{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.

 

 

 

{NOVEMBER WINNERS}

Hello, STAMP friends! It's the 10th of the month, which means it's time to announce last month's winners! We also have winners of our Never-Ending Anything Goes Challenge and November Inspiration Projects posts, as well as winners of our special posts: Stencil Sunday, Sticker Monday, Christmas in the Air, Throwback Thursday, 25 Days of Christmas Tags Extra, Christmas CUTplorations Redux Hop, and our 5th Giving Thanks Blog Hop and Giveaway. The winners and runners up in our 3 challenges are picked by design team members while all other winners are randomly chosen by Random.org.

An important reminder to challenge players: 

• When playing in our challenges, you must 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. 

• Be mindful of the maximum challenge entries -- the Theme & Photo Prompt Challenge has a limit of 6 entries per player; the CAS Cards Challenge has a limit of 3 entries per player; the Stencil Challenge has no entry limit.

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 use in our main store. 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 (please take the time to read that page).

• Gift certificates and gift codes may not be passed on, given to, or used by another person other than the one it was issued to. 

• If you are a winner, you may opt for a gift code to our digital store. Note, though, that if you choose this, the gift code cannot be combined with other codes, as I use a different e-commerce platform for our digital store. (Products in our outlet store are already heavily discounted so no gift codes will be issued for use on that store.)

Winners, please claim your prize on or before Tuesday, December 24. Prizes not claimed by December 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 November Winner - specific challenge here"

e.g., "STAMPlorations November Winner - CAS Cards Challenge"

"STAMPlorations November Winner - Throwback Thursday"

It also helps if you include what prize you won (a $15/10/5 gift certificate, a $15 coupon code, $10 gift code, etc.) in the body of your email. Also specify if you prefer to use your prize on our main store or digital store. This way I know which code to generate, as codes generated for one store will NOT work on the other store.

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.)

{Sticker Monday} Terri Creates Strikingly Beautiful CAS Cards

Happy Monday, STAMPlorations friends! We're back with Sticker Monday. Every 2nd and 4th Monday of the month, the STAMPgirls will be sharing projects showcasing our line of fun clear stickers. And every month, we'll draw one lucky crafter to win a $15 gift code -- randomly drawn from all comments left on the Sticker Monday posts for the month, as well as from the featured designer's blog.

This month, STAMPgirl Terri is back and she combines our clear stickers, stamps, and stencils to create 3 beautiful and striking CAS cards.

    

{Special Post} STAMPlorations at AAA Cards Challenge

Hey, STAMPlorations friends! I'm popping by to share a few cards for the current challenge over at AAA Cards Challenge, where STAMPlorations is the sponsor! The winner will receive a $15 gift code to apply on products in the store. And because it's an extra long challenge, there's an extra prize too -- another $15 gift code to a randomly drawn player.

For the next 4 weeks, the challenge is to create a CAS card with the "along the edge" theme. There's an optional twist too: time travel.

feat. Fluttery Garden A2 Card Fronts, Thank You Coffee, Art Marks, and Mixed Media Grunge

Many thanks to Jane and the AAA Card Challenge design team for having me and STAMPlorations for this challenge! Please head on over to the challenge blog to play along :o)





PS: I have a couple more cards created but I wasn't able to get them photographed on time. I'll add them as soon as possible :o)

{Spotlight Project} Monika Stamps A Collage Background

Hello STAMPlorations Friends! We all know someone who loves a good brew, be it coffee, tea or chocolate. The new Holiday Lattes Digi Stamps are perfect for making Christmas cards our brew loving friends will enjoy.

Here are today's cards ...

{Inspiration Project Post #244}

Hello STAMPlorations Friends! Welcome to Tuesday's Inspiration Post. The team is back showcasing stamps, dies and stencils 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.

 

 

 

December Stencil Challenge

Hi stencil fans! We have arrived at the start of a new month, and of course, that means it's time for a new STAMPlorations stencil challenge. Thank you for supporting our challenges with your beautiful stencilled creations. Come back to see us on the 10th when we will reveal the November winners.

By now, you will know that our stencil challenge is always anything goes with a stencil. You can create any type of project, including but not limited to, cards, ATCs, art journal pages and anything else your creative minds come up with. Just make sure your creations use at least one stencil in some way. We would love to see how you use your ARTplorations stencils, but you can also use any other brand of stencils. Please don't forget to link back to this blog post, and to include the challenge graphic to be eligible for the prizes. 

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/2019/12/decemberber-stencil-challenge.html

And now it's time to see what the talented design team have come up with to inspire you!

    

    

    

December CAS Cards Challenge

Happy December crafty friends! As always, we loved seeing your gorgeous creations in shades of brown for our November challenge. Every month, we think this must be the best month ever, and then you out-do yourselves the next month all over again. I hope you enjoyed yourselves and that you are inspired for a CAS challenge with a festive twist. Don't forget to check in with us on the 10th when we reveal the winners. We have prizes for the design team favourites as well as randomly drawn prizes too so anyone can be a winner!

This time our optional color twist is, yes you guessed it, Christmas colors. There aren't many rules to keep it easy to play along. You are challenged to create a CAS card with or without the optional color twist. You may enter up to 3 CAS cards. Remember to link to this blog post and display the challenge graphic to be eligible for the prizes. You can use any craft products you want, but if you have STAMPlorations stash, we would love to see what you create with it. And of course the most important rule - have fun!

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/2019/12/cas-challenge-december.html

Now let's see how the ladies in the CAS design team were inspired by the Christmas colors. 

    

      
     

December Theme and Photo Prompt Challenge

Hello, crafty peeps! Welcome to our December Theme and Photo Prompt challenge. We loved your beautiful creations for our November Challenge. Thank you so much for playing along with us! We hope you are not too busy with holiday preparations to play along with us again this month! Don't forget to check in on the 10th to see if you are one of the winners as we have prizes both for design team favourites and randomly drawn prizes too!

Our theme this month is Stamps and Holidays. You are free to interpret that in any way you like! Or maybe you are inspired by our photo prompt instead - the images, the colors, whatever it is, let us know what tickled your crafty mojo. You could even combine the theme and the photo prompt if you are feeling extra adventurous. Remember, you can link up a maximum of 6 projects (any kind!) as long as they're inspired by the theme, the photo, or both. Don't forget that we ask you to include stamping of some kind in your project (rubber, clear or digi stamps are all permitted). We love to see you use your STAMPlorations supplies, but any crafting supplies are allowed. Don't forget to link to this post (find the link below) and make sure you add the challenge graphic to your post to qualify for prizes.

If you play, make sure you include the graphic 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/2019/12/december-challenge.html

The design team have created some amazing works of art to inspire you to play along!