Throwback Thursday – Fabulous Projects You Might Have Missed!
Welcome to another edition of Throwback Thursday — a trip back in time! For each throwback, we’ll be spotlighting fantastic cards and projects using products from previous releases. The new stuff is always SO fun, but think about all of those great products you’ve collected and set aside. They are STILL AWESOME! And we want to inspire you with fantastic inspiration from our creative archives.
Spring is here, and it’s a beautiful time to celebrate the newness of the season! Hooray! Our Best Days release includes lots of wonderful products to celebrate Spring, but you might remember some pretty spectacular products from last year’s New Beginnings collection. In celebration, let’s take a look at some glorious cards created with goodies from our New Beginnings release!
First up this project from Yana Smakula:
Yana’s yummy design is a breath of fresh spring air! What a stunning bouquet she created with a gorgeous color scheme. This card incorporates the Friendship Blooms, Hope Blooms, and More Spring Flowers stamp sets. The card pictured here was colored with Copic markers, but Yana recreated the card last month using Polychromos Colored Pencils to see how they compare. Very cool! You can see the colored pencil post HERE. And you can see Yana’s Copic post HERE.
Next, let’s throw it back to this super sweet card from Amanda Korotkova:
This springy card is sure to tug at your heart! Amanda combined the Some Bunny Special and Artsy Flower Parts stamp sets to create an adorable bunny with a bouquet. The bunny was originally designed to look like she is putting a card in the mailbox, but with a little imagination, the bouquet looks like it was meant to be there! Amanda walks you through how she created this card in a video HERE, and you can see her original blog post HERE.
And let’s not forget this inspiring project from the coloring guru, Kelly Latevola:
Though Easter is over, it’s never a bad idea to get ready for next year! My jaw absolutely DROPPED the first time I saw this card that Kelly created using the calla lilies from Suzy’s In Full Bloom Paintables set! Her coloring is so #goals. I seriously made my sister watch the YouTube video with me. Visit Kelly’s original post HERE and watch her detailed how-to video HERE.
Our last throwback project is this gorgeous bouquet from Kristina Werner:
Kristina mixed custom watercolors on this magnificent card using our More Spring Flowers and Handlettered Encouragement stamp sets (which she designed!). Isn’t it gorgeous? You can find a tutorial on Kristina’s YouTube channel HERE, and you can also check out her original blog post HERE.
Did you know that we have inspiration galleries on our website showcasing project ideas for all of our releases and card kits? It’s a veritable treasure-trove of terrific ideas just waiting to inspire you, and you are invited to share your projects, too! You can find all of the Simon release galleries HERE and galleries for our monthly card kits can be found HERE. Scroll through today, and maybe you’ll find one of YOUR projects linked there!
Thanks for throwing it back with us and checking out these cool projects from four talented ladies!
Yana Smakula’s supplies
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Amanda Korotkova’s supplies
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Kelly Latevola’s supplies
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Kristina Werner’s supplies
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What Would Kelly Make: Watercolor Emboss Resist
Hi friends! Happy Wednesday! Please welcome back the always fabulous Kelly Latevola in her latest installment of the fun monthly series What Would Kelly Make?! Are you new to this series? Take a peek at this video to get a feel for the theme of the series! This month, Kelly is showcasing our very own Kind Flowers clear stamp set and Kind Outline die along with some of her favorite Distress Ink colors to share some fun tips and tricks for Watercolor Emboss Resist! Be sure to watch one or both videos for more info and enjoy!
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Doodling with Debby: Simply Stamped Tropic Leaves
Hi friends! Happy Tuesday! Welcome to the latest edition of Doodling with Debby starring the always fabulous Debby Hughes who made a super on-trend pair of beautiful cards that are really giving me those sunny day vibes! Be sure to watch the video and enjoy!!
Hi, it’s Debby here for my monthly Doodling With Debby video feature here on the Simon Says Stamp blog. Today I’m all about the leaves with two cards based on the same design idea and both using the Tropical Leaves and Big Greetings 1 stamp sets.
Monstera leaves are proving to be particularly popular and trendy at the moment, be they the actual plant grown at home or used as in stationery, pattern design, and fabrics. There’s a lovely Monstera leaf in the Tropical Leaves set from Simon Says Stamp and I chose to pull out my green inks and get stamping! I picked Beanstalk Green, Green Leaf, Evergreen and Seafoam inks and used them to stamp four leaf images multiple times. I then used the matching dies to die cut the leaves.
For the sentiments, I used the Big Greetings 1 stamp set and stamped the sentiments on Slate card with Clear Embossing Ink, before sprinkling with White Embossing Powder and heat setting. I trimmed the sentiments to a banner and foam mounted them on a panel of white card cut with a Wonky Rectangle die.
With one card, I arranged the leaves spraying out from behind the banner and with the other card, I used the leaves coming in from the edges of the panel to frame the sentiment. In each case, I kept the leaves in place with foam adhesive.
I then attached the panels to top folding white card bases cut from Neenah Solar White 110lb weight card and embellished with Butterfly Kisses sequins. These cards were so simple to put together and yet I think they provide a big punch. Also, green is my favorite color and I’m always partial to a nice leaf!
Thanks for joining me today and I’ll see you next time for Doodling With Debby.
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