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Simon Says Stamp January 2017 Card Kits Cards & More!

Happy New Year everyone, I know that I missed a month in the hustle and bustle of X-mas but wanted to jump back in with a set of cards from the Simon Says Stamp January card kit as well as a new feature that I am going to try to do every month.IMG_8250

Due to the explosion of people making cards with the kit and consequently they sell out so I have decided to still showcase a project from the kit but with the main focus being the stamp set. I also am announcing a surprise new monthly project that will be a tag of the month from the kit for the next 12 months culminating in a pretty way to bind them up and keep them as a keepsake! The post for January’s tag is here as well as more information on sharing your tags with me, check it out!

So for this months kit I wanted to provide one background pattern design that could be stamped on different colors and types of paper but used in completely different ways to create 5 different cards. I created a layout with the stamps in the Misti to start and then stamped that pattern on Neenah Solar white, white, dessert storm, SSS Audrey Blue, from my stash and the cornflower blue cardstock from the kit.  I used Ranger Blue Yonder Dye ink and the new Simon Says Stamp Barely Blue as well as Audrey Blue on the Audrey Blue paper.

I also white heat embossed with SSS Fine detail embossing powder  (more detail on this in the video. It has some positive points for detail but there are some tips for using it as it is very fine) on distress cardstock, and the Cornflower blue and the beautiful vellums in the kit .

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I used Evergreen Bough, Mermaid Lagoon and Broken China for this Distress Ink Blend.IMG_8244 (1)

 

I also used holographic embossing powder on the vellum and on a white scalloped panel, but ALL with the same pattern. This was so easy and saved so much time!

Simon Says Stamp January 2017 Card Kits Card
Simon Says Stamp January 2017 Card Kits Cards

I used the new Tonic Nuvo Jewel drops to make my own water droplets and love how they compliment the snowflakes.  I did use one extra stamp for the cute puppy that I bought before X-mas and didn’t use and I thought he was perfect for the cards, but you could add any critter you like and just color their accessories to match, Copic colors I used were C5 and C3 for the Grey in the Pup and for the Blue Scarf B93 and B95 for the Teal scarf BG23 and BG34. The ground under the Teal pup is B000.

Watch the YT video here or on YT for HD to get more tips and tricks and learn about my new monthly project!  Happy New Year.  Lee Ann


New! Tag-A-Month with the Simon Says Stamp Card Kit

January 2017 Tag-A-Month
January 2017 Tag-A-Month

Hey everyone, Happy New Year!  I have  a new Paper Hear Scissors Monthly Feature. It seems like as the popularity of the Simon Says Stamp Monthly Kits has grown people have been making alot of great sample cards and I wanted to mix it up a bit as well as inspire each of you to participate with me more so I am going to try out something new.

Each month when I get the kit I am going to make a tag and save them up for 2017!  I have created a link up gallery page here for you to share your tags monthly and win a prize!  Please subscribe to my YT channel for the latest video and the blog here to share your tags.  At the end of the year we will create a project that brings them all together for a wonderful keepsake.  I hope you will join me!  So excited to meet more of you and see what you are making.

The video for January’s Tag is below and in the gallery here.>     Cheers,  Lee Ann

 

Simon Says Stamp November Cards_Embossing Folder Tricks

5 Cards with the Simon Says Stamp November Kit
2 of 5 Cards with the Simon Says Stamp November Kit

Hello,Happy Fall!  I have really gotten into fall cards this year and when I got this months Simon Says Stamp Card kit I immediately wanted to challenge myself with the big sentiment, but in a new way.

I knew that I could do a lovely emboss resist with watercolor but I really wanted to try out the Delicata ink and do one of my favorite techniques with the embossing folder, which is creating the metallic paper that I then embossed and used to die cut the small leaves out of.

In my usual fashion, I made a bunch of things to use before I worked out all of the designs. I used an inked embossing folder, made embossed and inked vellum and homemade metallic paper and created an ombre stamped sentiment. For the inked embossing folders, you ink inside of the folders by simply adding ink to the raised areas by rubbing or pressing on one of the raised sides with your ink pad or you can use a brayer.  This is neat because it presses the ink into the cardstock and almost looks like a letterpress design.  For the colored vellum you emboss first and then  rub the ink over the vellum and  then rub it in with either a mini ink blending tool or a clarity stencil brush.  You can also simply blend ink into the embossed card on top for another look.  I show all of these in the below video on YouTube.

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I hope you got some great ideas from seeing how you can use large sentiments and your embossing folders to create some very different styles of cards.

As always supplies are listed below with affiliate links but at no additional cost to you.  I will see you soon!  Lee Ann


1Stamp Set, 5 Cards Hero Arts Autumn

IMG_7646IMG_7641 (2)IMG_7638Wow, I wasn’t sure I could do it but I did. I challenged myself to come up with 5 different cards from 1 stamp set and a few other basic supplies from my stash. I will be completely honest and say that I did use an additional sentiment from Simon says Stamp the “Be” set and a Heidi Swapp wooden letter from my stash, but other than that the rules that I gave myself were orange and brown paper scraps, gold and copper embossing powder and kraft and watercolor paper.  I have to say that if you are going to try this, start with some small thumbnail sketches of some rough ideas, and make lots of fun parts to play with in different arrangements and paper. Then jump into assembly and finally add some bling,

I pulled Nuvo drops in copper, hero arts crystals and some metal domed embellishments from my stash and of course added some sprinkles of paint. I hope this encourages you to try the 5 cards from one set challenge with yourself too. Mae sure to share your success with me!  Video below and on my YT channel here!

Wishing you fall fun,  Lee Ann


Simon Says Stamp September Card Kit Cards | Interactive Cards

I don’t know about you but I have ALWAYS loved to scratch something off to reveal what is below it. Starting with Cracker Jacks and trivia questions to lottery tickets, it is always exciting to see what is below. So, I was delighted to get the inky antics scratch off stickers in this kit and my mind went a thousand different directions on what could be done with them and all of the cute sentiments.

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I also saw this as an opportunity to use stamps from other sets because balloons go with everything! (sort of like glitter)

Anyhow I did two designs for you all with one being only items from the kit save for a different balloon shape from last September’s kit and if you did not have that then you could use just the ones in this set, the second design uses the bicycle from the Beautiful ride set from Simon’s Spring release.

The first design as above, can be used to mass produce even more cards and you can extend this to include different patterned papers in your stash as well as changing up the ink colors to be all in one family or match the season. Even if you use up all the supplies or the kit is sold out you can get the stamps and use whatever you have in your stash to make this cute and easy card with a surprise.

The second card invites you to use your imagination to take a look at other stamps in your collection and think about how balloons could fit in there, outside of the bicycle, I was thinking a park bench, bird or other critter or a wagon could easily be holding the balloons.

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The above bicycle card also shows how you can easily vary the amount of coloring you do to create very different cards. You can watch the video here as usual and matching ink colors and supplies are listed below.  If you have any questions please leave a comment.

Enjoy!  Lee Ann


 

Concord & Ninth Stamp Set Mix-up_ you r loved

Stamp Set Mix-Up Card
Stamp Set Mix-Up Card

Hello everyone! I saw that there was a call for designers for the  Concord and Ninth Design team and since I LOVE LOVE LOVE their stamps I thought I should enter and use some of the stamps in a new way.  I had been waiting to get the tree ring background  because  it was sold out for the longest and so it was the perfect time to design a card that  used the adorable Birdie Banners and Alphabits and the script word “loved from the You are Enough set.

Let’s get started!  First I stamped the word loved  and the banner outlines on a Simon Says stamp piece of fog card stock, then the birdies and cut masks for both of these so that I could clear emboss on top of them and have them look like they were in front of the tree ring.

I made a quick video for you all to see how I put it together with a few tricks thrown in to ease the way, you can see that here or in HD on my YouTube Channel here.

 


Simon Says Stamp-August Card Kit Masculine Cards

Hello there,  or maybe I should say Howdy!  I just got back from Montana and it was so inspiring! Amazing mountains, beautiful ranches with amazing barns, silos, old tools, leather, weathered wood and of course cowboys. I opened up the kit and was in love with the stamps but the kit was so red white and blue and the fourth was over, so what I thought would be great would be to do masculine cards inspired by my trip.

I opened up the kit and was in love with the stamps but the kit was so red white and blue and the fourth was over, so what I thought would be great would be to do masculine cards inspired by my trip.

I also have been taking creative Chemistry 103 and wanted to try out the distress crayon resist technique, so here we go.

I used the die three ways for these cards, cutting it out of a tag. cutting it out and then trimming it int a free star as in the center card below and then I used the die to make my own stencil out of Graphix Stencil Film.

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I used the stencil to apply the distress crayon and then inked on top and gently dabbed away excess to reveal the white picket fence distress crayon star below.  It really had a wonderful weathered paint look and I inked and sprayed water to give it all a very blended aged look, then stamped on top with the stamp set in the chipped sapphire ink included in the kit.  I also used Broken China for blending with the blues and Gathered Twigs, Frayed Burlap and Ground Espresso for the brown ink blending.

Video is here or on my YouTube channel in HD.  Supplies listed below as Usual.

I hope you enjoy this kit and have some fun making some Masculine cards which are way harder for me to make.  See you soon, Lee Ann 🙂

 

 

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Sweet July_Heat Embossing on Acetate

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Hello there! Today we are going to do some heat embossing on acetate and make a sweet shaker card.  I had some supplies that were begging for me to use them and I had stamped the Lia Griffith Oh happy day ice creams on watercolor paper, watercolored them and then layered with stickles. I was unhappy with them in the original design, so I had cut them out in early July and decided to use them today with another different scale ice-cream stamp to create the above shaker card.

A couple of important notes from the process, Start with a rough sketch you can see mine in the video below or on my YouTube Channel

also, you do not need to stamp out, decorate, color and fussy cut all of the little ice creams, popsicles inside the window, the cards would be just as nice if you stamp them within any size window and color them however and with whatever you wish or just “paint them with stickles” to give them sparkly goodness.

When heat embossing on acetate there are three things you must do:

  1. Prepare your acetate with an anti-static powder tool of some sort.
  2. Make sure you  pre-heat your heat gun.
  3. Do not hold it too close, or in one position for very long.  Move the heat tool further away and back and forth in quick bursts, this will keep the heat resistant acetate from warping or burning.

I hope you enjoy this card and inspiration, see you soon, Lee Ann

 

 


Simon Says Stamp_July Card Kit Layered Stamping & Embossing

Here we are in July, my Birthday Month and I was so excited when I saw the preview of this kit because I LOVED the papers!  I will caveat that by saying that using designer papers is still a challenge for me but how I have overcome it is by layering stamping on top and today by adding both gold embossing and stamping. The kit also featured some distress watercolor paper and I tied that together with the inspiration of the water coloring on the paper and the gold embossing.IMG_7207 IMG_7208 IMG_7210

I was a little late with this kit due to the holiday and now the kit is sold out but I bet they will bring it back. I did put most of the supplies from the kit below except it appears the papers are not out yet.  If not you can still do the technique with other patterned paper you have or simply make some yourself.  My idea was to use the inspiration of the painterly backgrounds on the paper and paint the flowers and then add more layers of splatters or dots. In the accompanying video, you can see how I used the spectrum noir sparkle markers and the water brush included in the kit to paint the flowers inside of the embossing, EASY peasy! I matched up ink colors from the paper and then added to the layers by stamping a variety of the leaves and flowers in the golden locks hybrid ink that came with the kit and Hero arts lilac and Simon Mint inks.  All supplies listed below the video affiliate links used at no extra cost to you.

IMG_7212I am trying to get the kit sent to me earlier so I can give you a video tutorial for a card that you nor I may not have seen yet, we will see!  I hope you enjoy the inspiration and the process!  Lee Ann