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Black Gold & White Mermaid Tails Slimline Card | SSS Be a Mermaid Take 2

OK - so my previous post and video (HERE) used this set, and I mentioned in the video that while creating that card I had the idea for this one:

This is a 3.5 x 8.5" slimline card.

I really wanted to try out a mermaid tail card in my favorite gold, black and white combo - and it worked! I stamped Simon's Out to Sea background onto white card stock using Versafine Clair Nocturne ink. I trimmed it out, and used a craft knife to trim slits for the mermaid tails.

I gold heat embossed the mermaid tail images from Simon's Be a Mermaid stamp set onto black card stock. I watercolored them with my Gansai Tambi Starry Colors set and when they were dry I die cut them with the coordinating dies.

I added a BUNCH of splatter with the Starry Colors and also Black Soot Distress Paint.

On the inside of the card I stamped the Out to Sea background - this time with Delicata Golden Glitz ink. I added another mermaid tail and a sentiment from the Be A Mermaid set and that was it!

To see how this card came together check out my video below:

Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <-------click!

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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! 

Sparkly Mermaid Tails Slimline Card | SSS Be a Mermaid

This is a 3.5 x 8.5" slimline card.

Pictures do NOT do the sparkle and bling justice (that and I'm just not good at taking pics 🤷🏻‍♀️). I show in the video just how sparkly this card is!

I used Simon Says Stamp's Out to Sea background and white heat embossed it onto Ranger watercolor paper then watercolored it with Prima Tropicals watercolor palette. I added HEAVY splatter with Perfect Pearl Powder mixed with water, then when dry I cut it down and trimmed off the top.

I gold heat embossed the mermaid tails from Simon's Be a Mermaid stamp set and watercolored them with the same Tropicals palette. I added sparkle on top of the tails with the Nuvo Aqua Shimmer Glitter Gloss pen and once dry die cut them with the coordinating wafer dies.

On the inside of the card I did a bit of masking and stamped the mermaid tail using Distress Oxide inks (specific colors listed in the supplies below). I stamped the tails on to the white open end slimline envelope too. Once those were stamped this was all done!

To see how this card and envelope came together check out my video below:

or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <--------click!

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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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EASY Faux Watercolor with Inkon3 Atelier Inks | SSS Spring Flowers 4

Hey everyone! Another slimline card:

This is a 3.5 x 8.5" slimline card.

I think after I had made the previous card I needed to get a rainbow fix lol!

I used Simon Says Stamp's Spring Flowers 4 stamp set. I bought the coordinating wafer die set for it some time ago and then decided it was high time to pull out the set and ink it up. I like to call what I did here "faux watercolor" as there really is no actual watercoloring or ink blending but that's how it looks in the end.

I white heat embossed ALL the images from the Spring Flowers 4 set onto Arches cold pressed watercolor paper, and then used Inkon3's Atelier inks and a spray bottle.

After everything dried I die cut all the images with the coordinating Spring Flowers 4 die set. I white heat embossed a sentiment from the Greetings Mix 1 stamp set onto a panel of Fog card stock, and added a bunch of Rainbow Party sequins.

On the inside of the card I stamped the florals and greenery with the Atelier inks and then stamped another sentiment from the Greetings Mix 1 set with the Bee Sting Yellow Atelier ink. The envelope was made with Trinity Stamps Slimline Envelope Builder wafer die set and some Lawn Fawn 12x12 paper (no longer available - sorry! I do have links to other options in the supplies). And that was it!

To see how this card came together check out my video below:

Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <-------click!

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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! 

Peony Bouquet Background Stamp | Easy Slimline Card

Hey everyone!

This week's Color Throwdown Challenge is another good one:

You can check out what the rest of the team created with these colors HERE <------click! and play along yourself if you'd like!

Here's what I came up with:

This is a 3.5 x 8.5" slimline card.

I pulled out Simon Says Stamp's Peony Bouquet Background stamp - I JUST showed this in the Crafty Hugs Release & Review video last week. So it was still sitting on my desk and I thought it would be cool to use for this challenge. I was originally going to make an A2 sized card but then of course I started wondering if I could create a slimline version instead so that's what I did.

I inked up the Peony Bouquet Background with Rusty Hinge Distress Oxide ink and stamped it onto Neenah Desert storm card stock. I used the Oxide ink to splatter the background and also splattered Distress Picket Fence paint as well.

I stamped the Peony Bouquet with the same Rusty Hinge Distress Oxide ink onto the inside of the card as well as on the envelope. The sentiments on the card front and inside are from the Greetings Mix 2 stamp set and were stamped with Versafine Clair Nocturne ink.

To see how this card and envelope came together check out my video below:

Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <-------click!

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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! 

SSS August 2020 Card Kit Unboxing + 2 Slimline Cards!

Hey everyone! I have a card kit unboxing plus TWO slimline cards packed into one video today lol!

First off:

Simon Says Stamp's August Card Kit <-------click! Picnic Parade. LOVE! You can check out the kit here and then I'll have links to everything separately at the end of this post.

I made 2 slimline cards with the kit:

These are 3.5 x 8.5" slimline cards.

I used the Hello Sunshine set from the card kit for the sentiments and the clouds, and paired them with the patterned paper and icon stickers and enamel stickers in the kit.

I used Simon's Grassy Edges wafer dies on the green patterned papers to make the grass, then added several of the icon stickers and the little enamel ants to make it look like they were taking off with all the food LOL!

I finished off the inside of the card with more images and sentiments from the Hello Sunshine set along with all the same ephemera I used on the outsides. I paired the cards with the Sunshine Slimline Envelope and Schoolhouse Red Slimline envelope that comes in the kit and that was it!

To see the unboxing and how I made the cards check out my video below:

Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <-------click!

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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! 

Easy Oxide Ink Blending Slimline Card | SSS Wildflowers Stamp Set Take 5

Hey everyone! I'm currently working through my backlog of videos - getting them edited and getting the voiceovers done in between construction/kids/etc lol!

This card was for last week's Color Throwdown challenge HERE <------click! There's still a little time left to play along if you'd like! A new challenge starts Wednesday!

Here's what I created:

This is a 3.5 x 8.5" slimline card.

I had mentioned in my last video that I would most likely be back to splatter/slimline/bling - and I was right LOL. It's all my favorite.

I created an easy blended background on Simon's 120lb smooth white card stock using Distress Oxide inks. I splattered the background with the Squeezed Lemonade Oxide mixed with water then splattered on Perfect Pearl powder mixed with water.

I then stamped one of the silhouette images from Simon's Wildflowers stamp set over it using Mowed Lawn and Black Soot Distress Oxide inks. 

The sentiment is from Simon's Hexagon Greetings stamp set and was die cut with the coordinating Hexagon Greetings wafer die.

I stamped the silhouette image from the Wildflowers set onto the inside of the card, and also stamped it across the Lemon Chiffon slimline envelope. I added another sentiment from the Hexagon Greetings set that I'd die cut with the Hexagon Greetings wafer die and that was it!

To see how this card and envelope came together check out my video below:

Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <-------click!

Follow me on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube! You can also consider supporting me on my Patreon!

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! 

Thanks Gnomie Card w Matching Envelope

Hey everyone! I'm working on catching up on editing and all the things I put on the back burner while I went through the whole not seeing, getting new glasses etc etc. This card and video being one of those things:

For the first time in a while I made an A2 sized card! I've been SO obsessed with slimline cards the last few months (and I'll still make a bunch of those) but it's nice to jump back and forth between the 2 sizes.

For this card and envelope I used the Simon Says Stamp Chillin' Gnomes stamp and die set. This set is SO cute and I set it aside when it was released as it sold out instantly and then life got in the way. This gnomie eating watermelon is adorable so I designed the card around him.

I stamped the gnome and the mushroom from the Chillin' Gnomies set onto Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80lb card stock with Simon's Intense Black ink then coloured them in with Copic markers. I used one of the coordinating wafer dies to die cut the gnome and left the mushroom on it's panel as part of the background.

I die cut green card stock with the Eucalyptus Leaves wafer die, and used the Script Thanks wafer die for part of the sentiment. I white heat embossed the "gnomie!" from the Chillin' Gnomes set to finish it off.

I finished off the inside of the card by stamping the gnome with Antique Linen Distress Oxide ink and adding another white heat embossed sentiment. I heat embossed another sentiment from the set onto the envelope and then stamped the gnome with Schoolhouse Red ink and that was it!

To see how this card and envelope came together check out my video below:

Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <--------click!

Follow me on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube! You can also consider supporting me on my Patreon!

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! 

Simon Says Stamp Crafty Hugs Release & Review PLUS Giveaway!!

Yay!! The remaining items from Simon Says Stamp's Crafty Hugs release arrived after a LONG hold up in the postal system (for me personally it seems like postage times are back to somewhat-normal. Maybe a little longer than usual but nothing like the massive backlog that happened at the end of April and into May. I know international (as in outside of the US and Canada) shipping is still probably a lot longer than normal. With less flights and all distribution and supply chains held up right now I don't know when shipping will be back to "normal" speeds). Since I had a lot of requests to still do a Release & Review video PLUS I have a lot to give away - I have that video AND a giveaway!

You can watch the video in HD over on YouTube HERE <-------click!

You can check out the Crafty Hugs Release HERE <-----click! as well as the links to the posts for the cards I've already made so far:

NEW Oxide Blend Slimline Card | SSS Wildflowers Stamp Set Take 4

Watercolored Slimline Card | SSS So Beautiful Background

Slimline Thank You Card | SSS Work of the Heart

And then here are the links to everything I showed in the order on video:

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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!!!

I have a big crafty parcel full of brand new SSS stamps and wafer dies to give to one of you!

To be entered all you need to do is follow the steps in the Rafflecopter widget below (please make sure you're using a current e-mail address that you check frequently (I don't keep/see any personal info other than the winner's e-mail address) as that's what I use to contact the winner!). A random winner will be chosen via the widget Saturday (July 25/20) morning and I'll e-mail the winner this weekend!

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Thank you for stopping by and good luck! ❤️

Easy Distress Oxide Watercolor Slimline Card | Honey Bee Stamps Freshly Picked

Hello hello everyone!! SO - Honey Bee Stamps had an AMAZING new (and HUGE) release this month. I'll have a Release & Review video coming this week for it - I was waiting on the stencils and patterned paper (omggggg the patterned paper 😍😍😍) and they're here now so I can get to filming it all to share with you guys!

That said - I have a card and video to share with y'all using some of the new products:

This is a 3.5 x 8.5" slimline card.

Of course I made a slimline card. I am seriously OBSESSED with slimline cards. It's been a really nice break from all the A2 cards I've made for the past 16+ years (which yes there are TONS of card sizes to create, A2 has just been my "go-to" and other sizes didn't really do it for me till I started creating this slimline size). I'm loving making them.

SO - for this card I used the new Freshly Picked stamp set from Honey Bee Stamps. I stamped the images I wanted onto Distress watercolor paper with Versafine Clair Nocturne ink and then embossed them all with Wow's Clear Matt Dull embossing powder. I watercolored all of the images in with Distress Oxide inks (all the colors I used are listed and linked in the supplies at the end of the post!), and then die cut them with the coordinating Freshly Picked Honey Cuts dies.

I used the new Honey Bee Slimline Sentiments Eyelet die set to cut the little scalloped frame, and ink blended Twisted Citron Distress Oxide ink on the inner part. The "thanks" die cut is from the same Slimline Sentiments Eyelet die set.

I used sentiments from the Pearfect Sentiments set on the outside and inside of the card. I added a couple more of the peaches and leaves to the inside and that was it!

To see how this card came together check out my video below:

Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <-------click!

Follow me on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube! You can also consider supporting me on my Patreon!

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! 

Quick & Easy Watercolor Slimline Card | SSS Sketch Ranunculus Take 7

Hello everyone!! It's been a quiet couple of weeks on my end. I'll copy/paste what I posted on my social media:

"For those wondering where I’ve been - I’d posted on IG (forgot to post here too - sorry!) that my glasses broke a couple+ weeks ago. Bc of COVID etc it took a while to get an eye appointment (haven’t had one in over 7 years - I was waaaaayyyy overdue for that). My prescription changed plus I now have astigmatism in both eyes (and my prescription is different in both eyes as well so I couldn’t get temporary readers as some suggested to me).

There were delays on the glasses, plus me having to switch between NO glasses, temporary daily contacts for astigmatism, reading glasses made for me to work (edit etc) and new proper prescription glasses. Long story short? It’s been a LITERAL headache, I couldn’t see, and adjusting to the new prescription and all the hoops I was jumping through was bringing on a lot of eye fatigue and headaches. Hence the lack of posts and videos Bc I just couldn’t handle it. Chris was helping a TON extra as I can’t drive without glasses, I had so many headaches and it’s just been crazy.

That said - I got my new glasses. The work ones are great - still adjusting to the “everyday” ones and not easily able to switch between them yet. But I can now edit and answer emails and all that jazz. So I’ll have lots of videos coming - just working on the editing!! ❤️"

So there's the story. I'm still adjusting and have SOOOOO much to catch up on (this all being my full-time+ job means "breaks" like this drastically affect my income etc) but I'll get there!

The card and video I'm sharing now was for this Color Throwdown Challenge:

You can see what the rest of the team created PLUS all the submissions from those that played along HERE <-------click!

I loved these colors and I LOVE that flower bouquet so I pulled out an oldie-but-goodie favorite set from my stash: Simon Says Stamp's Sketch Ranunculus:

This is a 3.5 x 8.5" slimline card.

I stamped the ranunculus and leaves from the Sketch Ranunculus set onto Distress watercolor paper with Versafine Clair Nocturne ink and embossed them with Wow Clear Matt Dull embossing powder.

They were all coloured in with Karin Brushmarker Pro's and a water brushed and then trimmed out. This stamp set was released years ago and I didn't realize there were coordinating wafer dies for it (need!) and you can get it as a set as well. I'll have the options linked in the supplies!

One of the small butterflies from Simon's Beautiful Butterflies set was stamped onto vellum and heat embossed with Inkon3's Black as Night embossing powder before being die cut with the coordinating wafer die. I used sentiments from the same set on the main panel of the card as well.

I stamped the ranunculus and leaves on the inside of the card and on the slimline envelope using Distress Oxide inks. I added sentiments from the Beautiful Butterflies set and the last heat embossed vellum butterfly to the inside of the card and that was it!

To see how this card and envelope came together check out my video below:

 

Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <-------click!

Follow me on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube! You can also consider supporting me on my Patreon!

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! 

Simon Says Stamp Send Happiness Release & Review! | June 2020

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:

Distress Oxide Background Slimline Card | SSS Beautiful Butterflies

CZ Design Chunky Flowers Slimline Card & Matching Envelope

Watercolored Diecut Slimline Card with Matching Envelope

So here's my Release & Review showing the new products and all my random thoughts:

You can watch in HD on YouTube HERE <-------click!

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:

Follow me on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube! You can also consider supporting me on my Patreon!

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! 

MFT Rainbow Slimline Card

Hey everyone! It's JULY?!?! I still have a hard time processing even the thought of it being more than halfway through 2020.

Anywho - I have another slimline card to share with y'all!

This is a 3.5 x 8.5" slimline card.

I created a background on Neenah Desert Storm card stock by mixing some Wendy Vecchi White embossing paste with Peacock Feathers and Mermaid Lagoon Distress Oxide inks. The tinted paste was applied over My Favorite Things Staggered Raindrops stencil and allowed to dry.

I then used MFT's Straight-Up Rainbow Die-namics with a bunch of pieces of scrap card stock to create my focal point. I white heat embossed a sentiment from an older MFT sentiment set (not available anymore sorry! I linked to MFT's Smile Maker sentiment set as that's pretty similar) and die cut the Scripty Smile Die-namics from Gold Glitter card stock.

I couldn't resist adding a bunch of gold splatter using my FineTec Pearlescent palette, and some Studio Katia Golden Crystals.

I finished off the inside of the card by stamping a sentiment with the Mermaid Lagoon Distress Oxide ink. I created a custom envelope using the Trinity Stamps Slimline Envelope Builder wafer die set and some Doodlebug patterned paper and that was it!

To see how this card came together check out my video below:

Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <-------click!

Follow me on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube! You can also consider supporting me on my Patreon!

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!