simon says stamp monday challenge: not a card

Hi there crafty friends! Welcome to another Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Thank you so much for joining us in our Layer It Challenge last week and we hope you will play along with us again this week. This week our challenge is Not A Card, so make anything but – an art journal, a home decor piece, a tag…it really is up to you. You know I love making ATCs so I thought I would make a set with the new Funky Insects dies since I have been waiting to cut the entire set out.

To create these ATCs, I cut 4 cards out of Tim Holtz Distress White Heavystock. I added different (rainbow) colors of Distress Paint and dried it. I removed some of the paint by using the Dotted stencil and wiping a baby wipe over it. Then I added gesso over some parts to tone the colors down and dried the cards with my heat tool. I stamped images from the Media Marks 1 and Media Marks 2 stamp sets in bright colors of DIstress Archival Inks. I inked the edges of the cards with Black Soot Distress Ink using a Mini Foam Blending Tool.

To create the Funky Insects, I painted them with Distress Inks that I smooshed onto my Glass Mat. On parts of each insect, I used a Ranger Distress Embossing Pen and Distress Embossing Glaze to create some texture and shine on each one. To finish my cards, I added a Small Talk sticker to each one.

The lovely folks at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a $25 voucher to shop at the Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take our your crafty supplies, make something following this week’s prompt and add your project to the InLInkz at the bottom of the post on the SImon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog 🙂 All winners are chosen randomly, so anyone can be a winner!!!