Simon Says Stamp Locket of Love

 Simon Says Stamp has a new release called Heart to Heart, you can see the entire collection by clicking HERE.

For my card I used the Locket of Love stamp set. There is a dieset and a stencil set that I didn't receive. You can see the available products for this set HERE.

I stamped and gold heat embossed the heart stamp on heat resistant acetate. My house is pretty dry so the static on acetate really makes the embossing powder stick! I used an anti static bag on the acetate, stamped with an embossing ink, poured the gold embossing powder onto the acetate and then spent the next 15 minutes tapping and brushing the powder off the acetate.

After heat embossing it, I then colored the backside with Copic markers. The center heart was a bit difficult to color, it looked streaky. So I took a few drops of alcohol ink and painted it onto the acetate. It looked good.

I diecut a square smaller than the acetate out of the pink cardstock and adhered the acetate to the back with red line tape. I cut a frame out of gold cardstock that fit inside the square. I then gold heat embossed the sentiment on the front.

I took a piece of plum glitter cardstock (Your Paper Insider Box 11) and adhered it onto a white square card and then attached the pink front.

That's it for today, thank you for visiting!

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Spellbinders Embossing Folder of the Month (2d)

 

Embossing folders are probably my favorite things to use for backgrounds. I like this Spellbinders Embossing Folder of the Month (2D) because it's just a beautiful pattern. I embossed vellum with it and I took a Staedtler white marker to fill in the white areas on the reverse side of the vellum. It just made it a brighter shade of white. I always leave an extra 1/4" at the top and the bottom so I can fold over this extra bit and attach it to the back of the paper. No glue/tape showing through the vellum! This time I forgot to leave a bit on the bottom but luckily one end was enough. I put little dots of glue behind the white marker too. It worked good enough!

The flowers are from the Jan Small Die of the Month, I used ink that was left on my brushes to color the flowers and leaves. The sentiment is from Suzanne Hue's Birthday Wishes BetterPress plate and die set. I always need birthday cards so I BetterPressed a bunch of these sentiments. I popped up the sentiment and the flower heads.

Easy one today! Thanks for visiting.

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Cloud Nine Embossing Folder

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Sunny Stems Small Die of the Month

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----  https://tidd.ly/48OuXRg  [Simon Says Stamp]

----  https://tidd.ly/4iAughZ  [Scrapbookcom]

Foam Strips

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Spellbinders January 2026 Stitching Die of the Month Kit

 

Happy New Year! The best part of the beginning of every month is that I get to share the Spellbinders Club Kits. This year I'll be sharing the Stitching Die, Large Die, Small Die, Embossing Folder (2D), 3D Embossing Folder and the Press and Foil Plate. I'm so excited to be sharing so many kits.

There have been some changes to the kits, the Wax Seal of the Month and the Glimmer Hot Foil Plate kits have been discontinued. The hot foil plate is combined with the BetterPress Plate of the Month. You have always been able to hotfoil BetterPress plates so it only makes sense to only make the one kit that you can hot foil or letterpress. The main change is that the BetterPress plate now comes with a roll of hot foil and will be called the Press & Foil Club. 

The other change is that the Deluxe Caboodle is now called the All Clubs Crate. If you subscribe to this, you receive all the month's clubs for $130 and also get some great benefits: an exclusive die or press plate Bonus item and 10 sheets of Color Wheel Cardstock that coordinates with the kits. You would also get 15% off Spellbinders products and 1 free shipping coupon every month. There are more perks you can learn by clicking HERE.

Back to my project, the Stitching Die of the Month, Butterfly Dance.

I chose to stitch the butterfly but included in the set are the same dies without the stitching holes so you can skip the stitching. I personally like the stitching on the butterfly and it was pretty simple stitching, just a few straight stitches. There's an butterfly outline die which I cut from black cardstock. I cut the antennae and body from a black glitter cardstock scrap.

The flowers are cut from inked cardstock scraps, they are inked with Distress inks. The blue background is so pretty up close. I used Your Paper Insider watercolor cardstock and dipped it into Brutus Monroe's Blue Aqua Pigment, Blue Chroma Mist, and Distress Mica Stains in Snow Flurries and Shiny Baubles. Snow Flurries is my favorite color, I'm on my 2nd bottle.

There is a cloud die included in this set, what a great addition. I cut it from white cardstock and added a little bit of ink blending.

I popped up the butterfly and one of the flowers. I added a few clear sequins, these are from the Spellbinders Advent calendar. 

The Celebrating You sentiment is from the Suzanne Hue Birthday Wishes BetterPress plate and die set. I always need birthday cards so I BetterPressed a bunch of these sentiments.

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That's it for today, thank you for visiting!

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Your Paper Insider Watercolor Paper

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Your Paper Insider January 2026 Design Team IG Hop!

Happy New Year! Today I'm using a few different Your Paper Insider papers. Your Paper Insider has a subscription service which sends a box of assorted specialty papers 4x a year, for $29.95 shipping is INCLUDED. Learn more HERE, a new box will be shipping soon!

To start with, I used the Kelly Green Cadillac paper from box 13. I used some basic rectangle dies to cut out the 3 boxes, then I embossed it with the Spellbinders Crackle Paint 3D embossing folder for a bit of texture. 

I painted a piece of Your Paper Insider watercolor paper with some blue paint. Click HERE to  see my November 28 blog post if you're interested in my technique. I placed the painted paper behind the cutouts. I diecut the Memory Box Graceful Ocean Birds from Your Paper Insider's White Holographic Confetti Jr. I used some Copic markers to give the birds a little color. I added a few sequins for sparkle.

Follow along for more paper inspiration, and hop through the YPI design team to see what they’ve made. Next up is: list name after you.

Hop Order + IG Handles:

Carrie Sheridan — @carriesheridan.70
Davina Cantrell — @popsiclesticks
Kristie Marcotte — @bestthingsinlifearepink
Revati Panickar — @rp_shutterbug
Susan Babcock — @susanbcards (this is a link to my Instagram page)

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----  https://tidd.ly/4pENnd3  [Simon Says Stamp]

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----  https://tinyurl.com/ydyfwe34  [Spellbinders]

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No link for watercolors, they are by Altenew

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Altenew Coral Charm Peony with Your Paper Insider Specialty Paper

Happy New Year! Today I'm using Altenew's Coral Charm Peony. I try not to buy too many diesets because I have too many but it's hard for me to resist Altenew's Craft a Flowers. They are so beautiful and I think the keyhole system is genius. In case you don't know what the Keyhole System is, I'll explain it. Each die on the flower has a keyhole cut out of the center. Each die is also numbered so you know which order to place them down in, match up the keyhole and it's in the proper place, proper order.

This flower has quite a few layers so it comes in handy. I used a stylus to shape the petals a bit, with so many layers it looks much better. 

All the papers I used today are from Your Paper Insider. The gorgeous background paper is Gira Pearl Pink Tarasen Zen. 

The paper is  from Japan. Here is the description from Your Paper Insider:

"The luminous Pearl coating is unique to these papers and is called 'Gira' meaning sparkling. Gira refers to the silvery ink used to print the finish. Each Tarasen sheet has been silkscreened, sheet by sheet."

This paper is found in Box 1.

Below is a video so you can see the shine:

That's it for today!  Thank you for visiting!

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Your Paper Insider Box 1 available for individual purchase:

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The Coral Peony dieset is available at both Scrapbookcom and Simon Says Stamp:

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----  https://tidd.ly/3KWoUkP  [Simon Says Stamp]

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Simon Says Stamp Christmas Angels Card in Pink and Gold

 

A few weeks ago, I used Simon Says Stamps' Christmas Angels embossing folder. The first card is embossed acetate with gold acrylic paint, my second card is embossed vellum over an ink blended panel. I have a YouTube tutorial video here:

As I made the video, I needed to remake the acetate painted panel, so I had an extra panel. I liked how it looked on a pink blended panel, so I made a 3rd version, I used Distress Oxide Inks in Spun Sugar, Kitsch Flamingo, Picked Raspberry and a bit of Aged Mahogany at the bottom.

One of my favorite things to create with is embossing folders. There's so much you can do with them to make a card look unique.

Acetate is easy to emboss. The one I used is from an assorted paper box from Your Paper Insider, but I have also used some from We R Memory Keepers which comes in a 12x12 pad, it's very thin and can be run through a diecutting machine with whatever sandwich you would normally use for a piece of paper in an embossing folder. I use a Sizzix Big Shot, so my sandwich is the platform, the folder with acetate and one top plate. The acetate is cut to the size of the embossing folder (not just the design), in this case about 4.5x6.5". This will leave a border around the image which I score and burnish to fit the panel on the top and bottom. It should be longer than the panel, that way I can fold it over to fit the panel after I paint it.

After the acetate is embossed, I flip it over to the debossed side. The areas that are inverted, or have tiny wells are where I place the acrylic paint. I used inexpensive gold acrylic paint from Hobby Lobby. The gold is a brassy gold, a bit antiqued. The bottle I have is a few years old, Anita's Metallic Craft Paint by Rustoleum in Antique Gold.

I use a thin brush, mine is by Altenew and has a fine point to be able to reach into the tiny lines and wells. I apply 2-3 coats letting it fully dry between coats. After it's fully dry, I will adhere it to the base.

The blue card is Distress Spray Stains in Salty Ocean and Peacock Feathers on watercolor paper. I also sprayed a bit of Distress Mica Stain in Snow Flurries and Distress Spray Stain in Faded Jeans in a few spots.

Score the top and bottom of the acetate to fit the panel, folding it behind the panel and attaching it with red line tape to the back. Trim the sides of the acetate with a guillotine trimmer or scissors to fit the panel. Attach this to a card front.

For my second card, I embossed a piece of vellum. My vellum is heavyweight. I ink blended 3 shades of Distress Oxide ink onto the panel, Picked Raspberry, Fossilized Amber and Broken China.

That's it for today! Thank you for visiting.

Supplies are listed below with direct links to the stores that carry them. If you use my link to make a purchase, I receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. Thank you for using my links, it really helps and encourages me to continue providing creative content.

----  https://tidd.ly/486Yky0  [Simon Says Stamp]

----  https://tidd.ly/3LUx2SF  [Your Paper Insider]

----  https://tidd.ly/46MtGZZ   [Scrapbookcom]

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----  https://tinyurl.com/44zd5jzs  [Spellbinders]

----  https://tidd.ly/4ioAnWh  [Scrapbookcom]

The vellum I used is from Amazon, I don't have a link for it but it's by SuFly, 8.5x11".

I have used We R Memory Keepers thin acetate, it comes 12x12" sheets in a pad.

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