theme and/or sketch!

      

   

    

{Spotlight Project} Deepti Goes Without Coloring the Stamped Images!

Hello friends! Deepti here and welcome to my spotlight feature. Today, I am playing with the newest stamp club set, Bloom Doodles, and for this one I decided not to color the gorgeous stamped images and make them shine as is :) I used the same idea for two different card designs. Let me show you...

October CAS Challenge

Hello, dear STAMPlorations and CAS friends! I hope you are as excited as we are in the Design Team to return to our monthly CAS challenge after a long and relaxing summer. Thank you to all of you for playing along with our summer challenge and sharing your amazing creativity. We are super excited to share our CAS creations and hope we will inspire you to get clean and creative with us.

Our first optional colour twist of the season is black. Our CAS challenge rules remain the same as they have always been. We ask you to create a Clean and Simple (CAS) card, with an option to use (or to not use) our colour twist. You can use any products but if you own any STAMPlorations products we would love to see how you use them. You can find more detailed rules at the bottom of this post as well as information about prizes. The only change from our last season of challenges is that we will no longer do a mid-month reminder for each challenge, but we will team up with all the challenge design teams to bring you one combined reminder post mid-month. As usual, you will have until the end of the month to link up, and all challenge winners are published in one post a few days into the next month.

    

     

    

{Spotlight Project} Shirley Plays With Bloom Doodles

Hello peeps! I've been playing with the fabulous new STAMP club set, Bloom Doodles, together with some smooshed card, to create a card using an analogous colour scheme (three to five colours adjacent on the colour wheel).

{Spotlight Project} Monika Rescues a Stencil Experiment

Hello Crafty Friends! Do you know that feeling, when something you thought would look good, just doesn't look right? Well, it happened to me whilst I was playing with one of Sanna's new stencils. The eagle eyed of you might have already spotted her new stencils in the shop; the full range will be introduced with a blog hop next week -- just giving you a little heads up.

Anyway, in the process I discovered that Bloom Doodles, the new stamp club set, had a perfectly matching stamp for a 'rescue attempt'.

October TAGplorations Challenge - All About Fall

Hello, fellow crafters and STAMPlorations friends! We are super excited to get going with our monthly TAGplorations challenge after the summer break. Thank you to all of you who were inspired to craft tag related creations and link them up to our summer challenge. 

This month our theme is All About Fall. As always, we also have an optional twist which this time is all around us in nature at the moment: the glorious colors of red, gold and orange. 

As you can see below, the ladies of the design team have embraced the fall theme and optional colors. We can't wait to see how you are inspired by the theme and the creations from the team and hope you will be inspired to play along with us. Your project can be anything -- from cards to layout pages, ATCs to home decor. Just don't forget to include a tag in your crafty creations in some shape or form!

Theme: All About Fall
Optional color twist: red, gold, and orange
Link back: https://stamplorations.blogspot.com/2018/10/tagplorations-october.html

If you play, make sure you include the graphic above 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.

      

    

{Inspiration Project Post #188}

Hello STAMPlorations Friends! The girls from the Inspiration Team are back this week showcasing stamps designed by our very own Shirley under her label The Bee's Knees. Should you need a nudge to get your Christmas crafting started, today's projects might just be what you're looking for.

All of Shirley's stamp sets will be on sale for the week at 10% off until October 8 - 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. If you don't have a coupon code of your own, simply check out the Inspiration Girls' personal blogs to find one you can use.

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.

 

 

 

CUTplorations October Challenge

Hello STAMPlorations peeps! Long time no see. Thanks for playing along with our summer challenge and sharing your creativity. We're excited to be back to regular programming at the CUTplorations monthly challenge and look forward to seeing how this month's graphic will inspire you to create with die cuts.

image source: Ilaria Bagnasco

Pumpkins? Fall colors? Graphic patterns? Numbers? What will inspire you this month? Let's see how the DT was inspired.