The {Stamps} Of Life Blog Hop - Flying High

Welcome to the Stamps of Life & Clearsnap Blog Hop! 

We're so excited to be hopping with our good friend Stephanie Barnard and her talented design team. We traded inks for stamps and wow, we love the crisp images from her amazing clear stamp line!! They work perfectly with the Stephanie Barnard ColorBox Dye Ink Pads!

And, it's not a Hop without a fabulous prize so here's what we're giving away:

An entire assortment of Stephanie Barnard ColorBox Ink Pads!!! That's over a $50 Value!!!

Since this is a BIG Amazing Super Duper Awesome Prize, we're gonna ask you to do a couple things in order to enter to win. Here's how to enter:

• Comment here on this Blog Post and each blog in the Hop = 1 entry each blog comment
• PIN to Pinterest ALL of the Projects from the Hop =  1 entry each image pinned (leave a comment here telling us you did it)
• Refer your friends to FOLLOW Clearsnap on Facebook = 1 entry per friend who posts your name on the Clearsnap Page
• Refer your friends to FOLLOW The Stamps of Life on Facebook = 1 entry per friend who posts your name on The Stamps of Life Page

Visit all of the blogs in the hop list below and prepare to be inspired!!!

Clearsnap - clearsnap.blogspot.com YOU ARE HERE

The Stamps of Life http://stephaniebarnard.blogspot.com/ GO HERE NEXT

Jeanne Streiff - http://inkypaws.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/category/inks/clearsnap/

Sabrina Alery - http://sabrinaalery.blogspot.com

Deb Felts - http://withastampandasong.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Stamps%20of%20Life

Steph Ackerman - http://stephaniescraps.blogspot.com

Lydia Fiedler - http://www.understandblue.blogspot.com/

Mary Dawn Quirindongo - http://mypinkmexico.blogspot.com/ 

Kim Howard - http://basementstamper.blogspot.com/

Daniela Dobson - http://danieladobson.blogspot.com/

Tami Mayberry –  http://tamimayberry.blogspot.com/search/label/clearsnap

Jennifer Priest http://hydrangeahippo.com

Laura Williams –  http://www.lauralooloo.blogspot.com/

Kim Pargeter – http://stampinriley.blogspot.com/

Vicki Garrett – http://summerthymestudio.blogspot.com/

Joana Studer- http://joanastamps.blogspot.com/

Emily Niehaus - http://emmielouwho.blogspot.com/

Beverly Sizemore - http://bevscreativepath.blogspot.com/

And now, for some inspiration from our Designer, Tami Sanders, to kick off this Hop!!

Hello! Tami here today with a card that is bright and colorful AND features two great stamp sets from The {Stamps} Of Life as well as Stephanie Barnard ColorBox Premium Dye Inks...

The Kites2Fly set includes parts and pieces that you to mix and match in order to design your own kite. The set also includes clouds, birds and sentiments. I love that Stephanie includes "solid" stamps as well as "design" stamps. That way, you can stamp your own background colors and then add a design in a different color on top of it.

That's what I did to create my kite. First I stamped the frame using Licorice Dye Ink, then I stamped the upper left part of the kite with the "solid" stamp and Bubblegum ink, then overstamped with the small floral design stamp using Guava. This created a light pink background with the bright pink mini floral print on top. The at the upper right, I stamped first with Banana, then used the star mini design stamp inked with Tangerine Ink. Sky Ink was used at the lower left, with a striped pattern overstamped with Blueberry. Finally, Grape was used to stamp the mini dot pattern at the lower right...

Stephanie Barnard ColorBox Premium Dye Inks are bright and vivid and come in 12 fabulous colors.

To create the sky, I used one of my favorite techniques to create a soft tone on tone background. I inked a large acrylic block lightly with Sky Dye Ink. Then I "stamped" the block on a piece of white cardstock. This created a very light blue background that had some variations in it. Then I inked the block again, this time heavier, and stamped again. Once I stamped, I rubbed the block back and forth on the paper to remove all the ink. This created the darker areas...

The other stamp set that was used is called Stamps4FancyLabels, it includes 4 different labels as well as lots of sentiments. I used a label from the set to frame the sentiment...

To add a few fun details, a black pen and white gel pen were used to add dots around the border once it had been distressed with Sky Ink applied with Stylus & Tip...

Twine from The Twinery was used to create the kite string and used as an accent along the right side of the card...

We'll be doing a Blog Hop with The Twinery tomorrow, so come back and check out some GREAT projects using baker's twine.

SUPPLIES:

Clearsnap Products:

• Stephanie Barnard ColorBox Premium Dye Ink: Licorice, Tangerine, Grape, Guava, Sky, Blueberry, Banana and Bubblegum
  
• ColorBox Stylus & Tips

Other Products:

• The {Stamps} Of Life: Kites2Fly and Stamps4FancyLabel
• The Twinery: Denim, Pink Sorbet, Lilac and Charcoal
• Spellbinders: Long Classic Scalloped Rectangles Large
• Bo Bunny: Lemonade Double Dot Cardstock
• Bazzill: Black and White Cardstocks
• Beacon Adhesives: Zip Dry
• 3D Foam Squares
• Double Sided Tape 
• White Gel Pen
• Black Fine Point Pen

Tools:

• Trimmer and Scissors

Please be sure to stop by & visit all the links on the hop to see what great projects the talented designers have come up with using Stephanie's The {Stamps} Of Life stamp sets.