Living My Dream

Mama Elephant Celebration Hamsters Stamp Set

I usually make cards with products by SSS, but sometimes I have to buy a set that I just love to create with. Mama Elephant often steals my heart with their cute critter stamps. I fell in love with this set called Celebration Hamsters a few months ago, but just finally got the time to play with them. Here is an image of the stamp set: Hamsters? Cake? Balloons? I'm in! Plus I never have enough birthday cards and this set will be loved by my grandkids! Here is my slimline card: First, I die-cut a slimline rectangle with white cardstock using the SSS Nested Slimline Rectangle Dies (a must I tell you!). Then I used 3 colors of Pawsitively... Read more →

Simon Says Stamp Nested Dome, Etched Butterfly, and Intricate Floral Hot Foil Plate

This card includes quite a few SSS products as shown in the title! I'm on a new roll making domed cards with the Nested Dome Dies. They have such a unique card shape and they fit in a standard A2 card envelope! I also am in love with the Intricate Floral Hot Foil Plate from the Yay You release. I actually did a "one stamp, five ways" post with it HERE and now I'm using it once again! And last, I used the Etched Butterfly die to finish off this card. Here is my card: Before I cut the Nested Dome dies apart, I die cut them together to create frames. I wish I had die-cut a few of these... Read more →

"Suzy's Doodles": Roses Are Red Watercolor Cards

As mentioned on my last two blog posts, I've been painting up a storm over here using my Suzy's Doodle watercolor cards at Simon Says Stamp. Today I will be sharing 3 rose cards using the Roses Are Red Watercolor Prints from the Love You release in late 2020. Here is an image of this set: This set was released once the change was made to have 6 designs, with 2 prints of each design for a total of 12 cards. I had moved to more realistic drawings rather than my whimsical "messy" drawings once I got an iPad, so this set is after that change. I loved painting them all so much the first time, that I wanted to... Read more →

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's card features several products from the Yay You release, primarily Hot Foiling products as I am on a roll lately! I used the Sketched Anemone Hot Foil Plate, the Intricate Floral Hot Foil Plate, the Dancing Butterfly Hot Foil Plate, and the Sketched Leafy Wreath Floral Plate all from the Yay You release. I then used the Sketched Leaf Hot Foil Plate from the Hello Gorgeous Release. Here is an image of the focal point of the card, the Sketched Anemone: And here is my card: I started by running the Intricate Floral Background Hot Foil Plate with white cardstock through my die-cut machine. This is a great way to get more use out of your hot foil plates... Read more →

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 →