Simon Says Stamp Out of this World Release!

 Hello!  Hope your summer is off to a great start!  Simon Says Stamp is starting the summer off right with a fabulous new release called Out of this World.  You can find the entire release here.  Simon was so kind and sent me the super cute Folksy Cats stamp set.  This set happens to coordinate with the previously released Happy Hello stamp set.  I have Happy Hello and the matching Happy Hello dies.  To my delight I discovered that a few of the dies from Happy Hello worked with images from the Folksy Cats set!  Yay!  I have created two cards to share with you.  Let's have a look.

At the time I started to make my cards with this new set I had out inks that I used to make my card for the previous Color Hues challenge.  Since they were right there I decided to use them to create my card.  I used two shades of red Pinkfresh ink to do a two-tone effect on my cats.  They fit perfectly inside the large heart from the Happy Hello die set making for a nice focal point on your card.  I inked up white cardstock with my aqua inks and then die cut one into a strip.  The rest was used for my sentiment strip.  I stamped the heart in the dark red ink and die cut it with the small heart die from Happy Hello, popped it up on the heart and then added some Glossy Accents.  I found an old heart embossing folder to create my background.  I adhered the panel to my white cardstock base, added the strip, heart and sentiment.  

The Folksy Cats set features the cats that I used on the first card, but also has a large frame image that I really wanted to use, as well.  The image is very large and I had a hard time figuring out what I wanted to do.  One option was to make a 5x7 card, but I don't really have a need for that size card so I thought on it and worked on other ideas.  I finally settled on creating a wreath of sorts around one of the large sentiments.  There are small floral dies in the Happy Hello set that will also cut out small flowers in the Folksy Cats set.  I used the Simon Says Stamp Instagram June challenge colors for my palette and stamped the flowers in those colors.    I die cut a frame using two rectangle dies nested together as a place for my flowers.  It was at this point that I realized I could use the large frame image as a backdrop for my rectangular wreath.  I stamped the image using Simon Says Stamp Fog ink on white cardstock and then die cut it with a rectangle die.  I positioned the sentiment and stamped it in black ink.  I then adhered the floral frame with foam strips.  I had a few flowers and hearts left over so I added those to the top of the card to balance things out.  Dots of Nuvo drops in Morning Dew were added to the centers of the tiny flowers.  

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