Simon Says..........Add a Sentiment

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

This week we want you to add a sentiment!  The team and I are showcasing Clearly Besotted products!

These flowers reminded me of apple blossoms, so they were colored accordingly.

supplies: white card stock, Bristol paper, Clearly Besotted Beautiful Friend II clear stamps, Zig markers and water, MFT Stitched Mini Scallop Rectangle die, sticky back foam

Who can resist daisies in a canning jar?  I stamped them on kraft paper and colored them with pencils.

supplies: white, black, and kraft card stock, Doodlebug green gingham dp, Clearly Besotted Delightful Day daisies, jar, and sentiment, Simon's Stitched Rectangle die, (retired) MFT Blueprints 20 banner die, green swiss dot ribbon

Now it's your turn!  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!

Hydrangea Dream

I have been very lax in my card making the last month or so.  We have been doing over our kitchen, replacing the original cabinets and everything else there.  We love the results, but it took us a good 2 months, and then another 2 weeks to spring clean the rest of the house when it was finally finished!  So now I'm all ready to get back into making cards.  I chose my favorite Hero Arts flower stamp and watercolored a panel after heat embossing it in white:

supplies: ivory, black, and periwinkle cardstock, watercolor paper, Hero Arts Hydrangea, blueprint sketch, mowed lawn, and tumbled glass distress inks, water, die-cut sentiment from Simon's June Card Kit, May Arts periwinkle seam binding ribbon, Winnie & Walter Audrey Cutaways scalloped die

As always after a break, I find it tough to get started again, so I chose this wonderful stamp and my favorite colors to ease back in.  After embossing the image, I couldn't stamp a sentiment over it, but timing is everything - my mailman delivered the new Simon June Card Kit today, and I thought the sentiment die inside was the perfect solution!  I think that ribbon is dreamy, so it works for me!

Thanks, as always, for stopping by for a visit today!

Simon Says.........Tie it Up!

Happy July!  It's Wednesday, too, and that means a brand new challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge blog!

Our theme this week is "Tie it Up!"  Use ribbon or twine or anything else you can think of along that vein.  The design team are using Paper Smooches products this week.

supplies: Paper Smooches Lovely Thoughts, 2 shades each of peach, pink, yellow, and green inks, lemongrass satin ribbon, green enamel dot

Aren't these roses lovely?  They look like stained glass with their thick black outlines!  This is a multi-stamping set, so coloring them is so easy!   

For my next card I was influenced by this sweet card by Lucy.  I used some small elements from another Paper Smooches set, and stamped a background, then broke it up, adding some stitching and a die-cut sentiment.

supplies: Paper Smooches Blossoming Buds, Simon's Cotton Candy and Melon inks, along with Hero Arts Butter Bar and Bubble Gum inks, Paper Smooches Birthday Word die, pink cardstock, Paper Smooches Dots die, Doodlebug Bumblebee twine, an enamel heart, Hero Arts Zinnia Bloom, colored with markers

I used the dot die on either side of the panel where I wanted my sentiment to be, then threaded my twine and sewed using the dots as my guide.  The daisy was not originally planned for this card, but it was sitting on my desk, and I liked it paired with the little flowers.

Now it's your turn!  Our sweet generous Heidi has yet again provided another $50.00 gift voucher

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

Do you use Instagram?  If you do, we'd love you to add #ssswchallenge to your challenge entry uploads so we can see them on there, too! 

Painted Flower

I wanted to play with the Muse Challenge this week, and almost left it too long, but am slinking in at the 11th hour.  Vicki Dutcher is our muse this week, and I think it's pretty obvious that I was inspired by the solid flower, the mixed colors in the sentiment, and the red ribbon.

supplies: Hero Arts Painted Flower, Made with Love (sentiment), Red Royal and mowed lawn inks

Here's Vicki's pretty card, which also used Hero Arts products:

The Ribbon Reel Challenge #25

Here's the photo inspiration at The Ribbon Reel Challenge:

And here's my card:

supplies: white cardstock, Dollar Tree blue dp, cuttlebug birds & swirls embossing folder, Flourishes Spring is Sprung, The Craft's Meow Fly Free, Versafine onyx black ink, prismacolor watercolor pencils, Hero Arts white art flowers, blue buttons, Michael's blue gingham ribbon


And again adding this to the Simon Says Stamp challenge: Use Your Favorite Tool.  That would be my cuttlebug, which I used to emboss the background, and cut out and emboss the shape around the stamped image.

Happy Spring

Look at this wonderful photo inspiration at The Ribbon Reel challenge:

 

That floral bucket made me think immediately of this imaginisce paper and I was off!

supplies: white cardstock, imaginisce Lucy Bird dp, BoBunny Buttercup Dot and Passion Fruit Dot (reverse of both), Spellbinders Rose Creations dies, crochet lace from Carole, wide pink gingham ribbon, tiny pink buttons, Martha Stewart doily edge  punch, SRM sticker from Virginia

Since this is the first day of spring, that sentiment is so appropriate. (thanks, Virginia!)  Happy Spring, all!

Red, black and cream

supplies: cream card base, papers from October Afternoon, Graphic 45, and The Paper Studio, Hero Arts CL496 Layered Flower, CL493 Live Life, VersaFine onyx black ink, stiped twill ribbon, ivory lace, red button and gems, natural twine

This card was made for a challenge at the Ribbon Girl Blog, to use red, black and cream:

Please go and visit there, as the Design Team went all out for this one!!

Peppermint Twist

 The Ribbon Carousel Challenge has the cutest photo inspiration:

The design team has some mighty cute samples, and I was inspired to play along too!

supplies: white and red cardstock, Hero Arts S5213 Dots and Flowers, CL562 Snowflakes, VersaMark ink and white embossing powder, CL343 Holiday Sayings, Adirondack Cranberry ink, Die-namics Decorative Doily die, ribbons from the Ribbon Reel, dotted red button

My Mind's Eye Fall sketch

I've become a real fan of My Mind's Eye design papers.  Until recently I didn't have access to them, but Archiver's is carrying them now, and I make a bee-line to that area every time I can get there.  At the My Mind's Eye Blog, there's a challenge and the winner gets to choose the collection of her choice!  What could be better?!  Here is the sketch:

And here is my very loose interpretation of it, using all papers from their Stella & Rose "Mabel" pad - I just couldn't choose which ones to use, so I used most of the autumnal colors from it:

supplies: cream card base, dps from Mabel 6 x 6 pad, PSX stamp #G-3322 (from 2002), inked with spiced marmalade, fired brick, tea dye and vintage photo distress inks and detailed with markers, hand-dyed seam binding (spiced marmalade), twine, large orange and small brown buttons, lace

And since there's a nice selection of ribbon, lace, and twine here, I'd also like to enter this into Really Reasonable Ribbon's Fun 4 Fall challenge.

Sweets and Smiles

I recently ordered these Halloween digital postcards from Janet's Etsy Shop, and this is my first time playing with them. The challenge at Really Reasonable Ribbon is called Fun 4 Fall - my project includes some leaf ribbon and twine, along with lots of little scraps of papers that I thought picked up the colors in the postcard:

supplies: Vintage PostCard, scraps of orange and green dps, Hero Arts CL353 Happy Halloween, VersaFine onyx black ink, green leaf ribbon, 2 buttons, twine

A peachy note

Niki Estes is this month's Muse at CASE Study.

I was drawn to the music and the lace and followed her sketch almost exactly, just bringing in my own colors and motifs:

supplies: white, green and kraft card stock, dp from Websters Pages, Hero Arts CG222 Music Background, PTI sentiment Friendship Jar Spring, VersaMagic  Pink Grapefruit and Hero Hues Latte inks, Martha Stewart doily edge punch,  May Arts ribbons, lace from Carole, Spellbinders die-cut bird from Yvonne, tiny pearl

A Monochromatic Card

The challenge at The Pretty Little Ribbon blog is to make a monochromatic item, using ribbon, of course.  Here's my entry, using one of my favorite colors, this lavender/blue/periwinkle:

supplies: periwinkle and white card stock, Hero Arts stamps CG271 Large Blossom, versamark ink and white embossing powder, S5264 Antique Flower Background, Papertrey Ink Tiny Tags dies and stamps, Brilliance pearlescent lavender ink, Martha Stewart small monarch butterfly punch, periwinkle seam binding


Entering this also into Simon Says Stamp and Show's Anything Goes challenge.