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flora and fauna fridays: hang in there

Hi there crafty friends! I'm starting a new Friday Feature on my blog, Flora and Fauna Fridays. If you know me, you know that I have a great love for this stamp company and their whimsical images. These stamps are perfect to create adorable cards in minutes. And I am a HUGE fan of their Texture stamps...they are the perfect complement to any of the images and I own all 9 sets :) Today, I have a clean and simple card that is perfect to send to a friend who might need a little encouragement through a tough time :)

For this card, I used the Mini Toucan set, the Texture 7 set and a sentiment from the Everyday Word Party set. I stamped the Mini Toucan, fussy cut him out and then colored the image in with Copics. On a white panel, I stamped the line of "beads" horizontally on my card to look like a chain for the bird's hoop. I added a dot of white gel pen to each "bead" of the chain to make it stand out. I stamped the leaves in various colors of green ink at the base of the chain, added the Mini Toucan and added a little flower from the same set. To finish the card, I added the "hang in there" sentiment from the Everyday Word Party set. Super simple and easy to create!

 

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tim holtz/stampers anonymous: monster reunion

Hi there crafty friends! Today I am sharing another make from the most recent Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous release for Halloween. This time I am using the Monster Reunion set that contains some adorable monster images and sentiments to match along with the Dots and Circles set. The monster images come with the sentiments attached to each image, but I have already cut the images and sentiments apart so I can mix and match them.

For my card today, I used the Frankenstein looking monster and colored him in with fun, happy colors using Distress Markers and a Detailer waterbrush. To make the red hearts on his socks, I used a trick I learned in a class from Wendy Vecchi several years ago and dipped a stylus into some Carnation Red Enamel Accents and used the point of the stylus to draw in the hearts. 



To create the background, I put some Distress Inks in Pumice Stone and Hickory Smoke onto a non-stick craft sheet and sprayed them with water and swiped my paper through it to create some interest on the background. Then I inked the dots stamp with Hickory Smoke Ink and stamped it on the panel. To create the layered look, I simply cut the center of the panel with a rectangle die, then added a slightly bigger piece of Ranger Alcohol Ink Matte Black cardstock behind the inner panel, then adhered it all back together as one piece. I love the look of this technique with a patterned background. I hope you enjoyed this fun card! 

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simon says stamp monday challenge: "s" is for

Hi crafty friends, it's time for another challenge over one the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. Thank you for joining us last week in the ATC Challenge and we hope you will join us again this week too. This week's challenge is super easy...."S" is for is the theme and I've colored up some "shrooms" (aka Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Tiny Toadstools) for you in all colors of the rainbow!


To create this card, I stamped the image onto a piece of Distress Watercolor Cardstock that had been inked with Antique Linen Distress Ink. Once that was dry, I stamped the toadstools onto the panel and colored them in with lots of vibrant colors of Distress Oxide. Once the panel was colored, I inked the edges with Antique Linen Distress Ink and added some stitching around the entire panel.


To give them a magical quality, I added them to a mat of metallic paper and drew in some highlights on the toadstools with a Nuvo Midas Touch Gold Aqua Shimmer pen to really make them sparkle! I absolutely love this pen to add tons of shine to any project!




As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store!

 

 

 

So now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting

 

 

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tim holtz/stampers anonymous: weird science

Hi there crafty friends, today I am sharing a fun interactive card with you that I designed for Tim Holtz's most recent Facebook Live. If you have not seen all the awesome new Halloween stamps, you can watch it HERE. When I saw the fun sketched images in the Weird Science set, I loved the ribcage with the gears and imagined there would be gears inside the body too...so I created them. 


To make the main panel, I inked up a piece of Mixed Media Heavystock with Antique Linen and Frayed Burlap Distress Ink then stamped the ribcage image from the Weird Science set. The stitched panel was created by cutting a Thinlits stitched rectangle and also inking it with Antique Linen Ink and stenciling it with the Decayed Layering Stencil using the Frayed Burlap and Gathered twigs. To create the back patterned panel, I created an inky panel with Weathered Wood and Blueprint Sketch Distress Inks then I stamped the formula and the number/ruler stamp all over to create a pattern using Distress Archival Inks. 

To create the panel for the gears, I cut a piece of paper a bit smaller than the stitched rectangle and covered the left side with gears from the Gearheads die and I glued that panel onto my background. Then I adhered the main panel onto the the stitched panel and cut around the ribs on one side to make a flap. Using the craft pick, I placed the hinge where it would go then poked holes through the holes with my craft pick and added the brads to secure it. I also added a piece of black paper to the back side of the flap. I did this by stamping the ribcage on a piece of black cardstock and cutting out the image again. Once all of this was done, I put foam tape around the back of the rectangle panel and adhered it to the piece with the printed panel and the gears. I hope you found this card as fun and spooky as I did! 

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simon says stamp monday challenge: artist trading cards

Hi crafty friends, it's time for another challenge over one the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. Thank you for joining us in last week's Midsummer Blues Challenge and we hope you will join us in this week's Artist Trading Cards Challenge. This week I created a trio of ATCs using the new Abandoned Paper Stash as my background, I am in LOVE with this paper and it is perfect to add a wonderful, quick background. 

I added a Paper Doll, some stickers from the Curiosities Sticker Book, ephemera and a Halloween Quote Chip secured with Hardware Heads to each one. Then I used my tweezers to add a tiny Halloween mask cut from the Tim Holtz/Sizzix Thinlits Masquerade dies (I used the 2 smallest dies).


As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store!

 

 

 

So now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting

 

 

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neat & tangled: august release (day 4)

It's the final day of the Neat and Tangled August release! I hope you are not tired of these flowers yet. There are still SO many other ways that I want to use them :) For my card today, I stamped all the flower images in a pattern and colored them in with copic markers. I gave the images a shadow all around with a light grey marker to make them pop.

I matted the panel onto a piece of black cardstock, then onto a piece of Lawn Fawn Peacock cardstock and added the Sophisticated Dots in back. To finish the card, I added a little sentiment strip by embossing the Thank You in white onto black cardstock.

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neat & tangled: august release (day 3)

Hi there crafty friends, it's Day 3 of the Neat and Tangled release, and I have another card with the Grateful Heart stamps and dies. For my card today, I stamped my image in black onto some very light pink cardstock and then blended Picked Raspberry Distress Ink around it. I traced some of the flower petals with an embossing pen and embossed them with Ranger Gold Tinsel embossing powder. I love the shine on this powder so much!


I added the word Love from the Love you dies and a little sentiment from the Typed Sentiments stamps and finished my card off with Sophisticated Dots in gold. You should see the sparkle on these dots! 


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neat & tangled: august release (day 2)

Hi there crafty friends. Welcome to Day 2 of the Neat and Tangled August release. This month's release contains 4 great new products and they are available in the Neat and Tangled shop right now! How cool is that? If you missed Day 1 and all the new products you can see them HERE. 

I am back with another card featuring the Grateful Heart stamps and dies and the Delicate Dots 6 x 6 cling. Today I am using the dots as a background panel and I've added a black frame to highlight these beautiful florals that I've colored in a rainbow wash of Distress Inks.

 

 

 

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neat & tangled: august release (day 1)

Hi there crafty friends! It's time for the latest Neat and Tangled release and this month, we have something a bit different for you. We have a release of 4 great new products and you get to see them all at once, and they are available in the Neat and Tangled shop TODAY! I have used all 4 products on this card. Let me show you what is new:

Grateful Heart Stamp set

Grateful Heart dies

Delicate Dots Rubber Cling

Sophisticated Enamel Dots

SPECIAL PRICE ON THE ENTIRE BUNDLE! 

The card I have created for you today features the Grateful Heart stamps, the Grateful Heart dies, the Delicate Dots Rubber Cling and a new to Neat and Tangled product, Sophisticated Enamel dots...which I just love. To create my card today, I stamped the Delicate Dots with Versamark Ink and embossed them with clear detail embossing powder to give a bit of texture to my background. 

I colored in the flowers from the Grateful Heart set with watercolors, and when they were dry cut them out with the Grateful Heart dies. I added a sentiment strip and used 2 of the tiniest Sophisticated Enamel Dots to make it look like they "adhered" the banner to the card. 

ALL THE SUPPLIES USED ARE AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE RIGHT NOW! 

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simon says stamp monday challenge: midsummer blues

Hi crafty friends, it's time for another challenge over one the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. Thank you for joining us in last week's Happy Birthday Challenge and I hope you will join us in this week's Midsummer Blues Challenge. This week I created a Mini Etcetera Tag using the new Abandoned Paper Stash as my tag background and selected a piece with a lot of beautiful greenish blue, which I wound up covering up a lot! This paper is so beautiful, it practically creates any background for you! 

 

 

I put the paper onto the tag with Distress Collage Medium, and once that was adhered, I added Opaque Crackle Texture Paste through a stencil and let it dry. Then I went over it with an ink blending tool. I built my "shelf" out of the Pinked and Scalloped Etcetera trims and added some Hardware Heads to it so it looks like it is fastened to the tag. I added a Baseboard Doll that had been colored with Distress Markers and had some Transparent Wings adhered to the back of it. I nestled the doll onto the shelf with Mummy Cloth that was colored with Distress Spray stain and a bunch of stars cut from inky Distress Watercolor paper using the Swirling Stars Thinlits die. 

I finished off the tag with the Quote Chip that says "Use Your Wings" and added a clippings sticker and a Vintage Clip to the top which I distressed to give it a bit of a rusty look. 

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store!

 

 

 

So now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting

 

 

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