Simon Says Stamp Latte Birthday Wishes

Hello Friends and thanks for stopping by! The In My Heart release from Simon is live, and I’m back today with a project featuring the new Thanks a Latte stamp and Scalloped Arches Frames. Let’s run through the details!

NOTE: all supplies are linked in the thumbnails at the end of this blog post.

When I saw the arches, I immediately thought of a shaker card, so that’s what I set out to create! I thought some cute coffee shaker bits would be fun, but I didn’t have any of those! So, Etsy to the rescue! I stamped the critter from the Thanks a Latte set with VersaFine Onyx Black ink, heat embossed it with clear powder, colored it with Copic markers and fussy cut the image. As a note, there are coordinating dies for this set. I also went ahead and stamped the sentiment onto black cardstock using VersaMark ink, heat set that with white powder and trimmed it down into a strip.

The arches were cut 6-7 times I believe. I cut a piece of acetate and secured it in place and glued another arch on top of it so that it would stay in place. I cut a larger arch and glued that to the card base, sprinkled the coffee shaker bits into the center and glued the stacked acetate arch atop that. There might have been an easier way to do this, but I couldn’t think of it, because the die also cuts out the center portion of the arch. If you can tell me a better way, please let me know!! Once everything was secured, I added the critter and the sentiment atop the acetate with strong double sided tape to finish up.

That does it for this project! I hope you like it, and I hope if you have a better way for assembly, that you’ll send me a message! Don’t forget to check out the entire In My Heart release! Thanks again for joining me, and I hope you have a wonderful day!

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Simon Says Stamp Thinking of You Whirl Butterflies

Hello Friends, and welcome back! I’ve had so much fun creating large watercolor panels with various stamping, drawing, splattering, etc lately! I made this panel using blues, greens and a little bit of pink, and I thought the Whirl Butterflies would be cool cut from it. Let’s go ahead and quickly run through the details.

NOTE: all supplies are linked in the thumbnails at the end of this blog post.

The watercolor panel measures 9 x 12 inches, so I have lots to create cards with! I first added the watercolors to the panel beginning with one color and then adding the next color. I didn’t worry about drying the panel between applications, because I love when the colors blend together. Once I was satisfied with the colors, I let the panel completely dry before moving on to the next step.

I pulled some various stamps from Simon, as well as from Tim Holtz and randomly stamped onto the panel using Archival Black ink. I then took a stencil and added some white ink, but I think that got lost in the process, so I then took some blue and pink paint and applied that through the stencil. I took a Copic Multiliner and outlined most of the circles. You can’t really tell that on these particular butterflies, but you can on another project that I created. For even more interest, I did lots of splatter with Distress Oxide Sprays, black ink and gold ink.

The butterflies were cut from the watercolor panel, as well as from white cardstock, while the bodies were cut from black cardstock. Those were adhered together and foam tape was placed on the back. The panel was created using the Eyelet Layer Frames with more gold splatter to bring everything together. The sentiment was stamped, stacked and adhered to the panel using liquid glue, and the butterflies were added to finish up.

That does it for this project. I hope you like it! I still have quite a bit of panel left and plan to cut some stars from it for birthday cards perhaps. I also created another project using only the smallest butterfly, but you’ll see that some time down the road. Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you have a great day!