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Simon Says Stamp Challenge Day- February Anything Goes

I am a little late in posting my challenge card today.  Somehow I thought that I had already posted it but alas I did not!  So let me tell you a little bit about our Simon Says Stamp challenge this week and my card.

This week we have our favorite challenge, Anything Goes!  So all you have to do is create something new and post in on your blog and link it up to our challenge post here.  It's so easy and so fun so why don't you give it a try!!

Now a little bit about my card.  First off, I want to tell you that the design of my card came from some sketch inspiration in the May/June 2011 Paper Crafts Magazine.  I really loved the sketch and thought it was the perfect backdrop for my stamp and paper choice.  The design team is using My Mind's Eye paper this week and I picked a new 6x6 pad called Dilly Dally!!  This paper reminds me of old barns and country flowers beside the roadside.  I also had to include some twine to complete the country feel.

To create the window for the flowers I cut two rectangles and then using my circle punch I punched a half circle in each and adhered them in the opposite directions.  Then I colored my Hero Arts flowers with Copic markers, cut them out and then pop dotted them onto my card.

My sentiment was also stamped onto My Mind's Eye paper with a Hero Arts stamp.  Originally the letters were open but I colored them in with a black Copic Multiliner to make them stand out more.

So don't forget that we have an awesome prize each week!!  A $50 gift certificate to the best lil' craft store on the internet, Simon Says Stamp!  So get your crafting mojo going and create something for our Anything Goes Challenge this week!!

All of the tools and supplies that I used on my card can be found at Simon Says Stamp's Online store by following the links below.

Hero Arts Clear Stamps Layered Flowers	Hero Arts Clear Stamp set Find Joy	My Mind's Eye Dilly Dally 6x6 paper pad	Doodlebug Doodle Twine Ladybug
Fiskars Round N Round X-Large circle punch	Copic Markers	Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad and Refill	Copic Multiliner SP0.03 Black

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Simon Says Stamp Challenge Day- Card Recipe

Welcome to Simon Says Stamp's weekly Wednesday Challenge.  Each week we have fabulous challenges and prizes on the Simon Says Stamp Challenge blog.  I hope you will join us this week because we have a fun new challenge for you.  Create a card using

3 Different Papers

The design team are also featuring stamps from either C.C. Designs or The Greeting Farm.  Please play along with us if you have any.  I had a lot of fun with some faux stitching on this card.  I recently got a white gelly roll pen from Sakura and I love it.  It goes on so smooth and easy.

This week I chose to use this little cutie from C.C. Designs.  My papers are from My Mind's Eye.  I also used my new Ephihany tool.  Love this.  It's a simple concept and so fun to use to make custom, matching embellishments.  I can't wait to get some of the other sizes and shapes.

Here she is all colored and popped off the page.  I colored her with my Copic Markers and the cut her out.  I love the dimension that this creates. 

 

So let's see what you can do with our challenge this week.  One lucky person will win the prize but aren't we all winners just by having fun!

 

C.C. Designs Cupcake Kiki La Rue	Epiphany Round 25 Tool	Epiphany Shape Studio 25 Bubble Caps	Sew Easy Fancy Floss
Copic Markers	Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad and Refill

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Simon Says Stamp Challenge Day- Love is in the Air

Oh, it's almost Valentine's Day and we have a lovely challenge for you this week on the Simon Says Stamp Challenge blog.  

But first I want to celebrate my wedding anniversary!  My husband and I have been married for 20 years today.  It's been an unbelievable adventure, full of fun, surprises, and wonderful memories. I love you honey and can't wait for the next 20 years!

 

So back to our challenge.  The theme this week is Love in in the Air!  So get your pretty lovey dovey stamps out and get stampin!  This week I used Throwing Rice Tilda.  It's from the Wedding collection but I think it looks like more of a Valentine stamp.  

The dt girls are also using Prima products today so I used a 6x6 paper pad called Annalee and pretty paper flowers from Prima called Cameo Roses in Aqua.  The small white flowers are from Maya Road, (link on bottom of page) and they are the best little accent flowers ever.  They are so tiny and they fit anywhere.  It is a great must have embellishment.  The felt hearts are from Martha Stewart.  They are last years collection but Simon Says Stamp has the new 2012 collection. I truly have used them all year.  Again another wonderful got to embellishment.

I colored by image with Copic markers and added a sweet seam binding ribbon.  The doily is one that I picked up in the Wilton isle and my local craft store.

I hope you have time to join us this week at Simon Says Stamp.  The challenges are always fun and the prize is fantastic.  Get a chance to win a $50 gift certificate with every entry that you link up.  No back linking please and make sure that you mention our challenge with a link to the challenge post in your entry. 

I look forward to seeing all of your wonderful creations!

 

 

Magnolia Tilda throwing Rice	Prima Annalee 6x6 paper pad	Prima Cameo Roses Aqua	Maya Road Vintage paper posies
Martha Stewart Felt Heart Collection 2012	Copic Markers	Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad and Refill

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Simon Says Stamp Challenge Day- Animal Antics

It's an Animal Antics challenge this week on the Simon Says Challenge blog.  The design team is using Stampabilities animal stamps this week but you can use any animal stamps that you own.

I decided to make a shaped card this week with my Spellbinders die.  It's really easy to do.  Just fold your paper over and place it lower on the die so that part of the top of the die is showing above the paper.  Then run it through your die cutting machine like normal and you will get this result.  It's fun to experiment with many of the Spellbinder's dies.  I used the open scalloped circles because I thought that they would be really dainty and pretty for my card.

The 6x6 paper I used is from My Mind's Eye.  It is called Lost & Found Market Street.  On one of the sheets of paper is the banner that you see on my card.  I just cut it out to use as my sentiment.  I thought that this would make a cute card for a little girl who liked ballerinas.

The flowers on my card are from my Petaloo stash!!  I love these flowers.  They are the perfect size for cards and come in many different colors.  The die cut leaves are attached to them so basically I can just stick them down and go.  Love that ease!

Well I hope to see your card in our Linky line up this week on the Simon Says Stamp Challenge blog.  Just create a card with an animal on it, blog about it and link up your blog post.  It's that easy!! There is a $50 gift certificate for one lucky person who enters.

Take care!

 

Stampabilities House Mouse Twinkle Toes	My Mind's Eye 6x6 Lost & Found Market Street	Spellbinders Circle Dies Large
Copic Markers	Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad and Refill

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Imaginisce Monthly Challenge- Winter Theme

Did you know that Imaginisce has a monthly challenge on their blog?  Well they do and it is always a lot of fun to enter. This month the challenge was to create something with the theme of Winter.  

Well I decided that it would be fun to create a monthly calendar and and desiginate January as the Winter month!  So I pulled out my drawer of Imaginisce paper and saw just what I was looking for.  A half sheet left of paper from my favorite Christmas collection by Imaginisce from about 2 years ago. There was just something about the colors and patterns in this line, Polar Express, that I could use again and again. I had saved every little scrap of paper from this collection so I had just enough to create this calendar page.  The calendar page measures 6x6 and I plan on doing a new page each month and letting my husband put them on his desk.

Then because I had already used up all my embellishments from the Polar Express line I got out my cardstock die cuts from this past Christmas's line, Santa's Little Helper, and used three of the snowflakes for my embellishments.  Then I stamped the little snowman,cut him out, and then colored him with Copic markers.  Then I used foam dots for dimension.  

The calendar that you see here is a new product for me. In the past when I wanted to make calendar pages I would try to make my own but that was so time consuming.  So enter SRM Stickers!  Recently I was asked to design for SRM Stickers and just got my box of DT products.  I was thrilled to find that they have two different sets of calendar stickers and let me just tell you, they are fabulous!  I placed the clear calendar sticker on some white cardstock and you don't even know it is a sticker! 

Thanks for stopping by!

Rules for Imaginisce's monthly challenge found here.

 

Simon Says Stamp Challenge Day- A Sketch

Well we have another fun challenge for you on the Simon Says Stamp Challenge blog.  Each week I see many of the cards that are made for our challenges and I have to say that it is very inspiring to see how everyone intreprets the challenges. Such wonderful work and creativity.  

So on to our challenge for this week.  Domi created this wonderful sketch for you to work with.  You can see what the design team created by visiting the Simon Says Stamp Challenge blog or do what I do and hop around the links and get inspiration from our challenge participants.   

So here is my card!!  I decided to use some of my beloved Hero Arts stamps!!  Both heart and sentiment are from Hero Arts.  I also wanted to start creating some Valentines cards early so I wasn't rushing around at the last minute.  I thought that this sketch was the perfect place to start.

I colored my heart with Copics.  I chose the colors from the palette of the patterned paper which is Springtime by Echo Park.  The background paper was embossed with a Sizzix folder.  The paper broke down a bit in the folder which exposed the white core.  I thought it was a great look for my card.  Very similar to sanding the embossed areas.  I finished off my design with a few Petaloo flowers which are made of a very soft Mulberry paper and a yellow gingham ribbon.  The sentiment came from a small stamp set from Hero Arts which is a must have in any stampers collection!!

Copic markers used:  Y06,Y08, RV02, RV23, RV25, G24

One lucky participant in our challenge will win a whopping $50 gift certificate to the Simon Says Stamp store which has anything and everything you could ever want in a paper crafting and stamp store!!  So just create your card based on the above sketch and link it up here on the Simon Says Stamp Challenge blog.  You never know, you could be this week's lucky winner.

 

Here I have gathered all of the links to the supplies I used to make my card.  You can find them all at Simon Says Stamp!

Hero Arts Clear Love Everyday 2011	Echo Park Springtime 6x6 pad	Sizzix Textured Impressions folder Christmas #6	Hero Arts Clear Classic Messages
Spellbinders Nestabilities Circles Large	Hero Arts Pink Pearls	Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad and Refill	Copic Markers

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Simon Says Stamp Challenge Day- Spots and Stripes

Welcome to this week's Simon Says Stamp Challenge blog post!  Sorry I missed last week's challenge but I was spending some much needed time with my extended family for the holidays.  My kids just love visiting their grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.

So today our challenge on the Simon Says Stamp Challenge blog is going to be an easy one.  So no excuses right?  Just create a new card that has some kind of spots or stripes on it.  You can use patterned paper like I did or emboss, stamp, cut, paint, or punch them on your card.  It's up to you, so let's be creative!

Here is my card for the challenge.  The design team for the Simon Says Stamp Challenge blog are also incorporating some sort of Memory Box product.  I used one of their dies.  I love them!!  They are so delicate and detailed.  I have quite a few and a ton more on my wish list.  Check them all out here.

The Memory Box die that I used is called Fauntleroy Crest.  You can see it on the side cut out of the red cardstock.  To create my card base I used Lily Bee's Jingle 6x6 paper pad.  I know that Christmas is over but I still think I can get some use out of this paper for some winter themed cards.  The flowers that I used are from Petaloo.  These new flowers are part of the Petaloo Premier Devon Collection.  They come in 8 different colors and 3 different sizes.  I love using them on my cards.  

The image that I used on my card is part of the Pure Innocence Collection by My Favorite Things (MFT).  I just love these cute little stamps.  So fun to color and they come with the sweetest sentiments.  This particular stamp is called Flurry of Love.  I colored it with my Copic Markers.  

Here is a list of the colors that I used.  E000, E00, E41, E42, E25,E27, B93,B99, B0000, R20, R37, R39

I hope you will join us with our challenge this week.  I love seeing all of the wonderful cards each week made by our participants.  As always, Simon Says Stamp Online Store gives only lucky random winner a $50 gift certificate to the store.  That is a fantastic prize and will buy you lots of wonderful stampy stuff!!  

 

MFT Pure Innocence Flurry of Love	Memory Box Fauntleroy Crest Die	Lily Bee Designs Jingle 6x6 paper pad
http://www.simonsaysstamp.com/servlet/the-8363/ranger-stickles-glitter-glue/Detail	Copic Markers	Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad and Refill

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Simon Says Stamp Challenge Day- Bingo

Wow, the week's have just flown by.  I can't believe Christmas is this weekend.  So one last challenge for you before the holiday.  So would ou like to play Bingo?  This week your challenge is to complete a card using this Bingo card.  Just pick three squares across, down, or diagonal and use these items on your card.  Then link up your card on the Simon Says Stamp Challenge blog.

 For my card I used the top row, Ribbon, Gems, and Glitter.  I also used  two new Magnolia stamps from the 2011 Christmas collection.  When I saw Tilda sitting there with her Teddy Bear I just new I needed to color her.  It's she so sweet sitting on her large present? 

I used Ranger Red Stickles on the bow and the red gems are from an old circle set from Heidi Swapp I think.  The flowers and sequin centers are from Petaloo.  I love these flowers for my cards.  

 So link up your card to the Simon Says Stamp Challenge blog to have a chance to win this $50 gift certificate from Simon Says Stamp! There are so many great things to get there.  I can't wait to see your creation!

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!!

A Christmas Tag- By LORi Designs Spotlight

Hello all.  How are your preparations coming for the holiday season.  I am getting very close to wrapping everything up.  Just a couple more projects and some baking and I will be ready.

I love making cards but at Christmas I also love making gift tags.  When I saw this cute little stocking I knew that it would be a perfect image for a tag.  This sweet image is part of the Lollipop Chrstams Bundle.  You can find it in Lori's Digi Shop on this page.

For this tag I colored the image with my Copics and then cut it out.  Then I adhered it with foam dots to a oval Spellbinder die stack that I cut out of matching cardstock.  The cute little white dots that you see were made with Rangers White Enamel Accents.  It is so easy and fun to use.

This tag was so easy to make that I think that I will whip up a couple more so I will have one for each of my gifts.  Don't forget to stop by Lori's blog to check out the other wonderful projects that the design team has created this week.

Have a wonderful day and be sure to stop back tomorrow.  I'll have another fun challenge for you.

Simon Says Stamp Challenge Day- A Sketch Challenge

Welcome to another Simon Says Stamp Challenge!  We've got a fun sketch for you this week.  It's got lots of possibilities!! 

Here is my take on the sketch.  I used La La Land Crafts stamps this week.  I just loved this little angel.  She is so pretty and I decorated her in Gold and Diamond Stickles so she sparkles from head to toe beautifully.  For the scalloped rows I used a QuicKutz border set that I have and layered them in different patterned papers.  The patterned papers are from LilyBee Designs, called Jingle  and they are so pretty.  Then I stitched along the top of each row with my sewing machine.

 Here is a close up of all that beautiful glitter.  For the flower stack I used Petaloo flowers from their TieDye Collection.  The color matched my patterned paper perfectly. (Say that 10 times fast!)  Then I used Petaloo's Seguin Garland for the center of one flower and the Kaiser Pearls in Champagne for the others.  The swirly die cut flourish that you see is from Memory Box.  These dies are exquisite.  They are so delicate and beautiful. The little leaf branches are a EK Success Slim Line Punch.

 

 So link up your card to the Simon Says Stamp Challenge blog to have a chance to win this $50 gift certificate from Simon Says Stamp! There are so many great things to get there.  I can't wait to see your creation!

So this little Santa (me) would love to hear what is on your crafty wish list.  Leave me a comment telling me what is on top of your list and be entered to win a fun holiday prize.

La La Land Crafts Angel Marci	Lily Bee Designs Jingle 6x6 paper pad	Memory Box Die Elegant Scrollwork
Ranger Diamond Stickles	Ranger Gold Stickles	Kaiser Pearls Champagne
Copic Markers	Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad and Refill

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