Encouraging Words BLOG HOP… Part 1!

Welcome to day ONE of our blog hop! Yes, you read that right ;) We will have 2 back to back days of inspiration in celebration of our latest collection, Encouraging Words! We hope that it will get your crafty mojo kicking! Please hop along and enjoy!

Please leave “Encouraging Words” in the comments section of each stop on the hop. We will be randomly selecting from comments to give away $25 Gift Card to someone at every stop on the hop.

Check out our new “Encouraging Words” release below. It’s perfect for back to school and every day encouragement!

Thanks again for joining us today! Now….Go get hopping! It’s an explosion of encouraging inspiration!!!!! :) Remember, Please leave “Encouraging Words” in the comments section of each stop on the hop. We will be randomly selecting from comments to give away $25 Gift Card to SimonSaysStamp.com for someone at every stop on the hop.

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Don’t Miss Simon’s New Exclusive Collection: Encouraging Words!

We’re so excited to share our latest collection of exclusive stamps, dies, stencils, sequins, & more! We lovingly called this collection Encouraging Words. It’s great for Back to School (CAN YOU BELIEVE It’s THAT time of year already!?) Use the collection to create notes of encouragement and support. We hope you love it!

Be sure to come back tomorrow and Saturday. There will be a huge blog hop loaded with inspiration that’s a feast for your eyes :) Please comment below something you think you could do today to encourage someone. ANYONE ;) Comments will be a great way to share ideas with each other so that we can all encourage each other. Have an awesome day! Hope to see ya tomorrow!

Brand NEW Sunny Studio Inspiration!

Hi friends! Happy Wednesday! Please join me in welcoming back the super sweet Mendi Yoshikawa as a guest on our blog today to showcase the brand new Sunny Studio stamps and dies! Be sure to read on and enjoy!

Hello there! It’s Mendi here today sharing four playful cards featuring some of Sunny Studio’s newest release for Fall, which includes 8 new stamp sets and coordinating dies.

Up first I can a card using our new Barnyard Buddies and Missing Ewe stamps with a clean and simple design.

I colored all my images with Copic Markers and then arranged them on a background which was inked using Mowed Lawn distress ink and my favorite jumbo dauber which I lightly faded into the white background. I then “tied” a simple red gingham bow to reinforce the farm theme and to hide the transition between the white and green backgrounds.

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For my next card I used our new Happy Owl-o-ween stamps which are fun for Halloween and beyond. The set comes with six playful costumes to dress up the owl and several punny sentiments that would work for all year ’round. I used them here to create an everyday card, mixing them the accessories from our Pirate Pals set and the little Island from Island Getaway.

I cut a simple polaroid frame using my Fiskars trimmer with a 3″ x 3″ opening and an overall outside edge trimmed to 3.5″ x 4.25″. I then lightly distressed it with some tea dye distress ink and wrapped it with some jute cording threaded through a button from my craft supply, hiding the ends on the back side.

For my card base I inked up the edges with some more tea dye distress ink and stamped it with a repeating pattern using the small anchor image from Pirate Pals.

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For my third card, I created another clean and simple card using the same Happy Owl-o-ween set. This time I embraced the Halloween theme using the two-piece cape, witch’s hat & wand together with the cauldron and bats from our Halloween Cuties stamps.

For my green and blue panels, I inked up my white cardstock in an ombre pattern using the jumbo dauber together with distress inks. These daubers make smoothly blending inks together without harsh lines a breeze (and believe me when I say I need all the help I can get in this department). I finished off my sentiment strip with simple stitching in my sewing machine to add a little extra visual interest to this simple card.

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My last card for the day features our new Quilted Hexagons & Cute As A Button Stamps along with the matching Sew Word die. Our Quilted Hexagons set is a background building set based on the Hexagon shape with endless ways to build patterns. It’s hard to capture all the fun ways this set can be used with just one card, but you can read more about the set and see more examples at a post on our blog HERE.

For my card today, I started by stamping my background in light grey ink using the basic stitched hexagon shapes. I then added the diamond insert which breaks each hexagon into three separate diamonds. I followed by stamping the small diamonds in rows, alternating the solid and polka-dot pattern.

I finished my card with a simple hand-stitched border using a paper piercer with some embroidery floss. For my sentiment I turned to our new Cute As A Button Stamps. This versatile little set packs a big punch with 7 punny sentiments playing on the word “sew”, 2 layered buttons, a layered needle and a stitched heart, all packed in a 3×4 set.

I hope you will check out our other new sets that I didn’t have time to feature here today. We have a sweet new Pet Sympathy set, as well as a cool layering pumpkin set and a beautiful coordinating sentiment set for Fall that are wonderful additions to our line up. Thanks so much for hanging with me today. Hope you enjoy the rest of your summer! :)