Vellum and Acetate card

Hi friends! Today Simon Says Stamp has a brand new release called Cheering For You. I have a card to share made with some of the products from the release.

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The Cheering for You release is filled with stunning new stamps, dies, embossing folders, stencils and other products. You can find the whole release here.

I made a card with a combination of dry embossed acetate and vellum. The Cheering for You release includes Clear Acetate Cards, which inspired my card. I used the Tumbling Flowers Embossing Folder and Cutting Die. The colored flowers were die cut and embossed with the same set.

Start by dry embossing the front of the Simon Says Stamp Clear Acetate Card in the Tumbling Flowers folder.

Next I folded Simon Says Stamp vellum and embossed the front.

Die cut three flowers with the die included in the Tumbling Flowers set, from watercolor paper and emboss in the embossing folder. The coordinating flowers is a little bit below the middle of the folder, to the left.

Smear Distress Inks on a non-stick craft sheet and mist with water. Pick up with a paintbrush and watercolor the flowers.

When the ink is dry, add some lines with a white gel pen.

Ink YOU from the Simon Says Stamp You set with Pumice Stone Distress Ink and mist with water. Stamp on watercolor paper. Repeat with Lost Shadow. Die cut with the coordinating You die. Also die cut from Simon Says Stamp White Glitter cardstock.

Layer the two grey words as shown and then glue to the glitter die cut. Adhere with Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Perfect Foam tape. The smaller sentiment also comes from the You set and was stamped with grey ink on white paper.

The layered acetate and vellum gives a shiny, yet translucent look to the card. The embossed vellum gives a more defined look to the embossed images. I also added some sequins.

Adhere the flowers with foam tape too.

I pierced holes along the spine and tied with gold DMC floss.

This was a hard card to photograph, as is often the case with very shiny cards. 

I will see you again tomorrow for more Simon Says Stamp Cheering For You inspiration.

Thank you so much for stopping by here today! 

Anna-Karin

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Matchbox filled with words

Hello crafters! It is Monday and I hope you had a good weekend with some crafty time!

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This week our challenge theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog is Add a Sentiment. I hope you will join us and don't miss the project by our July guest designer Laura Cassina. 

I made a matchbox and couldn't use just one sentiment, but instead filled the box with sentiments. Almost as if it is a little box holding a lot of secrets. The box was made with Tim Holtz Vault Matchbox set and I used a bunch of different butterfly stamps to embellish it and the cards.

There are seven sentiment cards in the box.

Start by die cutting the box with the Vault Matchbox die from heavystock paper. Fold along the scorelines.

Ink the box with Distress Ink. I also die cut a card for the top of the box.

Stamp one of the butterflies from Tim Holtz Flutter on acetate. 

Cut out and color on the back with alcohol ink.

Gently heat with a heat tool and shape the acetate. Be careful as this might not work with all types of acetate. I used Wendy Vecchi Clearly for Art Modeling Film.

Die cut seven cards from inky paper. Stamp sentiments and small images on the cards. Mist the images with water after inking. Also stamp a sentiment inside the box.

Stamp here and there with Simon Says Stamp Stained Glass, for texture.

Ink the edges and assemble the box.

I added Moon Dust Stickles Glitter Gel to the back of the butterfly, but forgot to take a photo of that step.

A part of a Tim Holtz Tiny Text sentiment was stamped on the front.

I stamped words from Simon Says Stamp Forest Scenery on both sides of the box. I messed up the stamping of 'peaceful' and restamped and cut into a strip. 

When you open the box you will find a little treasure of words.

I used a mix of stamps by Simon Says Stamp and Tim Holtz for the sentiments and images.

Mist the stamp with water after inking for a watercolor effect.

The remaining four cards. The long sentiment comes from Tim's Urban Chic, the sentiment to the bottom left is from Simon Says Stamp Extra Proud and the remaining two sentiments are from Tim's Tiny Text.

The birds come from Tim Holtz Mini Ornates.

The stamp at the top is one of my youngest son's favorite sayings.

All the little cards and the box itself.

Die cut the side pieces from kraft cardstock and sand to reveal the texture.

Join us this week in our Add a Sentiment! You have a chance to win a $25 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

Do you use Instagram? If so please add #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too.

Thank you so much for stopping by here today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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Bold Botanicals Tutorial

Hi crafters! I hope you are well! Today I have found cards to share. They are small, but with a lot of punch.

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The cards were made with Tim Holtz Bold Botanicals and Simon Says Stamp Bold Botanicals die set. The coordinating die set makes it easy to do a whole bunch of techniques with these stamps. The dies are from the Sunny Vibes release. My cards are about 3.2 x 4 in. 

Start by stamping the four Bold Botanicals stamps on watercolor paper and old book paper. I used the MISTI when stamping, since you might stamp more than once, especially on the textured watercolor paper.

Watercolor the flowers with Tsukineko Gansai Tambi watercolors. As you can see, I often test the colors on the parts of the paper that I know will be cut off.

Die cut the old book images with the coordinating Simon Says Stamp Bold Botanicals dies.

Die cut the colored flowers with the same dies. I used a strip of Simon Says Stamp Very Very Low Tack tape to keep the dies in place.

Add details with a white gel pen and a black pen.

I inked the stamps around the edges only and stamped on various papers: Tim Holtz Backdrops paper, inky papers and an old book paper. Die cut with the coordinating frame die. I didn't want the entire black area, but only a distressed frame.

Use Tim Holtz Shaping Kit to add shape to the colored flowers. I used an older shaping kit by Sizzix, Tim's tools are black in color.

Stamp the two inky backgrounds with Simon Says Stamp Old Letter.

Glue the old book paper flower to the background first and then adhere the colored flowers with two layers of Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Perfect foam tape. Place the tape under the parts that you want to keep the most dimensional. As you might see, I by mistake adhered the yellow flower the wrong way around.

Since I had both stamped the frame and adhered this flower the wrong way around, I decided that it was okay with upside down script text instead. You don't really see it unless you know it. I used different color combinations of cardstock for all the cards.

Here you might be able to see the dimension better. 

The white pen adds highlights to the flowers and you can use the black pen to add back details or add new details.

The sentiment sticker was glued to cream cardstock and then adhered with foam tape.

The next card has a yellow/orange/brown color combo. 

Leave some of the paper without paint to preserve highlights.

This card also has a lot of dimension. Shaping the colored flowers adds a lot of interest to these cards.

The sentiment was adhered to kraft paper.

And finally, the rose, adhered to the Backdrops paper. 

It is difficult to see the dimension added by the shaping tools. But it is there.

The blue flower was also loosely colored, leaving quite a bit of the white of the paper showing. It was adhered to two blue papers and black folded cardstock.

Without the white pen work, the flowers would have looked darker.

The sentiment was again mounted on cream paper.

Don't miss the new Sunny Vibes release.

Thank you so much for stopping by here today! 

Anna-Karin

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