Make 2021 a Handmade Holiday!
Presenting our latest collection, Handmade Holiday! These charming products will inspire you to add your personal touch to gifts, home decor, and of course cards. Our magical Night Before Christmas cling stamp will give you visions of sugarplums, while our Thankful Wreath set will have you reflecting on your blessings. Get festive with terrific new stencils like Ornament Builder and Candy Canes, and make your projects sparkle with fun sequin packs and our NEW EXCLUSIVE Mini Glitz Glitter Gels!
The beautiful embossing folders in this release will make you nostalgic for Christmas Cookies and Swirling Snowflakes, and the Large Thank You Swirl hot foil plate will allow you to add a glorious glimmer to your designs. PLUS! We’re launching the next group of our Pawsitively Saturated Inks in gorgeous colors like Taffy, Field, and Marine; pick up the entire set of 15 or purchase colors individually or in trios.
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STAY TUNED! TWO very special blog hops celebrating this new exclusive release starts tomorrow at 8 AM ET and continue Friday at 8 AM ET and they will be full of GORGEOUS inspiration! Don’t miss them!!
Making the Cut: Rudolph Ornament Shaker Tags
Hi friends! Happy Tuesday! Please join me in welcoming special guest Nichol Spohr with the latest edition of our monthly Making the Cut series that celebrates all things die cutting! She’s showcasing this “oldie but goodie” Ho Ho Deer Circle die and sentiments from our Circle Sentiments Christmas clear stamp set! Pick your favorite sequins to make these tags shaker tags! Want to make your deer a ‘Rudolph’?! Don’t forget your pom pom! Be sure to watch the video for all the details and enjoy!
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Yippee for Yana: Mixing Stamp Sets to Tell a Story
Hi friends!! Welcome to the latest edition of Yippee for Yana, our bi-monthly card making series with Yana Smakula! I was INSTANTLY wow’ed at the outcome of this card (and the creative combo of stamps she used to make it!) 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!
One of the things I love to do the most when creating handmade cards is using my stamps in a non conventional, non intended way. I love to take images from several completely different sets and bring them together on a card in a way that they tell a story.
In this video I’ll show you how I pull images from various stamp sets in my stash to create a unique card.
Here’s the plan for this card: the base image is the convertible from the Tied The Knot stamp set. This is not a Christmas set, yet I am using it to make a Christmas card. I’m going to take this car and decorate it with various Christmas imagery to have it work for a Christmas project.
This stamp set has a “Just Married” banner, I’m replacing that with a string of Christmas lights from an older stamp set from Simon – Winter Scene.
Next, my car holds a pretty large gift and that comes from the Gift Wrap stamp set. I also have Christmas trees sticking out from the back and these come from the Merry Christmas Trees set.
I also used a sentiment from the Good Cheer stamp set from CZ.
You can take pretty much any stamp set you have in your stash and with a little bit of tweaking, make it work for a different occasion. In this case, I’m tweaking a wedding car to work for a Christmas card.
The same car could be tweaked for a Birthday card, for Thanksgiving card, for a Valentine’s day card and more. And also other images, you’ll need to look for a larger image, which can be tweaked to suit a different occasion.
I stamped and colored my images using Copic markers in the following colors:
- R27, R24, R22, R20 (car, tag, poinsettia)
- C9, C7 (tires)
- C7, C5, C3 (exhaust pipes)
- C5, C3, C1 (bumper)
- BG32, BG11, B000 (gift, lights)
- YG17, YG03, YG01 (trees, lights)
I cut a slit just under the windshield using a kraft knife and inserted the gift and Christmas trees into the car. The license plate and the lights string were foam mounted on top.
I stamped sentiments in VersaFine Onyx black ink onto Simon’s Sea Glass cardstock panel and added white snow details using Story Time Paint Pen from Jane Davenport.
Instead of foam mounting the car, I used an action wobbler to add interactivity and movement to this project. You stick one end onto your die cut and another end onto the background and voila – you have a movable object. It adds so much cuteness! Every time I give someone a card with an interactive element made using an action wobbler – they can’t stop playing with it!
Finally, coated the brake lights and the Christmas lights with glossy accents! Have fun stamping!
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