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simon says stamp monday challenge: feminine

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 Use Some Green challenge and we hope you will join us again this week too :) 

This week our challenge is FEMININE and I thought this lovely young lady from the Paper Dolls Portraits would be the perfect addition to my card. For the backrgound, I used the Sizzix Arched Embossing Folder and ran my Distress Watercolor Cardstock through it. Then I used some of the new Gilded Tim Holtz Foundry Wax and went over the high points of the embossing, then set the wax with my embossing gun. Once the Foundry Wax was set, I spritzed the panel lightly with water using my Distress Sprayer and used my Distress Inks and a Detailer Waterbrush to paint in the sections of the folder so it resembled stained glass. 

Once the panel was dry, I added a Paper Dolls Portrait with some Transparent Things Wings behind it, a Flash Card and some Snippets Ephemera. To finish the card, I added a Numeric numeral also colored with Foundry Wax. 

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 sizzix: bird and egg dies

Hi there creative friends! Today I am sharing a card I made for last Saturday's You Tube Live with Tim featuring his newest Chapter 1 release with Sizzix. This card with the new Colorize Bird and Egg die seemed to be very popular and so many of you loved the painted look...today I am going to share with you some of my favorite tips and tricks for putting this card together, and more importantly, a super easy way to color the bird using Distress Paints. Let me show you how. If you haven't seen it, I posted a little reel of the painting process over on Instagram as well! 

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. 

I got so many questions about how I put the bird together, so let's create our bird first. To get started, cut the first layer of the bird from the Bird and Egg dies from Blackout Kraft Stock. My easy peasy way to put this bird together is to cut the rest of the bird pieces out of Mixed Media Heavystock. See how all of the dies fit on a half sheet of paper? And let me tell you if you have not tried it yet, the new Big Shot Foldaway cuts these dies like a dream!

If you are not familiar with the colorize dies, they come with engravings on the back of them to let you know how to cut colors and assemble. You can see a video on assembling this die the traditional Colorize way here. 

To begin, I cut the base of the bird out of Blackout Kraftstock. Then I took all the bird pieces (the ones labeled Brown 1-5) from a piece of Distress White Heavy Stock. 

Then I arranged the cut outs in number order and adhered them together with Distress Collage Medium and let it dry. 

Now that the bird is assembled, we are ready to paint! I used Distress Paints in Mustard Seed, Fossilized Amber, Carved Pumpkin, Crackling Campfire (oops forgot to put that one in the photo!), Frayed Burlap, Walnut Stain and Picket Fence.

I always create on my Glass Media Mat , so it was easiest to put a little bit of each paint color there and pick up with a paintbrush. I sprayed my paints a bit with a Distress Sprayer before I started painting. 


I painted the first layer of the bird with Carved Pumpkin and Crackling Campfire. Then I dried the bird with my Ranger Heat Tool. 


Then using a smaller (Round #2 size) brush, I painted in small strokes with Mustard Seed and Fossilized Amber and began to add in the white (don't forget to add a little dot for the catchlight in his eye!) 

Dry the paint between each layer with your heat tool and then keep building the layers. You can see my brushstrokes are very visible and I love the look of that, but do it in whatever style works for you! 

Now that the bird is done, let's go on to the rest of the card. I cut a panel of backdrops and gave it a wash of Picket Fence Distress Paint so some of the text would show through. I assembled the eggs in the same style as the bird gluing together the layers, then painting them.





For the nest, I cut a few panels of Brown Kraft Stocks and then cut them with Simple Plaid die. I cut one of them into a 'nest like' shape and then ripped the others and added them to build the nest. Finally, I cut the world Hello out using the Bold Text 1 dies and some paper from the Warm Kraft Stock Stack and Backed it with a piece of Metallic Cardstock. I stitched some wonky stitching around the outside of the panel and added to a card base. I added Black Soot Distress Paint and Tarnished Brass Splatter over the entire panel to complete the Mixed Media look.

The finished card size is 5 x 7. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and if you tried painting some birds for yourself, please tag me @cheiron on Instagram if you share! 

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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

 

 

Follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram

 

 

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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

 

 

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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