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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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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Loved all your cards but especially the masked card with Nuvo drops. They just added a hint of color to make the card come to life. I also love the Folk Dance stencil. It’s wonderful! Thanks for sharing.
A beautiful stencil and lots of good techniques. Thanks, Yana.
Beautiful cards and great idea to mask of an area of the stencil to get a different look 🙂
Gorgeous cards, love the white and blue palette and the folk dance stencil is on my wish list!, Cathy x
Fantastic cards, I absolutely love the blue with this stencil. Thanks for sharing your “fail” in the video. Nice reminder to not be able to try new things and I really liked the effect on the blue cardstock even though it wasn’t what you were going for.
I meant nice reminder to not be afraid to try new things. 🙂
Beautiful cards. Love this stencil.
I love these! Thanks for offering many ways to use the stencils. I learned a ton!
I love the colors and how you used the stencil in several different ways! Thanks for sharing!
Very lovely cards!!
Thanks for all of the great ideas on how to use this great new stencil. Your cards are beautiful!
These cards are so beautiful, Yana! And thank you for the video sharing your process – including the parts you didn’t like.
I really enjoyed your video because of the process that you were able to show. Love the imperfections turned into perfection. The reality of messy a little 😉
Very pretty cards. I love the textured paste card technique.
These are really gorgeous, Yana, I really love this stencil 🙂
I really don’t use my stencils enough. These are beautiful.
Eye catching use of color. Thank you, love the blues.
WOW! Awesome techniques using this new stencil! Beautiful cards! Thanks for the video!
The cards are beautiful but my favorite
is the first. The blue with the yellow centers
just speaks spring and happy.
thanks for sharing
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Really like your cards. Using different ideas was very helpful. Appreciated you leaving in the ones that didn’t work as well as you wanted them to.
Always an inspiration! so many ways to use 1 stencil! Gorgeous cards! Thank you!
I’ve never thought to alter a stencil before, but I really like how you did it. Your cards turned out great. Thanks for the inspiration!
Love these! The blues are gorgeous and LOVE the white!! Never thought about dry embossing with a stencil…brilliant ♥
This stencil held no interest to me until I saw what you did with it. It’s amazing how the right color choices make it so amazing! It’s now going on my wishlist. Your cards are fantastic!
Really really gorgeous card! I love the color of the blue.
In this release from sss, I think that the best is the stencil!!!
I want to take it.
Thanks always Yana!
I live in a small town with a very strong Swedish heritage, and your cards definitely have that aesthetic. Just lovely,,
Such beautiful cards using the new stencil!
Stunning cards, I love blue and white, that stencil is definitely on my wish list.
Your clean and simple designs just make these cards look so classy!
WOW! So pretty. You have amazing talent. Thanks for sharing those cards gave me some great ideas. I really like the products that SSS is coming out with.
Love all your cards but the one with the texture paste is my favorite.
These are all great cards, my favorite is the white on white.
Lovely cards. Blue is my favourite colour and does justice to this stencil.
Love your blue and white cards, they are so beautiful and so fun to see all the different uses of a cool stencil. Thanks
I am drawn to the Scandinavian-like colors. Beautiful ideas, multiple ways!
So pretty.. love all these techniques. All these are amazing.
Thanks SO MUCH for sharing how you masked the stencil card and used Nuvo drops. for AWESOME color! I am in love the Folk Dance stencil.
All of your ideas are wonderful and your cards turned out beautifully! Thanks for sharing your failed attempts as well because they provide good tips on things to avoid.
Your cards turned out so well – absolutely beautiful! And thanks for reminding me that we can mask out our stencils…versatility is such a good thing.
Your cards are gorgeous as always. I love blue, and that Ocean Blue is breathtaking. Of course you could have used any color on your cards and they would be just as beautiful. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for the great video! You sure have been busy creating lovely cards!
What a great stencil. Blue is usually not one of my favorite colors, but you changed my mind! Thank you for the beautiful looks!
These are lovely! I adore the sharp contrast of the blue and white, and the pops of the other primary colors give the fourth design so much energy. The white-on-white embossing is so simple and elegant, especially with the crisp blue sentiment.
Darling!
Thanks for the beautiful inspiration
My favorite if your Cards is the texture paste card – fabulous ❤️
Great cards and colors. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
Wow! Thanks for the great ideas. I always forget about using a stencil to emboss. Thanks for the reminder, and for the wonderful directions.
What a wonderful assortment of cards using one stencil. I think my favorite is the white one. So simple but beautiful. I love the one that was masked also. All of them are beautiful.
Beautiful cards and great techniques! Also, gorgeous stencil!
You used my favorite color. I love anything blue! I am also finding I will need the Folk Dance stencil. Thanks for inspiring me.
Wow, one stencil, so versatile. I loved this video. Thanks so much.