Simon Says Stamp | Dreams Come True With Hard Work Card + Photo Tutorial

Hello friends! I’ve been busy playing in my craft corner and today I have an encouragement card to share featuring simple heat embossing and a bit of Polychromos pencil coloring as well as some goodies from Simon from their Fluttering By release.

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CARD DETAILS

This card came about fairly quickly – I wanted to make an encouragement card and challenged myself to use supplies that I had sitting on my desk. I always have my Polychromos pencils out, so I wanted to make sure to use them and did at least partial coloring.

I started by white heat embossing Center Cut Burst background stamp onto Neenah Desert Storm cardstock. I took the center portion of the stamp out as I wanted to preserve the middle for a sentiment.

Next, I used my pencils and did very simple one color coloring. I colored little leaves in green and triangles in yellow. For some reasons these ended up looking like yellow carrots to me! So fun! Would be a great card idea for Easter (just swap yellow for orange).

I also white heat embossed a sentiment – Dreams Come True With Hard Work (I believe this to be so very true!). This sentiment comes from the Yes You Can stamp set by Cathy Z for Simon, there are lots of other great messages in this set as well.

I felt like my background was looking too plain, so I added glossy accents onto the inside of each of the colored triangle to add some texture and also added white dots using my Nuvo Drops.

STEP BY STEP PHOTOS

I have step by step photos of how this card came about. Click to enlarge and as always – feel free to pin to Pinterest and save for later!

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 Stamp Center Cut Burst Shop at: SSS	CZ Design Clear Stamps Yes You Can Shop at: SSS	Neenah Classic Crest 80 Lb Desert Storm Shop at: SSS	Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS
Faber-Castell Polychromos 12 Set Shop at: SSS	Faber-Castell Polychromos 36 Set Shop at: SSS	Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun Shop at: SSS	Hero Arts Emboss White Detail Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS
ScraPerfect Crafting Pouch Shop at: SSS	Versamark Watermark Emboss Ink Pad Shop at: SSS	Ranger Glossy Accents Glue Dimensional Adhesive Shop at: SSS	Tim Holtz Tonic Craft Stamp Platform Shop at: SSS
Tonic Gloss White Nuvo Drops Shop at: SSS	Scor-Tape 1/8 Inch Crafting Tape Shop at: SSS