Imagination Art Journal Page

Hello crafters! Today I have an art journal page to share, with an Easter theme. You can of course also use the techniques to make a card or a tag instead.

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This bunny from Tim Holtz Spring Sprung stamp set is a favorite of mine and I decided to use the stamp on an art journal page. The page has an Easter theme, but with the addition of the theme of imagination. I used pastel colors, stencils, textures page, glitter and cheese cloth. 

Start by coating a page with gesso and let it dry. I worked in my Dylusions Small Creative Journal. Apply texture paste at the base and press cheese cloth, or mummy cloth, into the paste. Let dry.

Paint with pastel Distress Paints and mist with water to blend. I used Abandoned Coral, Cracked Pistachio, Squeezed Lemonade and Salvaged Patina.

Stamp the bunny from Spring Sprung, birds from Mini Ornates and a sentiment from Nature's Discovery. All sets are by Tim Holtz / Stamper's Anonymous. I fixed the mistake in the sentiment later. 

Sponge paint through Tim Holtz Nordic and Sparkle Fade stencils. 

Sponge white paint through Simon Says Stamp Mix and Match Circles, in a few places.

Paint the bunny with Distress Paint and stamp a sentiment from Simon Says Stamp Hoppy Spring. I also stamped Simon Says Stamp Old Letter in the background.

I applied Moon Dust Glitter Gel through Tim Holtz Bubble stencil, here and there.

The sentiments come from Tim Holtz Small Talk Stickers.

The bunny releases three glittery butterflies. For more examples using this stamp, check out my Sweet Treat Tag where he sprinkles jewels, Colored Pencils on Kraft tag, where he holds a heart balloon, and 12 Tags of March 2015, where he kicks a sparkly ball.

Pastel shades are fun to use. 

I applied both white paint and glitter gel to the cheese cloth, to give it texture and sparkle.

Use paint to add a shadow under the bunny.

See you again tomorrow!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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Floral Easter Card

Hi crafters! I hope you are well and had a fun weekend! 

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This week we have an Emboss It theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. I hope you will join us! Don't miss the last project from our March guest designer Simona Rebecchi.

I wanted to make an Easter card with lots of green and yellow. The background is white embossed and then misted. The flowers were die cut from various inky paper, some of them have also been misted with Distress Spritz through stencils.

Start by white embossing Tim Holtz Florette background on watercolor paper. Don't worry about getting it perfect.

Mist heavily with Distress Spray Stains and finish with a little Twisted Citron Distress Spritz, for glimmer.

Most of the papers had been prepared for previous projects. I die cut Simon Says Stamp Charming Flower Stem, Poised Primula and Fresh Cut Floral Stem from yellow, orange and green inky papers. 

Shape the flowers with Tim Holtz Shaping Tool Kit. 

Assemble the flowers and adhere to the background. 

The embossing will resist the ink, creating a blended green background, with shimmer. 

Here you can see that some of the papers had been misted with Distress Spritz, through Tim Holtz Bubble and Sparkle Fade stencils.

I added Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Dazzling Gold Gems to the flower centers. The Dazzling Gems are a favorite of mine, which you might have noticed.

Die cut Simon Says Stamp Bouncy Happy Easter from yellow inky paper and dark green cardstock. 

The flowers have quite a bit of dimension.

Join us this week in our Emboss It 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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Easter Bunny Card

Hello crafters! My Easter decor is out and I was inspired to make an Easter card today.

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The bright yellows and greens of spring are just wonderful, especially after the long winter. Here I used the Simon Says Stamp Everlasting Flowers embossing folder for the background together with a fun debossed resist technique. The folder and the Little Bows die set are both from the new In My Heart release.

Start by inking the Everlasting Flowers embossing folder with Simon Says Stamp Clear Emboss ink. Place watercolor paper in the folder and emboss. We are using the debossed side. Cover with white embossing powder. Remove the excess and melt. Be careful when using a heat tool and do not touch the powder until it has cooled down completely.

Mist the background with Distress Spray Stain, starting with Squeezed Lemonade. Add just a little Mermaid Lagoon. Next, mist with Distress Spritz Twisted Citron, for glimmer. 

I had some left-over collage paper and die cut three butterflies and one bunny from Tim Holtz Sizzix Vault Hippity Hop. You can see how I made that paper in this post.

Paint them with Distress Paint.

I die cut more butterflies. The collage paper butterflies were die cut again from Simon Says Stamp Lemon Glitter Cardstock and placed underneath the collage butterflies. I also die cut tiny butterflies from Tim Holtz Sizzix Vault Boutique, from glitter cardstock and from left-over pink inky cardstock.

Bend the wings of the butterflies and let them flutter across the page. 

For the sentiment I die cut a Simon Says Stamp Petal-Tipped Label and stamped a sentiment from Hoppy Spring on top. The bows were die cut from glitter paper using Simon Says Stamp Little Bows.

I die cut the bunny one more time from brown cardstock and off-set slightly. The bunny also got a little bow. 

The deboss resist technique gives a great textured look. Don't worry if you don't get a perfect result, that is part of the fun with the technique.

This little corner of blue is one of my favorite parts of this card.

For another background technique using this same Everlasting Flowers folder, check out this tutorial of mine.

See you again tomorrow!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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Dimensional Heart Flowers Tag

Hello friends! I am happy to have a tutorial on the Simon Says Stamp store blog today. I made a tag with dimensional flowers made from heart dies in various sizes. 

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Here is a peek of the tag. I had fun making those bright, inky and dimensional flowers. They are easy to make! I like to think of different ways to use a die and these were all made with the Simon Says Stamp Rounded Hearts die set.

You can see the full tutorial and all the details on the Simon Says Stamp store blog. 

Thank you for stopping by today!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

Picture Wheel Art Journal Page

Hello crafters! I hope you had a lovely weekend! We did an outing to a neighboring town on Saturday, which was really nice. 

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Let's Art Journal is our theme this week at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. I actually did my very first art journal page for a similar challenge, years ago. If you haven't art journaled yet, I hope you will give it a try. If you don't have a journal, you can use lose pages and bind them later.

Don't miss the project from our March guest designer Simona Rebecchi.

I made a page with lots of wise words and picture wheels (view-master reels) to symbolise all those small and big moments in life. I had a pink page in my art journal where I had used up left-over paint and decided to use that. Looking for a different color combo to use, I came across this combination of dark pink/red, sage green, peach and purple and decided to use that.

The page has many circular elements, can you seen them all?

Start by die cutting the reel from Tim Holtz Vault Picture Show, from heavystock paper and ink with Bundled Sage and Dried Marigold.

Die cut the solid background from Simon Says Stamp Acetate sheets and color with alcohol ink. I aimed for a dark splotchy look with Mushroom, Teak and Pitch Black.

Die cut the solid circle again and then layer them as shown. 

I stamped the wheels with Simon Says Stamp Old Letter, Tim Holtz Tiny Texture and Ultimate Grunge.

For the words I covered Simon Says Stamp White Glossy cardstock with Seedless Preserves, which matched the pink-purple I wanted to use. Don't worry about getting perfectly even color, it won't show and will also add variation.

I am so happy that Tim Holtz Sizzix Handwritten dies have been re-released. I used all the dies from Handwritten Journey (except for 'moments' which is at present missing) and 'happy' from the Handwritten Celebrate set.

The background had been covered with gesso and then I had applied left-over paint with a palette knife.

I wiped some of the paint off through Simon Says Stamp Mix and Match Circles stencil and also sponged Festive Berries through the stencil.

Sponge white paint through Simon Says Stamp Snowfall and Banks stencil.

Add texture by stamping with an alphabet stamp from Tim Holtz School Desk and a date stamp from Ultimate Grunge.

Add more circles, by stamping Tim Holtz Rings with Red Geranium ink.

Next, I applied Nebula Stickles glitter gel with a palette knife through Tim Holtz Bubble stencil.

There are tiny gold stars in the Nebula Stickles, which will stick here and there.

I didn't think the words were visible enough on the background and die cut them one more time from white cardstock.

Inked glossy cardstock are great for words and intricate details, as it is shiny.

I used sequins for the dots in the words. There are also a few strips of Design Tape Trims. 

These reels from the view-master toy are very nostalgic to me. You can also add tiny photos in the windows.

A few sequins here and there finished the page and added one more circular elements - there are many on this page!

 

I also used some Small Talk Stickers.

Join us this week in our Let's Art Journal 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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