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
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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I LOVE navy and pink together, very pretty!
I agree about the lace background being almost enough by itself. These are beautiful
Beautiful Card! I always love your tutorials 🙂
The Bohemian lace background stamp is my favourite stamp out of this new release and I love the cards you created with it Yana, they are so beautiful! Thanks for the great video tutorial too!
This card set is so pretty. I might need to get this background stamp!
Beautiful cards! I think the pink and blue one is my favorite because the white embossing on the navy cardstock is gorgeous! I love how quickly these cards came together.
I love these beautiful cards. The colors are beautiful and the drops are perfect.
I didn’t really like this background stamp but I changed my mind when I saw your pretty cards. Thanks for the inspiration!
If I didn’t already like the Bohemian Lace stamp before I saw your cards, I would love it now. Your cards are sensational, and even though they are very similar, each is uniquely beautiful!
I love your cards Yana, they are beautiful!
Bohemian Lace is a beautiful background stamp and I love your cards using it in a monochromatic design. All of them are lovely!
Love this. I always forget that you can do this sort of technique of offsetting the large round stamp lace/mandala type pattern where it is only partially on the front. I HAVE to try that more.
So very pretty!! Simple but elegant and I’m a huge fan of Nuvo Drops!!
Great cards, I think my favorite is also the kraft card.
Your cards are always beautiful!
Hi Jana, Love all 4 of your delightful cards. That background stamp is stunning, as are all the new products in this release. Thanks for sharing your techniques, and I also like the fact that you make more than one card at a time. It makes so much sense once you have everything out – I also agree that white on kraft is stunning. Enjoy your week.
This orange card is so “worm”, it’s make me smile:)
Lovely cards!! So very pretty!! Your Nuvo drops look so perfect!! TFS!!
Beautiful Yana. Love the stamp xxx
I love how you have created something different each time but used the same stamp…very clever
Gorgeous!! I love the kraft and white card the best!
All of your cards are pretty, but my favorite is the black one.
As usual, I adore what you have done with the new release!
Beautiful Yana so delicate and pretty, love this new release from SSS.
Love all 3 of these cards, this stamp is very pretty and the tone on tone is awesome.
I love blog hops because they inspire me to create–thank you!
Love the cards, especially the navy blue one
Tone on tone plus Nuvo drops is yummy!
Beautiful cards. Love the new release. Thank you.
Great cards! I love that stamp, it makes a beautiful, simple card!
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The tone on tone is a look that I would like to try. Thanks for the inspiration.
These are so beautiful and effortlessly elegant, Yana! Thanks so much for sharing!
This is such a gorgeous stamp and I love the elegant look of tone on tone you did – just stunning! Thanks for the inspiration 🙂
You always blow my mind away!
Beautiful card assortment. The Nuvo drops were the perfect addition to enhance the lace look!
Love the new background stamp
So pretty and elegant!
These cards are absolutely spectacular.
I love all 4 cards, but cannot keep my eyes off the dark blue. Love the pop of white on this one. Thanks for sharing!
Your cards are gorgeous! I love that lace stamp, and you addition on Nuvo drops 🙂
Elegant cards!
Love the color on color.
the black with the red and white is
fantastic. thanks for sharing
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Beautiful Thank you cards!!! That background is so pretty. Love the lines in it!
Your cards are very beautiful !! I love your style very much and this stamp is gorgeous !
Beautiful tone on tone backgrounds! I love that background stamp!
Gorgeous cards! Love them all.
So pretty!
You make it look so easy! Beautiful 🙂
Pretty cards! I really like the blue, white, and pink card–great color combination!