STAMPlorations 5th Birthday Celebration

I'm thrilled to be joining the fun with STAMPlorations celebrating their 5th Birthday.  I have been designing with STAMPlorations products for three years and love using them.  You can click on over to the STAMPlorations Blog to see my Stamp Girl feature post.  There are lots of ways to win prizes during this month-long celebration, … Read more

I’ll Bolt the Door

I had to join the fun at the semi-annual Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.  Kudos to Amy T for all the work she puts into this massive blog hop. I created a relatively mono-chromatic CAS design using stamps from STAMPlorations Mixed Media Elements and Good Books & Coffee. The layout is this week's CAS(E) this Sketch.

Oh darling, but what if you fly?

The theme for all challenges at STAMPlorations for May is Celebrating Spring with Things with Wings.   Remember, if you use my code at checkout – STAMPGIRLSTEPHANIE — when you shop at the STAMPlorations store, you get 20% off stamps, stencils and dies.   For my second CAS Challenge Card design, I paired the CUTplorations Flutter Zen … Read more

STAMPlorations Cupcake Inspiration Challenge

STAMPlorations is sponsoring the current Cupcake Inspiration Challenge, and I was thrilled to have the chance to design a card.   Remember, if you use my code at checkout – STAMPGIRLSTEPHANIE — when you shop at the STAMPlorations store, you get 20% off stamps, stencils and dies.   It's a Color Challenge to create with Pastels.  This … Read more

STAMPlorations Things With Wings

The May Challenge theme at STAMPlorations is Things with Wings.  Remember, if you use my code at checkout – STAMPGIRLSTEPHANIE — when you shop at the STAMPlorations store, you get 20% off stamps, stencils and dies. Spring to me is when I see my first Cardinal … so I created a card using the Framed Cardinal … Read more

An ORANGE in your Stocking

Did you get an orange in your stocking when you were young?  We always got a big naval orange (which was a wonderful winter treat), a red delicious apple and a glass bottle of Coca Cola (which pretty much filled-up the stocking). At Jingle Belles, we're still making cards inspired by this lovely orange and … Read more

CUTplorations Phrase Dies

I am thrilled to have the opportunity to design for the new Say It Big Phrase Die release at STAMPlorations. The new Dies are also perfect for the April Challenge … FOCUS on the SENTIMENTS. Shery is the queen of the word dies, and I particularly like how she has welded these sentiments into a … Read more

Hug in a Mug

STAMPlorations is hosting the AAA Cards Challenge where the theme is Die Cuts ONLY. STAMPlorations has lots of fun CUTplorations dies … I used three different dies in my design. I started with die cutting my tag from Tag O'Coffee CUTplorations from a scrap of watercolor paper … then the Mug (also from Tag O'Coffee) … Read more

Mixed Media Thanks

We're still creating with Silver at the January STAMPlorations CAS Challenge. I used the CUTplorations Thanks Word Die with Silver Glitter Adhesive Fun foam (gives you both easy adhesion and the perfect thickness of dimension).   I had fun creating my background using four different stamps from the STAMPlorations Mixed Media Elements – October 2015 … Read more

Be Fearless

The optional color challenge for January at the STAMPlorations CAS Challenge is … Silver. I decided to play with silver glitter paper and CUTplorations for my card.  I only removed a few pieces from the die cut Flutter Zen Butterfly and left the rest of the pieces attached for wonderful texture. I combined the CUTplorations … Read more