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simon says stamp monday challenge: something clear

Hi crafty friends, it's time for another challenge over one the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. Thank you for joining us last week in the 'S' is for Challenge and we hope you will join us again this week too. This week our challenge is Something Clear and the design team is featuring projects from Visible Image. For my project this week, I have created a card with a fun inky background using Distress Inks and Oxides, then I added Ranger Transparent Matte Texture Paste using the Visible Image Meshing Around stencil and let it dry, then I inked the edges of the card and over the dried texture paste with Walnut Stain Distress Ink. 

I cut the Tattered Butterlfly out of pattered paper then inked the edges with Walnut Stain Distress Ink and adhered it to the card with Matte Medium. To finish the card, I added a Quote Chip and some bits of older remnant rubs I had in my stash. 



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tim holtz/stampers anonymous: monster reunion

Hi there crafty friends! Today I am sharing another make from the most recent Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous release for Halloween. This time I am using the Monster Reunion set that contains some adorable monster images and sentiments to match along with the Dots and Circles set. The monster images come with the sentiments attached to each image, but I have already cut the images and sentiments apart so I can mix and match them.

For my card today, I used the Frankenstein looking monster and colored him in with fun, happy colors using Distress Markers and a Detailer waterbrush. To make the red hearts on his socks, I used a trick I learned in a class from Wendy Vecchi several years ago and dipped a stylus into some Carnation Red Enamel Accents and used the point of the stylus to draw in the hearts. 



To create the background, I put some Distress Inks in Pumice Stone and Hickory Smoke onto a non-stick craft sheet and sprayed them with water and swiped my paper through it to create some interest on the background. Then I inked the dots stamp with Hickory Smoke Ink and stamped it on the panel. To create the layered look, I simply cut the center of the panel with a rectangle die, then added a slightly bigger piece of Ranger Alcohol Ink Matte Black cardstock behind the inner panel, then adhered it all back together as one piece. I love the look of this technique with a patterned background. I hope you enjoyed this fun card! 

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simon says stamp monday challenge: "s" is for

Hi crafty friends, it's time for another challenge over one the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. Thank you for joining us last week in the ATC Challenge and we hope you will join us again this week too. This week's challenge is super easy...."S" is for is the theme and I've colored up some "shrooms" (aka Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Tiny Toadstools) for you in all colors of the rainbow!


To create this card, I stamped the image onto a piece of Distress Watercolor Cardstock that had been inked with Antique Linen Distress Ink. Once that was dry, I stamped the toadstools onto the panel and colored them in with lots of vibrant colors of Distress Oxide. Once the panel was colored, I inked the edges with Antique Linen Distress Ink and added some stitching around the entire panel.


To give them a magical quality, I added them to a mat of metallic paper and drew in some highlights on the toadstools with a Nuvo Midas Touch Gold Aqua Shimmer pen to really make them sparkle! I absolutely love this pen to add tons of shine to any project!




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tim holtz/stampers anonymous: weird science

Hi there crafty friends, today I am sharing a fun interactive card with you that I designed for Tim Holtz's most recent Facebook Live. If you have not seen all the awesome new Halloween stamps, you can watch it HERE. When I saw the fun sketched images in the Weird Science set, I loved the ribcage with the gears and imagined there would be gears inside the body too...so I created them. 


To make the main panel, I inked up a piece of Mixed Media Heavystock with Antique Linen and Frayed Burlap Distress Ink then stamped the ribcage image from the Weird Science set. The stitched panel was created by cutting a Thinlits stitched rectangle and also inking it with Antique Linen Ink and stenciling it with the Decayed Layering Stencil using the Frayed Burlap and Gathered twigs. To create the back patterned panel, I created an inky panel with Weathered Wood and Blueprint Sketch Distress Inks then I stamped the formula and the number/ruler stamp all over to create a pattern using Distress Archival Inks. 

To create the panel for the gears, I cut a piece of paper a bit smaller than the stitched rectangle and covered the left side with gears from the Gearheads die and I glued that panel onto my background. Then I adhered the main panel onto the the stitched panel and cut around the ribs on one side to make a flap. Using the craft pick, I placed the hinge where it would go then poked holes through the holes with my craft pick and added the brads to secure it. I also added a piece of black paper to the back side of the flap. I did this by stamping the ribcage on a piece of black cardstock and cutting out the image again. Once all of this was done, I put foam tape around the back of the rectangle panel and adhered it to the piece with the printed panel and the gears. I hope you found this card as fun and spooky as I did! 

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simon says stamp monday challenge: artist trading cards

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 Midsummer Blues Challenge and we hope you will join us in this week's Artist Trading Cards Challenge. This week I created a trio of ATCs using the new Abandoned Paper Stash as my background, I am in LOVE with this paper and it is perfect to add a wonderful, quick background. 

I added a Paper Doll, some stickers from the Curiosities Sticker Book, ephemera and a Halloween Quote Chip secured with Hardware Heads to each one. Then I used my tweezers to add a tiny Halloween mask cut from the Tim Holtz/Sizzix Thinlits Masquerade dies (I used the 2 smallest dies).


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simon says stamp monday challenge: midsummer blues

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 Happy Birthday Challenge and I hope you will join us in this week's Midsummer Blues Challenge. This week I created a Mini Etcetera Tag using the new Abandoned Paper Stash as my tag background and selected a piece with a lot of beautiful greenish blue, which I wound up covering up a lot! This paper is so beautiful, it practically creates any background for you! 

 

 

I put the paper onto the tag with Distress Collage Medium, and once that was adhered, I added Opaque Crackle Texture Paste through a stencil and let it dry. Then I went over it with an ink blending tool. I built my "shelf" out of the Pinked and Scalloped Etcetera trims and added some Hardware Heads to it so it looks like it is fastened to the tag. I added a Baseboard Doll that had been colored with Distress Markers and had some Transparent Wings adhered to the back of it. I nestled the doll onto the shelf with Mummy Cloth that was colored with Distress Spray stain and a bunch of stars cut from inky Distress Watercolor paper using the Swirling Stars Thinlits die. 

I finished off the tag with the Quote Chip that says "Use Your Wings" and added a clippings sticker and a Vintage Clip to the top which I distressed to give it a bit of a rusty look. 

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simon says stamp monday challenge: happy birthday

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 for our Happy Birthday Challenge, this week the design team is using Simon Says Stamp exclusives and we hope you will challenge yourself to use some too if you have them!

To create my card this week, I used the Simon Says Stamp Waves background, I love it so much for waves and anything else that calls for something festive. I embossed in in white with Hero Arts White Detail embossing powder and colored it in using Distress Oxides in Mustard Seed, Cracked Pistachio, Shaded Lilac, Carved Pumpkin and Picked Raspberry using a water brush.

 

When it was dry, I gave a bit of splatter using Black Soot then Picket Fence Distress Paints that were watered down a bit. I colored the Party sentiment from the CZ Design Birthday Palooza set using Distress Markers in the same colors that I used for the Distress Oxides. I also used the markers to lightly tint the Paper Doll. 

 
I added the Paper Doll to the card, layered on the word party and adhered a Snarky Small Talk sticker and a few Pretty Pink Posh droplets to make it even more festive! 

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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. 



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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! 



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get cracking on christmas: july 2019

Continuing along with my goal to 'Get Cracking on Christmas' all year long, by creating my Christmas cards with a few crafty friends throughout the year! If you want to see how it all started, go to my original post here.

I'm happy to be able to share a Christmas card this month along with my friend Jenn. Be sure to visit her blog to check out the fabulous cards she has made. If you are in the mood to make some Christmas cards along with us, be sure to post them on Instagram and use the hashtag #getcrackingonchristmas :) 



Today I am sharing a card with the new Tim Holtz Sizzix Nordic Winter die. I could not get wait to get my hands on this one. I know it will be great to make some super quick and easy cards with, but my card today will be a Christmas card for someone really special. To make this card, I cut the die out of woodgrain paper then colored it with Gathered Twigs and Vintage Photo Distress Inks. Now I am ready to cut an inlay all those tiny pieces...


I added double sided tape to the back of the entire panel, then cut the die again in red, yellow, blue, green, beige and white (yep, I even inlaid each and every bit of snow!) It take a lot of work, but for me was super relaxing. Now I just have to find someone very special to send this card to in December :)

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