Simon Says Stamp Let's Chill

Hi and welcome to my blog! I am so happy to take part in the Simon Says Stamp Let's Chill Blog Hop to celebrate the new release. If you are following along in the hop, you should have come here from Jennifer Kotas.

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The Let's Chill release is full of wonderful new stamps, stencils, dies, inks and other products. Perfect for summertime crafting. You can find the whole release here. If you use the code PRISM you will get the Doodlebug Design Chasing Rainbows Sprinkles pack FREE with any purchase!  This promotion will expire 6/19 at 11:59 pm EDT.

I had such fun making my summery tag.

I wanted to an explosion of summer-time colours on this tag and thought it fit well with the fun Beach Party Umbrellas Background stamp. You could easily turn this into a card instead. I planned to do an art journal page first, but wanted to make very dimensional butterflies and they wouldn't have fitted well in an art journal. The butterflies were made with the Simon Says Stamp Graceful Butterflies set, which is a set with dies and a coordinating embossing folder. You can find five or these sets in the Let's Chill release.

Start by white emboss the Beach Party Umbrellas background stamp on a tag cut from watercolor paper.

I used the Detail Round Blending Brushes from Let's Chill to color the tag with Distress Ink. Aren't these brushes the cutest? Coloring was very quick and the brushes made it so simple.

Use paint brushes and water to blend the inks. I let the colors mix, but cleaned my brushes before moving on to the next color. 

When dry, splatter with some more Distress Ink, using the same colors.

Die cut butterflies from watercolor paper and vellum using the die in the Graceful Butterfly Set.

Emboss in the coordinating folder, turning the flat butterflies into detailed dimensional butterflies in one go. 

I wanted a distressed look to the butterflies and applied embossing ink to the raised areas, working quickly and not particuarly carefully.

Cover with white powder and flick some of the powder off.

Apply Distress Ink on a non-stick craft sheet, mist with water and press the butterflies into the ink. Let dry and repeat until you are happy with the look. I aimed for a textured and uneven look.

The sentiments were cut from the Sentiment Strips Chill Summer. I also drew a white border around the tag.

The blending and splattering gives a vibrant and interesting look to the background. I also added some sequins.

The splatters add a nice touch, but you can also leave them if you want a more clean look.

I shaped the wings of the butterflies and layered them with a vellum butterfly at the bottom. Die cut the bodies from white glimmery paper.

This speckled and distressed look from the white embossing powder is one of my favorite techniques and you can't go wrong with it. Embrace the stray embossing powder.

The butterflies are pretty dimensional as you can see here.

Don't miss all the inspiration along the hop. There are of course prizes to be won too, and at each stop on the hop SSS is giving away a $25 coupon, randomly drawn from those who leave a comment. The winners will be posted post on the Simon Says Stamp store blog on Wednesday the 22nd of June.

Your next stop on the hop is Sandi MacIver.  Don't miss to see what she has created. If you get lost along the way, here are all the stops:

Simon Says Stamp Blog

Laura Bassen

Amanda Korotkova

Barbara Tarayao

Emily Midgett

Miriam Prantner

Mindy Eggen

Barb Engler

Heather Hoffman

Lea Lawson

Tina Smith

Jennifer Kotas

Anna-Karin Evaldsson (you are here)

Sandi MacIver

For more Let's Chill inspiration remember to check out the Let's Chill gallery at Simon Says Stamp, and if you make something with products from the range, it is fun if you post it in the gallery too. There are galleries for all releases, and for the card kits, full of inspiration.


This is the second blog hop for the Let's Chill, don't miss blog hop day number 1 which was yesterday.

Thank you so much for visiting my blog today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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