Wedding/Anniversary

 Hello Monday, my friends! And welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Thank you for joining us for the  Tag It Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

It's been wonderful having Estelle with us this month! Thanks for sharing your amazing creativity! 

This week the challenge is: WEDDING/ANNIVERSARY

Follow Your Heart 

I started the background with the grunge stamp and gray ink for a neutral layer. 

I stamped the flower and cut it out. 

I laid out the images for the bottom layer, and finally came up with a pleasing arrangement. 

Adding details like a rub on butterfly... 

Happy pups stamped on a tag... 

Follow your heart on a thin strip of watercolor paper... 

Put it all together, and voila! I think this will be perfect as a wedding or anniversary card for dog lovers. 

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away a $25 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store 

Supplies:

Tracy Evans Beauty surrounds Us stamps

Watercolor paper

Simple Stories Vintage Junk Drawer papers

Simon Says Stamp Nocturne ink

Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Whale ink

Tim Holtz Ground Espresso ink

Simple Stories Vintage Junk Drawer rub ons

Tracy Evans Grunge stencil

Simon Says Stamp Gray Small Blending Brush

Simon Says Stamp Everyday Scissors

Simon Says Stamp Foam Squares

adhesive 

So now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting! Maura

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Simon Says: Let's Art Journal

 

 Hello Monday, my friends! And welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Thank you for joining us for the  Beautiful Blooms Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

 

This week the challenge is: LET'S ART JOURANL

Art journaling is always interesting. You start with an idea and have a plan, then in the midst of creating, you take a whole new direction. That's what happened to me this week. I was all set to create a very colorful background over the black and white. Instead, once I added in the grid stencil, it pulled it together so well, I decided to stay with black and white and add colorful stamped images instead. 

HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW? 

 I began by collaging printed tissue onto the journal pages. Next, I went in with the grid stencil and black ink. The stenciling really pulled the pages together with some unity.

While those pages dried, I stamped flowers and ferns on book paper I had painted in bright colors from my stash. Then, I cut out the images to layer onto my pages. 

 I layered my bright flowers and ferns onto both pages.

Here you can see the text coming through.

 I added more detail with white, and added a few dimensional butterflies. It's always a beautiful sight to see butterflies in the garden! 

Details...

My final step was to hand letter "How does your garden grow?", then add it across the pages. I have art journals of all shapes and sizes, and it was fun to work in a long landscape format here. 

 How does your garden grow?

Personally, mine is having a hard time emerging from all the winter snow.

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away a $25 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store 

Supplies:

Tracy Evans Beauty Surrounds Us stamps

Simple Stories Simple Vintage Woodlands stamps 

Paper Artsu Printed Tissue PT01

Simon Says Stamp Grid Stencil

Prima Cherry Sweet Ephemera

Dina Wakley Scribble Sticke

Dylusions Flip Journal

Stash paper - painted book paper

watercolor paper

Tim Holtz Collage Medium

Bearly Art Precision Glue

Simon Says Stamp Nocturne ink

Simon Says Stamp Small Blending Brush

Simon Says Stamp Fine Detail Scissors

Fine Detailer with white paint

Black Pen

So now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting! Maura

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Sparkle and Shine

 

 Hello Monday, my friends! And welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Thank you for joining us for the  Anything Christmas  Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

It's been wonderful having Carrie with us this month. I am sure you have enjoyed her creative makes as much as I have.  

Thanks to my Teammate Cheiron for the inspiration for my make.

This week the challenge is: SPARKLE AND SHINE

This is a 2 week challenge so we can all relax and enjoy the holidays. 

Happy Holidays! 

I'm taking a year long course, and teamie Cheiron is teaching over there in December. I love her idea for making little art canvases, and decided to make mine a bit larger Sparkle on!

Even though it's the holiday season, I was inspired to go with more tropical colors...perhaps it's due to the snow piling up around my house these days. I've added stamped images, book papers, and some good words to lead into the new year.  

I surprised myself going for turquoise, pink and yellow, but I love how it pulled together.  I added shimmery paint, sparkles and splatter to finish it off. 

 I also used Cheiron's idea to create an art journal page.

Focus on the Good in the new year!  Happy Holidays and see you again in 2026.

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away a $25 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store 

Supplies:

canvas block

Simon Says Stamp Old Letter 1878 stamp

Tim Holtz Bold Sayings stamps

Paper Artsy Tracy Scott TS085

Simple Stories Simple Vintage Woodlans

Simon Says Stamp Nocturne ink

Tim Holtz Collage Medium

Dylusions White Linen Shimmer Paint

Simon Says Stamp Chunky Glitter

Simon Says Stamp Splatter White and brush

Corner Rounder

Paper Timmer

Simon Says Stamp everyday Scissors

Dina Wakley Plain Tissue Collage paper

Turquoise paint

Simon Says Stamp White Cardstock

papers from stash 

So now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting! Maura

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