Simon Says Stamp Blossoms and Butterflies!

Happy Thursday crafty friends! Today marks a new Simon Says Stamp Exclusive Release: Blossoms and Butterflies!

I am in love with the Butterflies from the Comfort and Prayers stamp set! They are GORGEOUS!!!  I started by stamping the largest butterfly on Bristol Smooth Cardstock with my Gina K. Amalgam ink for some no-line coloring using my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers (all colors used are listed below). I fussy cut my butterfly and put it to the side to work on my background panel.

I chose the Sugar Plum Avery Elle Watercolor to paint lines on my Tim holtz Watercolor Paper.  I just used a wide damp brush and added my lines. I used one coat to keep the pastel feel of the purple.

I then chose the Simon Says Stamp Hello Beautiful Gorgeous dies from a previous release and die cut them twice, once from Simon Says Stamp glitter paper and once again with black cardstock. I used my Connect glue and offset the black slightly.

I placed my sentiments and my butterfly on the panel using foam tape for the butterfly wings to give some added dimension.

To finish off the card I added some Pretty Pink Posh Winter Sparkle Mix sequins and some Nuvo Jewel drops to the wings of the butterfly and the card panel.

Thanks so much for taking the time go to Simon Says Stamp to see the entire release! 

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Kim

Simon Says: Animal Antics

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

This week Simon Says: Animal Antics! The design team is featuring amazing Hello Bluebird 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 have been practicing my no-line coloring lately and have been having fun with it! I used my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers for this fun scene featuring the Hello Bluebird Moose and Friends stamp set.

I used the Gina K. Amalgam Ink for the first time on this project and I was super happy with the result. I stamped all of my images on Strathmore Bristol Smooth cardstock, colored my images and die cut all of my elements.

I also used Bristol for my base panel and stamped my Hooray sentiment from the same stamp set and colored it in rainbow order. I then used my MFT Mini Cloud and Grass stencils with Salty Ocean and a mix of Mowed Lawn and Lucky Clover Distress Inks. I find it easier to stencil after the initial coloring and simply avoid the colored area.

I placed all of my images on the base panel using a mix of foam tape and glue and added some gel pen detail. I made a mistake on my Moose (typical of me, lol) so I decided to give him some googly eyes instead of starting over. I find there is always a way to save my images!

I added my "champagne" colored Spica pen to add strings to my sentiment balloon and gold embossed my secondary sentiment. I die cut that sentiment using the new Mama Elephant strip dies and used foam tape to add that to the card.  

To finish off the card, I added some hearts and the new Nuvo Dream Drops (LOVE these)!

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Kim

Have a Happy Day!

Happy Friday crafty friends! Sharing a quick card today featuring my favourite set from Lawn Fawn's last release - Butterfly Kisses.

I couldn't wait to ink this set, I have had it since the release date but have not had to chance to play! I decided that I wanted to try no-line colouring with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers on these sweet critters.

I used my Distress Ink in Old paper to stamp all of my images on some Bristol cardstock and colored my images.  I used the accompanying dies and added some black and white gel pen detail.

I took my MFT Mini Cloud Stencil and Grassy Borders Stencil with Shaded Lilac for the clouds and a mix of Mowed Lawn and Lucky Clover Distress Inks for the grass. Once that was dry, I die cut my panel using my Honey Bee A2 Stitched Rectangle die and glued the frame flat to the card base and I used foam tap for the middle panel.

I felt the grass needed some more elements so I die cut the blades of grass from Lawn Fawn Cilantro cardstock and added some Copic accents. I glued them behind the critters. To finish off, I added some clay flowers from my stash!

Thanks so much for taking the time!

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Kim

My Favourite Things Birthday Tri-Fold!

Happy Friday! So happy the weekend has arrived, it has been a super cold first week of March! But things are looking up as of this weekend!

For my project today, I decided to make a Tri-Fold card to be able to use as many of these fantastic MFT critters - Tweet Friends and Joyful Hearts Bears designed by Stacy Yacula. For this I took a piece of Bristol cardstock and cut it to 5.5 x 12 so that I could score both sides at 4 inches. By using Bristol, I decided to use my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers.

I stamped all of my images using my stamping tool, I decided to space everything accordingly so that I did not have to mask anything (although, masking would have been easy). I stamped and colored all of my images before stencilling my clouds and grass (both MFT stencils). I just find it so much simpler avoiding the images with the Distress ink and easier to properly stencil the blades of grass.

Once my scene was complete, I stamped my sentiments and added some extra grass blades with my green Zigs and scattered some Pretty Pink Posh hearts on the entire card. I am super happy with the way it turned out. I just love these images.

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: 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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Kim

Simon Says: Anything Goes featuring Impression Obsession!

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 Impression Obsession 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 just had to use the super sweet Floppy Puppy Cling Stamp from Impression Obsession, I mean look at that face! I decided to color him using my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers on a piece of Bristol Smooth cardstock and fussy cut the image.  I decided to go with the Pantone color of the year, I rarely use this color on it's own but it has been my mission to try different styles and colors lately.

I die cut my Pink and Main frame die (their dies are pink - seriously fun!) using some Sunny Studio coral cardstock and decided to mix it with both Abandoned Coral Distress Ink and Oxide for my inside panel.

I stamped my MFT heart cling background with the Oxide for more solid stamping and I ink blended the Distress Ink on the sides of the inside panel and added some water droplets with my Distress Sprayer.

For my sentiment, I chose the beautiful Simon Says Stamp Friend Die and die cut it from both black glitter cardstock and Tim Holtz metallic cardstock in coral as well. I also embossed the Hugs sentiment from Honey Bee stamps on black cardstock.

To finish off my card I added some Studio Katia April Jewels and added some white gel pen accents on the puppy!

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Kim

Simon Says Stamp - Mirror hearts into a Butterfly!

Happy Monday crafty friends! Sharing a Simon Says Stamp brand exclusive card today!

So I am in love with this detailed heart from the Ornate Love set that was in the last Simon Says Stamp "You Are Loved" release.  I originally wanted to do a mirror heart card, but when my husband saw it he said "what a beautiful butterfly" lol so that's what it became :)

I started by finding the centre of my Bristol Smooth paper panel and placing my stamp aligned to the centre of the cardstock in my Misti and stamped the heart. I flipped the panel and stamped it a second time using Versafine Onyx Black in so that I could use my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers.

Once that was done, I die cut a large butterfly with a die from my stash using Tonic black glitter paper and cut the centre of the butterfly and glued it to the panel.  I chose the fantastic Hello Beautiful Gorgeous dies from Simon Says Stamp and die cut it from both White and Black glitter specialty cardstock both by Tonic and glued it to the panel a little offset so the black would frame the white.

I then used one of the Lawn Fawn Stitched Border dies above and below the panel and trimmed it. I added some Sunny Studio paper in the background and finished off with some Studio Katia Chunky Butterfly Glitter and Sequins.

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: Anything Goes featuring Stampendous!

Happy Boxing Day! I hope you all enjoyed  Christmas! 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 Stampendous 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!

This was such a fun and easy card to put together! I used the Sunny Hello Cling Stamp by Stampendous. The scale of this image is so nice for a card front!

I stamped my image with Versafine Onyx Black on Bristol Smooth cardstock to be able to color with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers. I haven't used them in a while and it is so quick to color and blend with these markers. Once I had coloured my sun and the the cloud I took out my favorite cloud stencil by MFT and used a rainbow array of Distress Inks to blend my clouds on the background.

To finish off this super quick card, I added rainbow sequins by Studio Katia!!

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Thanks for taking the time!

Kim :)