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tim holtz sizzix: welcome spring wallhanging

Hello there crafty friends! I hope you all had a Happy Easter if you celebrated :) I just took down all the Eater decorations and am ready for some Spring decor. I created this small wallhanging for Spring with brand new Chapter 2 Tim Holtz Sizzix dies, mixing them with some of my favorites from Chapter 1. I combined Brushstroke Flowers 1, 2 and 3 along with the Alphanumeric Stretch Lower and Alphanumeric Bold dies.

This project was super easy to create. I got a small wood frame (made to alter for your favorite craft projects) from the craft store, I think this one was about $4 dollars. I painted the inside of the wood frame with Evergreen Bough Distress Paint and the outer frame with Picket Fence Distress Paint and let it dry. 

I selected a color palette for my project and cut a bunch of flowers and leaves from Sizzix surfaces felt, glued the pieces with layers and put them aside. I cut the word Spring from the Alphanumeric stretch lower dies from white cardstock backed with adhesive foam for dimension. I also cut the word welcome from the Alphanumeric Bold from black cardstock backed with adhesive foam. 

To assemble this piece, I added my foam backed sentiment with Distress Collage Matte Medium, then I arranged the flowers around the frame. When all the pieces were adhered, I replaced the jute that came with the frame with some May Arts twine. 

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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: love/hearts

Hello crafty friends! It's time for another Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge...this week our theme is Love/Hearts and the Design Team is using products from Carabelle Studio. I have created a fun mixed media tag for you today using the Carabelle Studio Pearl stamp as my focal image. I stamped and colored Pearl with Tim Holtz Distress Inks, using them as watercolors, and cut it out leaving a small border. 

To create the background of my tag, I added bits of Botanical Collage Paper and then covered the tag with a thin coat of gesso. I applied Distress Paint in Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick and Candied Apple then while it was still wet, used a damp baby wipe to remove the paint through the Dotted Stencil, leaving some fun round texture. I then dried the background with a heat tool. I stamped some marks with the Mini Media Marks stamps. 

I built up a few layers on the tag using DIna Wakley Media Just Words Collage Paper and some Ephemera attached with a tiny attacher. I added tons of hearts using the Falling Hearts die and finished my tag with a Small Talk Sentiment Sticker. 

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: floral frenzy

Hi crafty friends, welcome to this week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! Thank you to all of you who played along with us last week in our All Loved Up Challenge and I hope you will join us again this week. This week our theme is Floral Frenzy and the design team is using products from Prima and I hope you all will give this challenge a try and share your creation with us :) For my card this week, I used the new Tim Holtz/Sizzix Bouquet die and colored it in with the Bright Colors from the Prima Pastel Dreams watercolor set (and the black from the Classics set).  

I loosely colored areas on the back panel with all of the warm colors, then when it was dry adhered the die cut panel and colored the same colors on top of it, leaving a bit of white space. When that was dry, I went back in and carefully colored in the flower centers with the black watercolor from the Classics set. 


Once the entire panel was dry, I die cut the CZ Design Miss You die and assembled it and I also cut a base out of white craft foam for dimension and adhered it behind the die before adding to the card. I added a skinny sentiment strip with a sentiment from the CZ Design Like You set to complete the card. 

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: anything but a card

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 Frightful Things Challenge and I hope you will join in the fun this week for the Not A Card Challenge. This week I have created a Tim Holtz Vignette Tray using a Watercolor Galaxy Background that I created. I added a few layers to the tray, including a Salvaged Baseboard, some Ephemera, a Photo Booth photo and a Quote Chip. 


I finished off the outside of the tray with some Idea-ology Design Tape, then I filled in the entire tray with shiny stars cut from the Radiant die from Metallic Kraft Stock and Swirling Stars dies that were cut from Distress Watercolor card stock that was painted with a wash of gold watercolor. 


So much sparkle and shine on this one and I love the contrast between the dark sky and the gold! 



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

 

 

 

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simon says stamp monday challenge: feminine/girly

 

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 Whatever the Weather Challenge and I hope you will join us this week too! 

 

This week our challenge is Feminine/Girly and I've created a fun and colorful card with new Dina Wakley Media stamps and stencils. 

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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tim holtz holiday inspiration series: christmas cheer

I'm so excited to be joining a group of talented crafters sharing holiday projects with you during the month of November and beginning of December using all the latest holiday stamps and products from Tim Holtz!  All the projects will be showcasing products from the new Holiday Season release. If you have not seen everything that has come out this season you can watch all of the Facebook Live product release videos HERE and just in case you miss any of the projects Tim will be sharing a weekly recap each Saturday over on his Blog. Today I have a card featuring three stamp sets: 

This was a fun and simple card to make. I stamped the word Christmas and embossed it with gold embossing powder, then stamped the word cheer in Jet Black Archival Ink. To create the snowflakes I used Distress Paints in Tarnished Brass, Brushed Pewter and Antique Bronze to create my snowflakes in different colors. It is super easy to "ink" up your stamps with paint using a foam blending tool. Be sure to clean your stamps off right away when you are done! 

 To finish off the card, I added a few of the Idea-ology Fluted stars, which I also painted with the same colors of paint.

simon says stamp monday challenge: make a wish

This week the theme for the challenge over at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog is Make A Wish!

 

I made this little tag this week as a reminder to keep on believing. I started off by painting two tags with Distress Paint in Mustard Seed and Victorian Velvet, and cutting one with the Mixed Media 2 die and layering them together. I added Alphanumeric Marquee letters, some remnant rubs, big chat and a mirrored star. I finished the tag up with some Crinkle Ribbon colored with Distress Stain and a spritz with my marker spritzer.

 
Be sure to stop back and play along with us in a new challenge each Monday! 

Simon Says Stamp is giving away a $50 gift voucher that will go to one random challenge entry. So please join us for this week's challenge at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. You might also be on our Friday Designer Spotlight. Good luck, I can't wait to see what you make!

 

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You can find all the supplies I've used right here in the Simon Says Stamp store....full supply list below.