Category: Encouragement Cards

Simon Says Stamp In My Thoughts Botanical

Hello Crafters, and welcome back to my blog! I appreciate you stopping by to check out today’s project featuring the Big Botanicals from Simon’s latest You Are My Favorite release. Let’s not waste time, and get right to the details!

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

I began this project by stamping the flower portion of this stamp using Sunbeam ink, and the leaf portion using Limelicious ink. I just used a Post-It to mask off the areas, so nothing super technical. I then used Copic Markers Y15, Y18, YG05, YG17 and YG23 to add color to the stamped image. I also went in with some colored pencils to add some extra detail to the shaded areas.

Once I was done with the coloring, I fussy cut the image out. As a note, there are coordinating dies for this stamp set, in case you aren’t a big fan of fussy cutting. My background panel was cut using the Postage Stamp Edge Frames and splattered with some gold ink. Once the splatter was dry, I stamped the sentiment, which is from the I’m Sorry set, using VersaFine Onyx Black ink and heat set using Ranger Clear Embossing Powder.

My panel was adhered to the card base using foam tape, and the floral was adhered using foam strips. I did add a few gold embellishments to tie everything together.

That does it for this project! A relatively clean and simple design for this one. I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope it inspires you to get crafty in your space! Thanks again for stopping by, and I hope you have an awesome day!

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Happy Tuesday, Everyone! A quick card featuring a little texture paste background and the @simonsaysstamp Flourish Butterfly Trio. Die cutting is my favorite, in case you’ve never noticed! 🤣🤣 Happy Monday, Friends! This week has to be better than last week, and that’s all I’ve got to say about that! I recently pulled out some sprays and created this card using the Poppy Frame and Teardrop Pinpoint Frames from @simonsaysstamp. I’m really into creating backgrounds right now for some reason, so I’m just trying to embrace it, rather than force the creative mojo. I hope everyone has a wonderful week ahead! Happy Tuesday, Friends! A little while back, I posted my twofer from this card making session using the @simonsaysstamp Fresh Crocus Duo and the Whirl Diamond Plate. I still can’t decide which one is my favorite, but I love the combination of the blues and purples, nonetheless. I hope everyone is having a great week so far! Need to put the watercolor backgrounds away!!! But they’re so much fun to create with! Happiest Monday to you! I hope you had a fabulous weekend! I need to stop with the watercolor backgrounds already, but I can’t! I just find so many fun things to do with them, and the backgrounds themselves are fun to create as well! This card was created using the Nested Stars from @simonsaysstamp. There’s a longer video in my reels section that shows the process, if you’re interested. I hope you have an awesome day! Together by Design is our monthly collab where a group of designers all create with products from the same featured brand/designer, each adding their own creative twist. Tap the tags below to see every project and meet the designers.

Simon Says Stamp So Kind Floral

Hello Crafty Friends, and thanks for joining me for today’s project featuring the new With Thanks stamp set along with the new Petal-Tipped Labels. There’s a fun Instagram Hop happening today, so you definitely should check that out and leave comments! Simon is giving away a $25 gift certificate from each stop along the hop! There’s a lot going on with this project, so let’s get into it!

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

I began this project by cutting my flowers using the Charming Daisy and the Etched Crocus Stems. I also cut my leaves using Green Apple cardstock and the Budding Branches die. Once those were cut, I did some ink blending using Melon, Cantaloupe, Bubblegum and Pearfection inks. I did go back and cut the centers from black cardstock as well. I assembled the florals and set them aside while I worked on the other elements of the card.

I used two of the dies from the Petal-Tipped Labels and cut one from gold cardstock and one from Neenah 110lb cardstock. The one that was cut from Neenah was run through the die cutting machine using the Tiny Tufts Embossing Folder to add just a touch of muted interest for the background. I adhered those together and began adhering the flowers and leaves.

The sentiment, which is from the new With Thanks set, was stamped using VersaFine Onyx Black ink and heat set using Ranger Clear Embossing Powder. The larger sentiment was stamped and embossed twice for a smoother finish. I then fussy cut the sentiments out with my scissors. I’m not the best fussy cutter, so let’s not look at those details too carefully! There are coordinating die cuts for this set, but I did not have those. Both sentiments were adhered using foam strips for a bit of dimension.

My larger background panel was cut using the Postage Stamp Edge Frames and gold splattered. This was then adhered to the card base using foam tape, and the floral panel was glued in place. To finish up, I added some gold metallic pearls to the berry portion of the Budding Branches.

That does it for this project! I hope you enjoyed it! I love creating with florals, so this was a super fun project for me! Head on over to Simon’s website to check out the entire You Are My Favorite release, and head over to Instagram to join the hop! Thanks for joining me, and I hope you have an awesome day!

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Happy Tuesday, Everyone! A quick card featuring a little texture paste background and the @simonsaysstamp Flourish Butterfly Trio. Die cutting is my favorite, in case you’ve never noticed! 🤣🤣 Happy Monday, Friends! This week has to be better than last week, and that’s all I’ve got to say about that! I recently pulled out some sprays and created this card using the Poppy Frame and Teardrop Pinpoint Frames from @simonsaysstamp. I’m really into creating backgrounds right now for some reason, so I’m just trying to embrace it, rather than force the creative mojo. I hope everyone has a wonderful week ahead! Happy Tuesday, Friends! A little while back, I posted my twofer from this card making session using the @simonsaysstamp Fresh Crocus Duo and the Whirl Diamond Plate. I still can’t decide which one is my favorite, but I love the combination of the blues and purples, nonetheless. I hope everyone is having a great week so far! Need to put the watercolor backgrounds away!!! But they’re so much fun to create with! Happiest Monday to you! I hope you had a fabulous weekend! I need to stop with the watercolor backgrounds already, but I can’t! I just find so many fun things to do with them, and the backgrounds themselves are fun to create as well! This card was created using the Nested Stars from @simonsaysstamp. There’s a longer video in my reels section that shows the process, if you’re interested. I hope you have an awesome day! Together by Design is our monthly collab where a group of designers all create with products from the same featured brand/designer, each adding their own creative twist. Tap the tags below to see every project and meet the designers.

Simon Says Stamp Love & Hugs Botanical

Hello Friends, and welcome back to my blog! The latest Simon release, You Are My Favorite, is live and I’m back with a project featuring the new Big Botanicals. Let’s go ahead and get right into the details since this one had lots of steps.

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

I began this project by putting a panel of mixed media paper in my splat box and adding Distress Oxide Sprays and Spritzes until I was satisfied. The sprays used were Wilted Violet, Villainous Potion, Prize Ribbon and Rustic Wilderness. The Spritzes used were Wilted Violet, Twisted Citron and Peeled Paint. I did dry my paper between layers of color so that I could build upon each other.

Once satisfied with the panel, I stamped one of the florals from the Big Botanicals set onto the panel using VersaFine Onyx Black and heat set it using Ranger Clear Embossing Powder. I did use a couple of the other elements from the stamp set and added those as well. I also used the TH Stitches set for some other added elements. I also used the TH Digits stencil along with some Ranger Translucent Crackle Paste to add some texture.

I set that aside to dry while I worked on the other elements for the card. I stamped the sentiment, which is from the Mix & Match Butterflies set, onto black cardstock using VersaMark ink and heat set that using Simon Detail White Embossing Powder. It was trimmed out using the coordinating die several times for a stacked sentiment. I used the Stitching Butterflies set to cut and assemble one of the butterflies to add once everything was dry.

For even more texture, I used the TH Paper Distress tool to rough up the edges of the panel, and I used a water brush to paint the floral and dry it with paper towels to lift some of the ink from those areas. My panel was adhered to the card base with foam tape, while the butterfly and sentiment were adhered with foam strips.

That does it for this project! I hope you enjoyed it! I never do mixed media projects because I’m not very good at them, but I enjoy them just the same! Don’t forget to check out the entire You Are My Favorite release over on Simon’s website! Thanks again for joining me, and I hope you have an awesome day!

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Spellbinders Just A Note Daisies

Hello Friends, and welcome back! Here’s another project featuring the Yana’s Daisies from the Spellbinders April releases. Let’s get right into the details, shall we?

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

I began this project by die cutting the daisies once from Neenah 110lb cardstock and once from gold cardstock. I also cut the base layer from Neenah as well for the assembly. While the white petals were still in place, I did some ink blending on those using Morning and Heather inks.

I adhered the gold outline portion to the base layer using liquid glue, and then adhered the ink blended petals in place, along with the gold centers. The sentiment, which is from the Crafty Hugs Sentiments, was gold foiled onto Neenah and trimmed out several times for a stacked sentiment look.

My background panel was created using the Nested Postage Labels & Tag, and then splattered with gold acrylic ink. This panel was adhered to the card base, the daisies were adhered using foam tape and the sentiment was adhered using foam strips. I decided that I needed some additional leaves and cut those from the Club Blooms set using Neenah and gold cardstock. I added some clear drops to finish up this project.

I hope you enjoyed this one! The Yana’s Daisies products are super gorgeous and if you haven’t checked them out, I do encourage you to do so! Thanks for joining me, and I hope you have a wonderful day!

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Happy Tuesday, Everyone! A quick card featuring a little texture paste background and the @simonsaysstamp Flourish Butterfly Trio. Die cutting is my favorite, in case you’ve never noticed! 🤣🤣 Happy Monday, Friends! This week has to be better than last week, and that’s all I’ve got to say about that! I recently pulled out some sprays and created this card using the Poppy Frame and Teardrop Pinpoint Frames from @simonsaysstamp. I’m really into creating backgrounds right now for some reason, so I’m just trying to embrace it, rather than force the creative mojo. I hope everyone has a wonderful week ahead! Happy Tuesday, Friends! A little while back, I posted my twofer from this card making session using the @simonsaysstamp Fresh Crocus Duo and the Whirl Diamond Plate. I still can’t decide which one is my favorite, but I love the combination of the blues and purples, nonetheless. I hope everyone is having a great week so far! Need to put the watercolor backgrounds away!!! But they’re so much fun to create with! Happiest Monday to you! I hope you had a fabulous weekend! I need to stop with the watercolor backgrounds already, but I can’t! I just find so many fun things to do with them, and the backgrounds themselves are fun to create as well! This card was created using the Nested Stars from @simonsaysstamp. There’s a longer video in my reels section that shows the process, if you’re interested. I hope you have an awesome day! Together by Design is our monthly collab where a group of designers all create with products from the same featured brand/designer, each adding their own creative twist. Tap the tags below to see every project and meet the designers.

Spellbinders Feel Better Daisies

Hello Crafty Friends, and welcome back to my blog! The new April releases from Spellbinders are live, and I’m back today with a project featuring Yana’s Daisies! Yana makes beautiful florals, and I was so excited to be able to play with this collection! Let’s go ahead and go through the details!

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

I began this project by cutting Yana’s Daisies several times from Neenah 110lb cardstock. You’ll see in a later post where I use the outline of the daisies, but for this post, I wanted to use all of these petals that were leftover from that project! I picked out a bunch of the petals and did some light ink blending on those using Bubblegum ink. I also did some ink blending on the centers using Honey ink.

I retrieved some Press n Seal from the kitchen, and arranged the petals upside down around one of the centers, basically creating my own flower with the pieces. Once everything was arranged, I placed tiny pieces of foam tape on the back of the flower pieces. Once that was done, I arranged the flowers onto my panel, which I had previously splattered with gold acrylic ink.

I wanted some greenery for the flowers, so I die cut one of the leaves from the Club Blooms set from Green Apple cardstock and did some ink blending using Artichoke ink. I tucked those under the petals and secured them in place with liquid glue.

The sentiment, which is from the You Are Everything Sentiments set, was gold foiled and trimmed out several times with the coordinating die and adhered atop the panel with foam strips. To finish up, I added some Gold Metallic Pearls for some added shine.

That does it for this project! I thought this project was going to be a lot more tedious than it was, and I think that was because of the Press n Seal! Don’t forget to head on over to Spellbinders to check out all of the April releases! Thanks again for joining me, and have a wonderful day!

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Happy Tuesday, Everyone! A quick card featuring a little texture paste background and the @simonsaysstamp Flourish Butterfly Trio. Die cutting is my favorite, in case you’ve never noticed! 🤣🤣 Happy Monday, Friends! This week has to be better than last week, and that’s all I’ve got to say about that! I recently pulled out some sprays and created this card using the Poppy Frame and Teardrop Pinpoint Frames from @simonsaysstamp. I’m really into creating backgrounds right now for some reason, so I’m just trying to embrace it, rather than force the creative mojo. I hope everyone has a wonderful week ahead! Happy Tuesday, Friends! A little while back, I posted my twofer from this card making session using the @simonsaysstamp Fresh Crocus Duo and the Whirl Diamond Plate. I still can’t decide which one is my favorite, but I love the combination of the blues and purples, nonetheless. I hope everyone is having a great week so far! Need to put the watercolor backgrounds away!!! But they’re so much fun to create with! Happiest Monday to you! I hope you had a fabulous weekend! I need to stop with the watercolor backgrounds already, but I can’t! I just find so many fun things to do with them, and the backgrounds themselves are fun to create as well! This card was created using the Nested Stars from @simonsaysstamp. There’s a longer video in my reels section that shows the process, if you’re interested. I hope you have an awesome day! Together by Design is our monthly collab where a group of designers all create with products from the same featured brand/designer, each adding their own creative twist. Tap the tags below to see every project and meet the designers.

Simon Says Stamp Rainbow Stacked Blooms

Hey there, Friends! Thanks for joining me! Today’s project is featuring the new Stacked Blooms Embossing Folder from Simon’s latest release, Rain or Shine. This was a super quick card, so let’s get to the details.

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

I began this project by embossing a panel of Neenah 110lb cardstock with the embossing folder and did some random ink blending on the debossed side of the panel using Carnation, Sunbeam, Surf and Cadette inks.

Once the ink blending was complete, I used my black Rainbow Splash ink pad and rubbed that on the raised portions of the panel to give this black-out feel. The You Mean The World to Me sentiment was cut once from holographic cardstock and twice from black cardstock. The shadow portion was also cut twice, and all of those pieces were adhered together using liquid glue.

The panel was adhered to the card base using foam tape, while the sentiment was glued in place. I didn’t feel that this card needed any additional bling, which is weird for me!

That finishes up this project! Like I said, a super, simple one for today. Thanks again for joining me, and I hope you have a fabulous day!

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Happy Tuesday, Everyone! A quick card featuring a little texture paste background and the @simonsaysstamp Flourish Butterfly Trio. Die cutting is my favorite, in case you’ve never noticed! 🤣🤣 Happy Monday, Friends! This week has to be better than last week, and that’s all I’ve got to say about that! I recently pulled out some sprays and created this card using the Poppy Frame and Teardrop Pinpoint Frames from @simonsaysstamp. I’m really into creating backgrounds right now for some reason, so I’m just trying to embrace it, rather than force the creative mojo. I hope everyone has a wonderful week ahead! Happy Tuesday, Friends! A little while back, I posted my twofer from this card making session using the @simonsaysstamp Fresh Crocus Duo and the Whirl Diamond Plate. I still can’t decide which one is my favorite, but I love the combination of the blues and purples, nonetheless. I hope everyone is having a great week so far! Need to put the watercolor backgrounds away!!! But they’re so much fun to create with! Happiest Monday to you! I hope you had a fabulous weekend! I need to stop with the watercolor backgrounds already, but I can’t! I just find so many fun things to do with them, and the backgrounds themselves are fun to create as well! This card was created using the Nested Stars from @simonsaysstamp. There’s a longer video in my reels section that shows the process, if you’re interested. I hope you have an awesome day! Together by Design is our monthly collab where a group of designers all create with products from the same featured brand/designer, each adding their own creative twist. Tap the tags below to see every project and meet the designers.

Simon Says Stamp Rainbow Mod Plants

Hello Friends and welcome back! Thanks for joining me for today’s project featuring the new Mod Plants from Simon’s latest release, Rain or Shine. You’ve had a few day to peruse the release, what are your favorites? Let me know in the comments! Let’s go ahead and run through the details for this one!

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

I began this project by pulling my Bubblegum, Sunbeam and Seafoam inks. I picked out one plant from this set to do a repeat rainbow pattern. Once the stamp was place in the Misti, I inked the top portion of the stamp with the Bubblegum ink and used a blending brush to soften the edge of the ink. I did end up stamping several times to get good coverage. I then inked the middle portion of the stamp with the Sunbeam ink, softening the edges as before. I then inked the bottom portion of the stamp with the Seafoam ink, softening the edges of the ink again.

Once I was finished with one leaf, I moved it to the next area on my panel and repeated those stamping steps each time. When finished, I used the Postage Stamp Edge Frames to trim the panel down. This was then adhered to the card base using foam tape. The Sending Love & Hugs sentiment was cut once from gold cardstock and twice from Neenah 110lb cardstock, and the shadow portion was also cut twice. All of those pieces were adhered together using liquid glue and then added to the card with foam strips to finish up.

That does it for this one! It’s a simple design, but I really like how it turned out! Thank you so much for joining me today! I hope you have a fabulous day, and don’t forget to stay awesome!

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Happy Tuesday, Everyone! A quick card featuring a little texture paste background and the @simonsaysstamp Flourish Butterfly Trio. Die cutting is my favorite, in case you’ve never noticed! 🤣🤣 Happy Monday, Friends! This week has to be better than last week, and that’s all I’ve got to say about that! I recently pulled out some sprays and created this card using the Poppy Frame and Teardrop Pinpoint Frames from @simonsaysstamp. I’m really into creating backgrounds right now for some reason, so I’m just trying to embrace it, rather than force the creative mojo. I hope everyone has a wonderful week ahead! Happy Tuesday, Friends! A little while back, I posted my twofer from this card making session using the @simonsaysstamp Fresh Crocus Duo and the Whirl Diamond Plate. I still can’t decide which one is my favorite, but I love the combination of the blues and purples, nonetheless. I hope everyone is having a great week so far! Need to put the watercolor backgrounds away!!! But they’re so much fun to create with! Happiest Monday to you! I hope you had a fabulous weekend! I need to stop with the watercolor backgrounds already, but I can’t! I just find so many fun things to do with them, and the backgrounds themselves are fun to create as well! This card was created using the Nested Stars from @simonsaysstamp. There’s a longer video in my reels section that shows the process, if you’re interested. I hope you have an awesome day! Together by Design is our monthly collab where a group of designers all create with products from the same featured brand/designer, each adding their own creative twist. Tap the tags below to see every project and meet the designers.

Pinkfresh Dark Floral Beauty

Hello Crafty Friends! Thanks so much for stopping by to check out today’s project featuring some relatively new Pinkfresh goodies. I have a problem .. I purchase Pinkfresh products, and then I never use them, so I’m trying to do something about that! With that being said, I love the pastel, floral vibe of Pinkfresh, but I wanted to try my hand at a dark Pinkfresh card. Let me know what you think in the comments. Let’s go ahead and run through the details for this project!

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

Ok, so I knew I wanted dark colors, but I didn’t want to go my usual route of black and grays, so I opted for blues and gold. I began by gold foiling the Interlaced Diamond Press Plate onto Indigo cardstock and used the coordinating die to trim it out. I also cut one from black and adhered those together using liquid glue. My next step was to cut the Fresh Florals from Partly Cloudy cardstock. This is an older Spellbinders cardstock, and I think the comparable new ColorWheel color would be Malibu.

Once all of the florals and leaves were cut, I did some ink blending on the flowers using Stargazer ink. I went pretty heavy handed as I wanted the flowers to match the indigo. After I was done ink blending, I decided that it might be pretty to add a layer of gold to everything, so I cut the Fresh Florals again from gold cardstock. I adhered the blue flowers to the gold flowers using foam squares, because I wanted to be able to see the underlying layer. I then assembled the rest of the flowers with liquid glue.

I gold foiled the sentiment, which is from the Favorite Things set, onto the same indigo cardstock and used the coordinating die to trim it out twice. Before beginning the assembly of the card, I cut a panel of the indigo and gold splattered that to add a bit of background interest.

The Interlaced Diamonds was adhered first and then I began adhering the leaves. I glued the gold leaves in place and then glued the blue leaves atop those but slightly off center. I then glued the flowers in place and adhered the sentiment in the center using foam strips. To finish up, I added gold metallic pearls to the centers of the flowers.

That does it for this project! So, how do you feel about a dark Pinkfresh card? Don’t get me wrong, I do love me some pastel colors too, but I needed to try this. I appreciate you swinging by to check out this project, and I hope you have a wonderful day! Stay awesome, friend!

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Happy Tuesday, Everyone! A quick card featuring a little texture paste background and the @simonsaysstamp Flourish Butterfly Trio. Die cutting is my favorite, in case you’ve never noticed! 🤣🤣 Happy Monday, Friends! This week has to be better than last week, and that’s all I’ve got to say about that! I recently pulled out some sprays and created this card using the Poppy Frame and Teardrop Pinpoint Frames from @simonsaysstamp. I’m really into creating backgrounds right now for some reason, so I’m just trying to embrace it, rather than force the creative mojo. I hope everyone has a wonderful week ahead! Happy Tuesday, Friends! A little while back, I posted my twofer from this card making session using the @simonsaysstamp Fresh Crocus Duo and the Whirl Diamond Plate. I still can’t decide which one is my favorite, but I love the combination of the blues and purples, nonetheless. I hope everyone is having a great week so far! Need to put the watercolor backgrounds away!!! But they’re so much fun to create with! Happiest Monday to you! I hope you had a fabulous weekend! I need to stop with the watercolor backgrounds already, but I can’t! I just find so many fun things to do with them, and the backgrounds themselves are fun to create as well! This card was created using the Nested Stars from @simonsaysstamp. There’s a longer video in my reels section that shows the process, if you’re interested. I hope you have an awesome day! Together by Design is our monthly collab where a group of designers all create with products from the same featured brand/designer, each adding their own creative twist. Tap the tags below to see every project and meet the designers.

Pinkfresh Blooming Leafy Lattice

Hello Friends, and welcome back! I recently received my Pinkfresh order with goodies from the March release, and I found some time to play! This project is featuring the new Blooming Grace Washi Tape and the Leafy Lattice Press Plate. Let’s not waste time and go ahead and run through the details!

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

I began this project by smoothing out a panel of the washi tape onto Neenah 110lb cardstock, and using the coordinating die to trim those pieces out. I then went ahead and gold foiled the Leafy Lattice and trimmed that out with coordinating die as well. I wanted a background for all of my elements, so I used the Sparkling Diamonds die cut. I haven’t been able to locate this die cut on the Pinkfresh website, so I’m not sure if it has been discontinued. But, I thought it worked really well with the way I wanted to orient the lattice.

My next step was to play around with the placement of everything, and before adhering anything, I did some light ink blending on the background panel using Peony ink. I placed foam strips on the back of the lattice and adhered that to my panel first. I decided that I needed some additional green leaves, so I used the Fresh Florals die and ink blended those leaves using Fresh Pear and Olive inks.

The sentiment was already in my stash, and that is from the Here For You Sentiments Press Plate, which I had gold foiled as well. I went ahead and adhered the sentiment in the center using the same foam strips, glued the green leaves in place, and then adhered the washi tape pieces, again with foam strips. To finish up, I added some Gold Metallic Pearls.

That does it for this project! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. If you’ve never tried the Pinkfresh washi tapes, I definitely encourage you to give it a try! They are simple to use, and yield beautiful card results! Thanks again for stopping by, and I hope you have a wonderful day!

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Happy Tuesday, Everyone! A quick card featuring a little texture paste background and the @simonsaysstamp Flourish Butterfly Trio. Die cutting is my favorite, in case you’ve never noticed! 🤣🤣 Happy Monday, Friends! This week has to be better than last week, and that’s all I’ve got to say about that! I recently pulled out some sprays and created this card using the Poppy Frame and Teardrop Pinpoint Frames from @simonsaysstamp. I’m really into creating backgrounds right now for some reason, so I’m just trying to embrace it, rather than force the creative mojo. I hope everyone has a wonderful week ahead! Happy Tuesday, Friends! A little while back, I posted my twofer from this card making session using the @simonsaysstamp Fresh Crocus Duo and the Whirl Diamond Plate. I still can’t decide which one is my favorite, but I love the combination of the blues and purples, nonetheless. I hope everyone is having a great week so far! Need to put the watercolor backgrounds away!!! But they’re so much fun to create with! Happiest Monday to you! I hope you had a fabulous weekend! I need to stop with the watercolor backgrounds already, but I can’t! I just find so many fun things to do with them, and the backgrounds themselves are fun to create as well! This card was created using the Nested Stars from @simonsaysstamp. There’s a longer video in my reels section that shows the process, if you’re interested. I hope you have an awesome day! Together by Design is our monthly collab where a group of designers all create with products from the same featured brand/designer, each adding their own creative twist. Tap the tags below to see every project and meet the designers.

Simon Says Stamp Nifty Happy to Know You

Hello Crafty Friends, and welcome back! I’m so glad that you stopped by to check out today’s project featuring the new Nifty Star Plate from the Rain or Shine release. Let’s go ahead and run through the details, shall we?

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

I began this project by die cutting the Nifty Star Plate once from Neenah 110lb cardstock and once from black cardstock. I then poked out all of the pieces from both panels and put the black panel onto a Craft Tacky Mat and put the white pieces into place. Once those were in place, I did some light ink blending using Bubblegum, Sunbeam and Seafoam inks.

To get proper placement onto my card base, I put some removable tape on the back of the black panel and began the inlay process adding the black pieces first and securing with liquid glue and then adding the ink blended pieces atop that. Once all of the pieces were in place, I carefully removed the black panel that I was using as my guide.

The sentiment, which is from the Extra Talkative set, was stamped onto black cardstock using VersaMark ink and heat set using Detail White Embossing Powder. That was then trimmed out using the coordinating die along with two additional cuts. Those were adhered together and added to the card using foam strips. To finish up, I added black crystals to the centers of each piece.

That finishes up this project! I hope you enjoyed it! Inlay work is time consuming, but I think it yields such a beautiful project regardless of what it is. Thanks again for joining me today, and don’t forget to check out the entire Rain or Shine release over on Simon’s website. I hope you have a wonderful day!

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