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Spooky Boo Crew
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Spooky Boo Crew

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Hello crafty friends!! Please join me for a new challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.  This week the challenge is

Spooky

We are showcasing our very own Simon Says Stamp 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 don’t make Halloween cards too often so I was super excited to get to use this little gem again. This is The Boo Crew stamp set by Simon Says Stamp.

I colored all of my images with my copic markers on X–Press It Copic Blending Card. Then I used my silhouette to cut out this spooky tree twice and layered them to give it a touch of dimension.

I used Bristol Smooth card stock for my card base since I knew I was going to be ink blending and I cut it to 5″x7″. For my background I ink blended Spiced Marmalade, Ripe Persimmon, Fired Brick and Black Soot distress oxide inks. I splattered water, Black Soot, White Gouache and a little Liquid Stardust for a little sparkle. I cut out a circle with my Nested Circles dies from masking paper to mask off a moon.

For the grass I ink blended Peeled Paint, Forest Moss and Black Soot distress oxide inks. I cut the grass twice using my Slimline Grassy Border die by Lawn Fawn. I also splattered the grass with water and Black Soot. I popped up the front panel of grass with foam tape.

Once I pulled the mask off, I smooshed Squeezed Lemonade and Iced Spruce distress inks with some water on my media mat and painted the moon. For some finishing touches, I stamped a few bats and I heat embossed the spiderweb and spider with black embossing powder. I also heat embossed the second portion of the sentiment with white embossing powder on black card stock.

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

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Enchanted
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Enchanted

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Hello crafty friends!! Please join me for a new challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.  This week the challenge is

Anything Goes

We are showcasing Gina K Designs 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 have to say that I am in love with this stamp set!! There are so many fun images to play with and I can’t wait to use it again. This is the Enchanted Forest clear stamp set by Gina K Designs.

I started my card out on a piece of Bristol Smooth Card Stock and I ink blended distress oxide inks. I started with Antique Linen, Cracked Pistachio, Tumbled Glass, Blueprint Sketch, Chipped Sapphire and ended with Black Soot.

Then I used my brand new Misti 2.0 and I stamped out all of the images except for the moon. I stamped them all using Versafine Onyx Black Ink. My sentiment is from the Sketched Flowers clear stamp set by Simon Says Stamp. After I stamped the largest fairy, I sprinkled some Brutus Monroe Raven Embossing Powder to give her this beautiful sparkly silhouette. I masked off the wings though because I didn’t want the extra bulk.

I then stamped just the fairy wings onto a piece of Holographic Card Stock by Simon Says Stamp and fussy cut them out. I attached them to my fairy using Gina K Connect Glue.

I prepped my background to emboss the moon using Brutus Monroe Alabaster Embossing Powder.

After all of the images were stamped and heat embossed, I used Lawn Fawn’s Liquid Stardust and White Gouache with my Distress Splatter brush to add some stars. I used the Wonky Rectangles die by Simon Says Stamp to cut out my card front and attached it to an A2 sized Onyx Black Pearlescent Card Stock. I attached it all to a top folding black card base. To finish it off, I added a few silver stars from Itty Bitty Stars Silver Sparkly Shaker Mix by Lucy’s Cards.

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

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Create Your Own Background – And Play To Win Distress Inks!!
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Create Your Own Background – And Play To Win Distress Inks!!

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Hello crafty friends!! Please join me for a new challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.  This week the challenge is

Use Your Favorite Tool

We are showcasing Tim Holtz 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.

 

What’s your favorite craft tool? Is it your paper trimmer? Your die cutting machine? How about Distress Oxide inks? Well, those are my 3 favorite tools. I simply could not narrow it down any narrower. I’d love to hear what your favorite tool is. In fact, let me know what your favorite tool is and I’ll randomly select a winner to win 5 distress ink pads. I have 2 distress oxides and 3 distress ink pads to give away. All full size!! I’ll announce the winner in next week’s post.

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Do anyone struggle with patterned paper like I do? I love it. I have tons of it. But I rarely use it on a card. I like to keep things pretty simple and patterned paper just seems so over powering sometimes. So busy. Yet I see people use it all the time and make it work beautifully. I can’t do that for whatever reason. So when I thought about using the Baubles Layering Shifter Stencil by Tim Holtz to create my own background, I thought in a way, I’m creating my own patterned paper!! No need to be intimidated by it. Yes I said it. Patterned paper intimidates me. Unless I create it myself…

Check out my video above if you’d like to see a detailed tutorial of how I created this background. It was super easy and super quick to create.

I taped an A2 piece of Bristol Smooth card stock to my glass media mat and taped the Baubles Shifter Stencil on top using purple tape. Then I ink blended several distress oxide inks using a sponge dauber. I started with Picked Raspberry then moved on to Carved Pumpkin, Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron, Peacock Feathers, Mermaid Lagoon and ended with Wilted Violet.

I thought the background looked better going horizontally with the sentiment that I chose. I used the Proud of You wafer die by CZ Design. I chose this one because I hadn’t used this die yet and I don’t have any cards like this in my stash. Plus I wanted a sentiment with a shadow die so that I could use black and white card stock to really make it pop off of this colorful background.

I thought it needed a little something extra so I used one of my all time favorite dies from the Frames die set by Simon Says Stamp. I cut it out using black card stock. To bring it all together, I cut my background piece down to 4″ x 5.25″ and attached a piece of white craft foam to the back. Then I adhered it to a piece of black card stock cut to 4.25″ x 5.5″ aka US A2 size. I attached my whole card front to a top folding A2 size white card base.

To finish off my design, I added a few Metallic Silver Jewels by Pretty Pink Posh and then I was done!

Don’t forget to leave me a comment and let me know what your favorite craft tool is and I’ll randomly select someone to win 5 distress ink pads!! I’ll announce the winner in next week’s post.

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

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