Hi readers! Happy Thursday! We’re always happy to welcome back guest designer Kelly Rasmussen to the blog! She made this gorgeous card in my favorite colors, and I didn’t even ask her to! ;) Read on and enjoy!

Hi everyone! I’m so happy to be back as a guest on the blog to share a card using the exclusive Prayers stamp set that was designed by Hero Arts for Simon Says Stamp. This was a STAMPtember® exclusive set that they are bringing back — yay! (COMING SOON!)

I started out by stamping the solid feather image from the Simon Says Stamp Oh Happy Day set four times across a white panel. To create the painted look, I used Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers to color the stamp, then spritzed it with water and stamped it. I held the stamp on the cardstock for about five seconds to give the water a chance to soak into the paper. And the end result is a beautiful hand painted look!

Next I die cut the word “prayers” once from My Favorite Things Steel Grey cardstock and twice from white cardstock. Then I adhered them together to create the dimensional sentiment. I also white heat embossed one of the coordinating messages on that same grey cardstock to finish off the message. Once the sentiment was adhered over the feathers I popped up the panel on an Audrey Blue card base.

I hope you enjoyed the card and wish you all a Happy New Year!

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For the first theme of the new Year on the  Wednesday Challenge we are thinking of all things New, New Baby, New Home, New Beginnings, New Crafty Stash, I am sure you get the idea! I hope that Santa popped a few new crafty goodies in your stockings, if he did, we would love to see what he brought!

We are showcasing Wplus9 Products this week. You don’t have to use them to join in with the challenge, but if you have them we would love to see them used!

Once you have made your creation just go ahead and upload it into the linky on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday 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!

Our first Designer in the Spotlight for 2016 is the lovely Karin Åkesdotter aka Peppermint Patty. If you haven’t visited her blog please pop by to say Hi!

Karin Åkesdotter made a New Baby card.

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Jenn Shurkus made a card using a new stamp set.

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Melissa Bove  made a New Journey card.

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Hello, Simon friends! I’m so excited to be here today to share a fun Project Life layout I created using a variety of stamps and dies available from Reverse Confetti.

More often than not, the majority of my layouts are created around a picture or set of pictures, and from there I determine my color palette and overall theme of the page.  For today’s layout, I wanted to use some of my favorite photos of my daughter playing in the snow. :)

I love how the bold color of her coat and gloves really popped against the wintry background, and wanted to similarly incorporate bold pops of color throughout my page.  I kept the backgrounds of each of the cards fairly simple, which helped to make the elements added to each card stand out, while also reducing the overall busyness of the page.

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Thanks for reading today, and thanks to Heather for being our guest!

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