Simon Says Stamp Valentine’s Day Blog Hop and Giveaway

 

Love is in the air and Simon Says Stamp has made it even more fun to create projects to show someone that you love them with their 2013 Valentine’s Day Release.  I am so honored and excited that I was asked to create a project using something from this release to share in today’s Valentine’s Day Blog Hop!
    When my children were little...nothing was sweeter or more precious than getting a handmade Valentine's Day card from them...treasures!!  Things have changed a bit... NOW, with them grown,  I  am the one giving  THEM the handmade cards...but telling my family and friends I love them...it something that brings such joy to my heart:)!   Creating for this Hop brought joy to my heart and was soooo much fun,  I have three cards to share with you...

***Just wanted to let you know that all the  stamps and dies I used for my cards were                 Simon Says Stamp and the pics and links to all of them are listed below:)!!   
 I made this card with Talk Bubbles 2 (the 9 rectangles), the sentiment is from  Just a Love Note.  I stamped the framed rectangles with versamark and white embossed.  I cut out the frames and used the 2 smallest heart dies from  Large Heart dies to make the cut out and the heart for the framed rectangles,  and popped up the hearts in the popped up frames(the frames have the same colored paper behind each frame).  Used Stampin up papers  for the 3 browns and pinks.  Here's a close up of the frames hearts...  

The first card though easy and fun,  was a bit more involved than my typical cards ...my second and third cards much simpler in their style...

For this card I used the  Curly Heart die and a sentiment from  Just a Love Note.  I used some  red metallic paper and die cut the heart 3 times.  I adhered the hearts together and adhered them to white panel with sentiment and framed in black.  I then cut off the side of the heart that went beyond the framed panel.  Added a red rhinestone to the sentiment and layered on metallic red paneled white card.  Here's a close up...

For the last one, I used the  Lots of Hearts stamp set and the coordinating dies, Large Heart Craft dies, with a sentiment from Just a Love Note.   I die cut the hearts and stamped them with versamark and white embossed.  

                                                               

Here's how I made the hearts...

 I used 2 of the dies and two heart stamps...then I popped up the smaller one over the larger, framed heart. I used my Martha Stewart Scoring Board and scored lines on the   white card.   Here's a close up of the hearts and scoring...

And now to the giveaway part!   Leave a comment on this blog post and one lucky winner will receive a Simon Goodie Bag (if you know Heidi, it will be a good one!).  We will draw the winner on Thursday morning 1/31/13 at 9:00 AM EST. so be sure to leave your comment by then. 

Thanks for visiting! The next stop in the Simon Says Stamp Valentine’s Day Blog Hop is the amazing Shari Carroll!!   If while hopping, you encounter a broken link, you can go back to the beginning   for links to everyone who is participating in the hop.

Things I used to make my cards:

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