Field Notes - Simon Says Stamp Coordinating Dies Blog Hop

Welcome to the Simon Says Stamp Blog Hop featuring exclusive coordinating dies to match Tim Holtz stamps. I hope you are enjoying the inspiration from all of the blog hop participants today. 

My YouTube tutorial can be found here: https://youtu.be/2u-sChe2RqI?si=pAH696GFTEc5NR0O

I've chosen to use the Field Notes stamps and dies for my card today. 

Begin by gathering your supplies. You need the Field Notes Stamps and coordinating dies. I also used Tiny Text CMS394 and Mesh & Linen CMS221, along with other supplies that area all linked below.

Begin by watercolor stamping a background. I used the Mesh stamp from Mesh & Linen CMS221. Both stamps in this set make fantastic backgrounds for a wide variety of stamps and I highly recommend it as a super versatile background stamp. I inked it up with Antique Linen, then some Crushed Olive and ended with a bit of Speckled Egg. 

Once you have the inks on the stamp, spray it with some water until you can see it beading up. Then stamp on an A2 piece of Distress Mixed Media Heavystock. I usually press it down with my hand in one corner and then move it to the opposite bottom corner and press it down there so it isn't a complete background stamp, there will be holes or gaps in the pattern.

Next, using Speckled Egg Distress Ink and a small stamping block, stamp many of the small text stamps from Field Notes all over the stamped background to add another layer, 

Once the background is stamped, stampp the images that have coordinating dies. I stamped most in Ground Espresso Archival Ink and a few in Speckled Egg Archival Ink. I colored them in with Crushed Olive, Speckled Egg and Rusty Hinge, with a bit of Antique Linen and Ground Espresso. 

Once the images are colored, lay the coordinating die on top of it and tape it down and run it through a die cut machine. 

Trim your background to 4x5.25. Then plan out where you want all of the die cut images. I lightly inked the edges of all of them with some Ground Espresso.

Some of the Field Notes I attached directly to the background. Others (as you can see here) I added a layer of scraps underneath so they were even when I attached them.

The last layer is to add some foam squares under three of the pieces that will be the last layers. I used the three clippings for this layer.

For a sentiment I stamped "never stop exploring" from the Tiny Text stamp set, in Ground Espresso Archival Ink and then colored it with Speckled Egg Distress Ink. I ripped the left edge and inked it with Ground Espresso Distress Ink before adhering it to the bottom right corner.

Ink the edges of the background and the edges of a kraft card base and then attach the whole card front to the card base.

The layers of stamping and then layers of die cuts and a great deal of interest and texture to the card.

The multiple. layers add interest and dimension.

The coordinating dies work perfectly wtih the stamps. They cut so beautifully!

Here it is completed. Thanks so much for stopping by to see my card!

If you are following the hop in order you are going to 

• Barb Engler 

HOP ORDER:

• Simon Says Stamp Blog 
• Nina-Marie Trapani
• Cheiron Brandon
• Heather Hoffman
• Stacy Hutchinson
• Jean Doeringsfeld
• Tami Bastiaans
• Barb Engler
• Emma Williams
• Jenn Shurkus

 

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