Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Friendly Frolic

I'm heading out to Junkie Fest tomorrow and I'm super excited to see some of you!

As you know - I am obsessed with Scandinavian Design, and one of the background stamps from Simon Says Stamp's new Friendly Frolic release just spoke to my heart! I decided to do kind of a faux delft with the Folk Dance stamp, and so I masked off the top section of the card, and stamped the background in Blue Raspberry ink. The sentiment was stamped in Nocturne and is from this set, and of course I used my fave sequins that I almost never make a card without :). Poof - clean and simple card!

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Scandanavian Design Card by Understand Blue








Simon Says Cling Rubber Stamp FOLK...
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Simon Says Clear Stamps BEST HUGS...
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Simon Says Stencils FOLK DANCE...
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Gina K Designs BLUE RASPBERRY PREMIUM...
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Teflon Bone Folder - Ellen Hutson LLC
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Tombow MONO MULTI Liquid Glue Two...
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Ink Off Cloth
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Next, I took one of my drunken acrylic reveal pieces, and die cut it with the new diamond pattern background die. This is such a fun die - looks like embossed sheet metal. The dies are the matching ones from this stamp set - I didn't want to interfere too much with that background. Those little dots are so fun. You can see my video for the background technique here.
Drunken Acrylic Reveal by Understand Blue









Simon Says Stamp DIAMOND PATTERN...
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Honey Bee LOVE YOU Clear Stamp Set...
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Heffy Doodle STITCHED STRIPS OF EASE...
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Tsukineko VersaFine Clair NOCTURNE...
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LUKAS CRYL Studio 125 ml Tube -...
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LUKAS CRYL Liquid Acrylic 250 ml...
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Heavy Base Weight Card Stock- White
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Absorber - Synthetic Cleaning Cloth
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Rotatrim Professional Series Cutter -...
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Sizzix BIG SHOT EXPRESS Gray and...
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Mudder 10 Pack White Buffer Sanding...
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Xyron ADHESIVE ERASER 23675
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Essentials by Ellen Storage...
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Teflon Bone Folder - Ellen Hutson LLC
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Tombow MONO MULTI Liquid Glue Two...
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Ink Off Cloth
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 For this background, I wanted to give the feeling of falling leaves, so I took the background stamp that has the same diamond pattern on it, and I just stamped once in Key Lime ink, rotated the cardstock, stamped again, and repeated it a third and fourth time.

Then I stamped the little terrarium from Plantiful Puns in Nocturne and cut it out to put on top. I love the randomness you can get from such an orderly pattern on the stamp.

Terrarium Card by Understand Blue






Simon Says Clear Stamps PLANTIFUL...
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Simon Says Cling Rubber Stamp DIAMOND...
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New Products
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Gina K Designs KEY LIME Premium Dye...
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Tsukineko VersaFine Clair NOCTURNE...
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Heavy Base Weight Card Stock- White
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MISTI Stamping Tool
[ MSW | HA | SSS | ELH | MFT ]
Absorber - Synthetic Cleaning Cloth
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Rotatrim Professional Series Cutter -...
[ BLIC ]
Mudder 10 Pack White Buffer Sanding...
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Xyron ADHESIVE ERASER 23675
[ SSS | ART | AMZUS ]
Essentials by Ellen Storage...
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Teflon Bone Folder - Ellen Hutson LLC
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Tombow MONO MULTI Liquid Glue Two...
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Ink Off Cloth
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So - in addition to the beautiful Folk Dance stamp with the Scandinavian design, there's also a background die and a stencil!

For a card with this beautiful die, I just took a piece of watercolor paper and sprayed it with water. Then I dropped Quinacridone Magenta, Hansa Yellow Medium and Turquoise Blue Hydrus liquid watercolor onto the wet paper, and then continued to spray water on it to move and blend the color. 
After that dried, I covered it with a piece of white cardstock I had die cut with the Folk Dance die. The sentiment strip is cut down from a piece I die cut with these stitched strips dies. The sentiment is one of Cathy Zielske's new sets called Tabbed Sentiments - it's the CUTEST little all sentiment set that is good for cards, for scrapbooking, the outside of envelopes - awesome. And Cathy is just generally awesome, and I love everything she does.

Scandanavian Die Cut Background with Watercolor by Understand Blue








Simon Says Stamp FOLK DANCE Wafer...
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Simon Says Stencils FOLK DANCE...
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CZ Design Clear Stamps TABBED...
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Heffy Doodle STITCHED STRIPS OF EASE...
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New Products
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Tsukineko VersaFine Clair NOCTURNE...
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Quinacridone Magenta Hydrus
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Turquoise Blue Hydrus
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Hansa Yellow Medium Hydrus
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Heavy Base Weight Card Stock- White
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MISTI Stamping Tool
[ MSW | HA | SSS | ELH | MFT ]
Absorber - Synthetic Cleaning Cloth
[ AMZUS ]
Rotatrim Professional Series Cutter -...
[ BLIC ]
Mudder 10 Pack White Buffer Sanding...
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Xyron ADHESIVE ERASER 23675
[ SSS | ART | AMZUS ]
Essentials by Ellen Storage...
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Teflon Bone Folder - Ellen Hutson LLC
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Tombow MONO MULTI Liquid Glue Two...
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Ink Off Cloth
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There is a ton more eye candy in this release, so head over to see what else is new.

Loveyameanitbye.

3 comments:

  1. I love all your cards Lydia! You always have such great ideas for your cards, in so many different mediums. The new SSS Release is awesome, I ordered a few things. Wanted more!

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  2. Folk Dance is one of my favorite stencils, so I was so happy to see it in a stamp and background die! Heaven!!! Your cards are magnificent!! Take pictures of Junkie Fest so I can know what it is!

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  3. A great bunch of examples using the new release Lydia. Well done!

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