Simon Says Stamp Born To Sparkle Blog Hop

Hey, hello! Today I’m excited to be participating in a blog hop to celebrate the latest Simon Says Stamp release – Born To Sparkle! You should be arriving here from Kath Stewart’s blog but if not, you can click back to the beginning of the hop at the Simon Says Stamp blog.

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I have two cards to share today, both made with the lovely Spring Bouquet stamp set from the Born To Sparkle release. Both of these gorgeous floral stamps are included in the set!

For my first card I stamped the arrangement onto watercolor cardstock with Versafine Onyx Black ink and heat set with clear embossing powder. Then I used my Mijello Mission Gold watercolors to paint the arrangement.

I used the leftover paint mixes to dilute and paint a pale, washy background that coordinates with the flowers, then once that was dry, added paint speckles to finish.

To finish the card, I used a metal ruler and Xacto blade to cut a straight line on either side of the florals, then fussy cut the bottom portion of the leaves and flower arrangement.

I paired the painted flowers with a textured cardstock that complimented the paint colors I’d used, and stamped “love you” from the Spring Bouquet stamp set and the “mom” from the Sassy Mama stamp set from last month’s release. I stamped with more Versafine ink and heat set with clear embossing powder.

Finally, I covered the back of the painted panel with foam tape to pop it up over top of the colored cardstock panel.

For my second card, I used the other floral arrangement stamp in the Spring Bouquet set and stamped it diagonally across a slimline card panel of watercolor paper.

I positioned the stamp and paper in the MISTI so that I could stamp once in one direction, then flip the paper panel around and stamp again on the other half of the panel. I stamped with Versamark ink and heat set with gold embossing powder.

I painted these flowers and leaves very simply, again using Mijello Mission Gold watercolor paints. When dry, I splattered with more paint coordinate and “finish” the card.

I used the large Congrats on a Line die from this release to die cut the sentiment from gold cardstock, along with an accent strip to run along the bottom of the card.

Your next, and last stop on this blog hop, is Tina Smith’s blog, but before you go, here are some things you should know.

You can check out the complete release here.
Did you know there are individual galleries for each of Simon’s releases? Where designers like you and me, can post our projects to inspire others! (Don’t forget to share your work in ALL of the galleries.) You can check out the Born To Sparkle one here.
Take note of the free ink cube set, free with a purchase of $25 or more. The code (CRUSH428) is in the blog hop graphic at the top of the page. This promo expires May 2, 11:59 EDT.
Leave a comment here for the chance to win a $25 GC to Simon Says Stamp! Winners will be posted on the Simon Says Stamp blog on Wed, May 5. (Email Simon to claim your prize.)
This is the 2nd of two blog hops. You can check out the 1st one here.
I shared two other projects this week, with the Born To Sparkle release products. You can see them here.

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