Take Your Stenciling to the Next Level with Offset Inking: Amore Laurafadora
Hi friend! Happy Thursday! Please join me in welcoming back special guest Laura Bassen to showcase this super fun card showcasing our brand new released from our In My Heart collection: Folk Flowers stamp and stencils, Crimped A2 Rectangles, Chunky A2 Scallop Rectangles (in DieCember® but still new!), Impressionistic Flower dies (sentiment), and Cream Puff embellishment mix. For more information be sure to watch the video, and enjoy!
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A big thank you to YOU, our reader — and to Laura Bassen for being our guest!
In My Heart Blog Hop WINNERS
Hello, friends! We hope you are loving our In My Heart release!
To celebrate this incredible release, we hosted two amazing blog hops! The hops featured many talented designers and each one created wonderful projects to inspire you. If you missed either of the hops, you can find the direct links here: DAY ONE and DAY TWO.
A BIG thank you to all of YOU who joined us for the hops! We enjoy hearing from each of you, and your words of encouragement and appreciation to each of the designers mean so much to us here at Simon and to them. It’s our tradition to give away gift certificates to random commenters on each blog stop, and today we are revealing all of the winners! So without further ado, I present to you our winners!
from Simon Says Stamp’s blog: Percilla Gurule!
from Barbara Tarayao’s blog: Maria Schaefer!
from Suzy Plantamura’s blog: Sheila Styre-Briere!
from Cathy Zielske’s blog: Fran Smith!
from Nicky Meek’s blog: Kathy Eddy!
from Heather Ruwe’s blog: Kristen Snoozy!
from Tina Smith’s blog: micheleazumalee!
from Lisa Addesa’s blog: Cindy Nelson!
from Mindy Eggen’s blog: Kelly O!
from Miriam Prantner’s blog: Mary-Anne V.!
from Emma Williams’s blog: Vicki Fedor!
from Kim Hamilton’s blog: STACEY F!
from Dana Joy’s blog: Andrea Robert!
from Rosemary Dennis’s blog: Lisa Elton!
from Carol Hintermeier’s blog: Rebecca Stevenson!
from Amy Tsuruta’s blog: Daria Zender!
from Simon Says Stamp’s blog: Sheri Kempke!
from Nina-Marie Trapani’s blog: Mark G!
from Heather Hoffman’s blog: Lora Knudsen!
from Laura Bassen’s blog: Janice Cox!
from Nichol Spohr’s blog: Donna Phelan!
from Emily Midgett’s blog: Kelley Clarke!
from Amy Rysavy’s blog: Laura Budke!
from Keisha Charles’s blog: Mariana Maya!
from Sandi MacIver’s blog: Cindy C.!
from Anna-Karin Evaldsson’s blog: Sandy Suzuka!
from Lorraine Aquilina’s blog: Shawna!
from Alberto Gava’s blog: Gayle I.!
from Natasha Vacca’s blog: Anita Knepprath!
from Barb Engler’s blog: Denise Bryant!
from Debbie Frank’s blog: gizmokitty97!
If you see your name listed above, CONGRATULATIONS! Please email [email protected] and let him know that you are one of our In My Heart release blog hop winners! You’ll receive a $25 Gift Card.
Thanks again for hopping along with us! We hope you enjoy our fantastic In My Heart release and that it gives you creative enjoyment for months to come!
You’ll love browsing our In My Heart gallery on our blog for loads of additional inspiration, and you can add your projects to these galleries as well!
Winning ROCKS, and so do you!
How To: Dimensional Heart Flowers Tag
Happy Wednesday, friend! Please join me in welcoming back special guest Anna-Karin Evaldson with this gorgeous bright and happy tag tutorial! Read on and enjoy!
Hi everyone! I am happy to be here on the blog with a fun floral project. I made two kinds of dimensional paper flowers using the same heart die set. You might not be able to see that all these flowers were made with heart dies, unless you look very closely.
I enjoy thinking of different ways to use dies and here I combined that with another favorite, namely, to make dimensional flowers. The flowers were made with the Simon Says Stamp Rounded Hearts set. Since the set comes with ten heart dies, you can make these flowers in many sizes. Let’s start.
Smear Distress Inks on a non-stick craft sheet, mist with water and press watercolor paper into the ink.
I wanted more color, so when the first layer was dry, I repeated the process, this time also use a little Distress Oxide Ink.
For subtle patterns and shimmer, I misted through various stencils with Distress Spritz Saltwater Taffy, Spiced Marmalade and Antique Linen.
Die cut hearts from the prepared papers. I used five hearts for one of the flower designs and six hearts for the other. I used the three smallest heart dies from Simon Says Stamp Rounded Hearts.
Use Tim Holtz Shaping Kit to add shape to the flowers. Fold, roll and pinch the petals/hearts. They start looking less like hearts and more like petals.
Glue the five hearts together as shown, overlapping on the same side all around the circle.
For the second type of flower, I cut two small half-circles from the petals.
Add shape to the petals as before.
Glue three petals together and then add another three on top, making sure to vary the placement so that the petals do not line up.
For the flower centres, I used Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Dazzling Gems: Bubblegum and Peachy. Glue with Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Perfect Craft Glue and use a Place and Score Embellishment Wand for easy placement.
The background is embossed resist. Start by white embossing the sentiment from Simon Says Stamp Swiss Dots and repeat on Simon Says Stamp Masking Paper. Cut the masking paper into a rectangle and adhere over the stamped sentiment.
Stamp and white emboss the Swiss Dots background. Remove the masking paper. My stamping right above the masking paper wasn’t perfect, but I later fixed that with Design Tape.
Ink the background with Wilted Violet, Uncharted Mariner and a little Chipped Sapphire.
I dusted the entire background with Turquoise Pearl Powder and misted with water, letting some of the water turn into droplets. Dabb off the water droplets.
I dyed May Arts White Wrinkled Faux Silk Ribbon with some of the Distress Inks used for the flowers.
Finally, I die cut flourishes with Tim Holtz Vault Boutique set from Simon Says Stamp Silver Vellum paper.
Glue the flowers to the background, letting them overlap slightly.
When you see these flowers, you will probably not think that they were made from hearts, unless you look closely.
I added a Tim Holtz Small Talk sticker as a second sentiment.
Here you can see the lovely shimmer of the pearl powder and Simon Says Stamp Silver Vellum.
Tuck the flourishes in here and there. As you can see here, the flowers have quite a bit of dimension. If you use the larger flower dies, you can make really big flowers. For another way of using the Simon Says Stamp Rounded Hearts die, check out my Fun with Shrink Sheets tutorial.
I hope this tutorial inspired you to make dimensional flowers and to look at your dies in new ways. Happy crafting! –Anna-Karin
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