Simon Says.......Anything Goes!

Happy Wednesday!  Are you ready for Thanksgiving, American friends?  Wishing you all a wonderful day, full of family and friends and turkey!

It's time for another Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge, and since it's the end of the month, it's Anything Goes!

The design team is using Tim Holtz or Ranger products this week.  We'd love to see you using yours, too, but it isn't necessary to enter our challenge.  Today's card uses some supplies that were in the Simon exclusive 2013 Holiday Card Kit, inspired by Tim Holtz.

From the kit, I pulled out the Santa stamp, one of the District Market notecards, and the Christmastime rub-ons.  I wanted Santa's beard to be white, so I stamped him with charcoal mid-tone ink on ivory cardstock, then colored him in with a flesh-tone marker, some fired brick distress ink, and a bundled sage distress marker.  Then I cut him out, and glued him to the music background, cut from the notecard.  This is the first time I've used these rub-ons, and I'm really impressed with their quality!  I was able to ink around my panel with fired brick distress ink after I'd put them down and they stayed put nicely. Next I pulled out a piece of Tim Holtz red Core'dinations Kraft Core Nostaliga cardstock and embossed the snowflakes, then sanded them to bring out the kraft, and put that panel on my kraft card base.  After gluing down my stamped panel, I thought these corrugated stars dipped in glossy accents and then in Festive Berries distress glitter would go nicely, so they were popped up to finish.

Now it's your turn!  Our generous Heidi has yet again provided us with a $50.00 gift voucher

to the amazing Simon Says Stamp Store!