simon says stamp monday challenge: crack it up

Hi crafty friends, welcome to this week’s Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! Thank you to all of you who played along with us last week in our Floral Frenzy Challenge and I hope you will join us again this week. This week our theme is Crack It Up and I’ve created a sweet Valentine card using Tim Holtz Clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint and the SIzzix Bottled Up die. 

To create this card, I started by cutting the bottles out of some Mixed Media Heavystock and painting them with DIstress Paint in Shaded Lilac, Picked Raspberry and Dried Marigold mixed with a bit of Dina Wakley Glazing Medium. 

 

Once the bottles were dry, I painted over them with a VERY generous layer of Distress Rock Candy Crackle Paint. When that was dry, I inked the edges of the bottles with Pumice Stone Distress Ink. 

 

I inked up a background panel of Distress Watercolor cardstock with Antique Linen Distress Spray Stain and dried it with a heat tool. Then I stamped the entire Tiny Text stamp set onto the block by inking the entire stamp and misting it with water and pressing my inked panel on top of it. 

 

To create the “bouquets” I cut a bunch of hearts in coordinating colors from felt using the Falling Hearts dies. I also cut very tiny thin strips of Metallic Kraft Core Cardstock from the Metallic 3 pad using my Tonic Trimmer and then running them through a Xyron sticker maker so they would be easy to adhere. I die cut a strip from the Crochet 2 dies to use to ground the vases on the background. To finish off the card, I cut a tiny tag from the Sizzix Framelits Tag Collection and added a little sentiment using remnant rubs. 

 

 

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