NEW Avery Elle Winter Release!
Hi friends! Happy Thursday! Thanks for stopping by today! We’re celebrating the Winter 2017 release of Avery Elle and it is fabulous! Please welcome special guest Jamie Gracz for some fresh inspiration! Read on for more information and enjoy!
Hi this is Jamie from Avery Elle and I am so excited to show you a card I made with some of our new Winter Release items. Our newest release of 8 new stamp sets and 9 new die sets is overflowing with punny stamp sets, whimsical windmills, a modern calligraphy alphabet, must have die sets and more! Whether you like whimsical windmills, you “lava” volcanoes, or adore otterly fantastic otters you are sure to find something amazing!
To make this card I stamped and colored images from our new Love Is In The Air stamp set using our New Moon Dye Ink Pad and copic markers. I then die cut the images and adhered them onto a die cut from our Double Pierced Circles and Burst die sets. This was so fun to make!!
I hope that you get a chance to check out our entire Winter 2017 Release! We hope that you love it as much as we do!! Thanks Simon Says Stamp for featuring my card today! You are the best!
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Naughty or Nice?
Hi friends! Happy Wednesday! Please join me in a BIG Simon welcome to first time SSS blog guest writer, Tanja! She has made an adorable card using a brand new holiday stamp design from Gerda Steiner Designs! Please read on for more details and enjoy!
Hi there, my name is Tanja and I am on the wonderful Gerda Steiner Design Team. Today, I have the huge honor to show you this adorable Christmas Card on the Simon Says Stamp Blog. Gerda came out with some fabulous new Christmas Stamp Sets this year. There really is something for everyone: Christmas Puppies, Little Christmas Reindeer, Happy Snowman, Smell Like Christmas, and Christmas Kitties.
Of course, I had to use one of the fun little cats, for I have four wonderful cats myself. Read on to capture the step by step of how I made this card!
- Stamp the cute little cat and the bauble from the Gerda Steiner Designs Christmas Kitties set with Versafine Onyx Black and color the image with Derwent Inktense pencils and a damp watercolor brush
- Stamp the twig from that same stamp set with Delicata Emerald Green ink.
- Add highlights with a white gel pen and some sparkle with Wink of Stella Clear Glitter
- Apply Distress Oxide Ink Broken China through the Tim Holtz Stripes Layering Stencil to create a background stamp the sentiment from the same stamp set with Versafine Onyx Black.
- Adhere the stitched focal panel to another stitched panel cut from patterned paper from the Christmas plaid patterned paper before adhering all the layers to a white card base.
I hope you find your favorite critter to create this fun card design! Happy crafting!
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Shaker Card with Partial Die Cutting
Hi friends! Happy Tuesday! Thanks for stopping by today! Please welcome back special guest Dana Joy to the blog today! She has made this gorgeous partial die cut star shaker card that provides a little extra and unexpected dazzle! Read on for more details and enjoy!
Hey everyone. It’s Dana Joy here with you today and I’m super excited to share a different twist on partial die cutting incorporated with a shaker card. This is a great way to have both techniques on one card. You get the great look for a shaker card that is hidden under your partial die cut piece.
I started by stamping Altenew Halftone Stars with versamark ink on 80lb Neenah solar white cardstock and heat embossed it with Simon Says Stamp rose gold embossing powder. Next I chose three of the stars and partially die cut them with the matching Halftone Stars nesting die cuts leaving the top of each star attached to the card panel. To add some interest to my card, I ran my card panel with a My Favorite Things stitched rectangle die through my machine again for a nice detail along the edges. At this point, I continued with making a standard shaker card adding an acetate sheet, some sequins and a backing. Now I used a bone folder to lightly curl my stars away from the acetate to you can see that it’s a shaker card and all the beautiful sequin is revealed.
To bring in a shiny sentiment, I pulled out my DCWV Metallic Glitter and Foil Washi Stack and adhered some rose gold washi paper to 80 lb Neenah solar white cardstock. Next, I die cut out the word believe using the Altenew Holiday Script Words die and glued it to the front of my card panel using multi matte medium. For some added bling, I place just a few rose gold sequins to finish off my card. I adhered my card panel to a white card base made from 110 lb Neenah solar white cardstock using Scor-Pal ½ scor tape.
This is such a fun and easy way to surprise your friends with just a peek of a shaker card. You can also use this for masculine cards and use confetti pieces instead of sequins. Thanks for hanging out with me today. We will see you back here soon with more creative inspiration.
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