SSS Be Bold Release

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Hi everyone!  There's a new release from Simon Says Stamp available today called Be Bold.  

I have a several new products in this release:

Tiled Art

Nested Leaves Plate

You Rock (which I designed to coordinate with Nested Leaves)

Dreamy Leaves

I'll be sharing some Dreamy Leaves cards with you tomorrow, but for today I'm showcasing some super simple cards created using the Wild & Free Flowers set.

This is really gorgeous floral set that looks wonderful colored, but the amount of detail in the flowers really lends itself to a simple black and white pen drawing look.

I've jazzed that up a bit using some very simple masked inking. 

I recently picked up some new inks in the Pawsitively Saturated Inks line, and thought I would take the opportunity to try out a couple new colors.  

For this first set of cards, I used Dew and the Printmaking Houses stencil.  This stencil has two sides, one large rectangle opening, and one with nine smaller openings.  I centered the large opening over my white panel and applied ink in an ombre effect, spreading ink inward from one of the corners.

Once I was happy with the inking, I placed the panel in my stamping platform and stamped the floral image as well as the sentiment.

For the card on the left, I simply stamped the flower over the entire panel.  For the second card, I masked off the bottom and right side, before stamping, so that the image appears only in the inked area.

I think both versions are equally effective, just depends on which you prefer.

This second set of cards features the color Pansy and uses one of the masks from the Domed Arches and Masks set.

Same technique here, but I changed up the orientation to be vertical.

These cards came together so quickly.  You can easily mass produce them.

That's all for me today.  I'll be back tomorrow participating in a blog hop, but for now, be sure to head over to Simon to check out the full release.