Road Trip...

Hey,

Happy weekend ;)

Yes it is my weekend.

I am on my way to Jenn Shurkus' loft art retreat in Providence, I am being driven there by Cheiron - I love a road trip with Cheiron and a loft art retreat, so I have been super excited for weeks.

I thought it was only fitting that I play along with the latest Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge.

Both Jenn are Cheiron are on the SSS DT, on different challenges. They both inspire me a great deal and to top it of they are awesome, friendly, fun ladies.

The challenge this week is Happy Birthday as SSS celebrates 7 years in business. The DT are using Simon Says Exclusives..which is awesome as I love their stuff.

I just happened to have the latest cardkit on my desk, so I used the spotty stamps and the Happy Birthday sentiment from the set.

I stamped the spots in yellow ink first, went over them with embossing ink and then used yellow embossing powder over it. I stamped the embossing ink slightly away from the yellow ink, because I wanted a smudged look.

I splattered calligraphy ink over the panel to finish it off.

I had a plain yellow background originally, but it was a bit blah..so I embossed it with a Sizzix big dots folder and now I'm happy :)

Happy Birthday wishes to the Simon Says Stamp team, you are my favourite enablers and providers..

I know I'm going to be having a fun weekend, I hope you do too.

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