Thursday, June 26, 2014

STAMPlorations birthday blog hop


STAMPlorations turns a year old this month and we're celebrating with a blog hop! We're also releasing the new stamps for July, so it's a double celebration. The other STAMPlorations girls and I are sharing projects we created that feature the new stamps. And we've got five talented card makers celebrating with us too!

Visit all the stops on the hop and leave a comment for a chance to win stamps. Shery's giving away over $120 worth of stamps!

Take a gander at the graphic of all six new stamp sets up top. See the set on the far right? It's called VIGNETTE: It's your day. This is what I did with it.


Inked up the wonky cake two-toned and stamped my BG. Heat embossed the subway art sentiment square as is (you could selectively ink it to use the sentiments individually too) onto blue CS and trimmed a square of vellum to offset behind it. Layed down some silver metallic thread strung with sequins before adhering the sentiment with foam adhesive. I added a smidgen of glue behind most of the sequins to keep them where I wanted them ;)

So here are the deets. Fourteen (14) lucky hoppers randomly drawn from the designers' blogs will each win a stamp set - here on my blog you can win the VIGNETTE: Chevron and Arrows set which I personally love.


And one lucky hopper randomly drawn from the STAMPlorations blog will win ALL six stamps in the July release. You have until Wednesday, July 2, 11:55 p.m. PDT to comment here and on my fellow DTs' posts for your chance to win. Winners will be announced Sunday, July 6 on the STAMPlorations blog. BTW, if you love a good deal, Shery's got one going on for the new release. And starting July 7, I'll be doing another "Exploration STAMPlorations" series with the new release so do come back.

Stops on the hop:

Design Team:
Cornelia | Debra | Kylie | Maria | Monika | Nonni | Shery | Shirley | Vicki

Guest Designers :
Ardyth | Chrissie | Deepti | Melissa | Mynn

Happy hopping and good luck! 


Supplies for it'syour day:
Paper:  CS Bringmann
Stamps: STAMPlorations
Ink : Hero Arts, Versamark
Tools:
Other: white embossing powder (Stampendous), metallic thread, sequins

61 comments:

Eemeli said...

Great one. Love the double-colored stamping on the background. Nice hop too...

Hugs,
Eemeli

Rahmat said...

I really like how you created the background, and also the colors you chose to do it!

Deepti Stephens said...

Great card, love the color combo a lot.. :)

New Creations said...

The colours on this one are great!!! I love the cupcake dual colour stamping. And the highlight is the blue sentiments stamped piece!!!

Sari / Granne said...

Pretty card, love the colours. Thanks for the hop.

Unknown said...

I agree with other posts...The colors are wonderful! Cure card.

Tracey McNeely said...

The colours are amazing Maria, your background is the bomb!

Chrissie said...

What super colours, I just love that background!
Chrissie x

Irish Cherokee said...

Very different but love it. creative and a perfect celebratory birthday card. Love those colors too.

Julie B said...

Love those colours, those sequins just add that little hint of sparkle. :)

Craft-E-Place said...

Brilliant!
Elaine

Helen J said...

Very effective background, great card/

Indy's Designs said...

Like those sentiments and colors!

Virginia L. said...

FABULOUS! Love the image with your sentiment and strings with sequins!

zub momi said...

Fabulous card! Love the colors used and the sequins idea :)

Victoria Lavender said...

Like the cupcakes as a background. Neat and nifty. Cheers, Victoria Lavender

CyndyBr7 said...

I seldom think to use a large stamp for a background - the cupcakes are great for a celebration card. Thanks for the great idea!

lbwright22-loopylou said...

LOVE the stamped background with the dual colours. Great text too.
Happy 1st birthday to stamplorations :-)

Graciellie Design said...

Super fun birthday card! Lovely sets. That cupcake stamp is a must have. Would love to win and try them out!

Gracie
gracielliedesign blogspot com

Jane said...

Like how you created the cupcake background.

Lynda said...

Love the cupcake set! Great card for a teen's birthday.

Vicki Dutcher said...

Super fun focal stamping~

Nancy Seed said...

Great job and love the colours.

Sarah G said...

Stunning! Love the background stamping and colour combo - very cool!

siljia said...

The cupcake dual colour stamping look nice

Lisa's Creative Niche said...

Love that background!

Cornelia (fun stamping) said...

Cool and wonky background! Like those stringed up sequins!

ionabunny said...

All these cakes are starting to make me hungry! Gorgeous card. Super useful sentiments

Happy Dance said...

Really a fun card, Maria. Love those wonky cakes! Very cool to use this one as a bg. Have a great weekend. Bev

Mynn xx said...

This is awesome! I LOVE the blue and green together and I adore the string and sequin treatment, too! So happy to be hopping with you! HUGS! Mynn xx

Susan (rainy) said...

Great card. Lovin' the sequins and that fun wonky image!

Kim Heggins said...

Fabulous card! I love that cake and what you did with it, so creative. I love how you showcased your sentiment too, just gorgeous.

pcm said...

fun! happy birthday to stamplorations!

Nikki said...

This card is alot of fun love the way you stamped the cake all over

sharpstamps said...

Blue and green is always my favourite colour combo. Lovely card.

Aileen said...

Great card, I am so in love with the two tier cake, so much inspiration.

Gerrina said...

What an original card! Love the colours and the tread!

cm said...

First: I am light years behind in commenting on your amazing cards, and I fully plan to catch up, so stay tuned. I'm parachuting in here to say you've worked magic with these stamps; eye-catching background (that wonky cake makes me smile!) and a charming sentiment cluster. Such a gorgeous showcase of the new release AND your creativity! Fabulous!
~c

Kim M said...

Wonderful card! Love the colours and the silver thread with the sequins is great! :-)

BożenA said...

Great card. Great stamps. I hope that I win lottery :-)

Deepti said...

This is gorgeous, I love the color you used for the background and that gold string with sequins is so amazing !

Lilian said...

I loved the colors you used on the card!

Riette said...

Awesome background and focal spot!
xxx
Riette

Kristie Goulet said...

Great background and design.

Parker said...

I like the color combo of blue and green, and also using the cake for you background.

Monika Reeck said...

I really love how you combine blue and green on the stamping background what a brilliant idea dear Maria..loveeee love this idea will try it one day ..and I have order to Sherry my first stamplorations stamp...love all her stamp all looks vintage and easy to use to each card occasion...your card is adorable Maria...you have a great idea...and Love this HOP too..

Kathy Schweinfurth said...

Great background!! I will definitely have to try that - it looks amazing!

My Paper Epiphany said...

Very original and I love it!

Taunya Butler said...

Super card!! Incredibly creative!! Love all the perfect details you added!!

Kathy Krug said...

Great background for the sentiment.

Sally Richardson said...

What a great card! I havent seen one quite like it before.. Thanks so much for sharing a great background idea with us all.
Sally - ps.. love these new stamp sets!

cebelica said...

This is awesome. I love the background and the sentiment is great too. Fab work! Hugs! xx

hellerlittle said...

eine tolle Kombination von Farben, Text und Muffins (yummy)
TFS
LG hellerlittle

Alica said...

very cool - great way to show the versatility of the stamp!

Flo said...

this is a pretty birthday card!!! Love it.

joy said...

Love this birthday card! Blue and green are one of my favorite combos and you have used the stamps beautifully!!

AlisonC said...

What an interesting and usual card. I would not have thought of stringing sequins.

Judys said...

Love the creativity of your card. Any Birthday Gal would love to get this!

MonikaRose said...

Beautiful card. Love the background, so cheerful and yummy. Thank you for chance to win this set of stamps...would love to own one...great blog hop :)

Denise Bryant said...

Great color combo! Fun card!

~ginny said...

Maria - I like the metallic thread and sequins idea - creative! Happy Birthday STAMPlorations!
~ginny

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