Did someone say cake?
Hi there! Merry Christmas Eve! Everyone here at Simon Says Stamp wishes you a wonderful holiday with your friends and family! Thank you for sharing all of the fun around here during the holiday season. We so look forward to crafting with you in the new year too! Today I’m sharing a birthday card! I don’t know about you, but I’ve been so busy making Christmas cards that my stash of birthday cards is now really low. Today, I’m featuring adorable, fun and cheerful stamps from Reverse Confetti. A cute little gator ready to chomp on some cake!
I used two stamp sets to make this card – they go together perfectly in scale and style. I used the Later Alligator and Weather it Together sets. I thought my Copic markers would be the perfect way to color the images, and then I paired it all up with some cute Doodlebug papers.
I stamped all the images in crisp black ink and die cut them out! Then I colored them all and set them aside. (I always cut my images out before I color them in case I make a boo boo with the die cutting!) Isn’t this sentiment so fun? I used a corner rounder on my top layer and the yellow layer.
The sun, clouds, gator and cake were all attached with foam squares. It’s hard to see in the photography, but I used a clear Wink of Stella pen to add a bit of sparkle to the cake and the clouds. I added a twine bow in green to match that sweet critter.
Here are my Copic colors for today’s card!
Thanks for dropping by today! See you soon!
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Specific Holiday Greetings
Hi readers! Happy Wednesday! Please welcome back the sweet as spice Stephanie Wincott of Clearly Besotted as a guest on our blog! She has created a gorgeous Merry Christmas Mother card and tag duo to share with us in a modern and gorgeous palette! I feel like the standard Christmas card does not address the recipient. This makes sense for mass sends, but I love the idea of a more personalized card for the extra special recipients and/or gifts you hand deliver.
Check it out and enjoy!
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Stamp ‘Merry Christmas’ onto a strip of mint card and adhere onto a white mat (slighter smaller than A2 size).
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Stamp and die cut 2 wreaths and bows, assemble with 3D foam and also adhere to white mat.
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Stamp and die cut ‘Mother‘ and adhere below the wreaths.
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Draw the ‘string’ using black marker and ruler
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Attach the mat onto an A2 card base with 3D foam for dimension
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A Peek Behind the Scenes at Simon Says Stamp and a Bit About Our Family :)
Hi friends!
Many of you have asked about our story. With our dog Simon sick, and him being the namesake, the logo, and a big personality at the forefront of our company, we just knew this summer was the time to work on sharing our story with you. In order to share our story with you, we worked with a wonderful company, IPSO, to bring it to life through a video.
Sharing this video with you is bittersweet. I adopted Simon as a very little puppy with one bent ear over 14 years ago. I knew him before I met my husband and before my kiddos came to this world. I knew Simon as my pup before I started the business Simon Says Stamp (and named it in his honor). Simon has always been a HUGE part of our lives. He would sleep in my bed, follow me around the house, lie next to me as I crafted, folded laundry, and worked on the computer, shadow my kids around our yard, and often come to the office with me. With Simon always wanting to be near us, we find him in the background (and foreground!) of many of our pictures. He was a kind, quiet, loyal, sweet and loving little guy.
It’s with a deeply heavy heart that I am sharing with you: Simon recently passed away. He had been sick the last few months, and his sickness created a sense of urgency to film this video. As hard as it was to put ourselves on camera….I am so glad we did. I think many of you can relate. In the moment, the process of sharing our story might be hard. But, our stories are our lives. Documenting our stories through pictures and videos gives us something that we can look back on later to remind us of the joys and happy moments that make up our life.
This is a great opportunity for us to share pieces of who we are, and what we do, with YOU. We are grateful to share this journey with you and are so so grateful for your support along the way. We wouldn’t be here without YOU. You’ll even see typical moments with our pup, Simon, in the office captured in the video.
Special thanks to our friend Jennifer McGuire for introducing us to the fabulous team at IPSO and encouraging us to tell our story.
THANK YOU for being here to listen.
Much love,
Heidi and the Simon Says Stamp Family.
