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

Welcome to our last challenge of 2016 at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog!

As always our theme at the end of each month is our ever-popular Anything Goes!  My teamies and I are playing with products from Lindy's Stamp Gang.

I used my Magicals powders as watercolors this time, and colored a pretty thank you card.

supplies: white cardstock card base, Tim Holtz watercolor panel, Wplus9 Beautiful Bouquets: Ranunculus clear stamp, Lindy's Gang Mermaid Seashells Magicals, tumbled glass distress ink, water.

I used a little palette and dropped the tiniest amount of each Magical color into each well, added some water, and painted this pretty image.  A tip I learned is to stir the mixture each time you dip into it, as the mica tends to settle to the bottom.  All of the colors have a golden glitz to them.  When everything was dry I washed some tumbled glass behind it, cut it into a scalloped panel, and mounted it on my card front.  Here's a closer picture to show you the glow:

Now it's your turn - I can't wait to see what you create!  Heidi has provided another $50.00 gift voucher

to the amazing Simon Says Stamp store for 1 lucky random winner of this week's challenge!

Simon Says..........Shimmer!

Happy Wednesday!  Welcome to another challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday blog!

Our theme this week is Shimmer, and the DT were treated to some Lindy's Gang products.  I received a set of Magicals and oh they are fun!  In case you don't know about these, they are vibrant colors with shimmer in powder form.  You can mix them with water, or into pastes or paint - the sky's the limit, and the shimmer is amazing!

I made 2 simple cards with them, letting the colors themselves be the stars of the show:

supplies: Lindy's Mermaid Seashells Magical Set, watercolor paper, gold foil cardstock, Tim Holtz Detailed Butterflies, Wplus9 Doodle Buds sentiment, Simon's Stitched Rectangle die

For this card I wet an area of the cardstock, then sprinkled on a tiny bit of one of the colors.  Then I moved on to another area and did the same, changing the color each time.  Sometimes I spritzed water to help the powders move, and at the very end I splattered some of the droplets that had rolled off the paper.  The gold shimmer on this is amazing, but I can't seem to capture it for you ...... just know you won't be disappointed! I thought that gold foil embellishments were a perfect match for this background....and I hope it resembles an impressionist garden to you!

For my next card I diluted the same 4 powders with water in a little palette, and then just brushed them on haphazardly over this white resist panel. Again I added splatters of each color with a paintbrush before allowing the whole thing to dry.  I love how the colors mixed and blended.  The shimmer is not quite as explosive as on my first card - it's a bit more subtle, like that of Wink of Stella.  There is so much going on in just this background that I felt it needed nothing else but a simple die sentiment.

supplies: Lindy's Mermaid Seashells Magical Set, Prima Paintables Vintage Emporium paper pad, Hero Arts Hello Stamp & Cut die, white cardstock base

I really encourage you to try one of these Magicals sets - they are easy to work with, so versatile, and the colors are beautiful!

Now it's your turn - I can't wait to see what you create!  Heidi has provided another $50.00 gift voucher

to the amazing Simon Says Stamp store for 1 lucky random winner of this week's challenge!