A spring fling hop and linky party over at STAMPlorations

Good morning! Today I am a part of the delightful Spring fling blog hop and linky party taking part over at STAMPlorations. You can find all the details here

There are some really amazing prizes to be won; just check this out!

THREE winners of $10 gift code drawn from comments left on the main blog and designers' blogs

TWO winners of STAMPlorations product with a value of up to $10 drawn from comments left on the main blog and designers' blogs

TWO winners of her choice of STAMPlorations product with a value of up to $15 drawn from entries in the linky party

ONE winner of $25 gift code drawn from entries in the linky party

Commenting and linking up end on Sunday, May 31, with winners announced on June 10 in the May winners post.

Also throughout May, products in the SPRING FLING section are 15% off instantly plus if you use my unique code STAMPGIRLJANE code (you can always get 20% off using this code anytime), you could get up to 35% off. WOW! 

Here is the link to Spring Fling section in the store:

For my project today I used;

bloom doodled trio stencil,

  Grateful flutters stamp set

with the lovely new April showers stickers

This is what I got up to;
I made a background using distress ink sprays

and added crackle paste through the stencil. This stencil is one of the new square ones and the details are awesome.

 This is it wet

Below is it dried. I then added some more picked raspberry distress ink to the crackles

I stamped a few butterflies onto inky mop up card and
  stuck down the sticker onto a piece of vellum and then edged it with gold pen.

Then it was time to put my card together. You can see I also added some sparkly twine and a couple of flower brads.

Here are a couple of close ups;

Remember if you use my unique code STAMPGIRLJANE at the check out you can get an additional 20% off on top of any existing discounts and be sure to check out
 all the details here for this hop and linky party!

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Totally tropical over at STAMPlorations

Hello I am back again with my 2nd post today as it is of course also the start of the new STAMPlorations theme and photo prompt challenge for May. This month our theme is stamps and tropical and this is the photo prompt.

All the details of the challenge can be found here.

You can choose to go with the tropical theme, go with something from the photo; perhaps the colours or image..or as I always love to challenge myself to do...both. If it is not obvious please just let us know in your post. Please remember to add our challenge logo to your post if you would like to be in with a chance of winning.

I worked with the following awesome products and have added live links to them in my post. Remember if you use my unique code STAMPGIRLJANE at the check out you can get an additional 20% off on top of any existing discounts! Shery ships internationally at very low cost too.

This is what I got up to using these gorgeous STAMP products.

Grateful flutters

True North

and Wanderlust expressions 1

with
anchors away stencil

and the smallest die in the crazy double stitched rectangle die set

This is what I got up to.

First I created an inky spray background using ink distress ink sprays and added a little silver spray too

 I applied crackle paste thought the stencil. You will see the awesome crackle in a photo further down. 

 I created the focal on my stitched rectangle die cut with my stamps and then paper pieced the butterflies. 

I cut down the stencilled panel, just look a that coracle with the anchors! I wound round some bakers's twine and then matted up my card.

Here is is

It would be great to see you joining in with the fun and perhaps you might even be one of the winners.  You can go with the theme, the sketch or both, the choice is yours. There are some fab prizes to be won; $15 gift certificate to the winner and $10 for the runner up, chosen by a DT member. There are also $5 gift certificates given to each of 3 randomly drawn players. Once again  this is the link here to the challenge with all the info you need. Good luck!

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

Addicted to stamps and More 3/3 make your mark

Simon says stamp Wednesday  Anything goes

Crafty Creations 3/3 anything goes
A bit more time to craft 1/3 anything goes
Craft stamper take it make it anything goes

Remember if you use my unique code STAMPGIRLJANE at the check out you can get an additional 20% off on top of any existing discounts!

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

May tea party time with Country View Crafts

Good morning and happy May to you. It is time for our latest challenge over at Country View and Miriam, as our hostess this month, decided that we could all do with some virtual party spirit during Lockdown so our theme is "Tea party".

This can be either birthday themed or tea themed. 

One lucky randomly selected entry will receive a £20 gift code to spent on the website. 

All the details can be found here;

My little grandson was 3 on 21 April and I made him a robot card for his birthday. He loved it so I thought I would use the same Visible Image stamp set to make my "birthday party" card for this challenge.

The set is such a great one available here called Robot Data

I also used the short circuit stencil to make an inky background with these distress inks

 I used my 3D Tim embossing folder on silver card.

I cut around some of the cogs  to create an opening.

 I stamped the baby robot as my focal, having stamped, coloured him with pencils and cut him out.
I also die cut some cogs in bright colours as his balloons as every robot needs a cog balloon to take to a party don't they.

Then it was time to put together my robot birthday party card. Little Beep the robot is all ready to go to the birthday party now!

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

Addicted to stamps and More 2/3 make your mark

Simon says stamp Wednesday  Anything goes

Crafty Creations 2/3 anything goes
Through the craft room door 2/2 anything goes

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our May "Tea party" challenge. You can use any stamps/products, the choice is yours.

You can enter our challenge as many times as you like and combine with other challenges. There is also a £20 crafting voucher up for grabs to the lucky randomly selected winner to spend over on the Country View Crafts on line store. Remember that for orders over £7.50 UK postage and packing from CVC  is absolutely FREE! Once again all the details for the May challenge can be found here.

I am back on the 13 May with my 2nd "tea party" project..this time it is another birthday party but a very different one to my robot one.

Stay safe,

Bye for now,

Jane x