Simon Says Stamp Dear Friend release Blog Hop Day 2

I'm so happy to be part of the new Simon Says Stamp Dear Friend Blog Hop Day 2. If you would like to see the entire release just click HERE.

Simon is offering a chance for a $25 shopping spree! All you have to do is leave a comment here to enter.  Leave a comment on each stop of the hop for more chances to win. Good luck! I have made 3 cards for this hop today using some of the amazing products from the Dear Friend release. Each card uses the emboss resist technique with distress inks.

I made this card using an A2 card base from smooth white cardstock. I then stamped one of the beautiful flowers from the Blissful Bouquet stamp set onto watercolor cardstock and heat set it using gold embossing powder. I then water colored each flower and leaf using distress ink and water with a paintbrush. I then die cut them out using the coordinating dies and arranged them on a piece of white cardstock and trimmed off the excess. I then adhered that panel to the card base. I die cut the Fancy Hello die from gold cardstock and popped it up using foam squares. I also embossed the sub-sentiment using gold embossing powder onto a white strip of cardstock.

I made this card using an A2 card base made from smooth white cardstock. I then trimmed down a panel of watercolor cardstock. I stamped the large image from the Modern Quilt Heart stamp set using clear sticky ink and heat set it using white embossing powder. I then pulled out some of my favorite colors of distress ink and a paintbrush and with no rhyme or reason I started to add distress ink mixed with water. I then went in and painted some of the areas with gold paint and used some of that gold paint to add some splatters for a bit of shine. I hot foiled a sentiment from the Elegantly Modern Greetings set using gold glimmer foil and die cut it out using the coordinating die. I popped it up with some foam adhesive. I added some sequins around the sentiment to spice it up.

This last card was also made with an A2 card base from smooth white cardstock. I then trimmed down a panel of watercolor paper to leave a bit of a white border. I stamped the Peony Background image on the panel using clear embossing ink and heat set it using white embossing powder. I then used some distress ink and water to create a bright wash over the embossed image just using a paintbrush. I used the same distress ink to add some splatters. I set it aside to dry while I die cut out the Hey Girl Hey sentiment from white and gold cardstock. I used some foam tape to pop up the sentiment from the water colored panel.

I hope you are enjoying your time hopping with us today! Lots of inspiration and even more if you visit the Dear Friend Gallery. I have provided affiliate links to all the supplies I used to make each card for your convenience. Thank you so much for stopping by! Happy hopping!

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Here is the list of stops on this hop:

Simon Says Stamp Blog  

Laura Bassen

Nichol Spohr

Cathy Zielske

Barbara Tarayao 👈 you are here!

Mindy Eggen

Keisha Charles

Anna-Karin Evaldsson

Heather Ruwe

Alberto Gava

Miriam Prantner

Sandi MacIver

Barb Engler

Jennifer Kotas