Simon Says Stamp | French Thank You Card

Hello, friends. Happy Saturday! The weekend is here and I could not be more excited. Also, today is the last day of February, time sure goes by very fast. It feels like just yesterday I was looking out of the window and seeing the first snow of the season.

Anyhow, today I have another Thank You card to share, this time with a beautiful Merci Beaucoup sentiment (which is Thank You So Much in French). I’ve always wanted to learn french in school but never did. The school that I went to had English daily since the first grade. We also had the option to pick between German or French starting fifth grade. I really wanted to take French, but my Mom insisted I studied German. I don’t speak much German (I forgot most of what I learned), but I sure do wish I was able to learn French. Maybe one day?

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CARD DETAILS

To make this card I applied one of my favorite techniques – creating a faux dark background using my markers. I started by stamping the image from the Sketched Flowers stamp set in Simon’s Intense Black ink on white cardstock using my MISTI stamping tool. I stamped the cluster twice to have a somewhat full background.

Next, I used my Copic markers and colored it in. I went with my go-to colors: RV34, RV21, RV00, RV14, RV11, YG01, YG03, G94, G99, Y38, Y17, Y08. I also used YG93 and YG95 to color the background of this card beautiful olive green. I’d done black and deep blue many times and wanted to try a different color this time. I quite like how it turned out.

Next, I cut the panel to 3 3/4 x 5″ and foam mounted to the A2 white side folding card base. The sentiment was heat embossed in Antique Gold embossing powder on white cardstock and cut out with a coordinating die. I used foam squares and foam mounted it onto the card.

Lastly, I embellished this card using Nuvo Drops in Morning Dew.

SUPPLIES

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Simon Says Clear Stamps Sketched Flowers Shop at: SSS	Cz Design Stamps and Dies All the Thanks Shop at: SSS	Cz Design Clear Stamps All the Thanks Shop at: SSS	Cz Design Wafer Dies All the Thanks Shop at: SSS
Neenah 80LB Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Misti Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Antique Gold Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Embossing Ink Pad Shop at: SSS
EK Success Powder Tool Applicator Shop at: SSS	Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Intense Black Ink Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker Y08 Acid Yellow Shop at: SSS
Copic Sketch Marker Y17 Golden Yellow Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker Y38 Honey Bright Bold Golden Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker RV00 Water Lily Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker RV11 Pink Shop at: SSS
Copic Sketch Marker RV14 Begonia Pink Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker RV21 Light Pink Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker RV34 Dark Pink Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker YG01 Green Bice Shop at: SSS
Copic Sketch Marker YG03 Yellow Green Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker YG93 Grayish Yellow Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker YG95 Pale Olive Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker G94 Grayish Olive Shop at: SSS
Copic Sketch Marker G99 Olive Green Shop at: SSS	White Fun Foam 12 Pack 9 x 12 Shop at: SSS	Tonic Morning Dew Nuvo Crystal Drops Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Craft Tacky Glue Shop at: SSS
White Foam Squares Shop at: SSS	Spellbinders Deep Sea Die Cutting Machine Shop at: SSS	Sakura Classic White Gelly Roll Pens Set of 3 Shop at: SSS