That's Life: Simon Says Stamp Be Bold Blog Hop Day 1

Friday, 22 March 2024

Simon Says Stamp Be Bold Blog Hop Day 1

Hello everyone and welcome to Day 1 of the Be Bold Blog Hop!

I'm so excited to be joining this hop and you might have arrived here from Jean Doeringsfeld's blog, but if not, and you want to catch up with everyone who is participating in this hop, then don't worry because you can head back to the beginning, HERE.

For my card, I chose to use the Lush Leaves Dies, the Lilac Pawsitively Dazzling Gems and the Mamacita Stamp Set from this release, to create a card celebrating a very special person in my life . You can check out all the fabulous new products in the Be Bold release, HERE.

So let's begin and here's how I created my card.

This card measures, 20 x 11cm and is made from Mixed Media Heavystock card.

BACKGROUND

To start with I made my background and for this, I used the Tim Holtz Linked Squares Layering Stencil. I inked through the stencil onto a panel of watercolour card, using a combination of Aspen, and Sage Positively Saturated Inks and Pumice Stone Distress Ink, blending the colours over the card with a stencil brush.

Once happy with the blend, I spritzed water over the background and allowed the inks to puddle and pool before heat drying the surface.

Once this was dry, I applied Frayed Burlap Distress Ink to my glass mat, sprtized with water and then dipped my inked card panel into the droplets of ink. Once again I heat dried the surface before inking the edges with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.

To add more layers to the background, I inked one of the stamps from the Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Botanic Collage stamp set, with Black Soot Distress Ink, inking the type script section of the stamp only and stamping it randomly around the edges of the panel.

To complete the panel, I machine stitched a border and then matted it onto a panel of card, inked using the same colours of Positively Saturated Ink, Sage and Aspen as I used through the stencils.

Matt the layered panel onto Mixed Media Heavystock card using foam pads, followed by a layer of kraft card before mounting onto the card blank.

SENTIMENT LABEL

For the sentiment label in the centre of the card, I used Tim Holtz's Vintage Label dies by Sizzix. These labels create a debossed outline around the edge and using the large circular die, I cut the shape from Heavystock card, inking the raised area of the die with Rustic Wilderness Archival Ink.

I inked the surface of the die cut with Pumice Stone and Frayed Burlap Ink and spritzed with water to blend the inks before heat drying the circle.

I then stamped the sentiment in Black Soot Archival Ink, using two separate stamps from the set.

Beneath the sentiment, I placed a small die cut heart from the Lovebirds die set, that I had on my desk from a previous project and inked this with Kitsch Flamingo Distress Ink.

Mount the sentiment onto the card using foam pads to add dimension.

LUSH LEAVES

Taking the Lush Leaves dies, I cut multiple pieces from Distress Watercolour Card.

I then inked the die cuts with the Pawsitively Saturated Ink Trio 14, starting with Aspen, followed by Sage and finally adding darker shades with Pine.

After shaping each of the flourishes and leaves, I arranged them onto my card.

I placed them around the circular vintage label, layering them and arranging them to create a fluffy, dimensional look to the piece.

To complete the leaves, I added some gems, sticking them directly onto the foliage.

FINISHING DETAILS

We're nearly there and all that's left is the finishing details.

I added a scrap of linen from my material box to the top right hand corner, complete with a button that I sewed onto the linen scrap.

Finally I added some fo the tiny stitches, die cut from black card using the Bunny Stitch die by Tim Holtz and Sizzix and placed these in the top left and bottom right hand corners.

...and that finishes my card for this hop.

I hope you love this make and all the techniques I've used.

Now, it's time to hop to the next stop...

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Thank you so much for stopping by today and don't forget to go and check out Day 2 of the hop tomorrow!!!

See you soon, Emma x

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