Happy Yellow Flowers Tag

Hello friends! I hope you had a fun weekend. Here it was raining almost the whole weekend, but today the sun is out again.

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This week we have a Beautiful Blooms theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. I hope you will join us! Don't miss the lovely project by our March guest designer Simona Rebecchi.

I was inspired to create a floral tag with spring-time colors. I haven't seen any of the yellow spring flowers yet, but they will soon be here. I used a stencil, gesso, texture paste and watercolors for the background. I was also happy to use Tim Holtz Handwritten Love, which is one of four Handwritten sets that have just been re-released. The four sets have very versatile and useful words in a nice handwritten style.

The tag was coated with gesso and when the was dry, I applied texture paste through Tim Holtz Floral stencil.

The background was painted with watercolor paint. I used watercolors from Daniel Smith. If needed, you can wipe some of the paint off from the flowers.

Let dry, and then paint the flowers with yellow watercolor paint. 

Paint the leaves and stems with Cascade Green.

I also added some Distress Mustard Seed watercolor pencil to the flowers to deepen the yellow. Mustard Seed was also splattered on the background.

I die cut the title from Simon Says Stamp Lemon Glitter cardstock and black cardstock using Tim Holtz Handwritten Love.

One of my favorite parts with creating dies, is picking the ribbons, twine, fibers and so on, to tie the tag with. Some of these have been in my stash for a very long time. I just noticed that the yellow, green and blue ribbon has twisted. The blue part is dots on the right side of the ribbon.

The sentiment comes from Simon Says Stamp Wildflower Cuttings and was stamped on left-over grey watercolored paper.

The combination of gesso, texture paste, watercolor paint and splatters gives a background with interesting textures.

I am happy to see these handwritten dies return. Almost like meeting an old friend again.

I also added Simon Says Stamp Sunbeam Pawsitively Dazzling Gems.

You can of course do the background technique with many different types of stencils.

Join us this week in our Beautiful Blooms challenge! You have a chance to win a $25 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

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Thank you so much for visiting today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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Lucky Clover Tag

Hi crafters! Signs of spring are appearing more and more and the days are getting longer. Today, I have a spring-time tag to share.

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I made a lucky clover tag in memory of having looked for clovers with four leaves as a child (and sometimes still today). The clovers were stamped with Simon Says Stamp Printmaking Clovers stamp set, from the new Beautiful Moments release. 

I had this piece of watercolor paper which I liked, but it wasn't quite big enough for a tag. A small piece was missing, but I will fix that. I also cut a tag from plan watercolor paper. 

Ink one of the three stamps in the Printmaking Clovers set with Pine Needles and mist with water a few times first.

Repeat with one of the other stamps using Mowed Lawn.

Repeat with the third stamp and Lucky Clover ink. Again, misting with water first. 

Ink Simon Says Stamp Swiss Dots with Lucky Clover, mist with water and stamp here and there.

Die cut Simon Says Stamp Beautiful Friend from left-over inky paper.

Distress the edges of the watercolor panel. The sentiments were stamped with Simon Says Stamp Heart Suite. 

And the word 'lucky' had to be somewhere on the tag. I also added Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Dazzling Sprout Gems to the center of each clover.

I tore the bottom edge to hide the ugly spot add added a piece of lace twine underneath. The sentiment was die cut from a very splotchy inky paper and from cream paper.

Thank you so much for visiting today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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Spring-time fun

Hello friends! It is Monday again and we had such lovely weather yesterday. Spring was in the air. I made a cute spring-time page in my art journal. 

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This week we have a A Bit o' Green theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. I hope you will join us! Don't miss the lovely project by our March guest designer Simona Rebecchi.

The green theme and the weather inspired me to make a page with bright spring-time green shades. I used the very cute Simon Says Stamp Hoppy Spring stamp set from the new Beautiful Moments release and aimed for a cartoonish look, but with some texture.

Start by stamping the sheep and bunny and two hills. I worked in my Stamperia Happiness Mixed Media journal. As you can see, I messed up the stamping a bit on one of the sheep, but that won't really be visible later.

Paint the animals with watercolor paint. I used Daniel Smith watercolors.

Mix a bright spring-green and paint the grass. I dropped in Ultramarine Blue and Lunar Black for shadows, but also to make the foreground darker. I used more diluted green for the furthest hill. Paint the sky with Ultramarine Blue, dab clouds with kitchen paper and add a shadow.

I stamped sentiments from Tim Holtz Tiny Text and repeat-stamped the word 'spring' with one of the stamps from Hoppy Spring.

I also used a black pen to add some lines and shading.

Leaves some of the paper showing, for highlights.

These stamps are really cute. I added white and yellow flowers with a gel pen and a paint pen.

This is my favorite of the three. I used a little Lunar Black which added granulation and also hid the stamping mistakes.

Join us this week in our Make Your Own Background challenge! You have a chance to win a $25 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

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Thank you so much for visiting today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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Little Blue Flower Tag

Hello crafters! It is Monday, the sun is shining, and of course we have a new Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge for you. 

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It is time for a new Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog and this week our theme is Make Your Own Background. I hope you will join us! Since it is the first Monday of a new month, the team is showcasing products from a specific company/designer and this week it is Tracy Evans Boutique Designs. You can find Tracy's beautiful products here. 

We also have a new guest designer and during March Simona Rebecchi will be joining us. Head over to hear Instagram account Ginny and the Sheep to see what she has created for you.

My Tracy Evans stamps are still making their way here, so instead I used one of her older designs, when she still designed for AALL & Create. It is called Flower Press and is a very sweet floral design on a text background. The background of the tag was made with the Simon Says Stamp Scattered Leaves stencil set, from the new Beautiful Moments release.

Stamp Tracy's Flower Press on heavy stock cardstock. 

Watercolor the flowers and leaves.

Ink the edges and add highlights to the flower with a white gel pen. I also cut the panel a little narrower.

Smear Distress Ink on a non-stick craft sheet, mist with water and press a tag into the ink. Repeat until you are happy.

When dry, ink through the solid stencil from Simon Says Stamp Scattered Leaves.

Next, use a dark green ink to add the veins, with the second stencil in the set.

Stamp Simon Says Stamp Old Letter Background here and there.

I distressed the edges and used left-over inky paper under the floral panel, for an additional layer. 

I also added Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Dazzling Royal Gems to the tag, and a Tim Holtz Small Talk sentiment.

The bottom panel is left-over Paper Arts Infusions Colored Stain paper. I used Design tape to hide the edge.

The main sentiment comes from Simon Says Stamp Printmaking Clovers and was stamped on Simon Says Stamp Silver Vellum paper.

Join us this week in our Make Your Own Background challenge! You have a chance to win a $25 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

Do you use Instagram? If so please add #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too.

Thank you so much for visiting today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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