The Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge is: emboss it. I first was thinking, dry, heat, paste embossing, but then took a different turn. Yesterday I saw the video from Wow on their Youtube channel, making Christmas decorations. I took that idea and ran with it as fast as I could...to my craft table ;-) I only had enough Melt-it powder left to do this one pendant, but I ordered more and once it arrives, there will be no stopping me ;-) Shame I didn't see this before mother's day, but my mum's birthday is the 22nd, so....:-) I need a doggie cookie cutter as she loves dogs. Anyway I melted the Melt-it powder with no other embossing powder in it, so clear(ish). I covered the inside of my metal butterfly cookie cutter with Versamark, so the shape would release, once cooled off. I melt my powder in aluminium dishes on a hotplate, but it should also work with your heatgun and if you have it a Ranger melting pot. My heatgun doesn't get hot enough and it takes ages and is super noisy, I'm not a patient person in these cases. So once melted I poured it into the cookie cutter and let it cool. Meanwhile I looked for solid bold stamps, I think these work best (I haven't tried the outlined ones, but I can see they wouldn't translate well to the shape). I chose Simon Says Stamp birthday balloons set as it has a few nice small solid stars. With Versamark I stamped them on the back of the butterfly (it's slippery) and sprinkled on Wow embossing glitter (Florida sunset) and then heatset with my heatgun as you would normally do. Casting the shape onto a non stick cookie sheet left the imprint of the sheet (bit like linnen) but reheating the shape made it all smooth. I had a few edges from pouring and I melted those away with my heat gun too. With a drill bit I made a hole in one of the wings and made a necklace pendant out of it. So cool!
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Is a ceramic tile I made for the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: home decor. I don't have Prima flowers, they wouldn't fit aynway, but couldn;t use them if I wanted to ;-) It's a slab of clay and I used fondant letter cutters to imprint the message. I've used flower stamps aswell then used a pretty red glaze and had it baked. For the heart one I sued a really big heartshaped cookie cutter and also fondant stamps for the butterflies and also flower stamps I just pressed into the clay (and then washed). Poked two holes so I can thread some ribbon or twine through it and hang it somewhere. For more nformation on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, see this
The theme over at Inkspirational this week is : mint and navy. I got an address through Postcrossing for a German volunteer firefighter. So I matched them up. As I have no clue to what the uniforms of firefighters look like in Holland, let alone Germany I just used the colors from the challenge. I stamped the image from Lili of the valley (little folk-little heroes) with StazOn, same fro the sentiment from Technique Tuesday ( (fabulous by Ali Edwards).
I've used Distress inks to watercolor the image. I've used Schut hotpressed and smooth watercoloring paper 300grams. Usually I don't stamp on the inside but the little fire engine from Create a smile (whimsical wheels, just had to feature) and the Thank you is also from Technique tuesday. Few glossy accents enamel "drops" as if it's actual water spraying ;-) I touched up the sentiment with a Memento Marker as it didn't stamp well, at first I thought I'd leave it, bit grungy, wish I had now ;-) I can't wait to get a MISTI.
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The theme for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge is: stencil it with Stencil grid stencils. I don't have those, so sorry! I've used three dotted stencils with Distress inks. First the Tim Holtz stencil "splotches" with Tumbled glass. Then Scrapberry's "bubbles" with Salty ocean. And last Simon Says Stamp "falling snow" with Mermaid Lagoon. I wanted the smallest to be the darkest and the biggest to be the lightest, or they would take over. The sentiment is from Technique Tuesday ( fabulous by Ali Edwards) and I stamped it with Versafine black Onyx. I wanted a nice bold sentiment that would show through the busy background and push the background to, well, the background ;-) Forgot to heat set it, whilst I was playing with the enamel dots, so a few are stratigically placed ;-). The lightest ones are melted pony beads in two sizes and the others are Wow! embossing powder with Wow melt-it powder, attached them with gluedots. For more information on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, see this
I borrowed this stampset from C.C. designs (surprise!) but I think I "need"it ;-) what gorgeous images. I made this card for the Less is More Challenge : pastels and as it's Anita's birthday it's become a birthday card!. I tried to keep the colors to a minimum and the little girl's dress was as light as the doggie and present bow, but somehow my Spectrum Noir markers were not playing nicely, and the image became patchy, splotchy, and the inks went all outside the lines, never happens to me with Neenah Solar white cardstock, that is this. Also the Memento ink I used smudged, maybe it's the heat? I don't know... Managed to fix it, but I'm flabbergasted. These are the lightest colors in the Spectrum range, I hope they're pastel like enough. For more information on the Less is More Challenge, see this
The colours of the colour challenge at CAS colours & Sketches reminded me so much of the daffodils (narcissii) that just finished flowering at my allotment garden, that I just had to portrait them. I used the friendship blooms set from Simon Says Stamp for both the images and the sentiment. I stamped the images with StazOn on Schut hotpressed smooth watercolouring paper 300grams. I used Distress inks for the watercolouring (mustard seed, carved pumpkin and peeled paint). The sentiment is heat embossed with white embossing powder on black cardstock I wrapped around the watercolour panel. The panel it self is raised and attached to the cardbase with foamtape. For more information on the CAS colours & sketches challenge, see this
A sliding and a spinning element to this card..phew..it nearly broke me, but I made it through lol. I have two video accompanying this card as it was a very long proces. In fact video number two was still 40 minutes or more and I had to speed it up so much I couldn't do a voiceover anymore, I couldn't keep up!, so sorry :-( What I could do it split it up even more and to part per part in a video, if you want that, let me know.
The images are from Lawn Fawn (gnome sweet gnome and shedgehugs) and I colored them with Spectrum Noir makers. The flower/grass border is from Craftemotions (grass flower border), the little grass patches on the bottom is Marianne design (LR0360). I stamped with Memento tuxedo black on Neenah Solar white cardstock and used the Memento black marker to go around the edges after I cut them out. The slider portion is cut by hand, I don´t
have a special die for that, I did look if a banner die would work, but I had none that skinny, and I didn´t want it really chunky. The bee spins because it´s on a perler bead through a hole. I cut the bee out with a circle die as I wanted it to be big enough to swirl and those antennas are impossible to cut out, I´m sure. I colored it to match as best as I could the background paper. I diecut the grassy flower border again from white card and colored them with my markers and glued them on top I´m enterig this card into the Lawnscaping challenge that is "calling all critters". All critters...lol..only two responded. I had such ambitious ideas about those grass patches sliding away to reveal two kissing hedgehugs, but they're too small, so I tried to attach the grass things from gleeful garden, meh...still happy how this turned out to be a gnome watering a little flower. For more information on the Lawnscaping Challenge, see this Coloring the images:
The Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge is: emboss it.
I only had enough Melt-it powder left to do this one pendant, but I ordered more and once it arrives, there will be no stopping me ;-) Shame I didn't see this before mother's day, but my mum's birthday is the 22nd, so....:-)
Meanwhile I looked for solid bold stamps, I think these work best (I haven't tried the outlined ones, but I can see they wouldn't translate well to the shape).
