SSS Heart to Heart, Heart City Take 2

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I've got a couple more cards to share today using the new Heart City stencils. For these cards I'm using just two of the three stencils - not the actual heart stencil, but the parts that create the walls of the heart building.

For this first card, the shapes are facing hte same direction and shifted to create rows of these rounded shapes. The resulting pattern really reminds me of peppermint sticks lined up next to each other. I'm definitely planning to make a peppermint stick card next Christmas using these stencils!

I used just Peony and Orchid for this card, although one set of stripes was inked a little more heavily than the other. 

I also used Peony to ink the cardstock used to die cut my Lovely sentiment. A couple of the secondary sentiments from that set were used to complete the card.

For the next card, it's the same idea, except this time I inked the stencils in the right manner, so they make the bottom part of the heart building, but again I left the heart off, shifted the stencils, and inked again to create a chevron pattern.

I used Marine and Cadette as my colors, alternating them from left to right in the pattern.

Just as in the last card, I used one of my colors, Cadette, to ink the cardstock for my sentiment, the Simple Thanks die. This time, the secondary sentiment comes from the Thank You Basics set and was embossed in white on black cardstock.

It's always nice to be able to get more use out of your products! Thanks for stopping by!

STAMPtember Blog Party

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Happy Monday!  Today I'm participating in a blog party with a whole lot of other folks in the crafting community celebrating the Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember release.  At each stop there are some fun party prizes to be collected, below is mine.

OK, let's talk about today's cards, today I'm showing off my new Spiky Leaves dies.  These Spiky Leaves are so delicate that I thought they would be really pretty in vellum.  I cut a bunch of the pieces from vellum, and created three different flowers, arranging them over a panel of dark blue cardstock.  The adhesive situation is always a little bit tricky with vellum.  To create the flowers themselves, I used Tombow Mono liquid adhesive in just the center areas so the layering kind of masks it.  To adhere the flowers to the cardstock itself, I used Tombow tape runner which has a blue tint, but works here because the background was blue.  I didn't adhered the entire flower down, just enough to hold it in place.

The sentiment is from my Plant Sentiments set and was white embossed on a strip of navy cardstock.  I added a vellum mat, and popped the piece up with foam tape.

For this next card, I die cut the flower pieces from three different cardstock colors, and then mixed and matched to create another set of three flowers.  For this card I really wanted to vary the size of the flowers to show you how different they can look.  

These were arranged on a panel of Natural White cardstock.  I again chose a sentiment from the Plant Sentiments set which was white embossed on a black strip and popped up.

A few orange sequins finished things off.

For my last card, the piece were cut from white cardstock and then inked with a blending brush.

I used Taffy, Sweets, Raindrop, and Mist for the petals.  For the stem and leaves, I used Cappuccino.

I added a bit of stenciling in the top left and bottom right corners of my card panel using the Geo Leaves stencil and Cappuccino ink.  The flower was then adhered to the panel.

For the sentiment, I inked a piece of cardstock with Taffy, and die cut Lovely from it.  These pieces were then adhered to the shadow piece cut from white cardstock.  The secondary sentiments, from the Lovely stamp set, were stamped directly onto the panel, and the die cut sentiment was popped up with foam tape.

That's all for me today.  Be sure to head over to the Simon blog to check out the rest of the folks participating in the party.

STAMPtember is Here!

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August is over, and STAMPtember is here!  I'm thrilled to have several new products in this release.  Today I'm showing off my new Stromanthe stencil set.  Just like the previously released Monstera stencils, there are four in this set, a solid leaf and then three detailed stencils.  

The three detailed stencils work together to create the solid leaf, but you can also use the solid leaf lightly to help line things up, or with two of the detailed stencils to complete the design, like I did for my first card.  I used Bubblegum for the solid leaf, and then Sweets and Taffy for the two detail layers.  The leaves were randomly inked on my panel to create a background paper.

For the sentiment, I stamped the large sentiment from my new Lovely set on some white cardstock with black Versa Clair, and then die cut it using the coordinating dies.  The secondary sentiments were stamped directly onto my stenciled panel, and the primary sentiment was then popped up with foam tape.

For this next card, I inked the three detailed layers using Taffy, Pucker, and Sunbeam ink, and fussy cut the leaf.

I then used the same three inks to create the background panel which was adhered to my card base.  The leaf was then added using foam tape.

I then inked another piece of cardstock using Taffy and Pucker from which I die cut the sentiment shadow piece.  The sentiment itself, Simple Thanks, was die cut from Matte Gold cardstock and then adhered to the shadow piece.

A secondary sentiment, from the Spring in My Step set, was embossed in gold on black cardstock and was also popped up with foam tape to complete the card.

That's all for me today.  I've got lots more to share this month, so stay tuned.  In the meantime, head over to Simon to check out the full release, you will not be disappointed!