Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Something New with AALL & Create's Penned with Love, Heartnook, and Petal Pottery Dies

 Welcome to 2025 and another Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge.  Fittingly, the theme is "something new".  We are also highlighting products from AALL & Create.  I love this brand and use their products all the time!  For this week's project, I utilized some of their newer dies to make a collaged MemoryDex card.

I started by using the Penned with Love MemoryDex file card, which I cut out of Distress Kraft Heavystock paper.  I cut the inside out of Dina Wakley ledger paper.  I did some stamping on the ledger paper with AALL & Create's Vocabulary Blend stamp set.  Even though I knew I'd be covering most of it up, it always helps me to fill in the empty space with something until a plan comes together!

Next I cut some circles and rings using AALL & Create's Heartnook die set.  I glued down the circle shapes and added some paint.

After some looking and tweaking, I decided I didn't like the look of four circles for this particular project, so I pulled off the right two circles/rings to let more of the lettering show through.  On the left side, I added some AALL & Create Power Words washi tape and painted some new circle shapes, which I glued down and outlined with black pen.  I also stamped some numbers from AALL & Create's Bits of Alpha stamp set and glued them all around the edges.

I grabbed AALL & Create's Petal Pottery dies and cut some of them out of black paper.  I was intrigued with the shape of the vases as with anything else, so I cut some extra vases and turned them different ways.

I played around with the black vase-shapes some more, cut them up, then glued them to the background for some abstract-ish shapes.

The vase shapes were pretty bold, so I toned them down with a little bit of white paint.  For the finishing touches, I typed up a sentiment, did some final stamping and painting on the card and it was done!

Here are the supplies I used that you can find at Simon Says Stamp:

• AALL & Create: Penned with Love Die Set
• AALL & Create: Heartnook Die Set
• AALL & Create: Petal Pottery Die Set
• AALL & Create: Bits of Alpha Clear Stamps
• AALL & Create: Vocabulary Blend Clear Stamps
• AALL & Create: Power Words Washi Tape
• Dina Wakley Ledger 2 Paper
• Dina Wakley Paint: White, Lemon, Raspberry, Mustard
• Distress Kraft Heavystock
• Sizzix Big Shot
• Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink

We're excited to see how you incorporate this week's "new" theme!  Upload your creations to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog for your chance to win a $25 voucher to the Simon Says Stamp store.