Doodle Flowers Tag

Hello friends! I hope you had a good weekend. Today we have a new challenge for you at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge blog and our theme is 'Spring/Easter'.

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Since it is the first Monday of a new month, the team is showcasing products by a specific company/designer, and this week it is Paper Artsy. You can find their wonderful range or products here. You don't have to use their products to join, but it is always fun if you do.

We also have a new guest designer who will join us in April, namely Cassie Lynch aka mk_knits. I hope you will visit her blog to see what she has created.

I made a spring-time tag, with fun inked and doodled flowers, made with Paper Arty's stunning Tracy Scott Large Stencil PS305. You can create so many different flowers with this versatile stencil.

I started out with a sheet of watercolor paper and misted it with water. Sprinkle a tiny bit of Paper Artsy Infusions stain on the paper and mist with more water if needed. You can pick up some of the darker pigments with a paper towel. Leave to dry and you have a bunch of ready backgrounds.

I forgot to take one of the step photos here. Die cut a tag from the background paper. Place the Paper Arty's stunning Tracy Scott Large Stencil PS305 stencil on top and ink flowers with a mix of Distress Ink and Distress Oxide ink. The larger flowers have flower centers made with Sizzix Luster Wax Silver. Doodle around the flowers with a black pen.

Stamp sentiments with black ink and the Simon Says Stamp Stained Glass background with Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide Ink here and there.

I applied a little silver Luster Wax around the edges too and a few pieces of Design Tape.

I like to stamp one or a few words repeatedly without reinking.

Add a few sequins for some bling.

The sentiments come from Simon Says Stamp Because of You stamp set.

I hope you will join us this week in our Easter/Spring theme. 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 my blog today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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Doodled Wildflowers Journal Page

Hello friends! Did you have a good weekend? I hope so! I have enjoyed looking for signs of spring and documenting them in my Signs of Spring notebook that I made earlier this year. Every morning new flowers have sprung out of the soil.

This week at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog we have a Let's Doodle theme. Don't miss the lovely project by our April guest designer Paula Roomer aka PaNaRoo.

I had fun doodling a field of wildflowers in my Dina Wakley Media Journal. Most of the flowers don't look like real flowers, but that wasn't my aim here. There are also three little butterflies flying around among the flowers. The background was done with Paper Artsy Infusions, using A Bit Jaded and Golden Sands. A while ago, I did a bunch of these backgrounds in my journal, so it was ready to be used. I worked on one of the cotton-rag watercolor pages.

I started out by doodling the flowers on the background, without much planning.

When that was done, I colored the flowers with Dina Wakley's Scribble Sticks, by first applying the stick to the paper and then adding water with a paint brush. For even stronger colors, I picked the color up with a paint brush directly from the Scribble Sticks. I used both Scribble Sticks 1 and Scribble Sticks 2.

When the flowers were dry, I added more details with a black pen and also a few dots done with a white gel pen, for highlights.

The butterflies have doodled trails.

I wanted the page to have a positive message and used this stamp by Tim Holtz as my title. The smaller words and phrases are rub-ons.

The flowers were grounded to the page with more Scribble Stick painting and some pen scribbles too. The splatters were done with a brown Scribble Stick dipped in water. Flick a paint brush against the top to create splatters.

Here are more flowers and sentiments.

I also used my favorite alphabet background stamp on the page, from Tim's School Desk set, as well as a ticket from Odds & Ends.

I doodled little circles in the corners and added another sentiment stamp, also from Odds & Ends.

I hope you will join us this week in our Let's Doodle challenge. As always, you have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until next Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

Don't forget to follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram, they post great stuff daily. 

Do you use Instagram? If so please add #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too.

Thank you for taking the time to stop by my blog today!  

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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