Hello, hello! Simon Says Stamp has a new release called Joy for You. You can find the entire release by clicking here. SSS generously sent me several products to create with for this release. Thank you so much SSS! Let's have a look at what I made.
This card was a fun one to create! I used the new String o' Lights embossing folder and die set. There are two little lightbulb dies with the embossing folder so you can die cut the lights from colored cardstock and attach to the embossed background. I decided to use Copic markers to color each lightbulb. I had a plan when I started out of repeating the colors, but somewhere along the line that plan went off the rails, lol! I still love how it turned out, though. The sentiment is from the Stacked Holiday Sentiments 2 stamp set. I stamped it on vellum, heat embossed it in black and the die cut it with a Simon Says Stamp tag die. I adhered the embossed panel to a light gray cardstock base with double sided tape and then added the sentiment tag with thin foam squares. I finished the tag off with a little white snowflake. I think this card is so fun and festive.
This card features the new Curious Deer die set. Isn't that little deer just so sweet? I die cut it from kraft, cream and red cardstocks. I colored the antlers with a dark brown Copic marker and used that same marker to color the nose and eyes. I assembled the little guy and set him aside. The remainder of the card uses products from recent Simon Says Stamp releases. The sentiment is from the Round Robins stamp set. Again, I love how this turned out. Simple, but so very sweet. I decided to add this one to the CAS Christmas challenge of reindeer.
This last project was a bit of a challenge to make. I used the new Fluted Frame Tags die set. The dies die cut out the frame, but don't create a tag. So, what I did was die cut the tag from the dark red cardstock and then applied tape to the back to keep everything in place. I die cut additional frames from white cardstock (I don't remember exactly how many, but it was enough to build up the wall I needed.) and adhered them together. I stamped the sentiment from Stacked Holiday Sentiments 2 with watermark ink and heat embossed it with white embossing powder. I glued the thick frame to the tag and added the silver shaker balls (another new product). To create the window for the shaker I glued a piece of acetate to the tag lining one long side of the tag with the edge of the acetate. I was a bit of a trick to glue the acetate down as the shaker balls kept attaching themselves to the acetate, but I got it done. I trimmed off the excess acetate and layered final white frame on top. I finished the back by reinforcing it with a piece of cardstock that I cut smaller than the tag and a final layer of the dark red cardstock. I adhered that cardstock the same way I did the acetate and then carefully trimmed off the excess. I finished with the twine bow and snowflake embellishment.
Well, that's it for me. I hope you enjoyed what I created. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day.
