Ready to Try Something Magical?

Hi readers! Happy Tuesday! Are you ready to try something magical? Lindy’s Stamp Gang has recently released color combination sets of “Magicals“, a powdered pigment stain that activates with water with a burst of mica shimmer for oomph! Read on, enjoy! Marta Lapowska made the beautiful art you see pictured above! Love the color combination? Marta used Industrial Chic Magicals in her project. Watch the video below for more information!

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Thanks for reading today, and thanks to Marta for sharing this gorgeous inspiration today! Will you give Magicals a try?

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Congrats! Blog Candy Winners:

From: Studio Monday: Felt Plush Magnets: Michele K. Henderson!
From: Weekender with Wanda – Tim Holtz Wildflowers!: Super Stick Chick!
From: Background Stamping and Die-Cutting: Arianna Barbara!
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From: Cardmaking with Sunny Studio Stamps!: Jean Marmo!

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New Monday Challenge Started Today!

Spring is in the air, despite the snow and hail in some places, and this week on the Monday Challenge the theme is April Showers Bring May Flowers! You can choose to make your creations grey and rainy, or sunny and flowery, or both! Let your imagination run wild, get out you inks, paints and sprays and let your arty side run free!

Once you have made your creation just go ahead and upload it into the linky on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge blog! We can’t wait to see what you make!

As always, we’re offering a chance to win a $50 Gift Voucher to Simon Says Stamp! All YOU need to do is join in with the challenge!

Below are three projects created by the design team, that showcase this weeks theme! You can visit the challenge blog to get all the details and see the amazing cards and projects that the design team has created this week. If you click on each designers name, you’ll be taken directly to their blog where you’ll get more details about their project! Be sure to give these talented ladies some comments!

Created by Beulah Bee, our Designer In The Spotlight:

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Created by Andrea Okey Parr:

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Created by Meihsia Liu:

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Studio Monday: Felt Plush Magnets

Hi friends! Happy Monday! We’re starting a new weekly feature this week called, Studio Monday with Nina-Marie where the fabulous Nina-Marie Trapani will whip up a new design each week featuring a wide variety of products and techniques to inspire you! We hope you love it!

Let’s dive in:

Well hello there everyone, it’s Nina-Marie here welcoming you to Studio Monday! This is the first of our brand new weekly feature here on the Simon Says Stamp blog and each Monday I will be sharing fresh ideas to spark your creativity!

Today I am sharing a great way to use the popular Spring Plush dies and felt to create your own refrigerator magnets! This little cutie would make great gifts to friends and family for them to decorate their own refrigerators with colorful magnets of their own.

I created this magnet felt bunny (or “felties” as I like to call them), by gluing small pieces of magnet onto the backside of the felt bunny. I did not stuff the bunny, since for a refrigerator magnet I felt (no pun intended!) it worked best flat.

Did you know Simon Says Stamp carries beautiful felt to coordinate perfectly with the Spring Plush dies? The felt is a wool-rayon blend that is of high quality and made in Italy. It truly is fabulous to die cut with and I’ve used some of the felt for today’s project.

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Of course as a card maker, I had to create a card to go with my magnet bunny! I used the adorable Simon Says Stamp Peeps 6×6 background stamp to create a pink stamped background and then blended ink over top to create a tone-on-tone effect (I used Worn Lipstick distress ink for both the stamping and ink blending). For the sentiment, I used the Lawn Fawn Milo’s ABCs stamp set to create a pun greeting that says “just fur you”.

So to see how I created this magnet bunny, be sure to check out the video below or over on the Simon Says Stamp YouTube channel! If you enjoy, be sure to give the video a “thumbs up” and subscribe to our channel for more creative inspiration!

Thanks so much for spending some time with me and I’ll see you next week for another Make it Monday!
xoxo, Nina-Marie