My Favorite Peeps

Hello crafty friends!! It’s time for a brand new challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. This week the challenge is

Easter/Spring

We are showcasing Picket Fence Studios Products this week. If you have any of these products, we’d love to see them used, but it’s certainly not a requirement to join the challenge.

As always, the generous folks at Simon Says Stamp will be giving away a $25 voucher to one randomly selected winner to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store. You can enter 5 times which means you can make 5 different projects following this week’s prompt and have 5 chances to win a shopping spree!! Sounds like a win/win to me!! I’ve linked all of the supplies that I used at the end of this post. Compensated affiliate links used where possible at no cost to you.

I started out with an A2 sized panel of Hammermill 100 lb. card stock. I surprisingly discovered that I really like this card stock for ink blending. I’ve always been a Bristol Smooth kinda gal, but then I decided to give the hammermill a try because I had it and I wasn’t using it for anything else and I really didn’t want it to go to waste so I thought, why not? I originally purchased it because I had heard other crafters say that it works really well with hot foil plates, but I just didn’t have that same kind of luck. Therefore, it was just sitting in my card stock organizer collecting dust. I do still love my Bristol Smooth card stock as well for ink blending though. The Hammermill is a brighter white than the Bristol so when making a card like this where there is quite a bit of white around my ink blending, I’ll choose the Hammermill. That will help me decide in future projects which route I choose.

I ink blended Simon Says Stamp’s Bubblegum and Lemonade Pawsitively Saturated Inks with a cloud stencil from my stash and created these beautifully soft, fluffy clouds. For my grass, I used Green Apple Card Stock and I die cut it with the Grassy Edges die but then I went around the edges with some Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide ink just to give it a little depth.

I took my grass and clouds panel and I die cut this adorable scalloped rectangle with Simon’s Chunky A2 Scalloped Rectangles die. I set that aside and I started coloring my images. The stamp set I used here is called Spring Chicks Are Back in Town by Picket Fence Studios. I colored my images with my Copic Markers and I fussy cut each image. But there are coordinating dies to go with this stamp set.

I popped my panel up with some craft foam and set it aside to finish my background panel. For my background, I used one of my new favorite embossing folders by Simon called Neatly Knitted. I ran a piece of A2 Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80 lb. card stock through this embossing folder and then I attached it to a top folding, horizontal card base.

Next, I heat embossed my sentiment on a strip of Black Card Stock with Alabaster White embossing powder. I adhered my sentiment to my scalloped panel and then adhered the panel to my embossed background. To finish off my scene, I added a few tiny flowers from an old Simon die in pastel colors and added them here and there. I popped my basket up with some foam squares and called her done!

So now it’s YOUR turn. Happy Crafting!!

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