Hi friends! Welcome back to day 2 of celebrating our newest exclusive collection, Among the Stars!

We have a super, ultra, mega FUN blog hop for you today loaded with inspiration from designers around the globe!  Be inspired!

Shari Carroll created this inspiration for our stop on the hop:

Dang!  Shari brought her A-Game to these designs! She watercolored a background using Tim Holtz Distress inks and put it behind the cut out mosaic star. Do you love this mosaic star as much as I do?  There is also a very popular fun stencil that we released a few years ago that served as the inspiration for this star.

Just wait until you see what Suzy Plantamura created in her blog post!  I have seriously never seen so much inspiration in one place in all of my life!  Let’s get this hop started:

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Jennifer McGuire
Kristina Werner
Nina-Marie Trapani
Laura Bassen
Kathy Racoosin
Wanda Guess
Amy Rysavy
Nichol Spohr Magouirk
Suzy Plantamura
Kelly Latevola
Debby Hughes
Shari Carroll

Thanks so much for joining us today!  I hope you enjoy the hop featuring products from our new “Among the Stars” release!

We have a super surprise!  Do you want to win a not yet released product  from a release coming later this year?!  Comment here to let us know what you are looking forward to the most about this summer and we will be choosing 1 commenter from each stop along the hop to win this ultimate fun prize!

Welcome to the reveal of our latest exclusive collection, Among the Stars!  We are featuring a special stamp set “Uplifting Thoughts” inspired by Jennifer McGuire’s Handmade Kindness campaign.  There is also a fun fresh new watercolor card set by Suzy Plantamura.  Looking for a whimsical ice cream cone or flamingo to add to your card, or maybe an interesting stacked star background or die cut?  Need a perfectly cut basic background square, rectangle or even flag shape for your “go to” product stash?  Do you like to sew our fun plush line of products?  Then this release is for you! Coming right off the heels of our incredibly popular July Card Kit (Handwritten Floral Greetings) we hope our new release “Among the Stars” keeps you excited to stamp and create!

Please join us tomorrow for a blog hop celebrating the release with even more inspiration from some super talented designers!  Comment below what you like about the collection and we would love to send you a surprise new product that we have coming out later this summer!  Three (3) random winners will be drawn Monday.

Hey friends! Are you as excited about the new Among the Stars release as I am??? I LOVE the new Build a Rainbow die, and I thought this would pair up great with the new Uplifting Thoughts stamp set to create some happy cards!

The Build a Rainbow die set is really versatile and there are so many ways you can use it. I ended up cutting the rainbow in half to create two cards… and I loved it so much I had to make two more! I used Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers to color in my rainbow, but you could definitely use other coloring mediums for this, or even cardstock if you are short on time or not a big fan of coloring!

You’ll see I created these rainbow scenes with a few other Simon products;, including the Happy Days die set. These dies are actually a coordinating set to the Happy Days stamp set that came out with the May 2016 card kit. However, all the shapes are really great for using on their own, which makes them a great addition to you stash, even if you do not have the stamp set! I used both the cloud and sun dies for my scene, but I could see all sorts of fun being had with all the other dies too. When you take a look at products in a creative way, and not just the obvious, you can come up with so many unique card designs!

To see how I created these happy rainbow cards from start to finish, be sure to check out the video below!

This week on the Wednesday Challenge we are looking to the animal kingdom for inspiration for our ‘Animal Magic’ projects! From butterflies to buffalos, kittens to kingfishers, we will be looking forward to see which animal you choose for your project!

Many of us have fur babies that are very much a part of our family and we would love to know what little critters live with you! Maybe you could add photo’s of them on your post too!

We are showcasing Paper Smooches Products this week. You don’t have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see them used

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 our Designer in the Spotlight Torrey Moseley:

Torrey used:

Created by Debby Yates:

Debby used:

Created by Virginia Lu:

Virginia used:

So now it’s your turn to get crafting!

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