Blackberries Tag Tutorial

Hello crafters! I hope you are well and healthy. It is Monday again and we are back with a new Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog theme. 

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This week our theme is 'Food and/or Drink'. I hope you will join us! 

Don't miss the project by our June guest designer Ann Chuang will be joining us. 

I am very fond of berries: strawberries, currants, blueberries, blackberries and more. This tag is all about blackberries. I used the Fodder Berry Edition stamp set by Paper Artsy / Alison Bomber for the berries and colored them with watercolors.

I started with a piece of watercolor paper that had been colored with Distress Ink and Distress Oxide Ink (it was leftover from another project).

Stamp Paper Artsy Alison Bomber Fodder Berry Edition twice with Jet Black Archival Ink.

Paint with watercolors, dropping in other shades while the first layer is still wet. I used Daniel Smith watercolors.

Splatter paint over the berries. Stamp the background with the dot stamp from Tim Holtz Tiny Textures, using Antique Linen and Speckled Egg Distress Oxide. Mist with water before stamping.

The sentiments from Simon Says Stamp Be Your Beautiful Self was white embossed on paper where I tested the watercolors used for the berries. Die cut with the coordinating dies, or with scissors.

Stamp textures from Fodder Berry Edition here and there.

Add highlights with a white gel pen.

Ink the edges with Distress Ink.

I tied a mix of fibers, lace and organza to the tag.

I die cut the sentiments from Simon Says Stamp Shimmery Vellum too and off set slightly. 

I also stitched a few purple buttons to the tag and distressed the edges.

With a white gel pen, it is easy to add highlights to the berries.

I stamped the sentiments with black ink first, but decided to use white embossing instead, for a lighter look.

I stamped the background with an alphabet stamp from Paper Artsy Alison Bomber Crocus Edition.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial!

Join us this week in our Food and/or Drink 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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Stay True art journal

 Hi crafters! I hope you had a good weekend! I can't believe it is June already.

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This week our theme is 'Add a Rainbow of Color' at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. Since it is the first Monday of a new month, the team is showcasing products by a specific designer. This month it is Dylusions by Dyan Reaveley. You can find all the stunning products here. You don't have to use them to join, but it is fun if you do.

We also have a new guest designer and in June, Ann Chuang will be joining us. I hope you will take the time to check out the project that she has created for the challenge.

I made a colorful page in my Dylusions Small Creative Journal, which is my favorite and most used art journal. This is my fourth Small Creative Journal and it is almost full. I like the size of the pages and the quality of the paper is great. 

I started by white embossing the sentiment from Simon Says Stamp Stay True, and a butterfly from Simon Says Stamp A Little Artsy and from Artsy Butterflies.

Ink the page with Distress ink in different colors.

Use Simon Says Stamp embossing ink and apply it through Simon Says Stamp Petal Lattice stencil. Brush Dylusions Dyamond Dust White Linen over the page. My Distress Ink wasn't totally dry, so there is shimmer a bit all over the page, but that is also what I wanted.

Ink the words with Black Soot Distress Ink, mist with water and stamp over the words again, off-setting slightly. This creates a shadow. Stamp more sentiments and a messy thread on the page.

Stamp with blue ink and Simon Says Stamp Swiss Dots background and splatter a little Dylusions White Linen Ink spray on the background.

The shadow stamping gives a 3-D look and makes the sentiment stand out better.

The butterflies are yellow, to look like lemon butterflies.

Dream, create, share comes from Simon Says Stamp Create.

I stamped a stamp with small numbers from Simon Says Stamp A Little Artsy here and there for texture.

The effect of the Dyamond Dust is hard to capture on photo. The entire page is to some extent shimmery, but the stenciled areas have an even more visible shimmer.

I also stamped dots with Wilted Violet Distress Oxide and messy rings with black ink. These are both from the A Little Artsy set.

You are enough comes from Simon Says Stamp Beautiful Butterflies and Don't ever change is from Stay True.

Join us this week in our Add a Rainbow of Color 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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Frog Party Tag Tutorial

Hi friends! Today I have a tag to share which was made with Simon Says Stamp brand new Always There release. 

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Always there is a beautiful release, with lots of great sentiments, images, embossing folders, stencils, embellishments and more.

I made a tag with the new Simon Says Stamp Token Terrarium set. The frog stamp is so cute and I created a bunch of them together with lots of leaves and greenery.

The background was made with several layers of Distress Ink. I have had it on my desk for a while. It had been used to use up left-over ink and I liked the textures. I thought it would be a good background for the frog scene.

Sponge Picket Fence Distress Paint through the new Simon Says Stamp Dot Petal Pattern stencil.

Stamp the frog, leaves and stones from Simon Says Stamp Token Terrarium on watercolor paper using Jet Black Archival Ink.

Smear Distress Inks on a non-stick craft sheet, mist with water and pick up with a paint brush. Watercolor the images.

There are coordinating dies for the Token Terrarium set, but since I don't have them yet, I cut the images out with scissors.

Apply Moon Dust Stickles Glitter Gel with a palette knife through the Dot Petal Pattern stencil.

I stamped sentiments from Simon Says Stamp Dot Terrarium, with Blueprint Sketch Archival Ink and cut into strips. Tie coordinating ribbons and fibers to the tag.

Such a fun sentiment! I tucked leaves behind the frogs.

The frogs and stones were adhered with Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Perfect Foam Tape. I also dyed some cheese cloth with Distress Ink and placed behind the frogs and leaves.

The frogs are all colored a little different from each other. Leave the white paper showing for highlights.

Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Dazzling Surf Gems are glued here and there among the frogs and leaves.

I hope you enjoyed this happy little frog scene! 

 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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