Simon Says Stamp Kisses Release

 Hello and happy Thursday everyone!   The new Simon Says Stamp Kisses release is now live on the SSS website.  You can find the entire release right here.  This release is full of love and Valentine's Day vibes and works perfectly with the Hugs release that happened in December.  You can see that release here.  

Simon was so kind and sent me a beautiful hot foil plate simply called Damask.  I created two cards with the foil plate.  One using the plate in the traditional way and the other using the plate to deboss like a letterpress.   An affiliate linked list of products will be 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.  Let take a look at my first card.

My first card uses the plate for hot foiling.  I decided to foil the image on light pink cardstock with red foil.   I have learned that some foils work better than others for foiling, especially when it comes to colored cardstock.   So the foiling wasn't perfect, but sometimes you just have to embrace "not so perfect".  I wanted the image to be a focal point so I trimmed it out.  I die cut a panel of the same pink cardstock with a rectangle die and then embossed it with the SSS Blossom Field embossing folder.  The sentiment is from the SSS XL Love Greetings stamp set.  I embossed it in white on vellum, trimmed the vellum into a strip, wrapped it around the panel and secured it on the back.  The panel was then adhered to a white cardstock base.  This card works for the current Color Hues challenge of red and pink so I will be adding it to the gallery there. 

I have never used a foil plate to create a letterpress or debossed look, but when I saw this foil plate, I decided I wanted to give it a try.    My first attempt created a slightly debossed look, so I simply placed the plate back into the same spot and ran it through my die cutter using a thick embossing mat.  The mat was thicker than I wanted to use, but I can't find my other embossing mat.  There was some cracking of the cardstock, but again, I'm embracing "not so perfect", so I went with it.  And honestly, I really like how it turned out.   I used the cute little Heart Arrow die from Simon.  I got it last year (I think) as a freebie, but this is my first time using it.  I die cut it from Simon's red glitter cardstock, scraps of other cardstocks and then adhered them all together.  Now to figure out a sentiment.   I thought it would be fun to place a heart in the center of the heart arrow, so I looked at the XL Love Greetings stamp set again, saw the hearts that have "love" and "you" in them and thought they were perfect.  I adhered the arrow with liquid adhesive.  I then used thick foam dots to pop up the "love" heart in the center.  I then used a thinner profile foam square for the "you" heart.  I finished off the card by adding it to a SSS fog gray cardstock panel.

Affiliate linked supply list:

Simon Says Stamp Kisses release

Simon Says Stamp Hugs release

Simon Says Stamp Damask hot foil plate

Simon Says Stamp Heart Arrow die

Simon Says Stamp XL Love Greetings stamp set

Simon Says Stamp Blossom Field embossing folder

Simon Says Stamp Glitter cardstock

Spellbinders Platinum 6 die cutter

Spellbinders Glimmer hot foil system

Bearly Art Glue

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L thin foam squares

Red Foil

Wagner heat tool

Hero Arts white embossing powder

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check out the new SSS Kisses release!