Not a Card with Nina-Marie: Clay Heart Wall Hanging
Hello creative friends, it’s Nina-Marie Trapani here with you! I love making home decor projects, and I thought it would be fun to take some clay and create a heart wall hanging for Valentine’s Day! Now if you don’t want to make a wall hanging, you could adapt this idea into simple ornaments that you could give to people you love!
You have the option of using either pre-made or homemade clay cut with cookie cutters. Because of the fact that I was making so many of these hearts for this wall hanging, I opted to use homemade clay. The recipe is a combination of 2 cups of flour, 1/2 cup of salt, and 3/4 cup of water. To bake the clay I set my oven temp at 180 degrees F and baked the hearts for about and hour and a half.
To color the hearts, you can use paint and alcohol inks. I used both for my hearts to create a variety of designs.
The only other embellishment I added to these hearts were a few Gumdrop Hearts from Tim Holtz.
Be sure to watch the video below to see all the steps I took in creating this wall hanging! It was a lot of fun and would make a great decor piece leading up to Valentine’s Day!
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Stinkin’ Sweet Lawn Fawn!
Hi friends! Happy Saturday! Please join me in welcoming back special guest Chari Moss to our blog with a super sweet card idea showcasing some new and beautiful Lawn Fawn products! Be sure to read on to learn more! Enjoy!
Hello crafty friends! Today I have a Sweet Valentine to share with you using some new Lawn Fawn products. For this card I am using the new Scent With Love Add-on stamp set, but any of the new Scent With Love skunks work great for some super cute valentine cards. I chose the happy little skunk from the add-on set as well as a heart balloon and box of candy for his accessories. The images are stamped in Lawn Fawn Jet Black ink and colored with Copic markers, then cut out using the coordinating dies.
For the background panel I used the new Lots of Hearts Background stencils with Lawn Fawn Ballet Slipper ink on Ballet Slipper cardstock to create a tone on tone pattern panel. This panel is cut using the Outside In stitched rectangles which gives a thin white mat around the panel and a nice stitching detail. I also added some pale gold paint splatters over the stenciled background for some shimmer.
The smaller panel is die cut from Bristol cardstock and ink blended using salvaged patina and peacock feathers. I like to use Bristol cardstock when I want a soft color blend. I added some water splatters and white paint splatters to the top of the panel to bring that texture from the heart panel onto the front panel behind the images. Another favorite technique of mine is mixing fonts and sentiments. On this card I mixed a stamped sentiment from the Scent With Love Add-on set with a die cut Scripty Sweet sentiment. After layering all the panels onto the card base and adhering the images using foam adhesive, I added my favorite Liquid Stardust to the sentiment, balloon and candy box bow. I hope this has inspired you to make some fun valentines with your supplies. Thanks so much for joining me today!
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Yippee for Yana: Stretching Christmas Stamps
Hi friends! TGIF! Please join me in welcoming back the super talented and inspiring Yana Smakula as she shares a super fun Birthday card she made by stretching some of her Christmas stamps in the latest edition of our bi-monthly Yippee for Yana series! Be sure to watch the video to learn more and enjoy!
Hello, crafters, this is Yana Smakula for Simon Says Stamp! Welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video! In this video, I invite you to stretch your Holiday stamps beyond Christmas cardmaking.
One of my favorite Christmas stamp sets from 2021 is one called Gift Wrap. This set features several images of gifts along with some holiday sentiments and imagery such as poinsettias, candy canes, pine branches, and more. It is a great Holiday set, hoverer, the main images, the gifts, are evergreen and can be used all year round for Birthday cards.
I stamped the gifts and the tags in Versafine Onyx Black ink on Neenah Solar White 80lb cardstock and heat set the ink with the help of clear embossing powder and my heat tool.
You can also stamp these gifts onto colored cardstock, or onto patterned paper, or even use some other pattern stamp from your stash and stamp a pattern onto the gifts to create your own unique wrapping paper. You can also stamp these onto scrap wrapping paper you might have after the holidays!
I used my Copic markers and did very simple coloring. The Gift Wrap stamp set has a set of coordinating dies. I used mine to cut these out – they even cut out the paper inside the loops on the gift tags. I highly recommend you get the dies as well, as these images aren’t that easy to fussy cut.
If you color your gifts with alcohol markers or maybe you use watercolors or some other coloring medium, you can add a simple pattern or a simple design on top by using a white or a black pen. I used a wide white pen and drew wonky diagonal lines on one of the gifts. For the other gift, I did large irregular dots.
With the gifts done I worked on a background for my cards. My plan was to make simple cards with a colored cardstock background. I used various cardstock colors from my stash. To add interest to the background, I didn’t want to have a blank background, I used Simon’s Halftone Circle Background stamp and stamped it in watermark ink for a tone-on-tone look.
Next, I stamped various birthday sentiments on each of the panels using stamps from Cathy Zielske’s Stop, Drop, Party stamp set. I love the bold look of these, and the sentiments themselves, of course, are very unique.
Next, I foam mounted a gift onto each of the backgrounds, I placed the gifts at an angle. I didn’t want to add any embellishments to these cards, but I did stamp several stars around the gifts – the stars tie in nicely with the black stamped sentiments.
I also trimmed these background panels to 3 3/4 x 5” and foam mounted them onto A2 white side folding card bases.
So don’t put your Christmas stamps away just yet. Look through your stash and see which images can be used all year round. I’m sure you’ll find something fun!
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