Living My Dream

"One Stamp, Five Ways" - SSS/Reverse Confetti Forest Friends

The stamp set I am using for my "one stamp, five ways" post today was part of the Simon Says Stamp Stamptember celebration and was a collaboration between SSS and Reverse Confetti. It is a fall stamp set called Forest Friends and it does not have dies to go with it. That didn't bother me at all as it saved me money and I like fussy cutting - plus these images were really easy to cut out. I made five cards with this set. There are lots of sentiments to choose from, so it could be used for several occasions (hello, hugs, birthday, friendship, etc...). It is definitely worth the $15 in my opinion! I really had fun working with... Read more →

"One Stamp, Five Ways" - MFT Frightful Friends

I need to start off by being honest here. I do not like Halloween. It is my least favorite holiday. It's dark. It's scary. It's not for me. Well, except the candy - I do love the candy. So I don't really make HW cards usually. But when I saw this Frightful Friends stamp set by My Favorite Things, my heart jumped a beat. I suddenly considered LIKING Halloween! The creatures in this set aren't frightful at all - they are just adorable! Now, this is my kind of HW stamp set! So today I am featuring the cute Frightful Friends stamp set and die set for my "one stamp, five ways" post. I have five cards to share with... Read more →

And the Winner is .... (Simon Says Stamp Blog Hop Gift Card)

Thank you to everyone that left me a nice comment on my last post - the Simon Says Stamp blog hop! I read each and every one even when there are 632! That makes YOUR chance of winning smaller though as that is a lot of comments! I'm so glad the blog hop went so well and everyone loved the new Believe In the Season release! So here we go ... I used the random number generator to see who would win: Random Integer Generator Here are your random numbers: 259 Timestamp: 2016-10-25 20:28:00 UTC Now I'm off to count the 259th comment on my blog, so hold on! Love the cards using the background stamp. The tags are awesome.... Read more →

Simon Says Stamp Believe In The Season BLOG HOP!

Today is the much anticipated SSS new product release blog hop for their holiday season called BELIEVE IN THE SEASON. I posted yesterday about this release showing my new set of watercolor cards with each one colored and made into a card. That post is HERE if you are interested. Today I will be sharing quite a few other projects using many of their new products. Let's start with my regular feature "ONE STAMP, FIVE WAYS" using my new favorite stamp set from this release - Circle Doodle Background. I love circles and I love to paint, so I really wanted to play with this cling background stamp! I used this stamp on five different cards. Each one has a... Read more →

My New Holiday Watercolor Set at Simon Says Stamps!

Today is the new Simon Says Stamp Believe in the Season holiday product release! I have a new set of 12 holiday watercolor cards as part of this release: These are printed on Ranger Watercolor paper ready to be colored and attached to a standard size card base (as they are all 5.5" x 4.25"). I wanted you to be able to see them all in their finished versions, so I have watercolored each one and added some details to each to share with you. My first card is primarily letters that say Jingle all the Way. I left the letters plain inside so you could add details yourself. I used my FAVORITE (as in how the heck did I... Read more →

"One Stamp, Five Ways" - Simon Says Stamp November Card Kit

Hello Hello Hello! (yep, I owe you three since it's been a while!). Today my blog post is about the newest Simon Says Stamp card kit for November called Thankful Heart. It's up for sale starting today, October 14th! You can subscribe to their monthly card kits HERE to save money each month and to make sure you get one as they sell out almost every month. Here is an image of the kit which contains a gorgeous gold pigment ink, two envelopes, patterned paper and cardstock, a metal heart flower, and a sentiment stamp set: This post is a "One Stamp, Five Ways" blog post highlighting the stamp set in the kit, but it also focuses on the gorgeous... Read more →