Simon Says - Stamp It In STAMPtember

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

The theme for this week is...

STAMP IT IN STAMPtember

As you know STAMPtember® is a very special month in the Simon Says Stamp calendar. This week we are all using some fabulous products from the latest Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember® Release. You don’t have to use them to join in with the challenge but if you have them we would love to see them used.

I'm getting in the mood for Christmas and used the bold sentiment from Simon Says Block Alpha Words from the STAMPtember release, the beautiful snowflakes from an old favourite, Simon Says Making Spirits Bright and die-cuts from Simon Says Winter Village to create a Christmas scene.

I trimmed Distress Watercolor card to 4" x 5.1/2" and coloured with Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide ink.

I stamped the large snowflake from Simon Says Making Spirits Bright stamp set on to the panel, inked with Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide ink, sprinkled with Distress Frosted Crystal Embossing Powder and heat set to give a tone on tone effect.

I stamped the Simon Says Block Alpha Word image and smaller snowflakes from Making Spirits Bright, inked with Simon Says White Pigment Ink pad, sprinkled with Simon Says Detail White Embossing and heat set. I lined up the shadow stamp for the Hello word and stamped along with the smaller snowflakes, inked with Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide ink..

I coloured a scrap of Distress Watercolor card with Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide ink using the direct to paper technique, dried, stamped the sentiment from Making Spirits Bright, inked with White Pigment Ink, sprinkled with White Detail Embossing Powder, heat set and trimmed out the word Christmas.

I die-cut Simon Says Winter Village from Distress Watercolor card and fixed above the Block Alpha Words sentiment using Distress Collage Medium and foam squares to create dimension.

I used my favourite technique for creating dimensional snow - I added splatters of Distress Resist Spray direct from the nozzle, sprinkled with White Detail Embossing Powder and heat set. To finish I added the sentiment popped up with a foam strip and fixed the panel to a white card blank,

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

Why don't you pop over to the Monday Challenge Blog and check out the amazing creations from my very talented Design Team mates and as always you have until Monday 8am Ohio time...1pm UK time...2pm CET to join in with the chance to win a $25 voucher to spend online at Simon Says Stamp

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

Have Fun and Happy Crafting

Hugs Kath xxx