Simon Says Stamp Hello Gorgeous Release

 I am so thrilled to share a card I made for release day! Here is a link to see the whole Hello Gorgeous release.

I made this card using a top folding A2 size cardbase out of white cardstock. Then I cut a smaller panel out of white cardstock that I ink blended a stencil from the new release using Simon's Pawsitively Saturated inks. I used a background die from the new release to create some texture and then I die cut a circle out of that to frame my scene. I then stamped the birdie out using more of those inks. I die cut the birdie out along with the flowers, leaves, and branch from the same set. I'll list all inks I used below.

The Hello sentiment is die cut out of heavy white cardstock that is inked to match. I stamped the sentiment in coordinating ink and used a die cut sentiment strip to pop it up using foam adhesive.

To accent the sentiment I added some flat white pearls.

I hope you enjoyed my card today! If you are interested in any of the products I used to make this card, they are listed and linked below for your convenience. All supplies can be found at the Simon Says Stamp store.

Supplies:

Simon Says Stamp Sweet Birds clear stamps

Simon Says Stamp Sweet Birds with dies bundle

Simon Says Stamp Tin Tile Stencil

Simon Says Stamp Mandala Background die

Simon Says Stamp Nested Circle dies

Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturatated Ink Bubblegum

Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturatated Ink Cheeky

Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturatated Ink Sunbeam

Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturatated Ink Peachy

Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturatated Ink Cherry

Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturatated Ink Grapefruit

Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturatated Ink Pearfection

Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturatated Ink Cappuccino

Simon Says Stamp Hello wafer die

Simon Says Stamp Spring in my Step stamp set

Foam adhesive roll

Flat white pearls

Simon Says Stamp April 2022 Card Kit Life is a Party!

The new Simon Says Stamp Life is a Party card kit is here! Yay! If you want to see the entire card kit just clike HERE

 Oh the many many birthday and celebratory cards you can make is endless! So excited to get this kit. I need birthday cards constantly! I have seen so many adorabe cards made with this kit that I could not wait to sit down and play. The stamp set that comes in the kit had banner stamps which are my favorite so of course I had to make a banner birthday card.

I made this card using a top folding A2 size card base made out of smooth white cardstock. I then used a stitched rectangle die to cut a panel a bit smaller out of the same smooth white cardstock. I then stamped the banners from the stamp kit in a rainbow of oxide inks. I will list the colors I used below. I cut them out and added a piece of foam adhesive to the back of each one. Before I adhered them to the panel, using the coordinating colors, I ink blended a bit behind each banner for a more festive look. I then added the banners and glued some gold and white twine above the banners and added bows to each end. I then finished the banners off with some diamond stickles for some sparkle. 

I then took the Celebrate sentiment from the stamp set and stamped it in Saltwater Taffy oxide on white cardstock. I then cut it out and poped it up using some foam adhesive. I did the same thing to the Let's sentiment.

I hope you enjoyed my card today and if you are interested in any of the productus I used to make this card they are listed and linked below for your convience. All supplies can be found at the Simon Says Stamp store.

Supplies:

Simon Says Stamp Life is a Party stamp set (in kit)

Neenah Solar white cardstock

Gold and white twine

Simon Says Stamp stitched rectangle dies

Simon Says Stamp foam adhesive

Tim Holtz Twisted Citron oxide ink

Tim Holtz Fossilized Amber oxide ink

Tim Holtz Carved Pumkin oxide ink

Tim Holtz Saltwater Taffy oxide ink (in kit)

Tim Holtz Kitsch Flamingo oxide ink

Ranger Icicle Stickles

My Favorite Things Favorite Things

 Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge blog.

This week the challenge is Favorite Things

We are showcasing My Favorite Things products this week. You don't have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see what you make! As always just for entering you will be eligible for the the drawing of a $25 voucher to the Simon store!

This week's card was made using the Happy Cake Day die set from My Favorite Things. I made a square card just to change things up a bit! You can make your own envelope or it will easily fit into a regular A2 size envelope. 

I started with smooth white card stock for the card base. I then die cut a stitched scalloped circle out of light pink card stock and adhered it to the center of the card. I then die cut the cake out of the same white card stock as well as shades of pink card stock. If you don't have a variety of colors to die cut from, you can always ink up white card stock to achieve the color combination you desire for your cake layers.

Using the happy from the die set I die cut each letter again out of shades of pink as well as the sprinkles. I also used a seperate birthday die cut from the darkest of pink card stock. I added that underneath the happy to complete my sentiment. I then added some flat white pearls for a little interest.

I hope you enjoyed my card today and if you are interested in any of the productus I used to make this card they are listed and linked below for your convenience. All supplies can be found at the Simon Says Stamp store.

Supplies:

My Favorite Things Happy Cake Day dies

Simon Says Stamp Happy Birthday

Lawn Fawn Stitched Scalloped circle dies

Neenah Solar Smooth white card stock

Simon Says Stamp Doll pink card stock

Simon Says Stamp Cotton Candy card stock

Lawn Fawn Guava card stock

Hero Arts Coral card stock

Hero Arts Peony card stock

Simon Says Stamp A2 size envelopes 

White flat back pearls

Now it's you turn! Happy crafting!

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Simon Says Stamp Good Luck Charm Instagram Hop

 Good morning my lovelies! I am happy to participate in another fun Simon Says Stamp Instagram Hop. Hope you can can join along. Just head over to my Instagram page for all the details. We are featuring the Good Luck Charm release. You will get so see some amazing projects and hopefully get lots of inspiration!

The card I made for the hop was super fun to color. One of my favorite things to do is just sit down and color away! This beautiful dafodill background stamp was just pure color thereapy for me. I began to make this card with an A2 top folding card out of smooth white card stock. I then used a set of stitched rectangle dies to cut a panel a bit smaller than my card base out of smooth white card stock. I then stamped the dafodill background stamp using some very light dye ink. I wanted a no-line coloring look to my flowers. I then colored the flowers in using copic markers. I used Y17, YR14 and YR18 for the blooms and W1, W3 and W4 for the stems.

I wanted to add a bit of interest so I took the next size size down from the stitched rectangle dies and cut out another panel from the background I just colored. I was a little nervous about getting it right after all that coloring so I made sure to center it and used a piece of low tack tape to hold it in place while I ran it through my die cutting machine. I then added some foam adhesive to pop up the smaller panel and added it back to the card like a puzzle piece. For the sentiment I grabbed some vellum and stamped my sentiment using black pigment ink and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. I then used the next size down from the same stitched rectangle set to cut that out. Using vellum is a great way to add a large sentiment without covering up all your hard work! I then added a few details to the flowers with a black finetip marker and some black flat pearls.

Well I hope this inspires you to sit down and color away! If you have any questions, just leave me a comment. All the supplies I used for this card can be found at the Simon Says Stamp Store and are listed and linked below for your conveneice. Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!

Simon Says Stamp Daffodil Field Background stamp

Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangles Wafer dies

Simon Says Stamp CZ Clean Line Stacks stamps

Judikins Clear Detail Embossing powder

Hero Arts Hues Onyx Pigment black ink pad

Neehah Solar White cardstock

Copic Marker sets

Altenew Bit O' Green

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge blog.

This week the challenge is Bit O' Green!

We are showcasing Altenew Products this week. You don't have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see what you make! As always for entering you will be eligible to be entered into the drawing for a $25 voucher to the Simon store!

This week's card was made using the wonderful dye inks from Altenew.

I used a circle layering stencil to add the different shades of circles to my background. Using gold embossing powder and a small circle stamp I added some embossed gold circles to the background. I used a rectangle die to cut out the background and then I added to a top folding A2 sized cardbase. I die cut the Lot's of Love sentiment die out of matte gold card stock and cut the cordinating mat out of white card stock. I popped up the Lot's of Love sentiment with foam adhesive and adhered it to the white mat. 

I then heat embossed in gold onto green card stock the sentiment strips. I thought this card could make it's way to someone who needed to hear these words. I also used foam adhesive to pop up the sentiment strips. I added a scalloped circle die cut out of vellum just to draw focus to the made sentiment.

I hope you enjoyed my card today and if you are interested in any of the productus I used to make this card they are listed and linked below for your convience. All supplies can be found at the Simon Says Stamp store.

Supply list:

Altenew Nature's Wonder Mini Ink cubes

Simon Says Stamp Layered Confetti stencil

Simon Says Stamp Labels die

Pink Fresh Studio Lot's of Love die

Simon Says Stamp Clear Line Stacks stamp

Gold embossing powder

Neenah Smooth white card stock

Simon Says Stamp Midnight Green card stock

WoW Embossing Heat tool

Now it's you turn! Happy crafting!

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Simon Says Stamp Here for You card

 Sometimes you just got to sit down and make a card! Well that's what I did. Life gets so busy and things get pushed to the side. Making cards is one of my coping mechanisms for my anxiety. I am in my happy place when I am creating a card. Playing with all the fun stuff in my craft room with my fluffy dog at my feet. I tell ya, nothing is more thereaputic for me! I made a card of encouragement and I hope that the recipent can feel the love that went into this little piece of me. That's what my cards are...just little pieces of me. A little piece of my creativity, my heart, my time and most of all my obsession!

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you enjoy this card as much as I did making it! This card was inspired by the Simon Says Stamp Good Luck Charm release. Click HERE to see the wholte release!

I started with an A2 size card base made out of smooth white card stock. I then cut a panel out of the same card stock just a bit smaller to leave a bit of a border. I then took that panel and used a rectangle stencil to mask off a border. Using some of my favorite distress oxide inks I ink blended the stencil using a blender brush. I removed the stencil and let it dry for a bit. I then die cut four daisy flowers out of the same white card stock. I cut the centers of the daisys out of mat silver card stock. I also used that silver card stock to die cut the Here for You sentiment.

I love dimension on a card so after glueing the daisys together I arranged them in a reverse C formation and popped them up using some foam adhesive. I used the same foam adhesive to pop up the sentiment.

All the supplies I used can be found at the Simon Says Stamp store. I have listed and linked them for your convience below!

Simon Says Stamp Dreamy Daisy Layers

Simon Says Stamp Here for You die

Neenah Smooth White card stock

Tim Holtz Picked Raspberry Oxide Ink

Tim Holtz Candied Apple Oxide Ink

Tim Holtz Carved Pumkin Oxide Ink

Tim Holtz Squeezed Lemonade Oxide Ink

Tim Holtz Twisted Citron Oxide Ink

Simon Says Stamp Matte Silver Mirror card stock

Foam Adhesive roll

Memory Box Add A Die Cut

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.

This week the challenge is Add A Die Cut!

We are showcasing Memory Box products this week. You don't have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see what you make! As always for entering you will be eligible to be entered into the drawing for a $25 voucher to the Simon store!

This week's card was so fun to make! I used the beautiful Memory Box 6X6 Pastel Glitter pad to create some sparkly balloons!

To achieve the multi-colored balloons from one die, I die cut the balloons 5 times out of the glitter paper. Not wanting to waste such beautiful paper I created three cards with the leftover die cut balloons. I then die cut a birthday sentiment and added it to each card. I die cut the balloon outline from smooth white card stock and then from fun foam to give the white outline a bit of dimension. 

After die cutting the balloons out of the glitter card stock colors from the pad, I inserted the sparkly balloons like a puzzle to the inside of the white outlined balloons. The best part about making an all die cut card is NO COLORING!! So simple to mass produce. I could've made these all day!

The materials I used are listed and linked below. All products can be found at Simon Says Stamp store.

Products used:

Memory Box 6X6 Delicate Pastel Glitter pad

Simon Says Stamp Balloon Background die

My Favorite Things Arched Happy Birthday die

Neenah Smooth White Cardstock

Simon Says Stamp Fog Cardstock

Now it's you turn! Happy crafting!

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