STAMPlorations inspiration #319

Welcome to another Tuesday inspiration post from the STAMPlorations inspiration team girls. 

I recently picked up some Decotime Twinmarkers alcohol markers at the local "dollar store" and decided to play with them for my inspiration posts in May.

For today's card I used markers to add some color to a die cut - a cover plate actually. 

Zen Doodled Birthday Cake Cover plate

alcohol markers

Besides adding color to the die cut, the only other thing I did was add the scalloped PP strip down the side to hide the edge I'd trimmed off.

You could win yourself a $15 prize code to the store by leaving a comment on this month's inspiration posts! Check out today's post over at STAMPlorations. And if I should ever inspire you to order something from the store, I'd appreciate it if you used my STAMPGIRLMARIA discount code for an additional 20% off your order - at no extra cost to you, just with perks for me ;)

hello birthday girl

I'm working on turning things I actually colored this during Kathy Rac's last coloring challenge into cards.

I turned the watercolor panel, which I actually colored with Polychromos, into a card. Just added a big, bold die cut sentiment.

Suzy Plantamura watercolor card

SSS Big Hello die

colored pencils, white gel pen

Love the vibrancy set off against the black and white.  I'm hooking up at SSS Wednesday Challenge where it's about Dies and/or Punches. Hope your week is going well.

STAMPlorations inspiration #318

Welcome to another Tuesday inspiration post from the STAMPlorations inspiration team girls. 

I recently picked up some Decotime Twinmarkers alcohol markers at the local "dollar store" and decided to play with them for my inspiration posts in May.

First up, an oldie but goodie design and a great way to either use up cardstock scraps or create your own colors of cardstock.

Bloomfully Wonderful stamp

Trendy Spring Blooms stamp

alcohol markers

Trim strips of white cardstock. Color them with markers. Stamp image on cardfront using stamp positioner and leave stamp on positioner. Adhere strips. Line card up in positioner and stamp image again. Add sentiment.

You could win yourself a $15 prize code to the store by leaving a comment on this month's inspiration posts! Check out today's post over at STAMPlorations. And if I should ever inspire you to order something from the store, I'd appreciate it if you used my STAMPGIRLMARIA discount code for an additional 20% off your order - at no extra cost to you, just with perks for me ;)

cas cards challenge may reminder

Hi there! Have you played in the STAMPlorations May CAS Cards challenge yet? 

As always the challenge is to create any CAS card, with an optional color twist - this month it's an interesting one - copper and yellow!

Here's my second card.

See all that lovely sparkle and shine of the embossing?

Art Marks 3 stamp

Bloomin Coffee and You stamp

Catherine Pooler inks, copper embossing powder

Some masking, stamping and heat embossing, that's it!

CAS card tip: Go wild with stamping, but only stamp a portion of your card panel

For more inspiration with this stamp check out this post. 

I'm looking forward to your CAS card creations! Your project might be chosen as one of the prize winners. Check out how the DT was inspired by this month's photo here.

And don't forget about my STAMPlorations discount code STAMPGIRLMARIA for 20% off should I ever inspire you to do some shopping ;)  Thanks for stopping over today. See you in the gallery. 

spotlight on flexi templates

Hi friends. Check out my tutorial over at STAMPlorations where I used the oval flexi templates as stencils to create a masterboard which I then used to make four cards! Here are the first two.

I'm hooking up at SSS Wednesday where it's about Stencils and also at ATSAM where it's about Stencils and/or Dies and I've used both!

STAMPlorations introducing spring coffee kit

There's a new product in town. Over at the STAMPlorations shop. Have you seen it? Shery is putting together kits at a great price point.

Today a few of my teamies and I are sharing our makes with the new Spring Coffee Kit. Ready?

The kit contains an image stamp, sentiment stamps and stencils (2 patterns each in large and mini). All you have to decide is...

Do you want to color? Then go for it. Color and fussy cut the image and pop it up on a background created by randomly stamping one of the sentiments.

Spring Coffee Kit

alcohol markers, washi tape

In case you're interested, I watched this video before coloring my coffee (yes I was intimidated by that big expanse of brown!) Easy peasy.

If you're not into coloring, use the mini stencil and a circle mask to "color" the coffee. I added some blue touches with alcohol markers but you wouldn't even have to. I heat embossed one of the kit sentiments in blue but didn't like it so I then stamped over it in black and clear embossed it.

Spring Coffee Kit

circle die, Distress Inks, alcohol markers, embossing powder

And then there's this method for getting color onto a B/W stamped image. Check out this post for the deets. Basically it involves stamping, applying embossing paste and then sponging ink.

Spring Coffee Kit

Just Caffeinate clear stickers

clear embossing paste, Distress Inks, enamel dots

So, that's a wrap. Are you a fan of kits? Be sure to check out all the DT's creations over at the STAMP blog. And be sure to leave a comment, Shery's giving away a kit.

Please remember to use my STAMPGIRLMARIA code if I inspire you to place an order. You'll get an extra 20% off!

Appreciate your visit. Have a great day. I'm hooking up card #1 over at SSS Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes.

cas cards challenge may

Welcome to the STAMPlorations May CAS Cards challenge. Yep, May already.

As always the challenge is to create any CAS card, with an optional color twist - this month it's an interesting one - copper and yellow!

Here's my first card.

See all that lovely sparkle and shine of the embossing?

Bloomfully Remember stamp

Noteworthy 2 stamp (50% off)

Decotime alcohol markers, copper embossing powder

Some heat embossing, some coloring with alcohol markers, some fussy cutting and some washi.

CAS card tip: Color only a portion of an image, or fussy cut and pop up only a portion of an image to keep things CAS.

For more inspiration with this stamp check out this post. 

I'm looking forward to your CAS card creations! Your project might be chosen as one of the prize winners. Check out how the DT was inspired by this month's photo here.

And don't forget about my STAMPlorations discount code STAMPGIRLMARIA for 20% off should I ever inspire you to do some shopping ;)  Thanks for stopping over today. See you in the gallery. 

I'm joining in at Always Fun - CAS Cards  and ATSAM - Any Occasion.