Did You Know? October 2021
Hello crafters, it’s Nina-Marie Trapani here with you! Today I have a new edition of our popular Did You Know series!
If it’s your first time seeing this feature, each month we bring you fun facts, creative tips, and even crafty hacks about your favorite supplies and brands; you can then use these awesome tips that you learn in your next crafting projects! Are you ready to learn some fun tricks? Keep on reading!
Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturated Inks
Have you seen our brand new and PAWSITIVELY Saturated Inks? These premium dye inks are specially formulated for the smoothest of stamping and ink blending. Each pad is a foam base, saturated with hand-picked ink colors that you can only find here at Simon Says Stamp. Your stamped and ink blended projects will truly shine with the delicious array of colors and high quality of these inks.
Pro tip: Did you know these work beautifully with our exclusive Pawsitively Everything Tools? Our PETs come in a rainbow of colors, perfect for pairing with your spectrum of inks!
Pawsitively Everything Storage Boxes
Our Simon exclusive Pawsitively Everything Storage Boxes are an organizer’s dream! These handy boxes (sized at 5 1/2″ wide, 6 1/4″ tall, and 2″ deep), are designed to fit a wide variety of your craft supplies, including markers, ink blending tools, embellishments, A2 watercolor cards and card fronts, sentiment strips, and more! These boxes also work perfectly with our Pawsitively Everything Storage Pockets.
Want to learn more about our Pawsitively Everything Storage Boxes? Watch this video!
Pawsitively Everything Clear Pockets
In addition to our Storage Boxes, our Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Everything Clear Pockets are an efficient way to organize your A2-sized products. Items such as watercolor cards and sentiment strips fit perfectly inside our Clear Pockets! This is especially helpful once you’ve cut apart your sentiments strips because it allows you to keep your cut strips together with the full-sized sheets. The pockets even have a tab closure to prevent small pieces from slipping out!
Pawsitively Everything Cardstock Sleeves
Keeping your beautiful cardstock and specialty papers looking perfect is a must for any crafter! Did you know that we now have exclusive Pawsitively Everything Cardstock Sleeves that are specifically designed to hold all your 8 1/2″ x 11″ cardstocks? These heavy-duty plastic sleeves are made from high-quality materials and feature many useful design elements. You’ll notice the cutout in the front that allows for easy access inside the sleeve. The heat-sealed edges are very durable, and we even rounded the corners of the sleeves to prevent knicks and cuts on your fingers as you use them!
Rabbit Hole Designs Powder Tool
Calling all embossing stampers! Have you seen this new tool from Rabbit Hole Designs?? This refillable powder tool has a soft bristle brush that gently applies powder onto your paper prior to embossing; its large size also provides wider coverage than other similar tools. The powder tool is also environmentally friendly because it is designed to not over-powder your paper, minimizing waste. This handy device also has a cap that protects and keeps your bristles clean when not in use.
I hope these tips have helped you learn a few tricks for your upcoming crafting projects… Thanks for tuning in today and spending some time with me!
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Card Kit Reveal and Inspiration: Cozy Wishes
Snuggle in as we introduce our latest card kit of the month for November 2021, Cozy Wishes!
This kit has many gorgeous Nordic nods, from the beautiful Cozy Wishes stamp set (featuring stunning birdhouses) to our Scandinavian Christmas embossing folder and the Scandi Christmas papers from Paper Rose. We even included a PET and a sleeve of hot cocoa! (Did you know that PETs make great drink holders to keep your projects safe when you are crafting?!)
To round out the kit, you’ll find our lovely new Berries & Leaves exclusive stencil, a sheet of Thanks sentiment strips, 4 sheets of heavy-duty cardstock and 2 Simon Says Stamp exclusive envelopes in coordinating colors!
You are sure to love our newest card kit, Cozy Wishes!
The NEW 6×8 stamp set Cozy Wishes and Scandinavian Christmas embossing folder are available for individual purchases in our store!
Don’t forget! We have LOTS of gorgeous card kit inspiration to access and add to in our Card Kit Galleries!
You can purchase the kit at $39.99, or you can subscribe to our kit of the month program for just $34.99 (plus S&H) per month to have our kits delivered right to your door each month!
If you are a subscriber who used Paypal to purchase your subscription, please be sure to pay the invoice that we send you within 3 business days. We have a limited number of this card kit in stock and don’t want you to miss out. For easier and quicker monthly processing, please contact us via email or telephone and we will put your credit card on file as a courtesy for you. Card kits bill and ship anytime between the 16 – 30 of every month.
Yippee for Yana: Holiday Sprigs & Foiling
Hi friends! Happy Wednesday! Please join me in welcoming back special guest Yana Smakula in the latest edition of our Yippee for Yana blog series! Read on and be sure to watch the video for all the details! Enjoy!
Hello, crafters, this is Yana Smakula for Simon Says stamp.com! Welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video!
In today’s video, I am creating a holiday greeting card by combining clear stamping with hot foil stamping. I’m using Simon’s Holiday Sprigs stamp set to create beautiful Christmas blooms and Spellbinders Essential Christmas Greetings to create a foiled sentiment.
I stamped the Holiday Sprigs in Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto Neenah Solar White 80lb cardstock and colored with Copic markers. I used my go-to colors. The greenery was colored using G99, G94, and G21. This color combo gives a very pretty muted green as opposed to a vibrant grass green color. I find this combination to be perfect for holiday imagery.
Mistletoe berries were colored red using R27, R24, and R22. I simply outlined each berry leaving a spot of white in the center working as a highlight. You can add a highlight using a white pen or a white marker, but whenever possible, I like to leave the paper white, this type of highlight looks a lot more natural. Of course, it all depends on the type of coloring I am doing and the type of image I am coloring, it that’s a cartoony type of image, I would probably stick to using a white gel pen to create a highlight. If I am coloring organic foliage I try to keep a part of the paper free from coloring to create a natural-looking highlight.
My poinsettias were colored using the same colors as the berries, with R27, R24, and R22. I didn’t do much blending, in fact, I did almost no blending at all. The yellow centers were colored using a Y19 marker. I used coordinating dies and cut these images out in my Platinum Die Cutting Machine.
To create a sentiment I foiled an Essential Christmas Greeting from Spellbinders in Matte Gold Foil on Simon’s Cream cardstock panel cut to 4 1/4 x 5 1/2”.
I prefer the matte foils to regular shiny foils, as matte gives a much softer look, it still looks like foil, but not as flashy and not as shiny.
I did some additional stamping – I created a few filler pieces for my foliage. I wanted to have more red, so I stamped tiny berry branches using the Happy Poinsettia stamp set. I used Simon’s Green Leaf and Lipstick Red inks to stamp these and I cut them out using coordinating dies. I stamped pine branches directly onto the background in Khaki ink so that it looked as if they were coming from under my foliage.
I foam mounted the branches onto the background and I also added the filler pieces using foam adhesive. The red berries really added a lot of detail to this design.
I also embellished the card with gold gems from Spellbinders – I added quite a few placing them next to the foliage. I recently had a question on my Youtube channel asking how I distribute the embellishments on the card – here I clustered them immediately next to the images. I didn’t follow the rule of a triangle, instead, I used the gems as extensions of the images. Where I had little crevices in the design I just added 2 or 3 gems to fill that space in. Have fun stamping!
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Thanks so much for stopping by, and thanks to Yana for being our guest!
