Waffle Flower Anything Goes

Hi all and welcome to another week of the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.

This week's challenge theme is Anything Goes!

We are featuring products from Waffle Flower. You don't have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see what you make! As always just for entering you will be eligible for the the drawing of a $25 voucher to the Simon store!

It's funny sometimes where you can get your inspiration for a project! I feel like I fall into a repetitive mode with my color pallet. I have my favorites and seem to go to them a lot so it's fun to mix it up and get out of your comfort zone! I was on tik tok watching someone I follow working with a liquid acrylic plastics and she mixed in purple, pink and blue. Her project turned out so pretty! So that was my inspiration for the color combination for the card I made for this challenge.

I made this A2 size card base made from smooth white cardstock. Then I used another piece of white cardstock to create a plaid background. 

To make the plaid background I first grabbed my Waffle Flower stencil mat tape down the cardstock. Then I used Post-It tape to create the lines to ink blend. I love using the post it tape because you can make you lines as thick or thin as you desire. You can use a ruler or just eyeball it depending on how perfect you want it to turn out. I have made so many of these plaid backgrounds that I just eyeball it. Using Waffle Flower blender brushes I ink blended the pink, purple and blue distress ink. I then used the Postage Stamp Edge Frame dies to cut out the portion of the plaid that I liked the best and then stamped the double lines using silver embossing powder.

I then die cut the Sunrise Stem flower die from white and matte silver cardstock and I colored in the center using one of the distress colors I used for the plaid. I then die cut the sentiment from more white cardstock and fun foam for some dimension. I add a few flat back pearls and that was it!

I hope you enjoyed the project I have made for this week's challenge and got some inspiration! I have provided affiliate links to all the supplies I used below. Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you enjoy this challenge!

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Now it's your turn! Happy crafting!

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You have until Wed  8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in

 

 

Feel Better Soon Citrus card

What makes you feel better than a good cup tea with lemon? Or a limeade icee on a warm sunny day and who skips their orange juice for breakfast! So I have combined all these amazing citrus fruits in one card. Guaranteed to make anyone feel better when they receive it. 🧡💛💚

I just love this new Citrus Slices wafer die from the new Simon Says Stamp Out of this World release. So I wanted to take all the feel good citrus fruits and create a fun background for a card.

I made this card using an A2 size card base made from smooth white cardstock.  I then trimmed down a panel made from more white cardstock and splattered it with some distress ink, water and a paintbrush. I set that aside to dry and then die cut 10 of the halved citrus images out of white cardstock. I ink blended each one with green for a lime, orange for well, an orange🤣 and yellow for a lemon!

I arrange each piece of fruit on the ink splattered panel with some 3d foam squares (gosh I love those) for a bit of dimension and trimmed off the overhang and adhered it to the card base with some tape runner. I then die cut the Feel Better die out of gold cardstock and fun foam and glued them together for even more dimension and added just a bit of sparkle to each piece of fruit.

I hope you enjoyed the fun citrus themed card I made today and got some inspiration. If you are interested in any of the supplies I used to make this card I have listed and linked them below. Thank you so much for stopping by and hope you feel better soon!!

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Simon Says Stamp Out of this World Blog Hop

I'm so happy to be part of the new Simon Says Stamp Out of this World Blog Hop. If you would like to see the entire release just click HERE!

Please enjoy a free gift with purchase especially for blog hoppers! Also, Simon is offering a chance for a $25 shopping spree! All you have to do is leave a comment here to enter.  Leave a comment on each stop of the hop for more chances to win. Good luck! 

I made this project using the amazing Circle Hoops Embossing Folder. There are so many amazing items in this release but I have to say I have had a lot of fun with this embossing folder. I'm just obsessed with the texture and dimension of it when I paired it with the Lava Lamp stencils.

I began with an A2 size card base made from smooth white cardstock. I then cut down a piece of heavy weight white card stock for my background. I used the Lava Lamp stencils and distress oxides to create such a colorful fun pattern. After I ink blended each wave I added some Paper Glitz over the entire panel. When it was COMPLETELY dry I ran it through the Circle Hoops embossing folder.

For my sentiment I die cut the Sending Good Vibes phrase 3 times from 110lb white cardstock and adhered together which I paired with a birthday sub-sentiment embossed in white and cut from some Audrey Blue cardstock and called it a day!

I hope you are enjoying your time hopping with us today! Lots of inspiration and even more if you visit the Out of this World Gallery. I have provided affiliate links to all the supplies I used to make this card for your convenience. Thank you so much for stopping by! Happy hopping!

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Here is the list of stops on this hop:

 

Simon Says Stamp Blog   

Caly Person

Cathy Zielske

Jennifer McGuire

Debby Hughes

Barbara Tarayao - you are here

Amy Rysavy

Keisha Charles

Anna-Karin Evaldsson

Heather Ruwe

Cheiron Brandon

Emily Midgett

Miriam Prantner

Kulbir Kirkland

Natasha Vacca

Jessica Vasher

Simon Says Stamp Out of This World release day

I'm so happy to share a project from the new Simon Says Stamp Out of This World release! Click HERE to see the entire release.

I struggle to make more masculine cards and still keep it cute. I'm all about the cute! So I was thrilled to see so many great items in this release to make lots of masculine projects. 

This project I'm sharing today was so fun to make. I just fell in love with this amazing Circle Hoops embossing folder. The texture is just amazing. I showcased it with the gorgeous rainbow holographic cardstock.

I also used the Nested Stars die set from the new release to give it an out of the world vibe! I die cut the Out of this world sentiment from white cardstock and fun foam to pop it up from the black background.

I added some more holographic mini stars for some more shine.

I hope you enjoyed the project using some goodies from the new release and you got some inspiration! I have listed and linked all the supplies I used to make this card. Thank you for stopping by!!

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My Favorite Things Vacation!

Hi all and welcome to another week of the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.

This week's challenge theme is Vacation!

We are featuring products from My Favorite Things. You don't have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see what you make! As always just for entering you will be eligible for the the drawing of a $25 voucher to the Simon store!

When I think of being on vacation I think of Summer and when I think of summer I think of fresh fruit and popsicles on warm days! So I chose to combine those elements when making this fun card!

I made this card using an A2 size card base from smooth white cardstock. I then used a stitched rectangle die to create an inked panel. I lightly applied red and green distress oxide to each opposing corners of the panel.

I then die cut several popsicles images from the My Favorite Things Pair of Popsicles die set from white cardstock and colored them with copic markers. I then die cut the word fun using the My Favorite Things Modern Serif Alpha dies out of black cardstock and added them to the card with some foam adhesive to pop them up.

Last, I arranged the watermelon popsicles around the sentiment on the panel and then trimmed off the excess and adhered it to the card base. I added a sub-sentiment and a few clear drops to finish this card up.

I made a little tutorial to show you a bit of the process of how I made this card.

I hope you enjoyed the project I have made for this week's challenge and got some inspiration! I have provided affiliate links to all the supplies I used below. Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you enjoy this challenge!

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Now it's your turn! Happy crafting!

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You have until Wed  8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in

 

 

Flower Happy Simon Says Stamp July card kit

The name of this card kit is perfect! It has made me flower happy for sure. I couldn't just make one card so I made three. If you haven't had a chance to see this amazing new card kit from Simon Says Stamp just click HERE!

This first card was made with the Flower Happy stamp set that comes in the kit. As you can see above the stamp set is just bursting with floral images. Some that even layer! I made this card using an A2 card base from smooth white cardstock. I then trimmed down another piece of white cardstock to create my stamped panel of flowers. I used the Pawsitively Saturated Inks in some of my favorite colors to stamp the flowers. I then stamped the greeting on another piece of white cardstock and using a couple of circle dies I die cut out the sentiment and a frame. I fussy cut 3 of the flowers I stamped to pop up off the sentiment circle.

The second card I made from an A2 size card base from smooth white cardstock. I used my favorite tiny flower image from the Flower Happy stamp set. I stamped it several times using more Pawsitively Saturated inks. I stamped a stem for each flower and fussy cut them out and arranged them in a line on a panel die cut from white cardstock using the wonky style stitched rectangle dies. I then chose a sentiment from the stamp set and stamped it using embossing ink and heat set it with a platinum embossing powder. I also added a flat white pearl to the centers of each flower.

Finally, I just had to use the gorgeous rose gold metallic cardstock and Jubilee embossing folder from the kit. After running the metallic paper through the embossing folder, I trimmed the embossed panel down to leave a bit of a white border. I also took a low grit piece of sandpaper and rubbed the to of the embossed panel to reveal a bit of white underneath. I then cut a square piece of rose gold metallic cardstock and embossed the sentiment using white embossing powder and popped it up with 3d foam squares. 

I hope you have enjoyed the projects I made using this amazing card kit. I have listed all the supplies I have used to make all three cards below. I have listed the card kit but you can also purchase the stamp set and embossing folder separately. Thank you for stopping by!!

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A Little Note

There is a thunderstorm ⛈outside and my big tough 12 year old great pyrenees is curled up around my feet like a little kitty. He hates thunder poor baby! Meanwhile, I am having some fun in the craftroom today creating a colorful card project.

I wanted to make some distressed colorful leaves for my card. Using a blending tool, a paintbrush with water and perfect pearls I just went to town on squares cut from white cardstock to fit the Leafy Sprig die.

I used these gorgeous little backgrounds to die cut out the leaves and then die cut a stitched rectangle out of white cardstock panel. I arranged the leaves in a semi-circle on the panel. I adhered the leaves with 3d foam squares for a little dimension.

I then stamped the sentiment from the Just Because Word Mix 2 stamp set that comes with a coordinating dies out of gray ink. I also used foam adhesive to pop up the circle die in the middle of the leaves. I used some fog cardstock for an A2 size card base.

I hope you enjoyed the project I made today and got some inspiration to pull out some of you goodies from your stash that you haven't used in a while to make something wonderful! I have listed and linked everything that I used to make this card below for your convenience.

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Brutus Monroe Lots of Layers

Hi all and welcome to another week of the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.

This week's challenge theme is Lots of Layers!

We are featuring products from Brutus Monroe. You don't have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see what you make! As always just for entering you will be eligible for the the drawing of a $25 voucher to the Simon store!

I just love lots of dimension on a card so this week's theme of Lot of Layers would be perfect for a floral die cut card. Lots of layers but not too many that you have to spend extra to mail it! Sometimes I go a little crazy with the thickness of a card and forget that it might have to go through the mail system! Ooops! 

I made this card using an A2 size card base made from smooth white cardstock. I then took another piece of cardstock and stamped a gingham background in a neutral color. I used the amazing Brutus Monroe's Fabulou Florals die set to cut out the daisies three times from white cardstock and colored with distress oxide ink.

I then borrowed a couple of flowers and leaves from other floral die cut sets and cut them out from white cardstock and colored with distress oxide inks. The little blue flowers were colored with copic markers because I wanted the shading to be in the center of the flowers. I then added some white gel pen detail to the flowers.

I finished this card off using the Elegantly Modern Greeting die and hot foil set for the sentiment. I stamped the sub-sentiment in blue using the same stamp set and trimmed it out with a paper trimmer.

I hope you enjoyed the project I have made for this week's challenge and got some inspiration! I have provided affiliate links to all the supplies I used below. Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you enjoy this challenge!

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Now it's your turn! Happy crafting!

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You have until Wed  8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in

 

 

You're One in a Melon Pretty Pink Posh IG hop

I'm happy to be participating in the Pretty Pink Posh IG hop today featuring lots of goodies from their new release. I have made three projects to day. Make sure you visit my Instagram page for a chance to win a $30 gift card when you leave a comment.

This first card was made with the fun multi stencil watermelon set. I love using stencils to create a background for a card! I stenciled the watermelons onto a piece of craft cardstock using distress oxide inks. I used a white gel pen to create some highlight detail. I then stamped the watermelon images and sentiments from the Watermelon clear stamps set. I die cut them out and added them to the top of a piece of acetate framed with white cardstock for my shaker element of the cards. I used foam tape to pop of the frame to leave room for the shaker bits.

This next card was made using an A2 size card base from smooth white cardstock. I stamped lots of images from the Fresh Berries stamp set and colored them using copic markers. I then die cut them out and arranged them on an oval frame cut from white cardstock and popped up with foam adhesive. I adhered the oval frame to a white cardstock panel that I stamped in red with a gingham background stamp.

I used some white gel pen to add some details.

The last card I made used images from the Fruit Salad stamp set. I cut a panel of white cardstock down to leave a bit of a border on an A2 size card base made from white cardstock. Using a small square die, I created my own stencil to make colorful frames for the fruit images I stamped using copic friendly black ink. I colored the images in with copic markers and fussy cut them out and arranged them in each of the four squares. I also used the Fruit Salad stamp set for the sentiment for this card.

I hope you enjoy this fun hop today and got lots of inspiration! I have listed used affiliate links below to all the supplies I used to make these fun projects. Thank you so much for stopping by! 

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