Fesive Fun Blog Hop~Day 1!

I am thrilled to be a part of today's Simon Says Stamp's Blog Hop over at the Simon Blog, celebrating their newest release, Festive Fun!  This new release is the perfect way to begin getting ready for the holidays and season that is quicky coming up!  I have chosen two of the new dies, a CZ Design sentiment die,  and an embossing folder, to make two Christmas cards!

I die cut the leaves and berries from white cardstock.  I colored the leaves by brushing on different colors of green until I got the color of leaves I liked.  I used the dies from the set, for the berries, and die cut them in red.  I used Glossy Accents to dot the leaves with shine.  I die cut the sentiment from gold cardstock and layered.  Here's a close up...

The second card, I used another of the beautiful leaves and berries type die set, and used the same sentiment...

This Abundant Leaf die is a card covering size die, but looking at it covering a card, I liked the idea of it being a "part" of the card, not the whole card.  So...I opted to make my card a 5x7 and pop up and adhere the whole die cut panel on a larger card, then have the sentiment below it.  Here's a close up...

Okay...I had SO much fun with these two 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, November 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 

Caly Person

Nichol Spohr

Jennifer McGuire

Suzy Plantamura

Amy Rysavy

Emily Midgett

Debby Hughes

                                   Lisa Addesa<------You are HERE!

Miriam Prantner

Anna-Karin Evaldsson

Kim Hamilton

Jean Doeringsfeld

Carly Minner

Bobbi Lemanski

Lea Lawson

A couple notes before I end my post...Wanted to let you know...as you read in the title of this post, this is day 1 of 2 blog hops, celebrating this release!  There will be another blog hop tomorrow...and that gives you not only more projects with wonderful inspiration, but also more chances to win a $25 coupon from Simon if you leave comments!  

ALSO...don't forget the wonderful offer in the heading of this post...A free Simon exclusive Cozy Together stamp/die set with a purchase of $100 or more of Festive Fun products!!  The set will automatically be added to your cart!  Do remember, though, that the offer is only good until the end of the day on Novermber 10th, or while supplies last, so don't wait!   Hope you will keep hopping along and join the fun and inspiration for the rest of the hop!  Thank you so much for stopping by and "keep hopping"...hugs! 

 Lisa