Coloured pencils over heat embossed floral bouquet. Handmade card by Debby Hughes using supplies from Simon Says Stamp.

Simon Says Stamp has a surprise today – their Valentine’s release! It’s time to start looking to the New Year as the year-end rushes towards us. The new release is fabulous, but I did think that there was a reasonable chance that my parcel wouldn’t arrive with me in time considering the pressures of the season on the postal service. So I picked one of my all-time favourite stamp sets, Beautiful Flowers, to post a coloured pencil card with you today and I’ll be sure to have lots of inspiration to share from the new release with you as soon as I can. I’ve linked all supplies at the end of this post. Compensated affiliate links used where possible at no cost to you.

SIMON SAYS STAMP VALENTINE’S RELEASE

 

Here’s a closer look at the new Simon Says Stamp Love You More release:

* SSS Love You More Release
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* CZ Design I STILL DO Set
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* CZ Design I STILL DO
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* CZ Design I STILL DO Dies
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* CZ Design AMPERSAND WORDS Set
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* CZ Design AMPERSAND WORDS
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* CZ Design AMPERSAND WORDS Dies
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* SSS PAWSOME LOVE Set
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* SSS PAWSOME LOVE
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* SSS PAWSOME LOVE Wafer Dies
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* SSS LOVE AND VALENTINES WORD MIX Set
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* SSS LOVE AND VALENTINES WORD MIX
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* SSS WORD MIX 2 Wafer Dies
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* SSS YOU AND ME FOREVER Set
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* SSS YOU AND ME FOREVER
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* SSS YOU AND ME FOREVER Wafer Dies
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* CZ Design GOOD MAIL DAY
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* SSS HEART TO HEART BACKGROUND
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* SSS YOU ARE BACKGROUND
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* SSS RAINBOW HEART Wafer Die
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* SSS YOU ARE LOVED Wafer Die
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* SSS YOU ARE LOVED Wafer Dies
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* SSS WEDDING RINGS Wafer Dies
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* SSS TUMBLING HEARTS Stencil
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* SSS SENTIMENT STRIPS REVERSE LOVE
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* SSS SENTIMENT STRIPS CHEEKY LOVE
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* SSS Suzy’s LOTS OF LOVE Watercolor…
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* SSS LOVE YOU sequins
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* SSS ELEPHANT Enamel Pin
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COLOURED PENCILS

Coloured pencils over heat embossed floral bouquet. Handmade card by Debby Hughes using supplies from Simon Says Stamp.

I started this card by stamping the large bouquet from the Beautiful Flowers set in clear embossing ink on Fog card and white heat embossing. I die cut the panel with an A7 Thin Frames die and set about colouring with Faber Castell Polychromos and a pencil sharpener to keep those pencil points sharp and clean. The colours I used were:

  • Ivory
  • Dark Naples Ochre
  • Green Gold
  • Brown Ochre
  • Terracotta
  • Indian Red
  • Dark Sepia
  • Earth Green
  • Chromium Green Opaque
  • Warm Grey III

Coloured pencils over heat embossed floral bouquet. Handmade card by Debby Hughes using supplies from Simon Says Stamp.

The first seven colours I used on the yellow flowers, then the two greens on the leaves. With the Warm Grey III pencil, I outlined the image to give it more definition from the background … and then goodness knows what I’d stuck my fingers into, but I got a couple of fingerprints on the nice clean Fog card background. I debated starting again, but didn’t want to waste the time I’d coloured and so I fussy cut the bouquet out, and foam mounted it onto another Fog panel I’d splattered with white gouache. Perfect! I love the extra dimension this gives and yet often forget that when using a coloured card, you can still pop up elements when mounting on the same coloured card background.

Coloured pencils over heat embossed floral bouquet. Handmade card by Debby Hughes using supplies from Simon Says Stamp.

For the greeting, I stamped a sentiment from the Beautiful Flowers set in clear embossing ink on Black card and white heat embossed before trimming to a banner. I wrapped the Fog panel with twine and then added the greeting over the top with foam adhesive. I tied a twine bow and kept it in place with a dot of Glossy Accents. I foam mounted the finished panel on a 4 x 6″ card base cut and scored from Bazzill Marshmallow card.

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 (*) provided by a store or the manufacturer. You can read my affiliate and product disclosure here. I genuinely appreciate your support.

* SSS BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS
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* SSS A7 THIN FRAMES Wafer Dies
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FABER CASTELL POLYCHROMOS at SSS
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Winsor Newton WHITE GOUACHE
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SSS FOG Card
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* SSS BLACK Card
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Bazzill MARSHMALLOW Card
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SSS Clear Embossing Ink
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SSS White Embossing Powder
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Ranger MINI GLOSSY ACCENTS Glue
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Hemptique NATURAL Hemp Cord Twine
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MINI MISTI
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MISTI MINI MOUSE PAD INSERT
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MAGNETIC BLOCK FOR MISTI
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3M DOUBLE-SIDED FOAM TAPE
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SSS SMALL TEFLON BONE FOLDER
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Gina K Designs CONNECT GLUE
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Tim Holtz Tonic GLASS MEDIA MAT
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Tim Holtz Tonic GUILLOTINE
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Scor-Pal Mini Scoring Board
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EK Success CUTTER BEE Scissors
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TWEEZERS
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T SQUARE RULER
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Precision Heat Embossing Tool Gun
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Ranger ANTI STATIC POUCH
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SSS Embossing Powder Storage
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Coloured pencils over heat embossed floral bouquet. Handmade card by Debby Hughes using supplies from Simon Says Stamp.

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