Hello there! Thank you for stopping by to help celebrate the new release from Simon Says Stamp – all about Love! I’ve already shared one card & video tutorial on my blog yesterday – check it out for more inspiration and have 4 more projects to share today!
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VIDEO TUTORIAL
As always, I filmed a video tutorial showing how to create this project from start to finish. I’m hoping you’ll enjoy it. Watch it below or on my Youtube channel.
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CARD DETAILS – INK BLENDING + DRY EMBOSSING
I love working with stencils as there’s just a ton of things that they can be used for. One of the ways to use it, the most common way, is to apply ink through the stencil to create a beautiful background. I used Simon’s Deep Sea ink, it’s a nice deep blue, and blended color through the Folk Dance stencil onto my paper to create a bold background.
This particular design looked very Scandinavian to me, and I associate blue with this style so I knew I wanted to use a lot of blue, mainly blue color for my cards today. I blended this ink rather heavily onto the paper and I just went with one solid color. If you have smaller ink blending tools, like little daubers, you can do selective ink blending and blend the flowers in red and yellow and keep the leaves blue.
You can also dry emboss with the stencil – its like en embossing folder, it can emboss your paper but the impression is not going to be as deep. I used my Platinum die cutting machine from Spellbinders to dry emboss my ink blended background as well as just a piece of white cardstock with the help of the stencil.
I just love this look of white on white – there’s just nothing quite like it. You can also try it on colored cardstock, but white is a winner in my book.
CARD DETAILS – TEXTURE PASTE
Another thing I like to use my stencils with is texture paste. I used texture paste from Ranger and applied a very heavy layer of my paste onto Soft Navy cardstock from Simon Says Stamp – still going for that white and blue look.
I loved the result, I got dimension, I got texture – I basically got everything I wanted from this background with this paste.
CARD DETAILS – ALTERING THE STENCIL WITH MASKING
One last thing I wanted to share is using just parts of a stencil. I masked some areas of my stencil so that I could change up the look. This stencil has a pattern to it – there are repeating elements on it, and I wanted to break it up apart without actually physically breaking the stencil; I wanted to use these elements separately to create a different arrangement on my background. I still used the same elements, I simply changed how they were arranged on my background.
This handmade card uses Nuvo Drops to create flower centers. Want to see 4 other ways you can use Nuvo Drops from Tonic Studios in card making? Check out this article – 5 Ways to Use Nuvo Drops.
I blended the same Soft Navy ink and formed a floral frame keeping the central part of my panel white. I think I had the most fun creating this background – as it gave me a completely different look to my card.
I also added a bit of color this background by using my Nuvo drops in yellow, red and gray. I used gray for the filler dots – so any blue dots that weren’t flower centers I coated a lot of those in gray and than used yellow as the flower center for large flowers and red for the small flowers. And I loved how I was able to easily add color to this background. And this also helped me to cover up some of the imperfect blending spots that I had on my card.
The sentiments for all 4 of my projects came from an older stamp set from Simon – I heat embossed them in white embossing powder onto blue cardstock, trimmed into strips and foam mounted onto the cards.
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Simon Says Stamp is giving away a $25 coupon to every stop on the hop from the blog comment section. So leave a comment below for your chance to win! Winners will be announced on Simon’s blog on Wednesday.
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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 Stencils Folk Dance Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Clear Stamps Kind Flowers Shop at: SSS |
 Spellbinders Platinum Die Cutting Machine Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts White Embossing Powder PW110 Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun PW200 Shop at: SSS |
 Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stam Deep Sea Dye Ink Pad Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Embossing Ink Pad Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Soft Navy Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp White Pigment Ink Pad Shop at: SSS |
 Spellbinders Magnetic Handy Mat Shop at: SSS |
 Ranger Mini Round Foam Refils Shop at: SSS |
 Ranger Mini Round Ink Blending Tools Shop at: SSS |
 Tsukineko 6 Sponge Daubers Tools Shop at: SSS |
 Ranger Texture Paste Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Metal Palette Knife Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Oyster Gray Nuvo Crystal Drops Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic English Mustard Nuvo Crystal Drops Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Red Berry Gloss Nuvo Crystal Drops Shop at: SSS |
 ScraPerfect Crafting Pouch Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Studios 8.5 Inch Paper Trimmer Shop at: SSS |
 Scor-tape 2 1/2 Inch Crafting Tape Shop at: SSS |
 White Fun Foam 12 Pack 9 x 12 Shop at: SSS |
 Scrapbook Adhesives White Foam Squares Shop at: SSS |
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Lovely work!
The stencils and
paste/inks looks
so pretty?
Carla from Utah
Your backgrounds are so so beautiful!!
Great ideas for any stencil
Super lovely cards using just one stencil. Really shows the versatility of the Folk Dance stencil. Thanks for the wonderful inspiration.
Love how you can do so many things with one product.
Gorgeous cards Yana, I love the colour combination, it’s clean and fresh. Thanks!
Beautiful, as always!
Thanks for showing multiple ways to use one product! I agree, your blue and white colors are great with this stencil!
Thanks for all the stencil ideas!
Blue and white is absolutely my favorite color combination and these cards are SO beautiful, Yana! Love the embossed on.
Love the blue with this stencil!!
What a beautiful stencil. Thank you for showing so many ways to use it. I love the texture and designs you created. Thank you for sharing.
I LOVE these cards that you created! What lovely ideas you have and what a great way to make use of that stencil! Thanks for sharing your techniques!
Once you added the Nuvo drops it really caught my eye!
What a great idea to tape off a portion of the stencil. Cute card, and I’m amazed at the difference the Nuvo Drops made to the end result
Love your cards used with this cool stencil. I live in the PHX are as well and have learned the hard way that the pastes dry out very quickly. I had purchased some very expensive pre-tinted pastes then because of life’s circumstances, didn’t use them right away. They all dried out–I tried re-wetting, and other ways to try to get them to work, no luck. I have learned that if I want to use a embossing cream, I’m better off just tinting it myself with inks or adding glitter and then it won’t dry out.
Jessica has inspired me to get back in to the flow. Now I see your card…I badly want to win so I can attempt to recreate these card. Thx for the chance.
Your stencil work is amazing! Love the color combo!
Gorgeous cards Yana, absolutely love them. :o)
I love the folksy look of these cards – especially the blue and white versions. What a great stencil!
Love all the cards you made and this blue is goregous
Love how you used this stencil in so many ways!
Those are all just stunning!
This stencil was on my wish list from the first time I saw it. Your work puts it in first place!
Will have to use my stencils a little more now…wonderful projects and love that blue!
Love your backgrounds. The blue paper and the blue ink are so beautiful
Beautiful designs. The cards are beautiful.
Gorgeous Scandinavian effects! Wow!
Love the blue and white. I admire your tenacity getting that embossing paste out of the jar!
Simply gorgeous!!!!
As always, your projects are gorgeous! Thanks for sharing such beautiful inspiration. That stencil is goegeous!
Love the cards and the colors you used! Also love that you leave in the things that didn’t work for you! You always inspire me to want to get in there and create and try new things! Thank you!
Your cards are beautiful ! I love your choice of colors. I would say my favorite version is the ink blended with the dry embossing. Thank you for sharing.
Enjoyed your video! I love how u show the trial and error also, so much part of the fun. I also liked the masking of the stencil to give another look. Thank you!
Love the pretty blue and white cards! Loving that stencil too!
They are all so wonderful, I can’t pick a favorite! Love that gorgeous blue. Nicely done.
This looks amazing. Such a lovely set of cards and love the different dimension that you created 🙂
Thank you SO much for this video! I love getting a variety of ideas of how to use a product! Your cards are beautiful and show some great ideas for using stencils!
Beautiful use of the stencils. Love it!
Love the blue and white! Thanks for all the ideas for using that stencil, which I have to order!
Beautiful set of cards using this stencil.
Such a beautiful idea and very country looking with the blue and white. Thank you.
There are so many cool things going on with this release. Just saw how many ways they can be used!
Very lovely backgrounds.Thanks!
I love these cards! I especially like the last one with the Nuvo Drops on it – very festive!
Stunning cards! LOVE that stencil, and my favourite shade of blue too!
Brilliant! Love to see many ways to use our products!!!!
Yana, I love this stencil and what you did with it. These cards remind me of Delft Blue china. They are beautiful and the stencil is great. One I’d like to own.
Thanks for the video.
Yana these cards are just gorgeous! Love how you used the stencils.
Those deep blue and white cards are so beautiful. I love the new stencil. Thanks for the inspiration.