 Γεια σας, είναι Vicky here, with my monthly event featuring the Simon Says Stamp Card Kit. For a chance to win the June Card Kit by Simon Says Stamp, make sure to visit my blog and enter your details. So let's first take a look at what's inside the June Card Kit by Simon Says Stamp. This month the color combination is bright and happy. First of all you get two little pens, they are fine tip pens, one is a gel pen and the other is a glitter pen. You will see that later in the video then I end up using them, I totally forgot about them. Now you also get a die that says dream, you also get two colorable card fronts, epoxy stickers in bright colors, a clear stamp set with flowers, leaves and a sentiment. And also you get your six by six papers, these are by Bobani in bright and cheerful colors. And also you get your cardstock, there are five different colors which I always cut out in half and create my card bases. So I have all my card bases here, all the ten of them and now let's go ahead and decorate them. So I am going to start with the obvios and use this colorable card front. But instead of just coloring I decided to take it a step further so I am going to cut out the border along this wonky edge. So I get a more interesting look for my card front and also I am going to turn it into a shaker card. So I am going to cut out the inside of the sun. To color my card I went with my prismacolor pencils as you can see here just because they are super quick and I had to color a lot of things. When I do my one kit ten cards I try to go with simple cards but sometimes I make things more complicated than they are. Now anyway, this paper is not a watercolor paper which means that you can use your alcohol markers and what's great about it is that it doesn't bleed on the back. So I have my piece ready to go. I am going to add some tape adhesive at the back and stick just a piece of acetate and this is just a scrap from a packaging. And I am going to add some foam tape and put inside my sequence. Now I believe these yellow ones came from a kit a while back. I can't remember which one it was but I'm pretty sure it was in one of the same as the previous kits. I am going to peel off the foam tape and I am using one of the yellow cards. So this is a top folding card and it's a standard card that's four and a quarter by five and a half. To finish it off I just had to add some clear wing of cellar glitter pen on the cards and a little bit on the rays of the sun. For this card I used the second colorable card front but this time I am going to trim the edges. Just a little bit. I am not trimming any of the designs. Just to make it slightly smaller so when you put it on top of a standard card you can see a border all around. I am going to show you what I mean. So now I am going to color it with Copics and I really love this paper since it doesn't bleed the back. I am not going to bore you to death showing you how I colored the whole thing but when I finished just because I wanted to take this step further I decided to use my craft knife and cut out the word B. So I am going to make holes inside. It's not that difficult because I'm just following the black lines there. And by all means this is not perfect but if you use a black marker it's going to look as if I have cut out everything perfectly. So I am going to stick that with foam squares at the back on top of my black card base and I am making sure that I add tons of glitter with my Wink of Stella glitter pen just behind the word B. So in real life although it doesn't show on camera a lot of shine is coming through that black cardstock at the back. Now I am going to stick with foam squares again the inside pieces and when I am working with colorable card fronts I tend to try and think what more can I do than just coloring. I don't know why I just want always my card to be a step further. So now to finish it off I am going to add some Wink of Stella glitter pen on the word happy and then I am going to cover it up with glossy accents and that is going to finish my card. I am trying to catch the light here so you can see how shiny this card is. Just adorable. So now let's move on to the next card. I have picked the 6x6 pattern paper with the sun and I think that there are some pattern papers that they are so striking that you don't really need to do a lot for your card fronts. So I am going to cut it out and I am making sure that I keep the sun centered. So I am slowly cutting on one side and then on the next side and the idea here is to make this a panel that is slightly smaller than a standard card so again I have a frame all around. Now as you can see here and since I want to have even the simplest of my cards with something interesting I am using my scissors and I go along the lines of the rays. Having all the rays separated from each other is going to help me create a dimensional look on my finished card. So as you can see I have cut out all the rays and I am adding some tape adhesive at the sun and I am going to pop up all the yellow rays by using my foam squares so I am going to stick down the white thin strips that separate the rays and I am using my glue pen for that and this is really handy. I cut that from the previous Simon Says Stamp card kit and I keep using it again and again. So I am going to push those thin strips down and now I can use my foam squares at the back of each ray for a dimensional effect. As you can see I am adding a foam or a couple of foam squares only at the edges of each ray. So at the center of the sun everything is nice and flat but at the edges everything is raised. I hope you can see the dimension here. So although this is a very simple card at the same time it has something interesting on it. For my sentiment I am going to use the dye that was included in the kit that says dream which I am going to cut out from black cardstock just so it contrasts with the sun. Since I didn't want that word to be flat on the card I decided to add some foam tape at the back. Actually I am using fan foam and I am going to stick the black cardstock on top of the fan foam so I am using some sticky tape there. That white piece is fan foam and before I run it through my die cutting machine I am going to add one more double sided tape on top of that fan foam so when I cut everything out I can peel off the backing and I have a sticker. I am going to run it through my CZX machine a couple of times just to make sure because I need to cut out all the way through the fan foam. I am going to peel off the word and stick it on my card front. Of course you can get crazy with your clear wing of seller glitter pen at this stage and make your card super shiny. For this card I am going to use this beautiful pattern paper with the rainbow colors and I am going to cut out a panel. I am using the largest from the stitched rectangle dies. I am also going to use a word that says hello, this is a big die but for the same design you can use any big die that you have. It can be a heart, it can be a balloon, whatever die you have. So I am going to cut out the same rectangle out of white cardstock and this is just some scrap cardstock that I have. I like to use everything on my table so you see that I have some stamped images in the bag. And I am going to cut out the word hello out of that white cardstock. So when you put it on top you get that beautiful rainbow effect for the back. Now just because I want to reveal the red a little bit more I decided to add a few hearts up there at the top. So I am going to decide where all the hearts are going to go and then cut them out with my scissors machine. So now through the hearts you can see the red as well as a little bit of the purple on the other side. Now you can keep your card as it is or you can add the inside pieces. I believe that both ways it looks beautiful. I decided to go ahead and stick them down so I am adding tape adhesive and sticking that white panel directly on top of my pattern paper and a great way to put all the little pieces back in place is to use the main die cut as a template. So I am going to stick down all the small pieces and then I am going to peel off the hello word. As always you can find a full list of all the supplies that I am using today just below the video in the description area as well as on my blog. I got a little bit of adhesive on my white cardstock but that's not a big deal. I can always erase it with my adhesive eraser. So everything is nice now. I am going to stick that directly on top of my blue card so I am using my tape runner there and my card is ready. So let's move on to the next card. I am going to use the rainbow pattern paper leftover that I have from the previous card as well as this black and white pattern paper and I chosen this combination just because all those rainbow colors look so striking when you put them on top of that pattern paper. So this is going to be a very simple card. I have chosen a sentiment that fits inside that panel. It can be anything you have. I went with hello what's up and that's from a stamp set that is very old from an exclusive stamp set by Simon Says Stamp. I have stamped it with VersaMarking and white emboss it. I am going to heat set it with my heat gun. For this card I am going to use the black cardstock the card base that I have created and I get some questions about what do I do on the inside of my black cards. I either write inside my message with white gel pen or I stick inside a white panel. So I can write with any marker. I am going to stick that on top of my card and I am going to trim the excess with my scissors. And although this is a very simple card it's a great way to use up all those strips of paper that you have left over from previous cards and make the most out of your card kit. And let's move on to the sixth card. For this card I have used my die that cuts out a tag and I am going to stamp the main sentiment from the stamp set that was included in the kit. I am using Versafine black ink and I am going to stamp a centered at my tag. From the paper pad I looked for a pattern paper that helps this tag pop even more so I went with this yellow pattern paper and I have cut it out to size. I am also using my cropped dial to set an eyelet at the top of my tag. And since the sentiment says look for the miracles I had this idea to color in some of the arrows in the background. So I am going to use my white gel pen and color in some of them as if they are pointing to the miracles out there. And of course you don't have to color all the arrows that are doodled there just a few of them to make a statement. I am going to use foam squares at the back of the tag to stick it on top of my card base and I am also going to cut a piece of thread and tie it at the top of my tag. Just because the top of my tag looked too plain to me I decided to cut out an arrow from the leftover of the pattern paper and I am going to stick it on top of the tag pointing to the sentiment. So this is going to bind somehow the tag with the background. I am going to use some glue at the back and stick it there. Now you can call this card done but this is where I got this idea to use tiny little eyes, googly eyes and stick them inside the o's of the word look. So first I am going to use some tape adhesive at the back of the whole thing. So I am using my ATG gun there. I am going to stick this panel directly on the white card base and then I am going to look for the tiniest eyes that I have and use some matte medium to stick them inside those little o's. Now I somehow lost the footage here because I was playing with my card but anyway you get the idea, you will see photos of this card at the end of the video. He is trying to get the lollipop that is always inside the Simon Says Stamp card kit. For this card I am going to pick up a colorful patent paper that matches my blue card base so I decided to go with this one. I am going to cut it down to size by using my stitched rectangle die. I am using my tape adhesive at the back and I am going to stick it directly on my card base. Now this is going to be a super simple card just because this background is full of elements feel that I really need to add anything. I am going to use a sentiment on black cardstock and I am going to white emboss it and by using black for the sentiment this is going to make sure that it is going to stand out from the background that is so busy. The sentiment says you are pretty fantastic and this comes from an old Simon Says Stamp exclusive stamp set but you can use pretty much anything you like. I am using my scissors and I am going to create a fistail on one side of my sentiment and then I am going to use some foam squares at the back and stick the label down. And since the kit comes with a set of animal dots I am going to add some of them at the center of those flowers so I am going to use blue for the blue flowers yellow for the yellow flowers and so on and if you want you can always use glossy accents or clear wing of Stella Glitter Pen. For this card I am using a piece of watercolor paper and I am going to stamp some of the images from the stamp set so I am going with the leaves I am also going to stamp 3 of the flowers and I am using black Versafine ink. To color all my images I am going to use my Tombow markers and I am going to choose colors that match the colors that are at the background. The background is just a pattern paper from the 6x6 pattern papers that were included in the kit so you can see that I am testing out my markers trying to decide which colors I am going to use for the flowers. I am going to color in the flowers, do some basic shading with my markers and then go ahead and use my scissors to cut them out. Notice that as I am cutting them out it is easier and I am leaving a border a white border all around the images which makes cutting even easier especially when you have to cut out all those leaf branches. Now that I have my images all cut out I am going to add some foam tape at the back decide on the composition and once I am happy with where everything is going to go I am going to commit and stick them down. I am going to upload the word dream and before I have cut it I have used that sticky tape at the back so all I have to do now is to peel it off and my word already has adhesive at the back I am going to stick directly under the flowers and then the whole panel is going to go on top of my yellow card base so I am using my tape runner at the back and you can see that the center of the flowers matches perfectly the border on the card for the center of the flowers I am also going to use some of the yellow enamel dots and my card is finished. For my 9th card I am going to use this beautiful pattern paper and I really like it because it reminds me of mixed media background I am going to cut it down to size and this is 4.25x5.5 standard card size and at the center of this background I am going to stamp the sentiment from the set I am going to white emboss it so I am stamping with VersaMarking applied my white embossing powder and hit set it and I am also going to match this pattern paper with another one from the set and I am also going to cut it down to size so this is again the standard card size and I am going to use one of those border dies that give a spitz bubble effect I am going to place it on top decide where this is going to go secure it with a piece of post tape and I am going to use some foam tape at the back of this panel and stick it directly on top of the other pattern paper I am going to use some tape runner at the back of the panel and this is going to go on top of one of the card bases the orange one and this is where I decided that the top pattern paper didn't pop as much as I want to against the bottom one so I cut out another piece using that spitz bubble die out of white cardstock and I am going to stick it underneath now when I am making a mixed media or an art journal project I don't really care about details like that but things like that on a card may drive me crazy so I just had to fix that I am also going to trim the excess paper and my card is finished so let's move on to the last card for today for my last card I wanted to use this pattern paper that is full of colorful hearts I am going to stone it down by using vellum so on a piece of vellum I am stamping the sentiment from the stamp set I am going to use white embossing powder and I am going to heat set it now the vellum that I am using is quite thick and takes heat quite well I am also going to stamp a couple of hearts that are included in the set and just because I had that pattern paper I want my sentiment I think these are little details that bring everything together so again I am going to stamp them with VersaMark and then apply white embossing powder when I finish the card and look at it again I think that if I make the card again I would use different colors of embossing powder instead of just white and you can see that as I place the vellum on top of that busy pattern paper I am going to stone it down a bit and make it easy for you to read what is on the sentiment I have also used my stitch rectangle dies to create a frame which I am going to stick directly on top of my vellum this could easily turn into a shaker card but that is not what I am going for here today I have used some foam tape at the back and I am sticking it down but I am going to use my tape runner at the back of this panel and stick it directly on top of the last card paste that I have for embossing so this goes directly on top of my orange card paste and here it is finished, bright and happy but now let's take a quick look on all the cards that I made as well as on the leftovers and here are all the 10 cards that I made today using supplies included only in the kit some extra dies that I had in my stash and now let's take a quick look on the leftovers so I am going to bring in the kit and you can see that I have those 2 pens that I haven't used the die, lots of enamel dots 3 full 6x6 pattern papers and many panels, smaller and bigger ones and these are great for creating basic design cards just like the card number 5 that I showed you today and these were the cards for today, I hope you had fun and got inspired and if you did don't forget to leave me a comment as well as give me a thumbs up on my youtube channel here are some close up photos of all the cards that I made today and if you need more inspiration here are 2 more videos where I am featuring preview Simon's stamp card kits and I am making again 10 cards thank you all for watching