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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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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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simon says stamp monday challenge: not a card

Hi crafty friends, welcome to this week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! Thank you for joining us us for last week's Spooky challenge. This week we have a brand new challenge and our theme is Not A Card and we'd love to have you play along. This week, I took one of the newer Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous stamps sets - Specimen, that I have only stamped a few times and used it to create a mixed media tag. 

 

For this tag, I used the large moth image from the Specimen set as my focal point. I created a tag using DIstress Paint in Antique Linen and Weathered Wood. Once the paint was dry I added Distress Crackle Texture Paste through the Dotted stencil and sprinkled it with Antique Linen and Weathered Wood Distress Embossing Glazes. I added bits of Typeset Collage Paper, and stamped some imagery from the Faded Type and Stitches stamps. Once everything was dry, I added the stamped the sentiment to the tag with the Tiny Attacher and added the moth image with foam tape. To complete the tag, I splattered the entire tag with Dina Wakley Media Gloss Spray in Gilt, Sand, White and Night over the entire tag.

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: spooky

 

Hi crafty friends, it's time for another challenge over one the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. Thank you for joining us in the All Things Pink Challenge last week and we hope you will join us this week too. 

 

This week our challenge is Spooky and for this week's challenge I have created a spooky vignette tray using all kinds of Tim Holtz Halloween Idea-ology goodness. I took a Vignette Tray and added Halloween Collage Paper to the inside using Distress Collage Medium. I used one of the pieces from the Layers and Baseboard Frames pack along with a Halloween Paper Doll to create my focal image. 

I added some stickers from the Curiosities Sticker Book and a Halloween Quote Chip along with two Hardware Heads to make it look secured to the piece. 


Then I added lots of creepy goodness to the bottom of the tray including a Creepy Eye in a Corked Dome, a Zombie hand and a gravestone from the Cryptic pack and a jar of Wishbones. 

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

 

 

 

So now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting

 

 

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simon says stamp monday challenge: bright and cheerful

Hi crafty friends, it's time for another challenge over one the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. Thank you for joining us in last week's Anything But A Card Challenge and we hope you join us this week too. 

To create my panel, I started by coloring a square 6 inch Ranger Hard Core Art Panel with my favorite bright colors of alcohol inks. Once the panel was dry, I added a mat to it with Gold Metallic Kraft Core paper that I cut to 6 1/4 square. I added this to a Dina Wakley Canvas Panel that I cut down to 9 X 9 and painted with Black Heavy Body Paint. 


I adhered some numerical paper that I sprayed with Distress Resist Spray and embossed in gold to the back of a Baseboard Frame. Now to add the texture to the rest of the piece. To do this without covering everything and to make the splatter seamless, I covered the inside of the frame with paper, and I covered the alcohol ink panel with a piece of scrap paper. I stacked the alcohol ink panel then the frame on top of that onto the black canvas panel. I put it into a box and gave it a few generous sprays of Distress Resist Spray, then added Ranger Gold Embossing Powder and heat embossed it. Then I pulled off the pieces of paper that were covering everything up. 

I love the texture and the look of the splatter that you get when combining Texture Resist Spray and Embossing powder. To finish off the project, I added some Hardware Heads to the corners of the alcohol inked panel. I adhere the paper backed frame onto the center of the panel, then adhered a large Faceted Heart which I had cut out of red Metallic Jewels Kraft Stock. 


For the final touch, I added a Quote Chip under the heart, attached to the frame. 



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

 

 

 

So now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting

 

 

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simon says stamp monday challenge: monochrome

 

 

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Thank you for joining us for the Wrap It Up! Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too!

 

This week our challenge is Monochrome and I created a card with a monochrome background using all of my favorite blue green Distress Inks and Oxides. I love how they look when you combine them together. I sprayed the panel with gold spray and also added a bit of black splatter. I cut the flowers out of Mixed Media Heavystock and Glassine and layered them together for added dimension. 

 

 

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

 

 

 

So now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting

 

 

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simon says stamp monday challenge: masculine

 

 

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Thank you for joining us for the Inspired by A Song Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too!

 

This week the challenge is MASCULINE and I have created a Tim Holtz Etcetera Tag based on the Foundry Tag that says 'The Webb Co, Allentown, PA". I created a the background of my tag by covering it with Metallic Paper that was run through the Foundry 3D Texture Fades Embossing Folder:

 

I added a image from the Found Relatives pack and a combination of a few different words and phrases to tell the story of my piece along with a Foundry Adornment: 

I love the mixture of metals and the patchwork effect of it all together with the different wood accents: 

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

 

 

 

So now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting

 

 

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simon says stamp monday challenge: ombre

 

 

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Thank you for joining us for the Time's Up Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too :) 

 

This week the challenge is OMBRE and this week we are using products from one of my favorite artists and designers Dina Wakley! We would love for you to use some of her products in your challenge entry if you have some. This week I've created an altered tag with tons of Dina's paints.

 

I painted the ombre background onto the tag that I had covered with die cut letters, then removed some paint with a baby wipe through the Dollops stencil. Then I mixed some turquoise paint with crackle paste and added that through the Spaced Dots stencil. Once all of this was dry I added images and a sentiment from the Contour Figures set and colored them with Scribble sticks. I also wet the ends of the scribble sticks and used a paintbrush to flick color over my project. Everything was adhered with Ultra Thick Gel Medium. All supplies are linked at the bottom of this post :) 
 

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

 

 

 

So now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting

 

 

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neat and tangled: classic tag 2

It's Day 4 of the Neat and Tangled release and you know what that means...just one more day until all these awesome stamps are available in the store!!!  Today I am featuring this Classic Tag 2 die which I am sure is going to become a staple in my card making:

Today I've created a trio of painted tags for you...these are always fun to have on hand. They are super easy to adhere to a card or even tie onto a bottle of something :)

Hope you will head over to the Neat and Tangled blog to check out all of the design team inspiration and have a look at another new product that is being featured today. Thank you for all your sweet comments during the week, I truly appreciate them! 

creativation (CHA) 2017: tim holtz sizzix projects

Finally popping in to share samples of some of the projects I created for the Tim Holtz/Sizzix booth. You can see a video of the booth and Tim showing my house project around the 5:25 minute mark and my cards around the 7:06 minute mark here:

 

The first, and probably one of my favorites...these rainbow colored Tiny Houses. These were made by constructing the tiny houses out of chipboard, then covering them with watercolor paper that had been dipped into drops of Distress Spray stain. Lots of stitching and stars to add contrast and roofs made of corrugated textured surfaces painted black. Those beautiful bold Broadway letters are also new. I think I'll be using them a lot on some other projects. 

I also worked with 2 new texture fades to create some cards. The first is with the Roses texture fade, and I created a background with lots of Distress Crayon:

I also created a shaker card using the Flourish texture fade...I think it would be perfect for a wedding.

   

Hope you enjoyed these pics of my work! Thank you to Tim and Paula for having me (again)! It is always such a pleasure to create with your products, especially new ones. 

All of these items are linked below and the new items are available for pre-order at Simon Says Stamp now :) 

 

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RESERVE Tim Holtz Sizzix Die TINY HOUSES Bigz L 661819	RESERVE Tim Holtz Sizzix BROADWAY ALPHA Bigz XL Die 661820	RESERVE Tim Holtz Sizzix ROSES Texture Fades Embossing Folder 661829	RESERVE Tim Holtz Sizzix FLOURISH Texture Fades Embossing Folder 661822	Tim Holtz Idea-ology 2015 TEXTURED SURFACES TH93204	Tim Holtz Flip Top Distress Paint BLACK SOOT Ranger TDF52937
RESERVE Tim Holtz Sizzix HOLIDAY WORDS THIN Thinlits Die 661600	RESERVE Tim Holtz Distress Mini Spray Stain TWISTED CITRON Ranger TSM50278	RESERVE Tim Holtz Distress Mini Spray Stain MERMAID LAGOON Ranger TSM50254	RESERVE Tim Holtz Distress Mini Spray Stain PICKED RASPBERRY Ranger TSM50322	Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain CARVED PUMPKIN Ranger TSS44093	Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain WILTED VIOLET Ranger TSS44154
Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain MUSTARD SEED Ranger TSS42358	RESERVE Tim Holtz Sizzix DOILY Thinlits Die 661497	Tim Holtz Sizzix FRIENDSHIP WORDS BLOCK Thinlits Die 660213	Tim Holtz Sizzix SHAPE STRIPS Thinlits Die 660226	*Tim Holtz Sizzix MINI OLD GLORY Dies Movers & Shapers 657477	Tim Holtz Sizzix Die HEARTFELT Bigz 660233
Tim Holtz Sizzix HANDWRITTEN LOVE Thinlits Die 660218	Tim Holtz Idea-ology CRINKLE RIBBON TH93020	Tim Holtz Idea-ology 2015 DECO SHEETS TH93219

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