Monday 29 June 2015

STAMPlorations Birthday Blog Hop Day 1


Hi Everyone,
Welcome to the STAMPlorations 2nd Birthday Blog Hop Celebrations. Yes, STAMPLorations is celebrating its 2nd birthday and true to form we, the STAMPlorations Girls, are having a party and you are invited. to join us for 5 days of blog hop fun. Each day we'll be joined by a different guest designer ... and today the talented lady joining us is AMY TSURUTA from Tsuruta Designs.

Shery, Deepti and Shirley designed one stamp set each to celebrate this special birthday occasion. These are the sets we'll be using throughout our celebratory hop. For my first project I decided to work with Party Time and Party Mates to create this zesty ad sparkly card:


... here it is in a slightly different light with a little more shadow yet brighter colours ...


The weather picked up and I finally wasn't working as it was Saturday which enabled me to snap a few more photographs outside.
I basically stamped, coloured and masked my glass and umbrella, blended some crushed curry (yellow) and melon mambo (pink), spritzed some water and allowed it to dry. I purposefully kept the blending of the crushed curry a little splodgy as I felt it helped with the zesty, hazy party feel I wanted to create. Once dry, I stamped my sentiment into place, layered on my black base card and added some sequins to finish.

There are two ways you can join us in the celebrations and ways to be entered into prize draws, firstly by hopping along and leaving comments on our posts and secondly by joining in at our Linky Party over at the STAMPlorations Blog by linking up your party themed cards inspired by this photograph:


The linky will be found on all 5 birthday blog hop posts. Commenting and linking will close on Monday, 6th July and the winners will be announced on Tuesday 7th July.

Check out what the rest of the team made! You'll find links to all birthday blog hop projects here.

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The prizes up for grabs are:

Prizes for commenting on the STAMPlorations blog, STAMPlorations designers blogs, and guest designers blogs:
1 winner of $25 gift certificate
5 winners of $10 gift certificate

Prizes for linking up a party/celebration/birthday project:
3 winners of the party stamp sets (1 winner of Party Mates, 1 winner of Party Time, 1 winner of PartyGirl)
1 winner of $25 gift certificate (if STAMPlorations stamps/stencils are used) or $15 gift certificate (if non-STAMPlorations stamps/stencils are used)

That's it from me for today, I shall be back again tomorrow with another project.
Have a lovely day!

Hugs
Monika xxx

the sets I used links for which are in the text above:
SheryRuss_PartyTime-web-preview PartyMates-web-preview
crushed curry and melon mambo inks - Stampin'Up!

36 comments:

  1. Love your background and the way you used the umbrella in the glass!! What a fun celebration!!

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  2. Fun CAS card -- your colored bg looks awesome

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  3. This is certainly a fun card Monika, love your hazy background to the cocktail. :)

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  4. beautiful background and colors chosen. this card makes me want to grab a cocktail and relax, but... it's only 8:30 a.m., I guess I better stick with my coffee. lol!! :)

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  5. Love the BG with the cocktail glass, a superb creation!

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  6. I love the water splotches on the background. Such a summery feel!

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  7. Such a gorgeous background - love the water splatters and the sequins!

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  8. Definitely a party right there! Love your splodged ink - fabby card! xx

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  9. I'm with Cornelia about that background, it's soft and cheerful at the same time. Terrific embellishing as well.

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  10. Very pretty card! Love the new stamp sets!

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  11. Fabulous! Looks like champagne bubbles!

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  12. Love the celebration background to your Party umbrella drink, Monika!

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  13. This is awesome! I love gorgeous BG, it pairs perfectly with the glass :D

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  14. Your card is delicious! Love how your background came out.

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  15. Your zesty, hazy background is gorgeous, Monika...a perfect canvas for that sweet umbrella-sporting drink! Marvelous!
    ~c

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  16. Beautiful card! LOVE that background ♥

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  17. love your card--now I need the Party Mates set!

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  18. Such the fun party card...love it!
    Awesome being able to play with you all today!

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  19. A beautiful background, Monika. Love the blend of colours! xx

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  20. The background is the beauty! Great card Monika! :)
    Suchi xx

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  21. Love the ombre effect with the water splatters! Beautiful card!

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  22. Great summery background Monika!

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  23. Lovely colors! Love how it looks like a sunbeam!

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  24. beautiful card!! love the background you have created!!

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  25. I can almost feel the heat - fabulous summery card
    Blessings
    Maxine

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  26. you have made cool background dear Monika
    woooww I love the simple of your card
    and love that background much

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  27. That's really lovely. Such a party feel. Cheers. Hugz

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  28. Love that background! Fun and summery!

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  29. Great party card with your fabby background!

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  30. Love the background! Very bright and festive.

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  31. Background is gorgeous and perfect for the image. Thanks for sharing!

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Thanks so much for stopping by. Your comments are very much appreciated. Have a lovely day! Hugs XXX