Our Wednesday Challenge is Gearing Up for Christmas!

Are you all ready for Christmas? No we didn’t think so, so this week on the Wednesday Challenge we are asking you to pop some carols on your music system, crank up the volume and maybe pour yourself a thimbleful of sherry. Whatever you need to get into the Christmas spirit and make a card, or a table decoration, a tag or maybe a gift! We will be looking forward to seeing whatever you make!

We are showcasing My Favorite Things 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 !

If you enter in this weeks Wednesday Challenge, you will have a chance to win a $50 Gift Voucher to Simon Says Stamp!

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 Isha Gupta, our Designer in the November Spotlight.

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Created by Gayatri Murali:

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Created by Melissa Bove:

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Wishing you a Season of Joy!

Wishing you a Season of Joy & Wonder! Isn’t that a beautiful sentiment for a Christmas card? I’m sharing a happy card today made with products from the SSS Exclusive Create Joy Release. The Chisholm Wreath Die and So Very Merry Stamp Set work just right together. I used traditional red and green Christmas colors and then popped in some pretty Maliblue snow using the Falling Snow background stamp.

My card base and top layer are made from cream cardstock for more of a vintage feeling. The sentiment was stamped in brown ink onto a strip of cream cardstock and then hand cut into a casual banner. I die cut the wreath pieces from different colors of cardstock. You could really have fun with this by using different colors! I gently inked the edges of my card base and banner with a sponge dauber and Antique Linen Distress Ink.

I glued the wreath down with some clear glue at the top and bottom. Then I slipped my banner underneath the wreath on the sides and glued it down. I popped up the birds with foam squares and added pretty red enamel dots.

Everyone at Simon Says Stamp wishes you a Season of Joy and Wonder!

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Happy Holly Days

Hi readers! Happy Monday! We’re so pleased to be welcoming back guest designer Jocelyn Olson with this adorable Paper Smooches holiday card to give you some ideas for your own holiday crafting! If you haven’t already, be sure to bookmark Red Balloon Cards for consistently great crafting ideas and tips!

Enjoy!

Hi! I’m thrilled to be guesting and sharing some Paper Smooches today! I love how Kim at Paper Smooches designs products so you can use old and new stamps and dies. I mixed some holiday products from last year and this year to create a cheerful holiday card:

I started by creating the pine branches. I die-cut the Paper Smooches Wreath Builder die out of October Afternoon Under the Tree paper. Next, I painted the edges of the branches with Gold Modeling Cream. The texture and gold shimmer on the branches is a lovely detail!

Next, I die-cut the larger Paper Smooches Mason Jar die out of watercolor paper and silver glitter cardstock. I lightly watercolored the jar and stamped a sentiment from the Holly Jolly set. I finished the jar with a few dots of Stickles and Lawn Fawn twine.

I couldn’t resist adding the adorable Cool Dudes snowman! I colored him with Copic markers and die cut him with the Cool Dudes Icons die. To finish the card, I cut a panel of the Under the Tree paper.