Funny Friday with Art Impressions: Feast Mode
Welcome everyone to our latest edition of Funny Friday! Each month we showcase a new Art Impressions stamp set to make you smile. Today I’m using the adorable Feast Mode set. This set is bringing in Autumn with fun animals and sentiments.
The images in this set are the perfect size to fit onto a die-cut tag, so I went for it!
I’ve made two examples since they are so easy to create. I watercolored the images loosely for an imperfect look (this takes the creative pressure off). I start with washed-out color and add deeper shades as I go.
Once I had my tags colored, dried, and stamped with a greeting, I added an additional tag behind using a die-cut from color cardstock.
Tags are a great way to quickly express gratitude or a funny message. They can accompany a gift card or gift bag, and these fit into our 4 Bar Kraft envelopes for mailing!!
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Easy DIY Paper Pumpkins for Fall Decor!
Hello friends, it’s Nina-Marie Trapani here with you and I have a fun Fall decor project to share with you!
One of the signature decor items for Autumn is, of course, pumpkins! I thought it would be fun to have a collection of paper pumpkins to use as decor in my home. These adorable gourds are SO easy to make, even your kids or grandchildren could help you make them! All you need is a circle and/or oval die set, a leaf dies, and some colorful papers.
My pumpkins feature the Simon Says Stamp Nested Circles and Nested Ovals dies, Simon cardstocks and Therm O Web flock sheets.
I encourage you to have fun with the items you use to make these pumpkins- get creative and try mixing in fun textured or patterned papers too!
Be sure to watch the video to see exactly how I made these cuties – they really are so easy!
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WCMD and Make Merry Blog Hop WINNERS!
Hello, friends! Have you seen our Simon exclusive Make Merry release? It’s full of products that are sure to bring you lots of creative options for the upcoming holidays! Included you’ll find tons of festive stamps, dies, and stencils for holiday crafting, and if you love fall and Thanksgiving, you’ll find so many products to be thankful for. No matter your style, you’re sure to find an item or two (or fifteen!) that are must-haves. There are some wonderful new products from CZ Design and a brand new set of Suzy’s watercolor cards! 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: Lisa B Harvey-Reber!
from Jennifer McGuire’s blog: Lori Lehnen!
from Nina-Marie Trapani’s blog: Teri S.!
from Caly Person’s blog: Shauna K Avery!
from Nichol Spohr’s blog: Heike Carlson!
from Amy Rysavy’s blog: Lisa Byers!
from Lisa Addesa’s blog: CinamonSally!
from Heather Ruwe’s blog: Kloschinsky Katherine!
from Suzy Plantamura’s blog: Nancy Rodeberg!
from Sidnie Des Jardins’s blog: Cheri Parish!
from Barb Engler’s blog: Glenda Demorest!
from Cheiron Brandon’s blog: Gayle Chrvala!
from Lea Lawson’s blog: Annette Gordon!
DAY TWO HOP WINNERS:
from Simon Says Stamp’s blog: Shey Shelton!
from Laura Bassen’s blog: Sandy Gregg!
from Debby Hughes’s blog: Kim Salito!
from Amanda Korotkova’s blog: Marisela Delgado!
from Heather Hoffman’s blog: Joanne Hoffman!
from Yoonsun Hur’s blog: Karen Ondes!
from Laurie Willison’s blog: Susan Carlson!
from Bobbi Lemanski’s blog: Ann Ito!
from Preeti Chandran’s blog: Carolyn Pokorney!
from Dana Joy’s blog: Kailash!
from Daniel West’s blog: Fonda R!
from Keisha Charles’s blog: karqui10!
from Anna-Karin Evaldsson’s blog: Cy Lee!
from Bibi Cameron’s blog: Kim Clark!
If you see your name listed above, CONGRATULATIONS! Please email [email protected] and let him know that you are one of our Make Merry Blog Hop winners! You’ll receive a $25 Gift Card. ???
Thanks again for hopping along with us! We hope you enjoy our fantastic Make Merry release and that they give you creative enjoyment for months to come!
Before we go, we have another winner to announce! On October 3rd, we celebrated World Card Making Day, and we asked you to share what you were working on on this post with the promise of a randomly selected winner of a $100 gift card from Simon!
CONGRATULATIONS, MP! Please email [email protected] and let him know that you are our World Card Making Day winner! You’ll receive a $100 Gift Card.
Winning ROCKS, and so do you!
