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Throwback Thursday – Fabulous Projects You Might Have Missed!
Welcome to another edition of Throwback Thursday—a trip back in time! For each throwback, we’ll be spotlighting fantastic cards and projects using products from previous releases. The new stuff is always SO fun, but think about all of those great products you’ve collected and set aside. They are STILL AWESOME! And we want to inspire you with fantastic inspiration from our creative archives.
Soon we’ll be releasing another amazing DieCember® collection (just WAIT until you see!), but let’s take a look back at a collection that made its appearance last year. You might remember some pretty spectacular products from our Fun & Festive collection. Below you’ll find four inspiring cards created with goodies from this festive holiday release!
First off is this super cute shaped card by Jennifer McGuire:
Shaped cards are the cutest, but make it a puppy shaped card, and it’s just over the top adorable! Jennifer used several products from the release in this design including Big Picture Book Puppy, Standing Body, and Tails, as well as the Punny Animals stamp set. You can see Jennifer’s original post HERE, and of course she shared an awesome video that includes tons of products from the Fun & Festive release. You can see that video HERE.
Jennifer’s supplies
Next, let’s throw it back to this stunning and festive design by Nina-Marie Trapani:
The absolutely stunning Mele Kalikimaka stamp set from our Fun & Festive release looks utterly magnificent on this card! I love how the CZ Design Merry die gives this card a modern feel. Nina shared this design in late October of 2018 right here on our blog which you can find HERE to see more. And if you love videos, you can see how she created it HERE on our YouTube channel!
Nina-Marie’s supplies
And let’s not forget this beautiful stitched card designed by Laura Bassen:
Laura die cut the Christmas Tree Stitching Die on white cardstock, and with a few pulls of a needle threaded with green embroidery floss, a merry little tree appeared! Such a clean, graphic, and eye-catching design! Laura shares a cute story about where those beads came from on her original blog post that you can find HERE.
Laura’s supplies
And finally this lovely Christmas scene card by Cathy Zielske:
The sweet stamps in the Winter Scene stamp set create lovely scenes for winter or Christmas. Cathy’s clean style really makes this gorgeous design SHINE. You can check out Cathy’s original blog post HERE and see how she created the card in a fun and festive YouTube video HERE.
Cathy’s supplies
Did you know that we have inspiration galleries on our website showcasing project ideas for all of our releases and card kits? It’s a veritable treasure-trove of terrific ideas just waiting to inspire you, and you are invited to share your projects, too! You can find all of the Simon release galleries HERE and galleries for our monthly card kits can be found HERE. Scroll through today, and maybe you’ll find one of YOUR projects linked there!
Thanks for throwing it back with us and checking out these cool projects from four talented ladies!
Yippee for Yana: Candy Cane Background Card
Hi friends! Happy Wednesday! Please join me in welcoming back the super talented Yana Smakula for her bi-monthly installment Yippee for Yana series of inspiration on our blog! She used our new Candy Cane background stamp to make this gorgeous card below! Be sure to watch the video to learn more and enjoy!
Hi everyone, this is Yana Smakula, welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video! In this episode, I will show you how to create a Christmas card featuring the Candy Cane background stamp.
I wanted to do something a bit different today, possibly even something a bit out of my comfort zone. I started by stamping the Candy Cane background in clear embossing ink onto light blue paper, Simon’s Sea Glass cardstock. I used my MISTI stamping tool to make it easier to stamp this background.
Once the background was stamped I covered it with clear embossing powder, I used the Fine Detail powder from Simon and heat set the powder with my heat tool to melt it.
I knew I wanted to add some simple coloring, so I picked 2 candy cane images positioned next to each other forming a bit of a heart shape and decided to color those. First, I used my white Sakura pen in size 8 and colored the narrow sections white. Next, I used several Copic markers in red and colored the remaining sections red. For this I used R39, R27, R24 and R22 markers, those are my go-to marker colors for coloring anything red.
Next, I coated both with a generous amount of lacquer using the Hero Arts Lacquer pen. You can use any other similar product, like Glossy Accents. Having coated the candy canes I set the background aside and let it dry for several hours. My idea was to ink blend the background using dark blue ink. The coated card canes would have resisted the ink and would have remained red and white, while the background would turn blue and the Sea Glass cardstock covered with clear embossing powder would resist the ink also, revealing beautiful light blue outlines to the rest of the candy canes.
With the lacquer dry, I proceeded to add ink blending. This is where I think I might have overdone it, I am not 100% sure I like the ink blending better. But once I started adding color it was too late to stop, so I kept on blending it until I had the entire panel covered with this beautiful deep blue. This is the color Navy from Hero Arts, it’s my favorite deep dark blue ink pad.
Next, I sprayed the background using Iridescent White Shimmer spray and cleaned up the candy canes from the shimmer. I had also already stamped a sentiment for this card – it reads Have a Merry Little Christmas and comes from the Clean Line Christmas stamp set by CZ. I used foam adhesive and foam mounted it onto the card. I also used a white pen and colored some of the candy cane sections white to help them stand out from the background. Lastly, I embellished the card using Simon’s sequins in Blue Moon and that finished this card!
Have fun stamping!
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