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
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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
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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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Beautiful cards! Love the bohemian lace stamp.
Beautiful cards! I think my favorite is the kraft & white also. Thank you for the wonderful inspiration.
Like the pretty backgrounds.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
All of your cards turned out pretty but my personal favorite is the dark blue one!
These are just beautiful, Yana. I love the monochromatic look.
Love the cards. My favorite is the Navy with the Thank You, in pink.
Gorgeous set of cards!!! Beautiful. I love the Nuvo drops accents. The pink and navy is so lovely together!!
Beautiful cards
Lovely way to use that gorgeous background stamp. The nuvo drops totally enhance the bg pattern. Gorgeous cards!
Gorgeous cards, Yana! Love the tone-on-tone look with this stamp.
These are lovely cards. Thank you for sharing your tips via video!
What a lovely background stamp! Thank you for highlighting how different it can look using a variety of techniques and colors.
Absolutely gorgeous Yana, now I can’t wait to use this stamp!
This bohemian stamp is so beautiful. Love the tone on tone samples.
Beautiful Cards!
Oh these are all so pretty!
These are incredible! So delicate! WOW
Love your cards.
Love the monochromatic look. Very simple yet elegant.
Wonderful cards. Love how all the different colors change the appearance of the stamp.
Your cards are stunning ! All the colors are really beautiful, but I’ve got a little preference for the turquoise card.
SQUEAL!! LOVING the NEW RELEASE!! Your Cards are BEAUTIFUL!! THANKS for sharing the AMAZING Inspiration and have a FABULOUS WEEKEND!! =)
That Lacey background stamp is so pretty! Love your cards!
Thanks for the inspiration. Now I have another ideas on creating “dots”
neat design and wonderful use of color.
Fabulous cards! I love the bohemian lace, in fact it was the first thing in my shopping cart. So fun to see the different mood the card conveys just by changing the colors. Beautiful and elegant be brave card.
Wonderful stamp! And you never disappoint with your creations. Thanks
I just love these cards Yana! Now you have got me thinking about other background stamps that would look great using this technique too. Thanks.
Yana, This is beautiful. I love the lace also.. Thank You!
I love this lace background!
Looks so pretty.
Carla from Utah
I rarely do tone on tone, but I like the look. I will have to play with this idea.
Wonderful cards Yana–what a great release from SSS!
You make beautiful cards and I enjoy looking at your work for inspiration
Love your enthusiasm for this design! Thank you for the video inspiration!!!
Beautiful cards, now following on pintrest. Love your style.
Love love love that background stamp!!! Your cards are so beautiful!!!
Love your cards! Great inspiration and ideas using background stamps!
Beautiful cards. I love seeing how different you made the stamped image look
The tone on tone is just beautiful! I need that stamp now!
Gorgeous cards. Thanks for sharing
Awesome cards look very elegant
Such an elegant stamp and love how you used it on the various cards.
Beautiful – love the tone on tone stamping and then using the pops of colour applied – fabulous!
Oh Yana these are beautiful!
That background stamp makes BEAUTIFUL cards! Nice work.
Your cards are so beautiful, Yana! I love the simplicity of using the tone on tone on each card. Adding the Nuvo drops adds such a great pop of color! Thanks for the awesome inspiration!!
Your cards speak for themselves. Have followed you on pinterest so looking forward to more inspiration.
your lace back grounds are stunning!
Oh wow, those cards are stunning!
Your lacy wonders are really something!!