Simon Says Stamp | Cheer & Joy Release. Modern Christmas Cards. Video

Hello, friends! Today I’m sharing two clean & simple Christmas cards featuring just a bit of heat embossing, coloring, and watermark stamping. These cards use brand new products from Simon Says Stamp.

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CARD DETAILS

I used a stunning vertical sentiment stamp from the new Holiday Greetings Mix 1 set, it reads Merry and is surrounded by beautiful branches and leaves. I’ve added “Wishing You a” above the “Merry” and “Christmas” below to create one sentiment for my card.

I heat embossed these images onto a panel of white cardstock in my favorite Antique Gold embossing powder. This is one of the most beautiful designs I’ve ever seen, it’s very modern, very simple and yet very classy. I think I’ll be using this sentiment a lot this year for my Holiday cards and probably even in the years to come. It’s just that pretty.

There’s actually a coordinating background stamp this time from Simon, called Leaves and Berries and it features the same imagery filling the entire background. I stamped it in a watermark ink onto red and green cardstock for a beautiful, subtle tone on tone look.

I went back to my sentiment piece and trimmed it down slightly, next, I rubbed the edges of the panel with an embossing ink pad and dipped the edges into same Antique Gold embossing powder to create the illusion that this panel was dipped in gold ink. I love this trick. I quickly heat set the powder with my heat tool to melt it in place.

I knew I wanted to color the berries and leaves so I used some of my favorite coloring mediums – I used a red pen from Jane Davenport to quickly color the berries, you can also use a Copic marker for this, I prefer the pen as it gives me a much brighter, vibrant red and to color the leaves I used my go-to green combo of YG03, G94, and G99 colors. I was careful to color next to the heat embossing, but if you are afraid to do it, I have a video showing a workaround it – you can first stamp the image, color it, and then heat emboss it. Check it out HERE.

Having colored the panel I adhered the background panel to A2 white card base, I foam mounted the sentiment panel over it and used glossy accents to add dimension to the berries. It’s very subtle, barely visible, but it is there and adds a nice finishing touch to the card.

There are a lot more new products from Simon in this new release and I encourage you to check them out:

I hope you will give this idea a try. Have fun stamping!

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 Clear Stamps Holiday Greetings Mix 1 Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Cling Stamp Leaves and Berries Background Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Green Leaf Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Schoolhouse Red Cardstock Shop at: SSS
Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Antique Gold Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Embossing Ink Pad Shop at: SSS	Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun Shop at: SSS
Ranger Glossy Accents Glue Dimensional Adhesive Shop at: SSS	EK Success Powder Tool Applicator Shop at: SSS	Mini Misti Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker YG03 Yellow Green Shop at: SSS
Copic Sketch Marker YG93 Grayish Yellow Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker G99 Olive Green Shop at: SSS	Scor-tape 2 1/2 Inch Crafting Tape Shop at: SSS	Spellbinders Thriller Jacket Ultimate Waterproof Brush Pen Shop at: SSS