Simon Says Stamp Artsy Butterflies Text

Hello Friends, and welcome back! I’m so glad you stopped by today to check out this project featuring the Artsy Butterflies. Let’s get right into the details!

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

If you’re like me, you’re hoarding patterned paper like it’s never going to be made again, am I right?! I decided that I would part with a little bit of it, and stamp the Artsy Butterflies onto a panel of pastel marble paper from P13 using VersaFine Onyx Black ink and heat set it with clear embossing powder. I then used the coordinating dies to trim them out, along with a black layer as well. I will link to a similar patterned paper at the bottom of this post.

The background is a combination of things with the bottom layer being a panel of ColorBlend cardstock that was black splattered and then a panel of Dina Wakely transparency that I smeared with Distress Paint.

The sentiment was stamped using VersaMark ink, heat set using detail white embossing powder and trimmed out with three additional cuts for a stacked sentiment. I adhered the black butterfly to the stamped butterfly using foam squares, and then those were adhered to the transparency using strong double sided tape. To adhere the transparency to the colored panel, I put some strips of the same tape on the backside underneath the butterflies so that you wouldn’t be able to see it. The sentiment was secured with the same tape as well.

That does it for this project. I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you have a great day!

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Happy Thursday, Friends! I bought this set at the last @simonsaysstamp CREATE event and had never gotten around to using it! That tells you how long it’s been sitting around waiting on some love! I’m not usually a cutesy card person, but I couldn’t resist this Wild Love set! Speaking of CREATE, who am I going to see there?!?! I’ll be there Thursday night and part of Friday, so come find me and say hi! I’d love to meet you, if I haven’t already!

Sending you some happy Wednesday thoughts with this Tulip Background from @simonsaysstamp. I stamped the whole image and was able to create a cute little bookmark in addition to my card! I’m considering that a win! Hope everyone is having a great day and a great week so far!

Happy Friday, Friends! We made it, and I’m back today, still playing with the Artsy Butterflies from @simonsaysstamp. This card is a combination of Color Blend cardstock, a transparency and patterned paper! You can find more details on my blog over at redsas.co. Hope you have a great day and a wonderful weekend!

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Happy Wednesday! Anyone else thinking that these Artsy Butterflies from last month’s @simonsaysstamp card kit would pair beautifully with the new Long Stem Florals from the May kit ?!?! Wishing that I had the new kit to test it out!!!

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! I’m back today with a couple of cute, clean and simple cards using the tiny envelope die from the @simonsaysstamp Mail Call set. Sometimes, I like taking the small dies and creating fun projects with just those! I created different designs during this session that you’ll see down the road some time.

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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!