Sixth Street Sundries

Emily Midgett

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Tidings of Minty Cheer with Simon Says Stamp + Halloween SALE!

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

Hi friends! It’s Halloween in the real world, but my brain has been in holiday mode for weeks. (Though holiday mode never is really far… I love creating Christmas projects all year long!) I have mentioned before that I rarely use red during the non-Christmas months; for some reason, I don’t gravitate towards red unless it is more of a cool, pinky red. But at Christmas, candy apple red is one of my favorite ways to make a holiday card extra festive, with bonus points if it comes in sparkle form! And extra, extra bonus points for sparkly red on a shaker card! Let’s get started with my super festive and sparkling red project today.

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To begin, I die cut the Candy Cane Plate from Simon Says Stamp Rich Red Matte foil cardstock. To enhance the candy cane aesthetic, I kept the color palette to a simple red and white throughout each element. I backed the die cut cover plate with acetate, then added strips of foam adhesive around the edges to create a shaker card. I filled the shaker pocket with Red Berries Sequins and Cottontail Sequins. Shaker cards are just so festive and celebratory, in my opinion!

For the greeting, I used the gorgeous, generously-sized Fancy Tidings of Cheer, die cutting the shadow layer from the same crisp white cardstock that I used to back my shaker, then die cutting the detail layer with from Simon Says Stamp Crimson Glitter Cardstock. I die cut some Simon Says Stamp Vellum using the scalloped tag from the Tag Adornments set, then tilted it whimsically to the side and adhered the sentiment die cut to it with liquid adhesive.

Before adhering the sentiment to the card front, I die cut some A2 Frames from more Crimson Glitter Cardstock and adhered them flush around the very outer edge of the card front, helping to hide some of the foam adhesive strips peeking out in the candy cane windows. I adhered the sentiment and tag images to the card front, keeping the adhesive behind the solid sentiment die cut so my vellum stayed nice and clean. For a final few embellishments of texture, I added a double hemp twine bow and some Cherry Pawsitively Dazzling Gems!

Well, that’s all for my project today. For a special Halloween treat, Simon Says Stamp is offering a sale!

Take $15 off of any order of $75! You can use code SPOOKY at checkout to save $15 from now until tomorrow night at 11:59 PM Eastern!

Thanks so much for stopping by today, and 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!