Joy & Cheer Treat Box - Stamptember Collaboration with Pretty Pink Posh

Have you been checking in daily for Stamptember at Simon Says Stamp? Today's collaboration is with Pretty Pink Posh and there is an adorable stamp set with six, circle images that will help make your holiday treat boxes a breeze! I used the Joy & Cheer sentiment and stamped in a light grey ink that is alcohol marker friendly so I could color in the images with my Olo Markers. Then I stamped it again (all using my MISTI) in a blue ink so there was a bold, blue outline.

I fussy cut around the circle and layered it with a circle die cut of holographic cardstock, which was layered on an eyelet circle die cut out of pink cardstock. I also die cut the Birthday Treat Box out of a light teal cardstock and stenciled on a few snowflakes with Kitsch Flamingo Distress Oxide. Once I assembled the treat box together, I added a few pearls to bring in a little more shine. Let me know if you're snagging this limited stamp set in the comments!

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Not 2 Shabby Enjoy This Life - Watercoloring Autumn Stamps

Today is the big day! I am so excited to be a part of the Enjoy This Life Virtual Retreat with Not 2 Shabby and I have two final cards to share using some watercolor images that are leftover from my class. I combined them with some ephemera and I did my best to create two cards inspired by Call Me Crafty Al's SheetLoad sketch. Let me know if you're going to be at the retreat and if I'll see you in the chat!

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Thinking of You Care Bears with Scrapbook.com

I hope you had fun watching Day 1 of SBC Fest! There is an adorable Bear Shaker Die Set that's free during SBC Fest - make sure to snag one when you shop this weekend (also there's a 10% off code). Since today is Friday, I knew I wanted to use the die for my Fandom Friday video! And what other fun way to use a bear die set... the for Care Bears!

After digging through my Scrapbook.com Exclusive stamp sets, I found some icons that could be used for my Care Bears and got to die cutting. You can watch my video below to see my process of how I built these fandom bear cuties - would you guess that I used ghost dies to make the bodies of the bears? Let me know which Care Bear is your favorite - I just love that smiling sun on Funshine!

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Merry and Bright Astro Paste with Ranger Ink + Simon Hurley create.

Astro Paste is really such a wonderful way to add shine to a card! I'm back on the Ranger Ink social media with a short video of watercoloring a pretty, sketched Christmas Tree and stenciling with ink and Astro Paste. I decided to go with traditional holiday colors (shocking, I know) and the gold really just helps make the card pop! You can follow along with how I put together this holiday card by checking out the Instagram Reels down below!

Start with stamping the Sketched Christmas image and sentiments onto watercolor cardstock with Ground Espresso Archival Ink. Color the tree with a waterbrush and Bee Sting, Breakup Blue, Fake Plant and Shooting Star inks. Use the coordinating dies or fussy cut the image and sentiments - the “May your days…” sentiment was trimmed with a paper trimmer. Adhere the sentiments to a shadow layer of red cardstock and cut around the sentiments.

Blend Fake Plant Simon Hurley create. Ink with the first layer of the Geo Circles stencils and apply Slippery When Wet Astro Paste with the second layer stencil onto a piece watercolor cardstock cut to 5 x 3-¾”. When the panel is dry, use foam adhesive to adhere to a piece red, glitter cardstock cut to 5-¼ x 4” (you can make it a frame to save on paper) and attached to an A2 (5-½ x 4-¼”) card base. Adhere the sentiments and tree to the card with thin foam adhesive.

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Many Thanks Card for Thanksgiving - New Release from Pretty Pink Posh!

The new release from Pretty Pink Posh is here! There are some great new products for the Autumn and Thanksgiving season and it was hard to narrow down what to use for today's blog hop card. I thought it would be fun to use some non-traditional colors for the fall - softer pinks, orange and yellow! The pop of black really makes the softer colors shine.

You can follow how I made my card in my video today; the new products I'm using are the Fall Harvest stamp set, coordinating dies, Many Thanks Shadow dies, and Layered Autumn Harvest stencils. I hope you like my card featuring new products - let me know down below what your favorite product is from the new release! But keep reading how you can enter to win a Pretty Pink Posh gift card!

Make sure to check out the rest of the Product Release Blog Hop for more inspiration using the new products from Pretty Pink Posh! There are three (3) $30 gift certificates up for grabs (one winner each day). Winners will be picked randomly along the blog hop. Comments must be left by 11:59 PM PST on 9/16/2024. Winners will be announced on the PPP blog!

BLOG HOP DAY 2 LINEUP

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Amy Rysavy

Wanda Guess

Jill Hawkins

Leanne West

Debbie Frank

Melody Rupple

Lauren Taylor (here now!)

Heather Hoffman

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I Treasure You Dollar Bill Mini Slimline Card with The Sassy Club

Happy Sassy Sunday! This week I'm using adorable duck fandom characters to create a mini slimline along with awesome money dies. I started with doing all my stamping and coloring with OLO markers, then fussy cut out all of my images. I added some highlights with a white gel pen and then embossed a sentiment in gold. Then I die cut my dollar bill and a bunch of gold coins. I stamped the dollar signs in the corners and added Distress Inks to give the dollar bill and coins some dimension.

I layered the dollar together and placed my uncle so he's coming from inside to outside the center of the dollar. I then layered the money images with the nephew triplets around the card. I used my largest PopscileSticks slimline dies to cut a piece of neutral patterned paper from my stash and adhered it to a 3.5 x 6.5" card base. I then tucked in the gold coin dies where they would show the most around my dollar. I cut some in half since most would be hidden to get more coins around the card.

Finally I adhered the dollar to the center of the card and I just love how it turned out! I'm glad I added the extra money around the kids, I think it really made the card look full and exciting. I hope you like my Sassy Sunday card this week!

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Fairytale Cards with Spellbinders for Fandom Friday

I am excited to share that I am starting a new YouTube series called Fandom Friday! I currently have Christmas on the 25th, Halloween on the Last Day and now these weekly videos to hopefully bring you some inspiration to use your stash in a pop culture way. Of course you'll see my favorite fandom companies like The Sassy Club, PopsicleSticks, Kindred Stamps, and more... But I'm planning to add non fandom companies in the mix to share ideas to make them into a pop culture reference! 

For my first video in the series, we're traveling to Cinderella's Castle in her pumpkin carriage and Tinker Bell speeding her fairy dust across a card! I was gifted these die sets and press plates from Spellbinders to create with and I hope you like my inspiration to create these two fairytale cards. Let me know what fandom cards you'd like to see in the future!

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Boo! Mini Slimline Halloween Cards with Scrapbook.com

There is a new Livestream Deal from Scrapbook.com today featuring wonderful nesting dies perfect for Halloween! Coffins, ghosts and pumpkins - and all in different sizes. Perfect for layering, making shaker cards or really just projects of any size. I used them along with other Halloween themed dies from SBC and the new Willow Lane 6x8 paper pad.

My mini slimline cards are inspired from Call Me Crafty Al's September 2024 SheetLoad of Cards sketch. I added my own touch by stenciling on the inside of the cards and adjusted my patterned paper cuts to fit without borders all the way around. My images are all die cuts and I layered them onto the cards with 1mm foam adhesive.

Let me know in the comments if you snag this deal and which nested die set you are most excited about!

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Stitched Sunflower Thanks Card with Spellbinders September '24 Clubs

I love crafting with friends - even if it's virtually! On Sunday, it was the first of the month, so I went live on YouTube with two of my crafty besties (LV Handcrafted and Sassy's LLC) and we used the September 2024 Clubs. This month I used the Stitching Dies, Stencil, and Embossing Folder to create a thank you card!

You can catch the replay of our live down below as well as the list of supplies I used to create this card. I think the Stitching Dies and Stencils might be my favorite of all of the September Clubs, but you'll have to watch my next video where I use more of the Clubs to see if I end up changing my mind! Let me know down below which Clubs you are most excited for this month.

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Winter Wreath Card - New from Sizzix and Tim Holtz!

A new vault release from Sizzix and Tim Holtz is here! We're getting in the holiday spirit with using the Sizzix Thinlits to create a white and gold holiday wreath with some beautiful patterned paper, stamps and embellishments from Scrapbook.com. A HUGE thank you to Scrapbook.com for sending me these new dies to play with and create!

You can follow along in my video down below for how I created this soft, Christmas card - I created a wreath by combining the Vault Festive Wreath, Holiday Classic, Winter Wishes, and Seasonal Sketch dies onto one card. I die cut the images from white and holographic gold cardstock from Scrapbook.com. I wanted to keep the background colorful, so I reached for the new Snow Days paper pad and picked a couple Pops of Color that matched the background colors.

I hope you'll check out the new release from Sizzix at Scrapbook.com - I have the links down below! Let me know your favorite from the Vault, too.

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