Elegant Wedding Card

Challenge time, challenge time, let's all go for a challenge time. *humming*

I'm always in a good mood when I have a great challenge to play along with and today is no exception.  STAMPlorations Theme & Sketch challenges are back for the year after a short summer nap. 

This month our theme is Stamps & Two Colors and here's the sketch: 

 

For my design, I used an embossed card base and watercolored in the florals with a light shade of pink and a shimmery blue. 

Then I used the CUTplorations Forever Word die in a shimmery gold and added some gold splatters. 

OOOO! I'd say that is all sorts of elegant and a perfect design for a CAS wedding card.

This guy is also going to play along at Tuesday Throwdown's Clean and Simple challenge.
 I hope you'll come play along in our STAMPloration challenges! 

It's my NEW STAMP RELEASE: Funny Kinda Love + GIVEAWAY

AAAAAhhhhh! I'm beyond excited to share my latest stamp set release for STAMPlorations with you all today!

I wanted to design something with a little bit of snarky attitude (who me?!) and I also was lacking in the love department. Well... let me rephrase that... my stamp collection was lacking in the love department. With all of the weddings I've attended recently and with Valentine's Day on the horizon, I thought this would be the PERFECT set.

Introducing: A Funny Kinda Love!

The great thing about this set is that you can choose to have nice, elegant cards, or you can choose to add a little spunk to your sentiments with the sentiment builder format.

Here are some examples:

Nice, elegant design:

This card is going to the Try it on Tuesday: Handmade by You challenge 

To snarky and sassy design: 

This card was made using the DCWV stackaholic challenge card sketch, the Violet Leaf and Foiled Vellum paper stacks.

I also had fun playing with rainbow splashes of color: 

 

This card is going to Come and Get It's Make Um Laugh challenge

 And this card is going to: Tuesday Throwdown: Add a Border challenge. 

GIVEAWAY ALERT!!!
Want a chance to win this set for your very own OR a $20 gift certificate? Leave a comment below AND a comment on the STAMPlorations blog by November 1 for an entry to win!  

While you're at it - check out the other 3 AWESOME stamp sets being released this week and - hey! - if you purchase this set this week in the STAMPlorations store, you get 10% off your order which means it's only $10.80. Can't get much better than that!

Wedding Season!- Stamped Wedding Card

I don't know about you, but I've depleted my stock of wedding cards pretty quickly this summer. It seems like everyone and their dogs are merrily walking down an aisle somewhere. Meanwhile, I am happily walking down the aisle of my local craft store to pick up more supplies for wedding season.

This card was inspired by the latest STAMPlorations theme and sketch challenge. Every month we give  you a new theme & a new sketch. You can choose to use either the sketch or the theme OR both - so many options! And you DO NOT have to use STAMPlorations products to play along.  So get creating already. 

This month's theme is Stamps & Stars, and I chose to ignore that altogether. Instead, I got all rebellious with the sketch by using the basic outline and adding a couple more layers. hehe. 

>>I'm such a rebel.<<

Here it is in all its glittery glory! I think it turned out oh-so-elegant. 

Supplies List - STAMPS: STAMPlorations Vignette: Ever After, PAPER: Recollections,
RIBBON: Verve Signature Ribbon Collection. EMBELLISHMENTS: BoBunny

I hope I'll see your project in the STAMPlorations challenge gallery this month! We've got some AWESOMESAUCE prizes for the winning creations. 

Speaking of challenges - I'm going to play along in some too!
Aud Sentiments - For a Girl + Sentiment
Crafty Gals Corner - Lots of Layers

P.S. - while you're over at the STAMPlorations blog, check out my very first piece of blackout poetry on this Spotlight post. 

 
Blackout poetry is something I've long admired and never undertaken. Let me know what you think!
 

Here Comes the Bride - STAMPlorations Sketch Challenge

Da dun da dun, DA dunnn dun dun, Da DA DA DA da da da dun dun duuuuun. <-Insert music notes here. 

I hate to tell you this folks, but wedding season is almost upon us! It's that magical time of year when you are forced to sit through 3 hours of droning love speeches from people you marginally know, all because your father would be very disappointed in you if you missed your second-cousin-thrice-removed's special day.

Ahem... woops... sorry about that. I let my real thoughts out there for a minute. What I meant to type is. Wedding season is upon us! It's that magical time of year when you get to celebrate life-long happiness, roll in flowers, and sing kumbaya with your family and close friends! Hooray!!

It's the announcement of a new STAMPlorations sketch and it's a pretty good one. At first I was a little bit stumped, but then I pulled out the lover dover silhouettes from Vignette: Ever After and had a lightbulb moment!

Here's the sketch I was following:

 

It's not my typical layout style (lots and lots of layers) so I stared at it for a good while... until the circles started taking magical shapes and I realized I was ruining my only pair of good eyes. 

But then I just started stamping and I love the way my finished card turned out!

I would just like to mention, DON'T try to copy this card unless you want to spend an hour cursing out tiny little seed pearls that keep flipping onto their fronts instead of their backs in the glue. :D

Anywho - you should all play along with this one! Head on over to STAMPlorations!

There's lots of cool prizes to be won! 

And we've got some AMAZINGLY talented guest designers working with us this month:

Asha, Sandie, and Milla!

I'm also linking this card up to support the following awesome challenges:

Sentimental Sundays - Anything Goes plus a sentiment

Tuesday Throwdown - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by! I'm still trying to hop my way along the Coffee Lover's Blog Hop, so if I haven't been by, know that I will do so soon!