Simon Says Stamp | Bohemian Lace – Like Backgrounds. Thank You Cards. Video. Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hi everyone! I love to use lace-like stamps for my cards because they always add beautiful and effortless elegance to my projects. So when I saw the new Bohemian Lace background stamp from Simon Says Stamp from their Sending Sunshine release I immediately wanted to play with it.

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VIDEO TUTORIAL

As always, I filmed a video tutorial showing how to create this project from start to finish. I’m hoping you’ll enjoy it. Watch it below or on my Youtube channel.

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CARDS DETAILS

I decided I’d try doing tone on tone stamping and also some heat embossing to make beautiful backgrounds for my cards. If you are a subscriber of my Youtube channel & blog and have been following my videos lately you might notice a pattern – I’m doing a lot of monochromatic tone on tone stamping and simple heat embossing these days. I just can’t help it – I love the look, I love the simplicity and and I adore end results.

I used several colors of cardstock for my card – I just pulled a few colors from my stash and did watermark stamping, detail clear and detail white heat embossing. I used Sunshine, Sea Glass, Soft Navy cardstock from Simon as well as Desert Storm by Neenah.

I was in need of thank You cards to I turned all of these backgrounds into quick and pretty much identical Thanks You. I used a stamp from the Big Thanks Words clear stamp set and heat embossed it in white onto coordinating color of cardstock. I didn’t have any Soft Navy cardstock left, so for that one I stamped it in Doll Pink onto white, but it doesn’t look quite as pretty when heat embossed in white.

Next, I used a coordinating die and cut the Thanks Word out in my Spellbinders Platinum die cutting machine.

I also used the same die to die-cut foam adhesive layer for my die cuts. Whenever I can I like to use fun foam and double sided sticky sheets to die-cut identical shapes out and use those shapes to foam mount my die cuts onto the card, especially word die cuts. Some people like to die cut them out of cardstock several times and glue cardstock die cuts together, I prefer to use fun foam instead.

I also stamped and heat embossed an identical sub sentiment for all of my cards and it reads “And Gratitude For All You do” so together with the “Thanks” it forms a one meaningful sentiment. I cut it into a skinny strip and foam mounted onto the card under the large Thanks.

Finally, I wanted to add some additional texture and dimension to my cards so I used Nuvo Drops in various colors and I just added lots of little dots onto my background following the pattern of the lace. I used Carnation Pink, White and Bubblegum Blush.

I love using my Nuvo Drops like this – they really help my backgrounds come to life and whats awesome about the drops is that I can make them in any size I like – they can be as small or as large as I want them to be.

ADDITIONAL INSPIRATION

I have one more card to share featuring products from the new release. Click the preview below to see full post & video tutorial for this project:

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SUPPLIES

I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!

Simon Says Cling Stamp Bohemian Lace Background Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Clear Stamps Big Thanks Words Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Big Thanks Wafer Dies Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Sea Glass Cardstock Shop at: SSS
Simon Says Stamp Sunshine Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Soft Navy Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Neenah Classic Crest 80 Lb Desert Storm Shop at: SSS
Simon Says Stamp Embossing Powder Clear Fine Detail Shop at: SSS	Spellbinders Tool ‘n One Shop at: SSS	Spellbinders Platinum Die Cutting Machine Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Doll Pink Dye Ink Pad Shop at: SSS
Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun Shop at: SSS	ScraPerfect Crafting Pouch Shop at: SSS	Versamark Watermark Emboss Ink Pad Shop at: SSS	Mini Misti Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS
Tim Holtz Tonic Craft Stamp Platform Shop at: SSS	Tonic Gloss White Nuvo Drops Shop at: SSS	Tonic Bubblegum Blush Nuvo Drops Shop at: SSS	Tonic Carnation Pink Nuvo Drops Shop at: SSS
Tonic Spring-cut Fine Tip Detail Scissors Shop at: SSS	Scor-Tape 1/8 Inch Crafting Tape Shop at: SSS	White Fun Foam 12 Pack 9 x 12 Shop at: SSS	Stick It Adhesive Handy Pack 5 Sheets Shop at: SSS
Scrapbook Adhesives Adhesive Sheets Shop at: SSS	Hero Arts White Detail Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS

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GIVEAWAY!

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