Masculine! - Simon Says Stamp DT

Good afternoon lovely peeps!

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SIMON SAYS STAMP WEDNESDAY CHALLENGE

This week our challenge is

Masculine!

The design team are featuring

Tim Holtz

 products on our cards this week.
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. 

Today I am featuring lots of different Distress Inks on my card. 

This challenge was perfectly timed for me as it's my daughters partners birthday today so I needed a masculine card to give to him.

I used Simon Says Stamp Triangle Blast stencil to create my background & I lightly blended Scattered Straw, Bundled Sage & Broken China distress inks over part of the stencil, focusing mainly on the middle section of my card.

I blended Peacock Feathers, Stormy Sky, Scattered Straw, Bundled Sage, Salty Ocean & Broken China Distress Inks over some scraps of card stock & once dry I stamped some sentiments & stars from Simon Says Stamps Birthday Celebrations & It's Your Birthday stamp sets in either Simon's Black pigment ink, Wild Honey, Mowed Lawn, Blueprint Sketch & Faded Jeans Distress Inks on to my ink blended card & also heat embossed some with white embossing powder.

I tore my pieces of ink blended card to reveal the white core of the card stock & them rolled and glued them into the shape of candles. I stamped a sentiment from Simon's It's Your Birthday stamp set & then attached my paper candles to my card. I added a small piece of May Arts Twine inside each of my paper candles & randomly added some Duck Egg Blue, Bottle Green & Buttermilk Crystal Drops & a few Sea Breeze Jewel Drops around the candles.

 Other supplies used -

  Elizabeth Craft Designs Double Sided Tape,  Tonic Guillotine, Acrylic Blocks, Tonic Scissors, SSS Tacky Glue, & SSS Embossing Ink Pad.

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,  Lemon Shortbread - anything goes, Creative Moments  anything goes, The Crafty Addicts - anything goes,  Crafting From The Heart - anything goes, Get Creative Challenges - anything goes, Crafty Sentiments - anything goes,  Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes