Good morning friends!! It’s here…the greatest stamping time of the year: Simon Says Stamp’s STAMPtember!! Hooray!! I am so honored and excited to be part of the Simon Says Stamp family and I look forward to sharing the festivities with you all month long! AND I decided to set a personal goal this year…I plan to have a video tutorial and project on my blog everyday ALL month long! So…30 videos filled with STAMPtember goodness! I’ll be sharing projects using the new STAMPtember release as well as the exclusive STAMPtember collaborations! Today we’re kicking things off and I’ve created a card using the GORGEOUS Beautiful Flowers 2 with alcohol inks and foiling!
You can watch the video below or at my YouTube channel here.
To start I squirted alcohol blending solution on a piece of yupo paper. Then I alternated dropping watermelon, flamingo, wild plum, and purple twilight alcohol ink over the blending solution. I used an air puffer to blend and move the ink around. Once the panel was totally covered and mostly dry I pressed a foil sheet over the alcohol ink. The foil adheres to the sticky wet areas of alcohol ink leaving a subtle metallic sparkle. I repeated the process until I was happy with the foil coverage.
Next I placed the alcohol-inked panel in my MISTI and the gorgeous floral arrangement from Beautiful Flowers 2 onto the lid of my MISTI. I inked the stamp with Tim Holtz’s Alcohol Lift Ink pad and stamped it on the panel. The stamp “lifts” the ink off the panel leaving behind a paler, shadow-like image. Then I removed the panel, replaced it with a piece of white cardstock, and stamped it again to transfer the ink from the stamp to the white cardstock for a future card! 😉
Finally I played off the metallic sparkle from the foil and die-cut the sentiment with gold glitter cardstock. Then I die-cut the shadow from white cardstock and adhered them together. I trimmed the panel down and adhered it to a white card base before adding the sentiment. Simple but striking! 🙂
Thanks so much for visiting today! Happy STAMPtember and I’ll see you tomorrow with another card! 😉 Have a fabulous holiday weekend!
Of course I’m going to kick off STAMPtember with a giveaway! Would you like to win one item from the new STAMPtember release? If so, comment and let me know what you’d like to win and I’ll choose a winner on September 8th to win that item! Good luck!
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I would love to win the clear stamp ornate ornaments. Getting excited about Christmas on this first day of September!
I love the Plank Stamp and the Tiny Words stamp set. Those are my faves.
I love your card – the beautiful pinks and gold together are stunning. My favourite stamp from the Stamptember release is the Ornate Ornaments. Can’t wait to see everyone’s projects.
Your card is gorgeous! I love playing with alcohol ink. My favorite from the new release is the Big Picture Book Kitty, it’s adorable.
This is absolutely stunning Jessica 😍 love the colors and gold. Hope your lift ink pad is OK 😉
This card is gorgeous. The colors, the gold foil, the stamp set… oh my! I would love to win the Beautiful flowers 2 stamp set. It just lovely. Thanks for sharing.
Wow, Jess, This is sooo beautiful! Love the gorgeous colors & the lifting is the perfect touch! Thanks for sharing this beauty!!
What a pretty card and great give away. I have been wanting to try alcohol lift ink for some time. This just gave me more encouragement. I would love to win that. Thanks
I just realized the lift ink is not part of the release. So I think the nature’s mandala stamp would be my favorite thanks again for the tutorial and give away.
Beautiful card! I really
like the Simon Says
Clear Stamps NAUGHTY
AND NICE ELVES. They
are really cute.
Carla from Utah
Your card is lovely–I really like the gorgeous colors you used with the pop of gold, and the techniques you showed in your video look like a lot of fun to try! I like so many things in this release but at the top of my list is the birthday candle stamp set.
Stunning! The colors are so rich. Love the touches of gold. I think the STAMPtember set that I could see myself reaching for over and over would be the tiny sentiments. I never seem to have enough sentiment sets.
I’d like the Christmas ornaments set!
Your card is stunning!
Mine is the same as Amy above…the Thank You Die Cut Set. What is your “puffer?”
Hi Katie, it’s an air puffer for cleaning your camera lens! But it works great for moving around alcohol inks!!
Such a beautiful card!! So many amazing things in SSS release–they rock, don’t they?? To pick one, its difficult. I’m loving the big picture book dies (so cute!!) and the gorgeous flower stamps…
This is such an exciting release! I just adore the Beautiful Flowers 2 stamp set. Oh so lovely! TFS!
Beautiful card. Thanks for sharing. My favourite thing to win would be the misti!
Your card is so beautiful!!
My favorite so far on of the Simon Says Stamp release is the Simon Says Cling Rubber Stamp CENTER CUT HOLIDAY ICONS
How exciting!! Beautiful Flowers 2 is stunning!! Happy Stamptember!
I love the alcohol lift technique. Beautiful. I think my favorite release is the Elves! Thank you for sharing
That’s an amazing card ! I love your alcohol ink backgrounds so much ! About your question, it’s so hard to choose just one item but I think I will go with the Ornate Ornaments stamp set. Thank you so much for your generosity !
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Beautiful cards! I would choose Beautiful Flowers 2.
Wow!!! Awesome card!!! Your colouring technique is really stunning!!! My fav is Birthday Numbers stamp set!
Amazing card Jessica, it really is stunning!!! I love the little bit of gold foil with the vibrant pinks, reds and purples. If I could pick one item to receive I think it would be the Nature Mandala. Thank you for the give-away!!!
This is just gorgeous! Love the Thank you!
Wow what an amazing look you created on this card! I love the Tiny Words set.