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!
SUPPLIES:
Great floral set! It’s so nice that it has a die cut matching set too!
Great stamp and die set. Love the card.
Need, need, NEED that set! It’s on my wishlist and seeing everyone work magic with it only makes me pine for it more! Beautiful card! :)
This is such a pretty card! The stamp set is gorgeous! Wish I didn’t have so many flower stamps in my collection :(
Beautiful card! Looks like an amazing stamp & die set!
this is an amazing blog hop, with wonderful card of this beauty ladies!
Cool colors for your flowers! The card is awesome! This set is one of my favorites right now! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful card.
Love the matching dies for these pretty flowers!
Love this new stamp set!
Great flowers!
This is awe some. So pretty with the flower colors. Thank you for sharing and the inspiration.
What a lovely card the set is beautiful but what you do with the pieces is what creates the beauty the colors are pretty and the extra little touches you added are what makes this card lovely
So pretty! Love the watercoloring!
Beautiful and elegant card made with a lovely stamp set!
Love the beautiful flowers.
Stunning card and love the effect. I so want this set. TFS
I love the stamp and die combination. And the flowers look so pretty!
Beautiful card and just love the new stamp/die set, perfect for the summer months.
I loved this blog hop, and I love this stamp set. I was so thrilled to see that SSS and ME partnered on this set-it is beautiful.
p.s. Nicole’s blog error’s out when you try to post a comment.
Love the idea of starting with distress inks then stamping. I will try that.
Those blooms are beautiful!
Such pretty flowers in this set!
What lovely flowers — such a gorgeous card :)
Love your card Stephanie! Thanks for the chance to win:-)
Beautiful stamp set and
the colors on the card
are so pretty.
Carla from Utah
Gorgeous stamp set and card!
Love this stamp and die set… It is so stunning :)
I love the texture you got from the Viva Paper Pen for the centre of the flowers! And the type used for the greetings is just great!
Love the stamp set!
Beautiful colors and what a net way to achieve that look by watercoloring an entire background and then stamping! Cool idea!
Those stamps are SO beautiful- must have them!
Beautiful card!
How pretty! Love how you colored the flowers.
Gorgeous card – love the different techniques used.
Beautiful card – these stamps look like a lot of fun to color!
This is such a gorgeous cluster of flowers. Love the colors and the fussy cutting in here.
Gorgeous card with beautiful colors! I love stamp sets that have coordinating dies!
Lovely stamp and die set! Your card is pretty too.
Beautiful card! LOVE the colors you used. Purple is my favorite. Thanks for the chance to win.
Lovely flowers – very delicate!
A paper crafter can never have too many flowers, right? Add my name to the list of people who want to win the giveaway!
stunning card!
Lovely card. Can’t wait to have flowers!!
Such a beautiful card!
I love the colors you used on this beautiful card!
Beautiful card Stephanie. I love your watercoloring. So pretty. This is a lovely set with awesome script sentiments.
Love this card! Water coloring is so pretty.
I love Mama Elephant and I love that you stock their products!
What a gorgeous card!! These stamps and dies are so pretty and versatile!