Hi friends! Happy Sunday! If you’re in the USA, Happy Father’s Day to all you Dad’s out there! Be sure to give your Dad a hug or at least a call and tell him he’s loved! Please welcome back special guest Debby Hughes with her monthly Creative Uses post. I always love to see what she cooks up! Be sure to watch the video for the full tutorial, and enjoy!

Hello, Debby here. I was inspired by one of Suzy Plantamura’s watercolor card fronts for today’s post.

The fun ‘I want to hang out with you’ clothes line design on the bottom row just got me thinking about all the stamp sets I have with clothes, such as the new Summertime Animals set with the cute bear in his swim trunks. Well that got me thinking to how when we come back from the beach we wash and rinse everything down and hang them to dry ready for the next day. In the video below you can see how I stripped the bear of his trunks with a little partial stamping and turned a sentiment from the Summertime Animals set into a beach towel!

As I wanted to create a true one-layer card I found it helpful to plan the layout using printer paper first. I wanted to block out a couple of areas for clouds and a sun and so started the card by masking these areas with a Molotow masking pen. This protected those areas from the paints and allowed me come in later to paint the sun without having to worry about the sky background. While the masking fluid was drying I could then start on the rest of the design. I masked off an area for the towel before stamping the palm trees from Warm Christmas Wishes then used a waterproof pen and the A2 Card Curved Edge die to draw a washing line.

The flip-flops from Flip Flop Season were an easy addition to add, as was the beach ball from the Warm Christmas Wishes set. The only slightly tricky bit really was partially stamping the bears trunks and I used washi tape to cover up the areas I didn’t want ink; it is probably better if you watch the video to see how that is done. As for the towel, I drew the outline with the waterproof pen and then stamped a sentiment from Summertime Animals with Teeny Bikini ink. For once I liked the texture that stamping on watercolor card gave the letters as to me they have more of a look of a fluffy towel :D Once I’d got the design sorted it was simply a case of adding a little color and for this I used Gansai Tambi watercolors and then came in afterwards with some Prismacolor Pencils for extra depth and contrast.

Thanks for joining me today and I hope you give this washing line design a try; I’m sure most of us have stamp sets that would work :D

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Greetings and Happy Saturday creative people! I’m back with the latest edition of Weekender with Wanda here on the Simon Says Stamp blog! This week went by fast! Whew, I feel like it was just Saturday a minute ago. We are super busy around here lately! Did you love the new “Among the Stars” release this week? And what about the awesome blog hop? I have to say that this new release spoke to me right away. As soon as I got my box in the mail I started stamping! I hope you bought some fun things to play with too. Remember, as always, to tag your card photos on social media so we can see your beautiful projects with the new release!! (#simonsaysstamp and #sssamongthestars)

Today I’m featuring stamps from one of our favorite companies – Taylored Expressions! I’m also using a brand spankin’ new paper pad that’s perfect for summer camping cards and scrapbook layouts. It’s from Carta Bella and it’s called The Great Outdoors. I know a lot of you like to camp, fish and travel in the Summer – so this one’s for you!

I used the SUPER cute stamp set called Happy Trails. It also has matching dies. I started with a cream card base in A2 size, horizontal. I used cream instead of white since the paper has a cream tone to it . I layered a piece of kraft cardstock and then the pretty floral paper from the paper pad. Next I stamped and die cut all my images. I stamped the trees and the sentiment directly onto the focal layer.

I love patterned paper! I have tons of it at my house. I love to use lots of different patterns from the same pad. Here I’ve cut a couple of little accent strips to add a pop of texture and color. I used my Copic Markers to color the camper to match the paper.

The stamp set has cute little trailers and critters with it, and a funky station wagon too. It’s really fun. I used one of the critters as a happy addition to my card. There is a porcupine, a skunk and a bear.

I stamped my porcupine and colored him – then I cut a circle around him using the Simon Says Stamp Exclusive Stitched Circles dies.

Lawn Fawn cord is a great tie in with the nature theme. Some pretty red enamel dots add one more pop of color and shine. I think it’s important to have different layers of textures on my cards and love to play around with twine, metal and dots/sequins too.

Happy Trails to you, until we meet again! Happy Summer, Happy Weekend and Happy Everything! I will see you soon – right back here next weekend!

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Hi friends! Welcome back to day 2 of celebrating our newest exclusive collection, Among the Stars!

We have a super, ultra, mega FUN blog hop for you today loaded with inspiration from designers around the globe!  Be inspired!

Shari Carroll created this inspiration for our stop on the hop:

Dang!  Shari brought her A-Game to these designs! She watercolored a background using Tim Holtz Distress inks and put it behind the cut out mosaic star. Do you love this mosaic star as much as I do?  There is also a very popular fun stencil that we released a few years ago that served as the inspiration for this star.

Just wait until you see what Suzy Plantamura created in her blog post!  I have seriously never seen so much inspiration in one place in all of my life!  Let’s get this hop started:

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Jennifer McGuire
Kristina Werner
Nina-Marie Trapani
Laura Bassen
Kathy Racoosin
Wanda Guess
Amy Rysavy
Nichol Spohr Magouirk
Suzy Plantamura
Kelly Latevola
Debby Hughes
Shari Carroll

Thanks so much for joining us today!  I hope you enjoy the hop featuring products from our new “Among the Stars” release!

We have a super surprise!  Do you want to win a not yet released product  from a release coming later this year?!  Comment here to let us know what you are looking forward to the most about this summer and we will be choosing 1 commenter from each stop along the hop to win this ultimate fun prize!