Hi friends! Happy Tuesday! Thanks for stopping by the blog today! Please join me in a warm welcome to special guest Heather Hoffman! She’s combined some super fun Winnie and Walter stamps and some of our Simon Says Stamp exclusives to create these really fun Pop of Background Color stamps! Please read on and enjoy!

Good morning! Heather Hoffman here this morning – and I’m thrilled to be back as a guest here on the Simon Says Stamp Blog with a few cards I put together combining some adorable Winnie and Walter stamps with some SSS Exclusive Dies!

I decided to use some of the many Winnie and Walter Mini Scenery Stamp sets to create a focal point on which to rest some adorable critters and die cut and stamped sentiments. I kept the color scheme very soft and neutral, and used only 3 Copic markers to color all the images!

I stamped my backgrounds using a few lovely SSS Dye Inks and my MISTI to line them up perfectly. Then I stamped several cute critters, colored them all in neutral grays, and fussy cut them out.

I die cut the stamped panels, attached the colored critters with foam adhesive, then die cut some sentiments from black cardstock and glued those down. I added a little to each of the sentiments from the coordinating Winnie and Walter Stamps before mounting on (Simon Says Stamp Fog) soft gray top folding card bases.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Have a wonderful day!

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Thanks for reading today, and thanks to Heather for being our guest!

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Hello friends! Have you’ve seen our NEW One of a Kind product release, which was revealed last Thursday?! This fabulous release is bursting with Summer fun and flavor – you did see those ice cream cones right?

To celebrate, we hosted a two-day blog hop! The hop featured many talented designers and each one created beautiful projects to inspire you. If you missed the hop, you can find the hop links here: DAY ONE and DAY TWO.

A BIG thank you to all of YOU who joined us for the hop! We enjoy hearing from each of you and your words of encouragement and appreciation to each of the designers means so much to us here at Simon and to them. As tradition, we giveaway gift certificates to random commenters on each blog stop and today we are revealing all the winners! So without further ado…

DAY ONE HOP WINNERS:

from Simon Says Stamp’s blog: Tracy Ercole!

from Jennifer McGuire’s blog: Monica/Buzsy! 

from Kristina Werner’s blog: DONNA K!

from Laura Bassen’s blog: Anisa GTP!

from May Park’s blog: Beth A Puckett!

from Shari Carroll’s blog: Carolyn Steele!

from Amanda Korotkova’s blog: Hey Jude Cards!

from Heather Ruwe’s blog: KristenMary!

from Anna-Karin Evaldsson’s blog: Ina Nelson!

from Kelly Latevola’s blog: Kathi Case!

DAY TWO HOP WINNERS:

from Simon Says Stamp’s blog: Darlene Fellows!

from Yana Smakula’s blog: Cheryl Day!

from Debby Hughes’ blog: Jadin!

from Kathy Racoosin’s blog: Mary Donovan!

from Nichol Sphor’s blog: Golda!

from Jessica Frost-Ballas’ blog: Mary W!

from Amy Rsavy’s blog: Jan Elmore!

from Heather Hoffman’s blog: D.Ann C!

from Suzy Plantamura’s blog: LYNNE T!

from Gayatri Murali’s blog: Patti J.!

from Nina-Marie Trapani’s blog: Carol Harper!

If you see your name listed above; CONGRATS! You can email [email protected] letting her know you are one of our One of a Kind Blog Hop winners! You’ll receive a $25 Gift Card.

Thank you again for hopping along with us! We hope you enjoy our new One of a Kind release and that it gives you creative enjoyment all summer long!

Hello everyone, it’s Nina-Marie back again with a new Studio Monday video! This week I am featuring the fun Uchi’s Designs animation stamp sets. I wanted to demonstrate how you can make easy animation cards with very few supplies.

For those of you new to animation stamps, they are images that are made up with a series of vertical lines; when stamped onto paper and paired with a vertical grid overlay, the have the appearance of moving or having action of some kind. Uchi’s Designs is a stamp company leading the way in creating these fun sets! Today I will be using their Loving Cat set. You can see the “love you” card I created below:

As I designed this card, I kept in mind the fact that I wanted this card to:

1. Be easy to recreate
2. Be kid-friendly (yes, this card a kid could make too with adult supervision since there is some cutting involved)
3. Show off the animation stamps beautifully
4. Not require lots of supplies

The card features a pull-tab that slides the animation grid across the stamped image underneath. The grid slides beautifully because I built a little track around three sides of it from small paper strips. The trick to animation stamps are two fold…

You want the grid paper FLUSH to the stamped image underneath. If the animation grid is not flush on the image, you lose a lot of the animation effect.

Also, you need to ensure that during the building process that the grid lines of the animation sheet is always lining up with the vertical lines of the stamped image. If the lines do not match up, the animation is not as good.

And as a side note, don’t be afraid to use the animation stamps on their own to accent your animation focal point. I used many of the small heart stamps to make a custom background that matches perfectly with my animated heart! The tone on tone effect was created by stamping the images in clear ink over Doll Pink cardstock.

Of course, no animated card is complete without a cute sentiment! So I pulled out the new Lawn Fawn Push Here stamp set and used one of the sentiments to stamp onto the pull tab of my card. I think the Lawn Fawn Push Here set is SO clever! I cannot wait to use it on more cards!

I hope you will check out the video below to see this card in action and learn how to build one of these yourself! Thanks for visiting with me today… I’ll be back again soon with a new Studio Monday video!

WATCH THE VIDEO

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