STAMPlorations 2nd Birthday Blog Hop:

Did you hear?!  STAMPlorations is celebrating their 2nd birthday all week?!!!  I'm thrilled to be their guestie for today!

I made 2 birthday cards for the party:

My first card was made especially for a Sweet Birthday Boy who turned 7. 

cardstock:  white/recollections/110, mystery gray, ranger watercolor paper  stamps: stamplorations party mates/party time  ink:  fresh ink charcoal, hero arts neon orange ink, hero arts neon orange ink dauber, ranger/archival black  other:  mme enamel dots, circle punch, hemp beading cord

I had fun stamping the birthday background with Party Mates.  The panel is a mystery gray and the ink is Fresh Ink Charcoal.  I did a couple random splats of Hero Arts Neon Orange (ink dauber).  See the tag?  I did some masking...some more splats.  The cupcakes were initially painted (I tried painting) with the Hero Arts neon dye ink but then switched to the ink dauber.  There's a kind of rind looking painting technique...I'm going with it {wink}.  The sentiment...it's from Party Time and yes, I'm late.

Next up is my girlie card:

cardstock:  strathmore watercolor, recollections gold glitter  stamps:  stamplorations/party girl & party time  ink:  ranger/archival/black,  kuretake gansai tambi no. 50

That party dress is from Party Girl.  I think it is beautiful...so classic 50's.  I wanted to let the dress shine so I did a wash of color via my new kuretake gansai tambi set {no. 50}.  I teamed it up with a sentiment from the Party Time set.  To add a bit of glitz, I adhered a strip of gold glitter cardstock.  

Leave a comment on this post and the STAMPlorations Blog!  Remember to link of your own celebrations or party-themed card using the inspiration mood board below to win one of several prizes.  Commenting and linking close on Monday, July 6th...winner announced on the STAMPlorations blog on Tuesday, July 7th!

Prizes for commenting:

• 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)

***winners are randomly drawn

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