28.04.2015

Welcome Baby – Simon Says Stamp Falling For You Release

I recently became an Aunty for the 10th time!!  My gorgeous little niece, Chloe was born on 6th April and she is just GORGEOUS.  Today I’m sharing a card I made to welcome her into the family.  I used the new Baby Party Animals set from the fabby Falling For You release along with the new Diagonal Stripe background stamp, Stitched Circles dies and Stitched Slopes and Hills.  The gorgeous sequins in the shaker are the Phosphorescence Mix from Lucy’s Cards – LOVE them!

 

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You can see all of the products in the Falling for You release over at the Simon Says Stamp store.

 


23.04.2015

You Have My Heart

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The day has finally arrived!  The new Simon Says Stamp Falling For You release is LIVE!

I’m excited to be sharing a card today featuring a gorgeous new set from Simon Says Stamp called Lila’s Heart.  This is a sweet little stamp stamp set designed by Shari Carroll and the gorgeous little girl is inspired by Jennifer McGuire’s little daughter – how sweet!  I created my front shaker panel  by first stamping the new Diagonal Stripes background in Versamark and then heat embossing using Ranger Enchanted Gold powder.  I die cut the panel using dies from the Stitched Rectangles and Stitched Squares and adhered a piece of vellum to create the window.  For my shaker element I used some gorgeous gold sequins and confetti from Lucy’s Cards.  For little Lila, I simply stamped her in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured her with Copics.  I fussy cut her as I don’t own the co-ordinating dies right now and used a Versamark pen to emboss the heart with the same gold powder I used for the stripes.  She was mounted with some foam tape and the card was finished off with the sentiment stamped in Gold Delicata ink onto one of the Simon Says Stamp Tilted Banners.
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I can’t wait for the blog hop later started at Simon Says Stamp – it’s going to be bad for my purse though!!!

Thanks for stopping by xxx


15.04.2015

Simon Says … Make Your Own Background

 

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Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

Thank you for joining us for the April Showers/Spring Flowers Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

We will be back soon with the name of the lucky winner of the $50 Voucher

This week the challenge is

MAKE YOUR OWN BACKGROUND

We are showcasing MY FAVORITE THINGS PRODUCTS this week. You don’t have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see them used

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store

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I just got a bunch of new goodies this week from MFT so this challenge was perfectly timed!  I fell in love with the new You Gnome Me set and thought the small brick stencil would make a perfect background.  I used Distress inks in Fired Brick and Old Paper to stipple a brick effect onto some white card stock and then stamped and coloured one of the gorgeous gnomes in Distress markers.  I die cut the flowers and stems from the Spring Garden Die-namics set and paired it up with a little fence and grass from Taylored Expressions.  The frame was cut from woodgrain cardstock using the Stitched Rectangle dies from Simon Says Stamp.

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So now it’s YOUR turn.  Happy Crafting

Do you use Instagram ?  If so please add  #ssswchallenge to your challenge entry uploads so we can see them on there too !

There are fabulous Give Aways and inspiration from fabulous designers on a daily basis over on the Simon Says Stamp Blog , if you haven’t subscribed by email you may want to so you don’t miss out

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You have until Wed  8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in

No backlinking allowed, Only 5 new creations will be eligible in the prize draw

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