August at Stamping Sensations

Good morning, It's time for our August challenge at Stamping Sensations and this month we are looking for

 ****Things with wings****

 As the title suggest we would love to see your hand stamped creations showing us birds, insects, fairies and anything else you can think of with wings. I am sure you will come up with lots of fabulous and colourful designs. 
My card features a gorgeous magpie from our wonderful sponsors this month, Rubber Dance. The background was created by smooshing distress oxide inks and the images were stamped with versafine clair ink. The magpie was embossed with Stamping Stuff kaleidascope embossing powder. Check out the multicoloured sheen...

   Our prize this month is a £25 voucher for the Rubber Dance online store. There are so many gorgeous stamps to choose from too!

Please ensure you check our challenge rules before entering, it may save you embarrassment and make sure your entry receives comments from the team and is entered into the prize draw. We run our challenge for fun in our spare time. It is your responsibility if entering to make sure you follow our challenge rules.

Do pop over to the challenge blog and take a look at the gorgeous designs from all my talented teamies! They really have made some wonderful cards again this month! 

Thanks for looking!

Mid month inspiration

The challenge at Stamping Sensations this month is to use your current favourite stamp. As we are being sponsored by the lovely Bibi at Rubber Dance, I thought I would use this beautiful cat stamp to give a little more inspiration. Again I created the background on the base card by sponging oxide inks through a Bee Crafty Mandala stencil, then used alcohol markers to colour in coordinating colours as a background for the cat.
Do check out the other mid month inspiration over on the challenge blog, and pop back soon as I am hoping to share another creation tomorrow too!

August at Stamping Sensations

It is the first Sunday of the month and time for our August challenge at Stamping Sensations. This month we have a lovely theme....

********Anything goes using your current favourite stamp********

I always have great difficulty choosing a favourite stamp and it does tend to vary from week to week. My project this month features a new-to-me stamp from our sponsor, Rubber Dance. I love Hedgehogs and this little guy was a must as soon as I saw him! He is called Handsome Hedgehog and is available here. The base card was coloured with Distress Oxides through stencils from Bee Crafty.

Even though it is an easy theme, we need you to play by the rules:

Please can I remind you we are a stamping challenge so must see a stamped image which reflects the theme as the focal element of your artwork , this means:

Stamping must be the central point of attention and interest

 We are pleased to welcome Rubber Dance as our brand new sponsor this month, with a fabulous £25 store voucher for our lucky winner. There are some wonderful stamps on the website, and I will definitely be purchasing more!
Do pop over to the challenge blog and take a look at the fabulous creations from my talented team mates, many featuring Rubber Dance stamps!
Thanks for looking, and I look forward to seeing your entries.