Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Tea Bags used on Tags

"Food or Drink" is this week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge theme, so I decided to incorporate tea bags into my tags.  I love using teabags for the texture they bring and because they're a great surface to spray, paint or stamp on.

I started by sprinkling Paper Artsy Infusions color stain onto some tea bags and spritzing them with water.

Once they dried, I added some paint, stenciling (using Tim Holtz's Gradient Dots) and scribbling (Distress Watercolor Pencils).

Next I grabbed some AALL & Create tags to use as the base for my tea bag tags.  These are from the Rainbow Reflections and Faded Memories ephemera sets.

I cut the top and bottom edges of my teabags off and glued the center of the teabags to the tags.

 

Then I glued the tops of the teabags (the part with the drawstring) to the tops of the tags. I blended the teabags into the tags with paint.

My tags needed another element, so I cut some shapes out of Kraft cardstock and AALL & Create dies.

I painted the Kraft pieces with paint.

I glued the layers together and added some pieces of patterned paper from Amy Tangerine's Paper Play book.  I also put paper behind the empty number spaces I'd cut so the numbers would stand out a little more.  I did some final blending and scribbling and added some pops of color to the #17 tag, which I felt needed a little more oomph.

To finish off the tags, I stamped some sentiment words from Tim Holtz's THMM137 stamp and stencil set.  These tea bag tags were done!

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

• Paper Artsy Infusions Colored Stain: Blackcurrant, Violet Storms, Royal Blood, Emerald Isle, Lemoncello
• Tim Holtz Gradient Dots Stencils
• Dina Wakley Paint
• Distress Watercolor Pencils: Set 1, Set 4, Set 6
• AALL & Create: Rainbow Reflections and Faded Memories Ephemera Packs 
• Sizzix Big Shot
• Paper Play Collage Paper Book
• Tim Holtz Stamp and Stencil Set: THMM137
• Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink

We're excited to see the ways that you incorporate food/drink this week!  Upload your projects to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog for your chance to win a $25 voucher to the Simon Says Stamp store!

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Flying Girl Tag using Kate Crane's KC006 Stamp

Hello, hello and welcome to another new challenge over at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog!  Our theme this week is "Things with Wings."  I thought, why not add wings to a human?  So I went with this wonderfully quirky girl image from Kate Crane and did just that.

I started by stamping the girl and coloring her with Distress Watercolor Pencils.  Then I cut a pointy hat from a piece of Tim Holtz Backdrops 4 paper.

I cut the tag shape out of Distress Heavystock and used Gina K's Beautiful Bookmarks die set.  I glued some Dina Wakley Ledger 1 paper to the background and added some white acrylic paint.  Then I got out some Doodlebug plaid washi tape and created a rectangular frame shape on the tag.  Next I scribbled around the edges with Distress Watercolor Pencils and added more paint to blend things in.

Since this challenge was all about wings, I stamped some polka dots onto newsprint using Tim Holtz's Mixed Media 2 stamp set and Distress Ink.  Then I cut out the wing shapes and outlined them with a black pen.

My tag needed a little more visual pow, so I scribbled some scallop shapes at the top and painted them in.  I also added some black blotch/dot shapes that sort of looked like they represented flight.  I outlined the tag with a black pen.

I glued wings to my girl and glued my girl to the tag.  I added a final touch of some Tim Holtz cello sticker tape here and there.  This tag was ready for take off!

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

• Kate Crane: KC006 Stamp Set
• Gina K Designs: Beautiful Bookmarks Die Set
• Tim Holtz Backdrops, Volume 4
• Distress Watercolor Pencils: Sets 3 and 4
• Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink
• Distress Heavystock
• Dina Wakley Ledger Paper, Set 1
• Doodlebug Party Plaid Washi Tape
• Tim Holtz Mixed Media 2 Stamp Set
• Distress Ink: Peacock Feathers
• Sizzix Big Shot
• Tim Holtz Cello Sticker Tape

We are excited to see all the ways you incorporate wings into your projects this week!  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.

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Stencil Fun Bookmark with Brutus Monroe Uptown Girl Creative Cards

This week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge theme is stencil fun!  I love polka dots, so I used a polka dot stencil to make the background of this bookmark.  I enjoyed using Brutus Monroe's Rainy Day Cards last week, so I decided to try another set: Uptown Girl Creative Cards.  This is the result:

I started by cutting out a background using AALL & Create's SkyCrossed Paradise die set and I chose which Brutus Monroe card I would use.

I used paint and Dina Wakley's Dotted Tape stencil to decorate my background paper.  I trimmed down my die-cut paper and also cut around the girl image.  I picked out a piece of patterned paper from Amy Tangerine's Paper Play book to incorporate, too.

I put all of the elements together like so.  Then I decided to make a tab at the top (from Elizabeth Crafts' die set) and I stamped this great little sentiment from a Tim Holtz stamp set.

And here is the finished product with some fabric strips and strings at the top.

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

• Brutus Monroe Uptown Girl Creative Cards
• AALL & Create SkyCrossed Paradise Die Set
• Dina Wakley Paint
• Dina Wakley Dotted Tape Stencil
• Paper Play Book
• Elizabeth Crafts Tag Pack Die Set
• Sizzix Big Shot
• Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink
• Tim Holtz Theories Stamp Set

We're excited to see what you do with stencils this week!  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!