Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Due date.
I don't have any date stamps, preggie stamps or alike, so I started thinking how to go about this challenge.
I've opted for the "I'm sorry I'm late" because that is like missing a deadline, isn't it?
The images and sentiment are from Lawn Fawn, gleeful gardens.
I masked a square and taped it off for water coloring with my Peerless watercolors, but I let a few images hang over the edges.
The snail is holding the birthday card and I die cut them and popped it up on foam tape for some dimension.
For more info on the Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge, see this
This week's Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge is to make your own background and showcasing My Favorite things.
I have ONE My Favorite Things item, the stampset called bold statements, and here's how I used it....
I used a piece of red cardstock and tone on tone red pigment ink.
I chose all the positive statements, like you're fab, you rock, thank you, you're amazing and you're a star. I've filled the whole background with positivity.
On vellum I've stamped, "i'm so grateful" also in red pigment ink. I first sprinkled white pearl embossing powder from Wow on top, but I didn't like it, so changed it to just the red ink.
I've place a few rhinestones at key words on the background, so you're a star, thank you, i'm so grateful catch your attention and make a complete sentiment.
I thought that was clever..lol..Hope you like it too.
For more info on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge, see this
CAs on Sunday challenge: Gold.
For my gold I used a Scrapberry stencil (petals), and a medium you might not neccessarily think of...Viva Decor's Inka Gold. Actually a rubbing paste, but it also gives dimension and dries hard...way cool!
I didn't have any gold embossing paste, or ink to stencil and I didn't want to heat emboss it late at night because of the noise, also I thought heat embossing would be the "easy" solution...;-). So I taped off a corner of the stencil for the gradient and with a palette knife I applied the Inka Gold.
The sentiment is from Sizzix (birthday clear stampset) and I've stamped it with Memento Tuxedo black.
The sequins are all gold tinted, some more reddish or brownish to pick up all the tones in the Inka Gold.
Stuck those down the big ones with glue dots and the small ones with Aleene's Fast grab glue.
For more info on this CAS on Sunday challenge, see this
This week's Friday Mash up #204 is all about Congratulations and Shaker cards.
I love making shaker cards, so woot!
I've used Schut smooth watercolor paper 300grams, I think that's 140lbs.
I've stamped Lawn FAwn's Monster mash with black Staz-on.
The "Have a Boo-tiful day" is also from that stampset.
The Happy Birthday is from Sizzix and I think it's called Birthday.
I filled my shaker with loads of colorful sequins of various companies.
I water colored with Peerless Watercolors and then added some googly eyes.
the googly eyes inside the shaker are stuck down, doesn't the square looks like a monster too now?
For more info on the Friday Mash up, see this
I usually don't combine challenges, and I've already entered in the Lawnscaping challenge, but I thought this one turned out sooooo good (esp my coloring if I say so myself), I've entered two of the 3 times allowed ;-), so for the Lawnscaping challenge, see this
Less is more challenge #218: predominantly black.
I've diecut 6 sheets of black cardstock to get the height, which you still can;t see really, but the card is pretty heavy ;-)
Behind it I've placed a piece of yellow cardstock (as if the moon) and I've stamped the Bird silhouette from JOy Craft with black Staz-on.
The sentiment is from Eline's sweet sentinments and I used Perfect pearls on it, It says Thinking of you, which I find so fitting with this image.
I don;t have any Clearly Besotted stampset as of yet, but I have my eyes on (quite) a few, especially they're fabulous dies...one day lol..
For the Less is more challenge, see this
This week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge is "A".
I chose this stampset from Lili of the Valley called Abracadabra for my A.
Didn't fit on an ATC card alas, so normal card with a sentiment from Kaisercraft (blue bay set), which I've heat embossed. Stamped the image with black Archival ink on Arches watercolor paper.
I've colored the yellow stars first with Peerless watercolor and then masked them with Aleene's paper glaze. Did the same with the little stars I punched out of cardstock and covered in paperglaze and then Stuck down with Aleene's fast grab glue.
For more information on this Simon Says stamp Monday challenge, see this
The CAS(E) this sketch of this week has inspired me to make a shaker card, as if I need convincing to make one lol.
I've diecut a circle 6 times, trying to be as precise as I could, are there dies out there that can do this in one go? I want it ;-)....
For the DImension I used craft foam where I alo cut out 6 circles. It's only one layer so I couldn;t fit seed beads in, which I wanted at first, I opted for some sequins. The sketch has 3 shades of hearts, so I used white, red and silver sequins. The sentiment is from Eline's sweet sentiments.
For more info on the CAS(E) this sketch, see this
At first I was inspired me to paperpiece a whole lot of kitties.
But I would have liked them to be smaller, but the stamp is what it is.
Stamp and sentiment are from Eline's sweet sentiments.
I've colored some bells with gold and some with Aleene's paper glaze. Some cats are raised with foam dots. This wasn't it...
