Faux Stitching

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

Thank you for joining us last week and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

This week the challenge is

Stitching real/faux

We are showcasing Art Impressions this week. You don’t have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see them used

The lovely folks over at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a FABULOUS $50 voucher to shop at the  Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take out your crafty supplies, make something following this week’s prompt, and add a link in the Inlinkz at the challenge Blog. You can join 5 times so you could have 5 chances to win! How AWESOME is that!! All winners are chosen randomly, so everyone has an equal chance to win! Woo Hoo!! Good Luck to everyone! The Design Team is looking forward to seeing your crafty makes and will pop around to visit you ASAP!

I had to make my card pretty quickly since I was going on holiday with Sister and Brother-in Law and knew I wouldn't be up to making in time when we got back.

I used the Art Impressions Panda-tastic and used the Simon says Stamp Wonky Rectangles to give me some Faux Stitching.

I edged the wonky rectangle with a touch of red to stand out of my dotty paper from Black and White dots from My Favourite Things.

Sorry for the short post but just got back from some dental work and feeling slightly stressed out although it wasn't as bad as I expected. I have to do it all over again in a couple weeks too.


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Enjoy your Trip!

Another card made with Art Impression Pack your Bags this time I used two images from the clear stamp set. The luggage and the fun image, I didn't have to mask the luggage because I layered both images.

The papers are Doodlebug Sweet Summer and I used the bright orange dotty one with Simon says Stamp Stitched Rectangles to make a frame.

Last but not least I used the Simon says Stamp Stitched Banner for a sentiment from Simon says Stamp Messages for Everyday. To make the sentiment shorter I placed the cut banner down the centre of a larger die  to chop off the end.

Bon Voyage

Not sure if you remember a few weeks ago I used the Art Impressions Pack your Bags for my Simon says Stamp Wednesday Challenge card, well one of the reasons I wanted the stamp set is that I plan to use the ship stamp.

With the help of MFT Ocean View Porthole it makes a perfect embellishment for my cruise scrapbooking although the only porthole I saw on the cruise was the one in the medical centre but we won't go there.

Since I won't be using it just yet, I made a card with it using a Freshly Made Sketch from a few weeks back. The cute background square was made using the Lawn Fawn Quilted Backdrop die and I used the Simon says Stamp Stitched Square to cut it down and give it a finished edge.

The sentiment is from the stamp set and I used Simon says Stamp Stitched Banners and used the largest one to cut it down.

One more day of the UK heatwave, its going down to normal August temperatures can't wait.

Anything Goes

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Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge
Thank you for joining us for the Use a Die/Punch Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.
This week the challenge is

Anything Goes

We are showcasing Art Impressions Products this week. You don't have to use them to join in but if you have some we would sure love to see them used!

The lovely folks over at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a FABULOUS $50 voucher to shop at the  Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take out your crafty supplies, make something following this week’s prompt, and add a link in the Inlinkz at the bottom of this post! You can join 5 times so you could have 5 chances to win! How AWESOME is that!! All winners are chosen randomly, so everyone has an equal chance to win! Woo Hoo!! Good Luck to everyone! The Design Team is looking forward to seeing your creative makes and will pop around to visit you ASAP!

The problem with Art Impressions is knowing which image to use, when its for a challenge you need to buy a new one and again I couldn't choose. In the end I brought the Office Party but the Pack Your Bags also fell into my basket.

As you can see I used Office Party but a couple of images from the other set is coloured up and waiting for me. I went for this image because I love paper piecing and add some Doodlebug 6inch papers this time I've used Hello. 

To make the card I used the Simon Says Stamp Wonky Rectangles and since I'm retired the sentiment didn't really work for me so I went to my favourite sentiments of the moment my Simon Says Stamp Thoughtful Messages.

I noticed that a bit of my stamping from paper piecing was in the corner of my pattern paper, I quickly remedied this by die cutting the Simon Says Stamp Hydrangea Petals. To finish the flowers I used the small snowflakes from the Simon says Stamp Stitched Snowflakes and the waste from one of the Tim Holtz Gearhead dies for the white centres. 

Finally I decided I wasn't keen on all the white space so out came my Simon Says Stamps Holiday Shapes an essential bit of kit. You can see how tiny they are ideal for making shaker cards with. To complete the set you would also need the next size up Large Holiday Shapes.

Gone Fishing

Last week I used the Art Impression Reel Great Guys but I also made this card too. I first used the Simon Says Stamp Waves Stencil to make something my image could float on and then I used Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangles.

The gone fishing sentiment is in the Art Impressions Stamp set along with the images I've used. Finally I added the Simon Says Stamps Happy Birthday die, the happy was used with a Simon Says Stamp set but I can't quite work out which one.

Birthday Fishes

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge
Thank you for joining us for the Layer It Up  Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.
We will be back soon with the name of the lucky winner of the $50 Voucher.
This week the challenge is

Anything Goes

We are showcasing Art Impressions Products this week. You don't have to use them to join in but if you have them we would love to see them used.

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store

When I saw we were showcasing Art Impressions for this weeks Simon says Stamp Wednesday Challenge I knew I had a few stamps already but hey when there's an excuse to buy another. I decided to buy the fishing clear stamp set called Reel Great Guys.

The image itself is quite large and I used the Simon says Stamp Stitched Rectangles for around the image. The patterned paper I've used is Echo Park Perfect Autumn and I used the Simon says Stamp Stitched Banners to make the collection of tags under the image. I didn't use the whole banner just a bit at the fishtail end.

Here's the crooked front image of my card. 

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For Brian

I found this card in my drafts in fact when I search for drafts, I found quite a few photo posts with cards. This is an Art Impression and was made for my Brother in law, who plays golf.

There was a lot of layering and the papers are some old Echo Park that needed using up. The grass and fence are both from MFT and I used the Simon Says Stamp Stitched Squares.

The sentiment is the one off my desk that as seen better days. I used a Stampin Up banner punch for the fish tail banner, I believe Stampin Up in their wisdom have retired it but I used it constantly for the making these banner.

I need to give myself a bit of kick up the bum to schedule my post more often and make cards.

Happy Birthday

Christmas cards came to a halt while I made a special card for a special lady. I used the Art Impression stamp who are brilliant with grown up images. I paper pieced her outfit to match the patterned paper in the card.

The balloon are some really old dies which I have no idea whose but most companies make a balloon die. I think the numbers are Memory Box but I need a really small set of numbers which I will be on the search for.

Flowers are a die I randomly brought somewhere but the centres are circle punches and the sentiment is a Simon Says Stamp.

Happy Big 70 Birthday Christine.

The birthday girl is wearing the sunglasses and the other lady is my other SIL, I thought I would show this layout here so it doesn't pop up on my timeline on FB. I can't remember the occasion but I do know that neither have worn the dress again!

Lets Par-tee!

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge
Thank you for joining us for the Patterned Paper Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

This week the challenge is

Anything Goes  

This week we are showcasing Art Impressions Products. You don't have to use them for the challenge but if you have them we would love to see them used.

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away a $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store

I knew I had to have the Art Impressions Let's Par-tee, there are two main images, I decided to use the female golfer. She simply had to have way out golf wear and what better than Doodlebug Easter Express with their small patterns in their 6 inch pads.

It only seemed right to paper pieced her outfit and when I stamped the golf flag I had to paper piece that too.

Once I was happy where the sentiment and flag was I cut it out using the Simon Says Stamp Stitched Squares and I decided to use Simon Says Stamp Daisies which are my favourites they come with me when I go Scrapbooking too.

I did use yellow centres but they got lost in the busy paper so I changed them to pink centres.

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Anything Goes

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge
Thank you for joining us for the Add Some Shimmer Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.
We will be back soon with the name of the lucky winner of the $50 Voucher
This week the challenge is

ANYTHING GOES

We are showcasing Art Impressions Products this week. You don't have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see them used

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store

Well I went for a real Clean and Simple design this week on Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge but I used a sketch on Splitcoast Stampers SC597.

Love Art Expression and although I have some stamps that Simon Says Stamp carries I thought this challenge called for a new one! This one is callled AHH and I decided to make her fit into a circle but not just any circle but the Simon Says Stamp Stitched Circle which works out so much better on a clean card and the Ahh just about fitted one of the smaller dies with the set.

The papers are Doodlebug Spring Garden love that the patterns are small and the floral paper was perfect to paper piece her blouse.

The sketch cuts across diagonally so I used the Simon Says Stamp Stitched Wavy Scallops die to give the card a bit more interest. Once I have placed the layers I used the Simon Says Stamp Bundle of Shapes set with the large rectangle die. Finally the tiny sentiment is from the Simon Says Stamp Happy and Smile stamp set.

So now it's YOUR turn.  Happy Crafting

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Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge
Thank you for joining us for the One Layer Challenge and we hope you will join in with our new theme!
We will be back soon with the name of the lucky winner of the $50 Voucher
This week the challenge is

Shake It Up

For this challenge we would like to see some shaker style creations, you can shake some ink sprays and give your projects a spritz or use an action wobble to make something shake! Whatever you decide to shake we will be looking forward to seeing it!
We are showcasing WE R MEMORY KEEPERS PRODUCTS this week. You don't have to use them to join in with the challenge, but if you have them we would love to see them used!

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store

I used the Metallic Confetti from We R Memorykeepers to place in my shaker card which I made using the Simon says Stamp Stitched Ovals.

The papers are Crate Paper Hello Love but as you can see they're not just for Valentines. I also used the Simon Says Stamp Bundle of Shapes which has the large rectangle for the black spotted paper.

The large flower is also Simon Says Stamp called Stitched Daisies and the heart is from their Surely Stitched Heart, its the little heart that comes in centre this is mainly because I have unfortunately lost the heart in the Bundle of Shapes.

The sentiment is from the Its Your Birthday from Simon Says Stamp but I used a square punch to make the fishtail for my banner.

Nearly forgot the fabulous image is from Art Impressions Cupcake Bff

So now it's YOUR turn.  Happy Crafting

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Snowbuddies

I coloured thise snowmen at the same time as the Santa and Reindeer cards I made last week for Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, they come from the same stamp set.

I used Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangle dies and Echo Park Hello Winter. Finished of with some silver twine well its actually came from the wool department from a craft shop.

The snowflake is the Marianne one from Simon Says Stamps and the button is also a die from Impression Obession.

Just some fun flock and flowers soft for the hats and white pen for the buttons on the snowmen jackets.

We should be on the way home, hope I worked out how to put the heating on when we get there otherwise we are going cold and damp from all the heavy rain they are expecting.

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge
Thank you for joining us for the Anything Goes Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.
We will be back soon with the name of the lucky winner of the $50 Voucher
This week the challenge is

LET IT SNOW

We are showcasing Art Impressions Products this week. 

You don't have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see them used

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store

Ok you maybe saying this isn't the card on the challenge blog and you would be right, this is the first card I made for the challenge. This weeks challenge is Let it Snow can you work out whats wrong with this card, you guessed it NO SNOW. Luckily I used Holly Jolly from Art Impression and had stamped all the images and coloured them in so I could make a similar card with SNOW.

Plenty of Snow of this card, both cards I've used the SSS Bundle of Stitched Shapes and Stitched circles but Santa I used SSS Wavy Stitches Scallop Border die and SSS Merry and Bright with Christmas sentiments.

Now to my reindeer card this time I used the SSS Snow Border and the Falling Snow Stencil which I used to emboss my card. To make sure there is plenty of Snow this time I used SSS Maryann Snowflake

I used the same stamp set but this time I used the Happy Winter Christmas die, my papers are from Doodlebug for Santa and Lawn Fawn Lets Polka in the Dark.

So now it's YOUR turn.  Happy Crafting

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No backlinking allowed, Only 5 new creations will be eligible in the prize draw