Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge 6th Anniversary

Happy sixth anniversary to Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge!  My card today is in celebration of SSS and the inspiration they have been for so many years to so many paper artists.  Thank you, SSS!

 I used my TH alcohol inks to create a full sheet of background paper to use on my projects.  Here is a close-up of the paper....

 I stamped the flowers from my Simon Says Stamp Artful Flowers SSS101488 several times onto the alcohol ink background sheet, and fussy-cut them out.  

Next, I used the SSS Falling Snow stencil SSS121324, and sponged some TH distress ink intermittently across a kraft card stock panel.  Then I die cut the Penny Black scrolls die 51-013 from the panel, and layered it onto the alcohol ink background sheet I created earlier.

I used Ranger multi-medium adhesive to adhere some of the flowers, and foam tape for the others for dimension, and arranged them on my card front.  I colored the centers of the flowers with a TH distress marker.

The wishing die is SSS Wishing SSSD111423, and I layered it three times and adhered it.  The happy birthday verse is from SSS Sending and Wishing clear set SSS101475. 
 
Here is the link to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge 
I hope you will go and check out the awesome talented work there by the design team and the many, many other contestants.  Be sure to leave some love and well wishes while you are there.
I am also adding my card to the The Daily Marker  30 day color challenge.  Today is day 29!  Check out the amazing entries there, also.

Thank you for visiting today.  I appreciate you and your kind comments.  

Blessings,

lynda
 





 

Wishing Peony Card

Greetings!  I'm back in my craft room today.  Took a few days off to do some cleaning and sorting....a 'thing' that happens to me every spring.  I just needed to purge and declutter.  So, now it's back to creating.

Lately I've been loving the grays and eggplant color combination....

This lovely stamp image is from Stampendous (P062 Peony).  The wishing die is Simon Says Stamp, and the birthday phrase is from Simon Says Stamp clear set SSS101475 Sending & Wishing.

I lightly stamped the image using light gray ink onto a light gray panel.  I colored the image with Faber Castell Polychromos colored pencils, using four different grays, and the white for highlights.  Around the image I used an eggplant color from my chalk pastels.  I shaved a little onto some scrap paper, then rubbed it onto my card around the flower using a makeup applicator.  You can see another card and more detail on how to do this HERE .

This card is for the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Make A Wish

Simon Says STamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Allsorts Challenge - Happy Birthday - in honor of their 7th birthday.

Mojo Monday Sketch 449

Hope you get a chance to stop by these challenges to check out the cards.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Blessings,

lynda