Simon Says Stamp | So Happy You’re My Mama. Jewel Paper with Nuvo Drops. Video + Blog Hop + Giveaway
Hello, there! I am so excited to share today’s project with you – it’s simple to make card for Mom that can be used as a Mother’s Day card. I, however, intend to use this project as an encouragement piece to mail to my Mom in Ukraine to put a smile on her face (I have already made Mother’s Day cards for my Mom and Mother-in-law so I wanted to stretch my supplies and use them for something else).
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VIDEO TUTORIAL
I also wanted to share something rather cool and unique – a way to create jewel paper using stamps, embossing powder and Nuvo drops! Watch my video tutorial below to learn more. Or watch it on Youtube.
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CARD DETAILS
The card design I am sharing today can be easily turned into a Mother’s Day card, a Birthday card for Mom or even a simple I Love You or I Miss You for Mother or Mother in law.
I started working on my project by heat embossing a Flora 6×6 background stamp in white embossing powder onto kraft cardstock. This is a beautiful background that can be used for a variety of projects and there are lots of things you can do with this, too. You can heat emboss it in white or gold onto kraft paper; you can stamp it and partially color using pencils or markers; you can use it on watercolor paper and heat emboss over a nice watercolor background. Lots of options to explore.
I decided I wanted to color my background using pencils. I wanted the white heat embossing to pop here, so I picked kraft cardstock as my base and decided to go with Prismacolor pencils for my coloring. I picked just 3 colors and went with kraft, pink and green color combo – I think it is very feminine. The colors I used are PC929, PC1014 and PC989.
I will say I am very new to Prismacolor pencils – I got these for Christmas last year and I haven’t really had a lot of chances to use them, but I do love how they look on dark papers.
I used a dark pink pencil to add color to the flowers on my background (if you look closely you can see that this background is made up of individual flowers and leaves and they are all sort of interlock together). I also used a light pink pencil and colored the top of the flowers, I colored over the dark pink to soften the color and make the top parts of my florals appear lighter. You can also use a white pencil for this and simply layer it over the dark to get a softer, lighter color. This is what I love these prismacolor pencils for – you can easily lighten up a color using a lighter color pencil or white.
I also used a green pencil and colored all of the leaves. You can definitely keep your background white and pink only, but I really wanted to add that pop of green.
JEWEL PAPER
I wanted to create jewel paper. So I used my crystal drops from Tonic and added pink as well as white dots over my coloring. I used a neon Shocking Pink and Gloss White. I love that these drops do not take too long to dry, mine were all nice and stiff in just about 20 minutes. Although it is very hot where I live right now so that probably affects the drying time a little bit. If you don’t have these colors of Nuvo drops you can also add clear dots using Morning Dew color (clear) or even Glossy Accents. But Nuvo drops do dry much more dimensional.
For my sentiment, I used M and A letters from the Mom and Dad icons set and heat embossed two of each letter twice in white embossing powder onto white cardstock. The stamp set has letters to spell out words Mom and Dad, but I wanted to spell out Mama, this is what I call my mom, I call her Mama, so I used a letter A instead of O. I also heat embossed a sentiment that reads “So Happy You’re My” so that the sentiment together would read So Happy You’re My Momma.
I used Simon’s Hollyhock ink and mini round ink blending tool and added ombre inking onto my letters. I inked the bottom of each letter with lots of pink and left the top barely white. I also added a layer of ink over the small sentiment so that it looked as if it was embossed onto pink paper.
Next, I used my Platinum 6 die cutting and embossing machine and coordinating dies and cut my letters out.
I foam mounted my background onto an A2 top folding card base made out of white cardstock and foam mounted letters on top. I also decided to add a few sequins from Little Princess set – there are these super adorable little floral shaped sequins, I’ve never seen anything like that so I was excited to use them on my card.
ADDITIONAL INSPIRATION
See my previous post to find additional inspiration using new products. Click the image or HERE to see the full post.
GIVEAWAY
Simon Says Stamp is giving away a $25 coupon to every stop on the hop from the blog comment section. Leave a comment below for your chance to win!
Winner’s name will be posted on Simon Says Stamp blog on the following Tuesday.
BLOG HOP
Join us for a fun blog hop to find loads more inspiration!
The next stop on this hop is amazing Debby Hughes. You can also start over at Simon Says Stamp blog.
SUPPLIES
I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go 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 so much for your support!
 Simon Says Cling Rubber Flora Background Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Cling Rubber Cora Background Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Cling Rubber Star Flower Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Cling Rubber Flower Medallion Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Clear Stamps Mom and Dad Icons Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Mom and Dad Icons Wafer Dies Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamps and Dies Mom and Dad Icons Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Hollyhock Dye Ink Pad Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Embossing Ink Pad Clear Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Little Princess Sequins Shop at: SSS |
 Spellbinders Platinum 6 Die Cutting Machine Shop at: SSS |
 Prismacolor 150 Premier Colored Pencils Shop at: SSS |
 Neenah 80 Solar White Paper Pack 250 Sheets Shop at: SSS |
 Neenah Classic Crest 80 Lb Smooth Desert Storm Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts White Embossing Powder PW110 Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun PW200 Shop at: SSS |
 ScraPerfect Crafting Pouch Shop at: SSS |
 Ranger Mini Round Ink Blending Tools Shop at: SSS |
 Ranger Mini Round Foam Refils Shop at: SSS |
 Scrapbook Adhesives White Foam Squares Shop at: SSS |
 Crystal Ninja Crystal Katana Mixed Media Pick Up Tool Shop at: SSS |
 Be Creative Tape 3mm Sookwang Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Deluxe Adhesive Nuvo Glue Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Gloss White Nuvo Crystal Drops Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Shocking Pink Nuvo Glow in the Dark Drops Shop at: SSS |
 White Fun Foam 12 Pack 9 x 12 Shop at: SSS |
Birdette
April 9, 2017Really lovely cards. I life the earthy feel. Thanks for sharing.
Bernice James
April 9, 2017Pretty colors
Lady Joyful
April 9, 2017Beautiful cards. The colours are so pretty!
Elia Rogers
April 9, 2017Beautiful cards
hilhashi
April 9, 2017I just love this card. Pink & green is my favorite color combo! Awesome, Yana!
Janice
April 9, 2017I love these background stamps and the colors are beautiful.
Dawn Jones
April 9, 2017Love the accents and the simplicity of these beautiful cards.
D.Ann C
April 9, 2017Love that fabulous jewel paper you created!
Tracy Springer
April 9, 2017Love your cards! I need jewel paper!
Barbara P McAlister
April 9, 2017Love the colors you used in these cards!
Lizzie T
April 9, 2017Gorgeous card! Love the technique!
Liz mcallister
April 9, 2017Oh this is just so pretty!
Pat
April 9, 2017This white embossed background looks fabulous with the Prismacolour pencil colouring, and keeping to a restricted palette works really well Yana and the Nuvo drops and sequins are a great finishing touch. I love your kraft card and prettily coloured roses too. x
Becca straub
April 9, 2017What a great card
Jodi
April 9, 2017Beautiful cards! I love the colors. Thanks for sharing.
Kim Faucher
April 9, 2017Gorgeous card!!!
Adriana Bohusova
April 9, 2017Gorgeous!!!
Barb
April 9, 2017lovely.
Kim Maxwell
April 9, 2017Love your cards.
Karen Rice
April 9, 2017Fabulous cards! I love how you used that background!
Migdalia Rodriguez
April 9, 2017Gorgeous cards! I love the pretty floral!
pewpewrissa
April 9, 2017So pretty! Your cards are always so sophisticated.
Linda Duensing
April 9, 2017Beautiful cards and colors. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
Angela Linton
April 9, 2017Beautiful card! I love your color combination.
Alison Day
April 9, 2017I LOVE that coloured card!! Wow!! Not sure I have the patience to colour in that background stamp but I’d love to try!!
Laura G
April 9, 2017You card is just gorgeous!!!
Cora
April 9, 2017Beautiful colors!
Larissa Heskett
April 9, 2017SQUEAL!! LOVING LOVING LOVING the New Release!! Such BEAUTIFUL Inspiration too THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEKEND!!
Maria D.
April 9, 2017Wow!! The details and colors are beautiful!
Rica
April 9, 2017Thanks so much for sharing how you made these. Beautiful colors!
Cherri Simon
April 9, 2017So very pretty and feminine.
Tanya
April 9, 2017I love the colored pencils on kraft with the white embossing! Makes me think I might be able to actually do this with some practice! Thanks for sharing and being such an inspiration!
Denise D.
April 9, 2017This card is so pretty, I must start using my pencils more often.
lee
April 9, 2017Love your card, the colors, the concept. Very cool.
justMarie
April 9, 2017I love your card!!!
Maryjo Monterosso
April 9, 2017So lovely I really like these large background stamps and your technique is really special.
lisascreativeniche
April 9, 2017The background on the first card is beautiful!
denisegutshall
April 9, 2017What a beautiful card with a wonderful sentiment! I love the colors on the Neenah Desert storm paper!
Sandy S.
April 9, 2017The colors are just beautiful~love your card!
Sharon Thompson
April 9, 2017Love the color combination and techniques. Very beautiful cards.
Gaelle De Ruyter
April 9, 2017So beautiful Yana, I love the colours you chose. This background stamp is just amazing. Thank you for sharing
Leana Hodge
April 9, 2017Gorgeous cards!!!
Cammy
April 9, 2017Very delicate looking with the careful colouring of the mandalas
cassie d
April 9, 2017These are beautiful! I love the colors on the kraft. I really enjoy your videos.
Abby
April 9, 2017Beautiful!
Pam Dunbar
April 9, 2017Beautiful card! I just got my prisma color pencils so I am happy to see ideas using them. I love this Flora background stamp it’s gorgeous!
Betty N
April 9, 2017Super gorgeous card!
blissfullyscrappy
April 9, 2017Gorgeous card! You used my favorite colors! Thank you for the wonderful inspiration!
lolyborda43
April 10, 2017I love how you colored that awesome background! Thanks for the inspiration!
Rebecca W
April 10, 2017Thanks for all the inspiration Yana and thanks to SSS for the giveaway!! I call my Mom “Mama” too, was excited to see a card personalized like that!