Hi and welcome to my blog! I am so happy to take part in the Simon Says Stamp Blog Hop to celebrate the new Celebrate release. If you are following along in the hop, you should have come here from Bibi Cameron.
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The
Celebrate release is full of wonderful new and versatile stamps, stencils, dies, ink and sequins.
You can find the entire Celebrate release here. If you use the code GHBD you can get the Groovy Happy Birthday die FREE with any purchase. until 4/21 at 11:59 pm EDT. Make sure that you follow the instructions on the image above to claim your free gift.
I made a tag, but it can also be turned into a card. Let's start.
I made large dimensional flowers for my project, but not with a flower die. I like to use dies in different ways and these flowers were made with the new
Simon Says Stamp Whirl Butterflies, from the
Celebrate release. When I saw the butterfly die, I immediately thought the wings would make great petals. The background is stenciled with a shadow effect.
Ink with Distress Ink. The embossing will resist the ink.
Place the stencil back on the design, off-setting it slightly. Ink with Uncharted Mariner and Black Soot, for a shadow effect.
For the flowers, first create a bunch of paper. Smear Distress Ink on a non-stick craft sheet, mist with water and press the paper into the ink. Let dry and repeat.
Cut off the smaller wings with a pair of scissors.
Glue two pairs of wings together like this.
And then glue the two sets together to create a flower.
I made two large flowers and one small. Place smaller flowers in the large ones.
Fringe a piece of scrap paper.
Roll the paper and glue the end to create fringe flowers.
Glue the fringed flowers to the center of the butterfly flowers.
Stamp some of the sentences from
Simon Says Stamp Just a Note Notes on scrap paper and cut into strips. You can find a lot of useful sentiments on this set. Remember that you don't have to use the entire sentiments. I also added some Tim Holtz Mirrored Stars.
The ribbon coordinates with the tag, since the same inks were used.
This is an easy way to create a 3-D effect with a stencil.
The flowers are quite dimensional. They would also make great gift toppers and/or fridge magnets.
I used lighter colored paper for the larger petals and slightly darker petals for the smaller flower.
This is the small flower, using only the wings from the small butterfly.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial!
Don't miss all the inspiration along the hop. There are of course prizes to be won too, and at each stop on the hop SSS is giving away a $25 coupon, randomly drawn from those who leave a comment. The winners will be posted post on the
Simon Says Stamp store blog on 24 April.
Your next stop on the hop is
Heather Hoffman. Don't miss to see the wonderful project she has created. If you get lost along the way, here are all the stops:
For more inspiration, remember to check out the
Celebrate gallery at Simon Says Stamp, and if you make something with products from the range, it is fun if you post it in the galleries too. There are
galleries for all releases, and for the card kits, full of inspiration.
This is the first Celebrate blog hop, don't miss blog hop number day number 2, which is tomorrow.
Thank you so much for stopping by here today!
Happy crafting!
Anna-Karin
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