Will You Please Send a Card to Someone Who Needs Sunshine?
Greetings crafty friends!
My name is Lauren Semple and I am on the team in our home office at Simon Says Stamp. I spend much of my time scouting new products and making sure we are stocked with what you are looking for.
I am asking for your help. The thing I love most about our crafting community is that when one of us is down, we all come together! Right now there is a need to help someone who experienced an unfortunate circumstance.
Last weekend my cousin Sandy was walking out of a store to her car after some light shopping. Making sure to stay out of the middle of the lane between parked cars, she walked close to the cars on the left side of the lane.
Then an SUV turned wide around the row of cars to her right while probably looking for a parking space. To Sandy’s surprise, the driver struck her with the front driver’s side quarter of the car and knocked her down to a sitting position. As the driver did not see Sandy on the ground, she kept driving and ran over her lower legs with the front tire of the car.
The driver still did not notice what she was doing, but others did. The people in the parking lot started to scream at the driver to STOP! Waving their hands and doing anything to get the drivers attention.
It worked and the SUV stopped right before running Sandy’s legs over again with her back tire.
Thanks to the many people who stopped to help, the store’s staff, the Ambulance and the Police Sandy was taken to the hospital very quickly.
Once at the hospital she was taken in for surgery right away to stabilize her legs with an Orthopedic Trauma Surgeon. After having several tests, X-rays, and Scans performed, Sandy was told that she had two broken fibulas, a shattered tibia, and a broken ankle.
Sandy’s first surgery went very well and the doctors are optimistic that she will recover from this! However, she has a very long road of recovery ahead of her and will be in the hospital for quite some time.
Sandy is a teacher and a crafter. She has a huge heart and never hesitates to help others however she can. She is also a rock in my family and holds us all together. That is why I am reaching out. Her journey to get back to normal is going to be a very long hard one. I want to flood her hospital room with good wishes, prayers, and happy thoughts from this amazing crafty community she is a part of. That way we can all keep encouraging her to be strong as she faces the many challenges ahead.
If you have handmade cards you’d like to donate to help send her good wishes, please mail to:
Simon Says Stamp
CALL FOR CARDS – Sandy
44 Lazelle Drive
Columbus OH 43235
Thank you so much for your support!
- Lauren and your Simon Says Stamp family
Crafty Quintet: 5 Ways to Use Stencils!
Hi friends! Happy Wednesday, and welcome to the second installment of Crafty Quintet: 5 Ways to Creative with Jessica Frost-Ballas! If you missed the first edition, be sure to check it out here then come back to this super fun current addition of 5 ways to use stencils! This feature focuses on 5 unique applications of the following exclusive Simon Says Stamp Stencils: Stained Glass 1, Square Dance, Solar Burst, Butterflies, and Debra! Be sure to scroll down to see some individual images of each project along with a quick walk-through of each individual technique in the video and enjoy!
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Yippee for Yana: Pencil Coloring on Smoke Gray Cardstock
Hi friends! Happy Tuesday! Welcome to the latest edition of Yippee for Yana with the super talented Yana Smakula! Be sure to watch the video for the full tutorial and enjoy!
Hi everyone, this is Yana Smakula for Simon Says Stamp! Today I’m using a stamp set from Simon’s August Card Kit – the Beautiful Mandy’s Flowers set. I thought it would be a good idea to create a simple pencil colored card using one of the images from this set.
I started to work on my card by stamping image in Simon’s Fog ink onto a piece of Smoke Gray cardstock. When it comes to colored pencils I always think it’s a good idea to color on non-white paper (as I can always use my Copic markers to color on white).
To color this image I used Polychromos pencils from Faber Castell. I used the following pencils:
● #167 Permanent Green Olive, #166 Green Yellowish, #170 May Green;
● #274 Warm Grey V, #270 Warm Grey I, #101 White
● #109 Dark Chrome Yellow, #108 Dark Cadmium Yellow, #107 Cadmium Yellow
When I color with pencils I use the pencils themselves to blend the colors, I burnish with my pencils. I start with a light hand and as I get to the final layer of color I apply heavy pressure to burnish my coloring. The burnishing action smoothes out the tooth of the paper and prevents it from accepting more pigment or more color on top. So that’s why you don’t want to use a heavy hand right away when you just begin your coloring or you’ll flatten all of that tooth that the paper has and you will not be able to apply more color.
Once my initial flower was colored I created a mask and stamped another flower along with a few leaves to build up my image and colored it in the same way as before.
After my coloring was done I stamped sentiment that reads “Thank You For Your Love” in Smoke ink. I also added a few more stamped images – a little heart, a little branch and a few clusters of tiny dots (and again, colored those with colored pencils). To color the circle frame I used my white pencil along with a light and a dark gray to create shadows from the florals.
I also hand drew a few additional branches here and there to fill this image in. I could have stamped those, but I didn’t want the top flower looking exactly like the bottom one. I stamped “For Your Love” sentiment part in smoke ink onto white paper, I cut it into a little strip and foam mounted onto the card. I also added a few little enamel hearts that came in my August kit and adhered this panel onto an A2 white card base.
Have fun stamping!
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