Weekender with Wanda – More fun with DieCember products!
Hello there! Yes, it’s the weekend again! Last week went by so fast! Must be all that Christmas running around and such! Welcome back to another edition of Weekender with Wanda here on the Simon Says Stamp blog. I’m always so very happy to see you here each weekend! Thanks for all the nice comments. I read them all – and enjoy your suggestions and support! Hope your holiday season is going well.
Today, in order to take a tiny break from holiday madness, I made a birthday card to share with you! I really wanted to use some more of the awesome products from the Simon Says Stamp DieCember release. I especially had my eye on the beautiful Single Roses Dies. I used those pretty roses dies in combination with the Painted Happy Birthday Die and then popped it all with a lot of bright vivid color. You can never have too many birthday cards on hand, right? I love to watercolor with my Distress Inks and that is the technique I used for today’s card.
I really love to use super bright colors with deep rich black accents. For this card, I made the flowers Pink and Yellow and bright Green. Then I die cut my sentiment out of crisp black cardstock. You can see that I added some white accents to the die cut words using a white gel pen. That’s the first time I’ve done this, and I like how that came out! My Single Roses Dies are cut out of bright white cardstock and then layered over my colored panels.
I used the awesome Tim Holtz Ranger Watercolor Paper for this project, and my Mini Distress Inks. To use the ink colors, I simply rubbed some ink (smushed it!) onto my craft sheet. Next I added some water to my inks using a paint brush (You can also use a spritzer bottle). Then, I used a water brush to apply the color to my paper. For the leaves I used two different shades of green – Twisted Citron and Peeled Paint.
For my flowers, I used Mustard Seed and Picked Raspberry inks and used the same technique outlined above. After my watercolor paper was dry (I used my heat tool) I took a pencil and lightly traced around my roses die cuts. Then I cut the shapes out by hand, cutting the shapes slightly larger than my outline. After erasing my pencil lines I ended up with this:
I thought the background paper needed a bit of visual interest so I used some Black Soot Distress Ink to make splatters. To do this I put some ink onto my craft sheet and mixed it with water. Then I used the new Tim Holtz Splatter Brush to put the black ink splatters down. I absolutely love how this new brush works! I adhered my die cuts using foam tape for the flowers and a glue pen for the words. Lastly I added a few glittery enamel dots in matching shades. A black card base completes the look.
You could really have fun with this one – using all different colors for your flower backgrounds, and using different word dies. I might have to try making a Christmas one – if I don’t run out of time! Be sure to pop over and check out all the inspiration in the DieCember Idea Gallery! Also, please add your own DieCember creation! We love to see what you make with Simon Says Stamp products. AND…don’t forget that Copic Markers are on sale 25% off – until the 15th!
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Tim’s Tags Christmasfied!
Happy Friday everyone!! It’s Shari here with something special. Last month Heidi and I had the opportunity to visit Tim Holtz and Mario Rossi in Prescott AZ where we played in Tim’s studio. There was lots of laughter, Christmas music, 3:00pm coffees and amazingly enough… creating!
We decided to do a spin on Tim’s 12 tags for 2015 where each of us used a tag as inspiration and Christmasfied them! We were each working away on our own versions so I didn’t have a chance to see exactly what everyone was using, but will do my best to explain.
Tim chose to use the February tag for his inspiration. He started by using the Festive Ephemera pack as the base by gluing them down randomly. He used a Black Soot marker to outline the ephemera and smudged it with his finger. Picket Fence Distress paint was used to distress areas of the tag. From there he die cut a heart from this really cool vintage felt and sewed it in place using various stitches over an Industrious sticker frame. Then he used some Idea-ology pieces and stained Crinkle ribbon to finish it off.
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Heidi used the March tag for her inspiration where she changed out the butterfly and used a Christmas tree image. She started out covering areas of her tag with music tissue tape and used the marbling technique use bright Distress paints. The next step was to stamp the tree using black Archival ink. She stamped and cut a mask of the tree and set in in place. From there she used the Christmas stencil with Texture paste. Before the paste was dry, she used Platinum embossing powder and heated it with a craft tool. Once she removed the mask, she used stars and word band to finish it up.
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I took inspiration from the November tag and switched out the pumpkin for a poinsettia. I used the Linen stamp with Picket Fence Distress paint for the background. Once the paint dried I used Walnut Stain and Evergreen Bough Distress stains. My favorite technique for this tag was using silver foil on areas where I had applied strokes of a glue stick. I stamped and colored the Poinsettia on Watercolor paper, the used Distress Markers as my paint. I die cut Tidings from cork and used tiny brads to affix it on place.
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NEW Lawn Fawn Valentines
Hi readers! Happy Thursday! You have to check out the 2016 Lawn Fawn Valentines! They are SO cute and such original designs! We’re pleased to welcome back guest designer Chari Moss of Lawn Fawn to our blog who made a really adorable card for us to share to celebrate the release! Enjoy!
The newest Lawn Fawn releases are HERE! And as usual the new mini Valentine’s release will not disappoint. New dies and new stamps including the new Pizza My Heart set which I used in my card today…who doesn’t love pizza! I really like how you can customize your pizza pie with the toppings you like. For my card I wanted to utilize my many colors of ink to create my yummy pizzas so I stamped the solid topping images in various ink colors. I colored my images with pencils so that the stamping stood out more and I thought I could get the look of melted cheese a little better with my pencils.
I used the new 4 Bar size stitched rectangles to create my card and my pattern paper background. I also rearranged my sentiment to fit my card a little better. I think it’s awesome that you can customize your toppings and since they are separate stamps you can make them any color you like! This may be part of a Valentine release but it could certainly be used year round.
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