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Simon Says Stamp Challenge: Take a picture using GESSO, Lawn Fawn and Hero Arts

Happy Wednesday everyone! I hope this week has found you well. I was up most of the night with a hungry little girl, but I’m not complaining. Just thrilled she is here with us. A true miracle. Both of my kids are… Kids. Still can’t get over saying that…. Thank you Jesus….

Today’s challenge is TAKE A PICTURE! Create anything that is film, camera, photograph related…. I chose to work with a couple of Lawn Fawn stamp sets and paired them with a technique I picked up from the cute Lisa Spangler…  GESSO! Here’s a look (all supplies are listed at the bottom of the post):

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Let me explain. I started with a white piece of card stock and used several different color distress stains to create the background. I then took a thick layer of Gesso and applied it with a palette knife… I then took the envelope pattern stamp set from Hero Arts and pressed down into the gesso and got this amazing texture as a result.

 

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To bring out the texture even more, I rubbed some Weathered Wood Distress Paint mixed with water over the top……  I then took the filmstrip image from the Hero Arts/Studio Calico Borders set to incorporate the sentiment….

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And there you have it. A little mixed media card. I don’t do mixed media often as I don’t have the skill for it, but after seeing Lisa’s technique video, I had to give it a try!

The wonderfully amazing and sweet Heidi is offering up a $50 gift certificate to the Simon Says Stamp online store!!!!!! HELLO!!!!!! That’s awesome!!!

Be sure to head on over the Simon Says Stamp challenge blog and take a look at the rest of the design team inspiration and play along with us!!! Be prepared to have your socks blown off because they are all amazing! I am so lucky to be a part of this team! Dream come true.

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Thanks so much for stopping by!!!! :)

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by Laurel on May 22, 2013  •  Permalink
Posted in Challenges, Crafts, Distress Inks, Distress Markers, Hero Arts, Lawn Fawn, simon says stamp

Posted by Laurel on May 22, 2013

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by Laurel on May 21, 2013  •  Permalink
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Lawnscaping Challenge: Clean and Simple sponsored by Lawn Fawn

Hello and welcome to another Lawnscaping challenge! Today’s challenge is right up my ally. Clean and simple…. :) I love clean and simple projects…… We are sponsored by the fabulous Lawn Fawn and have TWO incredible guest designers joining us so be sure to head to the Lawnscaping page and check out ALL of the projects…..

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I colored all the images with the exception of the two dark pink birds with Copics. The dark pink birds were colored with these new glitter pens I picked up. Love them and they come in all kinds of colors! The adorable patterned paper came in one of the Simon Says Stamp card kits….

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I popped most up of the images up with some foam dimension…. :) I had a blast making this card and coloring all of these adorable images!!! I love the matching dies. Made things a heck of a lot easier for me, that’s for sure.

I hope you will play along with us! :)

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by Laurel on May 20, 2013  •  Permalink
Posted in Challenges, COPICS, Crafts, Die Cutting, Lawn Fawn

Posted by Laurel on May 20, 2013

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Happy Birthday using exclusive Simon Says Stamp

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I was feeling a bit stressed out the other morning, Lily was sleeping so I went upstairs to my still unpacked craft room and made this card using some new Simon Says Stamp exclusive dies/stamps to unwind…. It helped!!  I paired the adorable images from the set with Copics and Hero Arts Shadow inks and love how it turned out. I didn’t have matching rhinestones so I took some clear ones and colored them with Copics to match! The bee is colored with a cool new glitter pen I picked up…. The panel is popped up on dimension…

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I had so much fun making this card! I hope you like it… :)

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by Laurel on May 19, 2013  •  Permalink
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Posted by Laurel on May 19, 2013

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Simon Says Stamp Challenge: Flower Power

Happy Wednesday everyone and welcome to another Simon Says Stamp challenge! This week’s theme is FLOWER Power and the Design team is using Prima and/or CASual Friday products!!!!

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I heat set the gorgeous floral background with white embossing powder and stamped the circle border and sentiment from CASual Friday with Hero Arts shadow inks! I didn’t have any good pearls so I made my own with Liquid Pearls!

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The wonderfully amazing and sweet Heidi is offering up a $50 gift certificate to the Simon Says Stamp online store!!!!!! HELLO!!!!!! That’s awesome!!!

Be sure to head on over the Simon Says Stamp challenge blog and take a look at the rest of the design team inspiration and play along with us!!! Be prepared to have your socks blown off because they are all amazing! I am so lucky to be a part of this team! Dream come true.

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Thanks so much for stopping by!!!! :)

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by Laurel on May 15, 2013  •  Permalink
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Pinspired Challenge using GELATOS: Sponsored by Avery Elle

Hello! I am so happy to be back with the Pinspired Challenges. I took some “maternity leave” and missed out on a lot of gorgeous inspirational badges… Have you played along with us? Why not? All you do is look at the inspiration badge at the end of this post and make something using the badge as inspiration. How easy is that. You can make whatever and use whatever!!!

Avery Elle is sponsoring today’s challenge and the winner will receive a $15 gift certificate to their online store!  Now what I didn’t know about Avery Elle is their entire collection of stamp sets has matching svg and pdf cut files for FREE with the purchase of the stamp set. HELLO! That’s friggin’ awesome!!!! They also have a line of free digital stamps here!!!! Here is a little bit of info about Avery Elle:

Avery Elle offers fun and fresh clear photopolymer stamps, premium heavy card stock and coordinating grosgrain ribbon.  Our entire collection of image stamp sets has matching free .svg and .pdf cut files. Yes, we did say free!  If you have an electronic cutting machine, you have the ability to cut shapes for our stamp sets for no added cost.  How great is that?  All of our products are proudly made in the USA.  For our complete line of high quality products, ideas and inspiration go to www.averyelle.com.

My inspiration for my card came from the color of the badge. Now I warn you, this is a grungy type card, far off from my style. I wanted to use my Faber Castell gelatos in a way I hadn’t used them before so I used them with a mask from Crafter’s Companion. All supplies are listed at the end of this post… (SIDE NOTE: I haven’t fully unpacked my craft room so I was unable to put my hands on my Avery Elle stamps for this challenge)…

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Let me explain how I made this card since it is far off from my usual style:

  1. Coated card base with Gesso
  2. Adhered the Chevron mask by Crafters Companion over the card panel and adhered with washi tape.
  3. Used two different shades of pink and colored over the mask and then blended with a combination of my finger and water
  4. Added red gelato the the edges of both the card base and the card panel with red and blended using water.
  5. Stamped sentiment from the Simon Says Stamp April card kit stamp set with Hero Arts neon pink ink. The set can also be purchased individually here.

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I hope you like the card! :) And I do hope you will play along with us! You’ve got 10 whole days to play!

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by Laurel on May 14, 2013  •  Permalink
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Posted by Laurel on May 14, 2013

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Happy Mothers Day using Simon Says Stamp May Card Kit

Hello everyone! I made my mom a Mother’s Day card using the contents from the May Card kit over at Simon Says Stamp. Do you get these kits? They are amazing and have everything you need and then some to create many fabulous projects. Also included in the kit is a sample sheet of cards made by other designers! I was drawn to the card Sarah made so I made something for my mom inspired by her card.

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Everything you see in this card was included in the kit. There is so much more in the kit from embellishments to liquid pearls to tons of patterned paper and card stock…… I love these kits. You can subscribe to them monthly for a discounted price or you can just buy then month by month…. If getting the kit isn’t your thing, you can buy the stamp set that is included in the kit on it’s on as well….

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I hope my mom likes her card…… I have the best mom in the world. She is truly my best friend…. I can talk to her about anything and I can’t imagine living far away from her. I have been very lucky to be able to reside in Jacksonville throughout all of our new military orders, which is almost unheard of. God really looks out for us in that regard… We are a close knit family, that is for sure… Growing up, we would go to my grandparents house every Sunday for lunch. My grandmother was the best cook!! I have no idea how she kept everything hot…. She would wake up early and cook and by the time we got there, everything was hot and ready to go…. I miss both of my grandparents dearly…  I wish they could have met my children. Since I had the best grandparents, it is only fitting that my kids have the best grandparents and they do!!!

To all the moms out there, Happy Mother’s Day! I hope you are able to kick your feet up and relax!

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by Laurel on May 11, 2013  •  Permalink
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Simon Says Stamp Challenge: Anything with Wings

It’s Simon Says Stamp challenge day!!!!!  The theme is THINGS WITH WINGS! Butterflies, airplanes, etc……… The Design Team is using Studio Calico products this week! I paired the Studio Calico Borders stamp set with some watercolor crayons and this fun sentiment by Hero Arts…

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I love water coloring because I stink at Copic coloring, lol!

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The wonderfully amazing and sweet Heidi is offering up a $50 gift certificate to the Simon Says Stamp online store!!!!!! HELLO!!!!!! That’s awesome!!!

Be sure to head on over the Simon Says Stamp challenge blog and take a look at the rest of the design team inspiration and play along with us!!! Be prepared to have your socks blown off because they are all amazing! I am so lucky to be a part of this team! Dream come true.

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Thanks so much for stopping by!!!! :)

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by Laurel on May 8, 2013  •  Permalink
Posted in Challenges, Crafts, Hero Arts, simon says stamp, Water Coloring

Posted by Laurel on May 8, 2013

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Lawnscaping Challenge: BLING IT sponsored by Simon Says Stamp

Hello HELLO HELLO! I am so happy to be back with my Lawnscaping gals. It’s been about 3 months or so I think……. :) I dusted off my crafty supplies and tried to find some mojo!! We are sponsored by the fabulous Simon Says Stamp! The winner of this challenge will receive a $25 gift card to their online store… :)

Here is what I created inspired by the challenge:

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I masked the circle and applied the distress ink pad directly to the card stock. I sprayed the stars stamp with Perfect Pearls and stamped onto the distress ink panel. I colored the ice cream images with copics and popped them up with some dimension. I wanted to add some more bling so I dug out some glossy accents, rhinestones and liquid pearls…

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I hope that you will play along with us!!!! This is such a fun challenge and I can’t wait to visit your blogs and be inspired!!!

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by Laurel on May 6, 2013  •  Permalink
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Posted by Laurel on May 6, 2013

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Pinspired and Crafter’s Companion Blog Hop

Welcome to the Pinspired – Crafter’s Companion Joint Blog Hop! You should have found me by the way of the fabulously talented Lalo.

Just in case you are new to either Pinspired or Crafter’s Companion, let me tell you a little bit about them both:

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Crafter’s Companion is a U.K.-based company with offices in Anaheim, CA and Northern England. The products are distributed and sold worldwide. The most popular products include Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers, the Ultimate Crafter’s Companion Tool, the Ultimate Pen Storage, embossing folders, and EZMagnetic Storage panels for metal embossing and cutting dies.

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Pinspired Challenges was created by a group of girls that LOVE Pinterest and crafting…. We came up with the idea of the challenge in the latter part of 2012 and the challenges launched in January of 2013. Our DT, or as we like to call them, “Pin Heads” have scoured Pinterest to bring you some amazing inspirational pins. We will post a brand new challenge on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month. You will have until Thursday of the following week to link your entry onto the challenge post. That’s 9 whole days to play along!!!! Inspirational photos are for you to interpret anyway you want. You can take from the colors, the style or the technique – whatever floats your boat! You can also feel free to make any kind of craft you want as well, whether its a card, layout or altered item.

From May 3 – 5, we are showcasing Crafter’s Companion stamps from Sheena’s A Little Bit Floral collection. You have TWO chances to win! You can hop around and comment on all of the blogs for one chance to win a gift certificate from Crafter’s Companion (May 3 – 5, 2013).

For a second chance to win, you can play along!

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Use the image above as inspiration to create a project and post it using InLinkz on the Pinspired Blog. You have until May 9, 2013 to participate for a chance to win a gift certificate from Crafter’s Companion. If you create and comment on the Blog Hop, that is two chances to win!

Here is what I have created for the hop using this GORGEOUS Iris stamp from Sheena’s collection!

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I water colored the Iris with Distress Markers… I didn’t have any matching pearls so I created my own with Liquid Pearls.

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Next up on the hop is the sweet and bubbly Mary Dawn. Remember to comment as you hop and please, play along with us. You can submit your project on the Pinspired home page!

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by Laurel on May 3, 2013  •  Permalink
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