Happy and Joyful Blog Hop WINNERS!
Hello, friends! Our Simon Says Stamp exclusive Happy and Joyful product lineup is full of lots of products that will give you endless creative mojo! Stunning florals, products to celebrate babies, pretty hot foil plates, and sentiments that you’ll use over and over again abound in our newest release! We’re also bringing you innovative storage solutions and go-to tools like the T-square ruler to make your happy place even happier! No matter your style, you’re sure to find an item or ten that need to be in your craft arsenal. We are so excited for you to play with all of these awesome new products!
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: Maggie Henry!
from Nina-Marie Trapani’s blog: Louanne Collins!
from Caly Person’s blog: Laraine Randall!
from Nichol Spohr’s blog: Kristen Snoozy!
from Cathy Zielske’s blog: Jenny Pierce!
from Suzy Plantamura’s blog: Diane Hunter!
from Sidnie Des Jardins’s blog: Lori Podolsky!
from Lisa Addesa’s blog: Lindar C.!
from Keisha Charles’s blog: Bridget N!
from Heather Ruwe’s blog: Barb Martin!
from Mindy Eggen’s blog: Steffi H.!
from Barb Engler’s blog: Greta!
from Cheiron Brandon’s blog: Tammy Millette!
from Yoonsun Hur’s blog: Kary H.!
DAY TWO HOP WINNERS:
from Simon Says Stamp’s blog: Giselle D.!
from Laura Bassen’s blog: Leigh Norris!
from Amanda Korotkova’s blog: Karen H!
from Amy Rysavy’s blog: Patricia Wilson!
from Barbara Tarayao’s blog: Lauryne Cunningham!
from Emily Midgett’s blog: Sandy Gregg!
from Miriam Prantner’s blog: Glennis F
from Alberto Gava’s blog: Heather Bellino!
from Bibi Cameron’s blog: Anne Sturgeon!
from Emma Wiliams’s blog: Carrie Arii!
from Heather Hoffman’s blog: Melissa Leftrick!
from Lea Lawson’s blog: Celeste M Goff!
from Tina Smith’s blog: Kristina Gentle!
from Jennifer Kotas’s blog: Merrill P!
from Sandi MacIver’s blog: rosemary d!
from Seeka’s blog: Stacey Kowbel!
If you see your name listed above, CONGRATULATIONS! Please email [email protected] and let him know that you are one of our Happy and Joyful Blog Hop winners! You’ll receive a $25 Gift Card. ???
Thanks again for hopping along with us! We hope you enjoy our fantastic Happy and Joyful release and that it gives you creative enjoyment for months to come!
Winning ROCKS, and so do you!
Want to see these products and more LIVE? Join us on YouTube Friday, April 29 at noon EDT for a super cool inside look at the release and a FREE GIFT!
We hope you will join us on Instagram on Friday, April 29, for an Instagram Hop featuring even more inspiration from our Happy and Joyful release! We are excited to share awesome ideas from several creative minds using these fantastic products.
You’ll love browsing our Happy and Joyful gallery on our blog for loads of additional inspiration, and you can add your projects to these galleries as well!
Quilted Cards showcasing our May 2022 Brushed Flowers card kit
Hi friends! Happy Wednesday! Please join me in welcoming back special guest Nichol Spohr to showcase our May 2022 card kit of the month, Brushed Flowers! In addition to using many components of the kit, Nichol has also used our Geometric Builder Squares die set to make the coolest quilted patterns using the Painted Floral papers featured in the kit! Be sure to watch the video for all the details, and enjoy!
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Yippee for Yana: Action Wobble Garden Birds
Hi friends! Happy Tuesday, and welcome to the latest edition of Yippee for Yana, with the amazing Yana Smakula! Read on for details and be sure to watch the video for all the details! (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!
In this video I’m sharing an action wobble Thank you card with the Garden Birds stamp set. The Garden Birds set is among my favorites lately. It is quite unique as it allows you to create a colorful bird and decorate it, too. You have 2 birds in this set as well as 2 sets of wings. One bird is facing left, the other is facing right.
I like to use at least 2 colors of ink when stamping each part of the bird, to add color variation and interest and some shading, too. I used the Seafoam and Surf ink colors to stamp the body of the bird. I added the darker Surf color onto the tail fading into the body. I use my finger as a blending tool a lot whenever I stamp in this way – I tap lightly to blend the ink on the stamp and avoid having very harsh lines between the different colors. I’m using my MISTI stamping tool and it, of course, allows me to double and even triple stamp my images.
Next, I need to add wings and for this, I’m using the two designs that are facing left. The bird will end up having 2 different wing designs, but I don’t think that matters much. I’m stamping the blue wing in Surf ink and also adding a bit of Ocean at the base. And the green wing is stamped in Celery and Limelicious colors.
This stamp set also includes some fabulous and very easy-to-stamp layering flowers, but there aren’t any leaves. And what I’ve found is that when I stamp the flowers and add them to my card, the project lacks greenery, so I opted to stamp one of the wings in green so that it could fill in that green void on the card.
Now as for the flowers, these are layering, there are 2 layers and a center. I stamped several in colors Cheeky and Blush, Melon and Cantaloupe, and Peachy and Grapefruit. As for the flower centers, I stamped those in black using Versafine Only Black ink.
The coordinating dies for this stamp set will cut every single image out, except for the tiniest flowers. I’ve cut mine and I used glue to adhere the wings onto the bird. I also die cut a little banner – and this is probably my favorite part of this stamp set, that banner is so clever! The banner is two-part and this allows you to attach it to the bird making it look as if the bird is holding the banner. There are also several sentiments in this set that follow the curve of the banner and fit perfectly inside of it.
My card has several sentiments. The main one reads Thank You and I stamped it onto a white cardstock panel. The sentiment comes from the Clean Line Gratitude stamp set from CZ. I also heat embossed a sub sentiment for this card, it reads – You Have Been So Kind. I used a banner die from my stash to die cut the strip.
I figured I wanted to add a bit of interactivity to this card, so instead of just foam mounting the bird I opted to use a mini wobble spring – it is the perfect size to hide behind the bird and add that fun and unexpected movement to the card. I adhered the bird above the sentiment – and isn’t it adorable? I love the way it moves! Next, I added the little yellow banner, I added glue only onto the tip of the banner to left the other end flow in the air.
I foam mounted the yellow sentiment over the main sentiment and next foam mounted the flowers creating a bit of a colorful floral background for this card.
This stamp set also features some additional tiny flowers – I love those! I think they complement the main flowers so well. I stamped several flowers next to the big ones and also overlapping parts of the sentiment. I used yellow and peach inks for the 2 larger flowers and then to add more green I stamped the smallest flowers in green as if to mimic leaves. I figured – why not? I can stamp some flowers in green and they will add that much-needed pop of green onto this card.
I foam mounted my panel onto an A2 card base – I covered the front of the card with some pale peach cardstock, just to add a bit of color, and finally, I embellished the flowers with a few silver gems! Super easy card for today, but I hope you feel inspired to create!
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Thanks so much for stopping by, and thanks to Yana for being our guest!
