Did You Know? Fun Facts and Crafty Tips! December 2019
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!‘
Couture Creations Detailer Tool
Are you like me and accidentally get a spot of ink somewhere you didn’t want it? I love having an eraser on hand to clean up those little mistakes. Did you know that the battery powered Couture Creations Detailer Tool has the ability to clean up inky mistakes in even the smallest of areas?? It even comes with two different eraser tip sizes, ensuring you’ll have just the right tip for the fix!
Winter Floral background stamp and layering stencils
Our Simon exclusive Winter Floral background stamp and Winter Floral layering stencil sets have been so popular this holiday season. We specifically designed the background stamp and the layering stencils to coordinate together so that they could be used interchangeably. Stamp the background stamp with ink or emboss with embossing powder, then use the layering stencils to “color” everything in. In no time you have a festive background for your holiday cards!
Hand Crafted with Love stamps
A card (or gift) is not complete without a little custom stamping – and what better way to share the handmade love than with our Hand Crafted with Love stamp set! Have you seen it? This set has everything you need to stamp on the back of cards, tags or share care instructions with the recipient, in a custom and handmade way!
Crafters Companion Low Tack Tape
Die cutting can be a bit of a challenge if your dies keep slipping as you cut. Did you know that Crafter’s Companion has a low tack, clear tape that works great for die cutting?? Not only does the tape hold down the dies, but you can see through the tape as you work! Talk about convenient!
Featured dies include our Simon Says Stamp Sentiment Labels dies and Fortune Cookie dies (that coordinate with the Fortune Cookie Sayings sentiment strips).
Lawn Fawn Liquid Stardust
Lawn Fawn’s gorgeous Liquid Stardust glitter is simply breathtaking! The amount of intense shimmer that this tiny bottle puts out is mind-blowing. A small drop goes a long way! Put some on a craft mat and apply with a brush for shimmery accents. You can also use this in so many other ways including as a glittery splatter for stars and snow, mix with water in a spritzer bottle for customer shimmer spray, add to paint or ink for a glittery watercolor… the possibilities are endless!
Like the card you see in this photo? I just featured it in our latest edition of Funny Friday! Check it out here.
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Yippee for Yana: Wintery Valentine’s Day Card
Hi friends! Happy Saturday before Christmas! This month and year have been flying! I’m excited to share this gorgeous wintery love card by the super talented Yana Smakula! Be sure to watch the video below and enjoy!
Hi everyone, this is Yana Smakula, welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video! In this episode, I have a Winter Valentine’s Day card for a guy using some older products from Simon. This is an easy project to make and hopefully one that will inspire you to rush to your craft desk and create away!
With the Winter Season upon us, I’ve come to enjoy adding snowy blizzards to my cards. In my previous video, I shared 2 Christmas cards, one of which featured a ton of white snow added with the help of white paint pens.
Since Valentine’s Day is also a Winter Holiday and it typically snows on Valentine’s day in my neck of the woods I do associate this holiday with snow. Hence, I figured it was fitting to add snowy blizzard to a Valentine’s Day card.
I started to work on my card by heat embossing a background. I used Simon’s Audrey Blue cardstock and embossed Center Cut Heart background stamp in Antique gold embossing powder – it is my absolute favorite color of embossing powder and it is probably the only powder I use all year round – for both Christmas and non-Christmas projects.
Next, I used my heat tool and melted the powder in place. I love the look of Antique Gold embossing powder on this Audrey Blue cardstock, it looks simply stunning! To add some definition to the background I decided to add some simple ink blending. I rarely ink blend full backgrounds, but I do love to ink blend the edges of the panels and keep the center free from any ink as this helps the panels glow and instantly draws the eye of the viewer to that center spot.
I first used Simon’s High Dive ink and ink blended the edges of the panel coming to the center but making sure to keep that center heart free from any ink. I was using a rather heavy hand and applying a lot of ink, but I also was mindful of the transition of the ink so that there weren’t any harsh ink blended lines.
Next, I used Deep Sea ink and added just a touch of this beautiful dark blue around the very edges of the panel. I love the way this panel turned out – very elegant, and wintry looking, I think.
I started to work on a sentiment next. I first wanted to stamp and heat emboss it directly on the background, but I messed it by adding a wrong color embossing powder. I added clear instead of white and thus had to brush it off. By doing so I messed up the stamping and wasn’t able to add the correct color powder over the stamping.
Instead, I stamped the sentiment in clear embossing ink on white cardstock, covered with the same Antique Gold embossing powder and heat set with my heat tool. I cut it out creating a thin strip to place over the embossed and ink blended background.
I used foam adhesive tape and adhere the panel to the A2 white card base. Beforehand I also trimmed the panel down slightly so that a bit of the white of the card base would show through. I also used foam adhesive to mount the sentiment panel on the card.
With all the elements adhered I used Story Time Paint pens from Jane Davenport and add a number of white snow-like dots mimicking a blizzard on my card. I shared this technique in my previous video and I simply fell in love with the look so I wanted to try it again on this card as well. I’m glad I did as it added a ton of interest to this card.
Lastly, I embellished my project with several sequins from the Star Spangled mix – I picked a few smaller blue and larger blue sequins and adhered them scattering around the background with the help of Simon’s Craft Tacky glue. I also stamped a simple sentiment on the inside of the card that reads – I’m much more me when I’m with you.
Have fun stamping!
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Thanks so much for stopping by and thanks to Yana for being our guest!
