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simon says stamp monday challenge: wild with washi

Hello crafty friends! Welcome to another Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Thank you for all who played along with our challenge last week and we hope you will join us again this week! This week our challenge is Wild With Washi...time to pull out all of those washi tapes you have been collecting :) 

For my card this week I created a Mini Slimline size Mixed Media panel, which is the perfect way to send some art to a friend. I started by creating this panel with Distress Watercolor Cardstock and Distress Paints in Kitsch Flamingo, Picked Raspberry, Candied Apple, Evergreen Bough and Carved Pumpkin, etching into the paint in some places. I blended them then dried them misting them with water from my Distress Sprayer as I went along. I added some stenciled layers using the Plus and Mini Stitches stencils and Black Soot Distress Paint. When that was dry, I added stamping in Distress Oxides using the Media Marks 1 and Media Marks 2 stamp sets. I stamped the frond and embossed it onto black paper and fussy cut it. I added some Washi from the Chatter Design Tape set and also added an Idea-ology Small Talk sticker to finish my card. 

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

 

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prize ribbon distress: butterfly card

A quick and easy card today, and a fun way to make a patterned paper out of supplies you already have on hand. For this card I cut a panel of Distress Watercolor Cardstock to 3 3/4 x 5. I put a border of washi tape around the edges to mask it off, then I stamped the butterfly from the Tiny Things 2 set in a pattern using Distress Oxides in Prize Ribbon, Tattered Rose, Picked Raspberry, Crushed Olive, Evergreen Bough and Pumice Stone. I love the combination of these bright colors! Once the ink was dry, I carefully removed the tape to reveal the crisp white border. 

To finish the card, I added a 3D Impresslits Butterfly, and a simple sentiment from the Idea-olgy Quotations Metallic Sticker Pack. I foam taped the panel to a white A2 size notecard. You can do this with any tiny stamp in your collection, I love the tiny butterflies paired with the simple white die cut. 

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prize ribbon distress: embossing glaze bouquet card

Hi there creative friends. Today I have a card for you with the new Distress color, Prize Ribbon. I have been asked so many questions about this card, so I took a few photos today so you could see the process.

This bouquet card was created using the new Prize Ribbon Distress Embossing Glaze along with the Distress Oxide to give it a super dark color. I have also layered embossing glazes on other projects in the past to make that color really shine. Here is a link to a project using Salvaged Patina and another link to a project using Kitsch Flamingo that I created for the Ranger Ink Blog (with a tutorial). Also one more with a Distress Embossing Glazed typewriter :) this was an all time Instagram favorite. If you are not following me over on Instagram, I would love it if you did! 

I have created a few step out photos that will hopefully make the process really easy. First, I want to give you a quick look at Prize Ribbon Distress Oxide next to what it looks like when you add the Distress Embossing Glaze. 

To create the card, I die cut the Sizzix Bouquet Thinlits out of a piece of Distress Watercolor Cardstock measuring 4 1/2 x 5 3/4 and punched out all the little pieces using the Sizzix Die Brush and Pick Accessory Kit. If you don't have one of these, it's perfect to help get all those little pieces out of your detailed die cuts easily. It is essentially a foam pad and a brush with wire bristles that you roll over the paper with the foam underneath. 

Once I had all the pieces punches out, I blended over the panel with Prize Ribbon Distress Oxide, then poured the Distress Embossing Glaze over the wet ink and embossed it with my embossing gun. After it cooled I added Distress Collage Medium to the back (being careful to add it to all those small areas) and added another piece of Distress Watercolor Cardstock underneath. (Yes, I know I still have to paint, and I will show you my tip for that) I placed an acrylic block over the top of it and let it dry. 


Once the panel was glued. I put some Distress Inks in Mustard Seed, Fossilized Amber and Ripe Persimmon onto my Glass Media Mat and sprayed them with water using my Distress Sprayer. 

I painted over the panel and filled in areas with watercolor with a big watercolor brush. This allows me to build layers and any watercolor that is left on the die cut piece can be wiped away with a cloth once the watercolor paper underneath is dry. It also allows me to see where I need more color as I go along. 

I colored in the entire panel, let it dry, then wiped away any excess watercolor. 

To finish the card, I added a sentiment from the Observations set stamped in Prize Ribbon Distress Oxide, and embossed with Prize Ribbon Distress Embossing Glaze. I adhered the entire panel using foam tape to a 5 X 6 1/4 card base. 

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial and be sure to take a peek at the other projects I mentioned above if you'd like to see more Distress Embossing Glaze Techniques. 

 

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sea life card using prize ribbon distress oxide

Hi there creative friends! Today I have a super easy card for you. When I saw the new Distress color, Prize Ribbon, I knew it would be perfect for a nautical card using one of my all time favorite Stampers Anonymous stamp sets, Sea Life.

This one is SUPER easy to create, and I love it on the long slimline size. To make it, cut a panel of Distress Watercolor cardstock to 3 1/4 x 8 1/4. Then stamp all the images in the Sea Life set to make a pattern. You can use a stamp platform if you like. Just a tip: when I am creating a pattern like this, I want it to look sort of random. I started by stamping the octopus (not in the center but slightly off center and stamping the other images around it allowing them to hang off the panel. When I was done stamping, I dried the panel with my heat tool. 

To finish the card, I stamped a sentiment from the Simple Sayings set (the label is included) and then added two hardware heads that I inked with Mushroom Alcohol Ink with Distress Collage Medium to look like the label was screwed on to the panel. I used foam tape to mount my Sea Life panel onto an 3 1/2 x 8 1/2 card . That's it! Super simple and the Oxide stamping gives a clean crisp look. 

All of the Prize Ribbon Distress products are available to purchase in the Simon Says Stamp shop. I have affiliate links to all the new products and all of the products I used today. Shopping through them helps support me at no additional cost to you, so if you use them, I thank you in advance :) 

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simon says stamp monday challenge: food and/or drink

Hello crafty friends! Welcome to another Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Thank you for all who played along with our Lazy Days of Summer challenge last week and we hope you will join us again this week! This week our challenge is Food and/or Drink and I've pulled out an old favorite Stampers Anonymous stamp set, Cocktail Blueprints along with the newest color in the Distress line, Prize Ribbon. 

To create this tag, I stamped the cocktail twice and colored one in with Distress Inks and added some background stamping. The second one I stamped on to a panel and cut with Distress Inks then fussy cut it on the black line.  I layered the colored in one on top with foam tape and added it to a background of Prize Ribbon Oxide sprayed over Distress Kraft Heavystock. 

 

 

 

 

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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faux cyanotype with distress spray stain

Hi there crafty friends! I hope you enjoyed all of the Prize Ribbon inspiration yesterday. I am thrilled to have a new color in the DIstress Family, I have already tried so many color combos with it and can not wait to try even more. I'll be sharing all of my makes over the next week and giving details about each card, including supplies. 

This card was one of the easiest to make. I started by cutting a panel of Distress Watercolor Cardstock to 4 x 5 1/4 in. I stamped and embossed the leaves from the Leaf Prints set all over the panel using Versamark and embossed them with Ranger White Superfine Embossing Powder. Once the embossing was cooled, I put my panel into a Splat Box and misted it with water using a Distress Sprayer, then sprayed it with Prize Ribbon Distress Spray Stain. I dried it with my heat tool and sprayed a little more water as I was drying it to move the stain around. 

Once the panel was dry, I added foam tape to the back of it and adhered it to a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 in card base. To create the sentiment in a coordinating color, I stamped the sentiment from the Observations set in Prize Ribbon Distress Oxide and Embossed it with Prize Ribbon Distress Embossing Glaze. This was a super easy fun and card to create, and I hope you will try it out for yourself :)

All of the Prize Ribbon Distress products are available to purchase in the Simon Says Stamp shop. I have affiliate links to all the new products and all of the products I used today. Shopping through them helps support me at no additional cost to you, so if you use them, I thank you in advance :) 

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new tim holtz distress: prize ribbon

Hi there crafty friends! What an exciting weekend, time for a brand new color of Distress…hope you like Prize Ribbon as much as I do! I welcome any new color into the Distress family. When I get a new color, I like to swatch it out to see where it fits in with the color family and also like to see what other fun color combinations I can make with the colors that I already own (and that would be all of them). 

Thanks so much to Simon Says Stamp for sending me a set of this gorgeous new color! Are you following me over on Instagram, I am giving an entire set away to one lucky follower with a US address, just head to my giveaway post there. 

Today, I have 3 fun cards to share with 3 totally different color combination looks. I will go through each card and tell you how I made it and show my swatch cards of colors for each. The best thing about these swatch cards is that I can take them out and play around with them just like paint samples to make color combinations or to see if the colors look good together before actually putting all the effort into making a project. If you share any of these combos over on Instagram, I'd love it if you tagged me and use the hashtag #cheironscolorcombos so I can see what you made :) 

For the first card, I kept it simple just blending 3 colors: Prize Ribbon, Salvaged Patina and Tumbled Glass Distress Oxides. I used the Vine Canopy Embossing Folder and blended the Oxides right onto the folder before running it through my die cut machine. I added a few spritzes of Distress Mica Spray in Brushed Pewter and then added some Etched Laurel Leaves die cuts cut from both white and vellum cardstock. I finished the card with an Encouraging Words sentiment strip. 

Distress Color Combo: Prize Ribbon, Salvaged Patina, Tumbled Glass

For the second card, I wanted to play around with some Distress Inks as Watercolors. I added some of the ink to my glass mat (by pressing the ink pads into it) and picked it up with a paintbrush and painted a pattern onto Distress Watercolor cardstock using Prize Ribbon, Tattered Rose, Crackling Campfire and Cracked Pistachio. I dried the paper between each color with a heat tool to prevent the colors from mixing together too much leaving some white space. When the final color was dry, I added some stamping using the Tim Holtz Mini Media Marks stamps and Distress Archival Ink in Hickory Smoke. I cut the paper using an older Simon Says Stamp heart die, but you could use the Large Holiday Shapes or any other small heart dies you have to get a similar effect. After I cut the hearts, I did add a little more color to a couple of the hearts using my paintbrush. I added them all to a Paper Bag card base using foam tape and finished the card with a CZ Design Love Reverse Sentiment Strip. 





Distress Combo: Prize Ribbon, Crackling Campfire, Cracked Pistachio, Tattered Rose (and some stamping in Pumice Stone)

 

For my third card, I wanted a super bright palette. And why not blue leaves? They really seem to make this pattern pop. I stamped the Outline Leaves stamp and embossed in in gold. Then I painted it in using Distress Inks in Prize Ribbon, Lucky Clover, Worn Lipstick, Picked Raspberry, Twisted Citron, Dried Marigold and painted the entire background with Salvaged Patina. I finished the card by spattering it with some Prize Ribbon and adding the CZ Design Swoopy Thank You that I embossed in gold. 

Distress Combo: Prize Ribbon,Worn Lipstick, Picked Raspberry, Dried Marigold, Twisted Citron, Lucky Clover (on a background of Salvaged Patina) 

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get cracking on christmas: july 2021 (and a GIVEAWAY!)

UPDATED: THE WINNER OF THE GIVEAWAY IS: Richard! I have sent you a message so I can get your prize to you! Remember, I will never ask you to register or sign up for anything to get your prize. Thanks to all who left such lovely comments. 

Hello there crafty friends and thank you for joining us for another month of Get Cracking on Christmas. This fun challenge was started by my friend Jenn Shurkus as a way to work on your Christmas cards all year long. I love to work on some special cards for certain people throughout the year. I always love a good rainbow Christmas card...you can see some others I have made over the years here, here, here, and even here!

I have something really special for your this month, we are celebrating Christmas in July with giveaways! I wanted to give something that everyone worldwide could enter to win. My giveaway is a $25 gift card to Simon Says Stamp, so you can pick out your own gift (which is exactly what I like to do!). All you need to do is leave a comment on this post and you will be entered to win. I will select a winner on Monday, July 19th and update this post :) 

For this card, I wanted to use the Reverse Confetti Wreath of Joy die. I have wanted it for a while, and finally just added it to my cart in my last Simon order. It is so cute and there are so many possibilities with it. To create my card, I ink blended a panel of Distress Watercolor Cardstock with my favorite rainbow of Distress Inks: Picked Raspberry, Carved Pumpkin, Mustard Seed, Twisted Citron, Peacock Feathers, and Wilted Violet. I misted the panel with some water and blotted off the droplets then misted it generously with Tsukineko Sparkle Sheer Shimmer Spritz which really makes the color pop! I cut the die, letters and leaves and arranged the word Joy. I gently folded each leaf shape in half to give it some dimension and adhered it with a Lawn Fawn glue tube. I added a couple of red Studio Katia Lipstick Red Crystals to the wreath to look like "berries'. 

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simon says stamp monday challenge: lazy days of summer

Hi there crafty friends! Welcome to another Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge...thank you to all who joined us last week for our Fun and Quirky Challenge and we hope you will join us again this week too! 

This week our challenge is Lazy Days of Summer and I created a fun mixed media tag using these 3 ladies from Found Relatives who seem to be celebrating the Lazy Days of Summer on a cruise. I started my tag with some layers of Distress Paint in Salty Ocean, Mermaid Lagoon and Cracked Pistachio. I added stamping in Distress Archival Ink using the Stampers Anonymous Sea Life, Mesh and Linen, and Field Notes stamps. I added my Found Relatives photo and added a little interest around it with Distress Crayons. I attached a number from the Mini Marquee Letters, added some texture paste through the Stitches stencil and a little Snarky Small Talk as a sentiment. 

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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reverse confetti: july 2021 creative hop

Hello there crafty friends and welcome to the Reverse Confetti July Creative Hop. You should have arrived here from the blog of the amazing Ali Farmer.

I am thrilled to join Reverse Confetti to celebrate their new release which is available to purchase right now! Today I have a simple Mixed Media Style card for you using the new Circle of Waves die along with a sentiment from the Oceans of Love stamp set. 

 

To create this card was super easy. I had a panel of Distress Watercolor Cardstock which I sprayed with DIstress Spray Stains in Mermaid Lagoon, Twisted Citron, Peacock Feathers and Salty Ocean. When my panel was dry, I cut it using the circle of waves dies. I inked the edges of all the pieces with Frayed Burlap Distress Ink and adhered it using foam tape to a 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 square panel of white cardstock. I added some splatter using Dina Wakley Gloss Sprays in White and Night. Once the splatter was dried, I added the sentiment from the Oceans of Love set (white embossed on black cardstock). To finish my card, I added a few teeny tiny hearts that I cut with the Love is in the Air coordinating. That's it! Super easy and simple and I love the look...

Your next stop on the hop is the always delightful Dilay Nacar...I am sure she has something wonderful for you! 

 

HOP ORDER: 

Reverse Confetti Blog

Kelly Lunceford

Amy Kolling

Tricia Barber

Amy Rohl

Lisa Henke

Deanne Kuntz

Becky Roberts

Tracy Ware

Ali Farmer

Cheiron Brandon

Dilay Nacar

Jeanne Jachna

Heather Ruwe

Kelly Griglione

Audrey Tokach

Jenny Colacicco

Olga Moss

Candice Fisher

Michelle Short

Olga Matyushevskaya

Amy Tsuruta

Joe Sysavath

 

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