All the Joy Blog Hop WINNERS!
Hello, friends! We hope you are loving our newest release!
We get a little giddy around the holidays, so with our latest release we’re bringing All the Joy! You’ll find greenery galore like our Large and Small Bottle Brush Trees and Arching Spruce Sprig dies, Holiday Blossoms and Festive Bouquets stamp sets, and Enchanting Forest and Holly and Pine embossing folders. Enhance your celebrations with A Latke Love and 8 Nights Hanukkah sets as well as O Holy Night stencils and Pointed Star Trio dies. And cue the decor with our Fancy Ornaments embossing folder and Ornaments Masks stencils.
We haven’t even mentioned snowy winter products, specialty papers, and NEW INKS! Share all the joy with us!
To celebrate this phenomenal release, we hosted two amazing blog hops! The hops featured many talented designers and each one created wonderful projects to inspire you. If you missed either of the hops, you can find the direct links here: DAY ONE and DAY TWO.
A BIG thank you to all of YOU who joined us for the hops! We enjoy hearing from each of you, and your words of encouragement and appreciation to each of the designers mean so much to us here at Simon and to them. It’s our tradition to give away gift certificates to random commenters on each blog stop, and today we are revealing all of the winners! So without further ado, I present to you our winners!
DAY ONE HOP WINNERS:
from Simon Says Stamp’s blog: Carol Dogget!
from Caly Person’s blog: Marisela Delgado!
from Jennifer McGuire’s blog: Louanne Collins!
from Cathy Zielske’s blog: Trudie Vick!
from Barbara Tarayao’s blog: Cathy Loveless!
from Amy Rysavy’s blog: Leila Thieme!
from Debby Hughes’s blog: Sara Emily Barker!
from Emily Midgett’s blog: Donna Tuschoff!
from Keisha Charles’s blog: Denise Halstead!
from Bibi Cameron’s blog: skyelar shade!
from Emma Williams’s blog: Tracey Randolph!
from Heather Hoffman’s blog: Melissa Leftrick!
from Heather Ruwe’s blog: Linda Price!
from Alberto Gava’s blog: Shelley Lund!
from Daniel West’s blog: Janice Hixon!
DAY TWO HOP WINNERS:
from Simon Says Stamp’s blog: Mary Roberson!
from Nina-Marie Trapani’s blog: Tracey Nautel!
from Nichol Spohr’s blog: Janet O Minnick!
from Laura Bassen’s blog: Carol L Perry!
from Suzy Plantamura’s blog: Marilyn Fischer!
from Mindy Eggen’s blog: Erica T Kennedy!
from Lisa Addesa’s blog: Kim M Jacobs!
from Cheiron Brandon’s blog: jean heming!
from Kulbir Kirkland’s blog: Rita Montgomery!
from Miriam Prantner’s blog: LaChelle U!
from Dilay Nacar’s blog: Kris Pagenkopf!
from Barb Engler’s blog: McCoko!
from Allison Frazier’s blog: Vivian Chiu!
from Channin Pelletier’s blog: Celeste Goff!
If you see your name listed above, CONGRATULATIONS! Please email [email protected] and let him know that you are one of our All the Joy Blog Hop winners! You’ll receive a $25 Gift Card.
Thanks again for hopping along with us! We hope you enjoy our fantastic All the Joy release and that it gives you creative enjoyment for months to come!
You’ll love browsing our All the Joy gallery on our blog for loads of additional inspiration, and you can add your projects to these galleries as well!
Winning ROCKS, and so do you!
You’ll find even MORE All the Joy inspiration this Friday, November 10th on Instagram as we present to you our All the Joy Instagram Hop. You won’t want to miss it!
Abstract Tree Stamp with Embellishments for a Gorgeous Christmas Card: Yippee for Yana
Hi friends! Please join me in welcoming back the oh-so-talented and amazing Yana Smakula! (Please note: our dear friend Yana is Ukrainian. To show support to our brothers and sisters in Ukraine, please see Yana’s post HERE.)
Hello, crafters, this is Yana Smakula for Simon Says Stamp! Welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video!
Today I am creating several Christmas cards with the Trees and Stars stamp set from Simon Says Stamp. This is a fun set with several bold graphic Christmas tree images, there are 6 designs to choose from, each sized perfectly for an A2 card.
I really liked the tree with the different-sized dots. I prepared several cardstock panels, which are all cut to 4 1/4 x 5 1/2″ (I later trimmed them to 3 3/4 x 5″, although I think the 4 x 5 1/4″ is a better cut, especially if you want to add the gold embossing around the edges).
I used my mini MISTI stamping tool and a grip mat inside the MISTI, and stamped the tree along with the sentiment in clear embossing ink, added Antique Gold embossing powder and heat set it.
You can use any color powder you like and the color of the powder will make the color of your ornaments. This Christmas tree consists of various size circles arranged in a tall triangle and they create the illusion of the Christmas tree. To me, these circles look like ornaments, they can also look like Christmas lights on a Christmas tree. So you can use any color embossing powder if you are heat embossing on colored cardstock or any color ink if you are stamping on white cardstock for these circles.
Next, I added ink blending to each of the colored cardstock panels to help guide the eye of the viewer to the center of the cards where the tree is placed.
The beauty of this stamp is that it creates the base of your tree, but you can then use that base to decorate it with other supplies you have in your stash. So think about all of those embellishments you have and how you can incorporate those into your tree.
I used enamel dots from Spellbinders, I have them in different colors and I thought it would be fun to make my trees all different colors. In addition to the enamel dots, I added sequins, these are Aura sequins, also from Spellbinders.
Because that wasn’t enough I also used a white pen and added white dots to fill in even more and I love this result.
So here’s a look at the cards I have for you today created with the Trees and Stars stamp set from Simon Says Stamp. Have fun stamping!
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Thanks so much for stopping by, and thanks again to Yana for being our guest!
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3 QUICK & EASY Cards with stencil and Glitter Glaze!
Hello, all! Kristina here with three fun holiday cards! I used the Stylized Mandala stencil to create glittery fun cards. These cards were created very quickly by starting with the Holiday Color Blends backgrounds and Pastel Color Blends backgrounds.
For the glitter, I used Fallen Snow Glitter Glaze and Scarlet Glitter Glaze from Brutus Monroe.
I finished off the cards with A2 Thin Frames dies cut in matte gold and matte silver cardstock, and then three different greeting die sets also cut in the same colors. The die sets for the greetings are Monoline Merry Christmas, Happy Christmas, and All the Joy.
Enjoy the video!
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