My Favorite Things Christmas Tags

Happy Tuesday crafty friends! I was so excited to play with these MFT Stamps Holly Jolly Cardinals Die-Namics. The size of these made tags such fun to make!

I decided to die cut my elements using felt from my stash, so happy I did I love the way they turned out.  I decided to make a more traditional in color version and if you follow me you know that I love to use pastel colors for Christmas :)

Once my cardinal elements were die cut and put together, I die cut three tags from Neena Desert Storm cardstock and a ModaScrap tag die. I used my Simon Says Stamp Falling Snow stencil and some texture paste and put them aside to dry.

I used the Spellbinders Glimmer Foil system for the sentiments in coordinating colors and then die cut them.  I also die cut the foliage from the Simon Says Stamp Christmas Foliage dies

I put all of my elements on the tag base and I ended up cutting my own white felt for the Santa's hats only to realize that the die set had... Leave it to me and OF COURSE MFT would think of that, lol!

To finish off, I added a few red gems as berries, some ribbon and twine to the tops!

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Simon Says: Thanks/Thanksgiving

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

This week Simon Says: Thanks/Thanksgiving! We are featuring always amazing Pinkfresh Studio 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 $25 gift card to the fantastic Simon Says Stamp store!

Since Canadian Thanksgiving is in October, I decided to go with a Thankful For You card :) I love fall and this year has been pretty exceptional in Montreal.  I paired my Pinkfresh Studio frames with these adorable Honey Bee stamps squirrels and pattern paper.

I started by picking my pattern paper and then chose the Tonic specialty paper for my frames. I die cut the frames three times for dimension and I did die cut inlay so that the frames would be as straight as possible.

I stamped and coloured my squirrels with my Copic markers and used the accompanying dies. I chose the Simon Says Stamp thankful die set and cut it from brown cardstock and cork from my stash.  I took the For You from the same Honey Bee stamp set and embossed it with brown embossing powder on Neena Desert Storm cardstock.

I put all of my elements on the panel with a mix of foam tape and tape runner. To finish off, I added a red candy heart and some black and white gel pen detail.

 

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Kim

Pink Christmas

Happy Tuesday crafty friends! Sharing a Christmas card today featuring the new Sunny Studio Retro Ornaments stamp set.

There is something about using pink for a Christmas card that simply makes me happy.  The LDRS Pink snowflake paper was my inspiration for this card.

I started by stamping my ornaments and then adding some grey Copic colouring for shading.  I embossed my topper and then added Translucent Pearl embossing to the entire ornaments.  I added some bows die cut from Tonic Glitter paper.

I used the branches from a Simon Says Stamp set and embossed in the same colour as the toppers and added the strings.

I die cut the panel using a Lawn Fawn border die and trimmed the excess and added my ornaments using foam tape then added my embossed sentiment. 

I cut some slim glitter strips and added them and the panel to my pattern paper.  To finish off, white gel pen detail and some sparkling clear sequins!

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Kim

Simon Says Stamp Holly Jolly Release!

Happy Friday crafty friends! Time for another fabulous Simon Says Stamp brand exclusive release! This month they are releasing Holly Jolly!

I got to play with the new Merry Chunky dies, the Christmas Kitties and the amazing new Unicorn Confetti!

I decided on a slimline card for my first project to really showcase the Merry dies, the size is such fun. I used Distress Inks for my background (Salty Ocean, Blueprint Sketch and Faded Jeans) and added some water droplets using my Distress Sprayer. Once my panel was dry, I used my Falling Snow stencil and some white Texture Paste and put it aside to dry.

I took a bunch of glitter paper and die cut some of my favorite Simon Says Stamp snowflake dies. I used the same papers for my Merry dies and added everything to my panel. I wanted a large enough Christmas sentiment so I chose one from the Simon Says Stamp Christmas Cheer set and white embossed it on some Tonic Blue specialty cardstock. 

To finish off, I added seem Pretty Pink Posh Metallic Silver Jewels to the snowflake centres!

So, how cute are these Christmas Kitties! I thought they were perfect for Christmas tags. I used a Simon Says Stamp tag die and stamped my Kitties and colored them in and decided to add some of the borders from last years Critter Sweaters stamp set in matching colors.  I then added some Unicorn Confetti to parts of the sweaters and scarf.

For my sentiment, I used the smaller tag die from the same tag set and white embossed my sentiment. I then decided to die cut complimentary colored tags from specialty paper for the back of the kitty tag. I put them together with twine from my stash and for a finishing touch, candy hearts to the side of the tag!

This release is seriously amazing! Thanks for taking the time, products used are listed and linked below affiliate links used at no extra cost to you!

Kim

Simon Says: Thinking of You!

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

This week Simon Says: Thinking of You! We are featuring always amazing Tim Holtz 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 $25 gift card to the fantastic Simon Says Stamp store!

I started by blending my Distress Inks to create my night sky once my blending was complete I added some water droplets and set it aside to dry.

I stamped and colored my image by Lawn Fawn with my Copic markers and used the accompanying die. I added some black and white Sakura gel pen for detail and set it aside.

I added a mix of Distress paints (listed below) to my panel and set it aside once more to dry.

I die cut my "snow hill" using a Lawn Fawn stitched border die and cut my Brutus Monroe pattern paper stripes. 

I trimmed my panel down to allow space for my pattern paper.  I then added Tonic Moonstone glitter paste over my Tim Holtz Sparkle Layering Stencil. 

I embossed my sentiments and die cut them using my MFT banner dies. Once the panel was dry, I added all of my elements to the card base using a mix of tape runner and foam tape.

To finish off I added some of my favorite red candy hearts!

 

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Kim

25 Tags of Christmas 2020 - featuring Simon Says Stamp!

Happy Monday crafty friends! Super excited to be participating the annual 25 Days of Christmas Tags by Tracey McNeely over at In My Creative Opinion. This is the 10th Anniversary of the 25 Days of Christmas Tags and it is such a fun event. I am super happy to be participating using some amazing Simon Says Stamp Brand Exclusives!

 I made a few different types of tags, one super fun cat themed tag and a series of similar tags using some fantastic Simon Says Stamp snowflakes.

We have many cat lovers in my family so using a kitty for a Christmas tag is an annual occurrence for me! This cutie is from the newly released Feline a Lot Like Christmas Spinners stamp set, I masked the images as my dies are in the mail for this set.  All of the cats have a spinner partner, which means there is the front and back. Can't wait to get them!

I colored all of my images and background with my Copic Markers and added some white gel pen detail.  I die cut my tag shape using some Tonic specialty paper and put everything together.  Since I used dies from my stash, I added the hole for the ribbon using my We R Memory Keepers hole punch. Once that was done, I added my sentiment from the same stamp set.

Simon Says Stamp snowflake dies are my favorite. The detail on them is simply amazing, I chose two dies and a mix of my glitter and specialty paper for these and a lot of die cutting.  These are fun and really fast to put together assembly line style. The sentiments for these came from the Simon Says Stamp tiny Words Christmas set, the size of these sentiments are perfect for tags.

I put all of my elements together using a mix of tape runner and foam tape. To finish off, I added a mix of twine from my stash and decided to add a die cut bow from another Simon Says Stamp die set that includes the bow and a candy cane.

Check out Tracey's blog, the 25 Days stared yesterday and runs until the end of the month! Lots of fun inspiration! 

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Kim

Simon Says: Anything Goes featuring Stampendous!

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! We are 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 $25 gift card to the fantastic Simon Says Stamp store!

Any of you that follow me will know that I love to stamp and color anything dog related :) So, this was a fun card for me to put together.

I stamped my dog in the centre of the panel and before coloring, I took my falling snowflake embossing folder with a Tim Holtz debossing cover plate that leaves the centre oval flat.

I colored my pup with my trusty Copic markers and added some white gel pen detail and trimmed my panel so that I could add some of this super fun Brutus Monroe pattern paper to the background.

I die cut my Simon Says Stamp Christmas die from Tonic Nuvo glitter paper and fun foam put it together and glued it to the panel.

For my secondary sentiment I took a Lawn Fawn speech bubble die and white embossed the sentient to pair with the dog.

To finish off, I added Sparkling Clear Sequins some holly and Glossy Accents.

 

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Kim