Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Tag Trio using Carabelle Studio's Fairy Town and Little People Stamp Sets

Hello, hello and happy 2022!  It's January 3rd and so far, so good!  We are jumping right into the new year with a challenge theme of Something NEW over at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog.  It seemed like the perfect excuse to buy some new stamps from Carabelle Studio, which we're also featuring, and which I was only too glad to do.  I then proceeded to make a tag trio with these fantastically quirky stamp images.

I started by stamping the images on white cardstock with Ranger Jet Black Archival ink, fussy-cutting them out, and decorating them with washi tape and paint.  The stamp sets I used are called Fairy Town and Little People.  Once the paint dries, I like to go back in and outline the black stamp lines with a black pen or marker if they got too faded out under all that paint.

And what, oh what, to attach the tags to?  I went with these adorable mini tags from Studio Light (Art by Marlene: So-fish-ticated).  I used Ranger Kraft paper and Strathmore Mixed Media white paper for the double-layers here.

I don't know why I bothered to use Kraft paper, because I ended up covering all that lovely cardboardy brown with different layers of acrylic paint (eyeroll to myself).  It is the endless cycle of painting colors, then painting white over it to tone it down, then painting more colors, then more white...it would drive you nuts to watch in live action, but there you have it.  Once I had the color on, I wanted to add some faint black-and-white line imagery, so I stamped more images onto my painted tags.

I laid my fussy-cut images on top of the tags and that's when I realized that the square tag looked a little sparse with just the mushroom on it, so I stamped, cut, and decorated another image to add to the tag.

With all of my forefront pieces done and the backgrounds ready, I glued everything together and was done!  Here's a close-up of each:

These little tags were fun to make and the images were fantastic from the get-go!

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

Carabelle Studio Fairy Town Stamps	Carabelle Studio Little People Stamp Set	Studio Light Mini Tags, So-Fish-Ticated	AALL & Create Inspire Washi Tape	AALL & Create BE A REBEL LIGHT 34 Washi Tape aalwt34	Tim-Holtz-85-X-11-DISTRESS-KRAFT-HEAVYSTOCK-Ranger	Strathmore Mixed Media 6x8 Paper
Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE acrylic paint	Dina Wakley Turquoise paint	Dina Wakley Umber acrylic paint	Dina Wakley Black Acrylic Paint	Dina Wakley Ranger BLACKBERRY 1OZ Media Acrylic Paints MDQ53958	Dina Wakley Ranger NIGHT acrylic paint	Dina Wakley Lime paint
Dina Wakley Peacock Acrylic Paint	Dina Wakley Carnation Heavy Body Acrylic Paints	Dina Wakley Olive Acrylic paint	Dina Wakley LEMON Media Acrylic Paint	Dina Wakley Fuchsia Acrylic Paint	Dylusions Lemon Drop paint	Dylusions Pure Sunshine paint
Dylusions Strawberry Daquiri Paint	Dylusions Tropical Sangria	Dylusions Periwinkle Blue paint	Dylusions Polished Jade paint	Dylusions Cherry Pie acrylic paint	Dylusions Calypso Teal Paint	ranger archival jet black ink pad
Ranger Inkssentials Non Stick CRAFT SHEET Reusable 15 X 18 Stamp Paint Ink	UHU Glue Stick

How will you celebrate NEW 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: Scrappy Notebooks using Dina Wakley's Collage Collective

PARTYYYYYY is this week's theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog.  Party, to me, in a crafty sense, is being able to let loose and have fun and not worry about perfection.  To that end, I created these three scrappy notebooks using a page from Dina Wakley's Collage Collective as a base layer.

Things get busy this time of year, so I decided to make the covers of these notebooks using one of Dina Wakley's collages.  That meant that I didn't have to start from scratch and that's a time saver!  Here's a picture of the printed collage picture I used, which is in Dina's Collage Collective 2, Volume 1.

I decided to tweak this collage with paint and pattern marks (not that I think I'm better than Dina Wakley, mind you).  I made the marks using Scribble Sticks and a black Distress crayon and I slathered on white paint using a palette knife.  Here's how it looked after I was done with it:

What to do next?  I decided to cut this up and make some mini notebooks.  I cut the page into thirds and stamped on some adorable little creatures from AALL & Create's Up Up and Away stamp set.

Then I stamped some text onto paper (courtesy of Tim Holtz's Theories stamp set) and tore up some patterned paper and leftover scraps from previous projects.

I decided to add some painted stars, which I made with white paint and Simon's Scattered Stars stencil.  When this was done, I glued the scraps onto the covers of my notebooks.

And now for the insides!  I stacked up scraps of random paper I had and punched holes in the middle using the Crop-A-Dile.  I used waxed thread to bind the pages together and bind the cover to the pages.

Here's how we were looking on the inside after assembly:

I sewed some fabric scraps into long narrow ribbon, which I tied around the books to keep them closed.  I also glued some fabric scraps to the covers here and there.  Here's a view from the front:

And a view from the back:

Here are each of them individually:

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

Dina Wakley Collage Collective 2, Volume 1	Simon Says Stamp Scattered Stars Stencil	AALL & Create Up Up and Away stamp set	Ranger Dina Wakley Scribble Sticks	Tim Holtz Distress Crayons SET 3	Dreamweaver Palette Knife	Simple Stories Family Fun 12x12 Paper Pack
Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE acrylic paint	Dina Wakley Ranger LAPIS 1 oz Media Acrylic Paint	Dina Wakley Ranger Blushing acrylic paint	Dina Wakley Turquoise paint	Dina Wakley LEMON Media Acrylic Paint	Dina Wakley Olive Acrylic paint	Dina Wakley Carnation Heavy Body Acrylic Paints
Dylusions Pure Sunshine paint	Dylusions Strawberry Daquiri Paint	Dylusions Calypso Teal Paint	ranger archival jet black ink pad	*We R Memory Keepers CROP-A-DILE Eyelet and Snap Punch Pink

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How will you get the party started?  Upload your creations to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog for your chance to party with a $25 voucher to the Simon Says Stamp store!