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simon says stamp monday challenge: use your favorite technique

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Thank you for playing along with us last week in the  challenge and we hope you will join us again this week too :) 

This week our challenge is Use Your Favorite Technique and I have used one of the very first (and still favorite techniques) that I learned...Distress Ink Blending. I cut a tag from Distress Watercolor Cardstock. I blended Distress Inks in Picked Raspberry, Saltwater Taffy, Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint, Mermaid Lagoon and Wilted Violet. I sprayed them with water using a Distress Sprayer, lightly blotted them with a towel and then dried the tag with my heat tool. 

Once my tag was dry, I stamped it with images from the Floral Outline set using Black Soot Archival Distress Ink. Once the ink was dry, I ran the tag through the Dotted 3D Texture Fades to give it even more texture. To finish my tag, I added some stitching and a sentiment from the Noteworthy stamp set. 

See full supply list at the bottom of this post :)  

The lovely folks over at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a FABULOUS $25 voucher to shop at the Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take out your crafty supplies, make something following this week’s prompt, and add a link in the Inlinkz at the bottom of this post! You can join up to 5 times so you could have 5 chances to win! How AWESOME is that!! All winners are chosen randomly, so everyone has an equal chance to win! Woo Hoo!! Good Luck to everyone! The Design Team is looking forward to seeing your crafty makes and will pop around to visit you ASAP!

You can find links to the supplies I've used below; click on the picture of shop icon to get taken directly to the product. I use affiliate links which means if you use them to make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you :) I truly appreciate your support. 

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simon says stamp monday challenge: architecture/buildings

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Thank you for playing along with us last week in the  challenge and we hope you will join us again this week too :) 

This week our challenge is Architecture/Buildings and I have created a fun card using the buildings and clouds from the Christmas Cutouts dies. I cut all of the pieces out of Distress Watercolor Cardstock and lightly ink blended the buildings in a rainbow of Distress Inks and also added a little color to the clouds. I stamped the sentiment from the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Life Quotes stamps in Black Soot Distress Archival Ink, then arranged all of my pieces around it, popping up some of the houses and clouds with foam adhesive. Once the panel was created, I added foam adhesive to the back of it and adhered it to a card base. 

See full supply list at the bottom of this post :)  

The lovely folks over at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a FABULOUS $25 voucher to shop at the Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take out your crafty supplies, make something following this week’s prompt, and add a link in the Inlinkz at the bottom of this post! You can join up to 5 times so you could have 5 chances to win! How AWESOME is that!! All winners are chosen randomly, so everyone has an equal chance to win! Woo Hoo!! Good Luck to everyone! The Design Team is looking forward to seeing your crafty makes and will pop around to visit you ASAP!

You can find links to the supplies I've used below; click on the picture of shop icon to get taken directly to the product. I use affiliate links which means if you use them to make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you :) I truly appreciate your support. 

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simon says stamp monday challenge: whatever the weather

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Thank you for playing along with us last week in the Emboss It challenge and we hope you will join us again this week too :) 

This week our challenge is Whatever the Weather and I am all about the sunshine and rainbows! To create this clean and simple card, I ink blended a background of rainbow colored Distress Inks, added a sunshine from the Tim Holtz Sizzix Circle Play set, and some clouds from the Christmas Cutouts that I had blended with ink on the edges. I added splatter around the card in all the same rainbow colors and a simple sentiment from the Noteworthy set. 

See full supply list at the bottom of this post :)  

The lovely folks over at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a FABULOUS $25 voucher to shop at the Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take out your crafty supplies, make something following this week’s prompt, and add a link in the Inlinkz at the bottom of this post! You can join up to 5 times so you could have 5 chances to win! How AWESOME is that!! All winners are chosen randomly, so everyone has an equal chance to win! Woo Hoo!! Good Luck to everyone! The Design Team is looking forward to seeing your crafty makes and will pop around to visit you ASAP!

You can find links to the supplies I've used below; click on the picture of shop icon to get taken directly to the product. I use affiliate links which means if you use them to make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you :) I truly appreciate your support. 

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simon says stamp monday challenge: frame it

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Thank you for playing along with us last week in the Alcohol challenge and we hope you will join us again this week too :) 

This week our challenge is Frame It and I have used a Lace Baseboard Frame along with images from the new Floral Elements stamps to frame my main image. The main image is a butterfly image stamped from the new Botanic Collage stamps on a background of Distress Oxides in Cracked Pistachio, Squeezed Lemonade and Kitsch Flamingo.

The Lace Baseboard frame was colored with Kitsch Flamingo Distress Ink. I then stamped and watercolored a bunch of leaves from the Floral Elements set with Distress Ink in Cracked Pistachio and cut them out and used them to make more of a frame around my project. To finish the card, I added some Hardware Heads that I colored with Mushroom Alcohol Ink to the corners of the frame and a bit of white spatter and an embossed sentiment from the Noteworthy stamps set. 

The lovely folks over at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a FABULOUS $25 voucher to shop at the Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take out your crafty supplies, make something following this week’s prompt, and add a link in the Inlinkz at the bottom of this post! You can join up to 5 times so you could have 5 chances to win! How AWESOME is that!! All winners are chosen randomly, so everyone has an equal chance to win! Woo Hoo!! Good Luck to everyone! The Design Team is looking forward to seeing your crafty makes and will pop around to visit you ASAP!

You can find links to the supplies I've used below; click on the picture of shop icon to get taken directly to the product. I use affiliate links which means if you use them to make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you :) I truly appreciate your support. 

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tim holtz new distress coming soon!!!

Just a note to let you know that the newest color of Tim Holtz Distress will be revealed on June 18th! You can reserve yours now at Simon Says Stamp to make sure you get all the colorful Distress goodness you need to add to your collection. 

You can find links to the supplies I've used below; click on the picture of shop icon to get taken directly to the product. I use affiliate links which means if you use them to make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you :) I truly appreciate your support. 

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You can find links to the supplies I've used below; click on the picture of shop icon to get taken directly to the product. I use affiliate links which means if you use them to make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you :) I truly appreciate your support. 

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simon says stamp: masculine

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Thank you for playing along with us last week in the Wild and Wonderful challenge and we hope you will join us again this week too :) 

This week our challenge is Masculine and the design team is using products from Tim Holtz. I created a card using one of my favorite guys from the Paper Dolls Portraits. I placed him on a background that I made by embossing Black Alcohol Ink Cardstock with the Circuit Texture Fade and went over with Statue Foundry Wax. Then I created a small panel from one of my Backdrops 3 papers to build my collage using the Portraits Paper Doll, some Memoir Ephemera, Ephemera Snippets, Number Strips a Gauge Dial, and a Metallic Sticker. To complete it I added an Adornments Star, also colored with Foundry Wax and colored the Paper Doll a bit with Distress Crayons. 

See full supply list at the bottom of this post :)  

The lovely folks over at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a FABULOUS $25 voucher to shop at the Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take out your crafty supplies, make something following this week’s prompt, and add a link in the Inlinkz at the bottom of this post! You can join up to 5 times so you could have 5 chances to win! How AWESOME is that!! All winners are chosen randomly, so everyone has an equal chance to win! Woo Hoo!! Good Luck to everyone! The Design Team is looking forward to seeing your crafty makes and will pop around to visit you ASAP!

You can find links to the supplies I've used below; click on the picture of shop icon to get taken directly to the product. I use affiliate links which means if you use them to make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you :) I truly appreciate your support. 

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tim holtz distress saltwater taffy: distress ink blended sunset

Hello creative friends!  A super simple (but vibrant) ink blended card for you today with the newest Distress Color, Saltwater Taffy. This one is super simple to create. I took a piece of White Mixed Media Heavystock, and blended Distress Inks in (from the bottom up) Squeezed Lemonade, Tattered Rose, Saltwater Taffy, Spiced Marmalade, Victorian Velvet, and Wilted Violet. 


To finish the card, I added some bold black accents including a sentiment from the Bold Sayings stamp set and some palm trees cut from the (sadly retired) Tim Holtz Tropical set, but you could combine any leaves and branches you have for a similar look! 

You can find links to the supplies I've used below; click on the picture of shop icon (the little Simon dog) to get taken directly to the product. I use affiliate links which means if you use them to make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you :) I truly appreciate your support. 

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villainous potion distress: all is calm all is bright card

Hi there crafty friends! Today I am sharing another card created with the newest color of Distress, Villainous Potion. This time, I turned into into a a peaceful wintry scene. The inspiration for the sky on this card came from the amazing Stacy at Tattered Nest Designs...check out her tutorial HERE. I created the sky on my panel in a similar manner using Distress Oxide Sprays in Villainous Potion, Milled Lavender, Victorian Velvet and some Distress Mica Spray in Crooked Broomstick along with a Moon Mask. I stenciled in the inside of the moon using the layering stencil that comes with the masks and some Pumice Stone Distress Ink. This card is a slimline card and my panel measures 3 3/4 x 8 1/4. 


Then I stamped the All is Calm, All is Bright sentiment from the Mini Bold Tidings stamps in Villainous Potion Distress Oxide. I cut the Mountain Top Thinlints Die and went over the mountains with Milled Lavender (top panels) and Victorian Velvet Distress Oxides. For the snow cap pieces, I went over them with a bit of Snowfall Grit Paste from the Seasonal Distress Holiday Texture set. For the tall pines, I cut them from Distress Watercolor cardstock and embossed them with Villainous Potion Distress Embossing Glaze. I love the shine and dimension it gives to the trees. 


To put it all together, I added a the Mountain Top die cuts to the card panel using Distress Collage Medium (matte). I turned the panel over and trimmed off any overhang. Then I added a piece of white cardstock that I cut to make a hill. Next, I added the glazed Tall PInes and also turned the panel over to trim off the excess. Finally, I masked off the sentiment with a post it note and added a splatter of Picket Fence Distress Paint over the rest of the panel. Once the panel was dry, I adhered it to a 4 x 8 1/2 notecard using foam tape. Hope you enjoyed creating this scene with me! 

You can find links to the supplies I’ve used below; click on the picture or shop icon to get taken directly to the product. I use affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. I truly appreciate your support:)

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villanious potion fall leaves card

Hi there crafty friends! Today I have a card to share with you using the newest Distress color, Villainous Potion. I love the combo of fall colors on this one, and I used so many of the new products on it including the Distress Ink, Oxide, Oxide Spray and Distress Embossing Glaze. To create this card, I started by making the main panel and embossing a piece of Distress Watercolor Cardstock with the Foliage Texture Fades Embossing folder. I ran mine through my Vagabond three times. 


I used some Simon Says Stamp blending brushes to blend Distress Inks in Villainous Potion, Fossilized Amber, Carved Pumpkin, Festive Berries and Aged Mahogany. I made circles of each color then added some more layers being careful about the colors I was blending next to each other. I gave it a mist of water and then dried it with my heat tool and added some wonky stitching to the outside edge. 

To create the leaves, I cut 2 leaves from the Sizzix Skeleton Leaves dies and colored one with Villainous Potion Distress Oxide Spray and the other with Villainous Potion Distress Embossing Glaze. I love the contrast of the soft leaf and the super shiny one. Finally, to finish the card, I stamped a sentiment from the Stampers Anonymous Observations stamp set onto a piece of kraft colored cardstock using the Villainous Potion Distress Oxide Ink Pad. I adhered the panel to an A2 kraft notecard, adhered the leaves to the panel, and then added the sentiment over it using foam tape. 

I hope you will try this combo out for yourself! If you do, I would love it if you tagged me. If you are not following me on Instagram, I would love it if you did as well :) 

You can find links to the supplies I’ve used below; click on the picture or shop icon to get taken directly to the product. I use affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. I truly appreciate your support.

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new tim holtz distress: villanious potion

The newest color of TIm Holtz Distress is here! Welcome to the family Villainous Potion… Here’s a look at the new products and a quick peek at some of the colorful cards I made with them. I will be sharing all these cards over the next week or two. 💜💜💜⁠ ...⁠ Want to get this amazing new color for yourself? Simon Says Stamp has it available right now!

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