Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes !

Thank you so much to everyone who joined in with our Christmas Challenge !


It's Wednesday and 

Yes, we have a new challenge over at Simon Says Wednesday Challenge !

The theme this week is 

Anything Goes !

The Design Team are this week showcasing Altenew products.

For this week's challenge, as always, Simon Says Stamp will be giving away a fabulous $50 voucher for the Simon Says Stamp Store!

I've seen a lot of cards around recently with the background stamped in black and white and I love this as much as the sentiment heat embossed with white embossing powder on black card !  It's such a striking effect.

I heat embossed the Hibiscus flowers with gold embossing powder and then watercoloured them with Gansai Tambi watercolour paints.  The centres I painted with the pearl paint from the set.  In real life this looks fantastic and it all shines so much, the gold and the pearl.  I really love how this card turned out.

You can see a list of everything I used below !

We hope you can join us in our challenge this week and we look forward to seeing what you make !

Thank you for your visit and I hope you have a great day !

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Kuretake UK - Christmas !

With Christmas fast approaching I’m trying to get organised and make the gift card envelopes I shall need. These are so simple and yet add something special to your gift. 

As you can see, I went for non-traditional colours !!

Products used :

Zig Kurecolor Fine & Brush for Manga – Porcelain

Zig Kurecolor Fine & Brush for Manga – Vanilla

Zig Kurecolor Fine & Brush for Manga - Ivory

Zig Kurecolor Fine & Brush for Manga – Pale Blush

Zig Kurecolor Fine & Brush for Manga – Blush

Zig Art & Graphic Twin – Lilac

Zig Wink of Stella - Clear

Zig Wink of Luna – Silver

Zig Two Way Glue Pen

You can find out how I made this gift card/money envelope by hopping over to the Kuretake UK Blog where you will find full step by step instructions !

Thank's for popping by !

 

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Kuretake UK - Christmas

Christmas is certainly in the air ! Are you getting excited yet ?!! Well, over at Kuretake UK we are getting all our Christmas projects ready to show you and here is the first of mine !

I watched a video made by Dawn of WPlus9 a few weeks ago where she used Gansai Tambi paints for stamping with.  You can see her video HERE.

I just knew I had to try this technique with this gorgeous stamp set "Twinkle Towns" by Mama Elephant.  I followed Dawn's technique by applying a green watercolour wash in the area where I was going to stamp and then painted directly onto the stamp before stamping onto the watercolour card.  I then did the same for the branch.  There is a pale blue wash over the watercolour card too.

I gold heat embossed the "string", the bauble and decorative inside too and then watercoloured the village scene.

I really love how this turned out and will be trying this technique again !

Thank's for looking !

 

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