Hi friends! Happy Saturday! Happy New Year’s Eve! I’m so happy to be here with you to celebrate the last day of 2016! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas! And all of us at Simon Says Stamp wish you a very happy, healthy, and creative new year! 2017 is going to be amazing, I can feel it! I’m still sort of in shock that Christmas is over! It came and went in a blink of an eye. We had a very nice, relaxing holiday and my husband and I enjoyed getting out and doing lots of activities of the season. We love to go look at Christmas lights and walk around all the little towns near where we live and see the decorations. Now, it’s time to turn over the page on the calendar and get excited about what is to come! Welcome back to the latest edition of Weekender with Wanda!

I shared a traditional black and gold New Year Card last week. And this week I thought I would make another New Year card full of color and a not so traditional sentiment. I used papers from one of our very favorite companies – Doodlebug – to make a rainbow village! I used the Petite Prints patterned paper pads from Doodlebug. I have all of them and they rarely leave my table. They are my go-to small prints for backgrounds and layers on my cards. And who doesn’t love patterned paper in a rainbow of colors?

I started my card by making an A2 card base in bright white paper. I layered a soft blue polka dot piece of paper for my background. To make the semi circles I used the Simon Says Stamp Build A Rainbow die and traced it with a pencil and cut it out by hand to make two layers for my houses. I stamped onto the smaller of the two circles using two SSS exclusive stamp sets: Uplifting Thoughts, and Game Tile Letters. I liked how the 2017 fit right into the opening in the sentiment. I thought this was a good saying for the new year!

These are the three Petite Print Paper Pads I used for today’s card. LOVE.

I used the SSS Village Die Cut and cut out the entire die set with each of the rainbow colors. I mixed and matched the patterns so I could sit down at my desk and decide which way they would look the best. I ended up using the two taller houses in all the colors!

The smaller semi circle is mounted to the larger one using foam tape to add dimension. I finished the sentiment off with a bright red Doodlebug Enamel Heart.

Here are all my little houses laid out on my desk….Looks kind of pretty like this!

Kindness CAN change the world! I can’t wait to see what happens in 2017!

Thank you for spending part of your holiday weekend here with me. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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Hello everyone! It’s Nina-Marie here with you today, sharing an easy interactive card idea that also features products from My Favorite Things!

Interactive cards are so much fun to not only make, but also to give… I personally love seeing the look on the recipient’s face when they see a card do something completely unexpected! In today’s video I am going to be showing you how I created a pop-up panel inside of a card; these pop up panels are also commonly known as “explosion cards”. It’s easy enough for kids to create, and all you need is a piece of paper to make one!

For these cards, I used products from My Favorite Things and Simon Says Stamp. The pig stamp and sentiment are from the My Favorite Things Hog Heaven stamp set; I also used their Basic Stitch Lines dies to add stitching detail to the edges of the card bases. The cards are also decorated using the new Love and Quotes stamp set and Love Is background stamp, both from Simon Says Stamp. All these products matched up perfectly together and created really cute Valentines!

To see how these cards came together and learn how to make the pop up panel, be sure to watch the video below! I’m so glad you stopped by today; I’ll be seeing you again on Monday with a brand new Studio Monday video!

WATCH THE VIDEO

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We hope you all had a lovely Christmas and we would like to wish you a Very Happy New Year and Best Wishes for a fabulous 2017!

This week on the Wednesday Challenge, we have the ever popular Anything Goes theme. Maybe you would like to make some New Year cards or decorations, or maybe you need to make a birthday card for someone special, this is the challenge to make whatever takes your fancy!

We are showcasing  Lindy’s Stamp Gang Products, if you have any of their products we would love to see them used. Lindy’s Stamp Gang have a fabulous range of sprays and pigment powders, if you have never tried them maybe now is the time to think about giving them a try!

Once you have made your creation just go ahead and upload it into the linky on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge blog!  We can’t wait to see what you make!

As always, we’re offering a chance to win a $50 Gift Voucher to Simon Says Stamp!  All YOU need to do is join in with the challenge!

Below are three projects created by the design team, that showcase this weeks theme! You can visit the challenge blog  to get all the details and see the amazing cards and projects that the design team has created this week. If you click on each designers name, you’ll be taken directly to their blog where you’ll get more details about their project! Be sure to give these talented ladies some comments!

Created by Lorraine Aquilina aka Lols:

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Created by Jo Nevill:

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Created by Teresa Kline:

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