Beautiful Day: Simon Says Stamp Card Kit Reveal and Inspiration

Fly away on the wings of creativity with our April Card Kit, Beautiful Day!

Spring has sprung, and nature is showing off with brilliant colors! Our April Card Kit celebrates the vivid colors of spring with twelve single-sided 6×6 patterned papers from Lawn Fawn’s Really Rainbow paper pad. The patterned papers are complemented perfectly with a colorful array of hand-picked, coordinating cardstocks from Simon.

The kit includes a jumbo 6×8 Simon exclusive stamp set called, Beautiful Day. This gorgeous stamp set includes six lacy butterflies and two smaller solid butterflies, as well as leaves and whimsical butterfly trails. In addition, there are nine lovely sentiments—five in a pretty script and another four smaller sentiments, each in an all-caps font. This stamp set will make your heart flutter!

You’ll also get our stunning Simon exclusive Butterflies stencil, featuring four lacy and three solid butterflies fluttering across it. To give you further playtime fun, you’ll find not one, but TWO full-size Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink pads in the springy shades of Squeezed Lemonade and Mermaid Lagoon. How awesome is that!? And there will be less stress when you distress, with the sleek Tim Holtz Distress Blending Brush to give you optimum results. What a handy tool to add to your crafting arsenal!

Rounding out this delightful kit is one sheet of Therm O Web Gina K Designs Sparkling Silver Fancy Foil, which will add some shimmer to your designs. We’ve also included two Simon Says Stamp Brilliant Ultra Heavy White envelopes to encourage you to send your cards when they are complete!

Our April Card Kit Beautiful Day will give you butterflies and your creativity will take flight!

I have filmed a walkthrough of the kit contents. You can view the video bellow or on our YouTube channel HERE.

The Beautiful Day 6×8 clear stamp set and Butterflies stencil are available for individual purchase in our store.

Don’t forget! We have LOTS of gorgeous card kit inspiration to access and add to in our Card Kit Galleries!

You can purchase the kit at $34.99, or you can subscribe to our kit of the month program for just $29.99 (plus S&H) per month to have our kits delivered right to your door each month!

If you are a subscriber who used Paypal to purchase your subscription, please be sure to pay the invoice that we send you within 3 business days. We have a limited number of this card kit in stock and don’t want you to miss out. For easier and quicker monthly processing, please contact us via email or telephone and we will put your credit card on file as a courtesy for you. Card kits bill and ship between the 16th and 29th days of every month.

Lawn Fawn Die Cut Easter Card

Hi friends, thanks for stopping by again today. The always amazing Kelly Marie Alvarez made this gorgeous card for us to share and we couldn’t wait to show you! Can you believe that Easter is only a little more than 2 weeks away? It seems so hard to believe! I just love this sweet Easter card design. Kelly recreated it after being inspired by a similar card by Lynette Lundquist. She used some brand new for 2018 supplies such as the Some Bunny stamps, Spring Sprig dies, Outside-In Easter Egg Stackables, Little Flowers, and Easter Egg Frames to name a few.

Please watch the video to get all the details and enjoy!

WATCH THE VIDEO:

SUPPLIES:

RESERVE Lawn Fawn SOME BUNNY Clear… [ SSS ]	RESERVE Lawn Fawn SPRING SPRIG Lawn… [ SSS ]	RESERVE Lawn Fawn LITTLE FLOWERS Lawn… [ SSS ]
RESERVE Lawn Fawn OUTSIDE IN EASTER… [ SSS ]	RESERVE Lawn Fawn EASTER EGG FRAMES… [ SSS ]	RESERVE Lawn Fawn SCALLOPED TREAT BOX… [ SSS ]
Lawn Fawn FANCY SCALLOPED RECTANGLE… [ SSS ]	Lawn Fawn LARGE STITCHED RECTANGLE… [ SSS ]	Lawn Fawn EXTRA SENTIMENT BANNERS… [ SSS ]
Lawn Fawn WATERCOLOR WISHES Petite… [ SSS ]	RESERVE Lawn Fawn GOTTA HAVE GINGHAM… [ SSS ]	Lawn Fawn GROUND COFFEE Cardstock LF1572 [ SSS ]
RESERVE Lawn Fawn GLUE TUBE Adhesive… [ SSS ]	Lawn Fawn WALNUT Premium Dye Ink Pad… [ SSS ]	Lawn Fawn 2.5 Inch Acrylic ROUND Grip… [ SSS ]
Simon Says Stamp Wool Felt Sheets… [ SSS ]	Kokuyo LONG Dot Liner Adhesive Runner… [ SSS ]	Scrapbook Adhesives 1/4 INCH 3D 308… [ SSS ]
We R Memory Keepers BASIC SCORE BOARD… [ SSS ]	EK Success CUTTER BEE Scissors EKCB01 [ SSS ]	Neenah Classic Crest 110 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ]
Sizzix BIG SHOT EXPRESS Gray and… [ SSS ]

Big thanks again to Kelly for this inspiration!

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Semicircle Turnabout Stamps & Yay Dies

Hi friends! Happy Tuesday! Have you seen Concord & 9th’s latest release? We’re excited to have these gorgeous goods IN STOCK NOW! Be sure to check out all of the new designs! Please welcome special guest Greg Cottrell, who has made 3 beautiful samples to inspire you! Read on and enjoy!

Hey everybody, Greg here! Angie made me craft against my will. Kidding! Sort of…for those of you who don’t know, I don’t do the cardmaking at Concord & 9th. (You can thank Robyn for that…our talented Creative Director!) I stepped out of my comfort zone to work with two of the products I designed for our March 9th product release – Semicircle Turnabout stamp set (if you’re not familiar with Turnabout stamps yet, check out our videos on our YouTube channel) and Yay dies. I hope you enjoy!

With my background in product development, I’m always looking for creative ways to solve problems and unique ways to design products. For these cards, I challenged myself to make three cards using one stamped 4.25” x 5.5” panel. That one panel would be all the stamping I would need, then I would create the rest of the cards with card stock and a few embellishments. I thought through how I would break up the panel, and this is what I came up with:

The first card became a shaker card, using the negative space of the circle cutout to fill with sequins. I just layered the “Yay!” die-cut over the shaker element, then adhered the whole panel to a gray card base. This came together extremely fast for a shaker card!

For the second card, I took the fallout of the circle die-cut and cut the “It’s your day!” sentiment out of the circle. Then I used the strip of stamped semicircles to accent the card. Something that may not be as obvious about this card…the coral cardstock was cut out using the label die in Yay dies. I used both sides of the cut to get the arrow shape. Some silver thread, sequins, and charcoal cardstock finished off this card nicely!

The third and final card I created was pieced together with the label die in the set! I cut “Happy together” out of the coral cardstock to create the focal point. Using the last strip of stamped semicircles, I cut it into 4 pieces and layered over some white cardstock and ran it through the Big Shot with the label die. The label shape ended up being the perfect size to piece 4 together up the card front. I like how different this card turned out next to the others!

So, there you have it! Three cards from one 4.25” x 5.5” stamped panel. I’ll admit, it was fun stepping out of my normal role and making some cards. I hope this inspired you and gave you even more ideas for Semicircle Turnabout stamps and Yay dies!

We love seeing what you create so be sure to #concordand9th. We also love working with Simon Says Stamp and really appreciate being highlighted on their blog today!

Take care!

Greg Cottrell

SUPPLIES:

Concord & 9th SEMICIRCLE TURNABOUT… [ SSS ]	Concord & 9th YAY Dies 10373 [ SSS ]	Simon Says Stamp WHITE CARDSTOCK 120… [ SSS ]
Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100#… [ SSS ]	Neenah STARTER PACK 65 LB Premium… [ SSS ]	Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100#… [ SSS ]
Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# FOG… [ SSS ]	Simon Says Stamp Premium Dye Ink Pad… [ SSS ]	Simon Says Stamp Premium Dye Ink Pad… [ SSS ]
Simon Says Stamp Premium Dye Ink Pad… [ SSS ]	MISTI MEMORY MISTI PRECISION STAMPER… [ SSS ]	Fiskars DETAIL Performance Gray… [ SSS ]
3M Scotch DOUBLE-SIDED FOAM TAPE… [ SSS ]	Fiskars REINFORCED Paper Trimmer 12… [ SSS ]	Simon Says Stamp MOONSHINE CONFETTI… [ SSS ]