DieCember® Blog Hop 2!

I am so thrilled to be a part of today's second day of celebration over at the Simon Says Stamp's Blog, celebrating Simon Says Stamp's DieCember® release...a celebration of dies!!  This is Simon's 11th year of DieCember®, and celebrating dies in December definitely makes this the most wonderful time of the year!!  

I have used two of the amazing new dies, to make a couple birthday cards!  I have used the So Many Candles die in a couple different ways...one with the die cut candles all together, and one with just a handful of the candles, cut apart...

The first one was the one that I chose to cut the candles apart.  I had used a rainbow of colored cardstock strips. along with white glitter strips, adhered together, to die cut the candles...

  When looking at all the candles together, I wasn't really thrilled with the fact that they all blended into each other, as their lines all went together, so I cut them apart and mixed them up, then the colored stripes were in different places on the candles.  I used the new Wish Big die, die cut from black glossy cardstock, and layered.  I topped the candles with die cut glittered flames.  Here's a close up...

Here's my second card (can't stop laughing over the background paper...found it in a stack of papers, and just HAD to use it!!)...

For the second card, I die cut the candles, then colored the candles by brushing ink onto each candle....masking off each candle while inking.  I then layered the candles several times to give them some depth.  I die cut the flames from glittered cardstock, and layered with a piece of foam rubber to match the depth of the candles, with ease.  I added a sentiment that I made into a strip to go across the bottomo of the candles, and the card.  Here's a close up...

Okay...I had SO much fun making my cards!!  My fun was above, your fun is below!!

Simon is generously giving a $25 coupon to every stop on the hop from our comment sections, so the more hop blogs you comment on, the more chances you will have to win!  Winners will be chosen and posted on the Simon Blog on Wednesday, December 13th, so make sure you check the Simon Blog on the 13th, to see if you are a winner!!  If you are a winner, you can email Simon to claim your prize!

The list of participants in today's hop are listed below...

Simon Says Stamp Blog 

Nina-Marie Trapani

Caly Person

Suzy Plantamura

Amy Rysavy

Debby Hughes

                                 Lisa Addesa<-----You are Here

Alberto Gava

Kulbir Kirkland

Sandi MacIver

Lea Lawson

Jennifer Kotas

Two things before I end my post...There was another hop, last week, so I hope you will check it out at the Simon Blog HERE!  There is a whole bunch more inspiration and more chances for you to comment and possibly win one of the $25 coupons!  

The second thing, please don't forget about the offer in the banner at the top of my post!  The offer is for a free Simon exclusive Aidan Snowflake die!  There are directions on how to do that in the banner above...follow the three easy steps and the beautiful die is yours for FREE, until the end of  today,  December 8th, or until supplies last!!

Thank you so much for stopping by, and please keep on hopping! 

Hugs!  Lisa