Simon Says Stamp Card Kit Reveal and Inspiration: Thanks and Leaves
Our November Card Kit Thanks and Leaves is filled with thanks and gratitude (with a side of playful fun!).
This warm, fall-family-and-thankfulness-inspired kit is anchored by a jumbo 6×8 Simon exclusive stamp set called, Thanks and Leaves. It features gorgeous foliage and greenery from a wide array of trees and plants. The set is perfect for creating a pretty wreath or accenting your designs with a graceful swirl of falling leaves. In addition, you’ll find eleven, lovely sentiments that convey the homey feelings of Thanksgiving, gratitude, and family. The flourishing script and the secondary sentiments in all caps look fantastic when paired together!
But here’s where the fun comes in! This kit includes an entire Tim Holtz Idea-ology Snarky Small Talk booklet, filled with 218 playful phrase stickers including hilarious lines like, “Is your drama going to have an intermission soon?”, “Sorry I’m late, but I didn’t want to come, “How much better would life be if a liar’s pants really did catch on fire?,” and “She was tempted to cause a scene,”. And there’s a whole lot more where those amusing quips came from!
You can tame those cheeky comments with Simon Says Stamp Bronze sequins (1 pack is included) and Tim Holtz Idea-ology Butterflies adornments (six stunning, metallic and dimensional creatures)… because honestly, sparkle and butterflies make EVERYTHING better, right?
Rounding out this fun and fantastic kit are 2 Simon Says Stamp medium white tags, 2 Simon 4 Bar Kraft envelopes, and 1 Metallic Orange Peel A2 envelope. You also get three sheets of hand-picked, coordinating cardstock from Simon and one sheet of that versatile neutral 100lb Smooth Neenah Desert Storm cardstock.
Our November Card Kit, Thanks and Leaves will give you hours of creative fun!
The Thanks and Leaves 6×8 stamp set is also available for individual purchase 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 $34.99, or you can subscribe to our kit of the month program for just $29.99 (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 between the 16th and 29th days of every month.
Yippee for Yana: Simplistic Christmas Cards
Hi friends! Happy Saturday! Welcome to the latest edition Yippee for Yana with the fantastic Yana Smakula and the continued celebration of our latest release, Fun & Festive! I personally LOVE this simple design by Yana because it’s beautiful but also because it would be relatively easy to recreate for mass sending! Be sure to check out the video and enjoy!
Hi everyone, this is Yana Smakula and welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video!
Lately, I am all about simple and doable card making and also cards that feature very basic and beginner techniques. So for today’s video, I have a simplistic Christmas card idea what features just some heat embossing and ink blending for stunning results.
The card that I am sharing today is using just the sentiment stamps – “Joy, Love, Peace, Believe, Christmas” message that is shaped like a Christmas tree from the Christmas Wishes stamp set and “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” from the Tiny Words Christmas set.
My idea here is to gold heat emboss these images using Antique Gold embossing powder from Simon Says Stamp on Green Leaf panel that’s cut to 4 1/2 by 5 ½”.
Once my heat embossing was done I added ink blending to the edges of the panel to help the embossing pop. I used Evergreen ink to blend darker green color around my heat embossed tree in the center of the panel. I want the edged to be darker and direct the eye of the recipient to the center of the card where the focal point is.
You can do this on white cardstock, but it is so much easier to blend this kind of look on colored paper. Because my paper already has a color I don’t have to do additional blending and add a base color to it, a light green. If you were to heat emboss this on white and add ink blending on top, you’d have to start with the light green first to have that spotlight in the center where the
heat embossed tree is.
To darken the edges, even more, I used Hero Arts Navy ink pad, this is very deep blue color and I added a bit of this color around the edges. You can also try using black. I adhered my panel onto an A2 white side folding card base and dressed the tree up using some Clear Jewels from Pretty Pink Posh. Less is more on cards like this.
I hope you guys will give this idea a try. If you do make a card inspired by this video, we’d love it if you shared your project and tagged us on social media – we always enjoy seeing what you make!
Have fun stamping!
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