Emily Leiphart: Simon Says Stamp Challenge

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

{Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge} Let's Be Clear

Welcome to the second Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge in July! This week's challenge is Let's Be Clear, which means you need to use something clear on your project, whether it's clear stamps, acetate, vellum, glossy accents, clear beads or clear sequins. The design team is featuring Clearly Besotted products. You don't have to use it but we'd love to see some if you have it.

I used Clearly Besotted's Fabulous Fuchsias clear stamp set and its coordinating dies. I fell in love with these flowers as soon as I saw them and I love how easy it was to use the solid stamps to "colour" in the flowers. the dies also make it easy to create your own two-coloured flowers, whether you're using the outlines or just the solid portions.

I stamped half of the large flowers with Rose Bud and the other half with Lilac Posies pigment inks. The cute polka-dotted leaves were stamped with Olive Grove pigment ink and the beautiful sentiment was stamped with Versamark ink, then heat embossed in white.

One winner will be chosen at random to win a $50 gift voucher to the awesome Simon Says Stamp Store!

It could be you!

I hope you will play along with us this week!

Thanks for stopping by today! Have a wonderful Wednesday. :)

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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

{Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge} Shake It

Welcome to the first Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge in July! This week's challenge is Shake It, which means you need to use a shaker/confetti packet type of element on your project. You can create your own shaker (my three video examples here) or use a premade one. The design team is featuring Simon Says Stamp Exclusives. You don't have to use it but we'd love to see some if you have it.

I made a shaped card using Simon Says Stamp's Balloons Dies and coordinating Birthday Messages mini stamp set. You can also buy these together as the Balloon Sentiments Die & Stamp Set. I love these balloons! The patterned papers are from Pink Paislee's Color Wash paper pad (front) and Heidi Swapp's Dreamy paper pad (back of shaker).

The Happy Birthday die cut that forms the window for my shaker is from the Little B Block Out die set that I also used in this recent post. They were an instant addiction and I want to use them on everything! To finish the card, I tied some pretty ombre cord in coordinating colours to the base of the balloon.