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*new* tim holtz stampers anonymous christmas

Hello crafty friends. A quick post to let you know that all new Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Christmas stamps are shipping now and you can get them at Simon Says Stamp today! A couple of my favorites are the Bottlebrush Trees and the new Christmas Element stencils. 

Ideas for Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Pencils shavings and a custom palette! (NEW You Tube Video)

Hi there crafty friends. I got quite a few questions on what you could do with the DIstress Watercolor Pencil shavings once you sharpened them. Since the pencils are woodless and are made of pigment, there are so many things you can do with them. I have a new You Tube video up today with some ideas and also a custom palette that I created so I can always save and reuse my shavings for future projects. 

YOU CAN SEE THE VIDEO HERE: 

I had a ton of fun making this palette and also creating lots of fun backgrounds and I hope you will enjoy them too! 

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tim holtz new distress coming soon!!!

Just a note to let you know that the newest color of Tim Holtz Distress will be revealed on June 18th! You can reserve yours now at Simon Says Stamp to make sure you get all the colorful Distress goodness you need to add to your collection. 

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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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: add texture

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

This week our challenge is Texture, and I love adding texture to my work. For the challenge I have created a tag with layers of texture including Collage Paper, Gesso, Texture Paste and Ephemera. 

I added the Collage Paper and Ephemera, then added gesso over my tag. Then I added Matte Texture Paste through the dotted stencil. Once the paste was dry I added Distress Spray Stains In WIld Honey, Salvaged Patina and Pumice Stone. Then to add more interest, I added stamping with the Grunged stamp set using Distress Archival Inks in Wild Honey and Hickory Smoke. To finish the tag, I added some Photobooth, Ephemera Snippets and 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: things with wings

Hi there crafty friends and welcome to another Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! Thanks to all who joined us last week in our Feminine Challenge and we hope you will join us again for this week's challenge! This week our them is Things With Wings! That's right, birds, bugs, angels...put wings on just about anything, that is what I did! 

For this week's challenge, I created a fun mixed media tag using DIstress Paints, Collage Paper and lots of fun stamps including Field Notes, Correspondence and my favorite Media Marks 2...

To begin, I added layers of collage paper, paint and gesso. I added stamping, more layers of paint and more stamping. When the tag was dry I added stitching around the entire thing. Then I added the wings. To create these wings, I cut them out of Distress Watercolor Cardstock using the Sizzix Impresslits 3-D Winged die. I used a bit of Speckled Egg Distress Paint to the wings with my finger to highlight the raised areas. Then I sprayed the wings with Distress Mica Spray in Brushed Platinum to really make them shine. I added a Photobooth photo, some Clippings stickers and 

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

 

 

Follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram

 

 

Do you use Instagram ?  If so please add  #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too

 

 

You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in!

 

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simon says stamp monday challenge: resist it

Hello crafty friends! It's time for another Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge...this week our theme is Resist It and I could not resist using the newest Distress Color, Kitsch Flamingo. This color is such a bright and intense pink. I loved playing with it this weekend and mixing it with so many other Distress colors. Today I have created a bright shiny focal point for my tag by using Kitsch Flamingo Distress Paint on the SIzzix Faceted Heart Die, then inking the edges with Black Soot Archival DIstress Ink once the paint is dry. I then sprayed it with DIstress Resist Spray and embossed it with the Kitsch Flamingo Distress Embossing Glaze. 


To create this tag, I inked up the tag with Kitsch Flamingo Distress Spray Stain and let it dry, then I added some texture using Translucent Grit Paste and the Stampers Anonymous Plus stencil. Once the paste was dry, I added some more Distress Spray Stains in Kitsch Flamingo, Antique Linen and Black Soot. I like to spray this onto my craft mat and run my tag through it. Then I stitched around the tag. 

I added some Typeset Collage Paper to the tag, along with some Ephemera from the Urban Layers pack. I adhered the Faceted Heart and then added a metal Numeric number and some Clippings stickers to finish my 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

 

 

Follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram

 

 

Do you use Instagram ?  If so please add  #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too

 

 

You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in!

 

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simon says stamp monday challenge: use a new product

Hi crafty friends, Happy New Year and welcome to this week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! This week our challenge is to use something new or unused and the design team is using products from Brutus Monroe. I decided to try out their Pink Flamingo Velveteen Glaze and it was the perfect shiny (and super bright) complement to my mixed media tag. 

To create this tag, I applied pieces of Typeset Collage Paper to a tag that I cut from White Distress Mixed Media Heavy Stock using DIstress Collage Medium. I applied a layer of gesso and Dried Marigold Distress Paint.  Then I applied the Brutus Monroe Velveteen Glaze in Pink Flamingo through the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Hearts stencil and let it dry.  

I adhered the Simon Says Stamp Etched Laurel Die cut and layered on the Photobooth photo. Then I inked a Heirloom Rose with Mushroom Alcohol Ink and added it to the tag. Using the DIstress Splatter Brush, I splatted the entire tag with Black Soot and Tarnished Brass Distress Paints. To finish my tag, I added the Snarky Small Talk stickers and inked the edges of the entire tag with Black Soot Distress Ink. I cut a reinforcer hole from Hero Arts Azalea cardstock and added it to the top to complete the 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

 

 

Follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram

 

 

Do you use Instagram ?  If so please add  #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too

 

 

You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in!

 

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simon says stamp monday challenge: favorite technique

Hi crafty friends, welcome to this week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! Thank you for joining us us for last week's Alcohol Ink Challenge and we hope you will join us again this week for the Favorite Technique Challenge. This week the DT is using products from Paper Artsy, and I have tried out the In the Navy Infusions...can you believe I have never used these? And now I may need to stock up on some more, I had so much fun! 

To create this tag, I cut a tag from Distress White Heavystock. I colored it with the Infusions and let it dry. Once it was dry, I added Distress Opaque Matte Texture Paste through the Snowflakes stencil and let that dry. I added a Milk Cap, a Christmas Paper Doll that I colored with Distress Crayons, and a Christmas Token. 

To make the sentiment, I stamped and embossed a sentiment from the Christmas Tiny Text stamps in white, then went over it with some Fired Brick Distress Spray Stain and cut it out. To finish the tag, I added a few silver Metallic Droplets, a mist of Distress Mica Spray in Brushed Pewter and a splattering of 'snow' using Picket Fence DIstress Paint and a Distress Splatter Brush. 

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

 

 

Follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram

 

 

Do you use Instagram ?  If so please add  #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too

 

 

You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in!

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You know STAMPtember® is always an exciting month, and the set I wait for all month is finally here...the Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous STAMPtember® exclusive set. Usually these sets are a compliation of other holiday sets in perfect cardmaking size. This year's set is a bit different...these images are exclusive images and once this set is gone..it is gone! I love the idea of having a collector's item! Thanks to Tim and Heidi at Simon Says Stamp for making this happen, what a wonderful surprise!!!!

This year's set features a stamp and stencil and is full of fun creatures and matching sentiments. The stencil is full of fabulous stars, reminiscent of the Hocus Pocus stencil that Tim previously released, one pattern that is a swirl (used on the card below) and one pattern that is like a wave that fits perfectly across the card.



I created 4 cards with this set, and a little explanation of how I made each one:

For my first card, I used the bat creature and mounted it on a background of swirly stars that I created using Crackle Texture Paste and some Distress Crayons. I cut the sentiment from the bottom of the stamp using my Tim Holtz scissors and put it onto a sentiment strip....I usually cut the sentiments off of cling stamps like this and they are super easy to put back on your stamp platform to stamp together as one stamp at a later time, I have never had any problems doing this ;)


For the second card, I used a bright candy colored palette of Distress Inks and Oxides to create an inky background and mounted the bird on top of it, I finished off the card with some candies cut from the Sizzix Sweet Treats die out of Metallic Kraft Stock.


A clean and simple card stamped in Jet Black Archival Ink, colored in with Distress Markers and one Tim Holtz Idea-ology Creepy Eye for effect...clean, simple and creepy all at the same time!



For my final card, I wanted to use the stamps and stencils in a non-Halloween way, and I created a rainbow ink blended panel with Distress Oxides, then stencilled the line of stars over each color. I completed the card with some stars cut from Simon Says Stamp White Glitter Card Stock and stamped and embossed the sentiment on black to make it pop.


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Another card for the Altenew Educator Program today. This time it's a card based on a lesson from the Magical Marker Techniques class. The background on this card was made by coloring through the stencil with markers. It was super easy to create too!

I cut a panel from Neenah solar white cardstock and then placed the Skylight Stencil on top of it using the Wendy Vecchi Make Art Stay-tion. This new product is a magnetic board with some really awesome magnets to hold your stencils in place while you are using them. I was able to color through the stencil and the magnets stayed in place the entire time. Another great feature of the station is that you can turn it around to color another portion and it does not move! 


I finished off the card with the Thanks die and let the background really shine on its own.


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simon says stamp: tim holtz/stampers anonymous STAMPtember® exclusive set

You know STAMPtember® is always an exciting month, and the set I wait for all month is finally here...the Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous STAMPtember® exclusive set. Usually these sets are a compliation of other holiday sets in perfect cardmaking size. This year's set is a bit different...these images are exclusive images and once this set is gone..it is gone! I love the idea of having a collector's item! Thanks to Tim and Heidi at Simon Says Stamp for making this happen, what a wonderful surprise!!!!

This year's set features a stamp and stencil and is full of fun creatures and matching sentiments. The stencil is full of fabulous stars, reminiscent of the Hocus Pocus stencil that Tim previously released, one pattern that is a swirl (used on the card below) and one pattern that is like a wave that fits perfectly across the card.



I created 4 cards with this set, and a little explanation of how I made each one:

For my first card, I used the bat creature and mounted it on a background of swirly stars that I created using Crackle Texture Paste and some Distress Crayons. I cut the sentiment from the bottom of the stamp using my Tim Holtz scissors and put it onto a sentiment strip....I usually cut the sentiments off of cling stamps like this and they are super easy to put back on your stamp platform to stamp together as one stamp at a later time, I have never had any problems doing this ;)


For the second card, I used a bright candy colored palette of Distress Inks and Oxides to create an inky background and mounted the bird on top of it, I finished off the card with some candies cut from the Sizzix Sweet Treats die out of Metallic Kraft Stock.


A clean and simple card stamped in Jet Black Archival Ink, colored in with Distress Markers and one Tim Holtz Idea-ology Creepy Eye for effect...clean, simple and creepy all at the same time!



For my final card, I wanted to use the stamps and stencils in a non-Halloween way, and I created a rainbow ink blended panel with Distress Oxides, then stencilled the line of stars over each color. I completed the card with some stars cut from Simon Says Stamp White Glitter Card Stock and stamped and embossed the sentiment on black to make it pop.


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altenew: magical marker techniques

Another card for the Altenew Educator Program today. This time it's a card based on a lesson from the Magical Marker Techniques class. The background on this card was made by coloring through the stencil with markers. It was super easy to create too!

I cut a panel from Neenah solar white cardstock and then placed the Skylight Stencil on top of it using the Wendy Vecchi Make Art Stay-tion. This new product is a magnetic board with some really awesome magnets to hold your stencils in place while you are using them. I was able to color through the stencil and the magnets stayed in place the entire time. Another great feature of the station is that you can turn it around to color another portion and it does not move! 


I finished off the card with the Thanks die and let the background really shine on its own.


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