SSS Card Kit - Celebrate You!

Hello all!

Today I'm playing with the SSS April card kit again. I took to color cues from the card kit and chose to work with bright pinks and oranges. I used Picked Raspberry and Spiced Marmalade distress inks for both cards.

For this first card I cut a star using my Silhouette and used it as a mask. I sponged on a lot of Picked Raspberry and Spiced Marmalade and then splattered it with silver acrylic paint thinned with water. After I removed this mask I splattered with black paint and added some enamel dots.

This second card uses a stencil from My Favorite Things which I sponged lots of Picked Raspberry and Spiced Marmalade through. After embossing the sentiment from the card kit I used a die to cut a star through the sentiment. I stacked up three layers of black cardstock under the sentiment to create a popped-up section.

Here is a close up:

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Mix It Up Challenge - Flowers

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Today I have a card to share that I created for the Ellen Hutson Mix It Up Challenge. The challenge is to create a card that uses both Essentials by Ellen and Lawn Fawn products. I used a sentiment from the Lawn Fawn Hello Friend stamp set and the Essentials by Ellen Bold Blooms die sets.

I started with a kraft card base which I stenciled with MFT Natural dye ink.

To create the flowers I used distress inks on watercolor paper. I started with a light wash and then added layers of color. I die cut the flowers from the watercolor paper.

I splattered the card base with a white acrylic paint/water mix, popped up the flowers on foam tape and added some white enamel dots to finish it off.

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Just One More Yay!

I couldn't stop stamping these Yay! stamps using my MISTI, so I have one more card to share with you - the last one, I promise!

For this card I stamped the Yay! with versamark and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. I used lots of distress inks to make it rainbow and fun! After the distress ink was dry I splattered the panel with a white acrylic paint/water mix.

After stamping the "It's Your Birthday" sentiment along the side of the panel in two shades of gray, I finished the card with silver baker's twine and silver glitter enamel dots.

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Multiples With MISTI - SSS April Cart Kit (take 2!)

While I had my MISTI out to make the card set I shared yesterday, I decided to continue stamping (since it is so easy to do!) and make a variation on the card.

I used the Wplus9 Storybook Collection dye ink pads to stamp the Yay! repeatedly:

I stamped the striped stamp from the SSS Hand Lettered Winter Wishes in Versamark ink and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder. 

Here are all four cards in the set:

I was so into stamping the Yay! stamp with the MISTI that there still may be one more card left to share...

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Multiples with MISTI - SSS April Card Kit

As many before me have discovered, the MISTI is truly an amazing tool! When I got my Simon Says Stamp April card kit, I knew I wanted to create a set of cards using the MISTI. I used the large "YAY!" from the stamp set to create a repeated stamping panel:

I used the triangle stamp and the "It's Your Day" stamp from the SSS "Sparkle and Shine" set. The Yay! panel is popped off the card base. I added some silver thread behind the sentiment and some silver glitter enamel dots to finish it off.

I used four colors of cardstock from My Favorite Things: Grape Jelly, Sour Apple, Razzle Berry, and Blu Raspberry. Here are the other three color combos:

The MISTI makes is so easy to stamp all of these cards at once! Here are all four cards together:

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