Sweet TreatsTag

 Hello friends! I hope you had a good weekend! Today I have a spring/Easter tag to share.

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This week we have a Sweet Treats theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. I hope you will join us! Don't miss the project by our April guest designer Fiona Whitehead.

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I made a tag featuring a bunny who is out for a walk on a bright spring day and sprinkles sweet treats on the ground. Or is he maybe picking the treats up? The background was inked and stamped and the bunny is colored with pencils. 

I started out by stamping one of my favorite stamps by Tim Holtz on a tag. It is from the Spring Sprung set. Using my MISTI, I first stamped the bunny with Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturated Violet ink and then again with black ink (avoiding to ink the jacket, apart from the edges). 

Stamp the bunny again on Simon Says Stamp Masking Paper and cut out. Ink the background with Distress Ink and stamp with the grass stamp from Spring Sprung and a dot stamp from Tiny Textures. Stamp a sentiment.

The smaller sentiments come from Tim's Holtz Tiny Text and were stamped and cut into strips. The sentiment is from Tim's Warehouse District.

The rest of the bunny was colored with Prismacolor pencils. Use the white pencil to blend the colours. 

Sprinkle Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Dazzling Gems on the ground as treats. I used a different colors.

Join us this week in our Sweet Treats 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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Art Journaling Using Layering Stencils

Hi crafters! I am happy to have a tutorial on the Simon Says Stamp store blog today. Here is a sneak peek: 

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I made an artjournal page with a fun background technique using Layering Stencils. I used two of four stencils in the Simon Says Stamp Funky Hearts stencil set.

You can find all the details and the tutorial on the Simon Says Stamp Store Blog. 

Thank you for visiting!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

Pastel Bicycle Tag

Hello friends! I hope you had a good weekend! We now have a teenager in the house and had a fun weekend with celebrations. 

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Things With Wheels is our theme this week at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. I hope you will join us and don't miss the very creative project by our February guest designer February guest designer Laura Cassina. 

After having had almost spring-time weather yesterday, the snow is falling again today. I am looking forward to spring and long bike rides. My pastel tag is about the joy of bike rides. When I looked at the bike stamp from Tim Holtz Purely Random, I got the idea of dividing the tag into three equal parts and stamping parts of the bike on each block. 

Start by measuring the tag and adding faint marks with a pencil. Stamp the bike with Jet Black Ink. Sorry about the graininess of this photo, I had forgotten to change the ISO on my camera.

Use Simon Says Stamp Masking Paper to mask off the blocks and ink with Distress Ink.

For the middle block, you need two pieces of masking paper.

And the top block is the lovely shade of Saltwater Taffy.

Repeat the process, but this time use a stencil and a darker shade of the same color. The stencil is Simon Says Stamp Snowfall and Banks.

Continue until you have added dots to all the blocks.

I dyed May Arts Wrinkled Faux Silk Ribbon in each color of the tag.

The blocks were stamped with two sentiments from Tim Holtz Tiny Text, using one longer and one shorter sentiment on each block.

I die cut stars with Simon Says Stamp Stars from glitter paper in the same color, but a different shade, as the background. This one is die cut from Simon Says Stamp Magenta glitter paper.

Place the stars out here and there and add some Studio Katia Clear Round Drops too.

Since the drops are clear they will pick up the color of the background.

Place the last sentiment at the bottom of the tag.

I hope you will join us this week in our Things With Wheels 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 stopping by here today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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Scenic Stamping Summer ATC Tutorial

Hi friends! Today I have three Artist Trading Cards to share, with vibrant summer scenes. They are quick and easy to do.

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These are the three cards, two day-time scenes and one night-time scene. They are all done on glossy cardstock. I actually almost tossed the card to the left since I had pressed a bit too hard when stamping the palm trees. My son thought I was being too meticulous, so I listened and decided to continue with that card too (even though I still prefer the palm trees on the right-hand card). The left-hand and the right-hand cards were done in different orders, to show you that both ways work.

I used stamps and Very Low Tack Tape from Simon Says Stamp new Dream Big release.

Cut gloss cardstock to 2.5 x 3.5 in. Start by stamping the sun from Simon Says Stamp On The Horizon with Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Sunbeam ink and the moon and stars with embossing ink. Clear emboss the latter. Stamp the sun on masking paper too and cut out.

The Very Very Low Tack Tape is perfect for masking. It won't stick to your paper as normal masking tape might do. I tore a piece of the beach and added another piece for the horizon line. The masking tape sun is adhered above the sun.

Ink the sand with Simon Says Stamp blending brushes and Latte and Cappuccino inks.

Ink the reflection of the sun in the water. The Detail Round Blending Brushes work great for this. 

Ink the sea with Marine, Surf, and Ocean Pawsitively Saturated ink.

Continue with the sky, using tape to mask the horizon and the sea.

Remove the sun mask and add some ink over the sun. I didn't cut the circle mask for the sun carefully enough and the sun doesn't look perfectly round because of that. I used left-over torn tape to darken an area of the beach.

Next the night-time card. The beach was done in the same way on the night-time card, making it darker by also adding Mocha ink.

Mask the sky with the Very Very Low Tack Tape and ink the sea.

Ink the sky. The embossing will resist the ink.

Stamp the palm tree, child and birds from On The Horizon with Jet Black ink.

Add stars, grass and highlights with white gel pens.

The second day-time scene was done in a slightly different order. Start by stamping the sun and the palm tree from On the Horizon. Sometimes it is easier to position the main stamps before inking.

Add Very Very Low Tack Tape as before. Ink the sand. 

Ink reflections in the water.

And next comes the sea.

Add ink to the sun. I didn't mask the sun here (the mask had gone missing on my desk).

Continue in the same way as before and finish the scene.

I added white highlights and details to the day-time cards too.

A black pen was used for the shadows and a few dots here and there.

Stamp a sentiment from On The Horizon in the sand. I used the Very Very Low Tack tape to mask out the word 'ahead' when stamping the sentiment.

The card with the slightly smudged palm tree. 

Dye ink looks so vibrant on glossy cardstock and the white scribbles add life to the water.

The night-time scene is my favorite, partly since the black stamping blends in so well. I wiped off the ink from the shadow on the stamp of the child before stamping, so that it wouldn't be as solid as the child herself.

The small dots around the moon are from stray embossing powder. I wish there had been even more of that. 

The white scribbles add light to the moonlit areas of the sea.

Thank you so much for stopping by here today! Have a lovely day!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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