Congrats! Way to GO!
Hi friends! Happy Tuesday! Thanks for stopping by today! Please welcome back special guest Kelly Rasmussen with this fabulous card that is perfect for graduation or simple encouragement. Read on for more details and enjoy!
Hello, crafters! Today I’m sharing a graduation card I made using a combination of Hero Arts and Simon Says Stamp products.
I began by die cutting the word “congrats” and then built my card around that element. To create the black and gold letters, I adhered a strip of Simon Says Stamp black cardstock and a strip of DCVW metallic gold cardstock to a piece of printer paper. Then I lined up the Hero Arts Luggage Tag Alphabet dies on the strips of paper and ran them through my die-cutting machine. I used washi tape to keep the letters in place and lined up straight while die-cutting. The printer paper served as the backing for the letters so they stay together once die cut.
I created a white card base from Neenah Solar White and then began laying out the design. I used the Simon Says Stamp Bracket dies to create a decorative edge along the bottom. And thought it would be fun to use the Hero Arts Fiesta Fringe Die, as it kind of reminds me of the tassel on a graduation cap. I die-cut the fringe from Simon Says Stamp Cotton Candy cardstock and then adhered it on the backside of the front of the card. On the inside of the card, I adhered a black strip along the bottom of the card, which shows just below the fringe.
Next, I adhered the die cut letters to the card base and then decided to add more to the message with a handwritten stamped image from the Simon Says Stamp Hand Lettered Encouragement. I love the combination of the block die cut letters and script “font”!
At this point, the card just needed one more thing. I considered gold sequins but decided on die-cut stars. The Simon Says Stamp Mini Stars dies come in the perfect assortment of sizes for embellishing a card. And I think I’ll include some gold sequins on the inside of the card as a little surprise!
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Studio Monday with Nina-Marie: Two Color Blending + Pastel Accents
Hello everyone, it’s Nina-Marie here with you. Welcome back to my latest, Studio Monday tutorial! I have fun playing with color, plus I adore a bit of sparkle and shine. So today I thought I would share a technique of blending two colors of Zig Markers together to create a variegated coloring; plus the addition of Pastel Metallic Accents from Prima over top of the coloring for some gorgeous shimmer!
The images and sentiments I am using in this card are brand new from Clearly Besotted. The pretty florals are from the Happy Hibiscus set (and I used the coordinating dies), and the greeting is from the Scrumptious Thank You stamp set.
For the coloring part of this technique, I used a few pink, purple and yellow Zig Markers: Dark Pink 027, Light Pink 026, Light Carmine 021, Pink 025, Purple 082, Yellow 050, Bright Yellow 052. The leaves were colored with Light Green 041 and Turquoise Green 042, and I added Light Brown 061 and Dark Brown 062 to the stems. Over all the coloring, I dabbed on Pastel Metallic Accents from Prima. Don’t you love all that shimmer???
Behind the florals, I ink blended Worn Lipstick, Wild Honey, and Squeezed Lemonade Oxide Inks; there are splatters of water and Pastel Accents to create texture. I also tucked a few Colorful Confetti sequins around the flowers and covered them with a layer of Morning Dew Nuvo Drops.
I had so much fun creating this card, and I hope you are inspired by it! Be sure to watch the video below to see how it all came together!
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Yippee for Yana: Palm Trees and Blue Skies Summer Card!
Hello friends, this is Yana and welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video! This time I’m making Summer cards! I’m mixing some old and new products from Simon for this card.
I started working on my project by stamping palm tree images from the Warm Christmas Wishes stamp set. This is an older set from 2 or maybe even 3 years ago, but it’s one of my all time favorites! I particularly love the palm trees in this set and I’ve used them many times over the years for my cards, and funny enough I’ve mostly used them for summer cards (see one of the cards on my blog HERE). So even though it is a Christmas set it is a fantastic one for Summer!
I used Intense Black ink, my mini MISTI and Neenah 80lb cardstock for stamping. To color palm trees I used handful of Copic markers and did simple coloring. I used: YG06, YG25, YG17 and YG67 as well as E37 and E79. These palm trees are wrapped in Christmas lights – I colored over them as I knew I’d be using my Nuvo Drops later to bring lights back to life.
I used coordinating dies and cut those out in my Spellbinders Platinum Die-Cutting & Embossing machine. To create a background for my card I used Clouds For Days stencil from Simon – I love how versatile it is and also how easy it is to create a backgrounds with its help.
If you caught my Instagram Story Takeover for Simon yesterday you might have seen a card where I used this stencil along with the leafy frame stencil and layered them together to make a background. You can also see it on this post on my Instagram account.
I wanted to create a faint sky background for my card and I used Maliblue ink and a mini round ink blending tool. To get a different cloud line every time I rotated my stencil 90 degrees and this way I ended up having a completely different cloud look each time. Once I’ve rotated it 4 times I flipped it and continued to rotate – so technically you can get 8 different cloud lines from just one stencil and you also have 3 other clouds cut out in the center of the stencil so you can also use those. It’s a fabulous stencil for Summer and for cards with scenes – I know I will be using this one a lot. Especially with those palm trees!
I foam mounted palm trees onto my background and the way I positioned them is as if the person that is looking at this card is looking up into the sky. Technically I don’t have my clouds stenciled absolutely correctly, but it’s just card, it doesn’t have to be 100% accurate.
To create a sentiment I die-cut a circle out of Hero Arts vellum, heat embossed Summer in white embossing powder and also heat embossed “Sending” and “Your Way” in white detail embossing powder from Hero Arts onto black cardstock.
The reason I heat embossed “Sending” and “Your Way” on cardstock and not on vellum is because I needed something to hide adhesive under to be able to adhere the vellum circle onto my card. I love to use vellum, but it’s tricky to stick it in place without the adhesive being visible, so I always try to find something that I can put on top of velum that would hide that adhesive.
One I had all of the parts and pieces in place I used Nuvo Drops in White and English Mustard and I added white and yellow dots onto my palm tree lights.
Have fun stamping!
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