Art Journaling with Shari Carroll: Colors of Fall
Welcome, everyone! It’s Shari Carroll here with an art journal feature where I’m working in the Dina Wakley white 6×6 journal and celebrating some of the amazing colors of Fall.
I’ve selected about 6 Distress ink colors that feel like fall to me to stamp the leaves and to add as splatters to the blue background.
I don’t usually do a two-page journal spread but thought it would be a good reminder to have small swatches of the colors I used to reference later.
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Studio Monday with Nina-Marie: Holiday Hot Foil Featuring Spellbinders
Hello there, friends! It’s Nina-Marie Trapani here and I’d like to welcome you back to another installment of Studio Monday! In this video, I will be showing you how to use hot foil plates from Spellbinders to create a beautiful holiday card.
I used the Holiday Florals Background and Holiday Florals hot foil plates from Spellbinders to create a beautiful arrangement of poinsettias. For foil, I chose Rose Gold, Red Shimmer, and Green. To accent the foiling, I used Aged Mahogany and Festive Berries Distress Inks to ink blend the Berries and Leaves stencil from Simon.
I also added some Simon Says Stamp sequins and gem stickers from Honey Bee Stamps to add a bit of extra bling on this card.
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Yippee for Yana: Snowflake Edges
Hi friends! Happy Sunday! I’m delighted to welcome back special guest Yana Smakula with another lovely holiday card idea! Be sure to read on and watch the video for all the details! Enjoy!
Hello, crafters, this is Yana Smakula for Simon Says Stamp! Welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video!
In today’s video, I will show you how to combine heat embossing and hot foil stamping. Both of these techniques require heat and one can damage the other if done in the wrong order.
My idea is to foil a sentiment in matte gold foil on a panel of Simon’s Soft Navy cardstock and add the snowflakes from the Snowflake Edges stamp set around the sentiment framing it, in white. Whenever you want to combine heat embossing and hot foiling you have to save the embossing for the last step. The heat from the hot foil machine can re-heat and re-melt the embossing powder messing up your hard work. The heat from the heat gun, on the other hand, will have zero effect on the hot foiling, so it is safe to heat emboss over a foiled panel.
Begin by foiling the sentiment in the center of the panel. If you have trouble foiling on Soft Navy cardstock, be sure to watch my video for tips. Next, heat emboss the Snowflake Edge above and below the sentiment creating a beautiful snowflake background. I embossed mine in Simon’s Fine Detail White embossing powder.
At this point, you could keep your background as is. I like to step things up, so I added some subtle shadows to the snowflakes using a C7 Copic marker. It is quite a tedious process to add all of that shading, but I didn’t mind. What you could also do, is re-stamp the same image over the heat embossing, but offset it slightly – this will give you that pretty drop shadow look. If you stamp it in watermark ink, you’ll get a similar result. The shadow might not look as dark, but that’s definitely another and easier way to achieve this look.
At this point again, you can call your background done, but I wanted to step it up even more. I added some subtle ink blending around the edges darkening them. This helps to direct the eye to the center of the panel. I used Hero Arts Navy ink and Simon’s large ink blending brush and blended this color around the edges.
I trimmed this panel down slightly, not too much, just about 1/8” from each side, and foam mounted onto an A2 white top folding card base. This gave me a faint white border around the design. I also embellished each of the snowflakes with gems – I used silver gems from Spellbinders, and lastly, I added lots of little white dots using a white gelly roll pen. I clustered them mostly in between the snowflakes – adding more white to the background of my card. Have fun stamping!
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Thanks so much for stopping by, and thanks to Yana for being our guest!
