Simon Says No Designer Paper!

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. Thank you for joining us for the  Die Crazy Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too

This week the challenge is No Designer/ Pattern Paper

We are showcasing  Taylored Expressions Products this week. You don't have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see them used

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store

Here is my take on the challenge.

I will be honest with you. I am not big on pattern/designer papers on my card. I used them sparingly. So this challenge was easy for me. Since I design for Taylored Expressions, I decided to use their beautiful dies to showcase on my card. I started with sponging Tumbled Glass and Salty Ocean on the centre of the card front. Then I die cut two frames using Frame in Frame die set - one rectangle frame for the outer edge of the card front and one curved design smaller frame to frame the focal point. The outer frame is adhered using foam to give it dimension and  the inner frame is glued on the card front flush. 

For the focal point, I have used Scribbled Flowers die set. I watercoloured the base of the flowers and leaves using Peerless watercolour. The scribbled layer is just white cardstock. I have clustered the flowers and leaves and adhered a flowers using foam and leaves glued down. The sentiment is from One and Only You stamp set and die. I stamped the sentiment on a strip of cardstock and rest of the sentiment is die cut using gold foil cardstock. Finally adhered Pretty Pink Posh Sparkly Clear and Onyx sequins to complete the card.

So now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting

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You have until Wed  8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in

No backlinking allowed, Only 5 new creations will be eligible in the prize draw

Supplies:

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Simon Says Stamp October Card Kit!

Good morning everyone,

Guess what? I have a card to share today using the Simon Says Stamp October Card Kit. 

This kit is so colourful, and glitzy. The stamp set is fab by itself and the My Mind's Eye pattern papers and journalling card from Story Collection are beautifully bright and bold. Love the gold foiling on the pattern papers and journalling card. If you like to see a video of the kit, check out Shari's video HERE.

I could not wait to make card the moment I received the kit in the mail. 

I love the pattern paper full of glasses/spectacles with random gold foil ones. I adhered the paper on the card base toward the bottom. I trimmed the cream cardstock that came in the kit for my focal point. I started with stamping the glasses/spectacles image from the stamp set in the kit in Simon Says Stamp Duckling ink. Then I stamped the sentiment in Versamark Black ink on top of the glasses and decided to emboss using clear embossing powder. I picked the colours from the pattern paper. So stamped the speech bubbles from the stamp set in Stone Simon Says Stamp Ink and sentiment 'hello' in Simon Says Stamp Doll Pink. The other speech bubble in Doll Pink as well. I hand cut them out and layered them using foam adhesives. Similarly, I stamped the ampersand from the stamp set in Stone ink cut it out and the smaller sentiment I stamped using Doll Pink ink on a strip of cream cardstock. I layered and glued them using foam balancing them by placing them on the bottom right while the speech bubbles are on the top left. Finally used Pretty Pink Posh - Orchid, Lemon Drop and Charcoal sequins to bring the card together.



You like the card kit? If you like to subscribe to kit, click HERE. You get them at $24.95. You can also buy them one off at $29.95 at Simon Says Stamp Store.

Supplies:

InLinkz.com

Thanks for stopping by today!

STAMPtember Exclusive - Pretty Pink Posh stamp set!

Hooray! I received the new STAMPtember exclusive Pretty Pink Posh stamp set and die called Darling Friends. This is such an adorable stamp and die set. I absolutely love it because I can use this set with many of Pretty Pink Posh dies. Don't you love that? 

Today I have card to share using this new Darling Friends stamp set.

This card is special in the sense that I have used Pretty Pink Posh products except the white cardstock and colouring medium to make this card. I started with die cutting some scrap printer paper using the scalloped border die from Stitched Border 2 die set. I used the negative of the die cut to temporarily adhered  them on a white card panel and sponged Tumbled Glass distress inks. I repeated this process randomly to cover the entire panel. I then used the stitched straight border die from the same set to trim the ends of the panel and also get the stitched edges on the panel. The clouds make my background panel.



Then I stamped and coloured the hot air balloon and the kitty from the Darling Friends stamp set. I coloured the hot air balloon in rainbow colours to the balloon pops right out of the clouds. I adhered the kitty on the basket using foam adhesive and adhered the balloon on the centre of the clouds background panel using foam adhesives. Then the panel on the card base using foam adhesives again. Love the dimension on the card.



The sentiment from the stamp set is simply stamped on two strips of white cardstock and adhered on the bottom of the balloon. Finally embellished with Onyx black 6mm and 4mm sequins.

I absoloutely adore this stamp set and will share another card soon using this stamp set and Pretty Pink Posh dies. I have all the products I used to make my card below.
Thanks for stopping by today.

Supplies: 

InLinkz.com