Simon Says: No Stamps!

Hello crafty friends! It's Wednesday and that means it's time for a new Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge!

This week Simon Says: No Stamps Allowed! The design team is featuring fantastic Simon Says Stamp Brand Exclusive products :), it isn't a requirement to use them but if you have them we would love to see them!

Come join in on the fun, you have the chance of winning a $50 gift card to the fantastic Simon Says Stamp store!

I wanted to use my Clustered Leaves die, it is still one of my favorites and I have the newer outline version on my wish list!

I started by ink blending a mix of Picked Raspberry, Abandoned Coral and Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide Inks on a large piece of Bristol Smooth cardstock. Once that was complete, I used my Distress Sprayer to add some droplets for texture. I die cut my panel with Clustered Leaves die and a second time from Vellum to stack them both as my focal point.

I then took some Lawn Fawn Vanilla Malt cardstock and used my Altenew Dotted Scales Debossing Cover die and die cut my panel. I then die cut the panel a second time using my Simon Says Stamp Frames Wafer die to be able to inlay the gold frame.

I took another piece of the Vanilla Malt for my card base and glued my panel elements to the base.

I intertwined both of the Clustered Leaves die and glued them together in spots where the vellum fell to the back so the glue wouldn't show. I glued the entire piece to my card base and cut the excess off.

I die cut a sandwich of Black Tonic Glitter cardstock, Fun Foam and Stick It adhesive and placed that on the panel.  To finish off the card, I added some Pretty Pink Posh Watermelon Jewels. 

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Thanks so much for taking the time! All products used are listed and linked below, affiliate links used at no extra cost to you!

Kim

Simon Says: Black, White and One Other Color!

Hello crafty friends! It's Wednesday and that means it's time for a new Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge!

This week Simon Says: Black, White and One Other Color! The design team is featuring fantastic Avery Elle products :), it isn't a requirement to use them but if you have them we would love to see them!

Come join in on the fun, you have the chance of winning a $50 gift card to the fantastic Simon Says Stamp store!

I decided to use my favorite Avery Elle flowers for this project - the Hand Drawn Florals. I stamped my flower and leaf (using my stamp positioner) with Lawn Fawn Jet Black Ink to color with my Copic Markers.  I went with a turquoise theme for my card and used the BG49, BG 13, BG11 and BG10 and light grey from my leaf to give a "white" effect using N2 and No . 

Once that was complete, I left my flower and leaf in my stamping tool and stamped them again using embossing ink and added Ranger Black Sparkle embossing powder to make the black really pop on the flower.

I then took out my new Card-Sized Confetti stencils by MFT and used Peacock Feathers Distress Ink. With the first stencil, I went with a very light hand and a heavier hand with the second stencil for a fun ombré effect. 

Once that was dried, I stamped my Hugs and Friend both from the Sentimental stamp set with Versafine Onyx Black Ink and used the same Ranger embossing powder.

I put my panel on a Neena 110lbs card base and used my Crop-a-dile to crop two of the corners. I wanted to round them because the bottom of my flower was slightly rounded.

I finished my card off using Pretty Pink Posh Aquamarine Jewels.

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Thanks so much for taking the time! All products used are listed and linked below, affiliate links used at no extra cost to you!

Kim

Bee Mine!

Happy Tuesday crafty friends! Today I am playing with this older (new to me) Honey Bee Stamps set :)

This card was such fun to make, look at the faces on those bees! There is a large selection of faces in the Build-A-Bee set that you can add, really fun stamp set.

I started by die cutting my Neena 110lbs card panel with the Honey Bee Deckle Edge A2 dies and applied a mix of Mustard Seed, Fossilized Amber and a touch of Hickory Smoke (for added dimension) Distress Ink to my stencil in selected locations, I did not want the whole panel covered.

I then stamped and coloured my Bees with my Copic Markers and cut them out - I didn't order the dies, not too smart of me, lol but these are easy enough to cut out. I just re-stamped them on the card base for the antennae that I cut off.  I glued my bees with some foam tape and my Nuvo glue for the bee in the back at the bottom.

I stamped my sentiment and added a mix of yellow and black jewels and after all of that, I decided to use my Simon Says Stamp Unicorn Dust on the wings I love the effect that it gave my bees.

Thanks so much for taking the time! All products used are listed and linked below, affiliate links used at no extra cost to you!!!

Have a great day,

Kim

Winter Anemones with Honey Bee Stamps!

Happy Monday crafty friends! I am sharing a card featuring Honey Bee Stamps today in colors that I don't normally use! I am trying to get out of my comfort zone and try new things this year and the Anemone inspiration photo that I found on Google was perfect for this!

I just loved this flower and though the colors were perfect for the Honey Bee Winter Anemones!

I decided to use my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers for these, I love the ease of blending with these and since the colors were so intense they were the perfect choice.

I stamped and gold embossed my Anemones on Bristol Smooth cardstock, colored them in and used the accompanying dies.

Once I had my flowers complete I looked through my cardstock and felt the Simon Says Stamp Blue Violet was the perfect match for the background.  I used the Altenew Watercolor Stripes Cover die, I felt it complemented this beautifully so I die cut it from some Tonic Harvest Gold Mirror cardstock and used foam tape to adhere to the background panel.

I glued my flowers and leaves with a mix of glue and foam tape and cut the excess off the panel.  I chose the Honey Bee Enjoy sentiment and die cut that from the same Harverst Gold and Tonic Midnight Plum for the "liner" sentiment.

The secondary Friend sentiment is from the Honey Bee More Flakey Friends set and I used the same gold embossing power.  I finished off my card with some Pretty Pink Posh Amethyst Jewels.

Thanks so much for taking the time! All products listed and linked below, affiliate links used at no cost to you!

Thanks for taking the time!

Kim

Simon Says: Anniversary/Wedding!

Happy Wednesday! That means it's time for a new Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge!

This week the challenge is Anniversary/Wedding and the design team is featuring Impression Obsession products!

I chose the beautiful Impression Obsession Abtract Flowers dies for my project. I just love the shape and design of these dies. I used Tonic Specialty Paper in Rose Platinum and Burnished Rose for the flowers. 

I then decided to use the Lawn Fawn Vanilla Malt card stock for my card base and top panel. I embossed the top panel and glued my flowers. I then used the Impression Obsession Wishes die with Lawn Fawn Black Licorice card stock and fun foam for dimension. I used Rose Gold embossing powder for the Best sentiment which is from an Avery Elle set. I added some Pretty Pink Posh Rose Gold Jewels to the flower centres and some PPP Rose Gold sequins on the card panel.

Once I was finished I added the "diamond ring" that was in my stash, it was silver so I colored over it with a Rose Gold marker to match. Quick and easy project as the only stamping was the smaller sentiment!

All of the products used can be found at Simon Says Stamp all listed and linked below! 

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Thanks so much for taking the time!

Kim

Simon Says Stamp Sending Sunshine Release

Happy Wednesday crafty friends! So excited for the Sending Sunshine release by Simon Says Stamp that went live earlier today!

I got to play with the gorgeous Dazzling Circle Die!

For my first card, I decided to die cut a piece of cardstock and make my own stencil. I thought a rainbow circle would be fun with this die. I used Distress Inks (all products and colors listed and linked below) I love the way it turned out. I then decided to use a stitched circle die and I die cut my Dazzling Rainbow Circle. I cut a Neena 110lbs card base to 4.25 x 8.5 to make a square card and I die cut a dotted square panel to give a little more interest.

I used foam tape to place my circle on the base panel and opted to used the Simon Says Stamp Painted Hugs die with black glitter cardstock. Once that was glued to the panel I added a rainbow mix of Pretty Pink Posh Jewels.

For my second project I die cut the Dazzling Circle from cream colored cardstock and decided that gold accents would be a lovely mix. I glued my gold glitter cardstock to the back of my panel and then decided to use the fantastic You Da Best die from the last Simon's release.

I die cut the sentiment from textured gold cardstock and black cardstock to offer a nice shadow. Glued them together and placed them on the panel. I then added some Nuvo Crystal drops in a variety  of complementary colors.

Go check out the release, it is fantastic!
Thanks for taking the time!
Kim

Art Impressions - Hamster!

Happy Monday crafty friends! I watched a video by Sandy Allnock a few weeks ago featuring this sweet Art Impressions Hamster Mouthful Set and I couldn't resist ordering him!

Again, I am in love with critters of all kinds! My husband keeps saying we need to by a ranch so that I can adopt all the littles that my heart desires lol! So when I saw this set I needed to have it.  I love that is has a die cut for the hamsters hands to add all the fun elements that come with the set. You can have him eating pizza or holding a flower, cheese a letter or these birthday candles that I chose for my project.

This little dude had to be the focal point for my card so I kept everything else simple. I stamped him in Lawn Fawn Jet Black ink and colored him with Copics in the E41 - E47 family and added dot detail with the darkest of the colors. I then rainbow colored his hat and candles and used the accompanying dies.

For the sentiment, I used Distress Oxides and went over the Happy with rainbow colors. I then added one of the Mama Elephant occasional labels underneath. I then added some Pretty Pink Posh Jewels to finish off the project!

Thanks for taking the time!

Kim

Pretty Pink Posh Wild Roses

Happy Friday crafty friends! So happy the weekend is a couple of hours away! My local store has started carrying Pretty Pink Posh and I couldn't resist playing with this Wild Rose set!

I goggled wild roses and my inspiration picture is a little further down in this post, I wanted something a little different and bright!

I didn't have a specific vision for this card, I just loved the colors from the wild rose picture I found on google. So I pulled out my RV00, RV02, RV04 and Y00,Y11 and Y15 to mimic the colors below.

Once I finished the flowers I colored my leaves in YG21, YG25 and YG17 and die cut all of the images. I decided that a stark black and white background would be best for the bright flowers.

I cut a piece of Lawn Fawn black card stock to A2 size and then decided to use my Avery Elle Horizontal Stripes die with Neena 80lbs card stock. I really like the way the flowers look against that background. I then used some Tonic glitter paper and fun foam with StickIt sandwich to die cut the Pretty Pink Posh Thank You Script sentiment. The pink glitter works so well with the flowers.

I debated adding in the white circle back to the centre of the frame but felt leaving the middle black was fine. I am still on the fence, lol.

I put all of my elements together and topped everything off with the new Pretty Pink Posh Watermelon Jewels (I love all the jewel colors in this line!)

Thanks so much for taking the time!

Kim

Spring Hello!

Happy Monday! We are having a cold spell in Montréal, really cold spell lol! I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of Spring this week and some warmer temps! I decided to imagine spring flowers with this Mama Elephant stamp.

I wanted to play with some no-line Copic coloring and this stamp Botanic Hello seemed perfect for that! It isn't a new stamp but I just purchased it so it's new to me!

I started by coloring my flowers in rainbow order with BV00, BV02, BV11, BV13,   RV52, RV55, YR00, YR01, YR04, Y17, Y15,Y11, BG10, BG11, BG13, B00, B02, B04, YG17, YG21 and YG23 I then used N4 and N2 to shade the Hello.

Once the coloring was complete I die cut my panel with the large die from the Mama Elephant Cloud Nine die and then added black detail to the flower centres and to the Hello to try and make it pop a little. I then white embossed the secondary sentiment on black card stock and finished the project with a Rainbow of Pretty Pink Posh Jewels.

Thanks so much for taking the time!

Kim