Today’s post is part of a blog hop organised by Simon Says Stamp to celebrate the incredible women in your life. Along with the hop, Simon has released two new stamp sets; Incredible Woman and Good Job Mama (stamp and die set). Today I’m using the Incredible Woman set, and I love how the set highlights the names of woman be that Mother, Mum, Mama, Grandma or Aunt with words which represent them. I’ve linked all supplies at the end of this post. Compensated affiliate links used where possible at no cost to you.

INK BLENDED STRIPES

I wanted the sentiment for this card to be the main focus and easily legible. I did try watercolouring the stripes for this card, but the texture of watercolour that I love, made it difficult to read – not what I was aiming at. So instead for my stripes, I pulled out a palette of dye inks; Hot Lips, Cotton Candy, Fossil and Clementine. I used Masking Paper to mask off each line and then generously applied the ink with a Blending Brush (love these brushes for smooth blending). I varied the width of the stripes slightly and also added in a few white stripes for interest too.

I then stamped the sentiment over the stripes with clear embossing ink and white heat embossed. I also stamped a few of the delicate blooms and leaves around the sentiment too, again in clear embossing ink and white heat embossed.

I added the panel to a white card base with foam adhesive and finished with a splatter of white gouache and a trio of Nuvo droplets in Sugared Almond, Bubblegum Blush and Simply White.

I do love a clean and simple card. The colourful stripes are a fun way to add interest and yet clearly allow the white embossed sentiment and delicate blooms to shine.

BLOG HOP

As mentioned above, today’s post is part of a blog hop to celebrate women. Hopefully, you’ve arrived here from Laura’s Blog but if not then a good place to start is Simon’s Blog.

• Use code WMN999 for a free 4-Pack of our Simon exclusive Mother’s Day Sentiment Strips (while supplies last!) with any purchase. The code will expire Sunday, 4/28 at 11:59 pm EDT.

Now it’s time to hop on over to …

Nina-Marie Trapani

Simon Says Stamp Blog 
Jennifer McGuire
Kristina Werner
Cathy Zielske
Shari Carroll
Laura Bassen
Debby Hughes
Nina-Marie Trapani
Kathy Racoosin
Heather Hoffman
Nichol Spohr

SUPPLIES

You can find links to the supplies I’ve used below; click on the picture or shop icon to get taken directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you! Items marked with an asterisk (*) were provided by a store or the manufacturer. You can read my affiliate and product disclosure here. I genuinely appreciate your support.

* SSS INCREDIBLE WOMAN [ SSS ] * SSS HOT LIPS Dye Ink [ SSS ] * SSS COTTON CANDY Dye Ink [ SSS ] * SSS FOSSIL Dye Ink [ SSS ] * SSS CLEMENTINE Dye Ink [ SSS ] Simon Says Stamp Embossing Ink Pad… [ SSS ] SSS WHITE Embossing Powder [ SSS ] SSS MASKING PAPER [ SSS ] Neenah Classic Crest 80 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ] * Ranger Wendy Vecchi WHITE LANDSCAPE… [ SSS ] * Picket Fence Studios LIFE CHANGING… [ SSS ] Winsor Newton PERMANENT WHITE GOUACHE [ SSS ] Tonic BUBBLEGUM BLUSH GLOSS Nuvo… [ SSS ] Tonic SUGARED ALMOND GLOSS Nuvo… [ SSS ] Tonic GLOSS SIMPLY WHITE Nuvo Crystal… [ SSS ] MINI MISTI [ SSS ] MISTI MINI MOUSE PAD INSERT [ SSS ] MAGNETIC BLOCK FOR MISTI [ SSS ] 3M DOUBLE-SIDED FOAM TAPE [ SSS ] SSS SMALL TEFLON BONE FOLDER [ SSS ] Gina K Designs CONNECT GLUE [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Tonic GLASS MEDIA MAT [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Tonic GUILLOTINE [ SSS ] Scor-Pal Mini Scoring Board [ SSS ] EK Success CUTTER BEE Scissors [ SSS ] TWEEZERS [ SSS ] T SQUARE RULER [ SSS ] Precision Heat Embossing Tool Gun [ SSS ] Ranger ANTI STATIC POUCH [ SSS ] SSS Embossing Powder Storage [ SSS ]

PIN ME

Summary of the project which gives all the views of the card in one photo :D I’d love if you pinned and called by on Pinterest :D