Category: Hello Cards

Spellbinders Sweeping Floral Hello

Hello Friends, and thanks so much for stopping by! I recently did a white on white card, and that prompted the idea for creating a black on black card. This project is using the Sweeping Script Sentiments BetterPress Plates and the Vivid Blooms from Spellbinders’ latest January releases. 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 be gold foiling the hello, which is from the Sweeping Script Sentiments set, and then using the Fluted Classics Rectanlges to trim it out. I then splattered the panel with gold acrylic ink and set that aside to dry while I worked on the flowers.

I die cut several flowers and leaves from the Vivid Blooms set from black cardstock and cut the centers of the flowers from gold cardstock. I went ahead and assembled the flowers using liquid glue and got started on the card layout.

The leaves were glued in place first and the larger flowers were adhered with foam tape for a little bid of added dimension. The smaller flowers were tucked in and around to fill in and secured with glue as well. I did add some gold metallic pearls to one of the leaves to bring it all together before adhering the panel to the card base to finish up.

That does it for this project! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did! Black on black isn’t for everyone, but I do love tone on tone projects! Thanks again for stopping by, and I hope you have a fabulous day!

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Simon Says Stamp Leafy Hello

Hello Crafty Friends! I’m so glad that you stopped by to check out today’s project featuring the new Abundant Leaf Background from Simon’s latest release, Festive Fun. Let’s get right into 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 Abundant Leaf Background from a panel of Neenah 110lb cardstock. While the die cut was still in the panel, I did some light ink blending using Pine and Sage inks for some added depth. I knew that I wanted a floral card, so I pulled some flowers and went to work on those.

The flowers that I used for this card were the Layered Dandy Flower, Etched Crocus Stems and the Simple Flowers. I cut those from aqua and pink cardstock and did some ink blending on those as well using Bubblegum, Carnation and Mist inks. I should mention that I cut the centers of the flowers from yellow cardstock. Once my ink blending was complete, I assembled the flowers that needed it using liquid glue.

My background was created using a forest green cardstock with gold splatter, and I glued my leaf background to that. Most of the flowers were adhered using foam strips, while a few were glued directly atop the leaves. The hello sentiment was cut once from gold cardstock and twice from black cardstock, while the shadow portion was cut once from vellum. All of those pieces were adhered together and then glued directly to the panel. The panel was added to a Cotton Candy Pre-Scored card base, which is also from the Festive Fun release, and some Surf Dazzling Gems were added to finish up.

That does it for this one! I hope you enjoyed it! I always love making floral cards, so I had to sneak one in for this release! Don’t forget to head over to Simon’s website to check out the entire Festive Fun release. Thanks again for stopping by, and have a wonderful day!

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Simon Says Stamp Artsy Hello

Hello Crafty Friends! Thanks for stopping by to check out today’s project featuring the Artsy Florals from Simon’s latest release, Sweet Wishes. Let’s go ahead and get into the details!

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

I began this project by stamping the main flower from the Artsy Florals set using VersaFine Onyx Black ink and heat setting that with Ranger Clear Embossing Powder. I used Copic Markers BG72, BG75, BG78 and Y17 to color the image before cutting it out. I also used a Copic Multiliner to add some black dot detail to the center of the flower as well.

My next step was to create a background using the Wistful Leaves Embossing Folder. I did some light ink blending on the leaves using PFS Tidal Pond ink, and then used the Rainbow Splash Black ink pad to create the “black out” effect on the panel. I trimmed the panel down and adhered it to the card base.

I used the Lush Leaves and cut some of those from black cardstock, and went ahead and cut the sentiment, as well. I cut the hello, which is from the Handlettered Greetings set, once from gold cardstock and twice from black cardstock and adhered all of the pieces together for that stacked sentiment look that I love.

The black leaves were glued in place, while the central flower was adhered using foam tape. To finish up, the gold sentiment was glued directly to the center of the flower.

That does it for this project. I hope you enjoyed it! I really love this color combination with the aqua and the black. Thanks so much for joining me for today’s project, and I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day!

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Simon Says Stamp Hello Leaf Border

Hello and welcome back to my blog! I’m so glad that you stopped by to check out today’s project featuring the new Arching Leaf Border from Simon’s latest release, Cheering For You. I’ve been stuck on color combinations lately, so I took inspiration for this project from the Color Cubes. So, let’s get into 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 die cutting the Leaf Border from Neenah 110lb cardstock, die cutting the SSS Beautiful Buttercup from two shades of purple cardstock and die cutting the extra leaves from the border set from a peacock type color. I pulled some inks that I thought matched my inspiration, which you can see slightly in the photos. The inks that I used were PFS Tidal Pond, Opulence and Lush Forest. The border was ink blended with the Tidal Pond and a little bit of the Lush Forest, while the flowers were ink blended using the Opulence.

Once the ink blending was complete, I assembled the flowers using liquid glue and decided on a background. I ended up choosing a dark green panel and splattered it quite liberally with gold acrylic ink. When that was dry, I glued the border in place and then adhered the flowers using foam strips. The darker leaves were tucked in where needed and secured with glue.

Now that I had the card layout, I needed to find a sentiment that would fit! I landed on the SSS Hello Dies and cut that once from gold cardstock and twice from black cardstock and adhered all of those together for that stacked look. I went ahead and glued that atop the panel before adding some PFS Gold Metallic Pearls to bring everything together.

That does it for this project! I hope you enjoyed it! This is a weird color combo, but I quite like how this one came out! According to the Color Cube inspiration, my green layer actually should have been a dark teal color, but I didn’t notice that until it was too late. Oh well, what’s the saying, there are no mistakes in art. I’m just going to go with that! Thank for joining me today, and I hope you have an awesome day!

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Simon Says Stamp Sunny Vibes Blog Hop Day One

Hello Friends, and welcome back! Today I’m participating in Day One of a Simon Says Stamp Blog Hop to celebrate the latest release, Sunny Vibes! Be sure to follow along the hop and comment along the way for your chance to win a $25 SSS gift card! Who doesn’t love gift cards, am I right?! There’s also a free gift with any $50 purchase. Just enter the code HELLO during checkout to receive this freebie! I’ll list the Blog Hop order at the end of my post so that you can follow along. And don’t forget, there will be a Day Two of the Blog Hop happening as well! Even more chances to win! My card today is featuring the new Gentle Layers Floral Wreath, along with the new Little Banners Basics. So, let’s run through the details!

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I began this project by die cutting all of the pieces of the wreath from Neenah 110lb cardstock and doing some ink blending using SSS Pawsitively Saturated Inks in Sprout, Seafoam, Lilac, Sunbeam, Honey, Dew and Aspen. Once all of the ink blending was complete, I adhered the pieces together with liquid glue and adhered those to the wreath.

For my background panel, I used the SSS Wistful Leaves Embossing Folder and embossed a panel of Neenah 110lb cardstock and then splattered it with gold acrylic ink for added interest. I always say this, but I felt like I needed more leaves, so I used the SSS Winsome Branch and cut some of those from white and gold cardstock. The wreath was glued to the embossed panel and I tucked the extra leaves in place and secured those with a bit more glue.

I used the Hello sentiment from the new SSS Little Banners Basics set and cut the banner from Neenah cardstock and cut the shadow portion from gold cardstock, adhering those with glue and then adhering it to the panel with SSS 3D Foam Strips. To finish up, I adhered the panel to the card base with foam tape before adding some PFS Gold Metallic Pearls.

That does it for this one! I hope you enjoyed it, and don’t forget to join in the Blog Hop for your chance to win! Thanks again for stopping by, and I hope you have an amazing day! You can follow along the Hop below.

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Nina-Marie Trapani

Caly Person

Jennifer McGuire

Suzy Plantamura

Amy Rysavy

Debby Hughes

Lisa Addesa

Alberto Gava

Barb Engler

Kath Stewart

Karin Åkesdotter

Jean Doeringsfeld

Tracy Ware

Daniel West

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Vintage Bits Cards

Hello Crafty Friends, and welcome back to my blog! I’m so glad that you stopped by! I love big washi, and I cannot lie! Ok, did you sing that line in the tune of I Like Big Butts?! Because I sure did! There are several companies that have big, beautiful washi tapes, and I’m just here to say that there needs to be a washi tape design team, and I need to be on it! I could create cards for days on end with washi tapes from 49 and Market and PinkFresh Studio. Anyhoo, today’s card is featuring the Vintage Bits washi tape from 49 and Market, so let’s run through the details.

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I began this project by creating a panel of washi on Neenah 110lb cardstock and trimming it down using the SSS Postage Stamp Edge Frames. I thought that black and gold would look amazing with this, so that’s the direction that I went. I used the SSS Fancy Mother and SSS Hello and cut those once from gold cardstock and twice from black cardstock. I also cut the shadow portions twice as well, and adhered all of those pieces together using liquid glue.

I wanted another design element on the card, so I used the Tim Holtz Sizzix Mini Detailed butterflies set. I also cut that once from gold and twice from black and adhered them together. My panels were also adhered to a black panel to pull the design together.

The sentiments and butterflies were adhered to the cards using SSS 3D Foam Tape for a bit of dimension to finish up.

These are super simple cards, but I really love this washi tape! It makes for easy, yet beautiful cards, in my opinion! So, like I said, there needs to be a washi tape design team, and I need to be on it! Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you have a wonderful day, and don’t forget to stay awesome, friend!

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Simon Says Stamp Hello Cherry Blossoms

Hello Crafty Friends, and thanks so much for joining me! I’m back today with a project featuring the new Cherry Blossom Embossing Folder from Simon Says Stamp’s latest release, Be Bold. There’s a lot going on with this card, so let’s get to the details!

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This card begins with cutting some white flowers using the included die from the SSS Cherry Blossom Embossing Folder. Once I had quite a few cut, I placed them inside the folder and ran them through the machine to add the embossed texture to them. I then did some light ink blending on them using SSS Pawsitively Saturated Inks in Bubblegum, Lilac, Lemonade, Marine, Seafoam, and Melon.

I then used the SSS Etched Eucalyptus Wreath and cut three of those from Neenah 110lb cardstock. While I was cutting, I went ahead and cut a bunch of leaves using the SSS Eucalyptus Leaves die from Neenah 110lb cardstock and gold cardstock, and I used the SSS Stitched Squares to cut one of those.

The background was created using the SSS Stitched Whirl Background and some gold acrylic ink splatter. As you can imagine, there was a lot of playing around with placement on this card! I adhered the three eucalyptus wreaths together using liquid glue and set that aside. I placed SSS 3D Foam Strips on the back of the square and decided placement of the leaves, and began gluing those in place. Some leaves had to be trimmed, and I reserved those to tuck back in where needed.

The square was then adhered to the panel and the wreaths were adhered atop that using a combination of liquid glue and foam strips for support. I glued a few flowers to the wreath and tucked in the remaining flowers here and there, along with the reserved white and gold leaves. I die cut the SSS Simple Hello once from gold cardstock and four times from Neenah 110lb cardstock and glued all of those together with liquid glue. I don’t normally make my sentiments that thick, but I knew it was going to need additional support, because it was going to be adhered atop the wreath with very few connect points.

I glued the Hello in place, and added some PFS Gold Metallic Pearls to the flower centers for added interest. The entire panel was then adhered to the card base using foam tape. Needless to say, this card is quite thick, but I love how it turned out!

Don’t forget to check out the entire Be Bold release over on Simon’s website! Thanks again for joining me, and I hope you have a fabulous day!

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Golden Butterfly Hello

Hello Crafty Friends! I hope you are doing well! Thank you so much for stopping by to check out today’s card featuring a couple of new items from Simon Says Stamp’s latest release, Splendor, plus a few older favorites as well. Let’s run through the details.

I began this card by cutting a frame using the SSS Stitched Rectangles die and SSS Fog cardstock. I then trimmed a panel of patterned paper to fit behind the frame. I used the SSS Fine Floral Stem and the SSS Simple Flowers to cut those from Neenah 110lb cardstock. I did end up cutting the Fine Floral twice so that I would have enough flowers to curve around the frame.

For the ink blending on the flowers, I used SSS Pawsitively Saturated Ink in Bubblegum, Seafoam, Celery and Lemonade. Once the ink blending was complete, I assembled the flowers using liquid glue. I also ended up cutting apart the Fine Florals so that I could place the flowers where I needed them to go. I used the SSS Handlettered Greetings and die cut the hello sentiment once from gold cardstock and three times from Neenah 110lb cardstock, adhering all of those together with liquid glue.

The butterfly is from the PFS Small Butterflies Foil Plate, and I foiled that using gold foil onto acetate and used the coordinating die to trim it out. I splattered the patterned paper and the card base with Hickory Smoke Distress Spray Stain for a little bit of added interest.

To assemble the card, I adhered the frame to the card base using foam tape and arranged the flowers along the left edge of the frame, adhering those with glue. I tucked in the leaves where needed, and glued the butterfly and sentiment in place before adding some PFS Gold Metallic Pearls.

That finishes up this one! I hope you found some inspiration from this project! I really like all of the elements of this one, and thought that it came together quite nicely. Thanks again for stopping by. I hope you have an amazing day, and don’t forget to stay awesome!

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Simon Says Stamp Hello Stems

Hello Crafty Friends, and thanks for stopping by! Today’s project is featuring the new Whirl Diamond Plate from Simon Says Stamp’s latest release, Sweetheart. So, let’s jump right into the details!

I began this card by cutting three SSS Sunrise Stems from Neenah 110lb cardstock. While I was cutting, I went ahead and cut the SSS Whirl Diamond Plate from a panel of black cardstock. I did some ink blending on the flowers using SSS Pawsitively Saturated Ink in Seafoam, Surf, Celery, Pearfection, Lemonade and Sunbeam.

Once all of the ink blending was done, I adhered the pieces of the flowers together using liquid glue. At this point, I did not adhere the flowers to the stems, because I was figuring out placement and deciding if I was going to need to trim some of the leaves off.

Before adhering the Whirl Diamond die cut to another panel of black cardstock, I splattered the panel with some gold acrylic ink for just a touch of added interest. Once that was dry, I adhered the die cut panel using liquid glue. I determined the placement of the florals, trimmed off a few leaves as necessary, and adhered the stems and flowers to the panel.

It was bothering me that I did not have three stems extending all the way to the bottom of the panel, because of placement on the card. To remedy this, I die cut the bottom of the stem two more times and ink blended them to match. I then tucked and glued the bottom portion so that I had three stems extending the length of the panel. That’s just me being a tad bit anal. What can I say?

I die cut the SSS Script Hello once from gold cardstock, cut the shadow three times from black cardstock and adhered them all together for a stacked sentiment. The sentiment was then adhered to the panel using foam tape. For a little bling, I added a few PFS Gold Metallic Pearls before adhering the panel to the card base.

That finishes up this project! I hope you enjoyed it! I love the look of bright florals against a black background. I think it’s so dramatic and beautiful. Don’t forget to check out the entire Sweetheart release! There’s so many fun things to feast your eyes upon. Thanks again for stopping by, and have a wonderful day!

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Slimline Rainbow Sunflowers

Hello Fellow Crafters, and thanks for swinging by! I hope you’re doing well and having a wonderful day! Today I’m participating in a super fun Instagram Hop to celebrate Simon Says Stamp’s latest release, Out of This World, so be sure to head over there to check it out! Leave comments along the hop for your chance to win a $25 gift card to Simon Says Stamp! Who doesn’t love gift cards?!? Today’s project is once again featuring the new Bountiful Sunflower Blossom. I really have had loads of fun playing with this die! So let’s go through the deets for this one!

I had the idea of lining up sunflowers on a card, and in my brain, the sunflowers were smaller and I could get more on a card front, but that’s the problem with ideas. Sometimes they don’t work out as we had anticipated. But nonetheless, I like how this card turned out. To begin, I cut the SSS Bountiful Sunflower Blossom six times from Neenah 110lb cardstock. I had to cut it six times, because I used two rows of petals instead of just the one that it cuts.

I had to do the ink blending on each piece separately so as to get each petal covered, so I lined up the pieces for the flower up and proceeded to ink blend those. The colors that I used were the SSS Pawsitively Saturated inks in Bubblegum, Lemonade, Seafoam and Lilac. This seems to be my go-to set for rainbow ink blending. Once the flowers were done, I adhered the pieces together using liquid glue.

For the background of the card, I used the SSS Slimline Marquee die to trim a panel of Neenah 110lb cardstock and splattered it using acrylic ink. I set that aside to dry and worked on the sentiment. I die cut the hello sentiment, from SSS Handlettered Greetings, once from SSS Holographic Cardstock and once from black cardstock, and adhered those together off center just the slightest.

To assemble the card, I layered the splattered panel onto a black panel for contrast and glued the two side sunflowers directly to the panel, while adhering the center flower with some foam tape. I then glued the sentiment to the center of the middle flower, leaving the ends of the sentiment free floating, if you will. I added some clear drops before adhering everything to the card base.

That does it for this one! I never make slimline cards, but I end up liking them when I do! Anyhoo, I hope you like it too, and I hope it inspires you to get crafty in your space. Don’t forget to check out the entire Out of This World release, and let me know your favorites. Also, don’t forget to head over to Instagram to join in the hop! Have a fabulous day and as always, stay awesome sweet friend!

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