SSS Cheering for You Blog Hop

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Happy Friday!  Today I'm participating in a blog hop with Simon Says Stamp featuring the new Cheering for You release.  You should be arriving here from Emily Midgett's blog, and I'll have the full hop list below for you if you need it.

As usual, Simon is giving away a $25 store credit on every stop along the way, so be sure to leave a comment to be entered.

Today I'm showing off my new Monstera stencil set.  The set has four stencils, three layers that make up the complete leaf as well as one stencil that is the full leaf.  This is so much fun to create with and easy to use, and I'm tickled that Simon was able to keep the price for the set under eight dollars, it's a steal!

I had so much fun playing with different color combinations on my cards.  The first two are just straight inking.  I did use a 'natural' cardstock for my panels so there is a bet of texture and some flecks of color which soften things a bit.

For the blue, I used Mist, Raindrop, and Pansy along with the Hi There die.

For the green card, I went with Kale, Artichoke, and Petunia along with a Sentiment Strip.

And for the pink, I used Sweets, Amethyst, and Gold Embossing Paste.  The sentiment is from the Be Bold set and was stamped with Versa Clair black and then clear embossed.  Normally I'd use a gold sentiment, but the gold embossing paste is so warm and bright that it doesn't really match with my embossing powder and I thought it would look off.

For my last card, I mixed things up a bit.  The first three cards used the individual layers because I wanted to use very different colors.  For this card, since I was going with a color family, I used the whole leaf stencil and then two layers.  The colors used were Dew, Mist, and Raindrop, and rather than a focal leaf, I stenciled portions of several to create a patterned paper.

I finished things off with a sentiment from the Clean Line Stacks set.

That's all for me today, but there is still lots more to see.  Your next stop on the hop is Heather Ruwe, and the full list is below as well.

Happy hopping!

Simon Says Stamp Blog
Caly Person
Cathy Zielske
Jennifer McGuire
Debby Hughes
Barbara Tarayao
Amy Rysavy
Keisha Charles
Emily Midgett
Miriam Prantner
Heather Ruwe
Anna-Karin Evaldsson
Kim Hamilton
Sandi MacIver