DieCember® Blog Hop WINNERS!
Hello friends! Have you seen our Simon exclusive DieCember® release? This product lineup is filled with lots of die-cutting awesomeness! You’ll find adorable new Big Picture Book animals, cute and cozy holiday inspiration, and gorgeous and clever dies that will inspire you! We’re so excited for you to create with this amazing release!
To celebrate this phenomenal release, we hosted a two-day blog hop! The hops featured many talented designers and each one created wonderful projects to inspire you. If you missed the hops, you can find the direct links here: DAY ONE and DAY TWO.
A BIG thank you to all of YOU who joined us for the hops! We enjoy hearing from each of you, and your words of encouragement and appreciation to each of the designers mean so much to us here at Simon and to them. It’s our tradition to give away gift certificates to random commenters on each blog stop, and today we are revealing all of the winners! So without further ado, I present to you our winners!
DAY ONE HOP WINNERS:
from Simon Says Stamp’s blog: Karen Walker!
from Cathy Zielske’s blog: Marjorie DUMONTIER!
from Laura Bassen’s blog: Lauryne Cunningham!
from Nina-Marie Trapani’s blog: Annalisa!
from Nichol Spohr’s blog: Ashlee Diane!
from Jessica Frost-Ballas’s blog: rhowell2!
from Suzy Plantamura’s blog: Debbie Corker!
from Heather Ruwe’s blog: Denaha J Doss!
from Lisa Addesa’s blog: CinnamonSally!
from Heather Hoffman’s blog: TrainWithMeghan!
from Barb Engler’s blog: Pennie Glasser!
from Laurie Willison’s blog: Annette Gordon!
from Bibi Cameron’s blog: Erica Hayes!
DAY TWO HOP WINNERS:
from Simon Says Stamp’s blog: Teresa Doyle!
from Debby Hughes’s blog: Eva N!
from Amanda Korotkova’s blog: Subhashini Swaminathan!
from Yoonsun Hui’s blog: sherry butcher!
from Amy Rysavy’s blog: NatQuebec!
from Vicky Papaioannou’s blog: Lily Borda!
rom Karin Åkesdotter’s blog: Kaye Thrasher!
from Marge Yoon’s blog: Maureen Reiss!
from Anna-Karin Evaldsson’s blog: Karen Berry!
from Gayatri Murali’s blog: Heather Nelson!
from Elena Salo’s blog: Brenda Kuder!
from Emma Williams’s blog: Cheriese!
from Ankita Gupta’s blog: beccab33324!
from Olga Direktorenko’s blog: Miriam Prantner!
If you see your name listed above, CONGRATULATIONS! Please email [email protected] and let him know that you are one of our DieCember® Blog Hop winners! You’ll receive a $25 Gift Card. ???
Thanks again for hopping along with us! We hope you enjoy our DieCember® release and that it gives you creative enjoyment for months to come!
Winning ROCKS, and so do you!
Yippee for Yana: Last Minute Christmas Cards
Hi friends! Happy Wednesday! Have you made your holiday cards yet? If not, no worries Yana to the rescue! Read on for more information, and enjoy!
Hi everyone, this is Yana Smakula and welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video! Christmas is just 13 days away and now is the time to get those holiday cards done if you have yet already. In today’s blog post & video, I am sharing a very simple, easy to make, yet classy and stunning Christmas card idea that involves just a bit of stamping, heat embossing and ink blending – very doable card and easy to mass produce if you happen to need a bunch of last minute Christmas cards.
I’m using a handful of supplies today – one of them is a beautiful Comfort & Joy clear stamp set from Simon Says Stamp, I will be using Joy to the World sentiment and an image of a Christmas present; simple imagery, but large enough to take center stage on our card. Also large enough so that we won’t need to add much else to the project. As when you are in a hurry you want to get those cards done as soon as you can. If you don’t have this exact stamp set look through your stash for a large sentiment and also a simple outline image that goes well with the holiday theme.
First, I stamped & gold heat embossed images on blue cardstock. I picked blue for 2 reasons: a) I simply love this color and b) I wanted to have a night sky type of look and feel for this card.
To create a background, I want it to look like as if there’s falling snow on the card, I used another stamp from Simon – Falling Snow cling background stamp and I once again heat embossed it. This time, however, I used a different color of embossing powder – Steel Navy from Simon. I poured it onto my panel avoiding the sentiment and gift area. I’m not one for masking and if I can skip doing masking I will, so here I skipped masking and instead used a dry paintbrush to brush away any embossing powder that overlapped the gold heat embossing.
After heat setting, I added some ombre ink blending at the top to darken the top edge a bit. To do this I used Navy and Black inks and my ink blending tools. Ink bending on colored cardstock saves you loads of time as you already have that base color in place and you just need to add your medium and darkest color.
Another way you can step this card design up is by embellishing it with jewels. Here I used clear jewels from Pretty Pink Posh and adhered them over some of the snow dots in the background.
Have fun stamping!
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Thanks so much for watching and thanks to Yana for being our guest!
You Are Loved Exclusive Collection is HERE!
Hi friends! Happy Tuesday! This newest collection called “You are Loved” is SO much more than Valentines. It’s a celebration of love that can last all year long. We have three new stamp and die sets that will have you crafting for Love anniversaries in our Always & Forever set, “Any time of year love” in our Ornate Love set, and words of love for those going through difficult times in our Moments of Grace set.
We’ve added three LOVELY stencil sets that offer some unique and interactive options! Check out Reverse Hearts, All My Heart, and Heart Layers! Speaking of cool backgrounds.. don’t miss our three new and oh so beautiful intricate background stamp designs: Flourish, Quilled Hearts, and Damask!
We have a fun surprise with our special Suzy Watercolor set with this release! Not only do you get 12 new adorable designs to keep you crafting all year long, but also a gorgeous Prima Watercolor Pencil set in the fabulous gift set that is perfect to present to a Crafty friend for the holidays!
Don’t miss this super fun walk-through of the collection with the always awesome Laura Bassen:
Continue to peruse to find something that you LOVE!
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Looking for inspiration with this new release?! Don’t forget to check out our gallery to view and add projects to! We will be hosting a fun blog hop in January featuring this release! Stay tuned!
