CSS Release Day: Perfect Harvest

Today Clear & Simple Stamps is releasing some super yummy sets!  The collection is called Perfect Harvest and includes lots of fruits, veggies, sentiments, and coordinating dies.  As you can see from my project above, I really had fun with all those fruit images.  I made a card and tag combo!

Here's my card!  I used a new background stamp called Distressed Linen.  I die cut all the fruit before I stamped the images on them.  Most of these stamps are two or three step stamping, which allows you to add more color to your image easily.  For example, the pineapple is three stamps. Each color is a different stamp.  I love that!

Once all the fruit was cut and stamped, I arranged them on the card base using varying heights of foam dots.  The "platter" is a Word Window die.  The words "Organic Thanks" comes from two different sets (Trendy Tags 2 (older set) and Well Preserved (more details on that tomorrow).  The sentiment is stamped on a die cut circle that I cut in half.

I didn't want the tag to be match-matchy with the card, but I did want them to have similar elements.  I used the larger Labels 5 die to create the tag base, just cut two shapes and adhered the two at the top.  I used the same Distressed Linen background stamp.  I pulled the purple color from the grapes and the red inked sentiment from the apple of the card.  I also used a full circle, instead of the half circle on the original card.

 This is such a fun release day, I can't wait to see what my fellow designers created!  I hope you'll check them out too!

• Stephany Zerbe
• Kim Duran
• Elena Roussakis
• Laurie Willison
• Clear & Simple Stamps

Have a great day!

{Organic Thanks}

Stamps: Perfect Harvest, Trendy Tags 2, Label Frames 1, Distressed Linen, Well Preserved (Clear & Simple Stamps)

Card Stock: Kraft Like a Rockstar, On the Catwalk Cream, Dish All the Dirt Brown, VIP Purple (CSS)

Ink: Say Yellow to All Your Fans, Creamsicle Cardigan, Orange You Fabulous, VIP Purple, Green With Envy, Glamazon Green, Dish All the Dirt Brown, Dare to Be a Diva Red (CSS)

Dies: Mini Fruit, Word Window, Shapes: Circles, Labels 5 (CSS) 

Accessories: Corner Rounder Punch, Foam Dots

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Release Day: Collection 5!!!

The day is finally here!!!  I get to share with you the awesomeness that is Collection 5 from Clear & Simple Stamps!!!  Today I'm sharing one of the newest additions to CSS's shapes collection.  It's rounded squares!  You can see my project below using all kinds of rounded squares.  

Such a cute gift to give someone you love!  I paired my card with a small jar of apple jelly.  I didn't forget about a coordinating tag.

For my card, I started with a card base of Glamazon Green.  I used the new Rounded Squares Trio die to cut 3 rounded squares equally spaced on my card.  I attached a piece of On the Catwalk Cream card stock behind the three openings. Rounded Squares Combo is a set of all different sizes of rounded square dies with coordinating dashed line stamps.  I used those dashed line stamps on the perimeter of the cream squares using Dare to Be a Diva Red ink.  Then I took some Green With Envy card stock and die cut 3 small rounded squares and attached them to the cream squares using foam dots.  

CSS has another new set that you'll see later this week that includes these apples and a coordinating apple die.  I cut and stamped the apples and attached them to the light green squares.  

The sentiment "love you to the core" comes from an older CSS stamp set called "Icon Sentiments".  I punched a small hole on both sides of my card and tied some Red/White/Green Twine.  

For the tag on my jar I simply cut an extra of all the dies but adhered them together a little differently and punched a hole to make it a tag.

You won't want to miss what these designers have in store for you!

• Laurie Willison
• Kim Duran
• Stephany Zerbe
• Jaclyn Miller
• Denise January
• Laura Bassen
• Tracy Schultz
• Jennifer Rzasa
• Lori Tecler
• Amber Kemp-Gerstel
• Clear & Simple Stamps

Have a great day!

{Love you to the core...}

Stamps: Icon Sentiments, Rounded Squares Combo, Perfect Harvest (Clear & Simple Stamps)

Card Stock: Glamazon Green, On the Catwalk Cream, Green With Envy (CSS)

Ink: Dish All the Dirt Brown, Glamazon Green, Dare to Be a Diva Red (CSS), White

Dies: Mini Fruit, Rounded Squares Combo, Rounded Squares Trio (CSS) 

Accessories: Red/White/Green Twine, Foam Dots, Mini Hole Punch

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