Hi friends! Welcome to the Simon Says Stamp Falling For You Blog Hop. We are busting at the seams with inspiration for you!  To top it off, EVERY SINGLE stop along the way is a chance to win a Mega prize package for you!  All you need to do is comment on the stops along the way to be eligible to win.   Winners will be drawn April 28.

Check out the inspiration below by Shari Carroll. Can you tell which products she used?

Please join us today for this MEGA blog hop where designers from around the world have brought these products to life to share with you.  The hop starts here on the Simon Says Stamp Blog and continues:

Hello friends :)  Thank you for joining us today!  We are super excited to show you what we’ve been working on this winter for you!

The new release “Falling for You” is now available!  You might have seen the sneak peeks on social media using the #SSSFallingForYou.

New stamps, wafer thin dies, and stencils were designed so that you could use them in a variety of techniques.  From Bokeh Lights to Falling Hearts, these products are meant to delight.  You might recognize the little girl in the release?  Shari Carroll illustrated a dear friend, Jennifer McGuire’s, sweet little girl, Lila.

Join us to tomorrow for a MEGA inspiration blog hop! It’s huge!  There will be over 35 deluxe prize packages along the way.  Trust me, this is a hop you DO NO want to miss!

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May Flaum here, ready to craft a super fun new card with you today. When it comes to reusing and recycling products I am all about using what I have! I love to give photo frames, boxes, and home décor items make-overs with some alcohol ink or paint, paper or paste. I love using my craft supplies to help me extend or give new life to all kinds of things! Today I’m going to share a super simple idea – reuse a coffee cup holder to create a gift card holding card!

The first thing you’ll need to do is get and cut open one side of the gift card. I want to make this card 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 so I trimmed a bit off the side.

This next part is simple – but important! First cover one side (only one side! with paper, washi tape as I did here, or anything else. This will be the decorative front of your card. Next, if you want to stitch around the edge (again, only working to cover one side!) go ahead and do that. At this time you’ll want to make a slit in the front of your card where you are going to slide this coffee cup holder through. Make it about 1/4″ bigger than the holder as you’ll need a bit of wiggle room. Put some liquid adhesive on the side you want for the front of your card, and slide it on through!

Above you can see how the front will look (Adhered down) and how when the card is opened the Starbucks/front of the coffee cup protector shows! If you’d like to make this a gift card holder simply glue the bottom and open side of the holder down.

Now you’re all set and ready to decorate!

I had a lot of fun with the new Amy Tangerine stamps, an assortment of my favorite dye ink pads, and a wink of stella pen to help create a little planter box out of the coffee cup holder shown on the front. Such fun! Just hand-draw your leaves and stems. This would also work well with dimensional die cuts or flower embellishments instead of stamps.

To finish things off I drew around my card with pen (stitching could also work) and added some sweet soft stamped hearts. I love how this came together – and I hope you’ve enjoyed my fun card.

From plastic wrap to paper headed to the garbage can – we can all be looking for items to reuse and upcycle!

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