Simon Says Stamp Grateful Heart

Hello Friends, and welcome back! Today’s post is featuring the new Crocus Duo from Simon’s latest release. This ended up being a twofer project, but I’m only writing about one of them today, so let’s go ahead and go through the details.

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

I knew that I wanted my Crocus flowers to be purple, so I die cut the flowers several times from three different colors of purple cardstock. Once I had cut all of the flowers, I did some ink blending on them using Crocus and Lilac inks, and assembled them. The flowers are only two layers, but I cut an additional layer to be adhered to the back. While I was cutting, I did cut the stems and grass from green cardstock.

My background was created using a very old Simon background stamped onto a very pale blue cardstock using VersaMark Ink and heat embossing it with white powder. This is where the twofer part comes in to play. I die cut that blue panel using the Whirl Diamond Plate, but only used the inner circles for this project. I also die cut a panel of Moonflower cardstock using that same plate. Before assembling this part, I decided that I wanted those inner circles black splattered.

This background ended up being a little bit of work, but I think it was worth it in the end. I went ahead and glued the Moonflower panel to the card base, and inlaid the splattered blue circles. After playing with the flower arrangement, I decided that it might be pretty to add some grass pieces that were similar to the other cardstock colors that I was using.

The flowers were adhered using foam tape, while the stems and various leaves were secured with liquid glue. The sentiment was stamped, white heat embossed, trimmed out and adhered to the panel with glue as well. To finish up, I added some dew drops for added interest.

That does it for this project. I hope you like it! I’ll post the other project using the rest of the background at some later date. Thanks again for stopping by, and I hope you have an awesome day!

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Hello Crafty Friends, and thanks for joining me! Today’s projects are featuring the new Braided Embossing Folder from Simon’s latest release, In My Heart. These were super simple, so let’s quickly run through the deets!

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

I began by running the embossing folder through the machine using Neenah cardstock to create two panels. I then did some ink blending on the panels using Carnation, Cadette, Surf, Limelicious, Sherbet and Orchid. Or at least that’s what I think that I used! I’m always really good about writing everything down, so I’m not quite sure what happened with these projects!

The sentiments were stamped using VersaMark ink, heat embossed using Detail White Embossing Powder and trimmed out four times for a stacked sentiment. I was unable to find one of the sets on the Simon website, so I assume that it was discontinued. I’m sorry about that, and I’m sad, because that was a really great set! The panels were trimmed down, adhered to a black panel and then the card base. Since the sentiments were stacked, I just went ahead and secured those using liquid glue to finish up.

Two quick cards for the win! These types of embossing folders are great for super quick cards, in my opinion. They look great ink blended with a simple sentiment. Thanks again for stopping by, and I hope you have an awesome day!