Sixth Street Sundries

Emily Midgett

heirloom roses

Bold Peonies to Celebrate an Anniversary with Simon Says Stamp!

This post was sponsored by Simon Says Stamp. Thanks, Simon! *I have gathered links to all of the products used at the bottom of the post for your convenience, using affiliate links at no extra cost to you. Thank you for shopping with my links! I truly appreciate your support for my work!*

Hi friends! I am back with another gorgeous floral today, this time featuring the stunning Peony & Bells embossing folder on it’s own. I never can resist a gorgeous floral embossing folder to bust out my alcohol markers, and the giant peony bloom on this gorgeous embossing folder was just begging to be colored with vibrant colors. I think flowers are always appropriate imagery for a wedding or anniversary card, so I decided to create a colorful anniversary card with lots of sparkling details and a simple sentiment with those flowers as the focal point. Let’s get started with the details on my project!

To begin, I embossed an A2 panel of white cardstock using the beautiful Peony & Bells. The details on these embossing folders are just exquisite!! I used my OLO Markers to color the blooms and foliage, adding deep, jewel-toned fuchsia to the peony and lavender-gray shadows to the interiors of the lilies of the valley blooms. Once I had finished coloring all of the images, I brushed some Wink of Stella sparkle pen on the edges of the petals and leaves to add some extra special sparkle!

After I had finished coloring and embellishing the embossed panel, I used blending brushes to blend Pawsitively Saturated Inks in shades of Periwinkle + Crocus around the edge of the panel. While I am careful with my blending, one of the advantages of having such saturated colored images is that the blended color doesn’t alter the vibrant peony even if I get a little blending-crazy! After I had added the blurple glow around the colored images, I splattered the background with some iridescent glittering watercolors!

For the greeting, I stamped the anniversary sentiment from Heirloom Roses onto some more white cardstock using Crocus ink, then stamped again directly over the top with embossing ink and added iridescent embossing powder over the top to create a spectacular sheen on the greeting. Once I had finished melting the embossing powder, I used the detailed dies to cut the sentiment out, then used thin foam adhesive squares to pop it up on the card front. Finally, I added a few Prism Pawsitively Dazzling Gems for some extra special sparkle for an extra special anniversary card!

Well, that’s all for my project today! I love creating special cards like this… adding the little extra details to increase the celebratory aesthetic makes my heart happy! Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!

Simon Says Stamp Always There Blog Hop, Day 2 + Free Gift!

This post was sponsored by Simon Says Stamp. Thanks, Simon! *I have gathered links to all of the products used at the bottom of the post for your convenience, using affiliate links at no extra cost to you. Thank you for shopping with my links! I truly appreciate your support for my work!*

Hi friends! It’s Day 2 of the Simon Says Stamp Always There Blog Hop, celebrating the fabulous Always There release! (Click HERE to see the entire collection!) You should have arrived here from Barbara Tarayao, and your next stop is Nichol Spohr. You can check the full hop list over on the Simon Says Stamp Blog. As always, there is a fun freebies to celebrate the release and the blog hop!

This month’s release is an ode to springtime with gorgeous flowers and greenery in stamp, stencil, and die form, and I am so happy that I have designed two different sets for this release: Keep Palm (click HERE) and Blooms of Encouragement (click HERE). I love coloring large scale images, and the flowers in Blooms of Encouragement are some of my favorite flowers that I’ve illustrated. I created this gift set featuring a fun framed painting on glass and a coordinating card made with layered stamped blooms from the new Heirloom Roses. Let’s get started on the details for my projects!

To begin my card, I stamped the gorgeous blooms and foliage from Heirloom Roses using Pawsitively Saturated Inks in shades of Jade, Eucalyptus, Shell, Salmon, Coral. These colors are so beautifully springy to me, with that bright pop of coral juxtaposed with the soft minty greens. I used the coordinating dies to cut the stamped images out, as well as a greeting from Heirloom Roses stamped using Juniper ink on crisp white cardstock.

Behind the blooms and sentiment, I wanted to create some tone-on-tone texture using the new Willowweave Plate. I die cut the plate from white cardstock, as well as a frame using the new A2 Notched Rectangles, nestling two of the nested dies together to create the frame. I added adhesive on the back of the Notched Rectangle die cut, then placed the Willowweave die cut on it, creating a decorative framed backdrop for the flowers. I trimmed off any excess foliage from the Willowweave die cut, then popped up the frame on my A2 card front. The extra texture that these vines of foliage add behind the blooms is just so pretty, I think! I added the blooms and sentiment die cuts over the framed backdrop with more foam adhesive, then added a few Opal Pawsitively Dazzling Gems for a bit of sparkle.

For the gift portion of the set, I used the pretty dahlia image from Blooms of Encouragement to create this framed painted artwork. I used a technique that was quite new to me. I started by stamping the bouquet on a piece of cardstock, then placing the glass from a 4×4 inch frame that I purchased from the local dollar store over the stamped image, taping it to the panel with some washi tape. I didn’t want to stamp the image directly to the glass, so I took advantage of the clear glass to use it as a guide to create this pretty painted bloom.

I used acrylic paint markers to add color to the glass, following the lines of the stamped image on the paper. This method of painting is quite forgiving; as long as you start with the parts of the image that are closest to you, mistakes are minimal. The opacity of the markers ensures that the images painted first are the ones that are visible when the painting is flipped over to the proper side. The markers moved like a warm knife through butter over the glass, and I was so impressed with how the painting turned out!

I did use a dry paintbrush to blend some some of the petals a bit, creating a smoother transition between colors for shadows and shape. Once I had completed the painting, I used a hot glue gun to securely place the glass back in the frame, allowing the clear glass to remain safely in the frame without having to add the backer which which the frame was purchased. To protect the painting from potential scratches, I also hot glued a piece of clear acetate on the back, cut to fit the glass frame. Finally, since the frame back that I discarded contained the hanger for the frame, I decided to hot glue some coordinating satin ribbon to the frame. I can’t wait to hang this in my new craft room and am so excited to experiment more with this technique. A simple dollar store frame can be so much more with a little creativity!

Well, that’s all for my projects today! This release is fantastic, right? So gorgeous! And Simon Says Stamp is offering the adorable gift-with-purchase that you see in the graphic at the top of the post with any purchase from the Always There release! (Click HERE to see the entire collection!)

Don’t forget to check out Day 1 of the blog hop, as well! (Click HERE to see the full list from yesterday’s hop!)Your next stop on the hop is Nichol Spohr. Thanks so much for stopping by today, and happy hopping!