SSS One of a Kind Blog Hop

Hello everyone and very welcome to my blog! I am so happy to be a part of the blog hop celebrating the release of the Simon Says Stamp One of a Kind line of products.

One of a Kind has wonderful stamps, dies, inks, an embossing plate and sequins. You can see the full release here. I hope you will join us on the hop and there are of course prizes to win along the way. If you follow along the hop, you came here from the very creative Heather Ruwe.

I made an art journal page and two cards, and took some step photos along the way. The techniques can be used on any type of project.

I love the Fingerprint Doodles set and is is such a fantastic idea for a stamp set. All those little fun characters on one set (twenty-two of them). You also get four great sentiments, and five fingerprint stamps. I wanted as many as possible of them on one page, and decided to make a fun art journal page in my Small Creative Journal. This project could just as well be a card. Kids will love it too. In fact, my oldest son wants me to make exactly the same panel that he can have in his room.

These are the stamp sets and dies that I used - I forgot to include the Big Day die on this photo. Here you see: Artsy Fruit, Fingerprint Doodles, Big Grettings 1, Thanks and the 3 Sided Scallop.

I started out by stamping the different fingerprints with many different Simon Says Stamp inks (they are all in the supply list below).

Stamp characters on all the fingerprints. I used only vertical characters here, some are meant for horizontally stamped fingerprints. This was so fun to do.

I didn't want to cover up any of my characters, so instead I added stamped and rub on words and phrases in between the lines, in addition to a title and stamped hearts and arrows.

The first part of my title was die cut with the Big Day die, from glimmer cardstock, and using only the first part of the phrase.

I glued it on the page to form the title 'Today is amazing', which is the theme of the page.

These doodles characters are really such fun and I liked having so many of them on one page. The page was splattered with a black Scribble Stick, just to add a tiny amount of texture. The scalloped edge is a left-over from the 3 Sided Scallop.

The elephant is one of my favourites. As you can see, you get a better effect with lighter inks than with dark inks, such as the Navy to the left.

More fun characters. I really love this stamp set.

I also wanted to show you how quickly you can make a simple card with the Fingerprint Doodles, and since the stamp set has so many different characters, you can make a lot of different cards. Use only one animal as here, or a whole bunch of them, as above. The sentiment is stamped with the Big Greetings 1 die.

For the card, I used the 3 Sided Scallop to die cut a card from watercolor cardstock. This die is so clever, since it only cuts three out of four sides, it is perfect for cards. If your paper is too thick, it is easy to line the die up to die cut it one side at a time. I had to do that with the watercolor paper. Ink up a fingerprint stamp, mist with water and stamp on the card, slightly at an angle.

When dry, stamp the flamingos on top.

Smear Pumice Stone Distress Ink on a craft sheet, mist with water and pick up with a paint brush, paint ground and a shadow for the flamingos. I did the same with Worn Lipstick, to add color to their long necks.

Finally, another scalloped card, made with the awesome Artsy Fruits set. As with the Fingerprint Doodles set, you get many stamps on one set and they are meant to be combined in different ways, so that you create a lot of variation in the fruit that you stamp. I have a particular thing for pear stamps, so I immediately decided to use the pears. 

Something that I really like with the Artsy Fruits stamps, is that the line is varied, which gives a nice look to them. Start by stamping the pear once with Leaf Green ink and another time on Masking Paper. Cut the latter out.

Place the mask over the stamped pear and stamp a pear on each side of it, varying the angle.

Stamp the stem of the pear with Fern Green ink. White emboss three different stamps on the pears. If some specks of embossing powder is stuck on the pears, leave it, since it creates great textures.

Smear Shabby Shutters, Crushed Olive, and Peeled Paint Distress Ink on a craft sheet, mist with water and pick up with a paint brush. Paint the pears. The embossing resists the ink. When the ink is dry, add a couple of specks here and there for texture. The shadow was done with Pumice stone. You can use this same technique on all the fruits in the Artsy Fruits set. 

Don't miss all the inspiration along the hop, and of course there are also prizes to be won. A $25 gift voucher is given away on each stop on the hop, all you need to do to have a chance at winning it, is to leave a comment. The winners will be posted on the SSS blog on Tuesday. 

The next stop on the hop is Kelly Latevola and don't miss the fantastic post that she has for you. If you get lost somewhere along the way, you can always head back to the Simon Says Stamp Blog. Below are all the stops along the hop:

Simon Says Stamp Blog

Jennifer McGuire

Kristina Werner

Laura Bassen

May Park

Shari Carroll

Amanda Korotkova

Heather Ruwe

Anna-Karin Evaldsson (you are here) 

Kelly Latevola

I hope you will have a great weekend! In Sweden, we are celebrating Midsummer's Eve today, and by the time you read this, the kids and I have returned from a traditional celebration where we danced around a maypole.

Thank you for stopping by at my blog! Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:

Simon Says Clear Stamps FINGERPRINT DOODLES	Simon Says Clear Stamps ARTSY FRUITS	Simon Says Clear Stamps BIG GREETINGS	Simon Says Stamp 3 SIDED SCALLOP	Simon Says Stamp BIG DAY
Simon Says Stamp Cardstock GLIMMERY ASSORTMENT PACK	Simon Says LOVE AND QUOTES	Simon Says HAPPY AND SMILE	Simon Says Stamp MASKING PAPER Label Sheets	Simon Says Stamp EMBOSSING POWDER WHITE
Simon Says Stamp HIGH DIVE	Simon Says Stamp TEENY BIKINI	Simon Says Stamp Ink JELLYBEAN	Simon Says Stamp Ink LAVENDER	Simon Says Stamp DUCKLING
Simon Says Stamp Dye Ink GOLDENLOCKS	Simon Says Stamp BLUEJAY	Simon Says Stamp Dye Ink ISLAND BLUE	Simon Says Stamp Premium Dye Ink Pad GREEN APPLE ink006	Simon Says Stamp MELON
Simon Says Stamp Premium Dye Ink SOFT NAVY	Simon Says Stamp Dye Ink SMOKE	Simon Says Stamp SUNKIST	Simon Says Stamp Dye Ink SCHOOLHOUSE RED	Dyan Reaveley SMALL CREATIVE JOURNAL Ranger
Ranger WATERCOLOR PAPER	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival FERN GREEN	Ranger TIM HOLTZ DISTRESS Mixed Media Palette	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival LEAF GREEN Ink Pad AID41436	Ranger Archival Ink DEEP PURPLE
Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival BUTTERCUP	Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PAD PUMICE STONE	Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PEELED PAINT	Tim Holtz Distress INK SHABBY SHUTTERS	Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK CRUSHED OLIVE
Tim Holtz Distress Ink SCATTERED STRAW	Tim Holtz Distress Ink WORN LIPSTICK	Dina Wakley Ranger SCRIBBLE STICKS	Tim Holtz BOTANICAL REMNANT RUBS	Tim Holtz LIFE QUOTES REMNANT RUBS
Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And White	Sizzix MINT Standard Cutting Pads	Sizzix MULTIPURPOSE PLATFORM STANDARD	Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS	Tim Holtz DISTRESS SPRAYER Ranger
Ranger Inkssentials US HEAT IT CRAFT TOOL	Ranger Inkssentials EUROPEAN HEAT IT CRAFT TOOL	Hero Arts CLEAR ACRYLIC BLOCK 3 by 3	Hero Arts SMALL BLOCK TRIO CLEAR ACRYLIC BLOCKS

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