simon artful flowers

Hello!

I have several things to share with you today and it all started with one background stamp that I simply loove!:) It is a wide stripes background stamp from Simon Says Stamp and I finally managed to get it; it’s been a while I wished I had it and now it is finally mine! My precious, lol!

Oh, this stamp is simply amazing! You can do so many cool things with it in just minutes and if you are like me always searching for good supplies that help you create beautiful, yet quick cards, I am sure you will find it amazing too!

At first I really wanted to stamp the stripes like in a continuos pattern, so I did some measuring and tests and in the end I gave up as I just couldn’t get the stripes stamped perfectly one below eachother with different inks. I kept trying to fit them in, but without any success:) In the end decided to work with the background that I kept getting and so I grabbed a white gel pen and made some lines along the strip of color where the inks blended. I did the same with a black pen also and I really really like how it came out. In the end my work was repayed in a way, lol:)

I picked out 2 of the backgrounds that I created and made some cards also.

See the pattern on the blue stripes there? For this card I used the kissing technique. You can see how that is made in the 1st video!:)

So I made 2 videos, one where I show you how you can use this stamp and the other one with the actual cards that I made. It was a lot to show, so I had to split it in two:) Basically with this stamp I created quick backgrounds that can also be used as patterned paper, did a cool technique that is called kissing and added a pattern to the stripes, decorated a paper die cut in seconds and lastly used the various stripes as decorations for my cards:)

So here are the 2 videos and I really hope you can find something useful in what I did 🙂

Thank you for being here!

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Hello!

I am so excited to share my card with you today. I just got this new stamp set by Simon Says Stamp and I sooo love it. I don’t know what it is about this stamp set, it is quite simple you know, but I just adore it!

The first time I saw it, it was used by Shari Caroll in one of her videos and I liked it so so much that i just had to have it! Couldn’t wait to color these beautiful flowers, so I played around with various mediums and the one technique that I really liked was using Distress paints onto colored cardstock.

In the end I chose some kraft cardstock, stamped the flowers and colored them in with two of the paints that I have, the Squeezed Lemonade and Cracked Pistacchio. Oh, and how beautiful these colors are! And they blend so nicely with eachother also.

I used a aqua brush, but with no water inside, just because it was the only one that I had with such a fine tip. When my paint got too dry I just dipped the tip of the brush and picked up just a tiny bit of water to help me spread the color around.

Once all the flowers were done, I colored the centers with my white gel pen and stamped a couple more of those flower centers onto my background.

I then used another lovely stamp set by SSS to create that black and white strip and also the sentiment that I stamped and embossed onto a vellum circle. To add a bit of shine to the flowers, I of course used the Wink of Stella glitter brush marker and added also a couple fo clear sequins.

To mount my panel I used craft foam to the back and adhesive tape to adhere it onto my card base.

I so like the final result and how these paints dry so intense onto colored cardstock! Will try this technique onto some watercolor paper also as I saw how nicely these paints blend together.

This was my project for today, I will add my card to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, called For the Love of Plants. Such gorgeous projects there, you might want to take a look:)