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flora and fauna: butterfly dreams hello

Hi there crafty friends! I wanted to share a little stash of Hello cards that I created recently with some brand new stamps and dies from Flora and Fauna. I started with just one but thought it would be a good idea to send out a bunch of happy hellos. These cards are 3 1/2 x 5, so I started by cutting a panel that was 3 3/8 x 4 7/8 and die cutting the Hello from it (don't forget to save the center of the "O" so you can foam tape it back in :) 


Then I stamped one of the textures from the Texture 8 set to stamp some grass along the bottom of the panel. I placed a piece of black cardstock onto my card base, and then adhered the hello panel with foam tape over that. I colored a bunch of butterflies from the new Butterfly Dreams set in rainbow colors and added one to each card. I took a thin (0.1mm) micron pen and drew a little dashed line behind each butterfly to show the "flying" motion. 

simon says stamp monday challenge: spring mood board

Hi crafty friends, welcome to this week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! Thank you for joining us for the Steampunk Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too. This week we are having fun with spring and making projects inspired by this Spring Mood Board.

The lovely Macarena has made this gorgeous mood board for our inspiration!

 

For my card this week, I was in inspired by the lovely spring flowers. It always feels like spring to me when the flowers start to bloom. I used the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Bouquet stencil over a Distress Mixed Media Heavystock Panel that was inked and stamped with Tiny Text. I then added DIstress Crackle Texture Paste through a stencil and added Embossing Glaze over the top. When it was dry, I embossed it with a heat tool. I added some Photobooth, Ephemera and a Quote Chip. 

 

As you may know, the Simon Says Stamp Store is accepting new orders, but have longer shipping times for the moment due to the coronavirus. With this in mind we have made the difficult decision to suspend the $50 voucher for this challenge.

We know that many people are staying safe at home and we would love it if you would continue to enter the challenges and have fun! We are all in this together!

So now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting

 

 

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simon says stamp monday challenge: steampunk

Hi crafty friends, welcome to this week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! Thank you to all of you who played along with us last week in our Stencil It Challenge and I hope you will play along with us this week in the Steampunk Challenge. For my card this week, I used the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Evolution set as my focal image. 

 

To create the card, I used Distress Watercolor cardstock and created a background panel by using Antique Linen and Tea Dye Distress inks smooshed onto a glass mat and sprayed with water. Then I swiped my paper through it and let it dry. Once it was dry, I stamped a pattern onto it using the Tailor and Houndstooth stamp and Weathered Wood Distress Ink.

 

When the panel was dry, I added lots of Mini Gears and Sprocket Gears. I also added a Quote Chip with a technique I learned on Tim Holtz's most recent FB Live. I embossed the Quote Chip with Weathered Wood Distress Embossing Glaze, heat embossed it then went over it with a Walnut Stain Distress Crayon, and wiped some off with a damp paper towel. I added Hardware Heads colored with Mushroom Alcohol Ink to each side of the chip. 


For the background, I used the Foundry 3D Texture Fade along with some Metallic 3 Kraft Core paper and ran it through my Vagabond three times (this gives a better 3d effect than just passing it through once). When that was done, I took a tiny bit of Black Soot Distress Paint and rubbed it over the piece, as it started to dry, I buffed some off with a dry cloth. Then I adhered all the parts together. 

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

 

 

 

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simon says stamp monday challenge: stencil fun

Hi crafty friends, welcome to this week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! Thank you to all of you who played along with us last week in our A Bit O'Green Challenge and I hope you will play along with us this week in the Stencil Fun Challenge. This week I was inspired by Tim Holtz and the Facebook demo he did over the weekend on the new DIstress Embossing Glazes. You can still watch it over on his Facebook page :) To create this card, I used Crackle Distress Texture Paste through the Bubbles stencil, and sprinkled on Embossing Glazes in several colors. When the paste was dry, I heat set the piece with an Embossing Tool. Once this was done, I ink blended Pumice Stone Distress Ink over the entire piece. I stamped images from the Glitch 1 and Glitch 2 sets using DIstress Archival Inks. 


I stamped and fussy cut the The Professor 2 and colored the image in with DIstress Markers, then I adhered him to the panel. I finished the card by adding the ticket from the Urban Layers Idea-olgy pack, attaching it with a Tiny Clip, and then adding a piece of Vintage Flair. 


I matted the piece onto a piece of Ranger Alcohol Ink Matte Black Cardstock, then onto a piece of Metallic Kraft Core, then finally onto a piece of paper from the Abandoned paper stash. I love fun crackle and color you get from mixing the paste with the Embossing Glaze. 

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

 

 

 

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simon says stamp monday challenge: a bit o' green

Hi crafty friends, welcome to this week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! Thank you to all of you who played along with us last week in our Tag It Challenge and I hope you will play along with us this week. This week we are using a Bit O'Green as our theme and what a fun reason to make a St.Patty's Day card. I created a St. Patty's Day card with the Tim Holtz Snarky Cat stamps and some accessories from the Crazy Things set...even a bottle of green milk! 


To create the background of my card, I stamped the Baroque stamp several times on to a Distress Watercolor cardstock panel. I used a Distress Embossing Dabber to go over the outside part that would show on my finished card and embossed it. Then I added Peeled Paint Distress Embossing Glaze and heat set it with an embossing gun. 

After I heat set it, I inked the outside edges with Antique Linen Distress Ink. To create my main panel, I stamped the Snarky Cat onto a Distress Watercolor Panel, then masked him off. I stamped over him with the Linen stamp from the Mesh and Linen set. I gave the panel a bit of splatter with Rusty Hinge DIstress Ink and Tarnished Brass Mica Spray. Once the panel was dry, I removed the mask and colored in the cat with Rusty Hinge and Wild Honey DIstress Ink. I stamped and colored the hat and bowtie from Crazy Things and cut them out and did the same with the milk bottle from Crazy Cats using Mowed Lawn and Twisted Citron Distress Inks. 

 

To complete the card, stamped some "grass" from the Stitches set and added a sentiment strip using a sentiment from the Tiny Text stamp set.

 

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

 

 

 

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simon says stamp: lucky to know you blog hop

Hi there crafty friends! Welcome to the Simon Says Stamp Lucky to Know You Blog hop! I have 2 cards to share with you today using the new Layered Tulips stencil. This set of 4 small (4 x 4) stencils is so easy to use and a perfect way to add shading if you are coloring challenged like me. Before I get to the cards, I wanted to let you know that there are 2 different codes in the graphic above that let YOU pick a free gift - either WLY777 for the Wooly Lucky stamp set and FLF584 for the Color the World Enamel Pin when you order during the duration of the hop. 

These free gifts are available while supplies last and the promotion expires on March 8th at 11:59 PDT. You can shop the entire Lucky to Know You Release here. If you created anything with the new release, be sure to share it in the Lucky to Know You gallery. This is the first day of the hop, and there will be another hop full of inspiration tomorrow, so be sure to visit Simon Says Stamp for even more crafty goodness.

For my first card, I used all 4 parts of the Layered Tulips stencil with Distress Oxides applied with Distress Oxide Blending Brushes. I blended Worn Lipstick and Picked Raspberry for the petals, then Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn and Lucky Clover for the leaves and stems. I added a few accents with Polychromos Pencils then added an All Things Happy sentiment strip. 

For my second card, I took a panel of Distress watercolor paper and swiped in through Antique Linen DIstress Ink and dried it with a heat tool. I used just one stencil that had the shape of the flowers and spread matte Distress Texture Paste through it. I pinched some DIstress Embossing Glaze in Fossilized Amber, Tattered Rose and Fired Brick onto the paste and tapped the paper from underneath to move it around.

Once the paste underneath was dry, I heat the flowers with a heat gun. To create the stems and leaves, I used a Distress Embossing Pen to draw them in and pinched on some of the Distress Embossing Glaze in Cracked Pistachio and Peeled Paint and used the same tapping technique to move the colors around and then heat it with a heat gun. I finished the card with an older Simon Says Stamp sentiment from the Handwritten Love stamp set. 

 

Simon Says Stamp is giving away a $25 coupon to every stop on the hop from the comments section. They will choose the winners over the weekend and post on the Simon Says Stamp blog on Wednesday, the 11^th of March. 

 

HOP ORDER:

Simon Says Stamp Blog 

Cathy Zielske

Nina-Marie Trapani

Nichol Spohr

Lisa Addesa

Heather Ruwe

Suzy Plantamura

Barb Engler

Cheiron Brandon

Lea Lawson

Betty Wright

Bobbi Lemanski

Lin Brandyberry

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simon says stamp monday challenge: tag it

Hi crafty friends, welcome to this week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! Thank you to all of you who played along with us last week in our Inspired by Music Challenge and I hope you will play along with us this week in our Tag It Challenge this week, and this week the design team is featuring projects from TIm Holtz. For my project this week, I created a Mini Etcetera Tag with an inky background made with DIstress Spray Stain, Distress Oxide Spray and some stamping and embossing with the new Distress Embossing Glazes...you are going to love them! 

To begin, I created my Distress Watercolor Cardstock background using Distress Sprays in Antique Linen, Tattered Rose and Walnut Stain and Distress Oxide Spray in Shaded Lilac. Once it was dry, I stamped images from the Stampers Anonymous Grunged set and embossed them with Distress Embossing Glaze in Vintage Photo, Tattered Rose and Weathered Wood. I sprayed some water on the tag and embossed those spots with Fossilzed Amber. 


I added a Found Relative under a Baseboard Frame and added a bit of Opaque Grit Paste and let it dry. When it was dry, I added some Walnut Stain Distress Crayon over it and dabbed it a bit with a baby wipe. 


I added a Ruler Piece and a piece of Metallic Kraft stock cut with the Sizzix 3D Star Trim Impresslits. Can you see the amazing texture you get from Metallic Kraft stock? It's really beautiful! 


The Embossing Glaze adds so much texture to the piece. To finish off the project, I added a piece of Foundry Idea-ology and 'secured' it with a Hardware Head. 

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

 

 

 

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