{SPECIAL EVENT} Celebrate National Coloring Book Day with the STAMPlorations Girls + Download the Color Blooms Page Sampler & Link Up!

Hey, STAMPlorations friends! Today is National Coloring Book Day and we're celebrating here on the blog! The STAMPlorations girls took out their favorite coloring mediums and started coloring a page from COLOR BLOOMS, our first coloring book for grownups -- specially created for the cardmaker, crafter, and mixed media artist in you!

We'd love for you to celebrate this event too so we've made the Color Blooms page sampler available for everyone to download, print, and color! And for a chance to win a copy of the Color Blooms coloring book, simply share a photo of the Color Blooms page sampler that you've colored and link it up at the end of this post. The linky is open until Sunday, August 7, so you have plenty of time to have some coloring fun!

Here are samples of how the STAMPlorations girls colored the pages in Color Blooms.

TANJA
Tanja used Inktense pencils, Stabillo All pencil, and Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors to color her page.

DEEPTI

Deepti used Sharpie markers to color the dogwood.

She used Kuratake Gansai Tambi (left) and Twinkling H2O (right) to color the rest of the flowers on the same page.

  

LAURAJANE

LauraJane used Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens to color the dahlia.

KIM
Kim used Spectrum Noir markers to color the sunflower.


Then she used regular Crayola markers to color the zinnias.


SHIRLEY
Shirley used Distress inks as watercolors to color the page: top right DI direct on paper; bottom left, DI on clear gesso.


Then she used Tombow markers and Distress markers to color the page: 


Top right, Tombow markers applied direct on paper; bottom left, applied on clear gesso.


Top left, Distress markers applied direct on paper; bottom right, applied on clear gesso.

LINDA
Linda used Inktense pencils (with a touch of water) to color her page.


MONIKA
Monika used Promarkers to color her page.


JULIE
Julie used Marvy LaPlume felt pens (top left), Conte A Paris Pastel pencils (top right), Daler Downey watercolor pans (bottom left), and Copic alcohol markers (bottom right) to color her page.


LYNNE
Lynne used inkagold as paints to color the dogwood page.


And she used oil pastels to color the daffodil page.


MELISSA
Melissa used Inktense pencils to color the seashell cosmos.


TENIA
Tenia used Marvy Uchida watercolor crayons to color her page.


SHERY
Shery used Cretacolor Aquarelle Oil Pastels to color the zinnias.

She used BIC Marking permanent markers to color this page.


On the page featuring the seashell cosmos, she used Chameleon pens.



And here are samples of how the STAMPlorations girls colored the Color Blooms page sampler. (You'll be able to download the sampler and color it too!)

KAROLA
Karola used Distress inks.


MARILYNN
MariLynn used Crayola markers.


SHERY
Shery used Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens to color the page sampler printed on mixed media paper.

Come celebrate National Coloring Book Day with us by downloading the Color Blooms page sampler. Just click on the download graphic.

Download here
(Having trouble downloading? No worries! Just email sheryruss@gmail.com and the sampler will be on its way to you.)

For a chance to win a copy of Color Blooms, simply print out the sampler, color it with your medium(s) of choice, and share a photo of the colored sampler in your blog. Then link it up below on or before Sunday, August 7, 11:55 p.m. Pacific (GMT-7).

Want another chance to win? Visit our Facebook page -- like, comment, tag a friend, and share the post we have on there about our coloring event!

Happy coloring!

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Get Ready for the Color Blooms Blog Hop + Download the Color Blooms Page Sampler

Hey, STAMPlorations friends! We hope you're having a great weekend. The STAMPlorations girls are gearing up for another fun blog hop to end August. We've got our coloring mojo on and we can't wait to share projects featuring pages from COLOR BLOOMS, the coloring book created for the cardmaker, crafter, and/or mixed media artist in you!

If you participated in the National Coloring Book Day event we hosted earlier this month, get that sampler page you colored ready because we'd love to see what you make out of it!

And if you missed out on that one, never fear -- we're giving everyone a head start by making the Color Blooms page sampler available before the Color Blooms hop starts Wednesday. This way, you can make a project out of it that you can link up as soon as the hop starts!

Download the Color Blooms page sampler by clicking on the download graphic below.

Download here
(Having trouble downloading? No worries! Just email sheryruss@gmail.com and the sampler will be on its way to you.)

For a chance to win a $15 gift certificate plus a copy of Color Blooms, simply print out the sampler, color it with your medium(s) of choice, create a project out if it, and then blog about it! Then come back on August 31 to link it up to the Color Blooms linky party gallery. The linky will be open from August 31 to September 6.

{Inspiration and Last Call!} COLOR BLOOMS Blog Hop & Linky Party

Hey, STAMPlorations friends! The Color Blooms Blog Hop & Linky Party ends tomorrow night -- have you hopped yet and checked out the amazing projects the STAMPlorations girls created using pages from our first coloring book?

We also have a Color Blooms page sampler for you to download, print, and color if you'd like to join us in the linky party! The projects entered to the linky are simply gorgeous. Even if you've no plan (or time) to color and create with the page sampler, I invite you to check out the gallery and see how our fellow crafters/cardmakers/mixed media artists have used the page in their projects -- you will be amazed and inspired!

When Kathryn unwrapped Douglas, the first thing she
did was hug and kiss him. 

I wasn't able to join the girls last week because I had been busy preparing for my little girl's birthday. She turned one year old last August 29 :o)

I had pages all colored up but no time to get a project or two done in time. Normally I'd push myself to get something done but last week I didn't -- and I wasn't even stressed about it. Why? Well, you've seen the amazing projects the girls did! As I was preparing that post and adding their projects, I was telling myself, "They've got this!" I'm so proud to have incredibly creative and talented women in my design team :o)

Anyway, earlier today while the Kat was napping, I was able to squeeze in some craft time and made a card and an art block.

  

First, the card. I tore out the page with the large daffodils and colored the blooms with Caran d'Ache Fancolor pencils. I cut out the upper left and pasted it onto card stock. Next, I ran the card stock through my Cuttlebug and die-cut a panel using the medium rectangle from the CUTplorations Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle dies. Then I cut the panel with one of the new CUTplorations Stitched Snow Hills dies. I adhered the panels to the card base with foam tape, leaving a gap between the 2 panels for a little interest. I finished the card by die-cutting the sentiment (CUTplorations Hello word die) twice: orange craft foam and watercolor paper (which I then colored black). Here's the card again:

And now for the art block. I used the Color Blooms page sampler that I colored from our National Coloring Book Day event in August.

I have a box full of wood blocks in various sizes that my father-in-law helped me cut ages ago. They're all gesso-ed up and ready to use. I found one that was 4" wide by 4.5" tall. 

I painted the sides with orange acrylic paint and when it was dry, I stamped some grungy newsprint (Mixed Media Grunge) for faux texture. Next, I cut the page to size and stuck it onto the block with matte gel medium. I used a black marker (Faber-Castell PITT artist pen) to create a border around the block. On tissue paper, I stamped the sentiment (Blossom Like a Butterfly) then decoupaged it onto the block. I sealed the block with more matte gel medium and the art block is done. Here it is again:

I hope my two projects inspire you to color! Remember there's a little over 24 hours left to either hop and/or link up to the Color Blooms Blog Hop & Linky Party. We'll be drawing THREE winners of gift certificates and a copy of the Color Blooms coloring book. All the details are here.

By the way, COLOR BLOOMS is now available to buy on the shop -- it's here. If you live outside the US, you can buy Color Blooms from the Amazon site that is closest to you in order to save on shipping. (We offer a flat shipping rate but encourage you to buy your copy from an Amazon site if shipping is cheaper. Amazon links to 10 countries (UK, Canada, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, and Spain) where Color Blooms is available are found on the product page. If you have a group or are hosting a coloring book party, volume discounts are available for 10 copies or more.

Happy coloring!

COLOR BLOOMS Blog Hop & Linky Party with the STAMPlorations Girls

Hey, STAMPlorations friends! We're back with another fun hop and linky party. The STAMPlorations girls took out their favorite coloring mediums and colored a page from COLOR BLOOMS, our first coloring book for grownups -- specially created for the cardmaker, crafter, and mixed media artist in you! Then they took the pages they colored and used it in projects. We hope you'll be inspired as you visit each designer's blog and read about the coloring mediums they used and how they created their projects.

Before we show you the projects, let's mention the prizes for blog hop and linky party participants:

• ONE (1) commenter randomly drawn from our Facebook page will win a $10 gift certificate for herself and a $10 gift certificate for one friend she tags in her comment
• ONE (1) commenter randomly drawn from all comments left here on the blog and designers' blogs will win a $10 gift certificate
• ONE (1) participant randomly drawn from the linky party entries will win a copy of Color Blooms and a $15 gift certificate to the STAMPlorations shop

So for a shot at the prizes:

• like, comment, and tag a friend on our Facebook page post
• comment here and on the designers’ blogs
• participate in the linky party by downloading the Color Blooms page sampler, creating a project out of it, and then linking it up on or before Tuesday, September 6.

Ready to be inspired to color? Here you go!

TANJA

Tanja colored the page with the large dahlias and then used the page as the background of her mixed media tag.

 

LYNNE
Lynne colored the sunflower page and created four cards.

 

KIM

Kim colored the page with the large sunflowers and used it to create a card.

 

MELISSA

Melissa colored the page with the large sunflowers and created four cards out of it.

 

DEEPTI

Deepti colored the dogwood page and used it to create a gift tag.

  

SUCHI

Suchi colored the page with the large dahlias and created five cards out of it.

 

MARILYNN

MariLynn colored the dahlia page and used it to create a bookmark, a wall hanging and two cards.

    

LAURAJANE

LauraJane colored the dogwood page and used it in a card.

MARIA

Maria colored the dahlia page and used it to create four cards (two of them for the hop).

   

LISA

Lisa colored two of the sunflower pages and created five cards out of them.

 

JULIE

Julie colored the sunflower page and used it to create a card.

 

MONIKA

Monika colored the sunflower and zinnia page and used it to create four cards.

  

SHIRLEY

Shirley colored the dahlia page and used it to create a card.

 

TENIA

Tenia colored the zinnia page and used it to create a card.

 

KSENIJA
Ksenija colored two pages (the daffodils and sunflower pages) and used them to create two cards.

 

 

Now it's your turn!

Download the Color Blooms page sampler by clicking on the download graphic below.

Download here
(Having trouble downloading? No worries! Just email sheryruss@gmail.com and the sampler will be on its way to you.)

For a chance to win a $15 gift certificate plus a copy of Color Blooms, simply print out the sampler, color it with your medium(s) of choice, and create a project out if it. Blog about it and link it up to the Color Blooms linky party below. The linky is open until Tuesday, September 6, 11:55 p.m. Pacific.

Edited to add: If you do have the Color Blooms coloring book, feel free to use the pages there for projects you link up here :o)

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