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Sixth Street Sundries

Emily Midgett

simon says stamp

Miss you.

Good morning! Happy Monday! I hope the weather was as beautiful for you as it was here… low humidity, bearable temperatures… gorgeous. I think things are going to go back to more normal July temps this week though. 🙁

I told you last week that I’m fairly obsessed with the new Southern Summer Florals 1 and 2 from the new Wplus 9 release, so much so that I sat down and cranked out two cards in about 1.5 hours (totally doable since hubs had taken the kiddos over to his grandpa’s to ride the tractor! Score!) I loved the first card, which you can see here, created with my limited colors of Oxide inks on colored card stock. Can’t wait to experiment more when the new Oxides come. But this card uses regular dye inks and I love it just as much.

I started by die cutting the Southern Summer Florals 1 (with coordinating dies) and Southern Summer Florals 2 (also with coordinating dies) from plain white card stock. I stamped several of the blooms using different ink combinations of Altenew’s Red Cosmos ink quartet, as well as the Summer Afternoon quartet.

After stamping all of my blooms, I die cut a circle from some A2 sized masking paper using my Double Stitched Circle dies from The Ton. I placed my masking paper on my white card front, then blended Frosty Pink, Coral Berry, and Ruby Red ink from Altenew in an ombre over the masking paper. (A nice little surprise when I pulled up the masking paper: the stitched outer circle was cut so cleanly that the ink blending came through on it, creating a blended stitched border! Not what I was intended, but still a fun development!) I arranged my blooms in a pretty swag, then adhered them using both liquid adhesive and dimensional adhesive.

For the greeting, I die cut Simon Says Stamp’s “miss you” from some plain black card stock, (isn’t that font just stunning?) adhered it, and covered it with (a new to me product) Nuvo Crystal Glaze. I also added some to the black center of the large focal flower to add extra dimension. The final step was to add a few dots of Oyster Grey Nuvo Drops here and there around my floral swag.

Well, that’s all for me today! I am loving these new stamps from Wplus9, and I hope you aren’t sick of seeing them, because I might have another card up my sleeve! 😉 Have a fantastic Monday, friends!

 

Shimmer and shine with Shimmerz paints!

Good morning! I’m back today with my final installment of my mini series focusing on Shimmerz Paints! Today, I used them in a totally different way, but I think that this is definitely my favorite card from this week! Let’s get started!

I began by heat embossing the main floral image from the Simon Says Stamp June card kit: Floral Bliss. This stamp set is so pretty, and I love that it comes with individual blooms as well as the floral spray! After heat embossing, I used Blue Grass and Sugar Plum Shimmerz, Gold Glimmer Blingz, Pining For You and Berry Hot Creameez, and Blue My Mind, Gosh Garnet, and Pink A Boo Inklingz to color the blooms and foliage. I fussy cut it out and turned my attention to the background.

For the background, I wanted to try something a little bit different. I started by heat embossing the beautiful Emma background from Simon Say Stamp onto watercolor paper using clear detail embossing powder. Next, I used my Ranger Mini Mister bottles, an eye dropper, and Gold Glimmer, Hi Ho Silver, and Orchid-stra Blingz to create my own custom shimmer mists! I simply dropped the color into the mister bottle with an old medicine dropper that I’d cleaned out, then filled the rest up with water and gave it a good shake.

I made three different shimmer mists with these liquid paints. Love finding multiple uses for one product! And it didn’t take very much of the paint itself to add plenty of color to my Mini Misters. You could make them even more concentrated by adding more pigment.

I spritzed my lacy background several times, sometimes blotting up areas where the pigment became too concentrated, then used a paper towel to rub off the spots on the embossing after everything had dried sufficiently.

To finish the card, I first heat embossed a sentiment from Simon Says Stamp’s Big Scripty Greetings onto some heavyweight vellum using silver embossing powder, then flagged the end. I die cut a stitched square frame using some silver glitter card stock, then die cut the shimmery background using the largest square from The Ton’s Double Stitched Square dies. I trimmed the floral spray down, then adhered the main spray to the edge of the frame using dimensional adhesive, then adhered the remaining foliage underneath with liquid adhesive.

The final step was to add some sequins for even more sparkle!

And that’s it! My final installment into my exploration into these fabulous little pots of paint. I love how versatile they are! If you haven’t checked them out before, be sure to head over to the Shimmerz website and take a look! They have so many gorgeous colors and effects.

I will be back Saturday for July’s The Ton Challenge blog post. Have a marvelous day, friends!!!