Amore Laurafadora: Thankful for You
Hi friends! TGIF! Please join me in welcoming back the always creative and amazing Laura Bassen with her latest card inspiration in our Amore Laurafadora blog series! Today she’s used our gorgeous Tumbling Leaves stencil as well as our Thankful 1 die with a complimenting sentiment from the 30 Days of Thankful stamp set, and finally, a bevy of Simon Says Stamp inks to make this showstopper card! Be sure to watch the video for more information and enjoy!
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Throwback Thursday – Fall and Halloween Edition!
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.
Fall and Halloween are such a fun time of year for crafting! As the weather gets cooler, it seems like we get into the crafty zone. For this Throwback Thursday, we are focusing on autumn and Halloween products that are still available in our store. In fact, one of these products made its debut in 2013, but you love it so much, we’ve kept it in our store!
Here’s that cute stamp set from 2013 in a sweet design by Debby Hughes:
Debby created this card six years ago when we debuted our STAMPtember® 2013 release, and the Hey Pumpkin stamp set is still a favorite for fall and Halloween creations! You can see Debby’s original post HERE. It’s so interesting to see how her blog posts have changed!
Debby’s supplies
Next, let’s throw it back to this super fun Halloween design by Shari Carroll:
Shari’s energetic and colorful Halloween design features the Creepy Cute stamp set. This stamp set was part of our Limited Edition Halloween Card Kit from 2017. As you know, our card kits sell out, but FUN FACT—the Simon exclusive stamps and dies in the kits can be purchased separately even after the kits are all gone! You can find Shari’s card on the Simon Says Stamp blog when the kit debuted HERE.
Shari’s supplies
And let’s not forget this pretty fall card designed by Svitlana Shayevich:
The Fractile Leaves stamp set was released during STAMPtember® 2017, and Svitlana created quite a gorgeous autumn-themed card with it! You can find a link to Svitlana’s original blog post HERE and see two more pretty designs that she created with this stamp set.
Svitlana’s supplies
And finally this textured Halloween design by Penny Ward:
We love Penny’s cute Halloween card created with the Handlettered Halloween stamp set which was part of our STAMPtember® 2018 release! She made great use of the small spider stamp in this set by repeating it several times to create a clever and sort of spooky border. You can check out Penny’s original blog post HERE.
Penny’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: Pinecone Background Autumn Card
Hi friends! Happy Wednesday! Follow along as special guest Yana Smakula! She has made A GORGEOUS Autumn themed card that you’ll definitely want to try making yourself! Read on and be sure to check out the video! 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 colorful Autumn card featuring the emboss resist technique!
I started to work on my card by heat embossing a new Pinecone background stamp in Clear Detail embossing powder on white cardstock with the help of the MISTI stamping tool.
I picked Simon’s Fine Detail Clear embossing powder for my heat embossing as the Pinecones background stamp has a lot of intricate details to it and using a regular embossing powder will not do the trick as it will obliterate a lot of the details.
With the background embossed I added some color. Because we embossed this design in clear embossing powder on white cardstock the powder will resist the ink and will allow the white background show through. It’s a very old technique, yet still one of my favorites to use for quick and easy backgrounds.
I picked 4 colors of ink for my ink blending and I tried to go with a Fall color combination. The colors are Lipstick Red, Coral Reef, Green Apple and Sunshine.
I like to ink blend using Ranger Round Ink Blending tools and the Spellbinders foams. The Spellbinders foam is made from a different material, it resembles a makeup sponge so it applies and blends the ink much better. I added circles of color here and there on the panel slowing filling it in with color. The Pinecones background stamp is very versatile and I personally think it is a great design for Fall. When looking at this ink blended background I see lots of colorful fall leaves in the background represented by ink blended pops of color.
Next, I foam mounted the panel onto A2 white top folding card base, white heat embossed a sentiment – it reads “Welcome Autumn” and comes from the Autumn Greetings stamp set. I heat embossed it on Schoolhouse Red cardstock, I did so 3 times and trimmed to a skinny strip.
Using a ruler and the grid lines of my grid pad to align I foam mounted these strips onto my background.
Lastly, I decorated the card using sequins and clear droplets. Have fun stamping!
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