Hello and welcome to my blog! I am so happy to take part in the Simon Says Stamp Blog Hop to celebrate the new Joy for You release. If you are following along in the hop, you should have come here from the fantastic Alberto Gava.
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The Simon Says Stamp Joy for You release is filled with of a great variety of new and versatile stamps, embossing folders, stencils, dies, ink and sequins. Perfect for winter and holiday crafting, but also for many other themes. You can find the entire Joy for You release here.
I made a Christmas tag with combining dry and heat embossing for the background. It is one of my favorite techniques with embossing folders. The deer and trees were die cut from various interesting surfaces to add texture, shine and glitter to the tag.
I used a heavystock tag by Ranger. Apply embossing ink on the Simon Says Stamp Flourish Flurry folder. Emboss the tag and sprinkle with white embossing powder. Remove the excess and melt with a heat tool. Never touch the melted powder until it has cooled down completely. Repeat the process one more time, to get a thicker layer of embossing powder.
The tag becomes very shiny from all that embossing powder. The Flourish Flurry is a gorgeous embossing folder.
Leave as it, or ink the snowflakes. I used Antique Linen and Frayed Burlap for a soft brown shade.
Die cut Simon Says Stamp Curious Deer from Shimmer Vellum, Pawsitively Perfect Velvet paper and white cardstock.
Glue the pieces of the deer together and add highlights to the eyes and nose with a white gel pen.
Glue the new Simon Says Stamp Galactic Stars here and there on the tag.
The sentiments come from Simon Says Stamp Joy For You and were stamped on Tim Holtz Backdrops paper with Vintage Photo Archival Ink. The sentiment was adhered with foam tape. There are also coordinating dies to the Joy For You stamp set.
I also added a Tim Holtz Star Pin embellishment to one of the trees.
The deer is so cute and fuzzy. I stapled to pieces of lace trim at the bottom of the tag, almost like snow.
The ears are shiny since that part is die cut from Shimmer Vellum.
It is hard to capture the shiny background, the shimmer from the vellum and that gorgeous Luxe Glitter.
Thank you for stopping by here today, next stop is is my friend Lorraine Aquilina.
Don't miss all the inspiration along the hop! There are of course prizes to be won too, and at each stop on the hop Simon Says Stamp is giving away a $25 coupon, randomly drawn from those who leave a comment. The winners will be posted post on the Simon Says Stamp store blog on 25 March.
Here are all the stops along the hop:
Anna-Karin Evaldsson (you are here)
For more inspiration, remember to check out the Joy for You gallery at Simon Says Stamp, and if you make something with products from the range, it is fun if you post it in the galleries too. There are galleries for all releases, and for the card kits, full of inspiration.
This is the second Joy for You blog hop, don't miss blog hop number day number 1, which was yesterday.
Thank you so much for stopping by here today!
Anna-Karin
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