Hey card making friends, welcome back.  Today I have a Simon Says Stamps Cosmos Duo Mixed Media Hand Made Card to share with you.  I had some creative fun combining the Cosmos Duo die with the Sunflower Pattern Stencil and the Old Letter stamp along with a few pretty inks from Simon to create today’s card.  The full card instructions are below.

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PRODUCTS USED:

• Cosmos Duo Die Set
• Old Letter 6 x 6 background stamp
• Sunflower pattern Stencil
• Cheering Stamp Set
• VersaMark Ink for Embossing
• White Embossing Powder
• Pawsitively Saturated inks in:  Dew, Mist, Heather, Violet and Iris, Sage,  and Ink smooshed with Surf.

How to create the Simon Says Stamp Cosmos Duo Mixed Media Hand Made Card:

The background process looks difficult, but it’s really easy.  It’s 3 layers of different designs.  Heat embossing, then Ink Smooshing, then stenciling.

Start by white heat embossing the Old Letter Stamp into a piece of watercolor paper cut 4-1/4 x 5-1/2″.

Next, on a protected surface, pounce the Surf ink pad a couple of times, spritz with water and then smoosh the watercolor paper into the wet ink, heat drying the paper between each Smoosh until you get the designed coverage.

Then, using the Sunflower pattern stencils, ink blend the large outline flower and the leaves using Dew ink.  Then use the round flower center part of the stencil to add a Boken effect randomly over the background with Dew and Heather ink.
Cut the piece down to 4″ x 5-1/4″ tearing the right-hand side to leave a rough edge.

Creating the Cosmos Duo Flowers

Start by die cutting the Cosmos Duo Die flowers 3 times from scraps of white cardstock.

Next, ink 1 in each Heather, Violet and Iris Inks.  Glue the stems together as one and ink in Sage ink.  Glue the centers together and ink in black.

Then, glue the flowers together, dark to light, offsetting them slightly so the other colors show through.  Then attach to the card front.

Place on a protected surface and splatter with black and white ink.  When dry, attach to a top folding A2 sized white card base.  4-1/4″ x 11″ – score and fold at 5-1/2″.

Finally, ink blend a scrap of white cardstock with the Dew ink.  Dry with a heat tool then white heat emboss the sentiment from the Cheering stamp set.  Attach to the card with foam squares to add dimension.  Embellish with some teal-colored gems.

 

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