STAMPtember® 2020: Our 11th annual celebration kicks off with a STELLAR collection!
Join us in celebrating the 11th Anniversary of STAMPtember®! Today we are revealing the products we’ve designed to inspire and delight you in making your projects. All are available exclusively at Simon Says Stamp.
STAMPtember® is defined by Simon Says Stamp as an event intended to inspire, educate, and celebrate the fun of rubber stamping. Simon Says Stamp was founded in 2002 selling rubber stamps. However, it didn’t take long until we became a One Stop Shop with so much more!
Now STAMPtember is so much more than stamps! This year is our 11th Annual STAMPtember! You’ll see a focus on many other exciting products like NEW acetate sheet sets, dies, Sentiment Strip sheets in COLOR, Slimline supplies, and some other fun surprises. We hope to enhance your stamping experience! Rubber stamps remain the heart of our business, and we are celebrating by also releasing exclusive products with many of the industry’s finest brands.
Be sure to visit our blog as the home base for the festivities! Trust me when I tell you that the excitement this year is over the TOP, and we are planning fun surprises to keep you on your toes all month long! Speaking of surprises… check out this AMAZING prize we are giving away with FOUR chances to win…..
The always amazing Laura Bassen has made a gorgeous video walk-through to give you an up-close and personal look at all the goodies, but for even more information, please be sure to scroll to the bottom of the post!
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More things to take note of this month!!!
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Join us TODAY at 12:00 PM ET for a very special Facebook LIVE…
PLUS…. Join us right here on the blog TOMORROW for a MEGA Blog PARTY filled with prizes!
One Stamp Five Ways: Spring Flowers 4
Hi friends! Can you believe it’s August 31st?! I sure can’t!!! Please join me in welcoming back the always inspiring Suzy Plantamura with her monthly blog installment of One Stamp Five Ways; celebrating the MANY unique looks you can get with one stamp set!! Red on and enjoy!
Hello Simon Says Stamp friends! I’m happy to be guest posting today with one of my favorite flower stamp sets called Spring Flowers 4. I have a “one stamp, five ways” post to share with you using these delightful blooms.
This card has a little secret on it – a sneak peek of a new product that will be released tomorrow as part of Stamptember. I used it for the background of this card, but we will leave it unnamed for now! I attached it to my favorite color of cardstock – Lawn Fawn Guava.
I stamped the flower and leaves from the Spring Flowers 4 stamp set with SSS Intense Black Ink on Arches Cold Press watercolor paper. I watercolored them with Karin Brush Markers which is why they are so intense! I die-cut them out and attached them to the front of the card. I had to trim some of the leaves to fit around the main stem. I added a greeting using the easiest method ever, the preprinted Reverse Mom Days sentiment strips. I used one of the SSS Sentiment Strip Dies to die-cut around it. I then added some PPP sparkling clear sequins around the sentiment.
I started this card by stamping the smaller flowers in the Spring Flowers 4 stamp set with black ink on white cardstock. I then colored them in with lots of bright Copic Markers. I colored the background with a black Copic marker. I then die-cut this piece with the second largest die from the SSS A2 Rectangle Frame dies. I die-cut a white frame as well and glued that over the colored piece.
I love diving into my patterned paper collection. I found this one with black designs on a white background, but I’m not sure what 6×6 paper pad it came from. I attached a piece of that behind the card front and then attached it all to a yellow card base. I stamped a sentiment from the Just Because Word Mix 2 stamp set on a banner from the Word Mix 2 Wafer dies (I love how these stamps and dies work together!). I added some sparkling clear sequins.
I started this card with the Folk Dance Wafer Die die-cut from white cardstock and attached to a blue card base. I often stamp and color the 6×6 cling stamps as they are more fun that a detailed coloring book! When I use them on cards, I cut off the extra and save it for other cards. This piece along the left side of this card is from the Poinsettia background cling stamp. I colored it with Copics and finally found a use for it! I layered that over the background on the left side.
I stamped the flower and leaf sprig from the Spring Flowers 4 stamp set on watercolor paper with black ink. I colored them in with my Karin watercolor brush markers. I layered them over the front of the card. I added a small greeting from the Sentiment Strips Reverse Miss You preprinted greetings (sooooo easy!). I used the SSS Sentiment Banners to die-cut it. I added some sparkling clear sequins.
I die-cut the SSS Diamond Pattern wafer die and the Thinking of You Line die from white cardstock. I rubbed Antique Linen Distress Oxide Ink over both. I attached the diamond pattern die to the front of a white card base. I then die-cut a SSS Stitched Oval Die from lavender patterned paper from my stash. I attached that centered over the background.
I then stamped the flowers and leaves on white cardstock with MFT Natural Ink. I colored them in with colored pencils, which gives you such a soft look. I attached them to the top of the oval and the Thinking of You to the bottom of the oval. I added some Pansy Purple jewels.
I wanted to make a vertical slimline card with these leaves and flowers since the leaves fit that size well. I started by die-cutting the largest Scallop Border die multiple times. I attached those pieces to the front of the card running vertically. I trimmed off the edges and added a Hello Bluebird frame from Lawn Fawn Guava Cardstock.
I stamped all of the images from the Spring Flowers 4 stamps on white cardstock with MFT Natural Ink. I colored them with colored pencils and die-cut them out. I arranged them over the front of the card.
I added a sentiment die-cut with the SSS Sentiment Banner dies from the preprinted Sentiment Strips Reverse Mom Days sheet. I cut that in half and placed it on the left side of the card tucked under the flower. And then I finished it the way I seem to finish every card, with 3 sparkling clear sequins!
I hope you enjoyed this “one stamp, five ways” post using the beautiful Spring Flowers 4 stamps. I have a series of these posts on my blog if you would like to see more. I love thinking of different ways to use my stamps so I get my money’s worth out of each one! Thank you so much for visiting today and stay well my friends! Xoxo Suzy
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Did You Know? August 2020 STAMPtember® Edition!
Hello crafters, it’s Nina-Marie Trapani here with you! Today I have a very special edition of our popular Did You Know series!
STAMPtember® 1st (9/1) is just around the corner! We thought we would kick off the month of EPIC stamping fun by bringing you a few fun-facts about STAMPtember® that you may not have known!
STAMPtember® started as a BIG idea and has become an annual tradition
Did you know that STAMPtember® was FIRST created by our Simon Mama, Heidi Crowl in 2009 as a celebration of all-things stamping? We’ve been hosting this annual, month-long event for 11 years now! The goal of STAMPtember® is to not only bring you new products to play with, but also encourage you to create and enjoy stamping in general, which is at the heart of our entire industry.
We LOVE celebrating with MANY of your favorite brands
All STAMPtember® long we reveal exclusive collaboration stamp sets designed by dozens of your favorite brands (recognize this cutie from Debby Hughes with our 2019 Newton’s Nook exclusive?)! The sets are limited in quantity and are only available during the month of September (STAMPtember®!) Since 2014 we’ve released 104 different, exclusive stamp sets!
We ❤️ Tim Holtz!
Did you know that we revealed our VERY FIRST STAMPtember® exclusive stamp set in 2014 and that it was with Tim Holtz? His STAMPtember® Blueprints set was a major hit and Tim has continually joined us in celebrating STAMPtember® every year following! We are so grateful to have Tim’s continued support!
Halloween is also worth celebrating!
We released our very first Limited Edition Halloween kit in STAMPtember® of 2016! Each year it has been so popular, we have continued the tradition and release with a mega, Halloween-themed kit every STAMPtember®! (Psst – keep an eye out for this year’s awesome, Limited Edition Halloween kit!!)
Heidi’s birthday means YOU get a present!
Did you know that our Simon Mama, Heidi Crowl’s birthday falls on STAMPtember® 3rd??? To celebrate how amazing Heidi is, every year we host a super-special surprise for YOU! But since it’s a surprise, we’re not telling what this year’s will be, so you’ll have to join us on September 3rd to find out (and celebrate with us)!
I hope you enjoyed these STAMPtember® fun-facts and are ready to CELEBRATE with us!!!
Be sure to follow us on our Simon Says Stamp blog and social media channels to stay up to date on all the STAMPtember® festivities!
