Challenge at: Simon Says Stamp & Show

Hello!

It has been the longest time since I added anything to my blog so thank you for stopping in! The good news is my home remodel is complete! Yes, that 4 week project turned into a year, really it could be written into a full season soap opera but for now I want to stamp!

My new exciting plans include retiring August 1 after working for 43 years! I am thrilled to think of all the creative crafting I will be able to do.  So I thought I would warm-up my stamping skills will a challenge.  Simon Says Stamp & Show is a wonderful weekly challenge so I thought it would be a grand place to start especially since that is also where I stopped my blog posting.  My inspiration is a thank you card I want to make for special teammate as I say good-bye.  I sprayed the Tim Holtz clock mask and accented with distress inks.  I also used his fabric stamp on the top portion of the card and the card base inked with Tsukineko’s Delicata-Golden Glitz…I have added this to my favorite pigment ink list.  The other stamps are from Tim Holtz and 7 Gypsies.

Please leave me a note of where I can find you so I can get hooked back in with my stamping friends!  Thanks!

A Girl in a hat reading her book

Thanks to Simon Says Stamp and Show for this week's challenge that asked to include a hat. This is my first card with a silicone stamp by La Blanche. The stamp is very lightweight, the size of a wood block and the stamp itself is silicone.

Thanks for looking!

Yikes stripes for Simon

This week's challenge at Simon Says Stamp asks for stripes to be included. To create stripes I used is a Hero Arts Flower Word stamp and alternately colored the lines. The metal flourish is cut with Tim H's die and colored with alcohol inks as is the flower. The bunny is another HA stamp.