Hi friends! Happy Thursday! Happy Avery Elle Summer Release day! To celebrate the release of this fun new collection, Jamie Gracz of Avery Elle made the adorable sea themed card pictured below! Be sure to read on 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 Summer Release items.  We have 13 new stamp sets and 17 new die sets that just released today!! Woo Hoo!

To make this card I stamped and colored images from our adorable new Bubbles stamp set using our New Moon Dye Ink Pad (fantastic with Alcohol markers!) and copic markers. I then die cut the images and adhered them onto a die cut from our new Waves die set.  After stamping the sentiment onto a die cut banner from our Pierced Banner Layers Die Set, the card was complete.  This was so easy and fun to make!! 

I hope that you get a chance to check out our entire Summer 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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Hi friends! Thanks for stopping by today! Welcome to Yana Smakula‘s latest edition of “Yippee for Yana“! In this edition Yana is using some new Pretty Pink Posh stamps and combining them with a gorgeous galaxy technique. Please be sure to watch the video, and enjoy!

Hi everyone, this is Yana Smakula and I’m excited to bring you another episode from my by-monthly “Yippee For Yana” video series! In today’s video I’m showing you how to create a watercolor galaxy background. This project probably seems intimidating because right now you are thinking “there’s no way I can create that watercolor galaxy background”. Trust me, you can. You just have to give it a try and add some black and white at the end. This really is the main trick.

I started working on my project by stamping stars and a sub sentiment from the Seeing Stars stamp set in Versafine Onyx Black ink onto Arches Hot Press watercolor cardstock panel. This particular paper is smooth and perfect for stamping and watercoloring, it has almost no texture at all, so images stamp really nicely. The reason I went with Versafine Onyx Black ink for stamping is this ink is nice and rich and it is waterproof; it was vital to use a waterproof ink for my stamping. I also stamped my critters and I used a bit of masking.

Because I was creating a scene, I need to mask several images for best results. After my stamping was done I moved onto coloring. I taped my panel onto a board (I knew I would be adding quite a bit of water so I wanted the panel to warp as little as possible and I was able to minimize warping by taping my panel down). For my coloring I used Gansai Tambi watercolors and first colored my critters. Later, I used several colors or Copic markers to add details and shading to my images as I didn’t quite like the watercolored result. You can definitely combine different coloring mediums to add details and finishing touches.

Don’t feel like you can’t mix mediums, you most definitely can (and because VersaFine ink is also Copic friendly after it’s been heat set the ink didn’t bleed when it came in contact with markers) To color my background I first wet the paper using a flat waterbrush and next added initial color. I used a heat tool in between each layer of color and dried my paper. My background looked quite bad during the process but as soon as I added black and later white it magically transformed.

I made sure to kept the area around my critters and sentiment light (I added only light shades of blue and purple and just a bit of black) so that the main images still remained prominently visible on my project. I also die cut and stamped a wooden sign from the Camping Friends stamp set by Pretty Pink Posh onto same Arches Hot Press watercolor paper, added a missing you sentiment and watercolored the sign to match the rest of my scene.

I foam mounted my watercolor panel onto an A2 top folding card base – it was trimmed to 4 by 5 ½” and foam mounted stamped and die cut sign on top. I used black foam tape to make sure it wouldn’t be visible on the card. This project was inspired by a card I shared several months ago over on my blog I used the same Seeing Stars stamp set to stamp constellations on my background and went with the same watercolor galaxy technique. Have fun stamping!

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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! :)

I hope you enjoyed my card and video! Thanks so much for joining me today!

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