Simon Says Stamp Falling Hearts 4 Ways!

Hello there!

This weekend I played with the latest

Simon Says Stamp Falling Hearts background stamp.

Talk about SUPER versatile!!

Let's get to it shall we...

#1. Get your favorite ink color and get inky

(You can get a little fancy too and create an ombre effect like I did below)

I actually used the Hero Arts Ombre ink Pink to Red

I took it a step further and used the

 Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangle die

to create a fun frame for a shaker card!

I used Lawn Fawn's Finley's ABCs die to cut cork letters

and used Lawn Fawn's wood veneer for the "O."

I thought it a little plain so I added my own little banner

from the scrap piece of cork I couldn't bare to throw away!

I stamped it in StazOn from Lawn Fawn's Love 'n Breakfast set.

I just loved the little heart dotted "I."

Found a new challenge to enter
D.L. Art Thankful Thursday Challenge

#2. Create a tone on tone look with colored cardstock and similar colored ink.

I used the Hero Arts Lilac Layering Paper

and inked the background stamp with 

Hero Arts Shadow inks in Grape Juice and Passion Flower.

I had a request from a friend to make a photo shaker card for his wife.

I used Lawn Fawn's Say Cheese polaroid die and cut it out

5 times on 110lb white cardstock, stacked and glued them together.

The photo was glued to the back of the stacked die cuts.

I then cut one more polaroid and added acetate paper, filled with sequins

and glued to the top.

(if there are requests I could make a video! ;o)

Stamped the sentiment and added Lawn Trimmings to complete the look.

Next up...

#3.  White heat emboss and play with watercolors!

After inking up the background stamp with Versamark ink

I sprinkled white embossing powder and heat set.

Then I got out my watercolors!

I'm totally in LOVE with my Gansai Tambi 36 color water set!

It has a beautiful rose gold color that I just swept across the card 

from side to side, putting the heaviest of color at the top.

I wanted the bottom of the card to have a similar shimmer

so I dipped the brush in this pearlescent color...

talk about GORGEOUS!!!

(check out stampnhi on Instagram to see it in action)

I kept it simple by die cutting letters from 

Lawn Fawn's Cole's ABCs

in DCWV Glitter Matstack (my favorite glitter paper of all time!)

This will be entered in Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge too
since it's pretty Clean and Simple.

The sentiment below is from Lawn Fawn's Penelope's Blossoms inked in 

Lawn Fawn's Hippo ink.

Finally...thanks for hanging in there...

#4. Create a scene!

Again I white heat embossed, but this time I wanted the concentration of hearts

towards the bottom so I did a little masking and sort of reverse stamped from bottom

of panel to top, leaving a little space for the sentiment.

The sentiment is Hero Arts/Basic Grey Be Silly and added

"MOM" with Hero Arts CL492 Typewriter Letters.

I thought it matched perfectly!

I actually stamped out the flower from 

Hero Arts Hello Flowers and masked with 

Fineline Masking Fluid before using

distress inks in Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick and Picked Raspberry.

**Note to self...don't peel the masking fluid right after inking with distress inks

it peeled my paper and I hit myself on the forehead thinking...duh...

let the ink dry first...sheesh!

So to fix it I just restamped the flower using Hero Arts Ombre inks in 

Butter to Orange for the flower and Mint to Green for the leaves,

fussy cut and adhered...can't tell right?!

Versatile right?!

There's so many techniques and designs to create with this fun

background.  I hope it's inspired you!

Ok...

A few days ago (ok about a week ago...sorry)

I had a giveaway

The lucky commenter of some bloggy goodies...

Shawna Standish!

(please e-mail me your address so I can send the goodies!)

Mahalo for stopping by!!