- Hello and welcome,
it's an exciting day
in the stamping world.
It is the beginning of Stamptember
over at Simon Says Stamp.
This is a big month for our hobby.
We get to see lots of great new products
along with tons of
inspiration and collaborations
with many of our favorite companies.
So I am starting out today
by sharing with you a close look
at the Stamptember Simon
Says Stamp release.
At the beginning of the month,
they release their brand of products.
And then throughout the month,
they release their collaborations
with other companies.
And there's a lot of other fun going on.
I encourage you to check it out.
I'll provide some links below.
But instead of just showing
you the new products today,
I will be sharing ideas
and links to techniques
that you can do with
the different products.
I think it's a more helpful way
to get a closer look at everything
and decide if you wanted to
try any of their products
or try these techniques with
products you already have.
In the description below,
I will have a link to the product,
followed by a link to the video,
with the technique I
recommend for that product.
So I'm hoping that's helpful to you.
I'll start out by doing
stencils, dies, stamps,
then we'll go into some of the
theme products like holidays,
and then there's some
unique products at the end.
So stay tuned for that
because I think you'll
think they're fun too.
And one last thing, I
do have a couple videos
coming up where I use these products
with various techniques.
So keep an eye out for that too.
Okay, let's dive in.
I'm starting with stencils first
because I really liked the
stencils in this release.
The first three are larger
stencils that work well
for regular cards or the
newly popular slimline cards
which are tall and narrow.
Now I'll be using these
for a new technique in a video tomorrow,
so you can see that soon.
And the fact that they're bigger
is beneficial for the technique that I do.
Okay, the first one is Floating Leaves.
This is a really fun one.
This will be great for
all kinds of techniques
because of the large
open area in the pattern.
You can stamp over it, you can
ink over it, lots of things.
A technique that would be fun for this,
is to create a Distress Ink
or Distress Oxide Ink background,
lay your stents on it,
then a baby wipe on top
and run it back and forth
through your die cut machine.
It creates a softened look in
the openings of the stencil.
See the card there to the right,
that's a card that I
did with that technique.
So you can see the effect that you get.
I will link to that
particular video below.
So you can go watch that technique
and apply it to this stencil
if you decide to get it.
So that's how I'll do
this throughout the video.
Okay, next we have Large Falling Snow.
This works great for slimline cards,
vertical or horizontal regular cards.
You could even do it upside
down to create bubbles
for an underwater scene.
A fun idea for this
stencil would be to apply
embossing paste or glaze or
something over the stencil.
And then while that's
wet, add embossing powder,
like I did on the dot
background of this card example.
You could do white fluff embossing powder
or white glitter embossing
powder for a snow effect
and then it adds dimension to.
Again, all of these links to
the example videos that I share
are below.
Okay, next up is Bubble Wrap.
I really like this one
and in the video that I have coming up,
I use this quite a bit
because it's so much fun.
Now this one would be great
for an offset stenciling technique,
which you've seen me do
many times in videos.
You first ink it up
with white pigment ink,
then you shift the stencil and ink it up
with a colored die ink.
And you get this offset
optical illusion effect.
Like you see on the
example there on the right.
It would work great for the circles
on this Bubble Wrap Stencil.
I'm also really excited about
the Autumn Splendor Stencil
which I'll also be using.
This has a lot of detail to it
which is really fun with stencils.
A technique that would be great with this
is a glitter stencil technique,
where you start with cardstock
covered with double sided adhesive.
You lay your stencil on it,
apply one color glitter,
remove your stencil and
apply another color glitter.
And you get that two-tone
glitter background
as you can see in the example here.
That would be gorgeous and like gold
and rust colored glitter with
the Autumn Splendor Stencil
Next we have the Deco Squares Stencil.
This would be fun to do,
as kinda unique looking
rainbows if you rotated it.
And just color in each
with a different color,
or it would be great to use
with a rotating stencil technique
like I did on the example here.
Basically you ink it up
with white pigment ink,
rotate it 180 degrees and
ink it up with a die ink
and create a different pattern
that will give us a really
neat background look.
Another stencil that I'm excited about
is actually the set of three
called the Simple Pattern Trios.
What's neat about these
is the stencil size is 4 1/4 by 5 1/2.
So you put it onto your note card
and then you can ink over that area.
And you know your pattern is centered
on the front of the card.
So there is the diagonal stripes,
there's the horizontal stripes
which you could stamp sentiments
into if you wanted to.
And then there's the dot pattern
which I'll be using in my next video.
It would also be fun to use ribbon,
to put a bow at the top of one
of these little inked boxes
and then put a bow down center of it,
and it'll look like a wrapped package
on the front of your card.
And all you have to do is
add a stamped greeting.
Next we have dies.
I'm really excited about
dies, I love die cutting,
but what's best about these dies
is there are many that would be great
as a detailed die cut
on the front of a fun inked background.
So it creates a quick card.
A good example is the
Engraved Feather die.
By the way, this piece of blue card stock
that I show along with these die cuts
is 4 1/4 by 5 1/2.
So you can get an idea of the
sizing on a typical note card.
For the detail of this feather,
I think it'd be fun to do a die cut
that's covered with gold embossing powder.
Here's an example on the right there
of a leaf with some gold
embossing powder on it,
it would be fun on this feather.
And I will link to that video below also.
Another very detailed die
is the Etched Eucalyptus Wreath.
And there were eucalyptus
leaves that came out
in the last release.
I like the detail of this.
I think it'd be fun to do a background
of these overlapping rings of leaves,
or you could just simply die cut it
from a specialty cardstock,
like a silver holographic cardstock,
like I did on the example
here to the right,.
And you can see how that
die cut would match nicely
with this wreath.
I also am crazy about
the Etched Laurel Leaves.
There are two dies in the set.
Look at the detail on those.
I like that one is large
and one is smaller.
You can cover a background easily,
or the two pair together nicely.
This would be fun to do an impression.
So here's an example.
I took the die, I dabbed the cutting edge
with VersaMark ink,
laid it onto cardstock,
ran it through my die cut machine
to make an impression
with an embossing mark.
And then added gold embossing powder.
It gives great detail.
It's a fun technique to try
so be sure to check out that video below.
We also have the Detail Elm Leaves.
So there's two dies in this.
This has a little more of a playful look
and you'll see me use
it in tomorrow's video.
I like that it has the detail
with the rounded leaves.
They're smaller so that you
could make a smaller focal point
or cover a background with them.
This would be really fun
with the full letter press technique.
Now it's kinda hard to
describe the technique here,
but you can see how I made an impression
with the leaf dies there,
and then put ink in that.
And it would work great
with the Detail Elm Leaves
because you would have that dotted detail.
It's hard to explain the technique.
So be sure to watch that video,
it would work great with these leaves
and the other leaf dies
that I shared today.
Here are the Tender Leaves,
it's just another variation.
All of these leaves would
work really well together.
But I like that this one would be great
if you have a die cut
flower or a stamped flower,
these would be great leaves
to kinda tuck behind them and come out,
or it would be fun to do
with a bridge card technique.
So you die cut a bunch of these leaves
and glue them across a bridge card.
Kind of like the happy
birthday here suspended,
you could have leaves
suspended across there
and then put a sentiment in the middle.
Now I was jumping up and down
when I saw this Detailed Ringlet
Plate and that's the truth.
I do get giddy about new
fun stamping products.
So this creates a 4 1/4
by 5 1/2 inch panel.
It cuts the outside edge,
but everything else is just detailed dots.
So you can use it for a subtle pattern
on a card like I did here.
This is a split gatefold card design,
and I'll be using this several
times of my next video.
Another idea for this plate
would be to die cut it from
several pieces of cardstock
and then cut out the circle patterns
and then pop out colors of the pattern
on a white background.
Here we have two die sets,
the Geometric Builder Squares and Circles.
Now the square sets come
with the four squares
in the middle up there and on the left,
and then the circles come
with the square on the bottom.
Now these are great
for any of you like me,
who like to hoard scraps of cardstock,
specialty parch papers
or leftover background
inky pieces that you have.
What you do is die cut from this
and you can build fun patterns,
geometric patterns to
fill your card front.
I am really excited about these.
I'll do a video where I
show different styles,
that you can do with these.
But if you like to use up those scraps
and don't let them go to waste,
these are two sets that
you might want to consider.
Let's now dive into the sentiment dies.
I use those a lot on cards.
The first one is You Matter,
you have the die and the shadow die.
Now I don't know that
there is a better sentiment
to send to somebody right now.
I know a lot of us are discouraged
and I think this would really
do a lot to encourage someone.
Basically, all you have to do is add it
to any card or a fun bold background,
like my example there to the right.
And it's shared to cheer someone up.
It also teams nicely with the stamp set
that I'll show you later in this video.
For a unique sentiment
for a celebration card,
here we have Best Day Ever.
We have the script die and
then also the shadow die.
Again, I'm showing it
on a basic card size,
so you can see how this
fits nicely in the middle.
This would be great for a
large colorful shaker window.
Here's an example where I did
strips or scraps of cardstock
along a background,
and created a large shaker
window on the front of it,
and then put a die cut on the window.
And the Best Day Ever
would look great there too.
Another die set that would work great
for that technique of a shaker window
is the happy birthday script,
which again, includes this
script word in the shadow,
which I think is always beneficial.
It allows those detailed
sentiments to stand out more.
Then we have Sending Smiles Words.
This I believe was part
of a kit last month,
and now you can buy it individually.
I can't wait to use this.
I think it's such a
happy playful sentiment,
and it fits nicely on a landscape
or horizontal card also.
And by the way, I just
thought I'd show you.
It does also match up with
the Just Miss You Stamp Set,
which was part of the kit also
that you can buy separately too.
Lots of wonderful sentiments in there,
especially for right now when
we're missing a lot of people
who we can't see.
All right, there are two die sets
that I am really excited
about for the upcoming season.
This is the Box and
Ribbon Gift Wrap die set.
So it creates this folded card
with two little notches on the
inside to hold a gift card.
Then there are also dies to
create a ribbon on the front.
Now I just did this from white
cardstock for demonstration.
Of course you do some colorful cardstock
to make it look pretty
or glitter card stock,
but look how fast this comes together.
And it looks like a little gift box,
but it opens up to hold a
gift card in the inside.
And the best part is when it's closed,
it's 4 1/4 by 5 1/2,
including the ribbon at the top.
So it fits into an envelope easily.
This will be excellent for teacher gifts.
So anytime you give a
gift card to someone.
So quick and easy card
and you can decorate it
however you want.
Another fun one is the Latte
Gift Card Slider die set.
You can use this in many different ways
and I'll show you the
way that I plan to use it
to make cards for teachers.
So I die cut two of the mug die cuts,
and then I just put glue behind the handle
and along the outside edge,
but not across the top.
This creates a little pocket
where you can put a slider into it.
And that's the piece that
has a whipped cream on top.
So you can make this
look like hot chocolate.
You can see the sprinkles dies over there.
There's a little cinnamon stick.
There are many ways you can arrange this.
Now here, I'm using the latte slider part.
And then I also have the gift
card slot part of the die set,
and I'm putting those together
and run it through my die cut machine.
I will then also cut a piece
without the gift card slider slot.
So you can either use it like this,
where I just slide in this
so you can see the gift card peeking out.
And that would be a fun, quick, easy card
of course you'd make
it colorful and pretty,
or you can make this little
sliding part into a card.
The way I would do that
is to put a score line
at the top up there on the whipped cream,
it's about a half inch from the top.
Above that score line I'll put adhesive
and then I'll glue it onto another die cut
that doesn't have the gift card on it.
So basically this is a mini card
with the gift card in the inside.
And you can slide this
into the slot on the mug
and there you have a fun interactive card.
This again is great.
Anytime you're want to give
a quick Starbucks card to somebody,
or just any kind of gift card
during the fall or winter season.
The fact that it comes together
quickly is a big win for me
because I make a lot of teacher cards
with small gift cards inside.
Next there are several slimline
die sets in this release.
This is the Slimline Keep Marquee.
This is fun because
inside of the cutting edge
of those rectangles are little open dots.
So you can do fun stitching
with that if you wanted to.
These are approximately 8 1/4 inches wide
and 3 1/4 inches tall,
which is great for those
tall and narrow cards,
but you can also use them
creatively on regular cards.
Here's an example that
I used a slimline die
to create a little banner
on the front of my card.
See that scallop boarder edge,
that's actually a slimline die.
And so you can use those
on regular size cards too.
Another is the Slimline
Scallop Frame die set,
about the same size for that outer die.
And then this one cuts
the happy birthday banner.
And then we have the
slimline borders and edges.
These are each individual border dies.
These are great because they
go across a slim line card,
but they can also go
diagonally on a regular card.
Some border dies are a
little too small for that,
so I like that option too,
great way to create
unique strips from scraps
to add to the background of your cards.
Next is the Nested Oval dies.
So these cut apart so you
can have individual ovals,
these get really big, so it'd be great
even for those of you who
make five by seven cards.
You can also keep them
connected or tape them together
to create concentric ovals,
to create a background
like the one you see there to the right.
And again, all the pictures I share,
I do provide the link below to the video
right next to the product
that I talk about it with.
All right, next we have background stamps
and there's some fun ones in this release.
The first one is the Lantern Pattern.
It's a beautiful detailed
background stamp.
There are a billion ways you can use this,
but the one that I think would be most fun
is to white heat emboss it on cardstock,
on white cardstock.
Then just add some
shimmer powder and water
and let it dry and do its own work.
And you get pools of color in the detail,
like the example you see here.
A lot of the background stamps that have
little pockets of detail are
great for those products.
Another with a lot of detail
is the Deco Squares background stamp.
Now this would be fun for a
framed stamping technique.
So for this example,
I stamped a bunch of flowers
masked there in the center
and put a frame around it.
And then I masked that center area,
and stamped with a light
ink with a detailed stamp.
And the deco squares
would be great for that.
This is a one layer smooth card.
So with the help of masking,
you can use detailed stamps like that.
Next we have the Hexagon
Tile background stamp.
Now, when I first looked at this,
I see little hexagons in the pattern.
So what I would do is stamp
this on several colors
of cardstock and then cut out the hexagon
from the different colors,
and then build them back
together like a puzzle
to create a colorful hexagon background.
Now, the Fractured Background stamp,
this would be fun to just
stamp on white card stock
in a color, rotate it
and do a different color
and continue to do that
to create this overlap,
colorful background.
Or you could white heat
emboss it on watercolor paper.
Apply a bunch of Distress Ink
and then spray with a shimmer water
and create pockets of color
like you see in the example here.
It would create a fun, bold background
for simple sentiment on top.
here we have the Circle
Patterns background stamp.
This would be great for offset stamping,
where you first stamp it
with a white pigment ink
on a craft cardstock.
And then you move it a little bit over,
and stamp it with a colorful die ink
to create a fun offset pattern.
You could also fill in the little circles
with different gems for a
fun colorful background.
Here we have the Damask background stamp.
This would be beautiful,
just tone on tone on a colorful cardstock
for a fun background.
Or you can try a subtle resist technique,
like on example here to the right.
You just stamp it with VersaMark
ink on white cardstock,
let it dry and then apply
Distress Ink or die ink over it,
and you get a subtle resist effect.
Here we have the Wood
Planks background stamp.
This one, I'll be honest,
I think looks so cool when you do
A light gray on white cardstock,
or if you did a gold embossing
powder on craft cardstock,
it's just a great background
stamp for a focal image.
Next, we have the
Sunflower background stamp.
This is a beautiful one.
I think it'd be fun to
create a set of note cards.
You just take bold colors of cardstock,
stamp this with a white pigment ink,
and then put a sentiment on it,
and do this with different colors
and put them together to
create a note card set.
There's so much detail in the stamp.
It should be the highlight or
the focal point of the card.
Next we have the Old
Letter background stamp.
This is a beautiful one
that just looks nice
tone on tone on the
background of any card.
But what I think it would be beautiful as
is to clear heat emboss
it on a dark cardstock,
and then spray it with
different distress oxide ink.
That's what I did on the
background of this card.
It looks so cool.
This would even work great
with that damask background stamp.
Now it's time to dive into stamps,
I know many of you
are probably looking
forward to this the most,
and then we'll get into
themes and other fun products.
Here we have my favorite
stamp set from this release
and that is the Paper Hug stamp set.
This is a large set,
so we have big images, if you're like me
and you're missing many people
during these tough times,
this set is for you.
You can use it on cards,
but I also think it's great
for stamping on envelopes.
You could also make a bookmark card
using one of those images.
On the card example here,
that square is a piece
you slide on your page
to keep your spot,
and one of those images would
look great on a bookmark.
And by the way, I'm sorry,
I'm going through these so quickly,
there's just a lot to share
and I wanted to share the ideas too.
Next is the Tiny Word Support stamp set.
I didn't get this one, so I
can't show it to you in person,
but this does include a lot
of encouraging messages,
I think we all could use right now.
And it would work really well
with that You Matter die
that I showed you earlier.
These tiny words sets
that Simon Says Stamp has
are used quite often
as like a subsentiment
underneath my die cut sentiment.
They're easy to stamp on cardstock strips
and add your card just
about anywhere you want.
They're also nice for
stamping inside of cards.
There are tiny words stamp sets
and lots of different themes,
and this new one is one of those
that I think I'll be using quite often
because of the encouragement messages.
Another great set.
This one is six by eight is
as sympathy greeting mix,
many different ways to
send a sympathy greeting,
but also some that are just encouraging
to folks during difficult times,
or when someone is sick.
Like I've been thinking
about you each day,
sending you a much needed hug
and sending you healing hugs.
So this is one of those
you wanna look closely at
because there's lots
of sentiments offered.
I also think this one
would be great for creating
a sentiment background, like
the card you see on the right.
You just arrange a bunch of them
and you can stamp a bunch
of backgrounds at once
and put any focal point image on it.
Here we have XL Greetings.
Now this is fun because it
builds a card so nicely.
So you can create an
inked background and stamp
or heat emboss the
sentiment at the center.
There are also coordinating
dies available for the set.
I think it'd be fun to
create a stamped background
and then use white pigment ink
to do a bit of ink blending in the center
to create a highlight point
and then put the sentiment
at the center of that.
So you can see there's a white highlight
behind that happy birthday
would work great with this set too.
Because of You is another
very meaningful stamp set,
so unique.
Now this has the because of you sentiment
and then many other
sentiments that go with it.
And also you make me a better person.
So it's got things like I
feel accepted and loved,
the world is a better
place, I am a better human.
Be fun to do one of the large sentiments
and then put the smaller ones
around it in colorful inks
like the example you see here,
it'd be a quick and
positive encouraging card.
Another encouragement stamp
set is the, I Am With You.
I really like the hand
lettered style of this,
it just makes it look even
better on a handmade card.
And there are unique sentiments
such as love you fiercely,
you are brave, and I am with you.
I think these sentiments would be fun,
just stamped on a white cardstock die card
and placed on a beautiful
stamped background,
such as the sunflower stamp
that I showed you earlier.
This allows those sentiments
to be the focal point of the card.
I was excited to see another
CZ Design Cleanline stamp set,
this is Cleanline Gratitude.
So with this you can
stamp the main large word,
and then there are many
little sub sentiments
that you can use along
with the large words,
such as I am so grateful,
grateful for all you do.
And also there are coordinating dies
for the hearts and the large words,
which makes it very easy
to add to your card.
I'll be using this in an upcoming video.
Next we have Banner Greetings.
This is a large six by eight set,
and the cool thing is
there's this transparency that
matches up with the banners,
and it helps you to line the
different sentiments on it.
Now the sentiments are straight,
so you can use them on a card as normal,
or you can use this guide,
this tool, this transparency,
to help you give the
curve to the sentiment,
to go on the banners.
So here is a quick
example of how it works.
Say you've stamped that banner
there on the bottom, on your cardstock.
You line up the transparency
over the banner,
see how it matches up, you line it there,
then you take any of the sentiments
and curve it onto that transparency.
The transparency holds onto
the stamp and keeps that curve.
So see how I'm curving it to
fit into that window opening.
Then you take your acrylic
block or your stamping tool
and you press down to pick up the stamp
and now you can stamp with it,
and it's at the perfect
arch to go into that banner.
So you have the option
to stamp it straight
or to go along any of the
banners in the stamp set.
I think it's really
cool to have that guide
to make sure you get it just right.
Next, we have another large stamp set.
This is Slimline
Greetings, these sentiments
which cover pretty much the whole year
are seven and a half inches long about.
So they're great for stamping
stretched across a slimline card.
I don't have many stamps sentiments
that fill the slimline card,
so this one's really fun.
I also think it'd be fun to stamp
like that happy Halloween
or congratulations in rainbow inking,
as I did with the rainbow
on the butterfly here.
If you've never seen that video,
be sure to check it out below.
It's a fun way to create
a colorful sentiment
or large stamp image.
Now, I use a lot of snowflake images
throughout the winter season,
not just for my Christmas
or holiday cards,
but the whole winter.
And I really like the kinda graphic design
of the snowflakes.
It would be fun to use
along with the distress
and water technique
I just showed in a recent video.
you white heat emboss images,
put a bunch of Distress Ink
or Distress Oxide ink over the background,
and then paint in the
snowflakes with water
and it softens there, be
beautiful on a blue background.
Next up is the Mix and Match Circles.
Another large stamp set.
You could do a background of
all of these circle images
in different color inks,
or do kind of a bokeh effect with this.
But what I thought of first
was to use it along with
my Gina K Wreath Builder,
to create a kaleidoscope kind of look
like the example that you see here.
If you've never seen a wreath builder,
it's a great way to use small images,
so check out that video.
The stamps set also
includes, small sentiments,
that fit on circle die
cuts, which is fun too.
Next we have Laugh In Flowers stamp set.
I like the realistic look of these flowers
and it's something different
than other flower images I have.
There I did a watercolor technique
where I put distress
inks on an acrylic block,
sprayed it with water and
then stamp the acrylic block
on top of a white heat embossed image,
which would be great for this stamp set.
If you're like me and
like to create backgrounds
with stamps that fit together nicely,
the Good Vibes stamp
set is one to consider.
You can stamp that outline diamond
and then use the other
images to color it in,
to create a background of
any color scheme you want.
Now let's talk about holidays and themes.
I decided to keep this separate
since some of the dies,
and stencils, and stamps all go together.
All right, let's start with Halloween.
This is the Boo Crew.
It has adorable images for Halloween
and some cute sentiments.
Like all I want is candy and you,
no tricks just treats, I wish
I could Hocus Pocus you here.
So this also has
coordinating dies available.
I don't make many Halloween
cards, but when I do,
they're usually the cutesy
version, so this one's great.
Here we have the Halloween
People from CZ Designs.
I like the little bat and
the ghosts down there,
which will match up with
some dies I show you shortly.
Then there is the
Halloween People die set.
Now this is the outline
of the words, Halloween,
and then the shadow die too.
So they can be used
together or separately.
Then there is the Large Outline Spooky.
So that die cuts spooky
in a rectangle shape.
And this die would be great
to use up some of your scraps,
you could use oranges, and
blacks, and dark grays,
to create a scrap background
and create two cards
at once using this die.
It's similar to the thanks die
that came out a few months ago.
There are a few more individual
Halloween themed dies.
Here we have Spooky with
the shadow die included
and then the fun Ghost die.
So it cuts a circle with
the Ghost and the bats.
And it could be fun to cut these
from either white glitter cardstock
or the bats from black glitter cardstock
for a simple card design
and a simple sentiment underneath.
There's also the Batty Stencil,
this I plan to do on black cardstock
and I'll ink up the stencil
with a white pigment ink.
Then I'll shift it and ink it up
with maybe a black pigment ink
and then put glitter
embossing powder on it.
So you have a background
of different looking bats.
This brings us into the fall.
This is the Pumpkin Spice
Sentiments stamp set.
I know many people are
crazy about pumpkin spice,
or coffee, or hot chocolate in
this set would work for you.
I like the little hands holding
the cup, those are unique.
And you can create a
simple card with that,
a little bit of coloring
and a sentiment underneath.
Okay, now we have holidays,
this is Chunky Christmas, it
has nice, bold sentiments,
and then little sentiments
that can go underneath.
These would be great to
be gold heat and embossed
with a little bit of watercolor inside.
Here we have the Circle
Sentiments Christmas set.
I would die cut a bunch of circles
and stamp the different
sentiments and circles on them
to form ornaments that you can hang
from the top of your card.
There's even a line stamp on the bottom
that you can use for
the string to hang it.
Then you can do whatever
background technique
you want with it.
I really liked the Slimline
Scene Builder Christmas.
This is a large stamp set and
that large image on the right
is great for a slimline card.
It's hard to find images
that stretch along a card.
So you could stamp that
with white pigment ink
on a blue cardstock,
then maybe gold heat emboss the tree,
and then red heat emboss
the little ornaments
to go on the tree,
and then just put a simple
sentiment along the bottom.
Okay, we're in the home stretch now.
And remember at the beginning of the video
I mentioned that there's a new product
that I'm really excited
about from Simon Says Stamp.
And these are preprinted
acetate or transparency sheets.
They are about 4 1/4 by 5 1/2,
and they're printed in black.
And this is the tumbling leave
set, there are four here,
and the neatest thing about
these is you can foil them.
I use Therm o Web Deco Foil.
This is a Gina K version
that has lots of fun sparkle to it.
I cut it down to be the
size of our transparency,
and I use a laminator to do the foiling.
I have a piece of folded parchment paper,
inside I'm putting my transparency
with the printed site up.
You can see one side
has the printing on it,
then I laid my foil on it, pretty side up,
then I close the parchment paper,
and then I run it through my laminator.
It provides heat and pressure.
And when you peel it off, check that out,
it's flawless, it's so cool.
And now you can add this
onto a simple background,
or create a shaker window,
or a clear card, anything you wanna do.
I will be demonstrating this
in a video coming up very soon.
In the meantime,
here are a couple of the
other transparency sets
that are coming out in this release.
This one is Thanks and Leaves.
So you have a frame with leaves in it,
beautiful when it's filled with gold foil.
Here we have Mod Trees.
I think it'd be fun to foil
one of these in silver,
one of them in blue or green,
and then overlap them
offset on a background.
So you can see you would
have even more trees.
Then we have the Hold My Hand,
and the hands create little hearts,
and you can see they're
different size hands in the set.
We also have the preprinted
sentiment strips,
which they've been doing
for a long time now,
I use them a lot in my videos.
The reason I included them here
is you can foil these two in the same way.
Now they're not transparent,
but you can either use these
with black and white like here,
or you can run foil through
and all the black would
become whatever your foil is.
And I'll demonstrate that
in my next video also.
So there were some Christmas ones,
here we have Halloween and
they also have something,
I think it's new this time.
They have some colored
preprinted sentiment strips.
So first we have the Generic
Thanks Sentiment Strips,
but then we have the same
in a colored cardstock.
So in the pack you get all
of these different colors,
so you could pick one that
you can add to your card
and have a nice match.
You just cut out the
different sentiments you want
or use a banner die to die cut them.
It's a quick way to add a sentiment.
Okay, that's it.
That's the new Simon Says Stamp
Stamptember release.
Again, for all the products I showed you,
you can find the product name below
and then right below that,
is the link to the video of
a technique that I suggested
that would go with that
particular product.
At the top, I have a visual
supply list if that helps you,
and also a link to the entire
Simon Says Stamp release.
But another thing that might
be even more helpful to you
is to just head over to my blog,
which is on the top right here,
And you'll be able to
see everything there.
I hope that this was helpful
and taking a look at this large release,
seeing what might work for you
and some ideas for using them.
I'll see you again soon
with another video,
have a wonderful day.
