Summer Garden Blog Hop!
Hello and welcome to a blog hop to celebrate the newest Simon Says Stamp & Mama Elephant collaboration – a stamp and die set called Summer Garden!
The Summer Garden stamp set is full of beautiful floral and leaf images that can be stamped and colored with pencils and markers, or even paper-pieced. The sentiments in the set go with the flowers perfectly and add beauty and elegance to any card.
I created a card that uses almost all of the images from the set to create a floral bouquet. See below the card for a little more information on how I created it. ;)
To create the flowers on the card, I first created a multi-colored, watercolor background using Tim Holtz Distress Ink and watercolor paper. Once the ink was dry, I stamped the images on top with black ink from Simon Says Stamp and then cut them out with the coordinating dies. I arranged them onto the front of the card and once I was happy with their placement, I adhered them all down with glossy accents.
I used a Viva Decor Graphite Paper Pen to add some detail to the center of the flowers and also added some silver Wink of Luna to the bottom area of the yellow sprigs. I completed the card with one of the sentiments from the set and added a strip of black cardstock along the top and bottom of the focal area.
We have some great designers who also created a project using this great new stamp set. You can hop along to each of the designers blogs, to see what they’ve created. The next stop on the hop is Laura Bassen!
If you get lost anywhere along the way or encounter any broken links, you can head back here for a list of all of the hop participants:
Laura Bassen
Emily Leiphart
JJ Bolton
Nichol Magouirk
Elena Roussakis
Kryssi Ng (Mama Elephant Blog)
GIVEAWAY!
Simon Says Stamp is giving away a $25 GC to one lucky winner on the hop!
Just leave a comment on any of the blog posts (including this one!) to be entered in the random drawings. The giveaway will stay open until Friday April 25th at 6:00pm EST.
Good luck & happy hopping!
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Really pretty card !! This set is my fave from all the new release !!
Beautiful card and fab stamps and dies! x
WOW, that is just beautiful, I love the sentiment!!
This is a really fun blog hop! I can’t wait to try it out!
Pretty set – I like the size of the sentiments. Thanks for the chance to win!
i love the style of these flowers! thanks for the chance to win!
wow, what a great card, so beautiful and vibrant! welcome spring! :) would love to own this set of stamps. thank you so much! :)
Cute card. The techique sounds like fun. I need to try it soon.
Those flower stamps are just gorgeous as is the card!
Beautiful card; love water colored flowers. Especially like the sentiment font in this stamp set.
how many ways can you say gorgeous. This card is awesome. Thanks for sharing and good work.
I almost put these in my cart last week, and then didn’t. I can tell I need to reconsider! Great card, and great technique!
Gorgeous card!! Can’t wait see what the designers do!!
I like this set, including the sentiments!
Very pretty!! I’m loving that font and you just can’t have enough flowers as far as I am concerned!
TFS :D
Wow, such an elegant card! I just love all the different ways you can color these flowers!
Beautiful card, Stephanie! I love the floral images and the font!
Love the flowers, and the sentiments – oh my =]
What a lovely bouquet! Setting it off with the black lines is a nice emphasis.
Very pretty design. I love the sentiment font!
Lovely card! Another set for my wishlist. ;-)
Great card with a great stamp set. Beautiful sentiments.
BEAUTIFUL card!!!
LOVE the flowers, GORGEOUS colours & detailed design and STUNNING flower centres, LOVE IT ALL!!!
Gorgeous card, love this pretty set!!
This is so pretty. I love how you combined the blues & purples.
just a heads up, the link or website for http://www.nicholmagouirk.typepad.com is not working, so cannot look at her blog/card to enter :(
It should be working now. ;)
Sorry about that!
it is thank you so much
had to leave email for comment…..the comment part there is no link to leave one… :( so i emailed it to her. i really tried on this blog, lol :)
It seems that Typepad is currently having an issue when trying to leave comments.
They are working to correct it.
very pretty. love the stamp set
The flower images on the yellow paper are the sweetest in my opinion!
awesome card, the set is amazing! :)
Love your card. The sentiments with this set are perfect!
Always full of inspiration and beautiful craftsmanship – thanks for the chance to win!
This is such a pretty set! Have some Viva Decor to bring out now!
Gorgeous! Such a lovely bouquet!
Love Flowers! Beautiful flowers with die cuts.
I loved the card and technique. The stamp and die set is amazing.
Very pretty. I love the new stamp set and how you colored them with the ink technique. Thanks for showing us another way to use our distress inks.
Beautiful card! Especially like the texture you created with the black pen.
Beautiful card! Love the stamp set with the dies.
Great stamp set and gorgeous card!
I love this stamp and die set! Beautiful card!!
what a pretty card!
Oh, such a beautiful stamp set!
Gorgeous set! Thanks for the chance to win!
The lovely pastel flowers contrasted with those that are bright yellow — very nice. Thank you.
Beautiful colors on your awesome bouquet, Steph! Love this set!
Great for Spring….great design!
Great set! I love the card:)
like your colorful flowers on your card.
stamping sue
http://stampingsueinconnecticut.blogspot.com/
This is a beautiful set of stamps with matching dies. So versatile!
So gorgeous! I love those lol owners and the sentiments are so sweet:)
I meant, I love those *flowers, stupid auto correct.