Spotted! March 2016 Edition!

It’s time for another edition of Spotted here on the Simon Says Stamp Blog! Seeing all of the amazing cards and projects featuring the Simon Say Stamp brand that are created by you, our awesome customers, is super fun for us! We love seeing what you are creating. ‘Spotted!’ is a monthly feature on this blog that highlights the talents of all of you! Thank your for bringing our products to life with your creativity and energy! It’s really a treat to share your projects! Today we are happy to introduce you to 5 designers who shared their work and caught our eye for the March 2016 edition of our ‘Spotted’ post! We send each of them a little something special for being “spotted.” Be sure to use the hashtag #simonsayssstamp on your social media accounts so we can spot YOU! We find cards on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, Flickr, in our Simon Galleries, and craft blogs.

This beautiful and bright card by Karen caught our eye right away on Instagram! It is so fresh and pretty! Love that yellow, and how she brought the die cuts to life in such a pretty way. She used our Simon Says Stamp Exclusive Tattered Poppy Die to create a birthday card that anyone would be happy to receive! Please be sure to check out more of Karen’s creations on her Instagram page.

Susie is right on trend with her super cute felt bunny! Felt crafting is all the rage right now and we adore how Susie made this sweet bunny holding a pretty Spring basket of flowers. She used our Exclusive Plush Liam Bunny Die for this project and lots of delicious felt. Please be sure to look up Susie on her Instagram page!

This card by Christina is so creative and clever! We love her gorgeous color combination and how she used the Simon Says Stamp Perfect Shapes Stamps to make a true masterpiece! The crisp black sentiment perfectly sets off all that pretty color. You can find Christina’s work on her website or her Instagram page!

The next Spotted card is this beautiful watercolor creation made by Brooke! We love the fantastic watercolor technique and her clean and simple card layout. This one would bring cheer to any mailbox! That bright pink is so happy! Brooke used our Simon Says Stamp Exclusive Hello Beautiful stamp set to make her card. You can find Brooke on her Instagram page.

Our final card for this month’s Spotted is an adorable Abby card created by Jenny! We love the purple color scheme and the awesome shaker card design! This card features cute little Abby in her boots and hat from the Simon Says Stamp Exclusive Spring Showers stamp set. This set also has matching dies. To see more of Jenny’s designs, visit her on her fun blog!

Wasn’t that spectacular!? Would you like to be SPOTTED using Simon Says Stamp product? Post your creations to Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram (with hashtag #simonsaysstamp), your blog and/or the Simon Says Stamp online galleries (in the sidebar) and we’ll choose cards or projects to feature each month! We also have a Simon Says Stamp Flickr group here and we would love for you to join us! So many ways for you to play along with us. We can’t wait to see what you are creating!!

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Simon Says Stamp White Pigment Inking Techniques

Hello everyone! It’s Shari here with something a little different for you. I’m taking a look at some techniques that are possible using the Simon Says Stamp White Pigment ink.

The most common techniques for this ink would be to stamp on color cardstock to create light images or as the ink to use white embossing powder. But I want to take it little further and show you a few things you can also do with it.

Try using it on dark cardstock as a base for color pencils. A lot of the time when you try to color with pencils on darker cardstock, the color gets lost. With the white base, your colors pop! This technique works best with bold or solid type stamp images, and gives you a chance to use your pencils with an image you otherwise wouldn’t use.

Another fun technique is Velveteen stamping. How this is done is to stamp an image using the white ink onto white cardstock. Then stamp another image on top. The white ink almost resists the dye ink, leaving you with both images. This technique works best when using a fine or detail stamp with the white ink and a bolder more solid image with your colored ink on top.

One of my favorite techniques is to do ghost stamping which creates a drop shadow. This technique is done by using the same stamp, first using white and in this case my second image is stamped with Fog ink. I typically like to have my ink color match my cardstock color, so I’ve used Fog cardstock as the base. This technique is most effective with bold type images, even messages with a heavy font.

I’ve shot a video showing how to do these techniques which you can watch below or on our YouTube channel.

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Make Your Own Background

This week on the Monday Challenge, we are leaving the designer papers in the drawer and making our own backgrounds for our projects. There are so many different techniques that you can use, from stenciling, embossing, gelli-printing, stamping, and so many more. The Design Team has used several techniques and hopefully they will give you some ideas of what you can do too!

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!

We are showcasing Darkroom Door Products this week, you don’t have to use them to join in, but if you have them we would love to see them used on your projects!

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!

This week we are welcoming the lovely and super talented Amber Sheaves into the Designer Spotlight.

Amber made a sunny background for a card and used a ‘Happy Quote Cling Stamp’: