No Stamps Allowed

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge
Thank you for joining us for the Black/White + One Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

This week the challenge is

No Stamps Allowed

there are so many products we can use for this challenge, stencils, dies, flowers, stickers etc

We are showcasing our very own Simon Says Stamp Exclusive 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

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 crafty makes and will pop around to visit you ASAP!

The most awkward thing of a card with no stamping is the stamping but it gave me the chance to used the brilliant Good Luck die from CZ Design at Simon says Stamp.

And I also use perhaps my favourite dies from Simon says Stamps the Stitched Daisies, my first card a blending a bit of yellow ink on the tips of the flower and the mat I planned for my dies to sit on.

The daisy sits on the leaves from the Cluster Leaves and the Outline Cluster Leaves which I cut them from different green card.

Since I love the daisies so much I made another in white but this time I used the Simon says Stamps Falling Heart Stencil to emboss with but I recommend to cut with the Stitched Rectangle before embossing so you don't lose definition.

Finally I used the Painted Congrats! die and I cut it twice but now I have photo the card maybe I should have done it three times to help it pop.

I've had a pretty busy weekend which always leaves me a bit worn out and today I've woke with a sore throat fingers crossed it doesn't get any worse.

Do you use Instagram ?  If so please add  #ssswchallenge to your challenge entry uploads so we can see them on there too.

Wishes

I do love this image from Mo called Make a Wish and it can be used for lots of reasons. First to turn into a card I used the Sketch SC 369 from Splitcoast stampers its an old one since they are in the 600's.

The papers are Doodlebug apart from the odd dotty page I now using scraps. I'm using a flower die that I brought from another crafter but no idea who makes it but the flowers are like the EK retro flower punch which I find tricky to punch now. The dots in the flower centres are a circle punch for the large flower but the smaller ones I've used the Tim Holtz Cogs die set, a couple of the dies have circles for waste perfect for flowers.

You can probably just see a scallop border which is an old MFT scallop border die, not sure if they still do a small one. I also used a glitter pen on the dandelion seed head but of course the camera doesn't show that up.

Dream Team Blog Hop

Its time for our monthly Dream Team Blog Hop and my lovely team-mate 

Anneke has chosen the theme of BABIES

So which Mo's Baby image should I use there are loads and it was a tricky choice but I thought I would use one of the cry-babies she rarely gets used and she makes such a fun card.

Maybe its my sense of humour of using a crying baby for a leaving card, it could also work for someone going on maternity leave. This little one is called Fussy Frankie she can also be brought as a single image.

The papers are LOTVE and the daisies are MFT Upsy Daisy dies, along with the Crochet Border that edges my curve which I made using Simon Says Stamp Curved die.

The Good Luck is cut from Impression Obession die which I layered once again. The fishtail banner is made using the banner punch from Stampin Up who in their wisdom retired but can be easily done with a square punch.

So if we are running smoothly but I'm in charge so anything is possible you should of arrived from Gaynor and now your are HOP, SKIP and JUMP away to Lou's blog.
Now don't forget to comment along the way there are two $5 vouchers to be random chosen from our comments.