First of all. Ho. My. Gooot-ness.
You all are >>AMAZING<<. Seriously. My heart is overflowing with joy after all the LOVELY comments you left on my last post, introducing my own stamp line.
Thank you. <-- that seems so insufficient, but I truly, truly mean it. I'll be getting around to leaving you all replies shortly.
Today, however, is a new day. And that means a new post. STAMPlorations is starting their monthly challenge. We've switched things up at the challenge and we're now doing a theme and sketch combo. You can choose to use either the sketch OR the theme OR both. And the great thing is, you can use ANY products that you want to participate!
The theme is Stamps and Music and the sketch is funky cool.
For my design team project, I just chose to use the sketch. And folks, it was interesting. Lining things up perfectly is NOT my strong suit. And this has a whole lotta lining up. All you CASxperts out there have some genius magic in you, that's all I'm saying.
Here's my card:
I used one of the new stamp sets, which has some beautiful typography and is perfect for cardmaking or art journaling. This set is called BOLD SENTIMENTS: Discover. The goal was to leave everything black and white, but then I just felt like the JOY needed to jump off the page, so red it was. And then, since I couldn't leave it QUITE as bare as I wanted to, I had to stamp some chevrons from the Mixed Media Grunge set.
My card was very heavily inspired by the PINspirational challenge image and also fits nicely with the AAA Cards challenge, which is to use embossing. ALL the words on this card are heat embossed. Last, but certainly not least, I'm going to send it over to House of Cards for their Stitching challenge.
As for you, go check out the STAMPlorations challenge!
We've got some AWESOME prizes!
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Now. For one last thing. As many of you who are my facebook friends already know, I'm putting on a blog hop October 1-14 right here, at my place. It's called the Hop to Stop and you can read all about it and get more information on the
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
and this hop is designed to raise awareness about domestic violence, an
issue that impacts 1 in 4 women, and the resources that are available to
assist victims of domestic violence.
A linkup for the hop will be posted on October 1 and will close October 14. Prize winners will be announced October 17.
Any type of papercraft/mixed media art project is welcome, as long as it *features* the color purple (domestic violence awareness color).
There are TONS of amazing sponsors for this blog hop, so you don't want to miss out!
For more information about domestic violence, its impacts, and available resources, visit the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence. http://www.nrcdv.org/
For more information about domestic violence, its impacts, and available resources, visit the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence. http://www.nrcdv.org/
