Simon Says - Recycle

Hi Everyone...welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. Thank you for joining us for last week's challenge and we hope you can join us this week too because

and the theme for this week is...

RECYCLE

I recycled a Ranger Craft Scraper, bottle caps, pencil eraser and bubble wrap from my craft room and used with Tim Holtz Scorched Timber Distress Oxide Spray, Picket Fence and Scorched Timber Distress Paints to create the background on an Art Journal page. I stamped Stampers Anonymous Specimen with Scorched Timber Distress Ink, added Idea-ology Entomology Collage Paper, Sizzix Vault Lovebirds and Alphanumeric Lower Shadow Thinlits die-cuts coloured with Kitsch Flamingo and Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide Sprays.

I trimmed Dina Wakley Heavyweight Watercolor Paper to 6" x 8.1/4", spritzed Scorched Timber Distress Oxide Spray on to my Glass Media Mat, added a spritz of water and used to create a wash on the panel leaving a border around the edge.

I placed Scorched Timber Distress Paint on my Glass Media Mat, added a little water, tapped the edge of the Ranger Craft Scraper Tool into the paint and used to make random grid like lines on the panel.

I masked off the edges of the panel, inked the moth from Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Specimen with Scorched Timber Distress ink and stamped randomly on the background.

I placed Picket Fence and Scorched Timber Distress Paints on my Glass Media Mat and used bubble wrap and a bottle cap to add more interest and the impression of layers of texture on the background.

I repeated using Picket Fence Distress Paint with a smaller bottle cap and eraser on a pencil.

I added torn scraps of Idea-ology Entomology Collage Paper to the background using Distress Collage Medium and a small Distress Collage Brush.

I coloured Distress Watercolor card with Kitsch Flamingo and Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide Sprays and die-cut hearts using Tim Holtz/Sizzix Vault Lovebirds Thinlits. I fixed the hearts in place temporarily using just a small dot of adhesive on the outside edge.

I added machine stitching around the edges of the panel and down the centre of the line of hearts. Sewing machine needles do not like adhesive and are easily gummed up, hence my caution when initially fixing the hearts to the panel.

I used Scorched Timber Distress Watercolor Pencil to add shadowing around the hearts. I die-cut the Tim Holtz/Sizzix Alphanumeric Shadow Lower Thinlits from the left over pink card and Distress Watercolor card and fixed in place with Distress Collage Medium.

I added Tim Holtz/Idea-ology Small Talk Stickers and fixed the panel inside my Dina Wakley Media Journal.

You can find all the products I used over at Simon Says Stamp, just click on the links below

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I look forward to seeing what you create this week...

Have Fun and Happy Crafting

Hugs Kath xxx