Living My Dream

Simon Says Stamp Dear Friends Release: Peony Cling Stamp

Today I made my second card using the Simon Says Stamp Peony Cling Stamp from the Dear Friends release. I guess you could say I like it. I might even make more! I also used the Elegantly Modern Greetings stamp and die set from the release. Here is my first card made with the Peony Cling Stamp that I shared during the Dear Friends blog hop (post is here): And here is the card I made today. Unfortunately the colors are EXACTLY the same! I guess I only changed the coloring method! haha I stamped the Peony Cling Stamp with Latte Pawsitively Saturated Ink on a piece of white cardstock. I then colored it with both Copic Markers and Colored... Read more →

Simon Says Stamp Dear Friends Blog Hop Day 1 - Peony Cling Stamp

Today is the first day of the Simon Says Stamp two day blog hop celebrating the Dear Friends release. Yesterday I blogged a slimline card using the Howdy stamp and die. You can see that blog post HERE and here is an image of the card: Today I have a card to share with you using the Peony Background cling stamp. You might have seen this card in the banner at the top of this post! I started by embossing the Peony cling stamp with white embossing powder on a piece of Arches watercolor paper. I then painted it with Karin Brushmarkers. I love these so much as the colors are so intense and I can't get that from any... Read more →

Simon Says Stamp Dear Friend Release - Howdy Stamp Set

Today is the Simon Says Stamp May, 2023 release called "Dear Friends". The banner above shows you a lot of the products in action! You can visit the Dear Friends Gallery at any time to see all of the cards created by the design team in one place with links to their blogs! There will be a two day blog hop to celebrate this release on Saturday, May 20th and Sunday, May 21st. I made a card using the Howdy stamp set and matching sets of dies. It is also sold as a bundle as you can see here: And here is my slimline card. Because when there is a scene to be created, it's always a slimline for me!... Read more →

Honeybee Stamps Daisy Layers Bouquet Stamp Set

I purchased a few stamp sets when I was at the Simon Says Stamp Create event last month. Two of them are from Honeybee Stamps and are of course florals. Today I have a card to share with you using the Daisy Layers Bouquet Stamp Set. I realized just now that they have matching dies that are the same price (around) as the stamp set, so I wish I had bought them. They have all of the cute sentiment dies in the set which I love. They also have a matching stencil. Here is an image of the stamp set: And here is my card: I started by stamping the large daisy bouquet on a piece of A2 sized cardstock... Read more →

Simon Says Stamp June 2023 Card Kit Etched Greetings

Today is MOTHER'S DAY! Happy Mother's day to all of my blog reading friends. I don't know who you are, but I hope someone reads my posts! I don't particularly LIKE this holiday as I feel like it brings up more hard to process feelings than happy feelings in most. It also somehow makes me/maybe many feel inadequate. And also there are the "expectations" of what you want a day of appreciation for all of the hard work you do all year to be like and that never quite turns out the way you want. But anyway, it's a day to celebrate ALL women, so let's go with it and be happy!!! Now on to the purpose of this post... Read more →

My Favorite Things Peaceful Birds Stamp Set by Stacey Yacula

A couple of days ago I posted a card using the MFT In My Prayers stamp set from their last release. Today I have a card to share using an MFT stamp set from the brand new release they had a couple days ago. The stamp set is by Stacey Yacula and is called Peaceful Birds. There is also a set of Peaceful Birds matching dies which I was very happy to have. Here is an image of the stamp set: And here is my slimline card: The first thing I did was stamp all of the images in the Peaceful Birds stamp set on white cardstock with Intense Black Ink. I stamped two of each of the three birds... Read more →

My Favorite Things "In My Prayers" Stamp Set

As soon as I saw this stamp set in the last (April 2023) MFT release, I knew I had to have it. I loved teaching my kids to pray kneeling at their beds each night. And I love praying with my grandkids now. AND, the stamp has a little girl and a little boy that look just like my two grandkids that I pray with, so perfection! The stamp set is called In My Prayers and it has a set of In My Prayers matching dies. I bought the dies this time as I knew I would use this set a lot. Here is an image: And here is my card: I started by stamping all of the images in... Read more →

Simon Says Stamp Printmaking Birds Stamp Set

I pulled out a stamp set I haven't had a chance to use yet from the Simon Says Stamp Stamptember release last year called Printmaking Birds. It is a 6x8" stamp set with a matching set of dies for the birds. Here is an image of the bundle: And here is my card. I didn't use the dies, just the stamp set in my favorite random stamping method. I started the card by stamping the birds multiple times on a piece of white cardstock. The birds are all together on one stamp, so I just stamped it right next to each other each time. I think I ended up stamping it four times. I used Intense Black Ink. I colored... Read more →

Tim Holtz Floral Trims Stamp Set Post Two

I recently purchased the Tim Holtz Floral Trims stamp set at Simon Says Stamp. I used one of the two borders in the stamp set on this blog post here. Today I am using the second of the floral trims on a new card. Here is an image of the stamp set: And here is an image of my first card: And here is my new card: As I already said, I used the second row of flowers in the Floral Trims stamp set for this card. The first time, I stamped it twice to make it go across the entire slimline card. This time I stamped it just once on an A2 size piece of white cardstock going vertical.... Read more →

Suzy's Watercolor Cards: Spring Flowers with Tim Holtz New Watercolor Pencils

While I was at the Simon Says Stamp event called Create, I had a table of my Suzy's Watercolor Cards for people to paint. We used watercolor makers and the new Tim Holtz watercolor pencils. I had some, but hadn't ever used them. I found this true of most of the people there that were using them. No one knew how to use them or had even tried them out. So we all learned together and now I love them. Today I painted one of my Suzy's Spring Flower watercolor cards with them to show you and give you some tips. Here is the set of cards and they are still available at Simon. This has always been one of... Read more →