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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Fabulous card Stephanie. I love this matching stamp set and die cuts. Beat for making spring cards.
Such a beautiful stamp set… and your card really shows it off to its best advantage!
Those flowers are beautiful!
A gorgeous Card really need to try this technique very cool!
~God bless~
Wow that is so pretty!
This stamp is gorgeous!
This is going to be a winner of a stamp set – very versatile. Love how you put it together…
Wonderful set & I love how you used it!
very pretty!
Sandra ltb
Gorgeous card, Stephanie! Just love your choice of colours. Looks like a fabulous stamp and die set.
I really like the flowers and the font for the sentiments is really lovely.
I love this stamp set! Such pretty flowers and sentiments! I love the coordinating dies too!
Wow! Amazing cards and projects from all the designers. Thanks so much for the fun hop!
Fabulous card Stephanie. I love this matching stamp set and die cuts.
great colors on your flowers
Does this mean our wish lists are poof?
Love the card, not so much a great fan of the website, found the old site easier to navigate, and faster to load, though i do like being able to sort the items by additional criteria.
Lots of fun spring inspiration!
Truly lovely card – love this stamp set! Thanks so much to everyone – all the cards are beautiful!
Beautiful example of the products & techniques! Thank you for the inspiration!
Blessings,
Melitta
Love the brilliant colors on these flowers. Really stunning card. And love the flower set!
I’m new to card making and totally obsessed with your site! Winning this G.C. would be so cool!
Ah, found the information about the wish list in email :)
I like the black and white card base. Really let’s the floral design shine. Thank you for the inspiration.
Love the blog hops and love a chance to win! Thanks Simon Says Stamp!!
Love all the vibrant colors in your card. Very pretty stamp set!!
Great hop. Just can’t leave a comment on Nichol’s blog.
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Beautiful card!! I’m in love with watercolor designs and these stamps/dies work great!
Floral is indeed a great pattern for both spring and summer
Gorgeous card! I love the water color technique!
The card looks wonderful Stephanie. The flowers are really feminine…..especially with the watercolouring x
What a beautiful card. Love the colours.
Love your card, Stephanie! Such fresh colors with lots of white space… Love it!
Beautiful!! Purple is one of my favorite colors, so I love the shades of it in the flowers!!
I do really like that stamp set. Thanks for the giveaway!
Love the stampset and hops are Always such fun. Thanks for the chance to win.
Yeahh !! Your blog hop are always such a pleasure !!!!
Hugs from France
Lunea♥
Those flowers are really beautiful!
Really pretty card! I love these sets with stamps and dies!
I just love the way you colored these die cuts! Beautiful card!
Each card I see with these flowers is gorgeous and unique! Loving it!
I have this set and got it out to work on today. So many ideas.
I want this set, Super cute.
This is so pretty!! seeing such a variety of beautiful cards… who would not want this set :)
This stamp set with dies is so pretty, and I love the way you have coloured the flowers, die cut and arranged them so beautifully. Who wouldn’t love to win these. x
Stephanie, I love the way you did the watercolor on this card. Thanks for sharing.
I love the flowers on your card.
I don’t have any ME yet, this set might have to be my first as it is gorgeous and your card is beautiful too!
I really do like those flowers, and that’s not something I find myself saying very often!
love the cards!! Thanks for the inspiration