Hugs and Kisses Blog Hop 1!

Hi, friends! Welcome to day one of two special release blog hops celebrating our Hugs and Kisses releases! Come back tomorrow for more amazing inspiration!
Our Simon Says Stamp exclusive Hugs (originally released December 16th) and the Kisses product lineups are full of lots of products to share the love!
Our Hugs release includes lots of goodies for love season, with stamps like our Jumbled Hearts cling, Love You Greetings sentiments, and Forever Yours set; dies like Swoopy Love You, as well as our Love Two Ways foil plate and and Layered Love Letters stencils.
We haven’t forgotten our furry friends or girlfriends, either. Check out Love Paw, You’re My Gal, and our uber-fabulous Mirror Ball cardstock!
And now that you’ve felt our Hugs, and we’re showering you with Kisses in our latest collection! This companion release expands our Valentine offerings, with stamps like the Concentric Hearts cling; dies like Heart Chain and Nested Rounded Hearts; as well as some fun Candy Hearts stencils.
We’ve also got plenty of new general use items such as Swoopy Flowers and Printmaking Postage sets; sassy Animal Prints stencils; and new matte cardstock in Champagne and Rich Red!
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 Kisses 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 with purchase for the this blog hop is the 3×4 End of the Rainbow stamp set! Check out the details on the banner at the top of this post for information about claiming your gift.
Ready for even more Hugs and Kisses 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!
- Nichol Spohr
- Laura Bassen
- Cathy Zielske
- Jennifer McGuire
- Barbara Tarayao
- Heather Ruwe
- Keisha Charles
- Mindy Eggen
- Sidnie Des Jardins
- Amanda Korotkova
- Anna-Karin Evaldsson
- Cheiron Brandon
- Alberto Gava
- Emily Midgett
- Vicky Papaioannou
Thanks again for joining us today!

Don’t miss our YouTube Live Stream TODAY at noon ET! We are excited to have Shari Carroll as our guest!

We hope you will join us on Instagram on Friday, January 27, for an Instagram Hop featuring even more inspiration from our Hugs and Kisses releases! We are excited to share awesome ideas from several creative minds using these fantastic products.
You’ll love browsing our Hugs gallery and the Kisses 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 Kisses collection here:






























This release is AMAZING!I LOVE the stencils and ALL THE LOVE and hearts!
Another fabulous release!
Marianne
I love that all of these are so versatile and can be stretched year round! I need the cheetah stencil, a pop of cheetah print is my signature style!
What a wonderful release, and great ideas!
I am loving these new releases!
What a fun release! Love the dies especially. Sweet Cards!
What a fun and versatile new release just in time for Valentine’s Day cards! Looking forward to all of the inspiration along the hop.
So excited for this release!!!
Love all the creativity – I keep these in a folder on my PC so I can refer to them when my creativity or color choices are waning. Love Love Love
Unique offerings in this release! So many wonderful ideas from your artists!
Gorgeous release!
Beautiful card inspiration from Shari with this release. Can’t wait to see all the great ideas from everyone!
I absolutely love the pull apart heart background stamp. Love all the components.
Love the big word dies. So great for charity cardmaking!
The more cards I see, the more products get added to my list!!! I love this release!!! Beautiful cards!!!!
I always love Simon’s releases and this is up there with the best of them. I know it’s early in this hop, but it’s going to be hard to beat the Swoopy Flowers set for the top of my wish list!
Those Swoopy Flowers are so neat! Love Shari’s projects!
Can’t ever have too much love. What a gorgeous release. Hugz
Such a fun release
What a fun release! There are so many fantastic products to choose from. 😊
I love your blog hops so I’m very excited to get started! Thanks in advance for all you do for the crafting world. So much fun!
So much joy and LOVE in this release; super fun!
I can’t wait to see these in action. SO CUTE
Great release, your products are wonderful.
Gorgeous creations by Shari! Love the card and tag!
Great new designs in this release! The Painted Heart Wreath and Printmaking Postage set are the first to catch my eye!
Fabulous new release. Fun and very inspiring blog hop. Thanks to all.
Wonderful release! So many beautiful creations done by them. Great hop.
Love the new release–that tag Shari made is da bomb!
Such a fun release! I love the matte metallic cardstock and the Love ya sentiment!
Great release!!
SO many pawsome products in this release! I want them all!
Love both releases and have already ordered many things from both, but still have a lot more on my wish list. Thanks for the great live this morning!
Another fabulous release, filled with lots of love!
I am amazed at the variety of creativity that this blog hop displays. Love that painted wreath stencil. I think I am going to need to get that! :-D
This is such a beautiful release! I love all the wonderful hearts! <3 <3 <3
Love both the Hugs and Kisses releases! The Printmaking Postage set is so neat. The entire release is amazing and the Blog Hop has so many wonderful ideas!! Need to place an order to get the free stamp set!!! Thanks SSS! ❤
What a great release! I like that a lot of it is able to be used beyond Valentine’s Day.
another awesome release:)
So sorry I couldn’t watch the live today! Really liked Shari’s cards posted on the blog today.
Just learned about this hop from Cathy Zielske this looks so fun, this is all new for me and I just entered the rabbit hole and made my first SSS purchase…. da da daaaa
This release is LOVEly! Such a variety of beautiful products!
Great release and Shari’s projects are fabulous.
Elegant, sassy, bold and sweet….so much to offer in this release!
i love the blogs full of ideas for this great release.
Cute & fun release!
Another great release. Shari’s projects are amazing.
I’ve already seen a couple of the projects some of the ladies have done and they were wonderful.
What a great release!
Valentine’s Day is such fun.
This release helped make it more
spectacular. thanks for having
the hop.
I love all the great products from this release!
Seriously!? Where to begin…I love all the new dies, esp partial to the word dies! They are my favorites! And the stamps are so gorgeous… I found I only have one Valentine stamp! The stamps are my favorites!
And the stencils…I love them each so much! They are definitely my favorites!
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