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simon says stamp monday challenge: begins with "s"

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

This week our challenge is Starts with "S" and I have used all of my favorite "S" things - stencils, spray stains and splatter of course! I created a colorful Distress Tag using the new Uncharted Mariner Distress Spray Stain along with Mustard Seed, Picked Raspberry and Abandoned Coral. The mixture turned into a wonderful rainbow of color. 

I added stenciling with Crackle Texture paste, some gesso, more spray stains and stamping from the Media Marks 1 stamps  in Black Soot Distress Archival Ink. Then I added stitching and splattered Picket Fence Distress Paint and Foundry Wax over the entire tag. To finish the tag, I created a number by adding Texture Paste through the new Freight stencils and applying gold embossing powder and embossing. Once it was dry, I sprayed it with Black Soot Distress spray stain, dried it and cut it out. Finally I added a 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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tuesday trigger: watercolor butterflies

This dress is the inspiration for this week's Tuesday Trigger over at Moxie Fab World. Love the colors and the watercolor pattern, so I thought I would take out my Distress Inks and water brush and see what I could do! I painted a watercolor paper strip with the colors in the dress and added a butterfly embellishment. This layout is from a sketch featured in this month's contest over on the Hero Arts blog:

For the butterfly, I colored acetate with alcohol inks. To make the butterfly look more "real", I stamped a butterfly body on white cardstock from this set so it would show through. 

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tuesday trigger: three little birds

After seeing this week's Tuesday Trigger over on Moxie Fab this afternoon I have had the song running through my head all day. When I sat down to make my card tonight, different lyrics came into my head and I was inspired simply by the birds and their colors to make this card: 

If you have not heard these lyrics from The Littlest Birds by The Be Good Tanyas, you should definitely give this song a listen! 

 

 

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tuesday trigger: sweet surprise

 

This week's Tuesday Trigger? A sweet surprise. This one is so simple, I was not sure where to start. I took my inspiration from the embossing like pattern on the box by embossing my background in white and adding blue ribbon treatment of my own and a pretty sentiment...that's it!

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tuesday trigger: happy happy joy joy

This week's Tuesday Trigger over on Moxie Fab World features these happy happy joy joy colors: 

My inspiration? The leaves, the colors and that fun cross-hatching texture. I used a stamp and die set from Hero Arts to make cutting out my sunflowers super simple: 

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tuesday trigger: simple elegance

This week's Tuesday Trigger over on Moxie Fab World? Simple Elegance. My card is inspired by the rug and the gorgeous pink of the tulips. Why is it that the simpler triggers are harder for me? I think I played it safe on this one, but I still love this spring flower: 

tuesday trigger: "a" is for apricot

What a yummy Tuesday Trigger over on Moxie Fab World this week! What really stood out to me is the apricots and I wanted to replicate that in some way. I cut a butterfly out of felt and sprayed it with some Mr. Huey's and this is what I got. I incorporated some of the blue color and the "type" font that was on the picture by using a sentiment with a similar font.

 

Here is a closer view of that felt butterfly. UPDATED: The blue die cut is the Woven Circle die from Memory Box. You can buy it here-for this card I adhered a grey punched out circle to the back and a white one to the front of the die to make this embellishment.

You have until March 11th to play along with this trigger, so make sure to check it out for yourself!

tuesday trigger: chiclectic

Time for another Tuesday Trigger over on Moxie Fab World. This one was definitely a fun one!

I was drawn to so many things in this picture: the black & white pattern, the bold pops of orange, pink and turquoise, and the gold bed frame sticking out above and below. I hunted through my stash of paper pads to find similar patterns, stamped and embossed the Fabulous Flourish. I added the doily die for a pop of pink.

I would never have put these colors together, but I really like how they came out on the card.  Here is my take on this week's inspiration photo:

 

 And another photo with a close up of the embellishment: 

 

tuesday trigger: winter blossoms

Time for my first Tuesday Trigger of the New Year! Here is the inspiration photo of some fabulous pretty pom-poms:
I just love all that fluff! It puts me in a party mood. My card for this trigger was based on two elements: the layers and the colors.

I used the Starburst stamp from Hero Arts to create my blooms, stamped them twice and cut them out. I also used the stamp to add some texture to the background by stamping and clear embossing it. You can see the detail here: 

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tuesday trigger: stripe-tastic!

When I saw this week's Tuesday Trigger, I knew it would be a hard one for me:

I picked the two elements that really stood out to me: the stripes (of course) and the lace collar. The colors also reminded me of a party or a carnival, so I made the card a little festive. All my stripes are made with washi tape. It is hard to see in the photo, but the white tape has a lace pattern on it, which reminded me of the collar. 

   

Glad I got to play along with one more Tuesday Trigger before the New Year. We have been puppy sitting for the past week, and someone has been keeping me really busy! Happy 2012!