Waffle Flower Crafts: BBQ Star

Hi friends! Happy Tuesday! Thanks for stopping by today! Please welcome back the super talented Channin Pelletier as a special guest on our blog! She made this fabulous summer BBQ card and also a video to take you through the process! Be sure to watch the video, read on, and enjoy!

Hello all!! It’s Channin here and I am so very excited to be here at Simon Says Stamp sharing a video featuring just a few of the brand new products from Waffle Flower Crafts’ stupendous summer release!

This release is epic! There are 12 new stamp sets and 12 new dies in this summer release! I chose to focus on the more masculine stamp sets, Meat Up and BBQ Sayings, for my card today.

First, I created my A7 card base by trimming a sheet of Neenah Desert Storm to 10”x7” and then I scored and folded it in half to create my 5”x7” card. Next, I repeatedly stamped several images from the Meat Up Stamp Set in Versafine Onyx Black Ink on my card base to create a patterned background. I then stamped some of the images from the Meat Up and the BBQ Stamp Set on a scrap of Neenah Solar White in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and then used my copics to color the images in.

Once I had finished coloring, I die cut out the images from the Meat Up Stamp Set with the matching dies and then fussy cut the ketchup/BBQ sauce bottle. I then stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from the BBQ Sayings Stamp Set in white on black cardstock. I then fussy cut the sentiment out and then used a scalpel to remove the paper in a couple of the negative spaces between the ribbon and the star. I then cut a 5 3/4” x 3 7/8” panel of vellum, then glued the ribs onto the grill with Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue, and then arranged all my images and my sentiment over the vellum.

Once I had everything arranged the way I liked it, I used washi tape to hold everything in place, flipped it over, and then applied glue to the backs of all the images and adhered them to the vellum. I then added foam tape to the back of my sentiment and then adhered it to my vellum panel as well. Next, I flipped the vellum over and then added dots of liquid adhesive behind the images and then adhered the vellum to my card base. Lastly, I added glossy accents to the ribs and the BBQ sauce bottle and then called it done! :)

Waffle Flower Crafts BBQ Star I hope you enjoyed my card and video! Thanks so much for joining me today!

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Studio Monday with Nina-Marie: Die Cut Florals + Little Details

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Hello crafty friends! Nina-Marie here with you today and it is Monday once again! Which means, it is time for a new Studio Monday video! I love putting these together for you each week and hope you have as much fun watching as I do creating them!

This week I wanted to feature one of our newest stamp and die set combos, the Forget Me Not Trio. I was so excited to design these products, which can be either on their own, or together. No matter how you pair them, there are many different things you can do with these products! In the Forget Me Not Trio collection are the Forget Me Not floral dies, the Friends of Life stamp set and the coordinating Friends of Life dies. I’ll also be touching on adding many small details to your cards; little details go a long way in making a card look truly unique!

The Forget Me Not floral dies allow you to build die cut flowers and leaves into beautiful arrangements. I cut mine from Simon cardstocks, but you could easily cut them from white cardstock and color the petals and leaves with inks, or cut from watercolor paper and watercolor them in. Or, if stamping is more your style, you can use the flowers from the Friends of Life stamp set and color in the outlines, or do some stamp layering with the solid images. The coordinating dies give you the versatility to cut anything you want from the stamp set.

When I die cut the flowers and leaves, I used coordinating ink colors to add just a touch of shading to the edges of each flower and to certain areas of the leaves. This is an optional step and the results are subtle, but I think it adds a nice finishing touch to the final card.

I also swapped out the die cut centers of the flowers for a more embellished look. With a few yellow buttons from 28 Lilac Lane and a bit of Nuvo Jewel Drops, I was able to decorate the inside of the flowers very easily that created a very pretty effect. If you want something a not quite so bulky, you could use the flower center dies that are included in the Forget Me Not floral die set.

For detail on the leaf branches, I added some brown shading to the stems and a bit of green to the “centers” of the leaves. Again, these are small details, but look perfect when combined together with all the other details in the card.

With some Simon inks, I stamped the word “friend” and one of the smaller supporting sentiments (from the Friends of Life stamp set). I also added a few pink half-pearls from 28 Lilac Lane in between my floral arrangement, as well as some more Nuvo Crystal Drops.

After all those embellishments – yes there are quite a few! – I added one more. With a Wink of Stella clear glitter pen, I brushed the edges of each flower and certain areas of the leaves to add a hint of sparkle. There isn’t a ton of sparkle all over, so the little hints actually make you take a second look at the card because you *think* you saw something shimmer! This is a very effective way to make your card just a bit more interesting without being over the top. With all that we have going on in this card, having just the hint of sparkle makes more of a statement.

I hope today’s video not only gave you inspiration for creating beautiful florals with the Forget Me Not Trio collection, but also provided some helpful ideas and tips for adding small details to your card to make the perfect statement. Be sure to stop back next week for my newest Studio Monday video, and subscribe to our YouTube channel to catch all of our weekly videos!

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Journaling Card Box

Hi Friends! I’m excited to welcome back special guest Anna Karin Evaldsson to our blog today! If you want to see what she’s up to on a weekly basis check out her blog HERE and our weekly Monday Challenge! Read on and enjoy!

Hello everyone! I (Anna-Karin) am really happy to be back here with another tutorial. For many years now, one of my favorite surfaces to work on has been mat board. I love to use mat board, both as a base for 3-D projects and to die cut embellishments or letters from. The Sizzix Little Sizzles Mat Board comes in white and cream and the sheets are 6 x 13 in, which is perfect for die cutting. The techniques can be used on other surfaces too, such as manila or watercolor cardstock.

I used the Recipe Box Scoreboards die by Eileen Hull and Sizzix to make a box (4.1 x 3.1 in). The box die is great and the box it can hold, for example, a little gift, a mini-book, gift cards, photos, or little cards or notes. Today, I filled it with cards, which can either be given away as cards, or used as journaling cards in a project.

Mat board is really sturdy and holds up to a lot of use, for example, I made some storage containers for my son when he turned three, and they are still holding up four years later, even after being handled often by little hands. When it comes to techniques, mat board takes ink beautifully and works great together with stamping, paint and even water techniques. Let’s start!

Start by die cutting the Recipe Card Box from cream Little Sizzles Mat Board. This is an XL die, so you need the Extended Cutting Pads, but it fits perfectly in an ordinary Big Shot or Vagabond machine. You don’t need the Big Shot Plus. Use this sandwich: Extended Cutting Pad, die facing up, mat board, second Extended Cutting Pad. As you can see on the photo, the ScoreBoards dies both cuts and scores the material, making assembly very easy. You can also use chipboard.

White emboss flowers from Tim Holtz Mini Bouquet set on the front, back and sides of the box. Remember to make sure that you are stamping them in the right direction. It is easy to by mistake stamp upside down on the front.

Start inking with the lightest shade of Distress Ink, using an Ink Blending Tool. The embossing will resist the ink.

Continue inking the box until you are happy. I used Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn, Tumbled Glass and Mermaid Lagoon Distress Inks.

Splatter the box with water to create a bit of texture.

Randomly stamp the box with a script stamp and Jet Black ink. You can skip this step, if you want a less messy look.

Apply a strong adhesive along the flaps of the box. I used Ranger’s Wonder Tape.

Assemble the box and carefully sand the edges slightly to reveal the cream mat board.

Cut cards from watercolor paper. Mine are 3,9 x 2,9 in. I made 12 cards, one for each sentiment on Tim Holtz’s Mini Motivation set. White emboss the sentiments on the cards, varying the placement.

If you want to, you can round the corners of the cards.

On a craft sheet, smear a line of Mowed Lawn, followed by a thinner line of Twisted Citron and finally at the top, a line of Mermaid Lagoon. Mist with water and start pressing the cards into the ink. Wipe the sheet and reapply the ink when you get to the end of the line.

Continue until you have colored all the cards. Sometimes I added a little bit of darker ink with my finger over a word or two, to make them stand out better.

Tuck the cards into the box and tie with a string.

I stamped a sentiment from Simple Sayings on the flap of the box. You can also close the box with Velcro.

Mirrored Hearts are great embellishments that fit almost any project, giving a little bit of bling.

At the bottom of the box, I glued a piece of lace, and I also added a couple of Chit Chat stickers.

This is the back of the box. If you use other stamps and colors, this box can work for almost any theme.

The box can easily hold more cards then the twelve I made. Or you could also add little envelopes, which I did in another project of mine, namely this Quick Gift Card set.

Here’s a look at the cards. These sentiments are so great and fit many different occasions. You can color the back of the cards too or leave them white.