Layered Stamping with Distress Paints!

Hi there bloggers! {Stephanie} here with a quick intro to our special guest artist today, Britta Swiderski! If you follow our blog, I'm sure you're familiar with her and her work and we're pleased as pie to have her back for a fabulous new technique tutorial. Enjoy!
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Hey there! I'm pleased to stop by today to share a technique that I've been experimenting around with a lot lately - Layered Stamping with Distress Paints. When playing with these hot new products, I wanted to use their main distinct properties - their opaqueness and that they can be layered without interacting - to really experiment with these fabulous paints. That's how I started Layered Stamping with them. Watch the video to see the whole process:

Here's a better look at the finished card. Note how using sprays of water diluted the top layer to make it a little more transparent, but you can still clearly where both layers were stamped. There's so much dimension and texture here!

Another of my favorite parts of using these paints is the many applications. In the video, we used the Chipped Sapphire paint around the edges of each of the white pieces, and it adds so much dimension and a real sense that everything belongs together on the card. There are so many possibilities with these paints.

Plus, you can't forget about the enamel dots as a finishing touch. Try adding in some Metallic Decor dots from Hero Arts for another fun look. Metallics are a huge trend right now, and gold is here to stay. Embrace it by adding it to your smatterings of fun embellishments!

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial today and will give it a try with your set of distress paints. Thanks to Simon Says for having me stop by today!

Supplies:




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A Fun Neon Twist with Britta Swiderski & A Special GIVEAWAY!

 

Hi Bloggers! Happy Sunday to you! We're here today with special guest (and friend of Simon) Britta Swiderski! I love her artistic eye for color matching, and today is of no exception! Today, Britta is sharing with us how a hot trend (neon) can be combined with a hot brand (Lawn Fawn)! Check out the amazing card in its entirety below and then be sure to watch the video underneath to learn how to make your own version of this great card!!

Watch the video below or on YouTube:

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Thanks for reading today and thanks again to special guest artist Britta Swiderski!

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More Hero Arts Goodness with Britta Swiderski!

Hi there to all you NEON lovers! I have a really cool card made by the fabulous and super sweet Britta Swiderski! For the complete tutorial and how-to of how to make this card, be sure to visit her blog here!

We are still celebrating the release of the 2013 Hero Arts collection, and hope you are too, because there are LOTS of amazing product to see!!

It was total pure coincidence that she used my FAVORITE colors for this cool neon color mixing technique! Don't you just love it?

To make your own, grab the ingredients below:




I love how she combined neon pink & neon blue in this really cool "double stamping" technique to make a really pretty purple! Based on Britta's experimenting, she found some other really cool color combinations to try with "double stamping". Be sure to check out her blog for full details!

Thanks for reading today!

 

 

Steph  

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Britta Swiderski Creates with the Simon Says Stamp Brand!

Happy Saturday, Bloggers! We're going to dive right into today's content with Britta Swiderski! First, a quick bio & then on to creating with Simon Says Stamp exclusive products!! How exciting!!

Hey there! I'm so glad to be here on the Simon Says Stamp blog to help celebrate Stamptember™. Thanks for having me, Simon! Here's a little more about me:  

I'm a graphic design major at the University of Minnesota and have been scrapbooking, cardmaking and crafting for as long as I can remember. 

I love to explore new techniques and teach others about them, which led me to start up a blog several years ago, which has evolved into one of my great passions. I'm always itching to get creative as a break from my educational obligations! I also love to travel, read, and watch sports with my friends. You can check out my blog here and my youtube channel here.






Today, I wanted to show you a little technique that I've been obsessed with lately. I'm calling it Watermark Painting with Distress Ink. I'm a ginormous fan of Distress Inks and what they can do, and this technique shows off one of my favorite parts of Distress Ink - its interaction with water. 

Here's the step by step to create the background:

1. Ink your watercolor paper (Simon Says Stamp has the best watercolor paper!) with the lighter of your two Distress Inks evenly. Here, I used Tumbled Glass.

2. Ink heavily around the edges of the paper with the darker color (here, I used Salty Ocean from the Summer Seasonal Distress Inks). Blend the color in well using both blending tools for a very smooth look.

 
3. Get your Detail Water Brush flowing on a piece of scratch paper (no need to squeeze - just draw like you would with a brush marker) and then slowly draw circles onto your inked cardstock. The water takes a few seconds to react with the ink, so be patient!

4. For a larger line, squeeze lightly on the barrel of the waterbrush. This will create a little more bleeding and unpredictability, but the look is really nice when you want to change it up.

 
5. Continue across the rest of your cardstock, working from the center out and varying circle sizes. When the water has dried, you can go back over your circles with the water brush for an even more dramatic look.

 
This card is a nice happy one that I think I'll send to my mom. She's always the first person I think of when I think of home. :) The Where Your Heart Is Stamps and Dies set by Simon is perfect for this happy little background, and these shapes are so much fun to die cut, stamp and then color with Copics. Love! Since stamping is all about combining your sets and making the scene look just how you want it, I knew I wanted two different sizes of clouds, so I borrowed them from Lawn Fawn's Sunny Skies. It's a perfect match for this set when you want two sizes of clouds! I hope you enjoyed this fun background technique and give it a try this month in celebration of Stamptember™!

Supplies:



BONUS!! For an extra special coupon you'll only find on Britta's blog, be sure to hop on over and GRAB IT!


Steph





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Sewing on Cards: by Britta Swiderski!

Happy Saturday bloggers! How are you spending your weekend?  I hope that you are with those that make you happy and doing something fun! And speaking of fun...

When blog hopping a bit ago I came across this fabulous tutorial from Britta Swiderski on her tips and tricks of sewing on cards.  Rather you love to sew or just like the look of it without the work, we have an entire category devoted to SEWING FUN! To see Britta's tutorial in its entirety, please click HERE.  I'd like to provide a sampling of it...read on!

Here are some must have supplies:



 Sewing with Sew Easy:

Sewing with Sew Ribbon:

Changing the thread width:

Straight versus Running Stitch:

Wow! You really can get a lot of different looks on cards if you decide to use sewing as an added element.  Big thanks to Britta, once again for these awesome tips & don't forget to check out her blog to get the tutorial in its entirety!

Ingredients to make the cards above:

Steph

 

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