SSS Celebrate, Organic Leaves

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It's a release day at Simon Says Stamp!  The Celebrate release just hit the store.  I have one new design in this release, the Organic Leaves background I'm showcasing today.

This is actually a clear background stamp which is a little bit of a change for Simon.  The nice thing about having a clear stamp is that it allows you a little more control when you are stamping the background.

For today's card, I started by created a watercolored panel.  This was super easy.  I just added light washes of color over different areas of my watercolor panel using different shades of green.  You don't need the sections to fully dry in between, but want them to dry a little.  

Once I was happy with the panel, and it was completely dry, I gold embossed the background.

Because the watercolor paper has a bit more texture a variation to it in terms of finish, if you want a really solid stamping, you'll want to stamp more than once to ensure full coverage.  For this application though, I wasn't too worried about it.  I like that the lighter coverage provides for a little more texture in the embossing.

I finished things off with the Here for You sentiment die.  It was cut once from white cardstock and twice from a dark olive green.  These were stacked together and then adhered over my panel which was popped up with foam tape.

Be sue to head over to Simon to check out the full release.

I'll see you back here tomorrow for a blog hop and some more Organic Leaves cards!