Hi everyone! I’m excited to join Simon Says Stamp for a Hop To It Blog Hop today! We are all sharing projects using the wonderful Hop To It release which includes stamps, dies and more!
I created two cards using almost identical supplies and I experimented a bit with different color mediums to achieve a very bright and bold and a soft pastel looks. I used the Hand Lettered Encouragement set. I absolutely love the You Are Remarkable sentiment, I think its perfect for many-many occasions, and there are lots of other great encouraging sentiments in this set; I also really like the big and bold font, I think these sentiments would look spectacular when stamped in black ink and this is actually what I’m going to be doing today for one of my cards.
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The second stamp set that I have is called Artful Flowers and I really like these outline floral images. There’s lots you can do with them, you can stamp the outline in black and color them using matching solid images, or you can first stamp the solid image in a bright color and than stamp the matching outline in white ink, I think that would look very beautiful. You can also use the solid images on their own, and the same goes for the outline images, and you can of course color these using markers, pencils, daubers – really just anything! Stunning flowers and you can never have too many flower stamps.
VIDEO
If you would like to know how I made these you can watch my video below or on Youtube:
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The winner is: Lysa! Congratulations!
HOP ALONG
Simon Says Stamp Blog
Shari Carroll
Kristina Werner
Jennifer McGuire
Debby Hughes
Laura Bassen
Nichol Magouirk
Lucy Abrams
Kathy Racoosin
Yana Smakula – you are here!
Wanda Guess
Anna-Karin Evaldsson
Yoonsun Hur
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What stunning cards – I love how you used the sentiment stamp as a background!
I’ve never heard of alcohol markers. Thanks for the tutorial. I love these stamps!
Yana, I totally agree that you can never have too many flowers!!! Love what you did with the stamps & how you achieved different looks with the same supplies! That’s super-inspirational, thank you for sharing!
Beautiful cards! I really appreciate you doing pastels and brights – I like the comparison and the flower set is a must buy NOW for me!! It looks hand drawn and is really appealing to me since I do not draw that well… thanks for sharing!
Nice to get different looks from one set!
Love your flowers, great cards!
Your cards are gorgeous!! WOW!
Just found u . . . Love!
Both of these cards are gorgeous. Love the background made form the sentiment s & the coloring is awesome on both. I think the 2nd is my favorite just for the softer colors. Great job!
Gorgeous cards!
Wow, both the bright and the muted cards are beautiful.
Those are great cards! Love the 2 different coloring, easy to see how many different cards you can make with only one stamp set! Thank you so much!
Nice diecut work…thanks for sharing.
lovely use of color i love what you did with the fonts and patterns
Gorgeous, unique cards with an incredible look all their own!! You have just amazed me!!!
Really cute card!
Gorgeous cards. Thanks for sharing.
Yana, I’m ususally not a flower card kinda girl, but your cards are lovely. I love the bold colored one. Thanks for the video and those markers are interesting.
I love the sharp contrast between the colorful flowers and the black stamped background in the first card! I am actually a big fan of stamped background 🙂
Stunningly beautiful cards!
I can’t believe how different the cards are!
Absolutely gorgeous!! Thanks for the video sharing your technique. 🙂
Angie
I think the handlettered encouragement is my favourite from this release! I love your work. Thanks for sharing.
Love the way you made the background. The bright version is glorious. Hugz
WOW ! What a super awesome background you made, it is so striking!
A unique and beautiful card!
Beautiful cards! I love how you used the sentiment to make a background. Great idea!
Beautiful cards. Love every image. Oh and my husband wants you to know that you can have too many floral images. I’m living proof of it. MEN!!!
Gorgeous! I love those flowers. They just pop off the card!
Lovely cards. Beautiful colors.
Both cards are so pretty!
Beautiful cards! Great inspiration!
THe flowers are so beautiful. Love the look
Such beautiful cards!
Gorgeous cards!!!
Absolutely beautiful!
Wonderful cards!
Gosh, I love them both! Great text BG and colored flowers!
love the pastel colors!
Both are very beautiful!
These are gorgeous. I can’t wait to play with these products.
Really like all thr layered dimensions. Will definitely have to try it.
Fun to see the two approaches! Especially love the bold one but both are beautiful!
I am loving the graphics of your cards! Beautifully done!
I love the backgrounds on both of your cards! I’ve been afraid to try that technique for fear I’ll mess up! I might have to try it now that I’ve seen how striking both of your cards are!
I love the two very different books you got!!
Amazing what that pop of colour does! Beautiful!
Stunning!!
Great cards! Love your background choices!
Beautiful cards! I especially love the first one. The brightly colored flowers really POP against the black and white background!!