Let me start off by saying that this is one of my favorite Simon Says Stamp card kits of all time. I love the theming of the kit as it can be used for holiday or just general winter cards. Since I am Canadian, I personally feel like winter themed cards can be used for a large portion of the year.
All four cards that I made were of very similar design and technique. All cards were started by embossing either the large snowflake collage or a collection of snowflake stamps in some silver embossing powder onto the the patterned paper from the kit. I then trimmed down the panels to about 3.75×5″ using the Waffle Flower A2 Layers Die. For the “snow glad we are friends card”, I decided to ink up the put of the panel with some shaded lilac distress oxide to intensify the ombre look. The panels were then mounted foam tape onto some card cases. The exception to this was the card with the purple card base. Full disclosure: I had originally intended this to be on a white A2 card base like the others, but had accidently glued my panel on upside down! I needed to perform some card surgery and then that turned into using the lavender cardstock from the kit as the card base.
For the snowflake die cuts and the embossed sentiments, I created dimension by gluing three layers of cardstock underneath. I decided to dress up the teal card a bit by adding a snowflake diecut from the holographic cardstock to the top.
As far as embellishment goes, I went with a less is more approach for these. I did add some wink of stella clear glitter brush marker to some of the snowflakes and around some of the edges of the patterned paper layers for some extra sparkle… but that’s it. Since these patterned papers are already so detailed, and I did use a metallic embossing powder, I didn’t think it was necessary to add anything extra.
There were definitely some all star products in this kit. My favorite item was by far the Whimsy Stamps Blurry Flurries 6×6″ paper. This paper is beautiful! It was high quality, and I just fell in love with the colors and patterns. The SSS Eliza die and the holographic cardstock were also starts in my book. I will definitely need to play with this kit some more, as I still have a ton of goodies left that I didn’t get to use in these projects.
Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by today. I would love it if you would comment below and let me know what your favorite card was from this post!
Disclaimer: All products mentioned in this post were purchased by me with my own money.
