Nuts About You!
Happy Saturday, everyone! If you’re anything like me, you instantly smiled when you saw this adorable card by the super talented Jess Larsen. How cute are these wide eyed squirrels? Jess tells a little bit more about her inspiration behind making the card and explains how to make it in her video below.
Enjoy!
I just love the layered look on a card front, so I was thrilled when Simon came out with a set of Postage Edge dies with their last release! I just knew I had to try them out on today’s card. First, I began by die-cutting the three smaller dies in the set. I chose some triangle patterned paper from the Finnley 6×6 paper pack by Glitz. Then I also cut some Neenah Environmental Kraft cardstock, as well as Neenah Solar White cardstock.
Next, I stamped the adorable squirrel from the new Hero Arts set Missing You. I decided I wanted a couple of squirrels who would be in love, so I “mirror stamped” one to create two squirrels facing each other. This technique is really easy and allows you to get a ton of play out of stamps you already own! Check out the video for all of the details!
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Thanks for reading today and thanks so much to Jess for being our guest today!
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Thanks so much for the mirror stamping tip. Never thought to do that with another acrylic stamp.
So cute! Love the layered look and the mirrored stamping. Thanks for showing us your trick on how to do this.
die karte ist sehr hübsch und niedlich
lg gila
AMAZING, this is just brilliant, thank you soooooooooo much for sharing this super idea with us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
xx Irene
Great idea to use the back of a clear stamp!
Cute! Made me giggle
So dang cute…makes me laugh at these funny characters!!
I love your cute little squirrels! Thank you for the video too!
Awesome card & tutorial love the way to stamp a mirror image!~God bless~
It’s great!!! Thank you!!!
Very cute! Thank you!
Thanks for the fun video. Love the postage stamp dies . They make great layers. And such fun images in the stamp set.
Jess: Fabulous card. Love the mirror technique. I have tried stamping directly on an acrylic block, but the result was less than satisfactory. Nuts about cute squirrel images. Cheers!
I love following your blog, but you make me want to have everything, ie postage stamp dies. I am totally in love with them – love how they were used on this card. Thank you for showing us how to mirror image stamps. That is the great thing about blogs – you get to learn so much from home.
What a great technique for this card! I adore the sentiment – it’s so very true!
Fabulous coloring and super fun card design overall! Thanks so much for sharing!
Really Cute card!
I always struggle with ways to use DP. I like the little touch of it on here
Oh my goodness, this is super cute!!! Love it!
Great idea, great technique. I have just ordered those dies last week!
Great card and the mirror stamping is vey cool. Thanks!
This is so cute!
How cool. Fun tilt to the die cuts to add to the design of her card.Bravo!
Cute little squirrels.
I am all about humorous and this is a GREAT card!!!
Those squirrels are adorable! And I’d forgotten all about mirror stamping–thanks for the reminder. I’m going to try that out again this weekend. Anne, yourmainestamper
Too funy….I laugh every time I see those BIG eyeballs. Thanks for sharing!
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So glad Jess made a video on the Mirror Stamping technique. I’ve been wondering how to do this! Thanks for the fresh ideas I get from the Simon Says blog! Keeps us old stampers involved!
Very cute card!!
Adorable card, and THANK YOU, for the video, demonstrating a way to “mirro stamp” – the image looks great :)
I have got to try out this mirror stamping. It gives endless possibilites with my stamp stash.
I can’t thank you enough for the mirror video. I have a valentine I’ve been designing and neede to know how to do that! Your timing was perfect!
Cute card!
Love the layout and that squirrel is adorable. Tfs
Such a fun card. Great stamping tips.
Adorable card! Love the sentiment, although today I’m feeling like “I’m nuts” would suffice (too much stress)! :) Thank you for sharing your creative ideas. =^..^=
Thanks for the mirror stamping tutorial! Such a great idea.
Thanks for the great idea. I will be trying that.
This is so adorable! Thanks for the video about shadow stamping.
So cute! Fun ,irror stamp technique, and great coloring!
Really Cute Card!
Like all your layering and way you added the ground.
Love your use of the Operation Write Home stamp set!
“Nuts” about this cute card
I will be you tubing mirror stamping later great card love the squirrels
Ha, funny eyes, too cute
Those are the funniest looking squirrels I’ve ever seen.
These are the cutest squirrels I have ever seen. So sweet.
Great video and tutorial on mirror stamping! I also love the look of the postage stamp dies!
Great postage stamp dies! Love the mirror stamping :-) So fun!
The squirrels are just, too, cute!
Very cute card. I had never seen the mirror stamping. Thanks for the video!