Weekender With Wanda – Clearly Besotted Spotlight!
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!
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.
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.
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!
Here is a close up of my background stamping….and isn’t that sentiment banner so wonderful!
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Adorable! Love the vivid colors and sweet design of this fun card!!
Great idea to turn the tree stamps into greenery accents! Very inspirational!
Pretty card. I love your work. Michelle t
Such a happy card
Such sweet. snuggly mittens, Wanda … and lovely dimension … so pretty! Anita :)
I love it when you use stamps in a way other than their original intent! So cute!
Such a pretty looking and Christmassy card :)
I love to mix and match stamps all the time!
Like the pretty background with the hanging mittens.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Gorgeous Christmas card! Thanks for sharing :)
love the card
I’m really thankful for the great SIMONBRAND sale you offered yesterday. I’m looking forward to play with my new goodies soon.
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.
Your card is adorable! The mittens are so cute! I love the shades of green and red too!
Super cute mittens on your beautiful holiday card, love that you mixed and matched these sets!
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!
Super cute Wanda!
i love the colorful and bright mittens and your composition of the background stamping, super neat
Fun details on your pretty card, Wanda! Love it!
Super cute! Love those mittens! TFS!
Thanks, Wanda for the giveaway. Why have I never come across this page before? Is this posted every weekend?
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Great design and I love the color combo.
Beautiful card with so many Amazing details… Thanks for sharing and inspiration!
I love the mittens Wanda. And the greenery added just makes them pop off the card. Very pretty. Thanks for sharing with us!
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.
So bright, so happy!
beautiful card!
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!
Beautiful card!
Nothing says ‘warm winter’ better than a sweet pair of mittens! Awesome card Wanda!
Grand!
This is such a fun and sweet holiday card! Love the background stamping!
So adorable!!
So creative, festive & sweet!
Beautiful card … great way to use your tree stamp!
Adorable winter card!!!
Cute card and great use of the stamps. Love the vivid colors, too!
What a sweet card! Love it!!!
I love the way you used the tree stamp so smart
The twine and mittens are lovely and yes that banner is an A+ – TFS
I like your idea to try to use all the stamps in a set – and the colors you used are unique ………. Food for thought!
Love it!
So sweet and what a pretty design to use the trees in a different way.
Beautiful card, Wanda! I love how you made so much red work.
Beautiful card!
I love Clearly Besotted stamps so great to see how you’ve used them here
This is so cute! Love the mittens!
Oh so adorable! I just love the mittens and twine. Hugs, Robin
Very cute card, Wanda! Thanks for the inspiration.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;)
Pretty card! Love white and red on holiday cards! I adore the designs from clearly besotted. They are all so clean and unique!