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I've created a few cards using some of the new product starting with the Star Flower Mandala which I've white embossed and painted with soft tones of watercolors.
I cut out around the outer edge so that I could mount the mandala to a notecard with a bit of foam tape on the back. Ok... who am I kidding... I used a lot of foam tape because well...
that's my jam!
This card is all ready for a greeting when an occasion arises!
To continue with the watercolor theme I have going, I used some Distress ink cubes to color the Flora Background (designed by my friend Kristina Werner). I spritzed the stamp with water then stamped onto a panel of white watercolor cardstock.
I added some Tim Holtz flowers and the Love die cut for a simple greeting and embellishment.
Finally, I stamped a couple of Simon Says envelopes with white embossing using the Sending Flowers stamp set. I love using the transparent envelope with bright paper inside!
GIVEAWAY!
Simon Says Stamp is giving away a prize package worth over $25 to every stop on the hop from the blogs comment section. They will choose winners over the weekend and post on the Simon Says Stamp store blog on Tuesday. Be sure to comment on every blog along the hop for a better chance to win! Good Luck!!!
Simon Says Stamp Blog
Jennifer McGuire
Kristina Werner
Laura Bassen
Shari Carroll (that's ME!!)
Nina Marie Trapani
Yana Smakula
Debby Hughes
Nichol Spoor
Anna-Karin Evaldsson
Heather Hoffman
Heather Ruwe
Suzy Plantamura
Amanda Korotkova
Virginia Lu
Jennifer McGuire
Kristina Werner
Laura Bassen
Shari Carroll (that's ME!!)
Nina Marie Trapani
Yana Smakula
Debby Hughes
Nichol Spoor
Anna-Karin Evaldsson
Heather Hoffman
Heather Ruwe
Suzy Plantamura
Amanda Korotkova
Virginia Lu
384 comments :
«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 384 of 384Gorgeous! I love the envelopes too!
Love the cards.
Beautiful cards with great ideas for using the fabulous background stamps :)
Lovely cards! I always love your color choices! Those background stamps are fabulous!
So beautiful ❤
Love these! Just beautiful!
Love the colors, its cheerful, but still looks elegant.
Wonderful cards, love your soft watercolor looks and the pretty envelopes.
OMG! These are so cute! They remind me of rainbow sherbet :)
Love your cards - your creations are always gorgeous! Thanks so much for all you share!!!
Wow gorgeous cards! So much inspiration for the background stamps!
Wow ! Out of this world ! Fantastic !
Your cards are gorgeous!!! I love the soft colour blends you've chosen. And you've convinced me to get the Sending Flowers set! What a simple and delightful way to dress up an envelope!
Really gorgeous cards! Love the soft colors!
Gorgeous colors on your card!!!!
I'm so inspired by your lovely creations. The soft Spring colors are simply Yummy!
Looooove the way you used these fantastic stamps Thanks for the inspiration. Have a Great Weekend.
What beautiful colours such a dainty look
Look at the watercolour!!! I love your cards and those medallions are freaking awesome :D
Shari,
Super cool cards... I love the soft colors on those background stamps....... makes you fall in love with your background attempts again.
Your cards and envelopes are beautiful!!!
Love your use of the Flora background.. beautiful colors too
Adorable cards. I love colors and design! So elegant!
Your cards are beautiful and I see a lot of my favorite color, which is yellow, in all of your cards. I love your embossing and you're coloring. The colors are so delicate. I love those background stamps but they are hard to use with my cild sized hands. I do try to use them though. I don't have very many though but when I win I'm going to get some. I especially love the stamp with the lines that says Please Deliver. My mom complains that sometimes when she writes on an envelope her writing looks crooked and it would look better if she had lines. I say that sometimes too. This is prefect! How do they know what we need?
I absolutely love these cards! They are gorgeous. Thanks for the inspiration.
Delicious!
I love that you fussy cut it - it looks fab! Very pretty colours too :-)
So cool!
In love! Great samples.
Lovely cards (envelopes too)! The soft watercolor effect is fabulous. I also can't help but use a lot of foam tape :)
This is such an amazing release and love all the soft pastel colours you used!!
Holy moly, Shari! These are soooo GORGEOUS!
So pretty!! I love the idea of cutting out the stamp to use as a focal point!
Great work, love those soft tones!
Such a pretty card. I love the colours
Super love the mandala with soft tone watercolor!!! So wish I could do that!
These are so precious and beautiful. I am go off on a tangent from the Blog Hop and exploring more of your work Shari on your blog!
I love how you cut out & colored the mandala. That's how I was thinking to use it. It reminded me of some that I had from Holly Berry House many years ago. I used to cut out & layer them. Jil
Incredibly gorgeous.
Beautiful cards, love my SSS!
What beautiful choice of colors.. lovely cards.. Am in awe with the use of colors you used!
Brilliant and inspiring, thanks for sharing.
Love these background stamps. Can't wait to try!
Simply beautiful!!
I love the new background stamps but the envelope stamp is the best. I can't wait to get it. All my cards will have the transparent envelope with colorful paper inside.
I love the addition of the little flowers. Perfect addition to allow the background to shine, but still draw some attention to the sentiment. These are just lovely. I like the idea of cutting around the larger shape. It seems to draw more attention to the lovely design. Thanks so much. I am officially inspired!
The two different ways that you used these great new background stamps are so inspiring...beautiful cards!!
I love this release!!!
Love your colors! I love the envelope idea especially!
Stunning springtime cards using the new background stamps and what I thought would be complicated is completely the opposite...what an impact!!!!! and the perfect touch is the floral envelope stamps! Gorgeous girlie!!
Such great ideas to try on every single project! Beautiful work!
This is beautiful!! What a soft use of colours. Beautiful.
Such beautiful cards!! Love the cut out flower medallion!! The colors are great. Oh, the envelopes - what a wonderful way to mail your cards!!
Beautiful cards!
Both of your designs are incredible. I especially liked how you cut out your focal image and popped it up on foam tape. I'm sure that it was a lot of extra work, but the end result is beautiful!
Beautiful cards and I love the watercolour! The pretty envelopes are the perfect touch for these two cards!
I love the way you did these backgrounds. Soft is the way to go. TFS
Beautiful card. I love the large background stamp. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful, soft watercoloring and gorgeous stamps. I love how you did the clear envelope.
Love your soft tones water color card.
Your cards are awesome! I really like the soft colors and then the second one you spritzed with water. Very, very nice.
Beautiful as usual...I love following your card creations.
These background stamps are my favourite from this release, and you showcased them beautifully!
Really pretty cards Shari! And that transparent envelope is super cute! I've got two packages in my cart right now! HAVE TO HAVE them!!
Such springy colors. Love them!
Gorgeous cards and envelopes! These background stamps are to die for!
I like the way the water spritz softened your stamp
Gorgeous soft watercolors!
Stunning card, Shari!
Blessings,
Karen L
www.karen-mycuprunnethover.blogspot.com
All beautiful cards!! I especially love the colors you combined on the first one & WOW...would have never thought to cut part of it out but it looks absolutely awesome!!
Love your creative, beautiful cards--especially the first one with the fussy cutting!
Wow! I love your star flower card - what a showstopper! That stamp is definitely on my wishlist! Thanks so much for the great ideas.
I'm in LOVE with this gorgeous new SSS line, and your creations are STUNNING!
Sierra W.
Love the soft colors of the first card and fussy cutting it takes it to a whole new level!
They are so soft and lovely, perfect for any occasion. Thank you for the inspiration. Take care, Kim :)
Love the colors and the stamps are wonderful!
Your palette is gorgeous! ♥
Such beautiful cards. I love the soft colors. We are getting a lot of wonderful ideas for using these terrific background stamps.
Beautiful cards!!
Gorgeous card! The colors are beautiful.
so beautiful. I love the soft color blending
These are pretty!
Love the mandala.
Popping items off the card
always gives so much added
interest.
Fantastic envelopes.
thanks for sharing.
Beautiful cards and such lovely colors. The more I see with this background stamp the more certain I am it needs to become part of my collection.
Gorgeous water color projects. Really like the flower and love touch.
Nice cards, I love the soft colors! The new backgrounds are great!
Great stamps, awesome cards!
Wonderful inspiring color creations.
Melissa
"Sunshine HoneyBee"
Your watercoloring card looks amazing. Love seeing the back ground stamps.
I love to play with my watercolors and these background stamps look like fun!
STUNNING cards! What a gorgeous release!
love the release.
Thanks for the chance to win
Beautiful you, making beautiful cards. Thank you for sharing your talents.
Oh my goodness these are amazing!
Love those soft, pretty watercolours. Transparent envelope with pattern paper = genius idea!! Now I know how to use clear envelopes lol.
Love the soft colors you have used in the first card. And the artsy look of the second card is gorgeous. Also love the way you have decorated the envelopes.Really love this release.
Your cards are awesome as usual. Love what you did with the large background
The new background stamps can be used so many different ways and I like the ones you used. Hooray for the envelope stamp too. It's fun to decorate the envelopes too,
I love your cards! I wasn't quite sure how to use these large background stamps without them always looking the same but you and Jennifer have given me so many great ides I can't wait to get & play with them! Love how you cut and foam mounted the design!
I love the pastel colors with the delicate designs of the background stamp. It's lovely.
Awesome cards! Beautiful colors and background stamps!
These new releases from SSS are gorgeous and I especially love the ones Kristina designed. Yo
Both of your cards are gorgeous and I really like the envelopes too! You used such beautiful, fresh and springlike colours for both of your cards and I love how you cut along the edge of the Star Flower Mandela stamped image and popped it up, it really looks incredible!
The cut out mandala looks fantastic. Love the water colouring.
Beautiful card. Love the plaid envelope.
Such a fun way to use these stamps> Beautiful colors...a little bit of Spring sunshine!
Awhhh and another blog to go into my favourites folder. Just 2 little words for your cards and that's LOVE THEM. WOW I'm speechless
Lovely cards.. I like how you did the Love, white and pink.. Very pretty.
Your cards and envelopes are beautiful. That first one is WOW! Thank you for sharing!
These are so pretty. I love the color combinations.
Beautiful cards. OH my YOU fussy cut the first card.. wow..I don't know that I would have the patients to do it.. I love the look.. Love the soft colors and always love your cards/projects.
your painting is so exquisitely soft
These are all so gorgeous!! and I LOVE your envelope; so pretty!
Simply stunning!
Love that star flower mandala. So pretty!
Stunning colors.
Beautiful card, Shari! The soft watercolors are perfect!
Wow, beautiful!
Love these new big stamps and all the ideas we are getting from you, thanks!
That gorgeous water color background on the first card is so fabulous!!!
The cutting is beautiful on the mandala.
Beautiful soft cards. The colours are so pretty and great for Spring.
I love the colora
You did a beautiful job on the cards!
Love love love the 1st card!!!
Ooooo, that mandala card is just delicious. I want to jumbo size it and hang it on my wall in a fancy white frame! The colors are so soft and spring-like and dreamy. The partial placement on the edge of the card, it is just inspiring!
Your first card is my favorite of everything that I have seen so far, love the cut work and the colors and the background.
I love these stamps and the colors are beautiful.
Since I've started these blog hops and shared with my daughters and granddaughter, we've all become addicted to the amazing talent we've seen and look forward the a new one each month.
So much gorgeousness! I could stare at that lovely first card all day!
Love these background stamps!
Love your beautiful spring color combos
The cards are just beautiful! The star flower stamp is such a perfect choice for your wonderful pastel watercolors! What a great idea to trim it! I love the soft background on the second card -- an idea to try!
I love the way you have cut out the mandala and the colours are so soft and pretty, and then the watery flora background works beautifully. Two wonderful cards Shari. x
Love the distress ink stamped background
Great cards Shari. Love the colors and the background stamps in this new release.
Just sobeautiful and springy!!! Love these medallion background stamps
Love these soft colors! These background stamps are amazing!
Just WOW.
Love the soft colors and fussy cutting the piece out and mounting it is nice.
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What beautiful ways to use these backgrounds!! Thanks for sharing!
I really love your color choices. Beautiful!
As always I really love your cards and the colors. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
WOW!! They are absolutely beautiful!!Lovely colors!
How pretty! I love the distress ink one! I would have never thought to do that on my own!
I just love the soft colours you've achieved on these cards!!
Beautiful cards! Love the colors you used.
Cutting that out looks pretty hard, but you made a gorgeous card!
Wow beautiful stamp and the colors are so pretty!
love your use of the background stamps!!
Love the new release, especially since one of the designs has my name!
SQUEAL!! LOVING LOVING LOVING the New Release!! Such BEAUTIFUL Inspiration too THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEKEND!!
Beautiful colors!! Details and design is so pretty and delicate!
Beautiful cards and colors. Love the new background stamps and the new inks, too.
Love your idea of using only part of the background stamp, cutting it and treating it as a focal on the card. These really lend themselves to that technique. The little pop of Tim's flowers together with the envelope stamps are a really cute touch. Thanks for sharing your talent with us.
I love the colours you used and those background stamps are gorgeous!!
Omg...I can't even. That first star mandala is gorgeous. Love this, I want to frame it
I am really enjoying everyone's use of the medallion stamps. Very pretty card.
These are two great card designs -- with great envelope designs, too. I especially like how the two techniques are so versatile for sentiments of all sorts. Thanks for sharing.
I am really loving these large backgrounds. Your colors are so soft and springlike.
They all remind me of spring with such soft sweet colors!
I love the card where you used the Star Flower Mandala stamp. The colors are very pretty.
This is so beautiful, it's making want to go watercolor now! I love the colors you used, too.
Love the simple way of coloring the mandalas
Beautiful cards! Love the soft colors!
Beautiful projects! Love the new background stamps!
Wow gorgeous cards!!
I love your choice of colors, beautiful mandala card and the second one is so artsy, I love it! Thanks for the inspiration with the envelopes. TFS
Thanks for your dreamy inspiration and to SSS for the new release and giveaway! Love seeing cards and mixed media projects that you do!!
WOW! I am in love with your creations!
Beautiful cards
Beautiful spring colors ! Love the gorgeous stamp that you cut out! Can't wait to play with some of these new products myself after seeing all of the wonderful samples that the blog hop has provided!
In a word... GORGEOUS!
Gorgeous cards and that plaid envelope is just too cute!! Love it all!
Love the soft colors and new background stamps! Just so versatile and gorgeous!
Love your too. They are lovely .
Just love these cards and that envelope, wow it is beautiful!
Beautiful colors! Love these ideas. Thanks so much for sharing on the blog hop!!
The cards and the envelopes are gorgeous! Thanks for sharing!
All of your cards are soft and pretty, but my favorite one is the first one. I'm going to make one like this. Thank you!
You have really showcased the SSS release so well. I love how delicate the background stampsets look along with your colour selection and overall creations. Hugs Jo
Love the background stamps. Both techniques are awesome.
Beautiful watercolors, and beautiful cards! Thank you for sharing!
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