Seeing all of the amazing cards and projects featuring the Simon Say Stamp brand that are created by you, our customers, is super fun for us! We love seeing what you are creating. ‘Spotted!’ is a monthly feature on this blog that highlights the talents of all of you!

Today we are excited to introduce you to 5 designers who shared their work and caught our eye for the June 2015 ‘Spotted’ post! We send each of them a little something special for being “spotted.”

Our Mask-erade online card class inspired Francine Vuilleme to create this vibrant card using our Hand Lettered Encouragement stamp. We spotted her work on Instagram and it can also be found on her blog.

Flowers whisper “Beauty!” We have totally fallen in love with Payel’s colorful card that uses both our Summer Garden and Flowers On My Mind stamps!  We spotted this beauty in our Flickr pool and it can also be found on her Instagram.

Our next two ‘Spotted’ cards are perfect for any wedding occasion!

Rosemary used our Happily Ever After May card kit to create this clean, simple yet GORGEOUS wedding card. We spotted her work in our Flickr pool and on her blog.

Our fourth spotted designer is Coralynn Murray, she also used the Happily Ever After May card kit to create this ravishing card. We LOVE these subtle colors together, don’t you? We spotted her beautiful “tying the knot” card in our Flickr pool and on her blog.

If you’re ever looking for inspiration, we highly recommend surfing around our Flickr pool! So many talented artists and great techniques can be found there.

Speaking of surfing…look at this message in a bottle cruising the waves! Oh my goodness, cuteness overload! This clever card made by Anja Bytyqi using our Sending Happy Thoughts stamp set is so adorbs! We spotted this card on her blog.

Would you like to be SPOTTED using Simon Says Stamp product?

Post your creations to Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram (with hashtag #simonsaysstamp), your blog and/or the Simon Says Stamp online galleries (in the sidebar) and we’ll choose cards or projects to feature each month!

We also have a Simon Says Stamp Flickr group here and we would love for you to join us!

We can’t wait to see what you are creating!!

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Thanks for reading today!

Hi readers! Happy Tuesday! Please join me in welcoming back Yana Smakula as a guest on our blog! She’s created these two beauties with some new Hero Arts products as well as some Simon Says Stamp Exclusives!

Enjoy!

I love to create custom backgrounds using various small image stamps. Background stamps are fun (and I still use them often), but I feel I have more freedom when I’m using smaller images to build a background. This also allows to me create multicolored backgrounds like I’m sharing today. I used new Hero Arts Ombre ink pads for both of my projects and inked some images up using a darker color of ink and some using lighter.

I added dry embossing to one of the backgrounds using this grid stencil, this is one of my favorite techniques. I rarely use stencils for stenciling, but I love to use them for dry embossing. To give both of my cards something little extra I die cut this songbird die and a couple circles from Luminary Circles out of gold mirror cardstock and scattered behind the heat embossed sentiment.

Both stamped panels were mounted onto white A2 top folding card bases and a narrow strip of Hero Arts layering paper was added to both on both sides to emphasize the main panel.

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

The Monday Challenge Team loves plants. From succulents that are oh so trendy these days to leaves, trees to pretty flowers there are so many products, colors, and ways to be inspired. Be sure to join the design team with your version of this challenge over on the Monday Challenge Blog.

Below are three projects created by team members this week – and you’ll want to check out the Monday Challenge blog to see the rest. Don’t forget that when you enter your projects into the challenge, you have a chance to win a $50 Gift Voucher to Simon Says Stamp!

First up – our newest member kicks off with her debut project for us! Made by Cheiron

made by Meihsia

made by Michelle