Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember® Blog Hop

The 5th annual Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember® celebration began yesterday with the official release of Simon's new stamps dies, stencils, inks, and some new stamping accessories...the collection is AMAZING!!!  I am thrilled to be among a number of uber talented and amazing artists who have joined together to showcase some of all these wonderful products by way of this hop today!!

I, personally, am blown away by all the creative genius that went into this release....I am in love with the new and wonderful stamps, dies and stencils...the collection takes you from Fall to Halloween to Thanksgiving to Christmas and lots of places in between....and with fun, beauty, and amazing artistry!! There are SIX new Simon color inks, too...have-to-have colors!!  I LOVE IT ALL!!!

I especially LOVE dies, and there are SO MANY to LOVE in this release!!  I will be showcasing the Poinsettia Parade today...

The cool thing about this die is that it can be used as it is in it's parade form, or used  to make a traditional poinsettia!  I wanted to show you some of the ways you could use this die to make some poinsettia loveliness for your holiday cards!  A parade die calls for a parade!!...maybe you could put your Christmas music on:)...

 I started MY parade of THIS parade die with a traditional poinsettia in red, green and gold.  I actually colored the white die cut poinsettia petals with red markers....and used a sweet frame from Simon's Frame collection of dies from This is the Life release.  I layered the gold frame twice for depth.  The sentiment is from the new set Peace on Earth stamped in versamark and gold embossed.  Here's a close up...

The second and third ones use the die as is...layered and then simply die cut, using the same striped paper with a wonderful new sentiment die from Simon, Season's Greetings.  I used wood veneer paper for this one...just loved the layered wood together with the striped paper and white sentiment...

This one I simply die cut the poinsettias with a layer behind the die cut, then embossed with the die on the card, using the same die sentiment as the one above...

 Here's a close up of the embossing...the embossing gives more detail to a simple card...

I used shiny silver paper on a black panel and card for this next one...using another new Simon, sweet sentiment die, from the set Deco Trees dies.  I die cut the sentiment first, then used the poinsettia die at an angle on the panel and die cut around the sentiment(a total of 4 times, 2 large cuts and 2 smaller ones for the corners).  I die cut the poinsettia parade and sentiment in shiny silver and with sticky foam behind the panel, adhered the sentiment and poinsettia pieces onto the black panel.  Cool how you can layer, simply die cut or inlay!!

For my last card, I simply used the entire Poinsettia parade to make a wreath and made a pink poinsettia for the wreath...

Here's a close up...

 Now...for the fun part for you!  Simon Says Stamp is having a giveaway!!  Simon Says Stamp is giving away a prize pack of a selection of items from their STAMPtember® giveaway stash at each stop on the hop! 

One commenter from each blog on the hop will be chosen for this amazing giveaway...that's 19 chances to win!! 

Just leave a comment on each of the blog posts as you hop along, to be entered in the random drawings. The giveaways will stay open until Thursday September 11, 2014 at 6:00pm EST and the winners will be announced on the Simon Says Stamp blog on Friday September 12, 2014.

Thanks so much for visiting my blog on the hop! The next stop is the amazing Vicky Papaioannou!!

The hop begins at the  SIMON SAYS STAMP BLOG , so if you encounter any broken links while 'hopping' you can head back there for a full list of participants.

Happy Hopping!!    Thanks for visiting me today!! Hugs!! Lisa

Products I used on the cards I made for the Hop:

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Some of the new release I can't wait to create with:

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