Sending Hugs

Hi there!!

PHEW It's getting *HOT* in Australia, I'm already melting and dreaming of winter!

I was lucky enough to be sent one of the new products from the recent Simon Says Stamp release Create Joy and I thought I'd share a cute card I made using my new die.

Instead of using it as a die, I decided to use it as an embossing tool, and for an extra kick, I decided to use an unexpected colour-palette (in a way).

 To start with I took the die, and ran it through my Big shot, with an embossing mat, instead of the cutting plate,  so that it pressed into the pale green cardstock. I repeated this process on the opposite corner of the cardstock and again on another scrap piece.

I then coloured in each of the flowers, but I decided to go with a soft tone on tone look, rather than the traditional bright red poinsettia :)  I used my Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils, but your Prismacolours of Spectrum Noirs would do the job beautifully too :)

I then cut out one of the flowers using scissors, because I wanted quite a clear border around the edge (i have to make things hard for myself!).  I finished the card off by stamping that gorgeous sentiment (another SSS goodie!) and rounded three of the corners of the stamped panel, before adhering the lot to a dark green cardbase.

To give a final little bit of interest, I adhered the third poinsettia to the top left, using dimensional adhesive. This gives a nice extra point of interest, without overwhelming the tone-on-tone look of the entire card.

Well that's it for me!

Thank you so much to Simon Says Stamp for sending me the beautiful die! It's going to get used a LOT, I can already tell.


See you again soon!


Linda x

Simon Says Stamp HOLIDAY POINSETTIA Wafer Die s312 Create Joy

Simon Says Clear Stamps BIG SCRIPTY GREETINGS sss101527 The Color of Fun

W-023 Spellbinders WIZARD TAN EMBOSSING MATS 5 x 7 twin pack

Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# GREEN APPLE GA6

Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# MIDNIGHT GREEN MG2 *

Crafter's Companion Spectrum Noir NATURE Blendable Colored Pencils SPECL-NATURE

Prismacolor PREMIER COLORED PENCILS 72 Set 3599

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