By Caryn Davies
Hey there. I’m over on the Avery Elle Blog today with a festive little card using the gorgeous Happy Home dies and Hanging Banners stamps and dies. I started with a 5″ square card and created my little holiday home using wood effect card layered up with all the little Christmassy elements. I used the string of lights from Retro Ornaments to add some extra festiveness!! A few little blobs of Glossy Accents in the right places adds some more sparkle and shine.
Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge
Thank you for joining us for the Anything Goes Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.
We will be back soon with the name of the lucky winner of the $50 Voucher
This week the challenge is
make a gift card/bag/box, or a gift for someone special.
This week we are showcasing Clearly Besotted Products. You don’t have to use them for the challenge but if you have them we would love to see them used.
As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store
I’ve kept is nice and simple with my card this week. I simply stamped and embossed the sentiment panel from Most Wonderful onto a panel of Bristol watercolour cardstock and then used my Kuretake paints to add a wash of aqua over it. I die cut the panel using Avery Elle’s Pierced Rectangles and then used the Gift Card dies from MFT to mount a card inside. A very quick and simple gift whipped up in no time!
Yay! Today we are celebrating with Simon Says Stamp on a collaboration with Avery Elle as part of the 2016 STAMPtember event. Extra exciting for me as I happily design for both these amazing companies. Avery Elle has designed this fabulous snowflake stamp set called Christmas Cheer along with co-ordinating dies – isn’t it amazing?
I created a couple of cards using the stamps and some different ink blending techniques. The first uses Distress Inks blended onto Bristol watercolour paper (my favourite) and then stamped over with Doll Pink dye ink for the snowflakes and sentiment. I aded a shimmery sheen using some Shimmer spray. (all supplies linked below).
For the second card I stamped the snowflakes in Versamark and then heat embossed in white. I used Zig Clean Colour markers to scribble across the panel and a wet cloth to blend it out – this technique was shared by Jennifer McQuire a few days ago and I loved it – great fun! Again I finished with a good spray of shimmer spray and although you can’t see it, it’s mega sparkly!
Please check out the rest of the Avery Elle Design Team and also the fab designers over on the Simon Says Stamp blog too for more great samples using this set – happy stamping.
