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simon says stamp monday challenge: christmas

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 Christmas and I have combined the Tim Holtz Sizzix Trim A Tree along with the Winter Woodlands stamps to create this colorful rainbow tree tag. 

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

I tried to take some step by step photos this week in case you want to follow along! 


Step 1: Cut some panels of Distress Watercolor Cardstock. Inside of a Splat Box, spray them with Distress Mica Stains and let dry or dry with a heat tool. 


Step 2: Lay out all the pieces for each tree, and ink the edges with a contrasting color of Distress Ink. I'll share all the colors I used below. 


Step 3: To create smaller trees just "trim" the tree under the score line on the more solid images. See Tim's You Tube on how to do this over on his video (about min 24:40) in the video. 

Step 4: To get the edges of those layers extra inky, slide a piece of scrap paper underneath while you are inking :) Then adhere all your tree pieces together. 


Step 5: Colors to shade edges: Picked Raspberry, Ripe Persimmon, Fossilized Amber, Rustic Wilderness 

Step 6: Colors to shade edges: Lucky Clover, Uncharted Mariner, Dusty Concord

Step 7: Stamp background stamp from Rustic wilderness onto a 3 3/4 x 6 panel using Pumice Stone Distress Oxide. 

Step 8: Emboss image using Pumice Stone Distress Embossing Glaze and emboss with embossing heat tool. Repeat two more times so you have 3 of these panels. 

Step 9: Create woodgrain panels for your background (I did this but in the end found it was not necessary because it all got covered up). Cut woodgrain paper into 1 1/2 inch strips and ink the edges, then cover your medium Etcetera Tag. 

Step 10: Trim excess off of tag, sand edges with a sanding disk to make them smooth and ink the outside edges of your tag with Pumice Stone Distress Ink.

Step 11: Spray the embossed panels with Pumice Stone Distress Spray Stain and let dry or dry with heat tool. 

Step 12: Add stands to bottom of trees (I sprayed mine with Pumice Stone Distress Spray Stain and Frozen Fog Distress Mica Stain). 

Step 13: Add panels to tag...one will hang off. Stamp and emboss sentiment from Winter Woodlands and add to tag. 

Step 15: Adhere trees to panel. I used super sticky foam dots. 

Step 16: Add Hardware Heads colored with Mushroom Alcohol Ink to panels, Add Snowfall Grit Paste to bottom of panels using a palette knife and then splatter the entire tag with Sterling Foundry Wax, being careful to avoid your sentiment (I covered mine up while splattering). Let the whole thing dry completely and hang it up to enjoy some holiday cheer! 

 

 

 

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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halloween roundup: a few of my favorites

Hi there crafty friends! Today I have a sort of a crafty lookback from the past few years featuring some of my favorite Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous and Sizzix projects. Hope these will provide some inspiration to you as you are getting into the Halloween making season...there is tons of frightful, some delightful and one super creepy card! 

Too Old for This Sheet 

This card was inspired by a sweatshirt I saw at Target and I knew it had to be made into a card as soon as I got home. I cut the ghost from black and white cardstocks and then cut out my letters after backing the cardstock with Sizzix adhesive sheets to make placing them a breeze. 

Supplies: 

• Sizzix Retro Halloween
• Alphanumeric Upper Thinlits
• Alphanumeric Tiny Type Lower 

Just A Bunch Of Hocus Pocus

This card features a background of Distress Inks and Distress Mica Stain with a bunch of stars from the Halloween Doodles set stamped all over the background. Once my background was dry, I stamped the sentiment from the Bold Frights over top. This is a super easy one to create with any Halloween Backgrounds you may have on hand.

Supplies: 

• CMS437 Halloween Doodles
• CMS438 Bold Frights 

By The Light of the Moon 

The fun background on this card was created with Distress Mica Stains - I used some of the Christmasy colors, a little masking on the moon and lots of stamping and splatter over top. 

Supplies: 

• The Scarecrow
• Unraveled 

Here for the Boos

This card has a fun tutorial over on the Simon Says Stamp Blog, you can see it HERE! I love being able to use my Halloween dies all year round and what is more fun and festive than some Halloween themed cocktails?

Supplies:

• Happy Hour dies
• Life of the Party stamps

Happy Halloween

This card uses my favorite stamp set from this year, Tiny Frights. To create this card, I stamped all of the images in a pattern onto my pink cardstock using Black Soot Archival Ink. I then stamped them onto colored cardstock, cut them out and paper pieced them onto the images I had already stamps. Time consuming, but relaxing and oh so worth it! 

Supplies: 

Tiny Frights 


Something Wicked This Way Comes

This card uses the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Moon Masks with Crypt Grit Paste and lots of inky blending for the background. This year I would definitely switch it up for some glow paste :) 

Supplies:

• Moon Mask
• Distress Crypt Paste
• Ghost Town 2 (tiny bats)
• Regions Beyond (sentiment)

Layered Dots Trio
These are super easy and fun to put together and you can make SO many different color combos perfect for almost any occasion. I kept these really simple with a bold saying and one tiny accent to make them even more fun! 

Supplies: 

• Layered Dots 
• Bold Text Halloween
• Trick or Treat 

Creepy Eye Guy

One of my all time favorite creepy cards. I did ome super careful cutting with an x-acto knife and layered the stamping and adding a creepy eye to make it look really real! Once my images were 

• Dearly Departed
• Creepy Eyes 

 

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simon says stamp monday challenge: take flight

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 Take Flight and I have created a fun card using the CZ Design Witch Please stamps and Witch Please word die. To begin I used the Tim Holtz Moon Mask and adhered it to my Distress Watercolor Cardstock. Then I blended Distress Inks in Mustard Seed, Dried Marigold, Kitsch Flamingo, Picked Raspberry, Wilted Violet and Dusty Concord to create this fun pink sky. Once the ink was dry, I stamped the witch from the Witch Please set over the moon I created and embossed it in black. Then I splattered the panel with Statue Foundry Wax and white splatter then dried my panel with a heat tool. 

Once the panel was complete, I cut it with the Wonky Rectangles die and mounted it to a card base using foam tape. Then I added some Magic Stars cut from black cardstock, and the Witch Please die with some foam tape behind it to complete my card. 

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: stamp it (STAMPtember®)

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 Stamp It. We would like you to use actual clear, cling, wood stamps, no digi images allowed this week.

As you know STAMPtember® is a very special month in the Simon Says Stamp calendar. This week we are all using some fabulous products from the latest Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember® Release. You don’t have to use them to join in with the challenge but if you have them we would love to see them used.

This week I have a nice and simple card for you that I still think is beautiful for fall. I embossed a piece of Distress Watercolor Cardstock using the brand new STAMPtember® Leaf Tumble Embossing Folder.  Then I ink blended Distress Inks over the surface. I used Fossilized Amber, Vintage Photo, Aged Mahogany and Abandoned Coral. I added a few leaves that I cut with the Windswept Leaves dies and then added a Fancy Thanks as a sentiment. I finished my card with a few Trinity Stamps Unicorn Tears Embellishments for a bit of sparkle. 

I did not use stamps on the outside but I was sure to stamp a special greeting on the inside of my card to thank a good friend using the Friend Greetings set and Cayenne ink from Concord & 9th

See full supply list at the bottom of this post :)  And a bunch of other new products from the STAMPtember® release too for your inspiration! 

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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swatching and storing seasonal distress mica stains

Hi there crafty friends! Once again, I am cleaning my studio and trying to keep all the things I love the most within reach....especially my Distress Mica Stains. I have collected all the seasonal Halloween Distress Mica Stain and Holiday Distress Mica Stain colors and wanted to be able to see them all together when creating. In addition to the swatches I always make, I decided to print out the fillable color charts for Ranger which are great to keep on hand as a reference. I like to use these to add sparkle and shine to my projects ALL YEAR ROUND! 

First I always create swatch tags using a Splat Box and Distress Watercolor Cardstock since it is the surface I use the most and I keep my swatches on a ring so I have all the colors together. This is great when you want to take them off and play around with new color combos. I cut the tags from these Tim Holtz Sizzix tag dies. 

I also went back on all my swatches and wrote the name and set number each color came from in case I need to refererence (or reorder)!  This has helped me out tremendously. 

For these bottles, I used the Small Round Swatch Labels from Ranger. I put the label on the cap and while I am creating my tags, I dip it in the stain and let it dry then wipe of any excess with a paper towel. So far they all have stayed on. 

I found a container in my collection that will fit all 36 stains and also fits perfectly in one of my Ikea rolling carts. UPDATED: The bin is an idesign kitchen bim from The Container Store measuring 10 x 6 x 3 inches.

I downloaded the printable charts from Ranger and printed them on card stock here are the links for Halloween and Holiday. I cut my swatch papers 3/4 x 1 1/4 and they seemed to fit perfectly. I adhered the dried swatch papers to the chart using Distress Collage Medium. 

I put both of my charts into a Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Everything 9.5 x 12 sleeve facing out so I have them in the cart with my stains and it is super handy to keep on my table while I am creating without my charts getting inky from handling them! 

I hope you enjoyed this little peek into my organizational process. I was so glad to finally check this off my list today to make creating for the holidays much easier. All the products I used are below and I would love if you want to purchase any that you use my links (at no extra charge to you!) 

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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: happy birthday

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 Happy Birthday and we are celebrating our 13th!! birthday here at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. We are also using products from AALL + Create and would love you to use them to if you own some :) For my project today, I created a festive mixed media tag using the AALL + Create Starry Night Stencil along with some Distress Opaque Texture Paste. I embossed the paste with Kitsch Flamingo Distress Embossing Glaze, then I added Distress Spray Stains in Kitsch Flamingo, Squeezed Lemonade and Tumbled Glass. I added some Ephemera Snippets, a Paper Doll and some Mirrored Stars that I colored with Mushroom Alcohol Ink. 

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: happy birthday

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 Happy Birthday and we are celebrating our 13th!! birthday here at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. We are also using products from AALL + Create and would love you to use them to if you own some :) For my project today, I created a festive mixed media tag using the AALL + Create Starry Night Stencil along with some Distress Opaque Texture Paste. I embossed the paste with Kitsch Flamingo Distress Embossing Glaze, then I added Distress Spray Stains in Kitsch Flamingo, Squeezed Lemonade and Tumbled Glass. I added some Ephemera Snippets, a Paper Doll and some Mirrored Stars that I colored with Mushroom Alcohol Ink. 

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: happy birthday

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 Happy Birthday and we are celebrating our 13th!! birthday here at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. We are also using products from AALL + Create and would love you to use them to if you own some :) For my project today, I created a festive mixed media tag using the AALL + Create Starry Night Stencil along with some Distress Opaque Texture Paste. I embossed the paste with Kitsch Flamingo Distress Embossing Glaze, then I added Distress Spray Stains in Kitsch Flamingo, Squeezed Lemonade and Tumbled Glass. I added some Ephemera Snippets, a Paper Doll and some Mirrored Stars that I colored with Mushroom Alcohol Ink. 

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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