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simon says stamp monday challenge: spring/easter

Hi there crafty friends and welcome to another Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Thank you to all who joined our Whatever the Weather Challenge last week and we certainly hope you will join us this week for our Spring/Easter Challenge. This week I have made a cute bunny tag with the Tim Holtz SIzzix Carrot Bunny die. Don't you just love how he holds the carrot? I plan to attach this to a big bag of chocolate carrots to drop off to a friend this week. 

I used the Carrot Bunny die and cut the carrots out of watercolor papers that had been colored with Distress Inks. I added the carrots and bunny to a tag I had covered with a piece of kraft cardstock that I had run through the 3D Intertwined folder and added Grit Paste to. Then I added one of the Idea-ology Sentiments stickers.

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: all the feels blog hop (day 1)

Hello there crafty friends! I am super excited to once again be joining Simon Says Stamp in a blog hop to celebrate their newest release - All the Feels. You should have arrived here from the blog of the amazingly talented Sidnie DesJardins. 

Before I share my card with you today, I want to point out the special code in the graphic above that will give you a Love Your Guts die set with any purchase of $25 or more (while supplies last) - good until 03/28 at 11:59! And also remember to stop by for Day 2 of the hop tomorrow where you will find even more inspiration. 

Today I have made 3 cards for you featuring the brand new Floral Garden stamps. This set has gorgeous outline florals, great for coloring, painting or just plain stamping along with 3 bold sentiments. The first card is super simple and easy to create. I stamped the Floral Garden onto kraft cardstock and added a bit of Black Soot Distress paint spatter. Then I stamped and embossed the Missing You sentiment on white. Very quick to create, and I love the striking look of the black on kraft. 

The second card is just as easy, and perhaps just a but more elegant. For this card I stamped the Floral Garden on a panel that was cut with the Wonky Rectangle die and embossed it with gold embossing powder. 

For my third card, I created a completely different look with by stamping the new Friendship Text stamp then stamping over it with the Floral Garden stamp (lining the panel up on a stamp platform). I painted in the flowers in with DIstress Paints, then once they were dry, I realigned the paper in my stamp platform and stamped the flowers again with Black Soot Archival Distress Ink. 

Simon Says Stamp is giving away a $25 coupon to every stop on the hop to one commenter on each blog!  Simon Says Stamp will choose the winners over the weekend and post on the Simon Says Stamp blog on Wednesday, the 3rd of March.  The winner can email Simon Says Stamp to claim their prize! 

The next stop on the hop is the wonderfully creative Barb Engler ! Please stop by and check out what she has made for you today! To start at the beginning of the hop, please go to the first link (which is the SImon Says Stamp Blog). All the blog hop stops are listed in order below. Thank you for hopping by today!!! 

HOP ORDER: 

Simon Says Stamp Blog   

Nina-Marie Trapani

Caly Person

Nichol Spohr

Jennifer McGuire

Cathy Zielske

Heather Ruwe

Lisa Addesa

Sidnie Des Jardins

Cheiron Brandon

Barb Engler

Lea Lawson

Suzy Plantamura

Amy Rysavy

 

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tim holtz idea-ology: painters vignette tray

Hi there crafty friends! Today I am sharing one of the projects that I made for the latest Tim Holtz Idea-ology release. I created this colorful tray inspired by the Advert Vignette panel used on the bottom of this tray to make a box inspired by painting supplies. I wanted to create a bunch of colorful bottles of paint to add to this project. Let me walk you through the basics...all supplies are listed at the bottom of the post : ) 

To begin, I took my Vignette Tray and painted the entire thing with Black Soot DIstress Paint and lightly sanded it. When the paint was dry, I lined the inside of the box with the beautiful marbled looking paper from the Backdrops 1 paper pack, adhering it with Distress Collage Medium (Matte). Once the paper was adhered, I built out the bottom of the tray. I added the Advert Vignette, which fit perfectly in this box, adding some layers of chipboard behind it to pop it out. I added a piece of Etcetera Pinked Trims to the top of my panel and adhered some Hardware Heads directly to the panel. 

The next thing I did was create the colorful bottles, I wanted them to have the look of liquid, but not be liquid and spill everywhere. I got the idea for using resin from miniature dollhouse drink bottles on Pinterest. To create the bottles, I painted each one with a thin layer of the Distress Matte Medium and let them dry. I mixed up some resin (per the package instructions and poured a little into 7 tiny plastic cups. To color the resin, I added the tiniest drop of Distress Paint to each cup by picking up the paint with the end of a wooden toothpick and stirring it in.  I poured each color into a different bottle and let it dry. To get the corks to stay on, I dipped the bottom of each cork into the corresponding resin color and put into the top of the bottle to dry and harden. To finish the bottles I added different numbers: some Remnant Rubs, some Clippings stickers and some Label Stickers with Remnant Rubs. 

Once the bottles were put into place, I wanted to create a focal element for the tray. I embossed one of the Lace Baseboard Frames with Broken China Distress Embossing Glaze, and backed it with a piece of pattered paper. I added a Paper Doll, some Clippings stickers, one of the new Engraving Layers, and a Mini Flair. I topped the tag with a Factory Tag where I had colored in the letters with a Picket Fence Distress Crayons. I used two long fasteners to attach the tag. I popped the frame up on tiny wooden blocks and adhered the frame to the inside of the box. Finally, I added a knob from the Mini Hardware to the top of the box. I hope you enjoyed this colorful painty project. I really like how the Laboratory and Corked Vials turned out, and can't wait to try them out on future projects. 

 

 

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simon says stamp monday challenge: whatever the weather

Hi there crafty friends and welcome to another Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Thank you to all of you who joined us last week for the Recycle Challenge and I hope you will join us again this week for the Whatever the Weather Challenge. I don't know what the weather is like where you live, but spring keeps trying to appear here. We get little hints of sunny days, then back to winter. I am really wishing for days full of sunshine. 

I created this tag after watching the latest Tim Holtz You Tube live all about Distress Sprays. I always love the look of Distress Spray Stains over Texture Paste so I used some Distress Matte Texture Paste along with the Stampers Anonymous Rays stencil to create my own sunshine this week. Once the paste was dry, I sprayed it with Distress Spray Stains in Squeezed Lemonade, Fossilized Amber and Wild Honey. I inked the edges of the tag with Frayed Burlap DIstress Ink. 

To complete my tag, I added a Paper Doll with Wings cut from the Sizzix 3D Winged die. Then I added some glitter paper stars from the Swirling Stars dies and finished the tag with Clippings stickers and a Remnant Rub. 

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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march 2021: get cracking on christmas

Hi there crafty friends! Welcome to the March 2021 Get Cracking on Christmas Challenge. This is a fun monthly challenge that was started by my friend Jenn Shurkus to challenge people to work on their Christmas cards all year long. I know that my biggest problem last year was addressing ALL the envies, and I also ran out of cards so I was making them at the last minute too. So I plan to do a dozen envelopes each month as well. 

This month, I wanted to make a little stash of cards, and use some things that needed to get more love. One of the things I buy and never seem to use are 6 x 6 paper pads. I love collecting them, and this month, I took one that I have been saving and cut it up to create card front panels. I combined each one with a CZ Design or SImon Says die from my stash and a few clear gemstones. Clean, simple and super easy to create...and I finally got good use out of some of those pretty papers. Please scroll down for a closer look at each card and a full list of supplies, in case you want some of these for your own! This paper pad is no longer available as far as I can tell, but there are a ton of other great ones out there and you may just have some in your stash like me :) 

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simon says stamp monday challenge: recycle

Hi there and welcome to another Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! Thank you for joining us in our Use Green Challenge last week and we hope you will join us this week in the Recycle challenge...this is always a fun one and a great way to think of materials destined for the recycle bin to be turned into art :) This week I finally had a chance to play with all my new Dina Wakley stamps and stencils and follow along with her facebook demo on making a Tab Book. I colored and cut her new Sticky Back Canvas Tape for my tabs. 

I began by putting gesso on different parts of the cardboard and stamped a background in watery paint using images from the Be Bold set. I stamped and colored images from the Ledger Girls set using Scribble Sticks and a wet paintbrush. To create the title for the front of my journal, I used the Block Letters combined with one of the sentiments from Ledger Girls. 

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: use some green

Hello there crafty friends and welcome to another Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Thank you so much for playing along with us in our Art Journaling Challenge last week and we sure hope you will join us again this week. This week our challenge is Use Something Green and we hope you can find something green in your crafty stash to play along with.

This week I have created a tag with all the colors of spring using my favorite green in the Distress line, Cracked Pistachio. I have combined the Cracked Pistachio with Squeezed Lemonade, Dried Marigold and Picked Raspberry Distress Paints to make a fun springy colored tag. I used the Digits and Dotted stencils along with some stamps from the Media Marks 1 and 2 sets to add some interest and textures to the background. 

Once the background was completes, I added a girl and her adorable dog from the Paper Dolls Solos pack and added some Clippings stickers and a heart to finish 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

 

 

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reverse confetti: march new release blog hop

Hi there crafty friends. I am thrilled to be joining my friends at Reverse Confetti today in a Blog Hop to celebrate their newest release…all of these products are available to purchase now!  There are so many cute things for Spring including eggs, bunnies, beautiful flowers and fabulous new cover plates. I have created 3 different cards for you today using some of these new stamps. Be sure to hop along to all the stops on the hop (see full list at the bottom of this post) to see all the inspiration and ideas with these new stamps! 

The first card I made with the new Adorned Egg stamps and dies.  I stamped and colored the egg in the prettiest of pastels, colored the flowers in coordinating colors and added a sparkly bow to the top. This stamp is so fun to color and makes a perfect easter greeting for anyone. For the sentiment I stamped Easter Greetings directly onto the Along the Dotted Lines Cover Panel. 

For my second card, I used the Lily of the Valley stamps and dies to create a soft pink sympathy card. I used some Bazzil Pale Rose Cardstock with the Along the Dotted Lines cover die and cut it to fit on the front of a white notecard. I trimmed it to leave enough room the fit the sentiment underneath it and added a tiny bit of metallic paper. I stamped and embossed the sentiment in gold, then I stamped the flowers in black and colored them in with Copics. To finish the card, I added just a few Metaillic Droplets . 

The third card used the adorable Hop Into Spring stamps and dies...it has so many cute little bunnies! This time, I cut the Along the Dotted Lines cover out of two colors of cardstock and cut them to make grass and a sky. I stamped my sentiment directly onto the blue panel, and then added my colored stamped and die cut images on the card...how cute is that tiny little bee? For a finishing touch, I gave the bee a little flight pattern by drawing dashes with a micron pen.

I hope you enjoyed these cards, please see the full list of stops on the hop and be sure to hop along to see all the inspiration that has been created with this fun new release! 

 

HOP ORDER: 

Reverse Confetti  

Amy Kolling 

Tricia Barber

Kelly Lunceford 

Lisa Henke 

Deanne Kuntz    

Jenny Colacicco  

Kathy Schweinfurth 

Cheiron Brandon  

Dana Joy  

Amy Rohl 

Jeanne Jachna  

Dilay Nacar

Julee Tilman 

Audrey Tokach  

Susan Wymer 

Tina Smith  

Becky Roberts 

Candice Fisher  

Heather Ruwe  

Olga Matyushevskaya 

Amy Tsuruta  

Olga Moss  

 

 

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tim holtz sizzix chapter 1: good luck to you today

Hi there crafty friends! I don't know about you but I am ready for St. Patty's Day...I can't wait for my annual bowl of Lucky Charms :) Today I am sharing a fun home decor frame project that I created for the Tim Holtz Sizzix 2021 Chapter 1 release using the new Lucky Love 3D Impresslit die. Not only does this die cut the Heart and Shamrock shapes, it gives them a wonderful 3D texture too! 

For this home decor project, I kept it pretty basic with a repeating pattern, and one die cut of a different color to draw your eye to the sentiment. To begin I painted a Framed Panel with Antique Linen Distress Paint. I adhered a piece of paper from the Collage Paper Stash using matte Collage Medium and a Distress Collage Brush. If you have not used one of these frames before, the frame and the panel are separate pieces, so we will add the frame back on at the end :)

 I added a bit of Dina Wakley gesso and Distress Crackle Paste in spots over the patterned paper. While the paper was drying, I created my shamrocks. 

To create the shamrocks I used the Lucky Love 3D Impresslits.  I cut 11 of them from DIstress Watercolor Cardstock pieces that I misted lightly with water using my DIstress Sprayer and one from Metallic Gold Kraft Stock. Then using my Splat Box, I sprayed the watercolor card stock shamrocks with Distress Spray Stains in Twisted Citron, Lucky Clover and Rustic Wilderness. Do you need all three? I say yes! It gives the shamrocks a more natural look with the variation of colors. Some of the spray pooled up on my shamrocks and I used a paintbrush to move any really big puddles around. I dried all of the watercolor paper shamrocks with a heat tool and then inked the edges of them with Frayed Burlap Distress Ink. Now it is time to assemble. I planned out where the shamrocks should go and made a mark on my paper with a pencil. 

I applied foam squares to the back of each shamrock (make sure you get foam under each of the leaves so they stand up evenly) and adhered all but the gold one. I then splattered Distress Paint in Tarnished Brass and Picket Fence over the entire piece using a Splatter Brush. When the paint was dry, I adhered the gold Metallic shamrock and then added the sentiment from the Clippings stickers on top of it. As the last step, I glued the frame to the piece with matte DIstress Collage Medium. 

I hope you enjoyed this fun project. It's a great one for St. Patty's day or to have a little luck all year long...

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simon says stamp monday challenge: art journal

Hi there crafty friends! Welcome to another Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! Thank you so much for playing along with us last week in the Anything But A Card challenge and we hope you will join us this week for our Art Journal Challenge. The design team is using products from Dyan Reaveley this week and we hope you will use some too if you have them :) 

This week I created an art journal page in my Dina Wakley Media Journal using Dyan Reaveley Shimmer Sprays in Polished Jade, Black Marble and Lemon Zest as a background. I added layers with the Tim Holtz Plus stencil and some Distress Crackle Texture Paste. When the paste was dry, I added all kinds of new Idea-olgy including a Paper Doll Solos, strips of paper cut from the new Backdrops, a Ticket Book ticket, Mini Marquee Letters, Stitched Scraps 2, Mini Flair and a sticker from the Metallic Sticker Book. 

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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