Sixth Street Sundries

Emily Midgett

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Simon Says Stamp New Heart to Heart Release- Now Available!

This post was sponsored by Simon Says Stamp. Thanks, Simon!

Hi friends! The first Simon Says Stamp release for 2026 is now live, and it’s super duper sweet. The Heart to Heart Release (click HERE to check out the entire release!) is filled with great transitional products, from wintry snowflakes and snowmen to hearts for Valentine’s Day to some pretty floral bouquets (called Loving You Bouquet and Make My Heart Flutter… illustrated by me, so it’s extra exciting in my book!). I have several things planned for my own illustrations, but my family and I were sick for what felt like weeks on end, so those projects are not quite ready yet. I thought I would share a sweet Valentine’s Day shaker card created with an adorable snowman die and some fabulous new nested heart dies. Let’s get started with the details on my project!

*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!*

The project began with the darling little Bundled Snowman. This little guy was sneak peeked during DieCember, but now he’s officially available for sale…. isn’t he just the cutest?! I die cut the snowman from plain white cardstock and added a few swipes of super pale gray alcohol marker to add some subtle shadows, then die cut the hat and scarf from some super vibrant magenta cardstock and coordinating Magenta glitter cardstock. I added some more alcohol marker shadows on the hat and scarf, just to add a bit of shape and dimension to the image. I adhered all of the pieces with liquid adhesive, then added some Black Pawsitively Dazzling Gems for “coal” eyes and buttons and a sweetly glittering pink die cut heart on his chest. Adorable, right?

To create the shaker card base, I used some pink cardstock with one of the new Rounded Hearts nesting dies to create a shaker window, which I backed with some leftover stamp packaging. I blended some Taffy Pawsitively Saturated Ink on two of the corners, the filled the shaker with the new Ballet Slipper Embellishments, which are just the prettiest shade of pale pink. I also die cut a few extra hearts from some more Magenta glitter cardstock and the same deep magenta cardstock that I used for the snowman’s hat and scarf.

Before assembling the snowman and hearts on my card front, I used Taffy ink to stamp the large “hugs” greeting from the new Heart Suite stamp set, which has some gorgeous, super useful, large scale sentiment stamps that also have detailed coordinating dies. (Isn’t that great when the dies are so super detailed?! I think it makes projects look so much more professional and polished.) I arranged all of the die cuts on my shaker card front, tucking the snowman towards the bottom and creating a visual ping pong from top to bottom, adhering everything with liquid and foam adhesive for lots of dimension.

Well, that’s all for my project today! The new Heart to Heart release is full of so many different styles and cardmaking occasions, surely something for everybody. (Click HERE to check out the entire release!) Thanks so much for stopping by today, and don’t forget to come back later this week for the two day Blog Hop!

Periwinkle Mums with New Simon Says Stamp + Final Day of STAMPtember!

This post was sponsored by Simon Says Stamp. Thanks, Simon!

Hi friends! Today is the final day of the month-long STAMPtember celebration with Simon Says Stamp! I have another project to share with you featuring some of the new goodies that were released as part of the Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember release, which are will be restocked like the normal monthly releases. The gorgeous new blurple inks that I’ve used for today’s card are out of stock at the moment, but you can always enter your email address and click “notify me” to be emailed as soon as they’re back in stock! Let’s get started with the details on my project.

*I have gathered links to all of the products used at the bottom of the post for your convenience, using affiliate links. Thank you for shopping with my links! I truly appreciate your support for my work!*

I began my project by using blending brushes to blend a gorgeous ombré panel of A2 cardstock using the new Ink Trio 31, which includes Pawsitively Saturated Inks in shades of Periwinkle, Clematis, Crocus. These gorgeous blurple inks are such a perfect addition to the Pawsitively Saturated Ink lineup, definitely filling a gap in the color palette!

After I had finished blending, I ran the panel through my die cutting machine with the new Magnificent Mums Embossing Folder. I did the embossing after ink blending so that the blended color would remain clean and smooth between the colors; blending after embossing adds some mottling and shadowed areas where the embossed design is particularly deep. Once I had run the blended panel through my machine, I lightly swiped the Simon Says Stamp White Pigment Ink Pad directly over the raised areas, emphasizing the beautifully detailed design. I also splattered some iridescent watercolors on the panel for an artistic, textured look that reminds me of a flower field covered in morning dew!

For the greeting, I die cut the detail layer of the previously-released Scripty Hugs with Simon Says Stamp Blue Violet cardstock, then layered it on a vellum shadow layer. I popped the sentiment die cut up with thin strips of foam adhesive, then tucked a silver hot foiled sentiment cut from the Reverse Everyday EZ Strips set using the EZ Strips die. These sentiment cards and the coordinating dies available make it super easy to have a plethora of sentiments at your fingertips to quickly finish off your card! I embellished the card front with some Prism Pawsitively Dazzling Gems and tucked a bow created using the Simon Says Stamp Iridescent White Cord amongst the greeting components.

Well, that’s all for my project today! Today, unfortunately, is the final day to purchase the different Collaboration Sets (click HERE or below to see what’s left on the projects that I created throughout the month!)

Here’s a remind of how these sets look in action:

If you love any of these sets, don’t forget to purchase them ASAP, because once STAMPtember is over, these beauties will be gone!

Well, that’s all for my project today! Thanks so much for stopping by today, and thanks so much for your enthusiasm during this epic 16th Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember celebration! Have a marvelous day!

The last gasp of summer.

Hi! Feels like a long time since I posted just for fun… I’ve been SO busy this week getting the Great Craft Room Purge of 2017 organized and everything shipped. Let me tell ya, I am definitely one of those right-brained artistic types when it comes to organization. I enjoy organizing, but I usually end up making more of a mess than I do actually making things neater lol. Transfer that to the bazillion emails I’ve had from people wanting to purchase items…. my brain has been buzzing since Sunday lol. If you want to see what’s left (and there’s still a huge amount of stamps and dies left!), you can click here.

Anyway, I had some lovely blooms from Altenew’s Adore You stamp set that I’d colored for the most recent The Daily Marker 30 Day challenge using my Zig markers. I love my Zigs when I want a bright burst of bold color, and this color combination of fuchsia and a sunset orange color are just so pretty together. I started by heat embossing several of the blooms using gold detail embossing powder onto Canson Montval watercolor paper, then colored them using my Zig markers and damp Silverwhite paintbrush. I fussy cut them and began work on the background.

For the background, I used Altenew’s beautiful Midnight Violet ink to lightly blend a little halo in the center of a white, A2 top folding notecard. I then arranged my blooms on the card front and used Press ‘n Seal to pick them up without losing my carefully-arranged bouquet. I added dimensional adhesive to the back and pressed them down on the card front while still attached to the Press ‘n Seal, then peeled it away. I added a gorgeous new-to-me die from My Favorite Things: Big Hugs. I cut it from some sparkly gold glitz paper from DCWV. The final touch was a smattering of sequins from my stash

I hope you’ve enjoyed this card! A last gasp of summer, as we’ve been having temps in the 80’s here this week. (blah.) Here’s to the weather cooling down soon! Have a marvelous day! I will be back on Saturday with a post for World Cardmaking Day. 🙂 Stay tuned!