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simon says stamp monday challenge: watercolor

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 Art Journal challenge and we hope you will join us again this week too :) 

This week our challenge is Watercolor...and I played with my Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Pencils and the gorgeous Floral Trims stamp. I also used my Distress Watercolor Pencils shavings palette. I have a video on my You Tube Channel on how you can create a palette like this of your own! 

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: rainbow

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 Lucky challenge and we hope you will join us again this week too :) 

This week our challenge is RAINBOW!!! And I have paired the latest Tim Holtz The Inspector stamp with a palette of rainbow. I stamped the Alpha from this set as my background then traced over it with my Distress Watercolor Pencils then lightly sprayed with a Distress Sprayer to let the pigment bleed a bit. Once it was dry I inked the edges with Black Soot Distress Ink. I stamped and colored the inspector and then stamped him again and cut out the glasses and insides and backed them with some rainbow "lenses" and added Glossy Accents to them. For the sentiment, I stamped and colored in the letters then colored everything around the letters with a Micron pen to make the strip appear black.

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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brand new tim holtz + stampers anonymous stamps and stencils!

Hello there crafty friends! There are BRAND NEW stamps and stencils available now from Tim Holtz at Simon Says Stamp! They are available now to order. Be sure to also save the date for Tim Holtz live this Saturday at 12 NOON EDT! 

Simon Says Stamp has an I WANT IT ALL Option in case you do :) My favorites from this release? The Everyday Art Elements stencils are a sure winner in my book and I will certainly be using the Note Quotes on EVERYTHING...

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simon says stamp monday challenge: stencil 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 Spring/Easter challenge and we hope you will join us again this week too :) 

This week our challenge is Stencil It and I have used one of my all time favorite Tim Holtz stencils to create a fun and colorful spring mixed media tag. I began with a layer of Typeset collage paper, added texture paste through the Dotted stencil and let it dry and then added Snippets and tons of color with Distress Spray Stains. I finished the tag with a butterfly from the Flutter stamp set and a Label sticker. 

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: beautiful blooms

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 4 Legged Friends challenge and we hope you will join us again this week too :) 

This week our challenge is Beautiful Blooms and I have created a sunflower card for a friend who loves them using the Tim Holtz Sizzix Blossom Thinlits. I started by spraying a panel of Distress Watercolor Cardstock with Distress Spray Stain in Tumbled Glass. Then I stamped the Ledger Script randomly using Hickory Smoke Distress Arcihval Ink. 

To create the sunflowers, I cut the Blossom die from Distress Watercolor Cardstock and inked the centers with Distress Ink in Walnut Stain and Vintage Photo and set them aside. Then I assembled the flowers by adhering them together and ink blending over the top with my Simon Says Stamp Blending brushes, using the smaller brushes to shade them in. Once that was done, I used my Distress Watercolor Pencils to give the area near the centers some shading. I adhered one of the flowers to the card, then adhered part of the other flower, trimmed it and adhered the remaining part until I had four partial flowers surrounding it. 

I stamped and embossed the Hello There sentiment from the Noteworthy stamp set onto a piece of black cardstock and adhered it. Finally I splattered some Opaque White over the entire panel 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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abstract element cards with *new* tim holtz sizzix

Brand new Tim Holtz Sizzix is here now! Have you seen the newest Sizzix dies from Tim Holtz? One of my favorites is the new Abstract Elements dies. You know I love any type of little Abstract Shapes and marks. Today I have a fun set of cards to share with you using these. I cut a ton of these shapes from Distress Watercolor Cardstock that I painted with Distress Paints. I then took all of the shapes and separated them by color. Then I added the shapes using Distress Collage Medium to pieces of Simon Says Stamp Slate cardstock to create little collages. When I was done creating the collages I added each one to a notecard along with a simple sentiment from the Noteworthy stamp set. 

All supplies listed at the bottom of this post :) 





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Did you know I have a You Tube Channel?

Hi there crafty friends! Did you know I have a You Tube Channel? One of my crafty goals for 2022 was to make this happen and I am glad I did. I don't have a ton of videos there yet, but hope to add some more in 2023. ⁠

A tremendous thanks to all of you who watched, learned from, created along with and shared these videos, I truly appreciate your support! If you have not stopped by and checked out my channel yet, I would love if you did and would be thrilled if you subscribed while you are there. I have a few videos on the Distress Watercolor pencils, some videos with ideas for the new Distress Colors released this year and a few fun projects from start to finish 🎬️ You can find them all here.

If there is anything you would like to see from me in the New Year, please let me know and I will do my best to make it happen. Wishing you all a very Happy New Year!!!

simon says stamp monday challenge: home decor

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 Spooky Challenge and we hope you will join us again this week too :) 

This week our challenge is Stitch It and we are challenging you to create a Home Decor piece! It could be a hanging, a banner, or any other kind of home decor piece at all! I have used a Dina Wakley Media Board along with Tim Holtz Floral Outline stamps to create my piece. I started the first layer with some Typeset Collage Paper and Antique Linen Distress Paint. I dried it with a heat tool and added layers of stamping, painting and some Translucent Distress Texture Paste using the Dotted stencil. I added lots of splatter and a sentiment from the Christmas Cutouts dies and a Small Talk Sticker to complete my project. 

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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get cracking on christmas: october 2022

Hi there crafty friends! It's time for another month of Get Cracking on Christmas, a super fun challenge that my friend Jenn Shurkus hosts to get you working on your Christmas cards all throughout the year. It's the perfect time to play with all of those Christmas stamps, dies and other fun products I buy and never get around to using. I have not had time to play along the past couple of months so today I am back with a small batch of cards to help build up the stash. I even have a separate bin that I have started to store my cards in, so when I need to start addressing them, they are all ready. That time will be here before we know it!

I hope you are building a nice stash of holiday cards. If you are not following me on Instagram, I would love it if you followed me over there. I will have lots more ideas for Christmas cards coming soon and today I have a fun little reel showing you how this card came together. 


This card is a "remake" of one of my very favorite cards from last year...pretty much the same design (see original post here) but in pink...with glitter! It took me a few steps to figure out how to best get just the right amount of glitter on this card, and I found the best way to do that was to apply Distress Collage Medium to it with a small Tim Holtz brayer and then spray on some glitter with the Stampers Anonymous Glitter Duster. While I was doing all this I figured I would make a few so now I have 8 more Christmas cards to add to my stash :) 


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