Sea Life Display Dome - Simon Says Stamp Blog Hop

Hello! Welcome to my post for the Simon Says Stamp blog hop featuring six new coordinating dies to match six of our favorite Tim Holtz Stamps.

If you are hopping in order, you came from Mindy Eggen's blog and will be going to Barb Engler's blog after this. Thank you so much for taking a few minutes to check out my makes with the stamps for this release. I appreciate you!

 

HOP ORDER:

Simon Says Stamp Blog 

Nina-Marie Trapani

Cheiron Brandon

Heather Hoffman

Nichol Spohr

Emma Williams

Barbara Tarayao

Kath Stewart

Tina Smith

Mindy Eggen

Tami Bastiaans

Barb Engler

 

For today's hop I made these Idea-ology Display Domes featuring the Sealife stamps and dies as well as Moth Study. These little cuties were pretty easy to make. And if my explanations below aren't clear, I do have a video tutorial coming soon!

I used Sea Life and Moth Study for these domes.

I stamped the seahorse from Sea Life in Crackling Campfire and Ground Espresso onto Mixed Media Heavystock. You can see from right to left that I merely changed up the amount of each color I put on the stamp.

Color in any blank spaces with a waterbrush and a coordinating color of Distress Ink before die cutting.

One last touch was to add some darkspots with a dark brown marker, I also added some white stripes and white speckles here and there as well. The coloring was inspired from a picture I saw of some sea horses and I liked the Nemo feel to this one.

Once all of your images are stamped and colored, then find the coordinating die and cut them all out.

I used memo pins from Tim Holtz Idea-ology to attach to the back of each piece with Distress Collage Medium.

Here is the view from the back.

Put some Distress Grit Paste Crypt on the top of the cork base. Then gather the items to start assembling. I used some green moss from the floral department to fill in any little gaps and cover up problem areas.

Begin assembling the piece by pressing the focal stamp (in this case the seahorse) in the middle of the cork. Then build out from there, checking now and again to be sure it all fits under the dome.

I pressed the pieces with the memo pins into the cork. Then I cut the second piece of seaweeed in half so I could go in front of the seahorse without covering too much. Just enough to cover the part of the pin that was showing. I added a little collage medium to the base and stuck it in the Grit Paste, then used moss to help hold it up until it dried.

Add some moss around the rest of the pieces on the base and you are almost finished.

Here is a side view to see the space between pieces.

I cut a 1/2" strip of the water looking paper from Tim Holtz Palette Teal to go around the bottom lip of the glass dome. Then I added a sentiment die cut strip with Tiny Text stamped on it. The strip with postage stamps went around my second dome with the Moth Study elements.

Here is the finished seahorse die. 

Isn't it such a fun little vignette?

I love the colors and all the seaweed.

That is it for today's Sea Life Display Domes.

Thank you for visiting and enjoy the rest of the hop!

Tami

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Grateful Heart Card - Floral Elements Coordinating Dies

 

Simon Says Stamp has done it again! Their latest release of exclusive coordinating dies for some of our favorite Tim Holtz stamps. There is something for everyone with this release.

I made a card with the Floral Elements CMS445 and Floral Elements dies 445SSS. Both are linked below.

I used the leaf stamp from Floral Elements to stamp the background with Distress Paint in Forest Moss.  

I added the bee from Tiny Things 2 which is also part of this release.

Aren't the flowers in this set so lovely? I stamped them with Distress Paint and colored them in with Distress Inks.

At the bottom of the card I stamped on of the Crochet Trims and then cut it out with the coordinating SSS dies from a previous release. Then I used one of the Tiny Text dies to cut out the sentiment. 

The card front was machine stitched and attached to a kraft card base. 

Thank you so much for checking out the details of this piece.

Have a creative day,

Tami

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Winnie's Vacations - Tim Holtz Colorize

How exciting is it that several of the colorize dies have been re-release and mini versions have also been added. I love the accessory options too!

It's going to be so fun to put these back to use and to look back at projects made before.

 

 Today I am sharing a tutorial on my process for making an Idea-ology Reliquary Dome into a tropical vacation with Mini Winifred or as I like to call her Mini Winnie.

I made a seashore and ocean waves with Distress Texture Pastes.

Then I made a palm tree from twisted natural wrapped wire

Winnie's glasses are made with mica.

Flowers from both sets of accesories were used to make the lei. 

Cut Out Leaves make fabulous tropical leaves.

That's it for Mini Winnie's tropical vacation. 

 

Thank you so much for stopping by. Below are the links to the products used for today's tutorial. 

Have a creative day,

Tami 

 

Below are my affiliate links to the products used for today's reliquary dome. 

Howdy Folks! Layout

I thought the recent western release from Whimsy Stamps would be perfect for a frontierland themed layout. I haven't done too many layouts in the last several years, but I am hoping to get back to doing more scrapbooking in the next few years. 

Here is a little tutorial showing how I put this layout together. 

 

 I used the Cottage Core papers which are 6x6 but I was able to piece them together and make this 12x12 layout come together.

 

The title uses the Rope and Barb die set and the Howdy Word Die.

I added a few scraps in the top corner and if you look on the cream paper, you can see the faint burlap stamping I did in the corners of the cream 12x12 paper.

The theme of this page was about the goat in the Disneyland version of Big Thunder Ranch Railroad. Everyone loves to look for the goat when you are on the ride. 

 

So I added this older stamp called Cranky Pants because I thought the goat perched on the stenciled bluff would be funny! 

 

The stenciled bluffs were from the new Rustic Landscape Layering Stencil. It fits a Slimline sized card, but I stretched it to fit across the entire bottom of the 12x12 paper. 

 

I added the cracked texture to the stenciling by stamping through the stencil with the Chippy Paint stamp.  Then I added pieces of the barbed wire frame from the Rope and Barbed Die Set 

 

 I thought I would add something that some people have said over the years. I made this sentiment by cutting out words from the different sentiments on the Cranky Pants stamps.

Thank you for being here! Have a creative day!

Tani

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Aloha! Tropical Makes - Whimsy Stamps

I designed a small make and take project for an event using Whimsy Stamps products. The theme of the event was tropical paradise, so I reached for a few Whimsy stamps products. This was the basic Make and Take. I cut a white cardstock base for a mat from the Mini Slim Notched Dies. I also cut a piece of Tropical Flowers 6x6 paper a little smaller than the mat. Then I cut a piece of vellum one size smaller to tone down the beautiful floral paper. 

Some of the images from the Aloha Kids stamps were stamped on watercolor paper, watercolored and then fussy cut to make a tropical scene on the Mini Notched shape. 

This one was turned into a bookmark. 

For this make and take, I added it to the middle of a journal page with a spot for a photo and room for journaling at the bottom. The Tropical Floral background stamp was used to add a bit of color to the top and bottom of the journal page. In addition to the Make and Take images and background, I added some of the Hiscus Flower dies for texture and added tropical color and dimension. 

For this A2 card I reached for a 6x6 piece of the Tropical Florals Paper Pack and ut a background for a card, Then I watercolor stamped a background on Watercolor Paper using the Tropical Floral Background stamp. then I added the ifussy cut mages included in the make and take. 

Lastly I added the make and take to a tropical scrapbook layout. The make and take made for a fun title piece, Then I stamped the Tropical Floral Background Stamp in two corners. I added some 3x6 pieces of paper from the Tropical Florals paper pack with photo mats on top of them. In the bottom I added a tropical scene from the Build an Island die set. 

These are all really simple idea to use these tropical make and takes as well as some other Whimsy  Stamps tropical products. 

Below are links to all the products and don't forget to use the playswellwithpaper discount if you purchase  from the Whimsy Stamps store for 10% off.  

Thank you so much for checking these tropical ideas out,

Tami

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