Framed by Love!

The theme over on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge this week is "Love Notes". You can be as off-the-wall in your interpretation of the theme as you like, so why not put on your thinking caps and see what you can come up with!  Create something and enter it into the challenge and you will be in the running for a $50 shopping voucher at Simon Says Stamp!

As Valentine's Day is fast approaching I certainly went with the "love" on this framed piece but I also included a nod to "letters" with the postage edge on the central panel.  I started out by stamping and colouring the leaves and bird on the frame mount.  The heart was cut from a vintage book page and then edged with fired brick distress ink and fixed in place.

I cut the postal edge from white card and fixed a panel from the Seasonal Stash to it, using another panel for the background in the frame mount.  I stamped the "14" and then stamped it again on white card, colouring the numbers, cutting them out and fixing them to the main panel which was then fixed in place.  I added the newsy bird, calendar page and ticket.

There you go, that's my craft room all loved up and ready for the 14th :)

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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Wyatt in the Shadows

The theme over on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge this week is "This is where the cowboy rides away".  The words are taken from a song so you can feel free to create something inspired by a song you love, or any kind of wild west or cowboy theme, even if it's only the colours of the desert, a sheriff's star, it's up to you imagination :)  Create something and enter it into the challenge and you will be in the running for a $50 shopping voucher at Simon Says Stamp!

I'm not particularly a cowboy fan, in fact I've never liked watching western movies but somehow I managed to drag the name "Wyatt Earp" from the depths of my memory - I only hope this looks like him!  Did he have a droopy moustache?  I kinda feel like he did, but if not, then he does now! :)

I started by stamping the Stampers Anonymous Heavy Metal Quilt stamp onto white cardstock and colouring some of the metal plates with Promarkers.  I tore a piece of card from the French Industrial paper stash and added that to the panel.  I stamped the moustache from the Ringmaster Blueprint set and coloured it with Promarker and then set about building up the face from a variety of sources.  The hair, nose and lips came from the David stamp in the Artful Artifacts set and the eyes came from 2 stamps in the Classics #5 set.  The name came from the Worn Text stamp set and the star was from the Psychedelic Grunge stamp set.

That's Wyatt :)  It might be a small thing but I'm particularly pleased with his hair on the left edge of the card.  The David stamp that provided the hair doesn't have a left side, so I built that part using leftover bits from the right side.  I think if you didn't know that you would never suspect it.  Come to that, why did I spoil it by telling you? :)

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! :)

Don't forget, Simon Says Stamp have a great Facebook page too!  Check them out here!