Simon Says Stamp Happy Camper Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to my blog! I am so happy to take part in the Simon Says Stamp Blog Hop to celebrate the new Happy Camper release. If you are following along in the hop, you should have come here from the wonderful Barb Engler.

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The Happy Camper release is full of a great variety of new and versatile stamps, embossing folders, stencils, dies, ink and sequins. You can find the entire Happy Camper release here.

The not-yet-released Simon Says Stamp exclusive Sunflower Dance 3x4 stamp set is automatically added to your cart that contains any purchase of Happy Camper products! This gift with purchase will expire 8/3 at 11:59 pm EDT or while supplies last.

I made a tag for this blog hop, using the Simon Says Stamp Confetti Butterflies 3-D embossing folder. I like anything with butterflies and this is a gorgeous folder. There are also coordinating dies, but I didn't use them here. The tag was colored with watercolors and the sentiments come from the Simon Says Stamp LOL set, also from the Happy Camper release. 

Mist a tag cut from watercolor paper with water and then emboss in the Confetti Butterflies folder.

Paint the background with Daniel Smith Amazonite Genuine and Lunar Black, letting them blend into each other.

The butterflies were painted with Daniel Smith Quinacridone Gold. I mixed two shades, one with more and one with less water. Start with the former and then drop the darker shade into the center of the butterfly. I also dropped a little Lunar Black into the center.

Continue until you have painted all the butterflies. Let dry.

Use Lunar Black to add a little bit of shading to the butterflies.

Ink the edges with Distress Ink Scorched Timber. 

Apply Ranger Moon Dust Stickles to the butterflies.

Color the embossed dots with a white gel pen.

Splatter Winsor & Newton Permanent White Gouache on the background.

Stamp the sentiments using Simon Says Stamp LOL with Pawsitively Saturated Sherbet ink.

Add Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Dazzling Prism Gems here and there.

I covered the non-embossed part at the top of the tag with Tim Holtz Design Tape Trims.

The glitter and white splatters makes it look like the butterflies are sparkling.

Daniel Smith Lunar Black is a heavily granulating watercolor paint, which you can see on the texture in the center of the butterfly.

I added pompom ribbon and lace trim at the bottom of the tag, to hide the part that wasn't dry embossed.

You can use this coloring technique with lots of embossing folders.

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 6 August.

Your next stop on the hop is my friend Karin Åkesdotter. Don't miss to the stunning project she has created. If you get lost along the way, here are all the stops:

Simon Says Stamp Blog

Nina-Marie Trapani

Suzy Plantamura

Cathy Zielske

Laura Bassen

Debby Hughes

Lisa Addesa

Emily Midgett

Heather Ruwe

Sandi MacIver

Tina Smith

Hanh Nguyen

Barb Engler

Anna-Karin Evaldsson (you are here)

Karin Åkesdotter

Rosemary Dennis

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

This is the second Happy Camper blog hop, don't miss blog hop number day number 1, which was yesterday.

Thank you so much for stopping by here today! 

Anna-Karin

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Scalloped Edge Card

Hi crafters! Today I have a card to share made with the brand new Simon Says Stamp Happy Camper release. 

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Happy Camper was released today and is filled with a great mix of stamps, dies, stencils, inks and other products. You can find them all here. 

I made a scalloped card, with layers of scalloped papers and flowers in the center. I used left-over papers for the scalloped, dry embossed, inky and watercolored. From the Happy Camper release, I used: Chunky Scallop Circles, Fantasy Bouquet and LOL.

I started by looking for papers to use for the scalloped circles. These two were part of my experimenting with Zig Kuretake Gansai Tambi Granulating Colors and Simon Says Stamp Dot Spiral embossing folder. 

I die cut the scalloped circles from the dry embossed papers above and the rest from various watercolored or inky papers. The Chunky Scallop Circles set contains eight circles. Make the cardbase by folding a piece of cardbase and place the cutting pads just inside the die at the top.

The Simon Says Stamp Fantasy Bouquet flowers were die cut from left-over collage papers. 

Ink the flowers with Distress Ink.

Layer the scalloped circles on the cardbase. Some of them were adhered with Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Perfect Foam Tape.

I used some foam tape also for the flowers. The petals were shaped a little before adhering them to the card. 

The sentiment comes from Simon Says Stamp LOL stamp set, also from the Happy Camper release.

Use papers with different textures for an interesting difference between the layers.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! I will be back again on Saturday with more Happy Camper inspiration.

Thank you for visiting! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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Red Flowers Tag

Hi crafters! I hope you had a fun weekend! We did an outing to a little island yesterday.

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This week we have a Red, Blue and/or White theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. I hope you will join us! Don't miss the lovely project by our June guest designer Wanda Hentges.

I made a tag with red flowers on a textured blue background, using products from Simon Says Stamp brand new Friend Like You release. It is a fantastic release filled with products perfect for summer-time crafting.

Start by die cutting Simon Says Stamp Delicate Wildflowers from left-over inky red paper. I die cut the stems from paper that I made with old book papers, stamps and gesso. It gives instant texture without being overwhelming.

Shape the flowers with Tim Holtz Shaping Tool Kit.

For the tag, I used watercolor paper that had earlier been painted with watercolor paint to test out a color. Emboss in Simon Says Stamp Dot Spiral folder and then sand the dots slightly.

The sentiment from Simon Says Stamp Wildflower Cuttings was stamped on a labels stamped with Simon Says Stamp Mixed Labels and die cut with the coordinating die. Fold over the edge and staple.

I added Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Dazzling Lilac Gems to the flowers, instead of the flower center that was a part of the die set.

You can also die cut the stems from old book paper. I really like the circular pattern of the Dot Spiral embossing folder. Check out my Blue Shark card for another tutorial using this embossing folder.

The stems were glued at slightly different heights, hiding the bottom of the stems behind the sentiment strip. 

The second sentiment also comes from the Wildflower Cuttings set and was stamped with Cobalt Archival Ink. I also added some ribbons and twine.

Join us this week in our Red, Blue and/or White challenge! 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 today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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Blue Shark Card

Hi crafters! Simon Says Stamp has a brand new release called Friend Like You and today I am sharing a card that I made with some of the product.

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The Friend Like You release is filled with wonderful, summery dies, stamps, embossing folders, inks embellishments and tools. So fun!

My youngest loves sharks and these are meant to be little blue shark, one of his favorites. The background is watercolored, with an embossed sheet of acetate on top. There is some space between the acetate and the background, making the card look 3-D.

Stamp a bunch of sharks from Simon Says Stamp Snappy Birthday on watercolor paper.

Color them with watercolor paint. I also stamped a few more, but didn't color all of them. Cut them out with scissors or with the coordinating dies.

Emboss acetate in the new Simon Says Stamp Dot Spiral folder.

Add Star Dust Stickles on the back of the folder, following the shapes of the circles.

I painted a simple underwater background using the same colors as for the sharks.

When dry, splatter with Permanent White gouache at the top and dark paint at the bottom.

I adhered the sharks with Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Perfect Foam Tape, for more dimension.

The acetate panel was adhered to the watercolor background with staples. Here you can better see the shape of the embossed circles. It is a really cool. Almost like waves.

The Tidal Wave sequins are also from the Friend Like You release. Glue them with Simon Says Stamp craft glue.

The sentiments also come from the Snappy Birthday set.

The glitter adds a fun touch behind the embossed acetate. The shiny acetate also gives the card a water feel.

The final little blue shark.

Thank you for visiting! See you again tomorrow!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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