SSS Beutiful Moments Blog Hop, Printmaking Clovers Take 2

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Today I'm hopping with Simon Says Stamp, celebrating the Beautiful Moments release. You should be arriving here from Mindy Eggen's blog. The full hop list list is at the end of this post is if you need it. As usual, there are prizes at stake. One lucky commenter at each stop along the hop will receive $25 to spend in the Simon store, and any Beautiful Moments purchase this month will receive the above stamp set free. 

My cards today feature my new Printmaking Clovers set. I shared a couple of basic cards on Thursday featuring the set, and today I'm stepping up my cards a bit.

For my first card, I stamped the clovers on chartreuse cardstock using Fairway and Field for the first two layers, but gold embossing the third layer along with the sentiment.  You need to make sure that you fully dry the panel with a heat gun before you stamp the embossed layer. You can see that I have a few stray embossed speckles because I rushed it a little.

I also added some inking around the edges of the panel using Fairway ink and a blending brush. This just gives your panel a gorgeous glowy effect.

Next up, I pulled out the coordinating dies. I stamped two sets of leaves using Pawsitively Saturated Ink Trio 2 (Celery, Limelicious, and Pearfection), stamping the Celery layer twice to ensure good coverage/brightness.

I then die cut the two sets of clovers, and adhered them to a panel of chartreuse cardstock using foam tape in a grid formation.

The sentiment, from the set, was stamped with Versa Clair black ink and popped up with an additional layer of foam tape.

For my final card, I stamped the clovers using Pawsitively Saturated Ink Trio 8 (Sprout, Fairway, and Field), and die cut.

These were then arranged in a wavy line across my card, and finished off with another sentiment from the set.

I added a green mat that shows just at the top and bottom edges of the clover panel to accentuate the horizontal flow of the card.

Hope this gives you some other ideas for how to use this set. Your next stop on the hop is Alberto Gava, and don't forget to leave a comment here to be entered to win the $25 credit.  The full hop list is below as well. Enjoy the hop!

Simon Says Stamp Blog
Nina-Marie Trapani
Heather Hoffman
Suzy Plantamura
Cathy Zielske
Jennifer McGuire
Laura Bassen
Amy Rysavy
Mindy Eggen
Miriam Prantner
Alberto Gava
Kath Stewart
Betsy Green
Mary Reiner
Nicki Baxley
Savannah O'Gwynn