Amore Laurafadora: Geometric Circle Pattern
Hi friends! Happy Wednesday! Please join me in welcoming back special guest Laura Bassen for this bright and happy Birthday card inspiration! Below you will find the photo that Laura found on Pinterest that inspired her to make this card! She used the larger circle in our Orange Blossoms stencil as well as a sentiment from our Time to Party stamp set and a little Reverse Sassy Birthday sentiment strip to finish off the look along with some Pawsitively Saturated Inks! Be sure to watch the video for all the details and enjoy!
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Thanks so much for stopping by, and thanks to Laura for being our guest!
Yippee for Yana: Ink Blended Speech Bubbles
Hi friends! Happy Tuesday! Don’t miss this colorful and fun latest edition of Yippee for Yana by Yana Smakula. (Please note; our dear friend Yana is Ukrainian, to show support to our brothers and sisters in Ukraine, please see Yana’s post HERE.)
Hello, crafters, this is Yana Smakula for Simon Says Stamp! Welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video!
In today’s video, I’m sharing a one-layer ink blended talk bubbles design. My card is an encouragement one, but this design works for loads of different occasions and messages!
The star of the show today is the Talk Bubbles stencil from Simon. I love mine! I used it to sketch out a speech bubbles background on scrap paper. I simply penciled out the speech bubble outlines onto my paper to give me a guide for my card.
I attached the guide onto a cardstock panel, I used Cream instead of white, and ink blended the bubbles one by one.
I used Simon’s Pawsitively Saturated inks for this background and my colors are Citrine, Surf, Peachy, Bubblegum, Celery, Marine, and Melon.
If you do get unwanted ink on your background you can try to remove it by using a sanding eraser – I got some ink transfer from the tape, but the mono Sanding eraser saved the day as it helped to get most of the ink off the background.
Using this stencil you can also overlap the speech bubbles and create a beautiful continuous background or ink blend just one large bubble for your sentiment.
Speaking of sentiments, I went with an older stamp set from Simon, the Tiny Words Encouragement set. The messages here, as the name suggests, are tiny, but they are very powerful. I didn’t want to overwhelm my card with big messages, I wanted to keep the sentiment small, but include several on the card, one for each speech bubble. Even the longest messages in this set fit well inside the speech bubbles in this stencil.
I used my mini MISTI stamping tool to stamp all of the sentiments at once and stamped them in VersaFine Onyx Black ink.
I adhered this panel onto an A2 top folding card base – this is a one layer design, I seem to be enjoying one layer designs lately, and to add a bit of wow I embellished my card with some white gems from Spellbinders.
I hope you feel inspired to create!
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Thanks so much for stopping by, and thanks to Yana for being our guest!
Studio Monday with Nina-Marie: Ink Blending Over Hot Foil
Hey there friends, its Nina-Marie here with you, sharing a hot foiled project I made with our Simon exclusive hot foil plates!
This slimline card features the Peony and Sketched Leaf hot foil plates and dies. To get the best foiled results, I used White Glossy Cardstock from Simon, which provides a super-crisp finish. I ink blended over the foil using Pawsitively Saturated Inks (foil resists most ink you put over top of it).
To finish the card, I added some pretty sequins and a greeting from our Birthday Sentiments set. Be sure to watch the video to see how I made this card!
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