New Exclusive Release! Dads And Grads
Hi friends! Welcome to the REVEAL of our latest exclusive collection, Dads and Grads! Thanks for joining us today to celebrate our mini release!
It’s that time of year! Many moms received special love last week in celebration of Mother’s Day. Dad’s turn is coming up soon :) Show dads some love with a special handmade card. Don’t forget… puppies have dads too. My dog Simon was my “first born” before kids. High School Graduations, College Graduations, even Kindergarten graduations are upon us and this “Grad” wafer die is the perfect staple for the occasion!
If you are looking for the perfect clear embossing ink, look no further! Our new Simon Says Stamp embossing ink has a very useful slow drying time so you can achieve the perfect embossing without a rush. Our new black pigment ink is the perfect staple for your stamping stash.
Check out the gorgeous card Shari Carroll created with this new release:
Nina-Marie Trapani used some tried and true watercoloring techniques to create this card with the new products:
A note from Nina-Marie on how she created the card:
I’ve created a fun Father’s Day card using the Father’s Day Finds stamp set; this set has so many awesome, masculine themed images in it. And one of my favorite aspects of the set are the sentiments that can be used for dad/grandfather themed cards year round; and not only for father cards, but even sentiments like “you rock” and “enjoy your day” I could see being used on birthday cards and more!
I decided to use the adorable fish on my card (he’s so cute, makes me giggle!) and create a simple, underwater scene for him to be swimming in. I contemplated using the fishing rod too, but thought that having the fishing line coming down from the top of the card made more sense for this design.
I stamped the fish onto watercolor paper using Simon’s Duckling dye ink (it is waterproof) and watercolored him in using Twisted Citron, Mustard Seed and Ripe Persimmon distress inks. The underwater background is created from distress inks as well; for that I used Broken China and Peacock Feathers and did ink smooshing using a sheet of acetate/window plastic.
After stamping and heat embossing my sentiments, I layered up the water background onto my card base along with some birch wood paper that I cut from a wood envelope and a strip of Burnt Orange cardstock (die cut using a scallop die from Simon’s Charmed Heart die set). The fish and bait line are attached using foam tape.
And of course no underwater scene is complete without some bubbles! So I grabbed some Pretty Pink Posh clear droplets (both the 4mm and 6mm sizes) and blued them to my scene using Glossy Accents. For a final touch, I tied a bit of natural hemp around the bottom of the water background.
So that’s going to do it for me today! Be sure to check out the entire mini release over at the Simon Says Stamp shop and pick up your favorites… See you again soon!
AWESOME!!!!!!!!
Woww, beautiful cards!!
Such a fun little release, Heidi! I’ve been lookin’ for a good golf club stamp forever – yay!
Love it! All your products are The bomb diggity!
YES, PLEASE :)
PERFECT timing, I NEED to get CREATIVE from my Dad and for my grad!!!
Anything for masculine cards is a winner in my book. Awesome!
Cute cards!!
Loving that watery background! Great cards!
Tie-riffic & fish-riffic. Have a BEE-utiful day!
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Super ties! TFS the exclusives!
Fabulous cards!! I’m always on the lookout for new masculine sets.
Awesome set! It’s so Sad!! And the cards are amazing!!!
Really miss my dad – dead 21 years. I can’t believe it. Father’s Day cards always make me cry now.
Fun cards for dad. Great stamp sets.
Oh, how delightful !!!
I was thinking no dads not needed, now not so sure. See many possibilities
Both of these Father’s Day cards are great – amazing they both came from one stamp/die set!
Perfect! Can’t wait to order these!
Love the cards. Fu colors! DH would love, love, love the fish card!
For me, it’s always hard to make masculine cards. This new release will help a lot.
Great cards, looking forward to more inspiration using this collection. Personally, I struggle a lot when making masculine cards. Happy day. Cheers!
Such a great stamp set!
Fun cards, I find the masculine ones really tricky most of the times. I love the one with the ties.
Awesome release.
This is so COOL!
These are perfect!
your water background is wonderful.
Love the little fish. Hope he decides to stay
away from the hook.
thanks for sharing
Awesome cards and fabulous release!
The new set has every thing I need for the coming months. Graduations and Father’s Day not to mention birthdays!!
Cute products to release. I like the tie stamps themselves, not just for a card but great for a layout of little boys growing up.
Love these great Father’s Day cards.
VERY NICE!!! I LOOOOVE all the daddy doo-dads in this set!!!! :D BEAUTIFUL WORK LADIES!!! ;)
Beautiful cards!!
So fun!! I especially like those fabulous ties!!
I LOVE me some Simon Says Stamps! I do have a comment though. It seems that there is more of a trend (industry-wide) toward juvenile / cutesy stamps. Even most of the online classes now use primarily cutesy stamps. I think they are adorable but I’d like to see a better balance of stamp categories in new releases. It feels a little like the older gals are getting slowly edged out. I’m sure there are other “mature” (old – haha) people like me that don’t have much occasion to use the cutesy stamps. All that said . . . I LOVE the cards in this post. So creative
Love these two cards. The fishy one is adorable and the tie card is perfect for any special man:)
I love the tools dies, I waited for these like for ever, my husband is very handy and they are for his cards for any occasion. TFS!
Summer, dads and grads are awesome reasons to do a little shopping!! Another fun release!!
SO excited about these new products!!!
What a great release!! It’s nice to have products to create with that commemorate the important men in our lives :)
Cool ties!!! Love your background and that adorable fishy!!!
These are Awesome! Always looking for products for guy cards!!
Great release!
Fabulous projects. Love the watercolor fish card. TFS
Cute release! Love the cards!
Such fuN!!
Love the cards!
Very cute cards–a much needed release to celebrate Dad’s n grads!
Great cards for dads.
Great cards! :)