Hello, stampers! Happy Saturday! I’m joining Simon Says Stamp blog hop today celebrating the release of their Cheer & Joy collection. I think it’s one of my favorite product launches from them to date, there are a lot of great products with incredible designs, I have many favorites and I’ve already shared some in a previous post HERE.
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CARD DETAILS
I love the big Outline Christmas Bulb background stamp. It makes creating a fun card background an easy and enjoyable task. The minute I saw it I fell in love with the design because it reminded me of a card I shared last year – Calligraphy-like Christmas Cards where I used a single bulb image to create a partial background for a card. I’m really looking forward to trying this background in the same colors – gold and deep blue with just a hint of shimmer.
For the card I’m sharing today I heat embossed the background in Antique Gold embossing powder on Sea Glass cardstock. I picked a light blue background as I prefer to have colored backgrounds for my cards and I often tend to stay away from plain white.
I used several Copic markers to color the bulbs green and red. The colors are used are YG03, G94, G99; R22, R24, R27, R39; C5, C7, C9. I can’t say I did anything special in terms of coloring, just added some shading around the edges and kept the center lightest.
To create a sentiment for this card I heat embossed “Wishing You A Merry & Bright Christmas” in the same color embossing powder on the same color cardstock and foam mounted on my colored background. The background was trimmed down just a bit and adhered to an A2 white side folding card base revealing just a hint of white border around it.
Finally, I used my Tonic Studios shimmer pen (I love it!) to add a generous amount of shimmer to each of the bulbs and coated select bulbs with glossy accents. My plan was to coat all of them, but I actually run out of glossy. Those that have been coated look a lot more vibrant on the card. I do like that not every bulb was coated providing a difference in color.
ADDITIONAL INSPIRATION
I have 2 more card ideas featuring products from the new Cheer & Joy Release as well as a video tutorial. You can check them out here or watch the video below.
VIDEO TUTORIAL:
BLOG HOP
Join Simon Says Stamp blog hop for loads of additional inspiration!
If you arrived from Laura Bassen the next stop on this hop is Nichol Spohr. You can also start over on the Simon Says Stamp blog.
GIVEAWAY
Comment below for your chance to win a $25 coupon to Simon Says Stamp store. Winner will be posted on Simon Says Stamp’s blog on Wednesday, the 16th of October.
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 Rubber Stamp Outline Christmas Bulbs Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Clear Stamps Holiday Greetings Mix 1 Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Sea Glass 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 |
 Copic Sketch Marker R22 Light Prawn Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker R24 Prawn Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker R27 Cadmium Red Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker R39 Garnet Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker YG03 Yellow Green Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker G94 Grayish Olive Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker G99 Olive Green Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker C5 Cool Gray Grey Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker C7 Cool Gray Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker C9 Cool Gray Grey Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Aqua Shimmer Pen Nuvo Shop at: SSS |
Your coloring of the bulbs is gorgeous!
Love the card with the bulbs, very dramatic and lovely. Checked out your other video and they are stunning, for sure!
Beautiful cards!
Love all 3 cards – beautiful coloring on the lights & love the gold embossing on the Merry cards!
I like the green card because you can see the background better, but I love the red one too.
Love this card! When I saw this stamp I knew it would make for some gorgeous colouring but wasn’t sure if I could pull it off. You make it look effortless!
Great card! When I first saw it, I thought you colored the bulbs with pencils!! And using the glossy accents really adds a lot. Thanks, Yana. (Just got back from an annual event called Tucson Meet Yourself where people from all the different cultures living in Tucson set up food and folk art booths. Got to meet some people from Ukraine now living here and a nice man talked me through how he decorates eggs. I think he called it “lettering”(?). Had some desert from Ukraine (gosh so good) and learned a bit about the country. Great fun!!)
Love the Christmas light stamp and your card is gorgeous!
Love the bulbs card! Adding the shimmer and glossy accents really brings them to life! The Merry cards are beautiful too!
Love the colors on the Christmas bulbs. The glossy really adds to the card.
Love the colored lights. I feel like I could pick one up right off the front of the card. The Vertical Merry is one of my favorites too.
Did my last comment save? I want to make sure and let you know how great I think your cards are. I like the green background better also.
Fantastic cards Yana! Absolutely wonderful.
I love seeing all the new product and the fun things that can be made with them. Thanks for the inspiration!
Carol B
Yana, Your cards are always beautiful!
Your coloring is amazing
Fun card!
The bulbs were striking but your vertical Merry …! Love both. Like the green better (by a little) than the red, good call to not use the shiny backgrounds although they are gorgeous — maybe a large white (plain) snowflake.
Very classy card! & like you I prefer the green.
I love the results, but this had to be very time consuming! I’d like to see ideas on how to use this background that don’t take hours to color. If I had the time or patience I would love to do this as it is truly beautiful!
Beautiful cards!
Yana, I love your card and the two extra ones. All are so crisp and beautiful. Thanks for sharing!
Your creations are always such inspiration. Thank you Yana!
Yana how beautiful! You made great cards!
Fabulous coloring on the bulbs and love the shine and dimension from the glossy accents!
fun release. beautiful cards. great ideas . thanks as always for sharing.
BEAUTIFUL, AS ALWAYS!
I love all of the cards! The one with the string of lights is so cute! I love the stamped image on the green card stock. The red is pretty, but I do prefer the green one. Thanks for sharing!
very pretty – love the shimmer!
Love your arc!
The Christmas bulb background is wonderful! Great cards!
I love this bulb background stamp. Even though you stated that you ran out of glossy accents, it was genius. It brings the glossy bulbs to the forfront of the card. Thanks for sharing.
I love the colors for the bulbs. Very bright and cheerful!
These bulbs look so realistic. Awesome work on your coloring!
Yana, I am so excited to get the Outline Christmas Bulb stamp, so many options. I am pleased that so many different ideas have been presented by this blog hop. I love both of your cards and appreciate the Leaf background stamp with the matching Leaf border stamp, so pretty.
Love the coloring!!
Just love the cheerful and bright bulbs
Thanks for sharing your beautiful cards and your video.
Wonderful job on the card !!
Beautiful; simply stunning color and shine!
Beautiful cards, love the backgrounds
Love your cards!! Very talented coloring on bulbs!
Love your card!!! Background stamps are so fun and now there are so many I can’t choose!!!
Wow Yana those bulbs almost look metallic! What a fantastic colouring job you’ve done. Thank you for sharing it.
Lovely cards and great new products from SSS! Love your coloring!
Really like the classic Christmas colours you have used.
Absolutely love your Christmas Bulb card! Love the gloss on the bulbs too!
Wow! Like you I fell in love with this stamp when I first saw it Yana! Fantastic card! Love the colours your chose,, as they remind me of my childhood Christmas. Thanks so much for sharing and your wonderful video!
This is one of my favourite releases from Simon Says Stamp as well! I especially love the mixed sentiment stamps…
Love all the cards! I wish you had done a video on the bulbs card too!