Simon Says: All That Glitters Is Gold

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

This week Simon Says: All that Glitters is Gold! The design team is featuring Lawn Fawn 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 chose the String of Lights die set from Lawn Fawn for my card. I die cut them from Tonic Harvest Gold paper and used Wow Hologram Embossing powder three times to make them shine. You can see the effect in the close-up picture.  Once that was complete I added a little Nuvo Glaze to the right side of all the lights and put some Lawn Fawn Chunky Glitter on all three.

I then put a complete coat of the Glaze over all three to make them look even and uniform.  Once that was dry, I added white gel pen to emphasize the highlights on the dies.

I then added to light toppers that were embossed with Ranger Silver Tinsel embossing powder.

I die cut the accompanying "string" for the lights in a dark Christmas green and I glued my elements to my 4.25 x 5.5 card panel.  I then die cut the Scripty Joy from Lawn Fawn from a StickIt, Fun Foam and Lawn Fawn gold glitter paper sandwich.

I glued it to the panel and went on to add a secondary sentiment and used my Ranger Gold Tinsel Embossing powder on Lawn Fawn Black Licorice cardstock and used foam tape to glue it to the panel.

To finish off, I added some Lilac Lane Reindeer sequin mix and I stamped a few tiny hearts with my Delicata Gold Ink.

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Thanks for taking the time!

Kim :)

Fla la la la la la la mingo!

Happy Monday! For the first time in my professional life I have decided to take a well-deserved week off to myself in November! Yes and I am so happy. I signed-up for the new on-line card class and I will be able to participate in real time! I have some real crafty plans for the week!

I can't even with these MFT Festive Flamingos! I mean seriously adorable! I had such fun with this one and it was my maiden voyage with the new Festive Berries Oxide Ink (LOVE THAT COLOR)! 

I started by blending my background with Festive Berries, Abandoned Coral and Tattered Rose Distress Oxide Inks. I added some water with my Distress Sprayer for added effect. I then colored these beautiful Festive Flamingos with my Copics and used the accompanying dies.

I chose this beautiful Simon Says Stamp Exclusive Holly die with some Tim Holtz woodgrain cardstock, I love the added texture.  I adhered the background panel with foam tape for added dimension and then added some Christmas Red and Holly Stickles to the frame for added color.

I used foam tape for my Flamingos, and added some glossy accents, white blizzard and white Nuvo drops to the flamingos and the background.

I finished by embossing my sentiment with Rose Gold embossing powder on Tonic Scarlet Organza specialty paper and used an MFT banner die.

I do love the way it turned out! All products are listed and linked below affiliate links are used at no extra cost to you!

Thanks for taking the time!

Kim

Christmas Tags with Mama Elephant Holiday Bitties

Happy Friday! Sharing some quick sweet tags featuring new and older Mama Elephant products!

I love making Christmas tags! So many sweet options to personalize your gift packages.  Today, I am sharing these featuring all Mama Elephant stamps and dies.

I have been wanting to play with the Holiday Bitties stamp set so last weekend I was on a tag mission and I finally stamped some of these cute images.

I started by die cutting my Neena 110lbs with a tag from the Mama Elephant Framed Tags Union Squares, the set is really fantastic it has a square scalloped die and some accessories including this two part tag which can die cut a stitched opening panel on the top of the tag. And I also die cut the full tag only for the backing.

I then stamped all of the images I selected from the Holiday Bitties set and stamped them out and colored with my Copics. I added some white gel pen detail, some glossy accents and some Nuvo White Blizzard glitter drops on a few of the elements.

For the tag toppers I used a set from Mama Elephant called Winter Taggins that includes other tag dies and this fantastic foliage for the tops of the tags.

To finish off I used a mix of Lawn Trimmings and twine from my stash!

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Thanks for taking the time!

Kim 

Simon Says: Thanks/Thanksgiving

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

This week Simon Says: Thanks/Thanksgiving! The design team is featuring fantastic Altenew 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!

Canadian Thanksgiving is in October so for my card this week I opted to underline the importance of Remembrance Day which, we celebrate on November 11 annually.  For those of you that may be unaware, most Commonwealth countries (and certain others) celebrate this very important day and the Poppy is the symbol for honouring those who have died in conflict. This year marks the 100th anniversary as WWI ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918.

There is a famous poem and incidentally my favourite poem by Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae who was a Canadian physician (he served in WWI) called In Flanders Fields which is where he indicates the symbolism of the Poppy.

So I thought the Altenew Painted Poppy set would be perfect for my project today.  I stamped out my poppies with Distress Antique Linen Ink so that I could practice my no-line watercoloring with the new Altenew water-colours (LOVE these paints). I haven't practiced this in a while but I am happy with the way the poppies turned out. 

Once they were dry, I decided to use watered down Distress Paint in Picket Fence, Black Soot and Antique Bronze and flicked some paint splotches on my card panel (which is Tim Holtz watercolor paper) 

Once that was all dry, I chose this perfect sentiment from the Simon Says Stamp Exclusive Thanks and Leaves set (from the November Card Kit which there are a few still available I linked the gorgeous kit below and I also linked the stamp set as a stand alone) I used my magic powder bag and embossed the Thank You with bronze embossing powder and embossed the secondary sentiment with white on black cardstock.

To finish my card I added some Pretty Pink Posh Sparkling Clear Sequins and some White Blizzard Nuvo Glitter drops to the centres.

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Thanks for taking the time!

Kim :)

Christmas Tags featuring Sunny Studio products!

Happy Monday! I am having some fun getting some holiday tags together. Today I have a set that I made using from some super fun Sunny Studio products.

These mittens are just too sweet and their tag set (they have a second set of square tags available as well) has some fantastic accessories.

I started by die cutting both some Neena Solar White for the green and blue tags and some Lawn Fawn Vanilla Malt for the red and pink tag with one of the basic tags from the Build-a-Tag 1 Snippets Dies by Sunny Studio.  I also die cut the topper and bottom of the tag with some fantastic Sunny Studio pattern paper.

I then die-cut my mittens from some different Lawn Fawn cardstock and added some distress inks to them for some shading.  I also die cut the accessories for the mittens in some glitter cardstock and some mirror cardstock in complementary colors. I put everything together and decided to add a sentiment from the Simon Says Stamp Tiny Words Christmas set on a small Mama Elephant tag die.

I finished everything off with some Lawn Trimmings. All of the products used are listed and linked below. Affiliate links are used at no extra cost to you!

Thanks for taking the time!

Kim

Penguin wishes!

Happy Friday crafty friends! We have a rainy weekend in store for us in Montréal so I have decided to hibernate to my craft room! Woot! Who's with me?

I am in love with the new MFT Sweet Holiday Penguins stamp set! These images are so sweet, I will be making a series of Christmas cards using these for sure! I started by die-cutting my Neena 80lbs card stock using the larger of the Avery Elle Wonky Stitched rectangle die.  I then stamped my cutie penguin with Lawn Fawn Jet Black ink so that I could color with my Copic markers (all colors listed and linked below). 

I then used my stamp positioner (to re-stamp if needed) to stamp my sentiment from the Hand-Lettered Holiday Greetings also by My Favorite Things using Lawn Fawn Lobster ink.  

I felt the card was missing something so I added the berries and foliage also from the Hand-Lettered Holiday Greetings stamp set by MFT with the Lobster ink and Hero Arts Fresh Lawn ink. I added some snow flakes and sequins from the Hero Arts Snow and Berries pack and finished off the card with some white gel pen detail, glossy accents and Nuvo White Blizzard drops.

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Thanks for taking the time!

Kim

25 Days of Christmas Tags!

Happy Thursday crafty friends and welcome to day one of the 25 Days of Christmas Tags event hosted by Tracey McNeeley aka In My Creative Opinion ! This is the 8th year that Tracey has hosted this event and Simon Says Stamp is thrilled to get the ball rolling on Day 1!

Each day up to November 25th there will be a different company sponsoring with fabulous crafty giveaways and prizes to be won PLUS the company design teams will be joining in with lots of gorgeous Christmas Tags for our inspiration!

The Simon Says Stamp Monday and Wednesday Challenge teams are joining in using Simon's Exclusive Brand Products 

By joining in with the event YOU could win a $50 gift card to Simon Says Stamp! How awesome is that! ;-) 

I chose the beautiful poinsettia from the Simon Says Stamp Winter Flowers set. I love this series of flowers by Simon Says Stamp, the dot detail on them is such fun.  I first stamped my poinsettia in Copic friendly ink with my stamp postioner and colored it with my favorite christmas reds. I then created a mask and partially cut it out to stamp my leaves. I used my second stamp positioner to stamp the leaves once again in the black ink and colored them in.

Once that was done I re-stamped the pointsettia with Versamark Ink and used gold embossing powder. I followed the same steps for the leaves.

I then die cut my tag and again with Tonic specialty paper. I used the same Tonic paper and embossed my sentiment from the Tiny Word Christmas set in white. I used foam tape to place the strip on the tag. I used a some Lawn Trimmings in Peppermint and some ribbon from my stash for the topper.

 CLICK HERE  to visit Tracey's blog where there is more information about how you can win the fabulous prizes that are up for grabs!

Thanks for taking the time all the products used are linked and listed below. Affiliate links used at no extra cost to you!

Kim