Beautiful and Curious May 2025 Card Kit

Hello my friends, woohoo the Simon Says Stamp Beautiful and Curious May 2025 Card Kit has arrived in the cubbyhole. The kit is available to purchase HERE if you don't already subscribe to the monthly kits and if you so wish, you can also purchase individual items from the kit - see links below.

The minute I opened the box and saw the gorgeous Beautiful and Curious 6" x 8" stamp set, I knew that my adorable Professor had collaborated with Simon Says to design and curate this vintage inspired kit and I was going to have lots of fun playtime using it.

I created a card using the flower image from the Beautiful and Curious stamp set, stamped on to Simon Says Ice Vellum, coloured with the Distress Crayons included in the kit, fixed to a torn strip of the Tim Holtz/Idea-ology Vault Wallflower paper and matted on to a panel of Simon Says Steel cardstock embossed with the Dotted Diamond Embossing Folder which is included in the kit, if you are a monthly subscriber.

I trimmed the Steel cardstock to 3.3/4" x 5", embossed using the Dotted Diamond Embossing Folder and dragged Simon Says White Pigment ink pad over the raised detail to highlight.

I tore a strip of the Tim Holtz/Idea-ology Vault Wallflower paper and stamped the splatter and small ephemera images from the stamp set, inked with Scorched Timber Distress Ink.

I inked the floral image with Distress Black Soot Archival and stamped on to Simon Says Ice Vellum, sprinkled with Clear Embossing Powder and heat set. I used the waterbrush included in the kit to lift colour from the Distress Crayons to colour the image, tore around the image and fixed in place using dots of Distress Collage Medium behind the embossed areas.

I inked around the edges of the Wallflower paper panel with Scorched Timber Distress Ink using a Tiny Blending Tool. The paper panel was not keen to adhere to the knobbly embossed surface so I stapled the panel in place using Tim Holtz/Idea-ology Tiny Attacher.

I inked the sentiment from the stamp set with Black Soot Distress Archival, stamped on to a scrap of the Vault Wallflower Paper, sprinkled with Clear Embossing Powder and heat set. I fussy cut around the sentiment with my trusty Tim Holtz Mini Recoil Snips and inked the edge with Scorched Timber Distress Ink and a Tiny Blending Tool.

I fixed the sentiment in place, wound White Hemp Twine around the panel and tied in a bow. I added splatters of White Gesso and matted the panel on to an A2 white card blank.

I'll be back soon to share more makes from this amazing, great value for money, kit. If you don't already subscribe, there are great benefits, perks and free gifts for doing so and you can check it out HERE.

Hugs Kath xxx