Archives for December 2015

30.12.2015

Simon Says … PARTY!!

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Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

Thank you for joining us for the Make It Sparkle Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

This week the challenge is

PARTY!

Happy New Year Everyone! 

It’s time to put your glad rags on and PARTY! Any celebration will do but we would like you to wear a bit of sparkle while you are crafting, haha.

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store

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So now it’s YOUR turn, Happy Crafting

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If you use instagram add  #ssswchallenge to your challenge entry uploads so we can see them on there too!

 

 

You have until Wed  8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in
No backlinking allowed, Only 5 new creations will be eligible in the prize draw

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23.12.2015

Simon Says … Make it Sparkle

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Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

Thank you for joining us for the Die Crazy Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

We will be back soon with the name of the lucky winner of the $50 Voucher

This week the challenge is

MAKE IT SPARKLE

We are showcasing Technique Tuesday Products this week. You don’t have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see them used

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store

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Well I’m well and truly still in a FOILING FRENZY here at the moment.  I am literally having too much fun!  I used one of the polka dot pattern panels (created in Word) and printed it using a laser printer onto vellum.  I foiled this in silver along with some bits from the Heidi Swapp Christmas Ephemera kit (I used Hot Pink foil for the deer – so gorgeous).  To add more sparkle I layered the sentiment panel onto some glitter cardstock and finished off with a few pink adhesive sequins.

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So now it’s YOUR turn, Happy Crafting

Instagram

If you use instagram add  #ssswchallenge to your challenge entry uploads so we can see them on there too!

 

 

You have until Wed  8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in
No backlinking allowed, Only 5 new creations will be eligible in the prize draw

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17.12.2015

Can’t. Stop. Foiling!!

To say I’m in love with the Heidi Swapp Minc Mini machine would be an understatement!  I haven’t stopped using it since I got it and absolutely LOVE how it has opened up so many possibilities for creating truly personalised cards that look like they came from a shop!

The cards I’m sharing today were a last minute request from my son Dan last night.  He asked for 3 cards for his music teachers – no other teachers, just the music ones!  He respects and admires them so much and wanted to give them a card and a little gift for Christmas (thanks for the one days’ notice though son!!).  I thought it would be nice to give them a musical theme so found a free file on the web with sheet music and printed one of my favourite pieces, Carol Of The Bells onto some vellum using a laser printer.  I fitted 4 to a sheet and ran two through my Minc with silver foil and 2 with gold.  I die cut some foliage using the Memory Box berry twig die and a couple of the new foliage dies from My Favourite Things.  The sentiment was printed again using a laser printer – I downloaded the free fonts and just typed the sentiment I wanted!!

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I have lots more foiled cards to share – still churning out last minute ones – never really have enough!!

Thanks for stopping by xxx

 

Edited to add:

 

A few people have asked for links etc so here they are below:

Sheet music images 

Fonts: Palatino Linotype and Lasermetal

Carol of The Bells music – the music printed 4 times onto an A4 document