Elevate Your Foiling with 3D Embossing! Studio Monday with Nina-Marie
Hi friends, it’s Nina-Marie Trapani here with you! Today I am featuring our new Celebrate collection and will be showing you how to use some of the products together to make 2 different cards!
I wanted to create a background with our Diamond Circles Foil Transfer Cards, so I foiled the paper with some Silver Sketch foil. I used the leftover negative foil with one of our Color Blend cardstock sheets to transfer the pattern onto that paper for a second background. To step those backgrounds up even more, I also embossed them after foiling and that added some cool texture on top—the folder I used was Flower Buds Unfolding!
The cards are decorated with the new Whirl Butterfly die set which adds a nice bold decoration on top. For greetings, I chose sentiment strips from our Reverse Congratulations set which provide a great pop to stand out amongst these dramatic backgrounds.
Want to learn more about how I made these 2 cards? Watch the video below for ALL the details!
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Give Teachers a Hand! Die Cutting a Brilliant Background: Yippee for Yana
Hi friends! Please join me in welcoming back the oh-so-talented and amazing Yana Smakula! (Please note: our dear friend Yana is Ukrainian. To show support to our brothers and sisters in Ukraine, please see Yana’s post HERE.)
Hello, crafters, this is Yana Smakula for Simon Says Stamp! Welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video!
I love to do pattern stamping and I’ve not done any in a long time, so for today’s video, I decided to re-visit this fun technique.
I’m using the Appreciate You stamp set and coordinating dies to create a lightbulb pattern for my card. You can simplify this project by skipping the dies and just doing one layer of stamping, I love the added dimension I can achieve when I’m using dies, so I used the dies for my card.
I stamped a bunch of lightbulbs and heat-embossed a ton of paper clips using Antique Gold embossing powder (those turned out so cute!). Next, I added ink blending to a Cotton Candy cardstock panel using pink and yellow ink to make the panel a lot more vibrant, I love to add ink blending to colored cardstock (vs white) as this way I don’t need to do as much blending and I get much more vivid colors.
Next, I arranged the lightbulbs and paper clips on the panel and adhered them using foam adhesive squares. Love the result! All of the images go outside the edges of the panel making it appear as if this was clipped from a larger panel.
Lastly, I added a stamped sticky note with my sentiment. The teacher’s card is done! Have fun stamping!
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Thanks so much for stopping by, and thanks again to Yana for being our guest!
Ways to support Ukraine:
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Simon Says Stamp Celebrate Release Blog Hop 2!
Hello, friends, and welcome to day two of our Celebrate release blog hops! If you missed yesterday’s hop, be sure to circle back and check it out HERE.
Grab your party pants, because it’s time to CELEBRATE our latest collection! Toast to love with our To the Happy Couple set and Simple Wedding Wishes stamps; salute grads with the Grad Balloons set, Grad Cover Plate die, and Grad Foil Transfer Cards; honor Dad with the Papa set and Fancy Father and Fancy Dad dies; thank a teacher with Appreciate You stamps and dies; and have a fiesta with our Taco ‘Bout It bundle.
PLUS Pawsitively Saturated Ink Trio 25 is here in lush blues, and there are stunning embossing folders, pretty stencils, and brand-new Bubble Mailers, too.
Before we hop, let’s take a look at some fabulous inspiration from Shari Carroll and Caly Person:
We love our customers! And we love your enthusiasm for our exclusive releases and blog hops. To celebrate, Simon has set aside a free gift just for you! Our exclusive gift for this blog hop is a FREE Groovy Happy Birthday die with any purchase (while supplies last)! Check out the details on the banner at the top of this post for information about claiming your gift.
Ready for even more Celebrate inspiration? Hop along with these talented designers! You’ll be inspired AND for every comment you leave on each blog, you’ll earn a chance to win a $25 Simon Says Stamp store shopping spree. YAY!
- Simon Says Stamp Blog <<YOU ARE HERE!
- Nina-Marie Trapani
- Caly Person
- Suzy Plantamura
- Amy Rysavy
- Debby Hughes
- Lisa Addesa
- Alberto Gava
- Kulbir Kirkland
- Barb Engler
- Kath Stewart
- Kim Hamilton
- Allison Frazier
- Natasha Vacca
Please share some feedback with these creative artists who work hard to inspire and excite us! Your comments mean so much to them.
Thanks again for joining us today!
We hope you will join us on Instagram on Friday, April 26, for an Instagram Hop featuring our Celebrate release! We are excited to share awesome ideas from several creative minds using these fantastic products.
You’ll love browsing our Celebrate gallery on our blog for loads of additional inspiration, and you can add your projects to these galleries as well!
You can check out the entire Celebrate collection below:
Can’t pick a favorite? Shop our NEW Bundles:
Exciting addition!
By popular demand, we’ve created Simon Says Stamp branded coordinating dies for the brand NEW Tim Holtz stamps!
