Pure Sunshine with Simon Says Stamp...

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I hope you've had or are having a wonderful weekend. Mine has been full of sunshine both outdoors and indoors. Confused? Well Simon Says Stamp have just released their new collection: Pure Sunshine. I can't quite believe it, but I was lucky enough to score some pure sunshine from SSS in the mail inviting me to join in the release fun. A total surprise! So pure sunshine has been inside at my desk as I've been busy with the fabulous Scribble Flowers stamp set and coordinating Scribble Flowers die set. 

Today's creations focus on the die set. I can't get over how versatile those shapes are and I always love to get more bang for my buck by being able to use dies alone without the stamp set. So first up is a simple card that was inspired by the famous art piece by Wassily Kandinsky - Colour Study: Squares and Concentric Circles (1913).

Now it's loosely based on this concept as I omitted the squares and changed the colour but you get the idea, right? :)

So after these dies reminded me of such a iconic piece of art work I then got thinking to food. It doesn't take much for me to think of food but these dies totally had me thinking of eggs and bacon.

Hee hee! Yup, scribble flowers transform into eggs and bacon before your very eyes! The egg was easy-peasy and create and the bacon was created by colouring some stems with Promarkers and gluing them together.

I added a couple of details with the help of Glossy Accents for a shiny yolk and my clear Wink of Stella pen for some sizzling, shining fat on my bacon. Yummy! :)

And after creating this card, I simply had to stop to eat - ha!

I have more creations to share later that use the beautiful Scribble Flowers stamp set but I'll have to share them later: I'm getting hungry again! ;)

Thank you so much for stopping by here today. Every single visit/comment is truly appreciated! :)

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Love Blossoms...

This is my second post of the day today. Please scroll down or click here to check out my CASE Study card - thanks! :)

Hey!

Well it's feeling more like summer than spring right now as a bit of sunshine and heat hits the UK. I'm hoping that it's going to stay here for the weekend. Fingers crossed! :)

It's slightly delayed due the the delay of the release this month, but it's time for a new Clearly Besotted Stamps challenge. We're asking you to join in the fun and be inspired by this colour combo:

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Obviously you don't have to go with a flower theme too but I couldn't resist. I love blossom - it's nature's version of confetti. It also reminds me that it's the time of year that students should start knuckling down to revising for exams if they haven't already!

I hadn't inked up these blossoms yet from the CBS set, Love Blossoms but I'm glad I have now. So pretty! The two step stamp design allowed me to stamp the centres in a light purple though it's difficult to see on my picture.

• I used a darker shade of grey than the ink I used for the branch to provide more contrast. Using the same shade of card as the ink lost focus on the branch entirely!
• The leaves on the branch are created by selectively inking a leaf from the Bridal Bouquet stamp set. 
• Never feel that you have to use the blossom stamps on the branch (they're hard to resist though!) I think I may hang a bauble from this branch for a future Christmas card. :) 

I really hope you can join in the fun with us. Be inspired by the colours and get creative! Check out the full deets of the challenge, and the rest of the CBS DT's creations over on the Clearly Besotted Blog.

Wishing you a wonderful weekend filled with sunshine and rising temperatures! ;)

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Hello, beautiful stamp set...

Hey!

I'm still having a ton of fun with my watercolours thanks to the current Online Card Class: Watercolor class and some fabulous new goodies from Simon Says Stamp. As soon as I saw this stamp set (designed by Mama Elephant for SSS) I just knew it had to come and live here!

This card was so simple to make but took time to paint. It's definitely one of those cards you can't make in a hurry! I created a rectangular mask and stamped the different flowers/leaves over it before then painting it. I'm no gardener and I've no idea what colour these flowers should really be, so there's a bit of artistic licence here...*wink*

I used a combination of  watercolour pencil crayons and some Twinkling H2O watercolours with added shimmer in them. It's really hard to capture the shimmery goodness, but it looks super pretty IRL. :)

• I stamped my sentiment a little off-centre - boo! To balance it, I punched a tiny heart from gold Cricut Iron On Material and adhered it. 
• The real time consuming part of this card was waiting for parts of my painting to dry before adding more layers of colour. If you're really impatient, you could always blast wet sections with a heat gun. 
• I tried to balance my stamping. There's nothing really random about it! Where I stamped one flower, I then stamped it again in the opposite corner.  

Well, that's enough gardening for one day. Though I have a feeling that this stamp set is going to be inked up a lot more when I can find the time to play some more!

Thank you so much for stopping by here today!

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