Simon Says (Monday) Guest Designer week 3 - Thank You

Hi everyone,

Here I am again for my third week as Guest Designer for the  Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge.

This week the theme is

*** Thank You ***

The lovely folks over at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a FABULOUS $25 voucher to shop at the  Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take out your crafty supplies, make something following this week’s prompt, and add a link in the Inlinkz  on the challenge blog post!  You can enter 5 times so that's 5 possible chances to win! All winners are chosen randomly, so everyone has an equal chance - good luck everyone!

Here's my card for this week (links to my supplies are below the description).

I recently saw an online video for the ‘faux pyrography’ technique, so I decided to give it a go. I cut a 5 1/2” square of white stamping card and spritzed with water. I then stamped part of my recently acquired Julie Hickey floral stamp in one corner using Vintage Photo Distress Oxide ink and spritzed a little more so that the ink would wick out. I dried the panel then over stamped using Nocturne Versafine Clair. I repeated this process with a different part of the stamp in the opposite corner of the card, then highlighted the flower centres and dots by painting with watered down acrylic paint from a gold Posca pen. I cut a stitched square frame from kraft card then distressed it with Vintage Photo DOX and a little more gold paint. I die cut a Simon Says Script Thanks die and shadow using kraft and black card stock then added some gold paint highlights to the kraft sentiment. Finally I assembled the card and matted onto a 6” square white card blank.

Here are links to what I used.

Stamps: Julie Hickey - Julie’s Hand Picked Blossoms and Blooms;

Media: Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink (Vintage Photo); Versafine Clair (Nocturne); Posca pen (gold); 

Tools: Simon Says Stamp Script Thanks shadow wafer dies.

Don’t forget to visit the challenge blog to see the amazing inspiration from the rest of the Design Team.

You have until Monday 8am Ohio time (EST), 1pm UK time (GMT), 2 pm CET to join in.

Challenges I would like to enter:

613 Avenue Create (November) - Anything Goes with option Thank You - TOP ROCKER

Beautiful Blossoms #35 - Anything Floral Goes

Card Concept #221 - Give Thanks

(Inspired by the theme: style is Shabby chic / Mixed Media)

Crafty Catz #704 - Anything Goes / Thank You

DL.Art (November) - Anything Goes with option Thanks

Make My Monday #265 - Gratitude/Thankful - SPECIAL MENTION

Male Room #204 - Masculine Floral

Outlawz Festive Friday (November) - I’m Thankful (2nd entry)

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Thank You

Sisterhood of Crafters - Thanks

Sparkles #194 - Thank You

Triple B (November) - Birds, Butterflies and/or Blooms (2nd entry)

We Love 2 Create #11 2025 - Anything Mixed Media/Papercrafting Goes

Word Art Wednesday #724/725 - Anything Goes (4th entry)

Take care, and thanks for visiting my blog today.

Hugs,

Special wishes for a special lady

Hi everyone, hope you are enjoying your weekend.

I would like to show you today a card I made for my dear bloggy friend Jennifer, whose pussy cat Pally sadly passed away a couple of weeks ago. Poor Jennifer is devastated as she is a big animal lover and thinks of her pets as her second family; so this was just to let her know I was thinking of her.

It was quite difficult to know what to make as I have never made a card for this particular eventuality before ... so I just went for a soft gently slightly distressed look, but not quite so overtly purple as I would tend to use for a human sympathy card.   Anyway, Jennifer has now received it and seemed to like it (it has to go all the way to Australia), so hopefully I was on the right track!

Stamps: sentiment from Penny Black transparent set "Hugs!";

Media: sentiment stamped "tea dye" and flowers distressed wtih "dusty concord" Tim Holtz distress inks;

 Papers: LotV "Timeless Victorian", with edges distressed with my Tim Holtz distressing tool;

Supplies: flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and Hobbycraft; pearl hearts from The Hobby House; pearl brads, spacers and wooden butterflies from my stash;

Tools: "Floral ovals" nestabilities; Simon Says Stamp "Fresh Daisies" die; Marianne D "Forest Branch" die; EK Success large flower punch.

Challenges:

Frilly & Funkie - Neglected Dies 

(both the dies on this card really!)

Simon Says Monday - D is for Distress

A Gem of a Challenge #115 - Special Lady

Sweet Stampin' - Special Lady

Papertake Weekly - Bingo! (2nd entry)

(gems / die-cuts / flowers)

Stampin' For The Weekend - Anything Goes

Penny's Paper Crafty #168 - Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting today.

Hugs,