Hello Autumn - Simon Says Stamp

  Good morning! I'm popping in today to share a another card using some fun supplies from Simon Says Stamp - I love the Printed Watercolor panels from Suzy's Doodles line - especially with the fun of adding hot foil to them since they are toner printed! You can watch a video I shared HERE or read details on my post HERE showing and explaining a way to hot foil toner prints without a laminator or Minc machine if you want more details!

While these cards are printed on watercolor paper, and therefore great for watercolors and similar techniques, they also are great with other coloring mediums! For this card, I used Copic markers after adding the hot foil to the image.

Hot foil is super hard to photograph, so I apologize that most of these photos are at an angle - it was the best way to show off that shine!

Once I had hot foiled and colored the image, I trimmed it down slightly, then die cut a circle from the center with a Basic Circle die.

I adhered the frame directly on an orange card base, wrapped some twine around to tie in a bow, and then added the circle in the center with the sentiment using foam adhesive.

I always save tying the bow for the very last so that it stays as pretty as possible.

Does anything go better together than fall colors and gold?!? I somehow don't think so!

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In the Trees Happy Birthday - Simon Says Stamp

 Good morning! I'm popping in today to share a couple cards using some fun dies from Simon Says Stamp - I often find myself needing masculine birthday cards, so I always love a good design that I can recreate to have a few on hand when I need them! These were super fun and easy to make!

For both of these cards, I die cut the pretty Birch Tree Window die twice from  panels of different colored cardstock. I layered them together, slightly offsetting the underneath panel in a different color for a shadow effect, taped together with temporary adhesive, and then die cut both pieces together using a smaller Basic Rectangle Die.

I backed each one with black cardstock for a bit of drama and then attached with foam adhesive to my white cardbases. Love the shadow effect this created!

I also die cut the CZ Design Happy Birthday word die from black cardstock, and the shadow laer from white cardstock, and layered that over the front with more foam adhesive.

Finished both cards off with a small secondary sentiment from Tiny Words Birthday stamp set, stamped in black, trimmed to a thin strip, and mounted under the larger sentiment. I can't wait to try more color combos with these cards!

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Hello Fall Watercolor Wreath - on the Unity Stamp Company Blog

 Good morning! I'm back with another card for my series on the Unity Stamp Company Blog this morning! I'm so excited to be featuring the amazing Kit of the Month on Monday's on the Unity Stamp Company Blog! Since the Kit of the Month was the first thing I purchased from Unity, and what got me hooked to begin with, they hold a special place in my heart, so I'm super excited about this opportunity to give these kits some love! You can check out all the details HERE for today's project!

Thanks for stopping by today - have a WONDERFUL day!!!

Sweet Friend Slimline - Pinkfresh Studio Facebook Live Card

Good morning! Dropping by today to share a card I made yesterday for Pinkfresh Studio's Facebook Live. For this card I did a ton of hot foiling, and had some fun building a large custom sentiment on a slimline card! You can watch the replay HERE if you want to see more details. 

For this slimline card, I did something I haven't actually tried yet! I layered together some of the hot foiled and stenciled elements from Folk Garden with the reverse foiled image using the Solid Hot Foil plate - I really love the finished effect!

I used a simple color scheme on the Folk Garden layering stencil - I must be stuck on Christmas colors, because I love that they feel a bit Christmasy, but the sentiment changes that up.

I layered everything at the top and bottom of the slimline panel, using liquid glue to allow parts of the edges to float free for some dimension.

Sentiment was built with a combination of the hot foiled Sweet word, Holiday Magic Chipboard alpha to build the word friend, and then an secondary sentiment underneath from Joyful Bouquet stamped in detail black ink. Love all the different colors and textures used together to build one cohesive sentiment!

And of course, the finishing touch is a few Metallic Gold pearls! Gotta have that bit of bling on there! :)

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Pattern Paper Strips - Simon Says Stamp November Card Kit

 Good morning! I'm here today to share a couple more cards with the BRAND NEW November 2021 Simon Says Stamp Card Kit - Cozy Wishes! This month's kit brings out all the cozy winter cabin feels! The included stamp set by the same name is full of adorable images and sweet sentiments, there are some pre-printed sentiments, some gorgeous pattern paper, a lovely stencil, a fun 3D embossing folder - that's all not to mention the cardstock, envelopes, and more! 

Today I'm using up some of the leftover pattern paper scraps and hot foiled sentiments from the first set of cards I shared earlier this week (you can view those HERE).

I love pattern paper so much, that I really have a hard time throwing away beautiful scraps like this - so this was a perfect way to put them to good use!

I layered them on a panel of white cardstock, and trimmed it down to also trim the excess off the sides. I added some of those foiled sentiment strips with foam adhesive over the top at some fun angles.

Mounted that panel on an Ivory cardbase with foam adhesive, and then added a few sparkly jewels to finish off!

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

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Holiday Greetings - Pretty Pink Posh September Release Instagram Hop

 Good morning! Today I'm celebrating the new October Release from Pretty Pink Posh by joining Day 1 of the Instagram Release Hop! You can head over to Instagram to join that hop, and enter to win today's giveaways, and you can find the new release HERE. I thought I would share more details here on my blog on my card - since it is always tough to put enough info in an Instagram post!  

First up - here are some details on this bright and happy shaker card using some of the fun embellishments in the Holiday Clay Confetti Wheel #5!

I also used the gorgeous new Poinsettia stencils, that are a perfect coordinating touch for the previously released Poinsettia stamp and die set! So fun and perfect to use together!

I stamped and stenciled each of the flowers and leaves, and die cut with the coordinating dies, so I could easily layer them all together in the corner of my shaker.

The shaker window was created with Stitched Diamonds die - love the elegant stitching effect it adds!

Finally, sentiment was added with the pretty Holiday Scripts stamp set and coordinating die for the larger word!

Love these happy colors too! Non-traditional color combos are some of my favorite - and add pink to Christmas cards, and it's pretty much going to be perfect!

The second card features a new and unreleased layering stencil, that is actually free with purchase of $125 or more through the end of the month. And it's a GOOD one! It will be released later, but if you want to get your hands on it sooner, this is your chance!

I mean, look at how pretty it is all stenciled together in those pretty color layers, right?!?

I layered up some smaller elements over that background - just because I didn't want to cover up too much of it!

First, the die cut new Elegant Poinsettia die in white under the new Winter Circles coordinating die. I attached it just under the circles, leaving the edges floating free for a touch of texture.

Next, I colored up an image from the new Christmas Candles stamp set, die cut it with the Coordinating dies, and heat embossed a sentiment from the set in white on a thin strip of black cardstock.

Layered all of those elements together, using as much foam adhesive as I could, and thin layers of scrap cardstock under others for a slightly lesser amount of dimension.

Finished off this card by adding some of the new Metallic Silver Pearls in different sizes to key spots on the background design. That just moves the elegance factor up a notch, don't you think?!?

So - a fun shaker card:

And a beautiful stenciled background:

And lots of new goodies put to good use! What are you looking forward to trying from the new release?

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Rainbow Folk Background - Simon Says Stamp November Card Kit

 Good morning! I'm here today to share a couple more cards with the BRAND NEW November 2021 Simon Says Stamp Card Kit - Cozy Wishes! This month's kit brings out all the cozy winter cabin feels! The included stamp set by the same name is full of adorable images and sweet sentiments, there are some pre-printed sentiments, some gorgeous pattern paper, a lovely stencil, a fun 3D embossing folder - that's all not to mention the cardstock, envelopes, and more! 

Today I used one panel embossed with the new Scandinavian Christmas 3D embossing folder to create these two nearly one layer cards!

I embossed the panel with white cardstock, and then on a whim, just kind of cleaned excess ink off of my blending brushes in a rainbow order across the back of the panel (I kind of liked the debossed look for some reason!). Most of that ink was leftover Pinkfresh Studio inks in one color or another of each color family. I was pretty much just playing to see what the panel looked like with a bit of ink on it, but much to my surprise, it kind of turned out fun, so I thought I would just use it for some cards!

I trimmed the panel diagonally in half, and adhered it to two different white cardbases, and added stamped sentiments using the fun stamp set in the kit. They needed a little something more, so I pulled out a ruler and a super fine line Sharpie to add trios of black lines on the border of the diagonal panels. Finished off by rounding off one of the white corners on each card for some interest!

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

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