February, the love month

******Hello, this is my third (!) post today. If you are looking for my 1st of the month DT project for Country View you will find it here. The Turner syndrome awareness blog hop post for mid morning is here *********************

Because today is not only
the first of the month but also the first Friday in the month it is also time for my Theme and Sketch Design Team inspiration post for STAMPlorations. February is the month of love and the theme is very apt.

 The lovely sketch you can also work with is below.

The rules in brief are that you need to use stamping on your projects. You don't have to use STAMPlorations stamps to enter but of course we love it if you do! You can link up 6 times with new blog posts and you need to add our logo to your post. You can go with the theme, the sketch or both, the choice is yours. There are some fab prizes to be won too! The details are here

I chose to work with the theme and sketch and this is what I got up to;

I used this really gorgeous stamp set called Romantic expressions 1 Until 14 Feb there is an automatic 15% discount on this set and if you add my unique code STAMPGIRLJANE at the checkout you can get another 20% off! 

I got out my Oxides to make a blended pink background.

I added some water for interest and dried everything off. I added some faux stitching to the edge with a silver pen and stamped one of the sentiments (there are 3 lovely ones in this set) and some of the fun accent stamps. I also distressed the card edge.

I stamped some onto some white heart die cuts and coloured them in with gel pens.

I also added a glitter die cut heart for some extra texture. Here is my finished card

and a close up

I would like to link my card up with the following challenges;

Simon says stamp Monday love is in the air
Moving along with the times 3/3 have a heart

Simon says stamp Wednesday anything goes
Addicted to stamps and more 2/3  anything goes
Crafting from the heart 2/3 anything goes
Die cuttin Divas 2/3 anything goes
Crafty sentiments 2/3 anything goes
Cute card Thursdays 1/3 Valentines
Time out 1/3 photo inspiration I was inspired by all those fab hearts!
Craft Stamper take it make it 1/3 February

It would be lovely to see you joining us this month. Here is the link again. Remember the extra 20% savings, on top of any other discount being offered, on any order over at the STAMPlorations web site here just by using my code; STAMPGIRLJANE at the checkout. Shery ships internationally at very reasonable rates. 

Enjoy your February. At last the days will start to get lighter...hooray!

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

The return of the theme and sketch challenge for STAMPlorations

I am delighted that today is the day that the theme and sketch challenge restarts over at STAMPlorations after our summer break. Please check out all the rules over at the main blog post here. In brief you need to use stamping on your projects. You don't have to use STAMPlorations stamps to enter but of course we love it if you do! You can link up 6 times with new blog posts and you need to add our logo to your post. You can go with the theme, the sketch or both, the choice is yours.

For October our theme is autumn

 and the sketch is this lovely one.

I chose to work with both the theme and sketch for my card.

The products I used were autumn falling stencil, 

stitched hills CUTplorations die

winged things stamps

and 

fond expressions 2 stamps

So this is what I got up to;

I chose some very autumnal distress inks

 and laid down some colour.

 I then took my stencil and added repeats of the colours until I got this cool background

 and used this to die cut my base using the stitched hills dies.

I then stamped and gold embossed the butterflies and stamped the sentiment. 

Here is my finished card. 

and one last shot

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges;

Addicted to stamps and More 1/3 make your mark

Crafteezee 1/3 leaves

The Artistic stamper 1/3 inktober

And yes of course I didn't waste the other part of my stenciled leaves page..I used a sentiment from 

wanderlust expressions 1

to make a second card as a reverse!

Here is the link again to the challenge, good luck!

Remember that you can also get 20% off all the products on the website if you use my code STAMPGIRLJANE ......now there's an offer your can't refuse.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x