Prairie Paper & Ink

Heat Embossing on Yupo Paper | AmyR 2021 Valentine's Card Series #15

Hey everyone! First off:

You can shop Simon's Steals & Deals HERE <--------click! while supplies last!! Also the code LVEYU842 should get you an additional $5 off!!

Next, I was SUPER inspired by one of the cards that Nina Marie Trapani posted recently. I loved the background she created and I couldn't get it out of my head so I went about creating something similar. I really LOVED the pink and purple alcohol ink backgrounds she made but decided to go with completely different color schemes to see how they'd look:

I used Ranger's Mint and Green Spectrum alcohol ink set and the Teal and Blue Spectrum set along with Silver Mixative and Gold Mixative (all the links are also posted in the supplies at the end of this post). I created 2 backgrounds using those sets on Yupo White Heavystock, then cut them in half to get 2 card fronts from each background.

I heat embossed Simon Says Stamp's XOXO Background onto the alcohol inked backgrounds using silver and gold embossing powders. I then added some splatter with Picket Fence Distress Paint and adhered the backgrounds to white card bases using Simon's Big Momma foam tape.

The "love you" die cut is from the Botanical Heart wafer die set. I popped that onto all the cards and added a stamped sentiment from the Tiny Words set that I die cut with one of the Sentiment Labels wafer dies.

I finished off the insides of the cards by stamping the XOXO background using Dusty Sage and Audrey Blue inks and that was it!

To see how these cards came together check out my video below:

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

If you missed any of the previous posts in my Valentine Series so far you can find them all at the links below!

Hello Friend Card | AmyR 2021 Valentine's Card Series #14

Easy Watercolor with Distress Oxide Sprays | AmyR 2021 Valentine's Card Series #13

1 Background 2 Cards | AmyR 2021 Valentine's Card Series #12

Forest Scenery Mini Slimline Cards | AmyR 2021 Valentine's Card Series #11

Trinity Stamps Jan '21 Release & Review + 2 Cards! | AmyR 2021 Valentine's Card Series #10

AmyR 2021 Valentine's Card Series #9 | SSS Beautiful Flowers Take 15

Love You S'More Mini Slimline Cards | AmyR 2021 Valentine's Card Series #8

SSS February 2021 Card Kit Unboxing + Cards | AmyR 2021 Valentine's Card Series #7

Love Your Guts Cards | AmyR 2021 Valentine's Card Series #6

Multiple Backgrounds with Alcohol Lift Ink | AmyR 2021 Valentine's Card Series #5

SSS Botanical Heart Take 2 | AmyR 2021 Valentine's Card Series #4

Layered Hearts & Picture Book Moose | AmyR 2021 Valentine's Card Series #3

Love You Bunches Cards | AmyR 2021 Valentine's Card Series #2

Easy Diecut Slimline Cards with Doodlebug Papers | AmyR 2021 Valentine's Card Series #1

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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! 

Multiple Backgrounds with Alcohol Lift Ink | AmyR 2021 Valentine's Card Series #5

Hello friends!! Today I'm part of a blog hop to share inspiration from Simon's Love You Release and the new Love You, Too Release! AND because this is part of a blog hop I have a coupon code to share with y'all:

When you shop at Simon Says Stamp <-------click! during this blog hop you can get the Faraway Hugs 6x8 stamp set FREE with purchases of $100 or more using the code HUGS4U2

You can check out the Love You release HERE <------click! and the Love You Too release HERE <------click!

I'll have links to all the other stops on the hop as well as GIVEAWAY info later in this post!

For starters, here are the cards I made with some of the new products:

I pulled out several pink shades of Ranger Alcohol inks and created a couple of backgrounds on Yupo paper. Then I inked up two of the new background stamps - Radiating Hearts Background and XOXO Background - with Rangers Alcohol Lift Ink and lifted the alcohol inks from those backgrounds. Before cleaning off the stamps I stamped the lifted ink onto panels of white card stock - essentially getting two backgrounds out of one.

I used the You Are Simply the Best and Thank You For Being A Friend wafer dies for the sentiments, stacking layers die cut with white card stock and topping with pink glitter card stock.

I then added sentiment strips cut from the CZ Design Reverse Lucky Sentiment Strips, and added some bling from the Cupcake Frosting sequin mix.

On the insides of the cards I stamped the Radiating Hearts Background and XOXO Background using Spun Sugar Distress Oxide ink and that was it!

To see how these cards came together check out my video below:

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

Next stop on the hop is Lisa's blog <------click!

If you missed any of the stops on this hop you can find them all here at the links below:

Simon Says Stamp Blog   

Jennifer McGuire

Cathy Zielske

Nina-Marie Trapani

Nichol Spohr

Caly Person

Yana Smakula

Suzy Plantamura

Amy Rysavy

Lisa Addesa

Heather Ruwe

Sidnie Des Jardins

Cheiron Brandon

Barb Engler

Lea Lawson

AND if you missed any of my previous posts for my 2021 Valentine's Card Series you can find them all here:

SSS Botanical Heart Take 2 | AmyR 2021 Valentine's Card Series #4

Layered Hearts & Picture Book Moose | AmyR 2021 Valentine's Card Series #3

Love You Bunches Cards | AmyR 2021 Valentine's Card Series #2

Easy Diecut Slimline Cards with Doodlebug Papers | AmyR 2021 Valentine's Card Series #1

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! 

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 the 20th of January (1/20). All the winners can email Simon Says Stamp to claim his/her prize.

Thanks so much for stopping by and good luck! ❤️❤️❤️

Alcohol Pearl Ink Backgrounds 2 Ways | SSS Delicate Flowers

Alrighty folks - I posted my Unboxing Video of Simon's May Card Kit yesterday - click HERE if you missed that, and here's my first couple of cards made using the kit:

I used the Alcohol Pearl inks and created two backgrounds - one on Yupo paper (card on the left) and one on Silver Sparkle Alcohol Paper (card on the right). I also used the Delicate Flowers stamp set that comes in the kit (and is also available separately - links to everything below!).

I white heat embossed the images from the Delicate Flowers set onto vellum and fussy cut them, and white heat embossed them directly onto the Yupo paper background.

To finish the insides of the cards I stamped some of the images with Distress Oxide inks in colors that went well with the Pearl Alcohol ink backgrounds. The sentiments on the insides and fronts were from the Delicate Flowers stamp set and white heat embossed onto Cotton Candy card stock before being die cut with the Sentiment Labels wafer dies.

To see how these cards came together check out my video below:

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

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! 

Ranger Alcohol Pearls Easter Egg Card

And just like that it's April already. CRAZY!!

What isn't crazy - how much fun the new Ranger Alcohol Pearls inks are lol! I showed them in a haul video weeks ago, and made a point of swatching them over the weekend. Once I started with that I HAD to try a background with them. I ended up being really happy with said background so I die cut them to make super colorful shimmery Easter eggs:

Aren't they fun? I used Simon Says Stamp's Nested Eggs wafer dies to die cut the background I'd created, and then nestled them into some "grass" I die cut from Green Apple card stock.

I used the Clouds for Days stencil with Maliblue ink on the background, and the Easter Wishes words from the Bunny Kisses wafer die for my sentiment.

I kept the inside of the card simple and just adhered the remaining Easter eggs I'd die cut and that was it!

To see how I created the background and the card check out my video below:

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

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! 

Die Cut Hearts with Ranger Alcohol Inks

Hello everyone!

I pulled out some of my Ranger Alcohol Inks over the weekend and had some fun creating a couple of marbled backgrounds on Yupo paper that I'd die cut with one of Simon Says Stamp's Nested Hearts wafer dies:

I struggled with my first attempt - and ended up completely wiping off the yupo heart using rubbing alcohol ink. I made a second attempt and initially didn't care for that one either - but set it aside and worked on the second heart. When I came back to the first one I was more than OK with it - usually when you come back to whatever you'd been working on with "fresh" eyes you'll see it differently!

I pulled out an older (oldie-but-goodie!) Simon Says Stamp set - Kristina's Love for the die cut word and sentiments. I die cut the 'love' from gold glitter card stock and white heat embossed the sentiments onto black card stock.

I finished off the inside of the cards with more sentiments from the Kristina's Love set and that was it!

To see how these cards came together check out my video below:

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

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! 

Alcohol Lift Ink with SSS Sketched Flowers Stamp Set

Hey everyone! I hope y'all had a great weekend! It feels like Monday here since yesterday was a holiday for us Canadians (Happy belated Thanksgiving! I hope y'all ate well - I know I did).

Anywho - I came down with another cold (big surprise) however I took some time while the Turkey was cooking to make these cards. They're technically too late for last week's Color Throwdown Challenge which was:

However you can still check out what the rest of the team made as well as all the participants HERE <------click! for inspiration! There will be a new challenge up tomorrow!

SO - I showed the Simon Says Stamp Sketched Flowers set in my last haul video. I had it sitting here on my desk since it arrived and all the supplies and whatnot I wanted to use since it was for this challenge. Therefor these cards came together rather quickly:

I used 3 different Ranger Alcohol Inks on white Yupo paper, then used Rangers Alcohol Lift Ink and the large floral image to lift the alcohol color off the Yupo, then stamped it onto the white card stock. Basically getting 2 cards in one.

Also if you missed the last post and video I did using Alcohol Lift Ink you can find that here:

Ranger Alcohol Lift Ink | Honey Bee Stamps Card Set

I used Simon's Frames wafer dies to die cut both card fronts, and inlaid a frame die cut from Simon's Sapphire Glitter card stock. I also added a bunch of bling using Studio Katia crystals in colors for the challenge 😍.

I finished off the insides of the card by stamping the large floral image with Twisted Citron Distress Oxide ink and then stamped sentiments from the set with Simon's Intense Black ink and that was it!

To see how these cards came together check out my video below:

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

 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!   

Ranger Alcohol Lift Ink | Honey Bee Stamps Card Set

I made SO many cards - I pulled out the new Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol-Lift ink pad and just started creating!

If you haven't watched Tim's video on this ink pad and all the info on it I HIGHLY recommend it - he explains it all SO well and it's a great reference:

Tim Holtz Alcohol-Lift Ink Pad Video

These were the end result:

I created a background on white Yupo paper using 3 shades of pink alcohol inks (Flamingo, Currant, and Shell Pink), then inked up Honey Bee Stamps big Zen Bouquet image with the Alcohol-Lift ink pad, pulled off the color then stamped it onto Neenah 80lb Solar White card stock.

With my alcohol inked background I die cut it into 2 panels using Honey Bee Stamp's Stitched Rectangle wafer dies, then matted it with a scalloped rectangle. For the sentiments I used the new Honey Bee With Sympathy stamp set and coordinating wafer die set. I stamped the sentiments with Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide Ink on the  Sentiment Banners and on the insides.

I made 2 more cards using the white card stock that I stamped the lifted alcohol ink onto. These ones I made in the same way as the first two - but I switched up the sentiments. I used Honey Bee's Special Teacher stamp set and coordinating dies, and added some pretty Rose Pink Jewels from Little Things by Lucy's Cards.

For my peachy/orange/coral combo I used alcohol inks in Honeycomb, Coral and Peach Bellini. I combined that with MFT's Dots & Stripes Sorbet patterned papers.

For the sentiments on these cards I used the Chin Up Buttercup stamp set (inside) with Abandoned Coral and Wild Honey Distress Oxide inks. On the outsides of the cards I used Honey Bee's Grateful stamp set and coordinating wafer die.

For my last 2 cards I created an alcohol ink background on Yupo using Patina, Eggplant and Mermaid Alcohol Inks along with Honey Bee Stamps Zen Ocean stamp set.

For my sentiments I used Honey Bee's Goodness Gracious stamp set and coordinating die set. My Xyron 3" sticker maker was a HUGE help for putting adhesive on the back of all the card stock pieces before I die cut them with all the word dies I used. It made it quicker and easier to stack so many layers together for each card sentiment!

To see how I made the backgrounds and used the Alcohol-Lift ink check out my video below:

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

 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!   

Alcohol Ink and Foil | SSS Cosmo Flower Frame | AmyR 2018 Mother's Day Series #7

Hey everyone! Crazy to believe that it's the end of April already!! I'm still making Mother's Day cards - so many ideas and so little time as usual. I've been having technical difficulties the last few days between my blog provider and my old computer (laptop update for those aware of my laptop crashing a couple months ago - it's bricked. Even after a new hard drive was installed EVERYTHING was done and it's never going to work again. We can re-purpose that new hard drive elsewhere but I'm now trying to figure out what I will do as a new MacBook isn't something I was planning on having to purchase!) I'm behind on things as usual.

Last week's Color Throwdown Challenge was this:

You can check out what the rest of the Design Team created with these colors HERE <-----click! There's a little bit of time left to play along with this challenge before the new one on Wednesday!

Here's what I created:

I decided to experiment for today's card and so I pulled out some alcohol inks in colors that went with the Color Throwdown Challenge, and also added a bit of foil accents to my background. It's definitely something you need to experiment with to find the timing and whatnot that will work - you want the build-up of alcohol ink to be sticky still but not "runny" if that makes sense. Then the foil will stick to that and you get this really neat effect that is much more obvious than just adding any of the metallic alcohol mixatives (which I really like those as well it's just a different look).

I used Simon Says Stamp's Cosmo Flower Frame wafer die and white card stock for my card front - it let so much of the ink background and foil show without taking away from it.

The die cut and stamped sentiment are from Simon's All My Love stamp set and coordinating Love wafer die.

To finish off the inside of the card I used the Simon Loving Heart stamp set and stamped one of the sentiments with black ink and stamped some of the hearts from the set with a pink dye ink 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!

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. If the products  have little icons below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. You can hover over the icons and it will tell you what store that link will take you to. 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 with my kids! 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 Lucky to Know You Alcohol Ink Cards

I'm coming in JUST under the wire it seems with these cards LOL! However like I say in the video - these would look awesome in ANY color combo (rainbow is a good one ;)). I went with green's because it's St Patrick's Day this weekend and because I still have a ton of snow outside my office window so anything GREEN just makes me happy.

These cards were FUN to make. I picked 3 different shades of green alcohol inks (all linked below) and added Pearl Alcohol Ink Mixative - all of which I dropped directly onto a sheet of Yupo paper.

I used Simon Says Stamp's Basic Rectangles wafer dies to cut out the first panel, and one of their Nested Hearts dies to cut out the center - I used the heart on the second card which basically gave me 2 for 1.

Simon's Lucky to Know You wafer die was PERFECT for these cards (and it's on sale right now!) - even more perfect was using Simon's glitter card stock LOL. Y'all know I'm going for the glitter every chance I get ;).

I stacked the sentiments with 2 layers of white card stock then the glitter paper before adhering them to my cards. I also couldn't resist adding some of the new Studio Katia Iridescent Stars - they're soooooo pretty!

I finished off the insides of the cards with sentiments from the SSS Loving Heart stamp set. I stamped the sentiments with SSS Lucky dye ink (rather fitting if I do say so myself) and then stamped some of the hearts from the set with various SSS dye inks in different shades of green (all linked below!).

To see how these cards came together check out my video below: 

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

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. If the products  have little icons below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. You can hover over the icons and it will tell you what store that link will take you to. 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 with my kids! 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!   

Organization - Alcohol Ink Swatches & Chart

And just like that the weekend is over. Like I mentioned in my previous post I've been having technical difficulties - it's still an issue but I'm working through regardless.

One thing I've been trying to do lately is organize - and do it in small bits. I don't have the time (or space) to do a REAL good overhaul and organize, as right now the kids and I are living in a rental with some rather strict lease agreements. It means I'm pretty limited, AND because it's a rental I don't have the desire to do anything major as it's all temporary here. That being said though there are smaller organizational things I CAN do - and when I can I will share what those are with all of you! I know I really love seeing how people organize all their stamping/crafting stuff, and it's something that is requested of me all the time.

Don't forget that I do have a Organization/Storage/Studio category <-----click! here on my blog that has posts and videos over the years covering all sorts of things related to organizing and storing all the things.

So today I decided it was high time to swatch and organize my Ranger Alcohol inks. I have an Alcohol Ink category on here too with a whopping 3 posts so far lol - but I plan to do more.

I decided I need swatches of the alcohol inks I have so that I can see at a glance what colors look like and what looks good together etc. Being able to properly see inks (whether it be alcohol inks, or stamping inks, paints etc etc etc) makes a HUGE difference!

I also wanted to see what colors I have and what ones I need to get, so I downloaded this Ranger alcohol ink chart <------click! from their website. I printed that off onto cheap lightweight card stock as it's just a visual at a glance guide - the tags I made are what I plan to use as an actual color guide.

I figured out what would work best for me in terms of swatches and labelling and whatnot, pulled all the supplies together and then worked on making my tags and creating the labels and whatnot:

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

As mentioned in the video here's all the links to everything I used and talked about!

Ellen Hutson S'Whale Alcohol Ink Shaker Card

Hey everyone! I've been having technical difficulties the last few days and it's made it take WAY longer than usual to get posts and videos and supplies posted. It's frustrating but hopefully I'll have things back to normal for me ASAP (thankfully on your end everything should be showing up and looking normal).

My card for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge is WAY late because of all this. I ended up doing the voiceover in my car in -20(C) - and that corrupted and I had to completely re-do it - in my car in the cold LOL. Lately my car is the only place quiet enough to get a voiceover done as the kids are so loud there's literally no quiet enough place in the house. Usually it's not too bad but of course the last couple of days it's got cold and snowy again! Anywho - here is the challenge for this week:

You can check out what the rest of the Design Team made with these colors HERE <-----click! and there's still time to play along if you'd like!

Here's what I made:

I did a little playing with alcohol inks and created the background on Yupo paper using Pool ink and the Silver Mixative. I was basically just dropping and dabbing the colors on - nothing too special technique-wise!

I also managed to stamp on the finished alcohol ink background with MFT's Tangy Orange Hybrid ink. I heat set the ink with my heat tool (being careful not to overheat the Yupo paper as I'm not sure how it holds up to heat) and it was good to go.

The window was die cut with Ellen Hutson's Strands wafer die, and the stamped images are all from the EH S'Whale stamp set. I heat embossed the whale onto Distress Watercolor paper and watercolored it in with Daniel Smith Neutral Tint watercolor and a water brush.

I heat embossed the sentiment onto the inside of the card (and couldn't for the life of me get a decent picture of it - it says "Get whale soon") with the same silver embossing powder, stamped the images on the inside to finish it off 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!

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. If the products  have little icons below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. You can hover over the icons and it will tell you what store that link will take you to. 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 with my kids! 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! 

Lawn Fawn String of Lights w Alcohol Inks | AmyR 2017 Christmas Card Series #17

Hello everyone! Happy Saturday. I'm hopping along with several fellow Canadian designers for a blog hop for ScrapNStamp Canada! For my Canadian peeps there's giveaway info at the end of the post!

We all are using the Lawn Fawn String of Lights Lawn Cuts set in our creations so make sure to check out the hop to see what everyone else made!

If you didn't get here from Nancy's blog you can start at the beginning with Tara at the ScrapNStamp blog HERE <-----click!

Here's what I created:

I jam packed my card full of lightbulbs LOL! I couldn't resist playing some more with Ranger alcohol inks and after adding a bunch of them plus some gold mixative for some extra shimmer. After they were dry I die cut out a bunch of the bulbs from the Lawn Fawn String of Lights set. I also die cut the bases and the "string" from some gold shine card stock.

I used Tim Holtz Sizzix Holiday Greens Thinlits dies for the pine branches. For my sentiment I used Lawn Fawn's Happy Happy Happy Add-on stamp set and Scripty Merry Lawn Cuts.

On the inside of the card I used this funny Two-Lips sentiment stamp that just cracks me up. I then added some of the remaining alcohol-ink bulbs 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!

Next stop on the hop is Karen's blog! <------click! 

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. If the products  have little icons below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. You can hover over the icons and it will tell you what store that link will take you to. 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 with my kids! 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! This is open to Canadian residents only (sorry! I'll have more giveaways coming up later in the month that are open to everyone :)) - leave a comment on my post (more chances to win if you leave comments on ALL the posts in the hop!) and ScrapNStamp will be giving one lucky winner from each comment section some NEW NOT-yet-released Lawn Fawn goodies!! Good luck!

SSS DieCember® Cards with Ranger Alcohol Inks

Hello everyone! I'm taking part in a blog hop for Day 2 celebrating Simon Says Stamp's DieCember® 2017 release! There's giveaway info at the end so be sure to check out the whole post! :)

If you missed Day 1 of the blog hops you can check those out HERE <-----click! TONS of inspiration in there and giveaways as well!

If you didn't get here from Nina-Marie's blog you can start at the top of the hop HERE <----click!

For my cards today I decided to try out Ranger's alcohol inks for the first time. I was just playing around with them but thankfully was filming as I ended up being happy with the end result and ended up making 4 CAS (clean and simple) cards using several of the newly released DieCember® wafer dies!

Since I decided to create 4 cards I decided to keep them clean and simple and let the die cuts and alcohol ink background take centre stage.

For my first card I used the new Sun and Moon Collage die and the new Script Miss You die. I pulled out the previously released Space Journey die set to get the "ring" to make the "moon" a planet, and added some stars as well. I used Simon's new Silver Glitter paper for those as well as for my sentiments and I am in LOVE with this glitter paper. It really does die cut like a dream!!

I finished off the inside of my card with a sentiment from the SSS Shine On stamp set that I heat embossed with silver embossing powder. I then stamped images from the same set with Silvery Shimmer Delicata ink.

I ended up making 2 cards with the Evergreen Circle die as I had enough of the alcohol ink background and didn't want to waste any of it. I used the new Script Hello die on one card and the previously released Script Thanks die on the other.

I heat embossed sentiments from SSS's Big Scripty Greetings set to finish off the insides of both cards.

For my last card I used the new Sensational Snowflake Collage die, and combined it with the Happy Christmas sentiment set and the Christmas Blessings wafer die.

I finished off the inside of this card with a sentiment from the same Happy Christmas stamp set and that was it!

To see how these cards came together check out my video below:

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

Next stop on the hop is Heather's fabulous blog <------click!

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. If the products  have little icons below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. You can hover over the icons and it will tell you what store that link will take you to. 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 with my kids! 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 from the comment sections on each hopper's blog post (thanks Heidi!!). Simon will choose your winners over the weekend and post on the Simon Says Stamp store blog on Wednesday. The winner can then email SSS to claim his/her prize.

Thanks so much for stopping by!! :)