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Wednesday, March 18, 2026

🌍 Wanderlust Found: Ina’s Vintage Voyage with Our New Collage Paper 📜✨

Are you ready to add a touch of travel, history, and "urban grunge" to your art? 🏗️ Ina has been exploring our brand new Wanderlust Wayside collage paper pack, and she has created a spectacular trio of cards that prove just how far these textures can take your creativity! 🎨 From intricate, multi-stamp interiors to dimensional die-cut frames, these papers are the perfect passport to inspiration. ✈️🗺️

Here’s a look at Ina’s vintage adventures:

The Journey to Paris & Stamped Surprise 🕰️🌸

Ina’s first card features a stunning sheet from the Wanderlust Wayside pack, dominated by the image of a vintage woman facing a collage of the Eiffel tower, map, butterfly, and vintage clock face. 🕰️ She kept the front relatively clean to showcase the pattern, adding a delicate sentiment from the Bloomful stamp set.


But the real "wanderlust" is inside! Surprise! Opening the card reveals a complex, "all-over" mixed-media masterpiece. 🏗️ Ina used a master mix of Dare Subway Art Builders (retired), Mixed Media Grunge, Mixed Media Elements, Scribbly Splattery Grunge, and Art Marks to create a rich, layered texture that feels like a travel-worn passport. 🖋️

The Framed Gentleman 🕵️‍♂️🧵

For her second card, Ina took that same powerful 5-stamp mixed-media mix and used it to stamp directly onto the card front to create a textured border. 🏗️ She then used the stitched nesting dies to create a clean, dimensional frame. The focal point is a sophisticated hand-cut gentleman, taken from one of the Wanderlust Wayside sheets and popped onto the frame with foam tape for incredible height. 📏 He is finished off with an uplifting sentiment. 🦋✨


Making Memories with Basic Panels 📸📏
Ina's final card is a study in structural, layered design. She used the basic A2 panels nesting dies to cut three distinct panels, creating a "card-on-card" dimensional look. 🏗️ This layout perfectly frames the rich textures of the collage paper. The simple, powerful phrase "make memories" anchors the theme of travel and nostalgia. 🗺️🙌



🛍️ Start Your Own Creative Voyage!

Love the look of vintage maps, clockwork, and urban grunge? The Wanderlust Wayside pack is waiting for you! 📜✈️ It's one of 9 brand new collage paper designs now available in the store as individual packs. 🎁

Shop the Wanderlust Wayside Pack 👉 HERE 🕰️
Browse All 9 New Collage Paper Designs 👉 HERE 🛍️



Want to win some crafty happy mail? 🎁✨

We love hearing your thoughts! Did you know that every thoughtful comment you leave on our blog or Instagram posts this March enters you for a chance to win? 🗣️📝

Three (3) lucky winners will be picked to receive their choice of a $10 prize code or any in-stock STAMPlorations product (up to $7 value) 🎟️📄

The more you chat with us, the more chances you have to win. Winners will be announced here on the blog on April 10. Ina's cards are so cool, don't you think? Let us know in the comments below! 👇💖

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Friday, June 19, 2020

{Mixed Media Tutorial} Inspired by the New CRAFTplorations Line


Welcome to my last Mixed Media Tutorial for STAMPlorations.
Have you checked out the new and exciting products that were 
recently available in store? If not Check it out HERE

I was so excited to see these new items and gave me the idea to
make my mixed media project with them in mind,
giving you a head ups on one way of using them in a different way.
I have however not used these Artist Trading Cards
as they haven't landed in my mailbox yet - but they will.



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Friday, May 15, 2020

{Mixed Media Tutorial} Four Makes with One Stencil


Hello Ina here. Welcome to my 
Second Mixed Media Tutorial for
STAMPlorations




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Friday, April 17, 2020

{Mixed Media Tutorial} Playing with Mediums


Hello and welcome! Ina here with the first of three Mixed Media Tutorials showcasing products available at the STAMPlorations store  and using some of my favourite products and elements.


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Monday, June 18, 2018

{Special Post} STAMPlorations 5th Birthday Hop feat. STAMPgirl Ina Grehan

Happy Monday, STAMPlorations friends! We have STAMPgirl Ina in the spotlight with her top 3 picks and a couple of new cards.





And here are her new cards:

Ingredients:
A Bloom and 3 Buds stencil | Just Because phrase die


Ingredients:
Bloomtangled #1 cover plate die | Bloom Happy coordinating dies | Bloom Happy stamp set


Inspired by Ina's cards? Feel free to CASE any one (or even all!) of them. Link up your creation(s) to our Birthday Linky Party aka CASE the STAMPgirls Challenge. The linky is found at the end of the post HERE. Five lucky players will win a $50 gift certificate to the store -- one of them could be you! :o)

For a chance to win a $25 gift certificate, leave a comment on this post and on Ina's blog.

For a chance to win up to $25 worth of STAMPlorations products, create and link up your wishlist here.




PS: Did you know that every Monday this month, select products in the store are 50% off? The flash sale lasts for 48 hours only! Head over to the store and check it out :o)

PPS: We have $5 Birthday Bash Surprise Bags -- each bag has at least $20 worth of STAMPlorations goodies inside! Check them out here.
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Sunday, May 20, 2018

{Spotlight Project} Ina Spotlights a Waterfall Card

[Note: This month, we have several STAMPlorations girls guest designing and joining the regular Spotlight Project girls and sharing more awesome step-by-step projects that feature our 5x7 stamp club sets. We hope you get even more inspired!]




Hello and Welcome! Ina here from Little Bits of Craft. Today I am back focusing again on the beautiful Boxed Blooms and Bold Sentiments stamp set.

I had been procrastinating over how I would showcase this set and funny that it came to me as I lay in bed thinking about it. I wanted to try something I had never done before and the Waterfall Card came to mind. I needed some guidance on measurements and I found this fabulous tutorial to help me. I have added my own twist here making sure that the measurements matched the framed blooms and our Australian size base. PS: I did do a dummy run to make sure things were A OK! Here is the result - completed.


and how it all began WARNING! Lots of photos to come.

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Sunday, April 15, 2018

{Spotlight Project} Ina Puts the Spotlight on Boxed Blooms and Bold Sentiments

[Note: This month and next, we have several STAMPlorations girls guest designing and joining the regular Spotlight Project girls and sharing more awesome step-by-step projects that feature our 5x7 stamp club sets. We hope you get even more inspired!]



Hello and Welcome! Ina here from Little Bits of Craft with my Very First Spotlight Project.
Today I chose to play with the Boxed Blooms and Sentiments stamp club set.


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