Living My Dream

"One Stamp, Five Ways" - SSS and PPP STAMPtember Collaboration Stamp Set - Pansies

Hi friends! Today the newest STAMPtember product is a collaboration with Pretty Pink Posh. My two favorite companies have created a beautiful floral stamp set called Pansies. I just want to start out by warning you, these exclusive stamp sets sell out fast and are never re-stocked, so if you want to buy it, do it soon. I keep missing out on some of the ones I want this month! I have a "one stamp, five ways" post to share with you today with six cards! Here is an image of the stamp set which also comes as a bundle with dies: And here are some of my colored pansy images: I ended up coloring quite a few more as... Read more →

"One Stamp, Five Ways" - STAMPtember Simon Says Stamp and Ranger

Today Tim Holtz teamed up with Simon Says Stamp as part of the STAMPtember with an exclusive stamp set and four stencils bundled together. I was lucky enough to get to work with all of these products before the release and was requested to mail my cards to the TIM himself. I think he might have even fondled MY CARDS on his Facebook live today announcing the new set. I need to go watch it to see if he liked them. I think in all the years I've been creating (scrapbooking first, then card making) and working in the industry with Tim and even taken classes from him, I've never created anything for him or his company. So I was... Read more →

Mama Elephant 6 Year Anniversary Stampede - Day 3

Hello my crafty friends! Today is and Day 3 of Mama Elephant's #celebrating6years Anniversary Release Stampede! I was so excited to be invited to participate as I absolutely adore their cute stamps! Their new release is now live and available for purchase in the Mama Elephant Shop as well as at Simon Says Stamp (links to the products I used in this post to the SSS shop at the end of this post). To celebrate their 6 year anniversary, Mama Elephant has lots of sales and promotions and even give-a-ways which are all shown below: From 9/15 - 9/17 10% off entire store! No code required! From 9/15 - 9/30 Spend $100* - receive 1 free 'Color Me Letters' 4x6... Read more →

Pretty Pink Posh Blog Hop

Welcome to the LAST stop of the two day Pretty Pink Posh blog hop (((if you have made it this far haha))). On the day of the new product release, I posted THIS BLOG POST with lots of photos of colored images using each stamp set in the new release. Today I have two cards to share with you using the gorgeous Anemone Floral stamps and dies. Here is an image of all of my flowers after I had colored them and die cut them out. Coloring is definitely my favorite part, so I tend to spend way to long on that part of the process! Half of the above flowers were painted with watercolors and the other half were... Read more →

"One Stamp, Five Ways" - SSS October 2018 Card Kit

Today my "one stamp, five ways" post is using the brand new Simon Says Stamp October Card Kit called Sketched Flowers. I love floral stamps, so this one was right up my alley. I made six cards with the stamp set as the focus, but I also used the other items in the kit for these cards (as I'll discuss below). Here is an image of the kit with the stamp set: You can purchase the stamp set alone if you only want it and not the full kit - all of my card ideas would work with just the stamp set and it's a beauty! Here are my six cards: Card 1: Let me be really honest. I am... Read more →

SSS Birthday Watercolor Cards

I'm finally back with my Simon Says Stamp It's Your Birthday watercolor cards all painted and made into cards to show you. They were part of the latest STAMPtember product release a week or so ago. I had two new sets of watercolor cards in this release including the Flower Sentiment set I showed all painted on this blog post HERE. Here is an image of the It's Your Birthday Set: Whenever I draw a set of watercolor cards, I try to include some drawings for all tastes. I know I have a whimsical/playful/cutesy style that may not fit some people's taste, but I do try to include lots of options. Drawing these sets each month does not come easily... Read more →

Pretty Pink Posh NEW PRODUCT RELEASE

Pretty Pink Posh released a new set of products last week and they are SO very cute! I haven't had a chance to blog about them as I was taking my daughter to college in Utah. But I did have lots of time to color, so I wanted to share my colored images with you. I will be showing you some cards made with these images during the PPP blog hop that is on September 13th and 14th. All of the products I used in this post are linked at the end of the post to both the Pretty Pink Posh store as well as the Simon Says Stamp store. If you are like me and you want the ENTIRE... Read more →

Simon Says Stamp Blog Party for STAMPtember!

STAMPtember is finally here - wootwoot - the entire release is HERE! I'm super excited about all these awesome new products and my two sets of watercolor card sets that have been released. One is a birthday watercolor card set and the other is a floral watercolor card set called Foral Sentiments with all different sentiments. Here are images of both: Today I'll be sharing the floral set all painted and made into cards. I'll share the birthday set in a few days as they are all ready to go as well! Here are all 12 with two versions of one of them so 13 in total. I have some tips and techniques I used to color these at the... Read more →