Today’s post is part of a blog hop to celebrate all the new releases from Simon Says Stamp. It’s been a busy week with the December Card Kit, Advent release and Limited Edition Holiday Card Kit. I’ve got LOTS to share today so grab a cuppa and put your feet up for a few moments :D I’ve linked all supplies at the end of this post. Compensated affiliate links used.
LIMITED EDITION HOLIDAY CARD KIT
I love the vintage feel to the Limited Edition Holiday Card Kit! The kit is absolutely jam-packed and I couldn’t stop making things. Even then I only touched the surface of the supplies included.
The first thing I pulled out was the Swell Christmas stamp set to watercolor this classic Santa. You can find all the details for this card here along with a look at lots of vintage inspiration :D
Next I was rummaging for the Tim Holtz stencil and Retro Deer die. On a piece of watercolor card cut with a Stitched Rectangle I stencilled the trees in Bundled Sage, Pine Needles and Iced Spruce before swiping Grit Paste through the stencil here and there to represent snow.
I cut the Retro Deer die from more watercolor card and blended Antique Linen, Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain before rubbing in Multi Medium Matte and then dunking in the Rock Candy Distress glitter. I also squeezed a little of the red Joyful stickles on his nose ;) From the Cream card in the kit I made a side folding card base and covered the front in some of the Authentique patterned paper.
Then I rubbed Antique Linen Distress ink around everything and added to the card base with foam adhesive. I love the My Mind’s Eye stickers and picked out the large Joy one along with a few circles to embellish. Oh and I added a few drops of Platinum stickles here and there too.
To go along with the two cards I made a few little extras :D Top left is a Pillow Box cut from the patterned paper with one of the Natural Mini Tags stamped with a sentiment from Swell Christmas in Schoolhouse Red, Fern and Khaki with a My Mind’s Eye sticker.
Lower left I used the Cream Mini Envelope and added paper and a Stitched Circle plus My Mind’s Eye Sticker. Oh and I stamped the ‘to’ and dotted lines in Dark Chocolate using the Make An Invitation set.
Finally for the Stitched Tag lower right I used the Swell Christmas set, stamping the banner in Schoolhouse Red and heat embossing the bells before trimming out and rubbing with Antique Linen. I loosely watercolored a background and then layered all the elements including a My Mind’s Eye sticker.
DECEMBER CARD KIT
Let’s switch from vintage to cute and take a look at the December Card Kit :D Our extended family has lots of teens and young adults and so at Christmas time I find I need plentiful supplies of gift card and money envelopes. I used the mini envelope included in the kit as a template and trimmed out three envelopes from the Doodlebug patterned papers.
I stamped several of the images from the Merry & Bright set in Intense Black ink, trimmed out and colored with Copics and added extra depth and details with pencils, Spica glitter pens, white gel pen and glossy accents.
For each envelope I cut a Stitched Hill to ground the mini scenes and sentiments were white heat embossed on Lipstick Red or Green Leaf card and trimmed out.
Each envelope was held closed with bakers twine and a die cut Aubrey snowflake accented with sequins. For the final envelope I popped on the mail box from the Doodlebug stickers and added some of the envelopes just being posted off to Santa :D
Here’s one more inspiration from the December Card Kit which I blogged about a few days ago here – love pencils on kraft!
ADVENT RELEASE
The mail system is starting to show signs of the heavy workload at this time of the year so my Advent release sets only just arrived. I wanted to delve straight in to the Christmas Town set and so I thought it would be fun to show you a peek of my ‘work in progress’.
So far I’ve stamped the images in Intense Black ink, masked them and the hillside before blending in Rosie Cheeks and Melon inks. I then cut the panel with a Stitched Rectangle and swept embossing paste through the Falling Snow stencil. I do love the look of this pastel card so far and although I’m going to add some color to the scene I think I will keep it light and soft :D I’ll get this card blogged once it’s finished and photographed :D
STOCK LEVELS
It’s understandable with such an awesome week of releases that the new products have been selling fast! The December Card Kit has sold out but the kit components are available separately. Please see the bottom of this post where I look at what’s included in the kit and link all the products. Hot cakes comes to mind with The Limited Edition Holiday Card Kit too. As I write this there are still some kits available but have been selling faster than was anticipated. If the Limited Edition Holiday Card Kit does sell out then again you can find a full list of what’s included on this post where I link to the individual products. Finally the Advent release, which is all in stock except for the popular Christmas Town set shown above. However, you can still order this set and it will be shipped at the end of the month. Simon does everything they can to try and predict required stock levels but sometimes new products just resonate so well with people.
BLOG HOP + GIVEAWAY
As mentioned above this post is part of a hop to celebrate all the new Simon Says Stamp releases this week. Hopefully you’ve arrived here from Kristina Werner, but if not then it would be great to start at the beginning over at Simon’s blog.
I usually host giveaways here on my blog, but I thought I’d change things up a bit for those people who hang out on social media. So for the chance to win a $50 gift card to Simon Says Stamp pop over to my Instagram and leave me a comment on the post with the above picture (not here on my blog) by Sunday 11.59pm EST. Also if you tag a friend or two on that post then you get more entries so tag as many friends as you can!
OK so now it’s time to hop along. I saw a peek on Instagram of Nichol’s fabulous coloring of Santa with pencils on kraft which I can’t wait to see! ….
Nichol Spohrs
Simon Says Stamp
Tim Holtz
Shari Carroll
Kristina Werner
Debby Hughes <- you are here
Nichol Spohrs
Laura Bassen
Yana Smakula
Jessica Frost-Ballas
Wanda Guess
Nina-Marie Trapani
Heather Ruwe
Amy Rysavy
SUPPLIES
You can find links to the supplies I’ve used below; click on the picture or wording to get taken directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. You can read my affiliate and product disclosure here. I truly appreciate your support.
SSS Limited Edition 2016 Holiday Card Kit
SSS Card Kit of The Month DECEMBER 2016
SSS SWELL CHRISTMAS
SSS MERRY AND BRIGHT
SSS Christmas Town
SSS MAKE AN INVITATION
SSS STITCHED RECTANGLES
SSS STITCHED CIRCLES Dies
SSS RETRO DEER Die
SSS STITCHED DRESS UP TAGS Dies
SSS STITCHED SLOPES AND HILLS Dies
SSS AUBREY SNOWFLAKE Die
Pillow Box dies at SSS
SSS FALLING SNOW Stencil
My Mind’s Eye SUGAR PLUM Puffy Stickers
Doodlebug DEAR SANTA Doodle Pops 3D Stickers
Tim Holtz WOODLAND Stencil
Authentique RETRO CHRISTMAS 6 x 6 Paper Pad
Doodlebug HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS 6×6 Paper Pad
SSS INTENSE BLACK Ink Pad
SSS ROSIE CHEEKS Dye Ink
SSS MELON Dye Ink
SSS SCHOOLHOUSE RED
SSS FERN Dye Ink
SSS DARK CHOCOLATE Dye Ink
Simon Says Stamp Premium Dye Ink Pad KHAKI ink014
SSS Embossing Ink Pad CLEAR
Tim Holtz BUNDLED SAGE Mini Distress Ink
Tim Holtz PINE NEEDLES Mini Distress Ink Pad
Tim Holtz Distr