Merry Christmas!

Hello everyone,

A quick post this morning sharing a Christmas card I made last week inspired by Debby Hughes's Believe in the Magic card. I love the intense red colour and the gold. So rich and festive. I decided to use those colours to create a card of my own.

On a watercolour panel cut to the size of the card front, I white heat embossed the sentiment from Merry Christmas stamp set released during Stamptember. Then on the edges of the panel I white embossed the poinsettia flower and leaves from the Winter Flowers stamp set from Believe in the Season collection. Both the stamp sets are from Simon Says Stamp. Then I sponged Aged Mahogany distress inks on the centre of the panel. I went all out with it and applied a LOT of the ink. Then I used brush and water and spread the colours out evenly on the background avoiding the flowers and leaves. I added more colour to the nooks and crannies to add depth. I let the colour dry. Then I went on to colour the flowers and leaves using Finetec Gold Mica watercolour. I let the gold watercolour dry. I spattered some gold all over the panel. I wanted subtle spatters as I was afraid of ruining my card by adding a lot of spatters.  Debby is a pro in watercolouring and she knows what she is doing. Me? I am learning. Better to keep it subtle when trying for the first time. Will experiment with more spatters with time and practice :) Anyway, I added gold sequins to finish of my card.

Card Supplies:

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Sending Warm Wishes!

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

Thank you for joining us for the Thanks/Thanksgiving Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

We will be back soon with the name of the lucky winner of the $50 Voucher

This week the challenge is

Christmas Critters

This week we are showcasing Stampendous Products.  You don't have to use them for the challenge but if you have them we would love to see them used.

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store

This is my take on the challenge. I have used Winter Birds stamp set from Stampendeous.

I black heat embossed the image on watercolor paper and coloured using distress inks. How sweet are the birds? I enjoyed colouring this image. I also added a bit of yellow on the background to highlight the image.

I trimmed the panel and added a thin strip of gold foil paper and a red and white striped pattern paper. I embellished the cardfront with Sparkly Clear sequins and the sentiment is from Arctic Christmas stamp set from Simon Says Stamp.

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With all my heart!

Hello everyone! Happy Monday! I am sharing a card using the Simon Says Stamp November card kit. This kit is out of stock but all the items in the kit are available for purchase separately from Simon Says Stamp Store.

This card kit came only end of last week to me. So I made couple of cards over the weekend. Here is one of them.

I used the pattern paper from the card kit and the Stitched Leaves Trio die set from Simon Says Stamp to die cut a few leaves. I sponged the edges of the leaves with a darker colour distress ink to the die cut leaf colour to add depth. Then I also sponged the copper ink from the card kit to add some shimmer.



The base of the card is made using the blue cardstock from the kit. The wooden plank pattern paper also from card kit is die cut using the largest stitched rectangle die from Stitched Rectangle die set from Simon Says Stamp. I adhered the leaves in a circular pattern like a wreath. I added a tad glue at the centre of the back of the leaves so the edges are raised. The sentiment from the stamp set in the card kit is white heat embossed on black card stock, die cut using a stitched circle die. I adhered this sentiment circle using foam adhesive on the centre of the wreath. Then I added drops of gold stickles that came in the kit.

Hope you like my card. I love the stamp set in the kit. Such a gorgeous bold font and sentiment. My next card showcasing the sentiment. I will share it later this week.

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