Living My Dream

Suzy's Doodles - Under the Sea Watercolor Cards at Simon Says Stamp

Way back in the summer of 2020, SSS released a set of my "Suzy's Doodles" watercolor cards called Under the Sea. The summer of 2020 will go down in history as the start of our house arrest period. At that time, they were part of the Sending Happiness release and I showed all 12 painted during the blog hop on this post here. This set was at teh end of the period where they contained 12 individual designs. I think this was one of my favorites. Here is an image: Like I mentioned in my blog post yesterday, I just spent a week at my mom's house so I took some of my favorite watercolor cards to paint/color. I colored... Read more →

Suzy's Doodles at Simon Says Stamp: Even More Birthday Watercolor Prints

I illustrated "Suzy's Doodles" watercolor prints for Simon Says Stamp for about 4 or 5 years! I recently stopped since there have been over 50 sets produced now! If you aren't familiar with them, you can see all of my sets HERE in the SSS store. I think they have about 43 of the 50 or so sets still in their store. I just spent a week at my mom's house for her 90th birthday. I like to stay busy all the time, so I took some of my older watercolor cards with me to color. I also took my new Karin Decobrush Markers to try them out on these cards as I hadn't used them on them yet. FUN... Read more →

Gina K. Designs Perfect Posy Stamp Set

I made a card with a darling little stamp set by Gina K. Design. No surprise that it is a flower stamp! She illustrates the most gorgeous flowers that I am so drawn too. I just purchased it, so I think it is fairly new set. It is called Perfect Posy and is a small stamp set, so the price is only $10.99. I was happy about the price! Here is an image: I made a card with two versions, so you get to vote on which one you like better as I can't decide! One includes a butterfly from the SSS Dancing Butterflies Hot Foil Plate from the SSS Yay You release and the other does not. I'm not... Read more →

Simon Says Stamp Sketched Anemone

Today I have a card to share with you using a few of the different hot foil plates from the Yay You release. I pulled out my new Glimmer Machine and had some fun on this one! The star of the card is the Sketched Anemone Hot Foil Plate from the Yay You release, so here is an image of it: I also used several other hot foil plates including the Dancing Butterflies, Intricate Floral Plate, Sketched Leafy Wreath Hot Foil Plate, from the Yay You release and the Sketched Leaf Hot Foil Plate from the Hello Gorgeous release. Here is my card: I started by embossing the background for this card with the Intricate Floral Hot Foil Plate. You... Read more →

Simon Says Stamp Sketched Anemone

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Simon Says Stamp Oh Gnome

I'm out of town this week, so the blog posts have been sparse. But I am jumping on here to share one card. I used the SSS Oh Gnome stamp set that was released in the Yay You release. This is a small 3x4" stamp set that retails at just $7.99. Here is an image: Sometimes I really enjoy using small stamp sets like this one as the card design is fairly straightforward. I just stamp the images and put them on with little effort or thinking about how to arrange them! Here is my card: I stamped all of the images with black ink on white cardstock. I stamped the little birthday bird twice and the mushrooms and balloons... Read more →

"One Stamp, Five Ways" - Simon Says Stamp June 2022 Card Kit Happiest Wishes

The Simon Says Stamp June Card Kit called Happiest Wishes is now available! As usual, I have a "one stamp, five ways" post to share with you using the kit. I've focused primarily on the stamp set also called Happiest Wishes which is sold alone or with a set of matching dies as a bundle. Here is an image of the full kit: Some of the items in the kit can be purchased separately including the Slimline Sunburst stencil, the paper pad called Sunny Days by Paper Rose, the Big Hugs wafer dies, the Pawsitively Everything T-Square Ruler (I love this thing!), and the Ranger Stickles Starshine Glitter Gel. Here are my five cards: CARD 1: I used the Paper... Read more →

SSS Yay You Release Blog Hop Day 1: "One Stamp, Five Ways" Floral Background Foil Plate

It's day ONE of a TWO day blog hop celebrating the latest Simon Says Stamp release called YAY YOU! I had so much fun with this release as I got a Glimmer hot foiling machine for Christmas and I hadn't used it much yet. So I pulled it out and went to town using all of the new foil plates in this release and there are a lot of good ones! I ended up using the new Intricate Floral Background Foil Plate on 4 of the 5 cards I made for the banner above, so I realized that I should probably do a "one stamp, five ways" post using it. It's not a stamp, so I'm kind of breaking my... Read more →

Simon Says Stamp YAY YOU Release - Strawbeary Stamp and Die Set

Today is the Simon Says Stamp YAY YOU release. See the banner above. The card I'm sharing with you today is in the banner, so do a "where's waldo" and try to find it! This release is full of congratulations type products whether it be wedding or birthday or just general YAY YOU haha. There will be a 2 day blog hop on Thursday and Friday mornings. I'll be part of the first day, so come back and visit tomorrow! Today I have a card to share with you using the new Strawbeary stamp and matching dies. Here is an image of the bundle: And here is my slimline card that literally uses ALL of he images in this stamp... Read more →

"One Stamp, Five Ways" - SSS Flower Frenzy From Happy and Joyful Release

Today's "one stamp, five ways" was a really fun one. I worked with the cling background stamp called Flower Frenzy from the latest SSS Happy and Joyful release. It is a flat stamp which is always out of my comfort zone and it's a cling stamp primarily for backgrounds, also not my typical go to for these posts. The fun came from being challenged to think outside the box and come up with different ways to use it. And I succeeded and can't wait to show them all to you! Here is an image of the stamp: And here are my five PLUS cards (I mean, who can stop with just five?!?!?!!). For each of my five card techniques, I... Read more →