Shine like a star

Hello friends! I hope you enjoyed the weekend. We had a fun visiting friends and spending time outdoors. It is Monday and this week at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog we have a Use Some Lucky Stars theme. Lots of options for this one. You could, for instance, go with a St Patrick's Day theme. 

I like using stars on my projects, they give an optimistic feeling and have an interesting shape. On this card, I used Dina Wakley's star stamps to fill the background with stars, stamped with different colours of Ranger's Dye Inks. The card would also look great if the stars were all stamped in the same colour. The cardstock is Specialty Stamping Paper, which looks works perfectly together with these vibrant dye inks. 

There is a border with three stamps in the Grunge Stars set, and I cut the stamps apart, so that I had three separate stars and could stamp three impression before cleaning the stamps. I love the grunge look of this star and the set has a great variety of stars.

I also added some Tim Holtz idea-ology Mirrored Stars and star Remnant Rubs to the card, so there are four different kinds of stars here. Fun repetition.

Shine was stamped repeatedly on the card, without reinking in between.

I didn't want to cover up the colourful stars too much, so the focal point star was stamped on Clearly For Art Modeling Film and cut out. You could also use acetate. The sentiment was done with Label Letters.

I hope you will join us in our Use Your Lucky Stars challenge. As every week, you have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher from Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

If you want to, follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram, they post great stuff daily. 

If you use instagram add #sssmchallenge to your challenge entry uploads, so that we can see them on there too.

I hope you will have a great week and thank you for visiting today!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:

Dina Wakley GRUNGY STARS	Ranger 8.5 x 11 SPECIALTY STAMPING PAPER	Wendy Vecchi Modeling Film CLEAR	Ranger Dye Ink GRAPE SODA	Ranger Dye Ink PINK GUMBALL
Ranger Dye Ink CLASSIC CHERRY	Ranger Dye Ink CARIBBEAN COAST	Ranger Dye Ink LILY PAD	Ranger Dye Ink CHEESE PUFF	Ranger Dye Ink Pad ELECTRIC LIME RDP42877
Ranger Dye Ink BLUE RIBBON	Ranger Dye Ink LEMON TWIST	Ranger Archival Ink Pad JET BLACK	Tim Holtz BOTANICAL REMNANT RUBS	Tim Holtz LABEL LETTERS
Tim Holtz MIRRORED STARS	Hero Arts SMALL BLOCK TRIO CLEAR ACRYLIC BLOCKS	Tim Holtz Tonic GUILLOTINE COMFORT PAPER TRIMMER	Tim Holtz Tonic Craft SCISSORS	Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS

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