Summer Memories Album

Hi friends! I hope you had a good weekend! We are still waiting for warm summer weather, hopefully it will be here soon. It is time for another Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, and this week we are inspired by summer. 

I made an album where I can easily document our memories from this summer. It is a 6 x 8 album and I used Hero Arts stamps and Simon Says Stamp dies to decorate it. I had fun with the new colour layering stamps by Hero Arts, and took a few step photos.

In the color layering stamps, each image consists of several stamps that can be layered on top of each other to produce a multi-coloured design very easily. The packaging of the stamps shows in which order to stamp the images. I inked the first one with Surf Blue and Buttercup. 

Ink the second stamp with Island Blue and Goldenlocks.

Ink the third stamp with Soft Navy.

Stamp the feet and the eye with Jet Black ink. You can mix and match colours to either stamp specific birds, as I did here, or make up your own birds.

For the background, I used Hero Art's Woodgrain Bold Print by Lia. White emboss it on watercolour cardstock. Smear four shades of brown Distress Ink on your craft sheet, mist with water and pick up with a paintbrush.

I also stamped some flowers, with another set of layering stamps.

I stamped a bunch of extra flowers, which I will use on inside pages. The Ombre inks worked great for these flowers.

Another fun summer flower. The colour layering stamps are lots of fun and I enjoyed using my coloured inks in different combinations.

The album is 6 x 8 in size and comes with page protectors. I got a refill pack too, to give me space for more photos. Most of the page protectors have pockets, so it will be quick to add photos and papers as summer proceeds. When I tried to link the album now, it seems to be out of stock, I am sorry about that. I misted the covers first with water and then with Twisted Citron and Tumbled Glass Distress Spray Stains. 

I stamped two birds for my cover. The layering of inks makes for an interesting look. To embellish the cover, I die cut circles with the Simon Says Stamp Smile and Dots Circles dies. 

I also used some wooden hearts and die cut branches for the birds to stand on. 

I love the Dots Circles set and you get a lot of fun circles in the same set. You can find another example where I used it here.

The title was die cut with the Sizzix Tim Holtz Boardwalk die, and inked with the Pool to Navy Ombre pad.

Join us in our summer challenge this week, and it might be you who wins a $50 shopping voucher from Simon Says Stamp.

Thank you for stopping by today!! In case you might have missed it, did you see that I have started to do tutorial videos? Only one made yet, you can find it here.

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin 

Supplies:

Heidi Swapp MAKE PRETTY STUFF 6 x 8 Canvas Album	Heidi Swapp 6 X 8 REFILL PAGE PROTECTORS	Simon Says Stamp SMILE CIRCLE	Simon Says Stamp DOTS CIRCLES	Simon Says Stamp SONGBIRD BRANCH
Tim Holtz Sizzix BOARDWALK	Hero Arts COLOR LAYERING BIRD AND BRANCH	Hero Arts COLOR LAYE0RING HAPPY DAY FLOWERS	Hero Arts WOODGRAIN BOLD PRINTS BY LIA	Ranger Archival Ink Pad JET BLACK
Simon Says Stamp Premium Dye Ink SOFT NAVY	Simon Says Stamp Dye Ink GOLDENLOCKS	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival BUTTERCUP	Simon Says Stamp Dye Ink SURF BLUE	Simon Says Stamp Dye Ink GREEN APPLE
Ranger Archival Ink ROSE MADDER	Hero Arts Ombre BUTTER TO ORANGE	Hero Arts Ombre POOL TO NAVY	Simon Says Stamp Dye Ink ISLAND BLUE	Tim Holtz Distress Ink VINTAGE PHOTO
Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PAD GATHERED TWIGS	Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PAD FRAYED BURLAP	Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PAD WALNUT STAIN	Tsukineko Versamark EMBOSS INK	Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain TUMBLED GLASS
Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain TWISTED CITRON	Simon Says Stamp MINI HEARTS	Neenah Classic Crest 80 LB SUPER SMOOTH SOLAR WHITE	Ranger WATERCOLOR PAPER Inkssentials	Ranger Embossing Powder WHITE
Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS	Ranger Inkssentials Non Stick CRAFT SHEET	Ranger Large 2 oz MISTER BOTTLE	Tim Holtz Tonic Craft SCISSORS	Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And White
Sizzix PRECISION BASE PLATE	Sizzix DIE BRUSH AND FOAM PAD	Ranger Inkssentials EUROPEAN HEAT IT CRAFT TOOL	Ranger Inkssentials US HEAT IT CRAFT TOOL	Hero Arts SMALL BLOCK TRIO CLEAR ACRYLIC BLOCKS
Hero Arts CLEAR ACRYLIC BLOCK 4 x 4.5	Hero Arts CLEAR ACRYLIC BLOCK 3 by 3

InLinkz.com