Plaid and Sparkly Snowflake cards - Simon Says Stamp

 Good morning everyone! Stopping by today a couple of wintery cards using some supplies from Simon Says Stamp. I broke out the glitter for these, and despite the fact I created them over a week ago, I'm pretty sure I still have glitter everywhere in my craft room! But so worth it - I love how these cards came out!

I started by die cutting the lovely Dancing Snowflakes wafer die from white cardstock, covering it with a glue pen, then sprinkling on Unicorn Confetti glitter. I let them dry, then shook off most of the excess, although it continued to sprinkle itself about the house - haha! I trimmed down some pertty pattern paper from Yuletide Plaid 6x6 paper pad to slightly smaller than my card bases, adhered that down, then added the snowflakes with tiny dots of liquid adhesive. I added the sentiments from Sentiment Strips Love Joy Peace, popped up on a thin foam adhesive strip, then finished off with a few Dazzling Gems in Opal sprinkled about. Here is a closer look at these finished cards:

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Birthday Love Flower Vases - Simon Says Stamp

 Good morning! I'm back with another little card for the month using some supplies from Simon Says Stamp - I had fun with some inky watercolor blending, a bit of Glossy Accents, and glitter for some 3 dimensional effects!

For today's card, I started off by stamping my images from Garden Fresh stamp set on watercolor paper, and added a sentiment from the Big Old Birthday stamp set. I then did some ink blending around the edges before misting with water. This gave a fun and simple pop of color to the panel - and I love the sort of faux watercolor effect it gives! I wanted to add some extra texture, so I covered each of the vases with a good solid coat of Glossy Accents, then sprinkled on some fine Rock Candy distress glitter along the right and bottom edge of the vases. This leaves part of the vases shiny and glossy, and then part of them looking a little frosted. It was hard to capture it in photos - but the first photo below shows it best! Scroll down to see them all:

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Friends Make You Laugh Out Loud - Pinkfresh Studio YouTube Live Card

Good morning! Dropping by today to share a card I made earlier this week for Pinkfresh Studio's YouTube Live. Since it is the week between New Years and Christmas, Lea and I combined our weekly lives, and did this one together. We both used the same set, with some different colors and layouts to show it two totally different ways! You can watch the replay HERE if you want to see more details. 

We both used Happy Blooms Frame stamp, die, and layering stencils for a cards. Lea went with wintry blues and pinks for her card - and I went with a more traditional spring color palette for my card - this was another set that I actually used for the first time for this live, and I'm so in love with the delicate design of the blooms, and all those lovely details that happen when you add stencil details!

I stamped it first with Licorice dye ink (since it is a dye ink, it works better to stencil over than Detail Black which requires time to dry or heat setting to prevent it smearing). I left the stamp lined up in my MISTI so I could add Detail Black at the end, once I had finished stenciling the layers.

I added all the layers of the stencils, lining up with my stamped image, then added the stamping in Detail Black over the top. I die cut the entire panel using Essentials: Blanket Stitched Rectangles largest die. Next, I die cut the window with the coordinating die - isn't the detail in the center cut portion so pretty?!?

Before attaching everything down, I added my stamped sentiment from Always Uplifting - stamping the larger word in the same pink I used to stencil my flowers, and Detail Black for the secondary sentiment. I then added some interest to the background with Slimline Skinny Plaid layering stencils, and the same green and aqua I used on the florals as well. I tried to leave the area with the stamped sentiment free of the stencil detail, so it popped from the background a bit more.

I added a few coordinating jewels in clusters around the sentiment for a bit of sparkle, and still felt like it needed a bit more sparkle, soooo...

...I smeared some Glossy Accents around the edges of the frame with my finger, and sprinkled on some coarse chunky glitter! Love the frosty glittery effect it gave to the edges!

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Totally Worth Celebrating - Pinkfresh Studio Facebook Live Card

 Good morning! Dropping by today to share a card I made last week for Pinkfresh Studio's Facebook Live. Last week I took a break from our super popular Holiday release, and threw it back to some previously released sets - one of which had recently been restocked! You can watch the replay HERE if you want to see more details.

I used a beautiful previous release that was a collaboration with Altenew - Celebrate Today. I stamped and heat embossed it, then ink blended with Ballet Slipper, Sparkling Rose, and Bubble Gum ink for an emboss resist effect.

Used the negative space of the die cut to create a shaker card - filled with a few different colors of Essentials Jewels mix, and some sparkly glitter. It really is a magical effect with those together for a shaker card! Added a sentiment with the reverse foiled Celebrate sentiment using the brand new Solid Hot Foil plate that is releasing next week (can't WAIT!).

Mounted it all on a navy cardbase, and decided it needed a bit of extra texture, so we die cut some Leafy Branches from white cardstock and tucked them around the edges, before finishing off with a few Metallic Gold Pearls.

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Miss You Snow Much - Simon Says Stamp January 2021 Card Kit

  Good morning! I'm here today to share my first card with the BRAND NEW January 2021 Simon Says Stamp Card Kit - Snowflake Season! This kit is frosty and wintry, and perfect for sending love in the cold winter months! The included stamp set by the same name has lovely detailed images and perfectly coordinating sentiments, there is some STUNNING snowy pattern paper a beautiful snowflake die, a gorgeous snowflake embossing folder - that's all not to mention the cardstock, envelopes, and more!

I have a frosty clean and simple card to share with you today!

I used lots of items from the kit for this card. I started off by die cutting that gorgeous snowflake die from white cardstock, covering it with liquid glue, and sprinkling with the fun glitter included in the kit - so sparkly and pretty! I set that aside to dry, while I moved on to using that embossing folder on some white cardstock.

Finally, I assembled the card by adding 3 thin strips of the colored cardstock in the kit to ground that snowflake, then adhered that in the center of those strips with a bit of liquid glue just in the center which allows the rest of the snowflake to float up a bit around the edges. Added a tiny sentiment from the stamp set in the kit, and mounted the entire thing on a Fog gray cardbase.

Here is a closer look at the entire kit contents - you can find all the details HERE:

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Sparkly Dimensional Winter City Scene

Good morning! Stopping by with one last card using the Unity Stamp Company October Kit of the Month - Holiday Hugs - today is the last day to order and get this kit as your first one - a new kit begins tomorrow!

Here is the Quick Tip video showing how I easily created this scene:

Love the dimension you get from intentionally not matching up the village scene!

And then there is all that sparkle - paired with this simple and clean design - it makes me so happy!

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Kit of the Month %u2013 Unity Stamp Co | Unity Stamp Co Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# SEA GLASS SG4 *Neenah Classic Crest 80 LB SMOOTH CLASSIC CREAM Paper Pack 25 Sheets Jillibean Soup WITTY WHITE Happy Hues Acrylic Paint JB0588 Ranger Inkssentials MINI MISTER Spray Bottle Tool IMMR13593 3M Scotch SUPER STICKY FULL ADHESIVE Post It Notes 35625 WHITE FUN FOAM 12 Pack 118711 9 x 12 *3M Scotch PINK ATG ADVANCED TAPE GLIDER 1/4"" Adhesive Glue Gun *Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS Glue Dimensional Adhesive Heidi Swapp WHITE Marquee Love Chunky Glitter 369534

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Joy Noel Ornaments

Good morning! Dropping by this morning with a card and Quick Tip video using this week's Stamp of the week at Unity Stamp Company - only available for a couple more days!

Here is the video I made to go with it - going for a frosty window frame effect:

I wanted it to look like a window when you wake up on a cold and frosty morning - peeking through it to look at the ornaments hanging inside!

I added a twist of ribbon from my stash to finish it off!

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Stamp of the Week %u2013 Unity Stamp Co | Unity Stamp Co Neenah Classic Crest 80 LB SMOOTH SOLAR WHITE Paper Pack 25 Sheets *Neenah Environment ***100 LB*** SMOOTH DESERT STORM Paper Pack 25 Sheets Stitched Mats: Circles *Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS Glue Dimensional Adhesive Stampendous WHITE ENCRUSTED JEWEL KIT EJK08 Copic Sketch Marker W1 WARM GRAY No. 1 Copic Sketch Marker E31 BRICK BEIGE Cream Copic Sketch MARKER Y11 PALE YELLOW Copic Sketch Marker G40 DIM GREEN Light Pastel Copic Sketch MARKER B32 PALE BLUE Copic Sketch Marker R20 BLUSH Pink Flesh Skin *3M Scotch PINK ATG ADVANCED TAPE GLIDER 1/4"" Adhesive Glue Gun Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And White 660425

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