STAMPtember Blog Party!

 Hello everyone!  Stamptember is here.  Have you seen all the fabulous new products?!  Simon was so kind and sent me the super adorable Holiday Ornaments stamp set.  I have created two cards using this sweet stamp set.  To celebrate Stamptember Simon Says Stamp is having a blog party.  There is a full list of participants on the Simon Says Stamp blog.  Each stop on the hop will have a code that you can use at Simon Says Stamp for something fun.  Please see the banner below for the special code I have to get a free stamp set with a $30 purchase!  (A list of affiliate linked products is at the end of this post.  Using my links allows me to earn a small commission at no cost to you.  Thank you for your support.)

For my first card I pulled out some very old patterned paper call Santa's List by Teresa Collins.  I now only have two sheets of this sweet paper left.  I stamped the ornament on one piece and trimmed it out in full.  I then stamped just the bow portion of the stamp twice on a different patterned paper.  I trimmed out the full bow from one and then just part of the bow on the second.  There were then layered on the main image.  There are cute little candy stamps in the set and I stamped those on the patterned paper and then colored them with Polychromos pencils in red and white.  I added the strings and then the sentiment.  The main ornament was popped up with thin foam squares.  I finished off the card with the little red twine bows.

For this card I used the snowman ornament.  I stamped him on watercolor cardstock with VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne ink and then colored him very simply with a light gray and light blue watercolor.  The nose was colored in orange, the cheeks pink and then I added some black to the eyes.   I also used the gray for the ornament topper and then added white shimmer watercolor over the top.  After everything was dry I trimmed it out.  The background was created by using the SSS Delicate Snowflake stencil and Tumbled Glass distress oxide on white cardstock.   I then added Ranger clear embossing paste over the top for a shiny finish.  Once the embossing paste was dry I added a little bit of the Tumbled Glass around the edges of my die cut rectangle.  I die cut a medium blue cardstock for a mat and added the snowflake panel to that.  I popped up the ornament with thin foam squares.  The sentiment was heat embossed in silver on vellum and then added to the panel using Bearly Art glue.   I finished with a little bow that I created using the little bow from the Flower Bundle die set.  

Affiliate linked list of supplies used:

Stamptember release

Holiday Ornaments Stamp set

Holiday Ornaments Die set

Holiday Ornaments Stamp and Die bundle

Spellbinders Plantinum 6

Wagner Heat Tool

Watercolor cardstock

Jane Davenport watercolors

Polychromos Color Pencils

VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne ink

VersaMark watermark embossing ink

Ranger Silver embossing powder 

Ranger Texture Paste Transluscent Gloss

Tumbled Glass distress oxide ink

Bearly Art Glue

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L thin foam squares

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy the blog party and don't forget to shop the release!