Sunday, April 27, 2014

A Second Mother's/Father's Day card Post

I decided to make a couple more, but different cards than my first cards made with the new Simon Says Stamp Mother/Father full card dies.  My first two cards can be found HERE...here are my two new ones...
 I wanted to use canvas as a background...trying to splatter paint on the canvas to make it look like a drop cloth, but my daughter said it looked like blood, so I opted for a clean canvas with some tools and screws(brads with the brads cut off).  I LOVED the look of wood for a Father's Day card...I layered with 3 layers of kraft die cuts underneath the wood veneer.  The tools were made with My Favorite Things dies(I cut the hole parts off...the dies were meant to be charms).  Here's a couple close ups...
 I layered all the tools...I layer EVERYTHING...die cut the hammer and saw in wood veneer , the screwdriver in black then cut and used for just the handles.  I then used glossy accents on all the tool handles.
The Mother's Day card HAD to have flowers...so I used some flowered paper for the main die cut...
 I then die cut some pink flowers mimicking the actual flowers in the paper...
The centers of the flowers were white stick on dots colored with a navy sharpie marker.  The dies I used are listed below, although one of the flowers was made with Memory Box Floral Delights, which doesn't seem to be in production...thanks for visiting me today!! Hugs!! Lisa

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Tall Flowers for Mom

I purchased the Tall Flowers die from Simon Says Stamp...thought it was just too cute!!  I made this card for my mom for Mother's Day...
I am not much of a colorer...so I die cut the total die, 3 times in green, and twice in red and white.  I cut the daisies and tulips off the white and red die cuts and layered them twice ON TOP of the 3 green die cuts that I adhered together, oh how I LOVE LAYERS!!  I added some enamel dots for the daisies and a sentiment from one of the new Simon Says Stamp stamp sets, Mother's Day.  I adhered them and stamped the sentiment onto a card made with the new Slate Gray paper from Simon...gray is the new black...hey the new white!!...I LOVE the new Simon grays!!!  I used a few die cut hearts from the Simon Says Stamp Falling Hearts die, adhered together and adhered all of them over the "V" in "love"....the heart of hearts fit PERFECTLY!!...

the inside of the card...
made with 2 more of the sentiments from the same Mother's Day Simon set!  Hope you are having a great week:)!!  Hugs!!  Lisa

Monday, April 21, 2014

Wooden Butterflies

One more card with the Butterfly Drift die from Simon Says Stamp:)!!  I used the white outlines from my first card I made using this die last week and die cut the butterflies from a piece of wood veneer paper...
After die cutting the wooden butterflies, I rubbed and sponged each butterfly in a distress ink to give the wood different shades:)!!  I adhered to a piece of textured bazzill  paper, stamping one of the new Simon Says Stamp sentiments on it...
Thanks for visiting me today!! Hugs!! Lisa

Watercolor Butterflies

A couple more cards with the Simon Says Stamp Butterfly Drift die!  I am LOVING this die!!  I used some Distress ink reinkers, water, a brush and some white cardstock (haven't gotten the watercolor paper, yet:)!!) and used the die cut on one card, the border on the other card...
 I made the ink really watery...tried it with less water, much darker...wanted a lighter look.  That's the cool thing about ink...with the same colors you can get "different" colors depending on the amount of water you use.  Used a Simon die cut and coordinating sentiment, then glossy accented the "Be".  Here's a close up...
 Then I used the border, layered it, and adhered it sideways to the edges of the card, along with a sentiment from Paper Smooches.  I put it on a black card to show the colors more intensely...super simple, but love the intense color...
Hope you have a marvelous Monday and a great week:)!!  Be Happy!!!  Hugs!!!  Lisa