In front of every great woman...

...is a man trying to take all the credit!  Or so my twist on the original saying would have it.  You know what they say, many a true word spoken in jest!

The theme over on the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge this week is "backgrounds".  I loooove background stamps, such a great way to give quick texture and dimension to a project.  I lucky enough to get several of the Darkroom Door background stamps for Christmas last year, and I've used the woodgrain one here, stamped twice, once horizontally and once vertically.

I coloured the background with Promarkers and then stamped the Dina Wakley Silhouette Script figure.  The man was stamped separately on another manilla tag and coloured with 5 shades of warm grey.  His watch and collar were highlighted with a white pen then he was cut out and fixed in place.

The ticket is a Memory Box stamp and I hand-drew the lettering on it  then cut it out and fixed it in place.  There ya go, that's all there was to it! :)  Looking at this now, two weeks after I made it, I love how richly detailed that woodgrain in the background is!

Supplies I used included:

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Our ever-generous sponsor Simon Says Stamp is offering a $50 gift voucher as the prize again this week, just make something for the challenge and you could the winner! The winner will be chosen at random from those who enter the challenge, so why not give it a try? At the very least why not head over to the Challenge Blog to see how the other members of the design team have interpreted this weeks theme! :)

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Fly my pretties...fly!

The theme over on the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge is "fly".  Isn't that a great theme?  So many possibilities for things you can do with it, no excuse for not having a try and you might win a prize!  I decided to combine several winged things into one card, adding wings to the silhouetted figure.

As I mentioned over on the challenge blog, those of you who visit my blog regularly will know that the winged man from the Winged Things 2 stamp set is one of my favourites.  Naturally, when I saw that the theme was "fly", that image popped straight into my head.  I thought that this time I'd give him a rest though, and used the boy from the same set instead.  He was stamped and coloured with Promarkers.

The background is the splatter background from Darkroom Door, stamped twice, once in Gathered Twigs and once in Fired Brick distress inks.  The cupid, on his first time out of the packaging, was stamped and then coloured with Aged Mahogany distress stain, then cut out.

The silhouette figure was stamped and cut out, then the heart was hand drawn with a Ruby promarker and edged with a white pen.  The wings were stamped and embossed with white powder then edged with a black promarker.  I used the same Ruby promarker to colour over the top of the white embossing powder.  I'm stoked to have stumbled across this technique (hey, I'm a slow learner, ok?), it basically means I effectively now have scores of colours of embossing powder, limited only by the range of promarkers I own!

It doesn't show up too well in the photos, but the figures are mounted on 3d foam at different heights for extra interest.

Supplies I used included:

InLinkz.com

Our ever-generous sponsor Simon Says Stamp is offering a $50 gift voucher as the prize again this week, just make something for the challenge and you could the winner! The winner will be chosen at random from those who enter the challenge, so why not give it a try? At the very least why not head over to the Challenge Blog to see how the other members of the design team have interpreted this weeks theme! :)
Don't forget, Simon Says Stamp have a great Facebook page too!  Check them out here!