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Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember Collaboration: Honeybee Stamps Sending Autumn Blessings

It's a 2 company SSS STAMPtember collaboration today and this post is for Honeybee Stamps. I have another post HERE for the Newton's Nook post. The Honeybee stamp set is called Autumn Blessings and is sold alone or as a bundle with a set of matching dies. Here is an image of the bundle: And here is my card: I stamped all of the images in the sending Autumn Blessings stamp set with Intense Black Ink on white cardstock. I colored them all in with Copic markers and used colored pencils for some shading mostly on the leaves. I fussy cut all of them out (I know I'm crazy with the fussy cutting, but it's enjoyable for me!). I'm always... Read more →

Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember Collaboration: Newton's Nook Designs Happy Paw-lidays

Today's SSS STAMPtember 2024 collaboration is with two different companies! This blog post is for Newtons Nook Designs and there is another blog post HERE for Honeybee Stamps. The Newton's Nook Designs stamp set is called Happy Paw-lidays and it is sold alone or as a bundle with a set of matching dies. Here is an image of the bundle: Here is my card: I stamped all of the images in the Happy Paw-lidays stamp set (two of the presents and the holly berries) with Intense Black Ink on white cardstock. I colored them all in with Copic Markers. I used just dots on one present. I added dots to others and went over the ribbons with a white Uniball... Read more →

Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember Collaboration: Pink & Main Flurries of Love

Today's SSS STAMPtember collaboration is with Pink & Main. The stamp set is called Flurries of Love and is sold alone or as a bundle as shown here (click on image to get to bundle in the store): Here is my slimline card: I started by die-cutting a slimline rectangle using the SSS Nested Slimline Rectangle Dies from white cardstock. I die-cut a second rectangle using the same die and then cut a portion of the bottom of it off using the Lawn Fawn Slimline Stitched Hillside Borders die. I made a card base with a piece of 7" x 8.5" white cardstock. I ink blended the white slimline rectangle using three colors of PSInks: Sky, Marine and Seafoam. I... Read more →

Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember Collaboration: Ink On 3 Little Chickadee

Today's SSS STAMPtember collaboration is with Ink on 3 and the stamp set is calle Little Chickadee. It is sold alone or with a set of matching dies as shown here (click on the image to get to it in the SSS store): I only had the Little Chickadee stamp set to make my card, so I fussy cut the images out. Here is my card: I stamped all of the images in the Little Chickadee stamp set with Intense Black Ink. I colored them in with just colored pencils this time - no Copics! I like the texture I can get with pencils on flowers. I used primarily my Caran d'ache Luminance pencils and mixed some purples and some... Read more →

Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember Collaboration Stamp Sets: Lawn Fawn Christmas in the Desert

Today's STAMPtember collaboration stamp set is with Lawn Fawn. It is called Christmas in the Desert and is sold in three ways. You can purchase just the stamp set HERE, the stamp and a set of matching dies HERE, or the stamp, dies and a matching stencil as a bundle HERE. Here is an image of the full bundle of stamp with dies and stencil (click on image to get to the store): I didn't have the dies or stencil, so I made my card with just the stamp set and colored and fussy cut out the images (which I weirdly love to do). There are so many small images in this stamp set and I of course want to... Read more →

Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember Exclusive Collaboration: Art Impressions Sweet Bday

Today is the first day of the SSS STAMPtember 2024 collaborations! It is with Art Impressions and the stamp set is called Sweet Bday. These will happen almost every day during STAMPtember and the stamp sets are sold alone or with a set of matching dies and are ONLY available until supplies last. Here is the set with dies: I only used the stamp set for my card today which is a very one layer card! I love this image so much because I love donuts so much! I stamped it with Intense Black Ink on white cardstock. I colored it in with primarily Copic Markers. I used colored pencils for the crazy pants and a little to shade the... Read more →

Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember Blog Party!!!!! (Pumpkin to Talk About Stamp Set)

Today is the long awaited 15TH STAMPtember 2024 blog party which kicks off a month long PARTEEEE for all the stampers and card-makers out there! I love it as I get to work with a new stamp set every single day for the daily collaborations SSS does with other stamp makers. AND I get to work with all the wildly awesome products that SSS came out with yesterday for STAMPtember. Before I get started with my projects, I illustrated a stamp set for the first time in FOREVER. It is called Autumn Greetings. I'll be using it for my "one stamp, five ways" guest post on the SSS blog at the end of October. I did make a couple of... Read more →

Simon Says STAMPtember 2024 Release: Autumn Gourds Embossing Folder

Today is the first day of STAMPTEMBER!!!!! I'm so excited! If you are new around here, it is a month long stamping celebration by Simon Says Stamp. There will be an official STAMPtember blog party on the 2nd, but today I have a card to share with you celebrating the new release (which is now live in the SSS shop). I used the Autumn Gourds embossing folder for my card and the Pumpkin to Talk About stamp and die set for the sentiment. Here is an image of the embossing folder: Here is my card I embossed the image first using white cardstock. I didn't realize at the time I made this card that there was a matching set of... Read more →

Simon Says Stamp Sunny Vibes Release: Summer Fruit Tiles Stamp Set

I went back a release for my card today to a really fun stamp set from the Sunny Vibes release. It is called Summer Fruit Tiles and has a stamp set, a set of matching dies, and a stencil. Here is an image of the bundle: Any of the components are also sold alone (links above to each). I only used the stamp set and one of the rectangle dies in the die set. Here is my card: This is the perfect stamp set to use if you just want to do some fun Copic coloring! It has the block stamps in it or the stencils with blocks that allow you to add inked color for each cube instead of... Read more →

Simon Says Stamp Be Bold Release: Groovy Blooms Stencil

The card I made today jumps back a couple Simon releases to the Be Bold release. I used the Groovy Blooms Stencil as well as the Exquisite Hummingbird Die and You Brighten My Day die. Here is an image of the stencil: And here is my card: I used the Groovy Blooms stencil for the background of my card. There are 3 stencils in this set. I used several colors of Pawsitively Saturated Inks which seem to be my favorite colors as I use them the most! I combined the lighter color for the outside of the flowers and the medium color for the center of the flowers within each 3 color family. I used Marine and Cadette for the... Read more →