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:
Love the stamp set, and the fact that it has coordinating dies! Great card!
love the look of those flowers…its almost like they’re tye dyed. very cool.
Gorgeous card. The stamp set is so versatile.
I have had my eye on this stamp set since I first saw it. Beautiful card!
sigh, so very pretty! I always love seeing watercolored blooms…your choice of colors is perfect!
I love stamps with matching dies! This set is beautiful! Love the card – gorgeous colours!
beautiful – I’m off to the other stops!
Love this bundle set. Such a pretty stamp set with really nice sentiments. I love that the dies can be us
Beautiful! With spring here these stamps and dies are perfect!
I love these stamps…and the card is just beautiful!
This is a beautiful set and a beautiful card.
Love the card, and the hop
Beautiful bouquet of flowers!
Always love the soft look of watercolor. Easy and beautiful way to use this great stamp set!
Love this stamp and die set and love what you did with it.
Just beautiful! I have to try this!
The flowers with the matching dies are perfect. Thank you
Gorgeous card!
Such a gorgeous card you created with wonderful colors. I really like it a lot!
Love the watercolor effect!
Love the coordinating dies and the coloring – something I am trying to learn how to do well.
Love it when stamps and dies match! Beautiful card.
Such beautiful flowers! I can never get enough of them. And dies too?
I love the stamp and die set. So many possibilities. Your card is beautiful.
Lovely card! I love those flowers stamp set with matching dies. This one is very pretty. And I love your blog hops. Can’t wait to see all the cards!
Beautiful card and I love this stamp set.
Great hop, loving the detail on these images!
I can always think of ways to incorporate flowers- these are beautiful!
Love the light and airy feel of the watercolor background.
I love these new stamps and dies. Flowers are so useful when it comes to cardmaking.
LOVE this stamp set and dies!! I love the detail these stamps provide with embossing!! Your card is beautiful.
Beautiful card!
I love the colouring and layering of the flowers, great job!
What a lovely set of stamps and dies to match! Would be wonderful to win!
wooww I love how you coloring the flower..great card and nice CAS card…love this
The stamp set is just gorgeous! I love those flowers- they look like they would be so much fun to color. The sentiments are beautiful (both visually and perfect for cards– and “hello, beautiful” would be awesome on a scrapbook page!)
What and beautiful card
Love what you did with this set! Thanks for the chance!
I’m a sucker for flower sets! Lovely!
Love the card!
love a Simon hop and love these flowers!
What a lovely set! So elegant, perfect for delicate cards!
And love your card! So bright!
Beautiful Stamp and die set!!! Love the bouquet!!! A perfect idea for Mother’s Day.
I LOVE THESE NEW FLORAL IMAGES. I always seem to come back to flowers for my cards. Thanks for the hop.
Happy Spring!!! My favorite thing right now is to make cards for family and friends with stamping and die-cuts…what a great invention to combine them. Enjoyed visiting your online shop. Thx
Love the card, the hop and the set! Such pretty flowers!
Great new set!
I really love what all the designers did with this set. Lots of inspiration!
Love all of your ideas and techniques.
Oh so pretty. The sketched detail on the blooms works so well with the sentiment font.