Simon Says - Hello Sunshine

Hello my friends, well here we are at the last day of April already and I'm sharing another card made with the Celestial Wishes stamp set included in the Simon Says May Card Kit. The kit is still available to buy at time of writing or if you wish you can purchase individual items from the kit HERE. In a way this is a wishful thinking kind of a card because after weeks of non stop rain, wind, hail and even snow, I'm definitely ready to say hello to some sunshine.

I smooshed the Iced Spruce Distress Oxide ink pad on to my craft mat on my Glass Media Mat and spritzed with water to create a light neutral background. I inked the leaves from the Celestial Wishes stamp set with the same ink pad, spritzed with water and stamped along the bottom of the panel.

I stamped the circle and sunburst from the stamp set, inked with the Zest Mini Pawsitively Saturated Ink cube included in the kit.

I tapped Zest, Terracotta and Mocha Pawsitively Saturated inks on to the dragonfly stamp from the card kit using Simon Says Round Detail Blending Brushes and stamped on to Distress Watercolor card.

I fussy cut the image and fixed to the panel with Distress Collage Medium, applying the adhesive to the body only and pulled up the wings to create dimension.

I die-cut the word Hello from Distress Watercolor card using Simon Says C Designs Hello wafer die and coloured as before with Zest and Terracotta Pawsitively Saturated ink cubes.

I die-cut the word twice more and layered to create dimension. I die-cut the shadow from Simon Says Vellum and fixed the die-cut word in place with Distress Collage Medium.

I decided that the circle sun didn't stand out on the panel so I re-stamped it on to a scrap of Distress Watercolor card, inked with Zest Pawsitively Saturated ink and shaded one side with Terracotta.

I die-cut the circle using Tim Holtz/Sizzix Stacked Circle Thinlits.

I fixed the circle and word die-cuts to the panel using Distress Collage Medium and added splatters of the Terracota Pawsitively Saturated ink.

To finish I trimmed the panel to 4" x 5.1/4", matted on to an A2 white card blank and added a word sticker from my stash and Simon Says Pawsitively Dazzling Gems, also included in the kit.

Have fun with whatever you're making

Hugs Kath xxx