Born to Sparkle Blog Hop!

Hi, friends! Welcome to day one of two special release blog hops celebrating our Born to Sparkle release! Come back tomorrow for more amazing inspiration!
Our Simon Says Stamp exclusive Born to Sparkle product lineup will make your eyes sparkle with glee! You’ll find a whole slew of fantastic products ranging from gorgeous florals to cool graphic designs in the form of stamps, dies, cling backgrounds, wood block stamps, stencils, and embossing folders (back by popular demand)! If there’s a graduate in your life, we’ve got what you are looking for, and we’re releasing a REALLY cool new must-have tool for your craft space. There are some wonderful new products from CZ Design, too! No matter your style, you’re sure to find an item or twelve (or more!) that need to head to your home. We are so excited for you to play with all of these awesome new products!
OK! Let’s get a sneak peek of what’s in store for our blog hop today with inspiration from Shari Carroll! Shari used products from our Born to Sparkle release to make these fantastic projects:


We love our customers! And we love your enthusiasm for our exclusive releases and blog hops. To celebrate, Simon has set aside a free gift just for you! The free gift for the Born to Sparkle release blog hop is the super fun Island Crush ink cube set! Check out the details on the banner at the top of this post for information about claiming your gift.
Ready for even more Born to Sparkle inspiration? Hop along with these talented designers! You’ll be inspired AND for every comment you leave on each blog, you’ll earn a chance to win a $25 Simon Says Stamp store shopping spree. YAY!

Please let these talented designers know how much you appreciate their designs. They work hard to inspire and excite us!
- Simon Says Stamp Blog <<YOU ARE HERE!
- Nina-Marie Trapani
- Caly Person
- Nichol Spohr
- Heather Ruwe
- Amy Rysavy
- Lisa Addesa
- Sidnie Des Jardins
- Suzy Plantamura
- Cheiron Brandon
- Barb Engler
- Sandi MacIver
- Natasha Vacca
- Seeka
Thanks again for joining us today!

We hope you will join us on Instagram on Friday, May 7, for an Instagram Hop featuring even more inspiration from our Born to Sparkle release! We are excited to share awesome ideas from several creative minds using these fantastic products.
You’ll love browsing our Born to Sparkle gallery on our blog for loads of additional inspiration, and you can add your projects to these galleries as well!
You can check out the entire Born to Sparkle collection here:








































Another amazing release!!
What an awesome release! Love it…
Thanks for sharing.
What amazing projects! Love this release!
So many wonderful products in this release! I’m off to see all the lovely things the DT created!
Gorgeous Release!!! I love the embossing folders and the grad products!!
Such a fun release
Such a stunning release! I LOVE the flowers and embossing folders the word dies are fabulous!
Such wonderful sparkle!
Always a treat to see what SSS has created for their latest release.
Fantastic new products in this fun release!
I love the slimline card Shari created from this release and actually have some supplies I could use to create a similar look. That’s good ’cause I’ve already placed an order! Lol! Her other card is beautiful too and I love the inspiration I get from these blog hops!
I love these cards and I’m very excited about this release. I have to have color wheel!
I NEED it All!!! Love this release!!! Shari, your cards are Gorgeous!!!
This is a great blog hop, the inspiration viewed along the way really sell all of the great products! I’ve already put my order in!
Already ordered. Looking forward to playing with some new things soon!
Lots of good stuff in this release. I’ve already placed an order and I’m sure it won’t be the last.
So many great items in the release.
Love the gown for the graduate and
the window box that I can fill
with flowers. thanks for having
the hop. txmlhl(at)yahoo(dot)com
Wow, so glad I am on vacation so that I can FINALLY do a weekday Blog Hop on time!
Gosh! Such an amazing array of products! I just want to buy all of them!
Can’t wait to see what the others have created. Let’s go!
Wow! So many wonderful products! I can’t choose a favorite!
I want it all!
love this release and love Shari’s cards!
I love it! The moment you notified I had to have the magnolia embossing folder – gorgeous!
Thanks for the inspiration for everyday cards. Everything is beautiful!
I absolutely love the embossing folders, so beautiful!
Thanks for sharing the love within our industry. Lucky Simon Says, your DT love the new release sparkle.
Awesome new release. I’m making my list after being inspired and enabled from this hop!
Just. WOW. So many choices!Fantastic release.
Great new release, so many lovely new stamps, dies and stencils and embossing folders. Oh my!
Thank you, Simon, for another great release. So difficult to choose!
Love Shari’s projects! Several things are going on my wishlist!
Love all the new products! What a fun release.
Love Born to Sparkle collection, we all need a little Sparkle?right now!
Beautiful new products!
Great collection, already ordered, but may need to add to it. LOL.
WOW ! Another fun release!
I really need it all!! Amazing projects! My favorite is the Painted Flowers!
I love the new balloon background stamp.
I love the Magnolia Branches embossing folder.
I really like what Shari did with the Solid Grid background stamp. I am always drawn to mosiac or tile like images and the texture she accieved with the ink is really neat.
So many great items in this release. I had to order 2 of the new embossing folders. I really like the sentiment dies and some of the stamps but had to go on my wish list!
Simply the best! Hope the new stuff is restocked soon!!!
I always get excited when Simon comes out with a new release, and this one is fantastic! I think I’m most excited about those gorgeous 3D embossing folders. I have a couple of them from a previous release and I can’t stop playing with them; they make such beautiful backgrounds.
So many great products in this release! It’s going to be difficult to make my selections ?
Such fun new things. The newest set, Spring Bouquets, is my favorite.
Love the creative use of these new products – good thing I have a birthday coming up!!
Huge fan of your floral designs and sentiment dies.
Great florals in this release! Always love them and the word dies. Looking forward to seeing what has been created!
Love the blossoms & 3d embossing folders!
Love the release and look forward to checking all the blog entries! Thank you!
LOVE this release so much~ Ready to hop along~