Simon Says Stamp New Spring Release – My Favorite!

 

 

Hello there, my dear crafty friends! I'm back from a few days at the ocean with my sweetie, and ready to get busy crafting again! We had a really nice time in the pretty Northern California area….Saw lighthouses, beaches, gorgeous flowers…and on the way home….some wineries too! I'm always grateful that I live in a place with such bountiful things to do. On with the business at hand now! Today our friends at Simon Says Stamp are introducing a brand new AWESOME release called "My Favorite!" And, it might just be my favorite release! There are so many cute items in this product line up. The cards practically made themselves! I couldn't stop making things! I'm featuring some watercolor cards today. Then Friday is a GIANT blog hop full of inspiration from the new release. And I'll be back again with more on Saturday's Weekender with Wanda post on the Simon Says Stamp blog. Whew! I told you it was gonna be good. 

With each new product release lately, SSS has a beautiful set of pre-printed watercolor cards for you to grab and color. They are printed on high quality watercolor paper and allow you to quickly make a card that is beautiful. I love to take these with me when I travel too. Just bring your favorite markers or watercolors, and a brush, and you're ready to get crafty. I made two cards for you today. This time I ended up fussy cutting the images out of the watercolor panel and then mounting them onto cards using some patterned papers. I added accents of glitter and pearls. I adore using my Kuretake Zig Clean Color Brush Markers and used them on these cards today. 

Here is the first one – a lovely Thank You card! 

 

 

And the second card is a sweet elephant birthday card! 

 

 

I used my Zig Markers and colored all the parts of the image. I added a soft lavender color to the center of the heart. It was really hard to choose colors – I had so many ideas! After my image was all colored and dry, I cut it out by hand using my detail scissors. Then I cut a stitched rectangle of striped paper for a background layer. The heart is attached to the card using foam squares for dimension. 

 

 

A bit of twine at the top finishes it off. I used Hero Arts glitter with a glue pen to add accents to the word "You" and the centers of the big flowers. Then I couldn't stop…so I added some pearls too! Extra feminine and pretty. You can never have enough thank you cards on hand! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a close up of that SUPER cute elephant image…and his GIANT balloon! This is seriously too adorable! I chose a bright hot pink for the balloon (Kuretake markers again) and put down a big swash of color! My elephant is a soft grey with some accent colors on his party hat. 

 

 

As with the first card, I added little pops of glitter to this image. 

 

I cut the elephant and balloon out of the watercolor card and mounted it to my card base using foam squares. For my background, I used two of the same colors from the main image and created a speckled effect. I used the Tim Holtz Splatter Brush to sprinkle the colors onto watercolor paper!