Today is New Release Day at Your Next Stamp! It's September, which means some awesome fall stamps are coming, and this release does not disappoint. My favorite of the release has got to be the new Insta Love Die Set. It cuts an instant photo from with pierced holes along the outside. I just love it.
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I have two projects to share with you today. The first uses the new Hobby Chicks stamp set and coordinating dies. This is probably my second favorite of the release and I have a ton of ideas of how to use it. Today I made a bit of a thank you card for a coach. The photo I uses was from last year when my husband coached our youngest sons soccer team. I thought it made the perfect thank you card.
I started with a piece of Bristol smooth white cardstock. I used my ink blending tools and some Distress ink to blend the sky and grass background. When I completed the ink blending, I cut it out using the largest of the Stitched Rectangles Die Set by Your Next Stamp. The background was popped up with craft foam adhered to the back with 1/2 inch scor tape.
I cut out the large Insta love die from the new Insta love die set twice out of Neenah 110lb Solar White cardstock. I adhered both layers together to create a bit of dimension. I wanted the photo to sit inset like an instant photo does. I adhered both the frame and the photo to a piece of copy paper to create one unit. This made it easier to adhere to my background with tape runner adhesive.
I stamped the sentiment with Scrapbook.com white pigment ink and white heat embossed it with Simon Says Stamp detail white embossing powder. I then cut it out using the smallest die from the new Washi Tape Sentiment strips. I adhered the sentiment also with tape runner adhesive.
To finish off the card I embellished the bottom with a copic colored image from the Hobby Chicks stamp set. This little bird is kicking the soccer ball along the bottom of my card. Both the chick and the soccer ball are popped up with Scotch 3M foam tape. The lines that represent the motion of the soccer ball are Gelly Roll Black Glaze pen.
I stamped my images in Versafine Onyx Black ink on Canson XL watercolor paper. I heat embossed the images with Stampin' Up! Clear embossing powder. I colored my images with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers.
The background was cut with the largest of the Ripped Rectangles die set. It was also cut from Canson XL watercolor paper. I then masked of the background and did some ink blending using both Pumice stone distress ink and tumbled glass distress ink. I popped up the background with Scotch 3M foam tape.
The sentiment was also stamped with Versafine Onyx black ink and clear heat embossed. The images were popped up with foam tape and a little Spectrum Noir sparkle pen was used on the bow and icing.
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Koren
