Simon Says Stamp - Mirror hearts into a Butterfly!

Happy Monday crafty friends! Sharing a Simon Says Stamp brand exclusive card today!

So I am in love with this detailed heart from the Ornate Love set that was in the last Simon Says Stamp "You Are Loved" release.  I originally wanted to do a mirror heart card, but when my husband saw it he said "what a beautiful butterfly" lol so that's what it became :)

I started by finding the centre of my Bristol Smooth paper panel and placing my stamp aligned to the centre of the cardstock in my Misti and stamped the heart. I flipped the panel and stamped it a second time using Versafine Onyx Black in so that I could use my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers.

Once that was done, I die cut a large butterfly with a die from my stash using Tonic black glitter paper and cut the centre of the butterfly and glued it to the panel.  I chose the fantastic Hello Beautiful Gorgeous dies from Simon Says Stamp and die cut it from both White and Black glitter specialty cardstock both by Tonic and glued it to the panel a little offset so the black would frame the white.

I then used one of the Lawn Fawn Stitched Border dies above and below the panel and trimmed it. I added some Sunny Studio paper in the background and finished off with some Studio Katia Chunky Butterfly Glitter and Sequins.

Thanks so much for taking the time, all products used are listed and linked below - affiliate links used at no extra cost to you!

Kim

Hello Beautiful!

Happy Fri-yay! Hope you have all had a great week! Are you ready for International Scrapbook Day :) I will be doing some make and takes during the National Scrapbook Weekend event here in Montréal!

Like many of you crafters, I have a lot of different coloring mediums so when the Faber Castell Polychromos became hugely popular I said to myself you don't need them you have your Prismacolor pencils... And I held strong for about two months, then I caved. Lol. I have to say, I am super happy that I did. The quality of those pencils is fantastic.

For my project today I decided to use the newer Even More Spring Flowers from Simon Says Stamp. I stamped my flowers on kraft card stock with Distress Antique Linen Ink to attempt some no-line coloring.  I so enjoyed this process, it was so relaxing. I started with a white highlight on all the blooms and leaves and then went in with three different shades of each color family.

I used the coordinating dies for the flowers. I then pulled out this Altenew Cover Plate die that I am simply in-love with.  It is called Watercolor Stripes and die cut that from black Lawn Fawn card stock. I placed the cover plate die cut on my card base and placed my flowers with foam tape.

I then die cut the Simon Says Stamp Hello Beautiful dies with Tonic gold card stock and placed both sentiments on my project. To finish off I added some Pretty Pink Posh gold sequins and black Tonic Nuvo Drops on the smaller flowers.

All products are listed below.

Thanks for taking the time!

Kim

Feeling like spring!

Happy Wednesday crafty friends! Weather has been strangly spring-like here in Montreal. We don't usually get away with that in February, but i'll take it! lol!

I am enjoying playing with flowers and different coloring mediums lately in spring/summer colors.

This one features some newer Simon Says Stamp exclusive products, I just love their new floral frame dies. So many possibilities. For this project I used Distress Oxides for the background (Bristol card stock) in Picked Raspberry and Abandoned Coral (one of my favorite mixes) and i sprayed water drops with my Distress Sprayer.

I die cut my SSS Rose Flower Frame from Neena Solar White 80 lbs card stock and die cut it again with an MFT square die.  I decided to turn it into a shaker card so I added acetate to the flower frame. The sequins mix is by Neat and Tangled and the colors complement the background beautifully.

I put the shaker together and added a simple hello die from the SSS Hello Beautiful Gorgeous die set. I put the entire panel on a Neena 110 lbs. card base. I love the happy colors!

Thanks for taking the time!

Kim