Weekender With Wanda – Clearly Besotted Spotlight!

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Hi everyone! Welcome back to Weekender with Wanda here on the Simon Says Stamp Blog! It’s the long Thanksgiving weekend and I hope you’ve been having a wonderful time with your friends and family! Are you still eating leftovers? We are at our house (gladly!) And, we’ve already shopped until we dropped. I love this time of year! Looking forward to the next few weeks as we get ready for Christmas to arrive.

Today’s post is a company spotlight feature on Clearly Besotted stamps. Their stamps are so clean and pretty and sweet. Beautiful images that bring a smile to your face. Today I want to talk about using all the stamps in the package….and also talk about seeing your stamps in a new way. I took some trees stamps and turned them sideways to make a greenery swag for part of my card. Take a look!

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I used two stamp sets to make this card and that is something I love to do – mix and match stamp sets. I found that the Tiny Trees Set and the Stitched Mittens Set made for a winning combination for a sweet Christmas card. I used one of the trees from the Tiny Trees set and turned it sideways and stamped it four times to make a greenery swag! Then I used the star and the tiny dot stamps to add bits of color around it. I love finding new ways to think of how to use my stamps.

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I kept the color combination traditional red and green, but then popped it with a bit of icy winter blue on the mittens. I used pretty striped paper from Lawn Fawn to add just a bit of an accent on my red card base. The top layer of my card is cream cardstock instead of bright white.

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I stamped my images and then cut them out using matching dies. Then I used foam tape to raise the pieces up off the card. I love the Lawn Fawn Cord as a string for the mittens! And, you’re probably learning how much I love Doodlebug Sprinkles Enamel Dots used as accents!

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Here is a close up of my background stamping….and isn’t that sentiment banner so wonderful!

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Don’t forget! Today is the last day of our store wide sale! ;)
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  1. I’m really thankful for the great SIMONBRAND sale you offered yesterday. I’m looking forward to play with my new goodies soon.

  2. Love your designs!
    What a perfect card to brighten anyone’s day!
    And it sure is way cold enough here for those pretty warm mittens.

  3. Such a perfect Christmas card. The tree looks perfect as your swag, love it! Love the mittens hanging from the banner, just love the whole design!

  4. It has been so dreary here for the past couple days – and going to be the same for the next couple – so it was wonderful to see such a bright, cheerful card. Love the colors.
    thanks for sharing.

  5. Oh my goodness Wanda, that is a sweet card! I love the colours you’ve used and that banner die!! Yes, PLEASE! LOL Love it!

  6. I like your idea to try to use all the stamps in a set – and the colors you used are unique ………. Food for thought!

  7. WHAT AN ADORABLE CARD, Wanda! I looked & SSS is ALREADY out of the Stitched Mittens Set. :( SOOO CUTE!!! AND I LOOOVE the other set you’ve used on this too! You did a FABULOUS JOB on this card!!!! CAN’T WAIT to see what’s coming too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;)

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