On New Year’s Eve we had a super exciting and fabulous Blog Hop to celebrate the new “You Have My Heart” release from Simon Says Stamp. If you haven’t had a chance to visit the hop, click here to view the first post. I know you will find lots of tips, tricks and inspiration! The  “You Have My Heart” gallery has also been updated – and we hope you will take a look! (Be sure to add your links if you’ve made something with the new stamps and dies!) To see the entire new release click here! 

BIG Congratulations to all of the blog hop winners! Thank you for hopping along with us and taking the time to leave feedback for the designers in the form of comments along the way :) I know they really really enjoy hearing from you!

Simon Says Stamp’s Winner: Marjorie
Shari Carroll’s Winner: Barb
Kristina Werner’s Winner: Stacy
Jennifer McGuire’s Winner: Lin
Debby Hughes’ Winner: Kavita
Laura Bassen’s Winner: Karen
Suzy Plantamura’s Winner: Oliev
Wanda Guess’ Winner: Trish
Nichol Magouirk’s Winner: Bobby
Kathy Racoosin’s Winner: Sherisse
Heather Ruwe’s Winner: Bunny
Sarah Moerman’s Winner: Kimber
Lisa Addesa’s Winner: Sarita
Yoonsun Hur’s Winner: Marina

CONGRATULATIONS WINNERS!  Please check your inboxes for an email from us asking for your shipping address so we can send you the Simon Prize Pack! If for some reason we couldn’t access your email, please email [email protected] letting her know you are one of our Blog Hop winners for the Simon Super Surprise pack and give her your mailing address. Thank you again for hopping along with us!

Hi readers! Happy first Monday of 2016! I hope your year is starting off wonderfully! We have a special treat for you today. Nina-Marie Trapani is our guest and has made a gorgeous card featuring Neat & Tangled products! The Heart of Gold Die and Faceted Stamp Set are the stars of the show, but I love seeing how it all came together!

Nina also made a video to walk you through the process. Be sure to check it out!

Enjoy!

Supplies:

Hi everyone, it’s Shari here with some fun foiling techniques to use on your cards.

I thought I’d take this opportunity to show you a few was to use thermal foils from Thermo Web and Heidi Swapp with a laminating machine ( I used my small Minc) and a quick non thermal technique with a glue stick.

My first example uses thermal foiling.  Thermal foiling is a process of using a reactive foil with a heating element machine such as a laminator or Heidi Swapps Minc machine.

I was thrilled when I found Toner Sheets from Thermo Web where I could use my die cuts and foils! Talk about exciting! This card also uses a double foiling technique and some black foil on a die cut.

Have you tried foiling with a glue stick to create a quick background? It’s really easy! For this I used the regular Vintage Foil from Ranger.

I also traced the circles of a stencil with the Heidi Swapp Minc toner pen to create a background on a die cut heart.

I have put together a video explaining how to use a laminating machine and also show you how to do that quick glue stick and foil background. You can watch the video below or on our YouTube channel.

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