Simon Says - A Bit O' Green

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...

A BIT O' GREEN

I created a card to celebrate St Patrick's Day using Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Curiosity Shop stamp set, Simon Says Stamp Curiosity Shop co-ordinating dies, Tim Holtz/Idea-ology Serendipity Collage Paper and an Idea-ology Story Stick.

I trimmed Distress Watercolor card to 4" x 5.1/4", smooshed my Custom Blend ink pad (Iced Spruce Distress Oxide/Hickory Smoke Distress Ink/Weathered Wood Distress Oxide/Old Paper Distress Ink ) on to the craft mat on my Glass Media Mat, spritzed with water and dragged the card through the ink and dried. I repeatedly tapped the card into the ink to pick up the remaining droplets until I was happy with the background.

I inked the shamrock image from Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Curiosity Shop with Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide ink, spritzed the stamp with water and stamped randomly over the background. I inked the hat and moustache with Scorched Timber Distress Ink and 17 with Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide and stamped on the panel as a guide for future placement.

I fixed torn strips of Tim Holtz/Idea-ology Serendipity Collage Paper in place with Distress Collage Medium using a Distress Collage Brush.

I stamped the shamrocks again on to a scrap of Distress Mixed Media HeavyStock, inked with Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide, srinkled randomly with Rustic Wilderness Embossing Glaze, heat set and die-cut using Simon Says Stamp Curiosity Shop co-ordinating dies.

I repeated the stamping and embossing glaze process with the numbers "17". I stamped the hat and moustache, inked with Scorched Timber Distress Ink and die-cut using the co-ordinating dies. I die-cut all the pieces a further 3 times from Distress Mixed Media HeavyStock and layered to create dimension.

I fixed a circle of Eclectic Elements thread to the panel using dots of Distress Collage Medium behind where the dimensional elements would be fixed. I fixed the die-cut shamrocks to the panel using Distress Collage Medium and the hat, numbers and moustache popped up on Simon Says Stamp Thin 3D Foam Squares.

I scribbled an Old Paper Distress Crayon over the Tim Holtz/Idea-ology Story Stick, rubbed the crayon into the detail with my finger, buffed with a soft cloth, fixed to the panel with Distress Collage Medium and added a double thread bow.

To finish I inked the edges of the panel with Scorched Timber Distress Ink using a Distress Tiny Blending Tool. I trimmed a panel of Distress Mixed Media HeavyStock to 1/8" larger than the panel and inked the edges of an A2 white card blank with Scorched Timber Distress Ink using the direct to paper technique.

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