Spellbinders Holiday Blog Hop + Partial Die Cutting On the Edge
Hello everyone, it’s Nina-Marie here with you today for a special Holiday Blog Hop hosted by Spellbinders! Spellbinders is one of the leading steel-rule die creators of our industry; and what better way to celebrate the Holiday season than with a card featuring a clever die cutting technique and Spellbinders products?
Today’s video showcases a partial die cut “on the edge” design, using the Spellbinders Naughty or Nice die set and the Stephanie Low Tree cling stamp and die set. A design like this is a great way to use those coordinating dies that are available with many of our favorite stamp sets.
To color in the tree I used Prima Metallic Accents mixed into Zig Clean Color markers. This creates a shimmery, metallic sheen to the watercoloring and looks gorgeous!
The beautiful “be merry” greeting from Spellbinders’ Naughty and Nice die set is cut from Gold Mirror cardstock from Tonic Studios; this matches the gold embossed tree perfectly.
I hope you will check out the video below to see how to make this fun, partial die cut card! Also make sure you visit the Spellbinders blog to find all the details for the blog hop; plus leave a comment here on the Simon blog for a chance to win a $25 Spellbinders gift certificate!
WATCH THE VIDEO
SUPPLIES
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Keep Hopping!!
Spellbinders
Simon Says Stamp <— YOU ARE HERE.
Yana Smakula
Laura Bassen
Stephanie Low
Svitlana Shayevich
Sharyn Sowell
May Sukyong Park
Elena Salo
Our 2nd DieCember® Blog Hop!
Hi friends! We’re back with day two of our DieCember® release blog hop with even MORE inspiration for you! Thanks for joining us again today. If you missed day one’s fabulous hop, you can find it HERE.
We hope you’ve had the chance to check out our new exclusive DieCember® release; we are looking forward to seeing the fun things you’ll create with our exciting selection of dies.
Before we hop, let’s take a look at some awesome inspiration from Shari Carroll:
We’re super excited for you to hop along with us for loads of inspiration using these new products. Each stop along the way will have a $25 gift card to send to one of their commenters. These talented ladies have lots of great projects that we know you’ll love! Make sure to show your appreciation with your awesome comments!
- Simon Says Stamp Blog << YOU ARE HERE!
- Laura Bassen
- Nichol Spohr
- Nina-Marie Trapani
- Amy Rysavy
- Heather Ruwe
- Kelly Latevola
- Suzy Plantamura
- Lisa Addesa
- Anna-Karin Evaldsson
- Gayatri Murali
- Virginia Lu
- Lorraine Aquilina
We can’t wait for you to see what these amazing artists have created! Enjoy the hop, and thanks for joining us.
You can see all of the products from this release below. YAY!
Advent Calendar Extravaganza with Taheerah Atchia
Welcome to the blog everyone! Today we are part of Taheerah Atchias Advent Calendar Extravaganza! This is 25 days of inspiration with fabulous prizes along the way.
I have created two holiday cards for today, both using non traditional colors and non holiday stamps as part of my greeting. I’ve gold embossed the Simon Says Stamp Kaleidoscope background onto watercolor cardstock and painted with Daniel Smith watercolors. My first card features pinks and a hint of orange.
The painting technique I’ve used is wet on wet which allows the paints to flow into the recessed areas of the embossing.
I’ve used blues and teals for my second card and painted with the same wet on wet technique. I love how the colors flow together and create new mixtures.
I die cut the new Felicity Snowflake from white cardstock and glued it in place onto the painted panels. I’ve stamped “Happy” onto Desert Storm cardstock and gold embossed, the stamped a strip of white cardstock with Christmas to sit over top.
I have filmed a video of how these two cards came together. You can view it below or on our YouTube channel HERE.
It’s not a party without a prize – and with prizes every day there are several chances to win! Today’s prize is generously supplied by Simon Days Stamp so you’ll definitely want to win! Simply leave a comment on this post – then head back to taheerah-atchia.com and leave a comment there too! You must leave a comment on Taheerah’s blog as well as this post in order to be eligible to win! Don’t forget to grab the other surprise destinations from Taheerah’s blog and head over to them to leave comments there as well to improve your odds even more! You have until 23:59 EST on 31st December 2017 to enter.
Thanks for stopping by today! Enjoy and good luck!!!
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