Simon Says Stamp Fun & Festive Blog Hop - Day 2

October 12, 2018

Happy Friday, blog friends! It's always a happy day when we are celebrating a brand new release from Simon Says stamp, right?! Their latest collection called Fun & Festive went live this week...and it is such a FUN collection of products! Simon is doing a free Stickles gift with purchase promotion - just use the code FEST587 upon checkout to take advantage while supplies! The code will expire on Sunday, 10/14 at 11:59 pm ET.

This is day 2 of the Fun & Festive Blog Hop, and we've got quite the lineup for you! I will put all of the blog hop details at the end of my post, but how about we get to my cards first? I used the new Outline Snowflake stamp set, along with the Tiny Words Christmas stamp set. I LOVE tiny sentiments, and this set has about 45 sentiments. I counted them - it's a lot!

I am happy to say that I was able to create a process video for this card. You can view it here, or in HD on my YouTube channel.

I hope that you liked a little look into my creative process! Be sure to give the video a thumbs up if you did, and subscribe to my YouTube channel if you haven't yet. Now that I've gotten everything figured out on my new laptop, I will be posting more consistently to it!

I know that not everyone loves to watch process videos, so I will still continue to do write-ups for projects too. To start, I stamped & heat embossed the Outline Snowflake background in white to (2) heavyweight white cardstock panels. You could definitely use watercolor paper if you'd like.

Next I taped the heat embossed panels down to a craft mat, and gave them a pretty substantial water wash with a 1 inch brush. Next I just started dropping small amounts of Pinkfresh Studio liquid watercolor to them in Bubblegum & Sky Blue. This is where watching the video comes in handy - you can see how the liquid watercolor reacts naturally with the water & heat embossing, and it's a little hard to describe in a write-up. I did use my Distress Sprayer to help move the water in some places, and blend the two colors together to make that pretty purple.

I set those panels aside to dry, then stamped the tiny sentiments to a white cardstock block. I stamped the Let It Snow sentiment three times, and the Missing You At Christmas just once. Then I trimmed them into thin strips, adding banner edges to the missing you one. Then I added thin strips of foam tape to the back of them.

I adhered the sentiments to each card over top of a knot of gold thread, then mounted each watercolor panel to the front of a white A2 card base with a full backing of foam adhesive. This way my card doesn't get any weird dents or warping. Then I accented here & there with my signature jewels.

The final step was adding some shimmer to the snowflakes with my Tonic Aqua Shimmer pen. I am using the Midas Touch pen here, which uses a gold glitter, instead of clear/silver.

How about we get to all the fun blog hop info now?!

PRIZES:
Simon Says Stamp is giving away a $25 coupon to every stop on the hop from the blog comment section. They will choose the winners and post on the Simon Says Stamp store blog on Wednesday. Winners can email SSS to claim their prize.

With that being said, here is the blog hop link list. Be sure to hop along and leave comments along the way for your best chance to win one of the prizes!

Simon Says Stamp Blog

Wow....what a lineup that is! I know I am excited to grab a cup of coffee and see what everyone else created!

Finally, if you'd like to see even MORE inspiration from this release, check out the Fun & Festive 2018 Collection Gallery. And be sure to link up YOUR creations when you get these amazing new products in hand!

Before you move on to Kristina's blog, I wanted to invite you to follow me on social media. I hang out on Instagram a lot, and share my work in progress in my stories...along with REALLY cute photos of my dogs! :) Plus, I just started a YouTube channel, and while there are only a few videos right now...I will be adding new content consistently!

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Have a wonderful rest of your day, and enjoy the blog hop!!

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