Anything Goes - Simon Says Stamp DT

Good afternoon lovely peeps!

I hope you are keeping warm & snug during our "beast from the East" blast of Winter! 

I ventured out briefly on Monday to go to the doctors & collect prescriptions & have since been snug on my sofa, resting, sleeping & watching rubbish day time TV as I've no energy & ache too much to do anything else..

We had just a dusting of snow yesterday & are forecast lots on Thursday & Friday, so if we do get anymore I'll no doubt just be looking at it from the comfort of my sofa unless these antibiotics & steroids work amazingly fast of course.

It's Wednesday which means -

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SIMON SAYS STAMP WEDNESDAY CHALLENGE

& this week our challenge is
Anything Goes!

This week the design team are featuring



products on our cards.
If you have them we would love to see them but as always it's not compulsory to use them to enter our challenge.

Don't forget you can enter our challenge 5 times and there is no limit to how many challenges you combine your entry with.

Do you use Instagram?  If so, please add #ssswchallenge to your challenge entry uploads so we can see them on there too. 

Luckily I had this card already cut, sewn & put together, it was just in need of decoration as I ache too much to be sat at my desk crafting at the moment. The only problem I had was if I had a Memory Box product that was suitable to add to it! Thankfully I have those lovely little Memory Box Puffy Cloud Dies in among my stash, which I love & have used many times, & they could easily be added to my card.

I have embellished my card with a selection of pretty Prima flowers, some die cuts from  Simon Says Stamps Butterfly Drift & I have added lots of pretty little hydrangeas which are die cut using Spellbinders Hydrangea die set. I also added lots of pearls & Tonic Nuvo Wisteria & Simply White crystal drops. The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamps Bouquet Of Thanks stamp set and I have stamped it in Simon's Intense Black ink.

The copic colours I've used are -

house - W6, W4, W2, W0, door & roof - BV29, BV25, BV20, flowers -BV17, BV13, BV11 / G94, G43, G40, windows - BG70, BG90, BG0000.

 Other supplies used -

Stamping Bella Tiny Townie Fairy Garden rubber stamp,  Elizabeth Craft Designs double sided tape, Elizabeth Craft Designs Soft Finish Card Stock, Kaisercraft designer paper,  Tonic Guillotine, Memento ink pad, Copic X Press It paper pack, Crystal Glaze Nuvo drops, Sakura Classic White Gel pen, Ranger White Foam Roll, SSS White Glitter card stock, Tim Holtz Sizzix Leaf Punch, & Tim Holtz Tonic Stamp Platform.

As always our lovely Heidi is sponsoring our challenge with a $50 voucher for the fabulous 

Simon Says Stamp Superstore

That's ,me finished for today! Thanks for stopping by

Make Your Own Background - Simon Says Stamp DT

Good afternoon lovely peeps!

The fluey virus is doing the rounds again here & I am fit for nothing at the moment. I will fully admit I am one of the worse patients ever when I am ill & do feel sorry for hubs as I get grumpy as I hate wasting precious time & think of all the things I want to be doing instead of annoying myself by having no energy & feeling rubbish lol.

It's Wednesday which means -

 at

SIMON SAYS STAMP WEDNESDAY CHALLENGE

& this week our challenge is
MAKE YOUR OWN BACKGROUND

& this week the design team are featuring

products on our cards.
If you have them we would love to see them but as always it's not compulsory to use them to enter our challenge.

Don't forget you can enter our challenge 5 times and there is no limit to how many challenges you combine your entry with.

Do you use Instagram?  If so, please add #ssswchallenge to your challenge entry uploads so we can see them on there too. 

This weeks card features Lawn Fawn's Colour My World stamp and die set. For a change I used water colour paper & gave the background a wash of colour using Shaded Lilac distress ink refill which I had watered down, & once dry I stamped & heat embossed the crayons in white embossing powder & then coloured them using Daniel Smith's water colour palette. 

The sentiment has been stamped using Simon Says Stamps Blue Violet ink pad & I stamped one crayon in Stazon on a separate piece of water colour paper which I water coloured, die cut & popped on foam pads beside the sentiment.

It would be fair to say this is not one of my favourite cards & I never want to see it again as it almost went in the bin twice after having two accidents making it! 

The first being when I went to add some darker shading to the background just around the embossed crayons & I ended up spilling my just opened ink refill onto it & it survived by me quickly swiping wet wipes over it a few times. 

The second was when the card was pretty much finished & me being an air head didn't think about the texture of the water colour paper & added some Violet Galaxy crystal drops which would have looked nice had they not spread into horrid weird shaped blobs! They had to be quickly and carefully removed & thank goodness I had some pearls in my stash & one was large enough to cover the big wonky pearl blob mark as if I hadn't the card would have been in the bin & there wouldn't have been a DT card from me this week as I just don't have the time, patience or energy to make another lol.

 Supplies used -

 Simon Says Stamp Black card stock,  Elizabeth Craft Designs double sided tape, Elizabeth Craft Designs Soft Finish Card Stock, Tonic Guillotine, Aleene's Tacky Glue, Cuttlebug, Acrylic Blocks, water brush & Magic Powder Bag.

As always our lovely Heidi is sponsoring our challenge with a $50 voucher for the fabulous 

Simon Says Stamp Superstore

I'm entering my card in the following challenges -

Crafty Creations - anything goes, Crafting From The Heart - anything goes,  Inspiration Destination - anything goes, Lemon Shortbread - anything goes, Creative Moments  anything goes, The Crafty Addicts - anything goes, Create & Makes - anything goes

Thanks for stopping by

Add A Die Cut - Simon Says Stamp DT

Good afternoon lovely peeps!

Happy Valentines Day to all those of you who celebrate it!

It's Wednesday which means -

 at

SIMON SAYS STAMP WEDNESDAY CHALLENGE

& this week our challenge is
Add A Die Cut!

This week the design team are featuring



products on our cards.
If you have them we would love to see them but as always it's not compulsory to use them to enter our challenge.

Don't forget you can enter our challenge 5 times and there is no limit to how many challenges you combine your entry with.

Do you use Instagram?  If so, please add #ssswchallenge to your challenge entry uploads so we can see them on there too. 

This week I have created a card featuring Penny Blacks Make A Wish stamp and Gentle Whisper 6x6 paper pad.

As you know I don't often use yellow but I've challenged myself to give it another go and I actually like the yellow / grey / white colour combination surprisingly lol.

The die cuts I have used on this little card are - Simon Says Stamps Butterfly Drift, Stacked Hearts, Scallop Stitches & Large Tags dies, I have added lots of pretty little hydrangeas which are die cut using Spellbinders Hydrangea die set and also added lots of pearls, Nuvo Crystal Drops & twine. The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamps Bouquet Of Thanks stamp set and I have stamped it Simon's Intense Black ink.

The copic colours I've used are -

skin - E11, E00, E000, R30, hair - N8, N7, N6, N4, clothes - C3, C1, C00 / Y21, Y15, Y11, Y00, Y000, grass - G94, G43, G40.

 Other supplies used -

  Elizabeth Craft Designs double sided tape, Elizabeth Craft Designs Soft Finish Card Stock, Tonic Guillotine, Memento ink pad, Copic X Press It paper pack, Crystal Glaze Nuvo drops, Sakura Classic White Gel pen, Ranger White Foam Roll, SSS White Glitter card stock, SSS Woodgrain card stock & Tim Holtz Tonic Stamp Platform.

As always our lovely Heidi is sponsoring our challenge with a $50 voucher for the fabulous 

Simon Says Stamp Superstore

I'm entering my card in the following challenges -

Crafty Creations - anything goes,  Inspiration Destination - anything goes, Creative Moments  anything goes, The Crafty Addicts - anything goes, Crafty Gals Corner - anything goes.

I have been so busy in my craft room the last few days catching up with card orders and I have even managed to squeeze in a couple of cards for my very neglected Etsy shop at last!

Thanks for stopping by

It Must Be Love - Simon Says Stamp DT

Good afternoon lovely peeps!

It's Wednesday which means -

 at

SIMON SAYS STAMP WEDNESDAY CHALLENGE

& this week our challenge is

IT MUST BE LOVE!

This week the design team are featuring some gorgeous

SIMON SAYS STAMP

own brand products on our cards.
If you have them we would love to see them but as always it's not compulsory to use them to enter our challenge.

Don't forget you can enter our challenge 5 times and there is no limit to how many challenges you combine your entry with.

Do you use Instagram?  If so, please add #ssswchallenge to your challenge entry uploads so we can see them on there too. 

This week I have created a card using several of Simon's lovely products.

I have stamped the word "love" & the pretty flowers in Simon's white pigment ink using the lovely Roses For You & Sketched Alphabet Stamp sets, & I have coloured the flowers with Faber-Castell polychromo pencils.
I have created a kraft card base & used Simon's Doll Pink card stock for matting and layering my image on.

 Other supplies used -

  Elizabeth Craft Designs double sided tape, Tonic Guillotine, DCWV Kraft card stock, Simply White Crystal Drops.

As always our lovely Heidi is sponsoring our challenge with a $50 voucher for the fabulous 

Simon Says Stamp Superstore

I'm entering my card in the following challenges -

Crafty Creations - anything goes,  Inspiration Destination - anything goes, Creative Moments  anything goes, The Crafty Addicts - anything goes, Crafty Gals Corner - anything goes.

It's a short and sweet post from me today as I only have today off this week and as usual there aren't enough hours in the day for all the things I want / need to do.
Thanks for stopping by