Hi readers! Happy Sunday! I think you’ll be surprised at the supplies list for this card. I sure was! Debby Hughes is back with her very fun and popular Creative Uses post! I think you’ll find today’s inspiration to be out of this world!

Read on…. enjoy!

Hello, Debby here with my monthly look at stretching your supplies. I think more than any time of year, getting the most out of your holiday supplies is key. We buy sets for a certain occasion or season and shouldn’t put them away afterwards but look how they can be used all year round.

I took the surf board from the Warm Christmas Wishes die set and turned it in to a rocket. Firstly I gathered all the shapes I needed – the surf board as the main body of the rocket, parts of the Circle Loops dies as rocket wings, Tattered Poppy leaves as flames, a window from the sports balls set and I also used another circle from this set for the Earth. Having cut all the pieces from Neenah Solar White card I then colored them with Copics. I accented the die cuts with Rock Candy Distress Glitter on the Earth and flames and covered the rest of the rocket in Glossy Accents then put them to dry while I worked on the background panel

Taking a piece of Neenah Solar White I blended in Distress Inks (Spun Sugar, Seedless Preserves, Broken China, Stormy Sky & Black Soot) then sprinkled the panel with water and dabbed off with a tissue to remove some of the color. I also splattered the background with a solution of Perfect Pearls. With the galactic sky starting to take shape I turned to a technique I’ve not used for a while but love – swiping embossing paste through the Falling Stars stencil and then, while still wet, sprinkling on silver embossing powder before heat setting. This gives fabulous texture and dimension to the stars :D

To finish off the card I mounted the die cuts on the panel with foam adhesive and in turn the panel on a top folding card base. The sentiment from More Sketchy Banner Greetings is stamped in Lipstick Red, trimmed in to a banner and again foam mounted. The last touch were a few sequins. I always love to add sequins, but they are also great to cover up a mark in glossy accents if you failed to leave it dry long enough and touched your finger to it ;)

I hope you take a look at your autumn and holiday supplies to see uses for them other than those intended :D

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Thanks for reading today, and thanks to the amazing Debby for being our guest today!

Hello crafty friends! Welcome back to Weekender with Wanda here on the Simon Says Stamp Blog! It’s officially December now and we are getting awfully close to Christmas! Today I’m sharing a great last minute Christmas project, and I am spotlighting stamps and dies from Memory Box stamps. They have released some of the most darling animal stamps this year! I made some pretty circle scenes that can be used as gift tags, ornaments, cookie exchange tags, or even as the focal point for a card. This is a really versatile project and that’s good this time of year, right? Make a bunch of cute tags to keep on hand for the last minute.

I used the adorable stamp sets called Holiday Hoopla and Foxy Holiday. The animals and accessories are the same size and scale so it’s really easy to mix and match these sets. I created a snowy sky background with some Echo Park patterned paper and a little hill out of the Stitched Slopes dies. Then it was just fun to color with my Copic Markers. The matching dies to the stamp sets makes it a breeze to get perfect cut outs of your images.

Seriously, these little animals are too cute! I used traditional red and green for their scarves to keep the look cohesive. I die cut the pretty Country Landscape Die out of green paper to add a little interest behind the animals. You can see some Stickles accents too!

To put the pieces together, I first die cut my Stitched Slopes out of white paper. Then I adhered it to the polka dot paper. Then I cut the Stitched Circle out of the double layer. I cut the hole in the top using a hole punch. You could do this with your square or rectangle dies too! Easy to turn them into tags. I used pretty twine to make my loop at the top.

I added some white accents with a Kirarina gel pen – on the deer’s spots and on the holly berries.

Please check out the rest of the Memory Box critters! The images are really fun and suitable for all ages. I enjoyed working with these sweet images – and have been a fan of Memory Box stamps for a very long time. Hope you have a wonderful weekend. I will see you soon!

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