Hello everyone! OK barring all the technical difficulties I had getting this video up and posted a fair bit after the release - at least I can share links to a few card videos using some of the new Simon Says Stamp Send Happiness products:
And here are all the links to everything - you can check out the entire Send Happiness release HERE <------click! or individually at all the links below:
I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube.
Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself!
I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube.
Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself!
I of course splattered the background with water and with Perfect Pearl powder mixed with water. I then stamped one of the images from Simon's Wildflowers stamp set onto the background using Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot Distress Oxide inks.
I finished off the inside of the card by stamping the Wildflowers image with Speckled Egg, Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot Distress Oxides. I silver heat embossed another sentiment from the Beautiful Butterflies set and added a matching Soft Navy Slimline envelope and that was it!
To see how this card came together check out my video below:
I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube.
Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself!
So one of my cards is inspired by one cardmaker, and are my own participation in a hop I missed signing up for 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️. Let me explain. Justine Hovey hosted a Papercrafters Unite Against Racism Blog Hop that was a couple of days ago. You can check out her post HERE <-----click! as there's a lot of info and a LOT of links to other participants. I didn't see the sign up until it was too late but I wanted to create these cards and share my post and video.
I saw Laura Bassen's card on Instagram and it just spoke to me. I love everything she posts regardless - she is the QUEEN of color blocking and rainbow and patterns! Plus her videos are hilarious. Anywho - her card was perfection. I have the same stamp set she used (and I've used it a couple of times now in videos) and the sentiment took on a whole new meaning for me. So I put my own spin on it and made these cards:
I die cut 2 sets of rainbows from Ranger watercolor paper with Simon Says Stamp's Build a Rainbow wafer die. These are A2 cards so you can see how large this die is. I show in the video how I taped the pieces so that I could paint all the rainbow stripes in different colors.
On the insides of both cards I had die cut the Rainbow Heart wafer die from the same Ranger watercolor paper. I painted the rainbow pieces the same way - and then adhered all of it inside the cards. This way the hearts are inlaid in the card stock and everything is flat on the inside yet there's still space to write.
I finished off the cards with the Love You sentiment from the Stronger Together set and that was it.
To see how these cards came together check out my video below:
I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube.
Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself!
Hello everyone!! Stay tuned as I have several posts and videos coming back-to-back! I had some tech/internet/whatever issues the past few days and it's backed up everything.
I created a smooshed-ink background using Distress Oxide inks on Ranger watercolor paper. I haven't done backgrounds like that in a while and EVERY time I revisit it I'm reminded of how fun it is to make!
For the butterflies and sentiments I used the Simon Says Stamp Beautiful Butterflies set. It was a part of their June card kit that sold out before it arrived here - but like I said in the video: the kit and then the coordinating wafer dies that came out in the Send Happiness release arrived within a couple of days of each other. So it was perfect timing in the end lol!
I gold heat embossed one of the butterflies from the set onto vellum then used the coordinating wafer die to cut it out.
On the inside of the card I gold heat embossed another sentiment. I then stamped one of the smaller butterflies from the Beautiful Butterflies stamp set all over the inside of the card and on the Audrey Blue Slimline envelope using the same Distress Oxides I used on the card front and that was it!
To see how this card and envelope came together check out my video below:
I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube.
Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself!
Today's post is part of day 1 of TWO days of blog hops for this release. If this is your first stop I'll have links to all the other stops on the hop for you to check out and there's giveaway info at the end of my post as well! Plus coupon codes:
Shop Simon Says Stamp HERE <-------click! and get any one of these enamel pins FREE with any purchase using one of the codes pictured above while supplies last!
OK on to my card:
This is a 3.5 x 8.5" slimline card.
I used several of the new CZ Design products that were in the Send Happiness release to make this card. I started with the Chunky Flowers wafer die and made 3 of those as they lined up almost perfectly on a card of this size.
The new Chunky Happy wafer die is also a fabulous size for a card size like this and I die cut it from black card stock and vellum, and finished it off with a white heat embossed sentiment from the Happy Days stamp set.
I used the Chunky Flowers stencil on the card base (and the envelope!) and blended 3 different colors of Distress Oxide inks, offsetting the stencil with each color to create this trippy background lol! Of course I added splatter with Ranger Perfect Pearl powder mixed with water and my white Amsterdam ink.
To finish off the card I used sequins from the Summer Sunset pack - the colors from these sequins are what inspired the color combo for this card and envelope.
On the inside of the card I adhered the outlines that were leftover from the Chunky Flowers I created on the front of the card. I white heat embossed another sentiment from the Happy Days stamp set and that completed the inside.
For the envelope I used one of the new Lemon Chiffon Slimline envelopes and stencilled it just like I did on the card front - splatter and all! And that was it!
To see how my card and envelope came together check out my video below:
I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube.
Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself!
Now for the GIVEAWAY info!!
Simon Says Stamp is giving away a $25 coupon to every stop on the hop (thanks Heidi!!) from each blog's comment section (so leaving comments on all the blog posts of the hop increases your chances of winning!). Simon will choose the winners over the weekend and post on the Simon Says Stamp store blog on Wednesday July 1st. All the winners can email Simon Says Stamp to claim his/her prize.
Thanks so much for stopping by and good luck! ❤️❤️❤️
SO - I made a card. A slimline card. With a matching envelope - using one of the NEW slimline envelopes Simon released!! I am so happy about these - and yes I hope there will be a bunch more colors released down the road as that will be fun.
I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube.
Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself!
Hello everyone!! I was invited to join in the blog hop for Studio Katia's June 2020 release!
This release includes 6 New Clear Stamp Sets and 4 Sets of Coordinating Dies, 6 New Stand Alone Creative Dies, 15 New Embellishments and a Studio Katia FIRST 6X6 Paper Set! You all know I love me some Studio Katia BLING - and can you blame me?
Add all the heart-eye-emoji's here LOL!
That's just the bling portion - the new stamps and wafer dies and PATTERNED PAPER are awesome too.
I used the new papers and a couple of the new die sets to make a Slimline birthday card:
The letters were stacked with 2 layers of white card stock to give them dimension and the top layer was die cut from black glitter card stock to give it a little extra bling. I added a BUNCH of the new Vanilla Luster Fusion Sequins - they're perfect for adding that bling but not distracting from the papers etc!
I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube.
Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself!
Now for the GIVEAWAY info!
Studio Katia is giving away a $50 gc on their post HERE <------click! There's also a $25 gift certificate being given away from the comments on this post! Comments must be left before Friday, July 3rd, 2020, 23:59 PM EST and winners will be announced on the Studio Katia blog on Sunday July 25, 2020.
I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube.
Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself!
Hey everyone! So YAY - I got Simon Says Stamp's July Card Kit and not only filmed an unboxing but also made a card so I combined it all into one big video. Let me know what y'all prefer - Unboxing Videos that are just that with card videos on their own or combined all-in-one like this? I haven't made up my own mind as to what I prefer and it's all the same amount of work for me regardless LOL!
OK so here's the card I made:
This is a 3.5 x 8.5" Slimline Card.
I inked up the row of houses set from the Home Sweet Home stamp set using Simon's Intense Black ink and then coloured in all the images with Copic markers. I did the same thing with the little plane image and cut that out, then the banner was stamped onto Smoke card stock and cut out as well.
Also FYI don't forget that Copics are on SALE at SSS right now (till 7/3/2020) - click HERE <-------click! to shop all things Copic and save 25% with the code MARKER
I stamped the inside of the card with the row of houses image and a sentiment from the Home Sweet Home set. I couldn't resist making a coordinating envelope so I pulled out one of Simon's #10 White envelopes and stamped it with a bunch of the images from the set using various SSS inks (all listed and linked below) and that was it!
To see how this card and envelope was made PLUS the unboxing of the kit check out my video below:
I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube.
Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself!
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