Simon Says...........A Bit o' Green

Welcome to another challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog!

With a nod to the upcoming St. Patrick's Day, our theme this week is "A Bit o' Green", and the design team are using Taylored Expressions products; if you have any of their products, we'd love you to use them, too, but it isn't a requirement to enter.

I used a bit of green and a whole lot of green for my cards this week!

My first card features a Taylored Expressions cutting plate, to make a spring-feeling woodland card.  I mixed 3 distress inks for my background spring green.

supplies: white and Desert Storm cardstock, music dp, Taylored Expressions Birch Tree cutting plate, Avery Elle Kitsch Christmas (deer), Spectrum Aqua markers to color, DieNamics Snow Drifts die, mowed lawn, lucky clover, and twisted citron distress inks and water splatters, sentiment from Simon's Beautiful Ride

I cut my birch trees from music dp; I think this gives a more spring-like feel than stark white cardstock.  Then I sponged my 3 distress inks randomly onto a white cardstock panel and lightly spritzed it with water.  I sponged only mowed lawn onto a 2nd cardstock scrap, spritzed again, die-cut the top edge with a Snow Drifts die, and stamped my sentiment.  These 3 panels were then layered onto the card base.  My little fawns were stamped on a light kraft cardstock and colored with markers before fussy-cutting them and placing on the card.  I was tickled to use them because they were designed by our teamie Caryn!

For my 2nd card, I used a pretty TE bouquet cling stamp, and the leaves and sentiment are my "bit o' green":

supplies: Cornflower Blue and Green Apple cardstock, Bristol paper, Taylored Expressions Wildflower Bouquet, Zig watercolor markers and water to color, Spellbinder's Floral Oval die

Now it's your turn - I can't wait to see what you create!  Heidi has provided another $50.00 gift voucher

to the amazing Simon Says Stamp store for 1 lucky random winner of this week's challenge!

Simon Says........CUTE!

Welcome to another challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog!

Our theme this week is Cute, and it's a perfect match for the products made by Wild Rose Studio!

As a Mom of 2 boys, I fell in love with this adorable Teddy stamp, and colored it to make him a little boy..........

supplies: white, cornflower blue, and dark periwinkle cardstock, Bristol paper, a blue gingham dp from Authentique, Teddy with Flowers, colored with my new Zig markers and water,  an altered Stitched Tag, sentiment from Handwritten Sentiments, Blueprints 20 banner

These Wild Rose stamps are so economical that I also chose this adorable "Owls on a Branch" stamp. I know it's mainly for Christmas, but I masked out the stockings and colored it so that it would work for winter, too.  And I sold my cute theme with the sentiment!  This will be going to our granddaughter - her school mascot is an owl, and I think she'll get a kick out of this!

supplies: white, surf blue, and green apple cardstock, Wild Rose Studio Owls on Branch, VersaFine Onyx Black ink, Spectrum Aqua markers to color, sentiment from Your Next Stamp Woodland Cuties,  Simon's Lots of Snowflakes, tumbled glass distress ink, Taylored Expressions Winter Flurry embossing folder, Simon's Stitched Rectangle and DieNamics Stitched Mini Scallop dies (adapted)

Now it's your turn - I can't wait to see what you create!  Heidi has provided another $50.00 gift voucher

to the amazing Simon Says Stamp store for 1 lucky random winner of this week's challenge!

Hey There, Cutie!

Just checking in with a card that I made for our granddaughter's birthday later this month.

Last fall, I won a stamp set of my choice from Your Next Stamp, and I chose this darling set that features lots of cute woodland critters.  I'm very impressed with the quality of these stamps.

supplies: white and rust cardstock, dps from Bella Blvd and My Favorite Things, Your Next Stamp Woodland Cuties, markers to color, Die-Namics Snow Drifts, Stitched Mini Scallop Square and Blueprints 20 banner dies

Thanks for stopping by today!

Simon Says.........STAMP It!

It's time for a new challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge!

It's STAMPtember!!  A very special month on the Simon Says Stamp calendar, and this week we are showcasing some of the brand new products being released this month!  You may not yet have any of the new products, but we'd love you to use Simon Says Stamp Exclusives for your creations this week - our theme is STAMP IT!  No digitals this week, please, we want to see you stamping!

The Monday Challenge also has the same theme this week, so you'll have 2 chances at winning a $50.00 gift card if you enter both challenges!

The design team were generously given some STAMPtember products to play with, and I've made 2 cards to show them off.

My first card features the new Believe die:

supplies: white and green cardstock, red glitter cardstock, Believe die, Tim Holtz Festive stencil, and some distress inks, along with some red sequins.

Next up, the adorable stamp set called An Arctic Christmas:

supplies: red and white cardstock, An Arctic Christmas, lots of various markers to color, tumbled glass distress ink for the sky, Simon's Falling Snow stencil, Signo white gel pen, Wink of Stella clear, and Gelly Roll Clear Stardust pens, DieNamics Blueprints 20 scallop and banner die

I'm not much of a colorist, but I had a ball deciding what these little penguins would wear to decorate their tree!  There are lots and lots of sentiments included in this one!

And hopefully you saw THIS POST at the beginning of this month, when I used the fabulous new Merry Christmas clear stamp.

Now it's your turn - I can't wait to see what you create!  Heidi has provided another $50.00 gift voucher

to the amazing Simon Says Stamp store for 1 lucky random winner of this week's challenge!

How would you like to win a fabulous Dream Craft Room Makeover AND lots of products?!  Click HERE for more details on how to enter and to watch a video showing what you could win!!  Good luck!

Simon Says........Party!

It's time for our last challenge of the year at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge blog!

Happy New Year!  Our theme this last challenge of 2015 is Party!  I made 2 New Years cards, one glitzy and one more colorful:

Supplies: black, gold and silver glitter cardstock, DieNamics Happy die, Hero Arts Alphabet dies, gold and silver sequins

Those sequins can represent either champagne bubbles or confetti!

This one is a little more colorful:

supplies: aqua and white cardstock, "confetti" design paper from an old American Crafts pad, DieNamics Happy die, Winnie & Walter Big, Bold & Happy sentiment stamps, Simon Moonshine sequins

Now it's your turn!  We have a $50.00 gift voucher to the Simon Says Stamp store for one lucky random winner of our challenge!

Do you use Instagram?  If you do, we'd love you to add #ssswchallenge to your challenge entry uploads so we can see them on there, too!

Merry Kissmas!

Last year at about this time a group of friends got together and had a day of die-cutting, sharing our dies.  I put all of my cuts into a bag and never used them, but yesterday, I pulled that bag out and decided to put them to use.  Here's my card, hopefully not the last using these supplies:

supplies: white and green cardstock, dotty red dp, 2 leaf spray die-cuts (maybe PTI?), DieNamics Spring Wreath bow die, Simon's Stitched Rectangle die, sentiments from Simon's Presents and Ornaments and Big Holiday Wishes, Hero Arts poppy ink, white pearls

My sentiment is made from 2 different sentiments.  I love the look of a mixed font!  I'm entering this card into Virginia's View All About Textures challenge.

And a last minute entry for the Addicted to Stamps and More challenge:

Thanks for coming by - I'll see you tomorrow with my cards for the Simon Wednesday Challenge!

Sending Big Hugs

I love the photo inspiration this time over at the Share Joy Challenge.  Here's my card inspired by it:

supplies: white, oranges, and greens cardstock, Amuse orange dotted cardstock, DieNamics Scribble Roses Overlay dies, Essentials by Ellen leaves die from Bold Blossoms, Doodlebug sprinkles, Simon's Big Scripty Greetings,  Winnie & Walter's Audrey cutaways (scalloped rectangle)

Part of this challenge is to actually send out the card, so this one was made for a friend going through some rough times in her life.  Hopefully it will brighten her day just for a bit........

I think that sketch is pretty nifty, too, and I hope to be able to make another card using it.

And I'll be entering this into Virginia's View Texture challenge.

25 Tags of Christmas

I have 2 posts today!  If you'd like to see my cards for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge, please click HERE.  

I'm so pleased to be able to be part of Tracey's 25 Days of Christmas Tags this year!  Simon Says Stamp is sponsoring today's post at her blog!

Here's my tag, using some new Simon tree dies:

supplies: Audrey Blue cardstock, white, aqua, chartreuse, and periwinkle glitter cardstock, Simon's Lined Trees dies, Die-Namics Stitched Traditional Tag and Snow Drifts dies, Wplus9 snowflake die from Seasonal Sentiments, blue gingham ribbon

I hope you'll visit Tracey's blog, In My Creative Opinion, every day to see her fantastic array of Christmas/Holiday tags all throughout this month.  You can also win prizes by commenting each day, answering the daily question, and, new this year, you can create your own tag inspired by one of her guests or Tracey herself, for one of 20 prizes!  Link your tags up HERE.

CASEing Kelly Blog Hop!

Hello!  I'm thrilled to be participating in this blog hop to honor Kelly Latevola!  Just about every Monday, in her CASEing Genius posts, Kelly chooses a fellow blogger, introduces her and her work to us, and then CASEs her guest's cards.  We decided to turn the tables on Kelly today and honor her with a blog hop.  We have all been former guests on her blog, (HERE was my spot) and we'll all be choosing 3 of her cards, and making a card CASEing ideas from them!  Fun, huh?

Our hop is a long one, so let's get started so you can move on.  You should have arrived from the fabulous Leigh Penner's blog.  If not I'll give you a listing of the stops along the way further down.  Here are the 3 cards of Kelly's that inspired me. (clicking on each pic will take you back to Kelly's original post, so that you can learn more about it):

When I think of Kelly's art, I think of bright colors and expert masking, and these cards illustrate that beautifully.  Since Fall is my favorite season, I decided to go with a variation of that theme from her first card.  I have nowhere near the coloring skills that Kelly does, so I chose a solid leaf stamp and colored inks to bring in my colors,  I stamped a whole panel of maple leaves, masking as I stamped, and then, inspired by her last card above, I die-cut a sentiment from that panel.

supplies: cream and dark chocolate cardstock, Clearly Besotted Autumn Flowers, stamped in Hero Arts Punch, and Ranger's Cheese Puff and Lemon Twist inks, Die-Namics Happy die, also cut from chocolate and off-set to define the words

Your next stop on our Hop is the amazing Linda Trace, but before you go, what's a hop without some fun prizes?

If you leave a comment by 11:59 PM, Thursday, October 29, along each stop, you'll be in the running to win a prize from one of our sponsors: TWO prizes (a $25.00 gift certificate and a crafty goodie bag) from a2z Scrapbooking, a gift certificate from Altenew, the Winter 2015 Card Kit from Create a Smile Stamps, a stamp set from Dee's Artsy Impressions, one of Deepti's designs from STAMPlorations, a $25.00 gift certificate from any online store (winner's choice) from djkardkreations, a crafty goodie bag from Hero Arts, a $25.00 gift certificate from The Ink Road, a police woman digi stamp from Lia Stampz, and a $25.00 gift certificate from Simon Says Stamp!  Winners will be notified by email after October 29.

Okay, off you go!  Here is the entire Hop List, if you need it:

a2z Scrapbooking

Amy Tsuruta

Ardyth Percy Robb

Brandi Hall

Char Kochensparger

Cindy Chiu

Darnell Knauss

Dawn Turley

Debra James

Deepti Malik

Donna Idlet

Elizabeth Campau

Ellen Haxelmans

Heather Ruwe

Jennifer Loftfield

Joan Bardee

Kara Vrabel

Kara-Lynne

Kathy Wade

Katie Gehring

Kristie Goulet

Kristina Beagle

Kymona Tracey

Laura Jane

Leigh Penner

Lin Brandyberry That's ME!

Linda Trace

Lindsay Amrhein

Lydia Evans

Maria Sabina Raita

Marika Rahtu

Martha Lucia Gomez

Michele Cunningham

Michele Ferguson

Michelle Lupton

Michelle Williams

Monica Maier

Niki G.

Nina-Marie Trapani

Rubeena Naz

Shelly Kurth

Taunya Butler

Thordis Dogg

Vera Yates

Prayers

Blue is my favorite color, so I just had to play at the current Pinterest Inspired challenge for this month.

supplies: Die-Namics Spring Wreath, cut in a soft grey and 3 blues, Hero Arts Prayers clear stamp set, grey ink, silver pearls

Here's the lovely inspiration: 

Thanks for your visit!l

Simon Says........Sparkle and Shine!

 

Welcome to another challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog!

This week our theme is "Sparkle & Shine", and anything you can do to make your creation  put off some glimmer is what we're looking for!   The design team are using products from Pretty Pink Posh this week!

supplies: white and black cardstock, black and white striped dp, Altenew Vintage Roses, Wplus9 Hand Lettered Hello die and stamp set, Pretty Pink Posh Watermelon and Lime Sorbet 6mm sequins

supplies: white cardstock, various pink and green design papers, Die-Namics Insta Frame die, Wplus9 Doodle Buds stamp set, Pretty Pink Posh Watermelon, Lime Sorbet, and Sparkling Clear 6 mm sequins

Now it's your turn!  We have a $50.00 gift voucher to the Simon Says Stamp Store for one lucky random winner of our challenge!

Do you use Instagram?  If you do, we'd love you to add #ssswchallenge to your challenge entry uploads so we can see them on there, too!

Simon Says..........Going Dotty!

This is my second post for today; if you'd like to see my Guest Design spot for the Paper Sweeties challenge, please scroll down a post, or click HERE.  Thanks!

Happy July!  It's Wednesday, too, and that means a brand new challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge blog!

This week our theme is "Going Dotty!"  Please add something with dots to your creation.  The design team are showcasing Art Impression products this week.  If you have any of their fun products, we'd love to see them, but they're not necessary to enter, as long as you follow our theme.

I had a fun time paper-piecing and playing with a large variety of dotted papers this week:

supplies: Art Impressions Wildly Cute stamp set, BoBunny Soft Shades and Very Vintage Double Dot Designs paper pads, My Favorite Things Die-Namics Chevron Stripes die

I chose this Zoo Baby called Wildly Cute precisely because giraffes have spots/dots.  Then I decided to paper-piece him and use as many dotted papers as I could.

My second card uses a small Easter stamp -  I stamped it on 3 different colors of BoBunny dotted paper, shaded them a bit with colored pencils, then cut out the little birds and arranged them around my large die-cut sentiment:

supplies: Art Impressions Easter Chicks stamp set, BoBunny Soft Shades papers, colored pencils for shading,  Lawn Fawn Let's Polka papers, Lawn Fawn Scripty Hugs die, Winnie & Walter Big Bold Friends ("sending" sentiment)

Now it's your turn!  Our sweet generous Heidi has yet again provided another $50.00 gift voucher

to the amazing Simon Says Stamp store for 1 lucky random winner of this week's challenge!

Do you use Instagram?  If you do, we'd love you to add #ssswchallenge to your challenge entry uploads so we can see them on there, too!