Extra! Extra! Exclusives here!
Hi bloggers! Happy Wednesday to you! Is the week flying by as quickly for you as it is for me?! I’m super pumped to bring you not one, or even two exclusives cards…but THREE!!! To start us off with a literal rainbow of sunshine, we have the amazing Sarah Moerman! See below for some detail shots as well as instructions to make your own version of this card & view the supplies!
Instructions from the designer:
- Make a top-folding card using Shallows cardstock (from Hero Arts Pool Mixed Layering Papers).
- Cut 1 ½” off the bottom of the card front and save for later.
- Cut off the rest of the card front, leaving a ¾” flap at the top.
- Cut the acetate notecard in half along its fold. Adhere one piece to the back side of the ¾” flap of the card front. (The acetate should line up perfectly with the card back.)
- Adhere the saved 1 ½” piece of Shallows cardstock to the bottom of the acetate.
- Adhere strips of Pool cardstock where the acetate and Shallows cardstock meet.
- Die cut the Simon Says Stamp Sunshine Die with white cardstock to create a guide. (Save the white sun rays.)
- Die cut individual sunrays from various colors of cardstock to create a rainbow of color. Using your guide piece to help, adhere the sunrays to the card as shown. Color them with a Clear Wink of Stella Brush.
- Using Ranger Shrink Plastic, die cut the Simon Says Stamp Chrissy Butterfly image and follow the instructions to shrink the butterfly.
- Ink the butterfly with white Stazon. Let it dry. Adhere to card.
- Add black Metallic Décor.
- Stamp sentiment.
Tip #1: Adhere the saved white sun rays to the back of the acetate to cover the adhesive showing through. Cut pieces of white cardstock for the same purpose for the top and bottom of the card front.
Tip #2: Either write a short message at the very bottom inside the card or write your greeting on the back so that it doesn’t show through the front of the card.
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From the designer:
To start, I die-cut the Star Border twice (to make sure I had plenty of stars). After removing the stars, I grouped them into seven small piles onto my craft mat. I dropped a few drops of a spray mist on each pile — just enough to cover the stars. The stars tend to clump together, so I used the bottom end of a paintbrush to cover the stars with the spray mists. When I was done with each color, I lightly misted them with the Pearl spray mist.
While the stars were drying, I die-cut the Star Border at an angle on the cardstock panel. I stamped the sentiment above the die-cut. To make sure the stars had something to adhere to, I matted the panel on another A2 panel. I could have skipped this step since I adhered the panel to a black card base, but at this point, I wasn’t sure if I was going to use a black or red card base.Using a tiny amount of glue, I adhered the stars in the negative spaces to create an ombre. Tweezers would work great fro this process!
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Lastly, we have the super talented Jennifer Ingle to provide another amazing card!!
Jennifer explains how to make the card & the full supplies list are below!
From the Designer:
I love my Simon Says Stamp Exclusive Dies! I pulled out a couple of favorites for this card, the Life Bubble Vertical 1 die and the fabulous Always On the Edge die along with the beautiful Always and Forever stamp set. I love working in the yellow and grey color palette and found that it can be so subtly gorgeous when combined with white space and that is what drove the design of this simple encouragement card. I die cut the speech bubble from just the top of the white panel and then layered the Always die beneath it against the card base. The white panel is stamped and adhered with foam tape to add soft, subtle dimension.
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Thanks for reading today & thanks to these 3 amazing designers for inspiring us!!!
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OMG…these cards are amazing! Hopped over from Jocelyn’s blog and just love her creation along with the other designers…FAB job!!!
Gorgeous cards, love the fruit shades!
Fabulous cards! TFS
All 3 of these cards are stunning! Sarah’s rainbow sunbeams are amazing, Jocelyn’s sweet little stars made me smile and I love the pop of colour on Jingle’s card!
AMAZING!!! GREAT inspiration!!! Would love to get such a gorgeous card with rainbow sunshine!!! ♥
Beautiful cards! I like this style a lot.
Work Sarah simply adorable! Very festive and solar postcard!
Beautiful cards!!!!!
All three cards are amazing!
OMG–look at those fab cards!
these are amazing cards x
Awesome cards…I love the rays on the first and the great tips, the ombre look on the 2nd and the half speech bubble with great grey-yellow colour combo on the last.
I love the first card! thanks for the step by step!
Fantastic use of negative space. Very inspiring
I love making cards with clear cardstock. I’m also liking the way the products are highlighted and goes right to the website so I can add things to my ever so long wish list :)
every one of these cards is so striking in their own unique way! love the use of the dies. thanks for the inspiration! :)
I love these cards!! Very cute!
Love Sarah’s rainbow of sunshine!
I’ll file all the techniques for future cards~Thanks!
Wow wow wow!! These are all gorgeous! LOVING the stars on Jocelyn’s card!!
I really have to try making an acetate card, they are so pretty! And a LOT of work went into Jocelyn’s petite stars card – WOW! No wonder it looks so spectacular!
Wow…beautiful designs!!!
Simply gorgeous designs, love them!!
Beautiful cards! They are such bright and fresh looking cards. Thank you for sharing with us ladies.
Elaine Allen
Truly inspirational cards! Thanks for sharing :)
Inspiring designs…can’t wait to try.
Such amazing cards today!! Gorgeous!
Fabulous cards–my favorite is the first one!
These are fabulous. Unique ways of using the dies! I will have to give these a try! Thanks for the inspiration. :)
Fabulous cards!
These cards are just Stunning..Thought The first one to be best until I scrolled down..each one is excellent .The Design team at Simon Says Stamp is incredibly talented !
Wow!! Amazing cards!! And amazing designers!!!
Beautiful cards! TFS Jocelyn’s starry card is my favorite!
All of these are gorgeous!
Wow, great cards, very nice ideas! I love the summery colors. Hugs, Hanneke
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that first card!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brilliant projects ladies!
fabulous cards !! all of them are gorgeous ! :-)
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Lols x x x
These are such a gorgeous cards…
Gorgeous cards, love the one with acetate.
Three over the top CREATIVE cards today!
LOTS of LOVE and time playing with paper.
Wow!! 3 beautiful card! Amazing work, ladies.
Oooohhh that acetate card is amazing. I am putting those card bases on my Simon wish list!
Loved all 3 cards!
WOW! all three of these cards are BEAUTIFUL! TFS.
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Loving all of the AMAZING Inspiration!! ;) Thanks for sharing and have a Fabulous Week!! ;)
Three fabulous cards! I love Jennifer’s speech bubble card.
These are all gorgeous and I especially love the format of the last one. I like your new blog format, as well.
Three fabulous card with such different supplies!
I love the look of these new designs!
Great cards. So inspiring and creative. Awesome job.