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simon says stamp monday challenge: focus on alcohol inks

Hi crafty friends, welcome to this week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! Thank you for joining us us for last week's Food and Drink Challenge and we hope you will join us again this week for the Focus on Alcohol Inks Challenge. 

I love working with Alcohol Inks, and also love how they look under an embossed vellum flower. This week I have combined the 2 to create a modern, yet elegant card. To begin, I created my panel by adding Alcohol Inks in Fiesta, Patina, Clover and Foundry Alloy on Yupo Paper. Then I set the panel aside to dry. I stamped The Poinsettia onto vellum and embossed it in white. I stamped a sentiment from the Sketch Greenery set and also embossed that in white. Then I added a ton of bling to make the card really shine. 

The lovely folks at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a $25 voucher to shop at the Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take our your crafty supplies, make something following this week's prompt and add your project to the InLInkz at the bottom of the post on the SImon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog :) All winners are chosen randomly, so anyone can be a winner!!! 

So now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting

 

 

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simon says stamp monday challenge: food and drink

Hi crafty friends, welcome to this week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! Thank you for joining us us for last week's Happy Holidays Challenge and we hope you will join us again this week for our Food/Drink theme...this can be any kind of food and drink, but I am working on some holiday cards and treats this week and created a card to send out with a Starbucks gift card. 

To create my card, I cut and assembled the deer from the Sizzix Papercut Christmas 2 dies, and colored in his scarf in a rainbow palette using Distress Markers. Then I cut the little coffee cup from the Festive Things dies. To create the background for this card, I stamped a sentiment from the Seasonal Scribbles stamp set in all of my favorite rainbow colors of Distress Oxides and smudged the inks with a blending tool. I added an overlay of vellum and stitched it to my colored panel. I also stamped the same sentiment and embossed it in white to use as the main greeting. I added the colored panel onto a card base and then adhered the deer and greeting with foam tape, and added a few snowflakes to complete it. 

The lovely folks at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a $25 voucher to shop at the Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take our your crafty supplies, make something following this week's prompt and add your project to the InLInkz at the bottom of the post on the SImon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog :) All winners are chosen randomly, so anyone can be a winner!!! 

So now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting

 

 

Follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram

 

 

Do you use Instagram ?  If so please add  #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too

 

 

You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in!

 

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get cracking on christmas: november 2020

Continuing along with my goal to 'Get Cracking on Christmas' all year long, by creating my Christmas cards with a few crafty friends throughout the year! If you want to see how it all started, go to my original post here.  

Today, I made a sweet and simple card, one I am sure to make several more of to send out using the Flora and Fauna Bottlebrush Snowglobe set. I love the tiny snowman so much!!!  I embossed the 'globe' in gold, added a tree, a tiny snowman and a little red garland to the tree to make this fun and tiny  (3 1/2 x 5) card. 

simon says stamp monday challenge: happy holidays

Hi crafty friends, welcome to this week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! Thank you for joining us us for last week's Remembrance/Thinking of You Challenge and I hope you will join us again this week for our Happy Holidays Challenge. This week I wanted to create a special holiday card for a friend who loves snowman. 

To create my card, I inked a panel of DIstress Watercolor cardstock in all my favorite blues of Distress Ink, then stamped the Tiny Text Christmas background stamp onto it, leaving some parts of the stamp uninked for a more rustic look. I cut all the pieces for the snowman from the Papercut Christmas 2 dies and assembled him. Then I cut a tree from a piece of Mixed Media Heavystock that I colored with Rustic Wilderness Distress Ink using the Thin Ice dies. I added these pieces to a snowy hill that I created on my card panel and then applied a bit of Distress Mica Flakes to the snow on the trees and a bit on the snowman. I finished the card with Reverse Sentiment Strip and some tiny stars cut from the Falling Stars dies.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

The lovely folks at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a $25 voucher to shop at the Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take our your crafty supplies, make something following this week's prompt and add your project to the InLInkz at the bottom of the post on the SImon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog :) All winners are chosen randomly, so anyone can be a winner!!! 

So now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting

 

 

Follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram

 

 

Do you use Instagram ?  If so please add  #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too

 

 

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reverse confetti stock your stash november: holiday and winter

Hi there crafty friends! I am continuing my guest designer position with Reverse Confetti this month and joining them in their monthly Stock Your Stash Challenge. This is a great way to focus on one type of card and add to your stash! I decided to go with a quick and easy holiday card and used one of the houses from the Home For the Holidays as a gingerbread house. I stamped and embossed it in white on some kraft colored paper and embossed it in white. I decorated the house with Gelli Roll pens. To finish my card, I added a simple sentiment from the Yuletide Mice set...I am thinking about making several more of these to have on hand for the holidays! 

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tim holtz sizzix framelits: snarky cat and distinguished

Hello there crafty friends! Today I have something fun to share with you. Two of our favorite Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous stamp sets now have coordinating Sizzix Framelits dies...

Snarky Cat (CMS392) AND Distinguished (CMS371) 

I don't know about you, but I love having dies to go with my stamps...especially the Snarky Cat. The Snarky Cat dies allow you to make a cat with lots of dimension, as most of them have 3 layers that can be cut and stacked if you wish, and one of the stamps even allows you to cut the opening of the mouth out to make the card even MORE funny. 

I have created 3 different cards with the Snarky Cat set and one with the Distinguished set today to share with you. The first one features 2 of the cats hanging out by a brick wall created with Distress Embossing Glaze...with one cat clearly not interested in the other's predicament...

For the second card, a more traditional Distress Background with inks, oxides and texture paste with a cat featuring one of my favorite sentiments from the Snarky Cat set, 'Did I roll my eyes out loud?' 

For my third snarky cat card, I added the card to a background splattered with neon paint and a kitty tangled up in a bunch of neon thread! He obviously should not be left unsupervised. 



For this card with the DIstinguished set, I went the non-traditional route and added the images to a rainbow Distress Ink Background with an inspirational sentiment. 

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simon says stamp monday challenge: remembrance/thinking of you

Hi crafty friends, welcome to this week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! Thank you for joining us us for last week's 25 Tags of Christmas Challenge. This week our theme is Remembrance/Thinking of You and I have created a card to let a friend know I am thinking of her.

I wanted to go with a fall theme, so I used the Tim Hollz Sizzix Funky Foliage and Funky Wreath dies. I cut out the wreath and used it to create the shape of my wreath by adhering multicolor leaves out of Distress Watercolor cardstock that had been sprayed with Distress Mica Spray. To create the card, I stamped the background panel with the Tiny Text stamp using Frayed Burlap Distress Ink. Then I adhered the wreath to the panel and splattered the card with Distress Mica Spray in Tarnished Brass. I stamped the 'I Miss You' sentiment from the Crazy Talk set and attached it to the wreath. 

The lovely folks at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a $25 voucher to shop at the Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take our your crafty supplies, make something following this week's prompt and add your project to the InLInkz at the bottom of the post on the SImon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog :) All winners are chosen randomly, so anyone can be a winner!!! 

So now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting

 

 

Follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram

 

 

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reverse confetti: november release blog hop

Hi there crafty friends! I am thrilled to be joining Reverse Confetti in a blog hop today for their November Release. Today I am using the new Deerly stamps and dies. Could these little deer be any cuter?!? All of the products in the November release are available to purchase TODAY! 

Some simple stamping and die cutting for this slimline. I cut a slimline panel and a few snowy hills...and lined the edges of each one with glitter. I stamped the trees and arranged them on the hills and colored in the snow with a white gel pen, then covered them with glitter. I stamped the deer onto some kraft cardstock and then colored in the details with some Moonlight pens. 

 

 Reverse Confetti Blog

Amy Kolling

Ali Farmer

Tricia Barber

Lisa Henke

Joan Bardee

Kathy Schweinfurth

Olga Moss

Jeanne Jachna

Jean Manis

Deanne Kuntz

Maria Willis

Cheiron Brandon

Amy Tsuruta

Cindy Norberg

 

november countdown to confetti: day three | reverse confetti

Hi there crafty friends! I am so excited to be joining Reverse Confetti this month + next as a 'Fetti Friend, and super inspired by the newest release that is coming to you on November 8th!

Today I have a card for you featuring the new Yuletide Mice set. Isn't this little fella just the cutest with that sparkly candy lollipop? I have paired the image and sentiment from Yuletide Mice with the Small Plaid Lines Cover Plate using an inlay technique with some festive reds and greens. 

Please be sure to see what the team and the other 'Fetti Friends have designed for you, I am sure you are going to love it! 

 

 Reverse Confetti Blog

Amy Kolling

Tricia Barber

Lisa Henke

Joan Bardee

Kathy Schweinfurth

Jeanne Jachna
Jean Manis

Deanne Kuntz

Maria Willis

Cheiron Brandon

Amy Tsuruta

Cindy Norberg

 

november countdown to confetti: day two | reverse confetti

Hi there crafty friends! I am so excited to be joining Reverse Confetti this month + next as a 'Fetti Friend, and super inspired by the newest release that is coming to you on November 8th!

Today we are featuring The Best Gift of All sentiment stamps and I have paired it with the new Starstruck Cover Panel. The card I created today is super simple. I created a panel of blended Distress Inks in a rainbow of colors (Speckled Egg, Picked Raspberry, Squeezed Lemonade, Shaded Lilac and Dried Marigold) and splattered with the same ink colors and finished with a few sprays of Tsukineko sparkle. I matted the inked panel onto a piece of black card stock for contrast.To finish the card, I added the Peace on Earth sentiment from the Best Gift of All set. This would make a perfect card for anyone during the holiday season, no matter what holidays they may celebrate! 

Please be sure to see what the team and the other 'Fetti Friends have designed for you, I am sure you are going to love it! 

 

 Reverse Confetti Blog

Amy Kolling

Tricia Barber

Lisa Henke

Joan Bardee

Kathy Schweinfurth

Jeanne Jachna
Jean Manis

Deanne Kuntz

Maria Willis

Cheiron Brandon

Amy Tsuruta

Cindy Norberg