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Handmade Christmas Greetings Class at Calgo Gardens in Freehold, NJ⁠ on Dec 2

Hello there crafty friends! I will be back at Calgo Gardens on December 2nd to teach a Handmade Christmas Greetings class from 10am -1 pm where we will make 5 handmade Christmas cards using a variety of techniques..all the information to sign up can be found HERE. 


Handmade Christmas Greetings Class at Calgo Gardens in Freehold, NJ⁠
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🎄 When: Saturday, December 2nd 10am-1pm⁠
🎄 Where: Calgo Gardens, Freehold, NJ⁠
🎄 Cost: $40 (includes almost all supplies, bring your own scissors and adhesives)⁠
🎄 SIGN UP through Calgo Gardens Event Brite link 
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Join me for a fun morning of creating 5 handmade Christmas themed cards using a variety of techniques. We will use stamps, die cuts, stencils, and a variety of art mediums to create our cards. We will be using some of my favorite Christmas products from: ⁠
✨ Tim Holtz⁠
✨ Sizzix ⁠
✨ Stampers Anonymous ⁠
✨ Ranger Ink ⁠
✨ Waffle Flower ⁠

If you are in the NJ area, I hope you can make it! 

simon says stamp tim holtz STAMPtember®️ 2023 stamp/stencil set

Hello there crafty friends! I can not wait to share this year's Simon Says Stamp Tim Holtz STAMPtember®️ set with you...you know I have been collecting every Tim Holtz STAMPtember® set since the very first collaboration and always look forward to what Tim will have in store for us each year! This year I was thrilled when I saw this set that is perfect for creating so many fun projects. I combined the stamps and sentiments with some of my other favorite Tim Holtz products and created some fun cards using this set to share with you today! And the best surprise of all there are matching dies! 

This set is available for a LIMITED TIME ONLY!!! So be sure to order yours today as it will certainly sell out :) 

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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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brand new tim holtz + stampers anonymous christmas stamps and stencils!

Hello there crafty friends! I wanted to let you all know that the brand new Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Christmas stamps and stencils are now available to purchase at Simon Says Stamp...

So far my favorites have been the Festive Print stamps and the Festive Art Element stencils :)

SHOP ALL NEW ITEMS NOW!

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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tim holtz sizzix christmas inspiration (part 2)

Hello there crafty friends! I have a brand new project to share with you today using some of the brand new Tim Holtz Sizzix Christmas dies. If you did not get to catch the Tim Holtz Sizzix Christmas live today featuring makes from all of the makers, be sure to check it out, there is SO much inspiration. The entire collection of dies and embossing folders is really amazing.

This card was created using the brand new Trim A Tree Colorize dies. I started by stamping the Tiny Text Christmas as an entire background in Frayed Burlap onto Distress Kraft Heavystock. Then I stamped and embossed one of the sentments from the Mini Bold Tidings set in black then splattered my card with paint. For the snow, I used some paint as well. Once my card panel was dry, I added the assembled Trim a Tree onto the card panel. I used a TON of ornaments on mine, because that is my favorite kind of tree to see during the holidays. Then I added a thin layer of DIstress Collage Medium to the ornaments and covered them with glitter. You can do fewer ornaments...and so many other color combos too! 

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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: 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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simon says monday challenge: we can see clearly

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 we can see clearly and I have created a fun mixed media tag using layers of Distress Paint, Gesso and Distress Spray Stains. I added a big moth from Transparent Layers along Palette Ephemera and Organic Layers. To finish my tag, I added a small talk 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: pick a number

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Thank you for playing along with us last week and we hope you will join us again this week too :) 

This week our challenge is Pick A Number and I have created a fun mixed media birthday card using the Tim Holtz Numbered Texture Fades. I absolutely LOVE the dimension on this one and it is so fun to color. I ran it through my die cut machine to emboss it and then colored it with Distress Watercolor Pencils and a detailer water brush. Once the panel was dry, I added black and white splatter. 

To finish my card, I added an image from the Winged Things 1 stamps and a sentiment from the Note Quotes set also colored in with Distress Watercolor Pencils. 

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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