03.09.2014

Simon Says ,,, STAMPtember® ‘Stamp-It’ Challenge and Blog Hop

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

Thank you for joining us for the Anything Goes Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

This week the challenge is ,,,,,,,,

STAMPtember® ‘Stamp-It’ and Blog Hop

You must create a project using a rubber or clear stamp, no digi images allowed, add your creation to the linky AND hop around the designers blogs leaving comments along the way. We are only showing sneak peeks of what we made so you need to visit our blogs to see our creations in all their glory 🙂

You should have arrived here from LAURA’S blog – if not then CLICK HERE to go to the start of the hop on the Simon Says Stamp Store Blog

TODAY is Heidi’s Birthday, as you know Heidi is the owner of Simon Says Stamp and we would like you all to join us in wishing her a very Happy Birthday

In honor of Heidi’s Birthday we are showcasing the new STAMPtember® products that have just been released. CLICK HERE to see them all. It is a HUGE release with loads of fabulous stamps, dies, stencils and much more !

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

For my creation today I used the gorgeous new stamp set from the the STAMPtember release called You’re So Sweet and a FANTASTIC new background stamp called Leaf Background. I love fruit images and particularly love pears – so that was the first image I was drawn to when I saw this set. The panels on the top and bottom of the card have been stamped in Versamark on Tim Holtz watercolour card and then heat embossed in white. The pears were masked to form a row and also heat embossed. I’ve used watercolour to add the colour details and highlighted the pears with a touch of gold sparkle using the gold Wink of Stella brush. The sentiment is from the Thanks card die – I just trimmed off the card bit!! This was heat embossed in Ranger Gold Tinsel embossing powder.

From here you need to hop on over to Cheiron’s blog to see her amazing creation!!

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

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30.08.2014

Life is a Storybook

Hello – it’s Saturday – yay! I hope it’s a good weekend where ever you are?! I’m here to share a couple of cards I made using the September 2014 Card Kit from Simon Says Stamp called Life is a Storybook. I received my kit a couple of weeks ago but this is the first time I’ve had a chance to play with it! I love the October Afternoon papers and stickers that came with the kit -they have a lovely, vintage charm to them. The stamp set is great too – great little scene building images and sentiments.

My first card primarily features the stamp set. I’ve used all Avery Elle pigment inks (spotted any of the new colours in there??!) – they’re gorgeous!The second card focuses on the fabulous papers and stickers from the kit. The only stamp I’ve used is the little picture frame. The images in the frame were picked out from one of the patterned papers!

I’m very busy preparing samples for the upcoming release from Avery Elle – there’s some AMAZING new stamps and dies coming soon and you’re going to LOVE them! Did I mention new inks? And a new paper pad?? Can’t wait!

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27.08.2014

The holidays are coming….

Ok – it’s still August but for a papercrafter that means it’s time to start thinking about the upcoming festive holidays such as Halloween and Christmas. I have to admit that this last three months of the year is my MOST favourite season – I love the Autumn, Halloween, 3 of my children (and myself) have birthdays and then IT’S CHRISTMAS!!! It’s a wonderful time of year in our house. So in the spirit of the festive season (soon) I have a dainty little Christmas card to share!!

Today also sees the start of a new challenge today over at Simon Says Wednesday Challenge Blog and this week theme is everyone’s favourite… ANYTHING GOES! The design team are featuring products from Memory Box but you don’t have to to enter.

Lately I’ve seen Debby Hughes making lots of cards in a smaller scale (4 bar size) which really appeals to me and is perfect for this little deer die. I’ve used the Mini Stardust Stencil with some gorgeous silver-glitter sparkle medium with the Leaping Deer die both from Memory Box. I covered the die cut deer in Versamark and then embossed him in silver fine embossing powder. The sentiment is from Pretty Poinsettia from Clearly Besotted and is also embossed in silver.

Please pop along to the blog and check out the rest of the design teams fabulous creations and hope you can join in the fun and play along. As always, one lucky randomly drawn entry will receive a $50 store credit – woo hoo!! With STAMPtember just a few days away you’re going to want to get that prize for sure!!!