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:
Beautiful cards love the colors !!!
Love your card—so pretty!
I love your watercoloring and the touches of silver Wink of Luna and graphite Viva pearl pen are great!
The watercolor looks great with this stamp set.
I love your card! Fabulous idea to make the background paper & then stamp and die cut the flowers. Love it!
Beautiful card! The watercolors on the flowers is so pretty.
A really nice card with beautiful colors. I love the stamp and die set.
Beautiful card design and coloring!!! I just got these stamps and die set from SSS!!! They are really great!!!
I love love love your watercolor bouquet!!! Great stamps & dies!
I love your cards colors! very pretty! Fun hop!
Lovely cards, love the stamp and die
Lovely card, great hop so far! Thank you!!
So pretty, thanks for sharing!!!
Love the new stamp and die – and the sentiments are just right!
fabulous set!
Beautiful card. The stamps and dies are wonderful
Oh this is really pretty!!
Gosh what a beautiful stamp and die set. I want to see more. Ok hopping along now.
beautiful watercolor background. . . love the stamp/die sets. . .
Such a pretty card! Thanks for a chance to win.
I love your color technique how you colored these gorgeous flowers from your new stamp and die set.
Love the colors of your flowers. I really like how the stamp gives such detail lines to the flowers. It was a great blog hop with such pretty cards made by everyone.
Gorgeous card, love the colors, pretty flower layout and the pretty details!
Love the colors you chose for the flowers. Very cool!
Loved hopping along to see how each artist put their own spin on this lovely stamp and die set. The variety of ideas was wonderful!
love this card..so beautiful :)
BEAUTIFUL!
Gorgeous card.
Such a lovely bouquet!
Just Beautiful!!
Wow, those flowers are beautiful :)
Love the effect with the flowers die cut from the watercolour background! Great idea :)
Your card is absolutely beautiful. Really loving the Summer Garden stamp set. Thanks for a chance to win!
Great stamp and die set. Thanks for the chance to win!
Just love the colours you’ve used; a beautiful card!
Love the elegant floral design- and so glad you have matching dies!
Pretty card
So pretty! Love these flowers…
Love the sentiment on your card- great font. One can never have enough flowers and these have great style.
Beautiful card! Love the colors!
lovely colours,stamps and die.
Love the way you arranged the flowers. Colors are pretty and work well together.
Just love the stamp and die sets! What a beautiful card you made.
Interesting colours on this card.
Beautiful! Love this set.
Beautiful! I LOVE the flowers! Gorgeous!
Serious gorgeousness! I need this set so bad!!!!!
Beautiful card. Great stamp and die set. Would love to own this set.
Such a beautiful card!
That is one beautiful card and easy enough to duplicate.