White Leaves

 

Remember the white and blue card with green leaves, well here’s with white leaves. This time maybe I went overboard on the white leaves.

The leaves are some MFT and Memory Box. I do love the Tim Holtz floral stamp .

Disappointing Card

 

I absolutely love the white embossed flowers which is a Tim Holtz wooden stamp, don't mind the MFT banner with a Simon say Stamp sentiment.

I do love my Fern die from Memory Box but as I took the photo I knew what was wrong with it, the fern needs to be white then I would be happy.

So expect the same card but with white fern coming soon.

Snarky Cat

You don't have to use mixed media to use Tim Holtz Snarky Cat Stamps, here is a simple CAS card and I absolutely love that sentiment.

I just use some inkpads and a Blending Brush to colour. I layered him slightly he's tail, head and eyes.  I did think to use a paw stamp but I knew I would go over the top.

Only got one day this week in my craft room so that will be for DT work but I am scrapbooking at a crop on Saturday.

Freshly Bouquet

Once again I'm late using a Freshly Made Sketch this one is #419 and it gave me the opportunity to use Tim Holtz Sizzix Bouquet Die.

I knew I was going to use the Simon says Stamp Cosmo Stem die but was in two minds whether to include the stem in the end as you can see I left it on.

The sentiment is again Simon says Stamp Stitched banners and their Tiny Words Birthday. Job done.

Traditional Christmas

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 Traditional Christmas

We are showcasing Tim Holtz this week, which just so happens to be Simon says Stamp Brand of the Month. 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've had this Nordic Winter die for a while and when people told me how fiddly it was to cut loads of bits put me off but to be honest I found it quite easy although I kept losing my bits white dots!

I cut out my cardstock to fit the die and inked round the edges with a black inkpad to give it a bit of depth. Then I put tape across the back so that it was just a matter of cutting the colours and dropping it into the revelent space.

I added a bit of May Arts Burlap Twine to keep the rustic look. I added a snowflake made with Simon Stamp Lea Snowflake die and stamped out sentiment from Tiny Words Christmas.

Since it was too bad making the background I chose to make another with a Scandi feel about it. I made the same has the one above but used white and red. It also meant less waste. This time I used two snowflakes Simon says Stamp Lea but also Marie Snowflake die. Oh and I used the Inside Christmas Greeting for the sentiment.

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Tim Holtz Christmas

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  Anything Goes

We are showcasingTim Holtz Products this week, which just so happens to be Simon says Stamp Brand of the Month. 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!

Totally lost what day it is, my poor blog as been quiet over the bank holiday so a quick post before I forget its Wednesday.

Recently I have got my hands on Funky Festive from Tim Holtz Sizzix and previously got Tim Holtz Botanicals stamps, just needed a reason to use it.

So I made a smooched background using Oxides and then stamped the leaves back-ground stamp, job done.

Then it was all about assemberling my festive parts, when altogether I inked the edges to make it more grungy. Just needed a sentiment, look what fell in my basket Tim Holtz Sizzix Christmas Ribbon.

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Making Backgrounds

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 Make a Background

We are showcasing Tim Holtz this week, which just so happens to be Simon says Stamp Brand of the Month. 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've learnt two things making my background, first I need more practice to use Tim Holtz Distress Resist Spray, definitely a bit heavy handed.

Second I actually had more fun and better results with Watercolour Cardstock obviously been a bit of cheapskate doesn't work. The background was made with the smooching technique with Oxides.

I used Tim Holtz Wildflowers stems 1 and you know I love making white flowers. My sentiment was made with Simon says Stamp Amazing stamps and using Tim Holtz Crochet Thinlets to edge the border.

Did I mention what fun I had that does mean I made more backgrounds so watch out for some more cards.

A Birthday Cow!

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 Masculine

We are showcasing Tim Holtz 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'm afraid I'm late with a card for the challenge had a bout of sickness which left me feeling bleh not helpful when you need a DT card.

In the end I managed to make a really quick card, bit disappointed since I love the Tim Holtz Funny Farm. 

All I could manage was a rectangle of blended green ink which I placed my funny cow in the centre and slightly layered it. Added a sentiment from Simon says Stamp Its No Secret and to give a bit more interest to a boring card I added the dotty paper from My Favourite Things Black and White Dots.

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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 Cute Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

This week the challenge is

Anything Goes

We are showcasing Tim Holtz 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!

Now while I have seen Tim Holtz Wildflowers Stems coloured in I fancied making a card just white and since I was short of time I thought this way would be quicker.

I also used the Wildflower Stems 2 for some of the leaves but the flowers were from the set above.

Normally I would use Simon says Stamp stitched Ovals but I always use them so for a change I used the Simon says Stamp Stitched Rectangles.

I stamped possibly my favourite background stamp Quilted Hearts and embossed with Simon says Stamp Gold Embossing Powder.

Finally a sentiment specially for my Mum, using Best Mom from Simon says Stamp.

You may notice two photo of my card, mainly I'm getting tired of the wonky photographer and I took the photo laying flat, I may photo all my cards that way since you can see the one below I'm 5mm out all the time.

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Advent

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.

This week the challenge is

Wrap it Up 

think Tags, Bags, Boxes etc any sort of packaging will do!

We are showcasing Tim Holtz 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!

Now where to start, I wanted to make a Advent Calendar using some match boxes but could only find really large ones at my supermarket and I had left it too late to find some cheaper so I brought four for Advent Sunday.

I laid them so I could open each drawer and I cover with some white card for a bit extra strength before covering the sides and drawer fronts.

I used Tim Holtz Idea-ology Countdown Brads for my drawers in hindsight they needed a bit of thread wrapped round them to help pull the drawers out.

The papers are Tim Holtz 8 by 8 card pack and I also used Tim Holtz Tree Line die for around the background.
I didn't pay much attention to what size my large Woodland Trees when I ordered them and decided to use one but in the end I used all three. Although the camera didn't pick it up I used Dreamweaver White Embossing Paste and flicked some over the trees to look like snow and layered some to make snow on the ground and fixed my trees and snowman in.

My Tim Holtz Idea-ology Salvaged Snowmen I coloured with copics but it did take a couple of layers.

I brought the The Christmas Chips because I knew if I didn't use them I could use them on a scrapbook page but I did in the end use a few.

Finally because of all the empty spaces I used Simon Says Stamp Glitter Card and some of their Snowflake dies Rina Kadyn and the dots are left over from the Christmas Icon snowflake.

Bleaching

Remember the other week when Simon says Stamp had my favourite challenge Distressing, I'm being sarcastic here. Well this is the one I started to make but was disappointed how it bleached the Distress Inks.

Well I left it allow and when I went back apart from the bottle they worked, the bottle you can still see a bit of the oxides.

I used the same stamps Tim Holtz Mini Blueprints Beer stamps and the Simon says Stamps Stitched Squares and Rectangles.

Finally I used the Simon says Stamps Furry Cat and Box stamp, the sentiment is like handwriting.

Did I mentioned I heat embossed the stamped images this stops the bleach going where you don't want it.


I had a great time on Saturday, I didn't do that many layouts three in total but I did start a double layout but when I got glue on three of the photos it was time to call it a day. Luckily I print my photos.

I've been convinced by my fellow scrapbookers to pack my bags before I go on holiday so I could go to the charity one at the end of September not sure if I will be up for this but my crop fees are mostly going to charity so it would be in a good cause. If I only manage half a day it will still be good.

I was nominated and won the Woman of the Year award at my Slimming World Group, I can see how far I've come and I plan not to put it back on again.

Distressing!

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge
Thank you for joining us for the Make Your Own Background Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.
This week the challenge is

Distress It  

We are showcasing some fabulous Tim Holtz 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!

First of I made some fancy backgrounds with oxides and ended up not using any, I had an idea of what I wanted to do but it didn't quite work out.

So I stamped the Tim Holtz Mini Blueprints Beer strip in black and heat embossed black embossing powder. I them cut out using Simon says Stamp Stitched Squares and Rectangles. I then used a Blue dye Inkpad and blended all over and distressed round the edges with some scissors since I couldn't find my Tim Holt paper distresser.

I then found my bleach bottle and poured a little in a cap and using a paintbrush that had seen better days I brushed parts of my stamps. The R in my beer was been very troublesome and he got painted with the bleach a couple of times. I then left to dry. The thing to remember is it works with dye inkpads I used it on the oxides but it didn't seemed to work as well, yet I left it to dry and it improved as time went on, so much so I didn't bin them.

Now I had to make a card and this sketch from Splitcoast Stampers SC707 was in my mind when I cut out the shapes out. My base I cut out a circle using Simon says Stamp Stitched Circles out of Kraft card.

The sentiment was stamped on another piece of card from Simon says Stamp Birthday Messages and their Messages for Everyday,  I place my cut out circle card over the top using foam squares.  My stars are Simon says Stamp Holiday Shapes randomly placed trying desperately not to do too many.

I actually like my distressed card so much so I've put it in the post to my Brother for his Birthday rather than the bin!

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Crazy Snow Cat

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

Anything Goes

We are showcasing Tim Holtz 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

This didn't quite turn out how I wanted, I did have a santa hat for the cat but it didn't fit the card but as soon as a challenge mentions Tim Holtz my brain goes to mush!

I used Simon Says Stamp Slopes and Hills die along with their Eyelet Arch Border die. The layout is loosely based on a sketch which didn't quite work but do like how my border looks like.

My favourite sentiment from Christmas Toys from Simon Says Stamp stamped and Embossed with WOW white embossing powder.

To give my Crazy Cat from Tim Holtz something to look to I've used Simon Says Stamp Holy Stars but I used the smaller one and I put double sided tape before cutting it so I could add some glitter (which my camera hates and turned it into an off white colour).

My bits of snow are Nuvo Gloss Simply White. Still not sure of my card and wish I hadn't stuck down my cat till after I fixed his hat and it would have looked a touch better.

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