Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Simon Says Stamp Winter Wonderland Cards.

Hello! Today I have a few "thank you" cards to share with you. I used my Winter Wonderland January card kit from Simon Says Stamp to create my Christmas thank you's this year. I just love this kit! Purple is one of my favorite colors and the stamp set is to die for!

I know I'm a little late to the party, but I'm going to be entering these cards into the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge. This week is "Anything Goes!"


Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog

Let's just jump right in to the first card! 


This one is probably my favorite card that I've made with this kit. I wanted to really focus on the blues in the patterned paper. I made a card base from Neenah cardstock, cut the blue cardstock from the kit 1/8" smaller than the card base, and the blue snowflake paper 1/4" smaller than the base. I used tape runner adhesive to stick them down. The sentiment is stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink. I added a strip of white cardstock and some blue glitter tape. 

I felt like the card needed more, so I used the winter road tag from my kit (I was lucky enough to receive the extra embellishments in my kit) and layered a die cut vellum tag on top. I stamped an additional sentiment at the bottom and used some brown cardstock to create a reinforcement circle. I looped some gold thread through the opening and also "squished" some around from behind the tag. 


 Next up is a card where I tried to bring out the purples. The patterned paper is a light almost fog gray color and I thought it really looked great against the purple. I die cut a 2 1/2 inch circle from purple cardstock and stamped and embossed the diagonal stripe stamp at the bottom. I used my white gel pen to add some stitching detail. 

The tag was actually a mistake that I made work. I had used my embossing ink with some snowflake stamps and the Grape Fizz Perfect Pearls on some light gray cardstock, but the Perfect Pearls smudged a little bit. It was my first time using this product and I've gotten better at it. I almost threw away the piece of cardstock, but I only messed up on part of it, so I die cut a tag from the part of the paper that was okay. I used some scrap purple cardstock to make a reinforcement for the top and wrapped some Recollections washi tape around the bottom. Then I stamped the sentiment and embossed it with Ranger Liquid Platinum embossing powder. 

I wanted a messy gold thread look, so I looped some through the tag and cut the strands to different lengths and also put some strands behind my tag. 


Last, but not least, is a shaker card with some fun seed beads. I made this for my sister-in-law and her family. I thought my nephew would have a lot of fun shaking this card around! 

I cut a piece of the "barn door" paper and stamped some snowflakes onto it with the Simon Says Stamp white ink. I used the lighter gray cardstock from the kit and stamped my sentiment with the same white pigment ink. Then I used a circle die to cut out a circle from the top center of the panel and added some faux stitching with a white gel pen. 

I filled up my shaker portion with some gold and silver seed beads. They shake around really well! 

That's it for today! I have a video coming soon with this card kit, so stay tuned! 

1 comment:

  1. Gorgeous cards! You did a wonderful job with the kit! So pretty!

    Thank you very much for joining us this week at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog!

    hugs...
    Melissa

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