Simon Says: Anything Goes featuring Pink & Main

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

This week Simon Says: Anything Goes! The design team is featuring Pink and Main 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 love the Furever stamp set by Pink and Main, I had to use this sweet bear for my card today.  I started by stamping him with Versafine Onyx Black ink on Bristol cardstock so that I could color my bear with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers.

I fussy cut him out once that was done and put him aside. I stamped my Simon Says Stamp Quilted Hearts cling background stamp with Versamark ink on vellum and used my Simon's Antique Gold embossing powder.

I die cut my vellum piece with my largest Honey Bee stamps Deckle Edge die. I also die cut the Simon Says Stamp exclusive Thanks die from Tonic Glitter paper.

For my secondary sentiment from the Furever stamp set I used a Mama Elephant small tag die and white embossed it. I took some twine and placed the tags around the bear's neck. I placed all of my elements on the panel.

To finish off, I used some Casual Friday Fun-Fettil hearts and some white Nuvo crystal drops and I added a larger string of twine to the top of the card.

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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

CFC161 - Be Thankful with a discount!!!

Time for a new challenge over at Cas-ual Fridays :) The theme is Be Thankful! American Thanksgiving is next week and what a better time to reflect and be thankful then now! We celebrate Thanksgiving in October here in Canada but I would do a repeat anyday!

But first, Michelle has a wonderful discount for you over at Casual Fridays Stamps to celebrate this time of year!

Go on over, the savings will last while supplies do or until November 30th!!

Now on to the challenge:

I used stamps from the Thanks and Wallflower sets and embossed them in gold (love gold embossing this time of year) I then watered down Distress Inks in Ripe Persimmon, Aged Mahogany and Peeled Paint and painted on top of the embossing.  I had never used this color mix and I like it! I then turned it into a shaker card with a mix of Pretty Pink Posh Sequins.

Join us at the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge blog for the chance to win $25 worth of CAS-ual Fridays Stamps and, drum roll please... Michelle with double the prize if you use CAS-ual Fridays stamps! 

Thanks so much for taking the time!

Kim

CFC160 - Kraft

Time for a new challenge over at Casual Fridays :) What a better challenge then a Fall type color challenge! This time you must feature Orange, Brown and Kraft! I struggle with orange, so this was a fun project for me to get me out of my comfort zone!!

I do however, love Kraft paper! For this one I kept my flowers and leaves from the Pretty Posies stamp set pretty plain by stamping them with Chocolate Fudge MFT ink. Although the details on those beautiful flowers are not plain, I just love them! I then stamped the smallest butterfly from the Casual Fridays Butterbows stamp set with MFT Tangy Orange ink. I was worried about the Hybrid ink on Kraft but I love the way the orange really shows nicely! I used the Thanks die from the Smiling Fri-die set and die cut it on Orange and Brown paper and mounted the sentiment on some fun foam for dimension. I put the card together then stamped the Many sentiment from the Thanks stamp set. I finished it all off with Pretty Pink posh sequins.

Join us at the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge blog for the chance to win $25 worth of CAS-ual Fridays Stamps and, drum roll please... Michelle with double the prize if you use CAS-ual Fridays stamps! 

Thanks so much for taking the time!

Kim

CFC150 Thanks Twine!

Time for another challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays Woot, Woot!!!  The theme is Thanks Twine for CFC150.

I love CAS-ual Fridays Stamps for their clean lines and the sentiments are fabulous. This flower from Truth Is is my all time favourite, it is so stained from use lol!!!  I stamped my Thanks from the Thanks sentiment set twice, first in Versafine Onyx Black and used clear embossing powder then stamped it a second time with VersaMark ink slightly offset and used clear embossing again to give the shadow effect.  I then stamped the full flower from the Truth Is and stamped the only the top flower portion a second time and Copic coloured them. I blended Twisted Citron, Cracked Pistachio, Peacock Feathers and Mermaid Lagoon Distress inks on a Neena Solar White 80lbs and added flicks of black and gold watercolour paint. I then die cut the second set of flowers and added them with foam tape. I added my black and white twine to the smaller flower and finished it off with sequins and the "a bunch" also from the Thanks stamp set :)

Join us at the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge blog for the chance to win $25 worth of CAS-ual Fridays Stamps and, drum roll please... Michelle with double the prize if you use CAS-ual Fridays stamps! 

Thanks so much for taking the time!

Kim