Moments in Time Blog Hop~Day 2!

I am thrilled to be a part of Simon Says Stamp's Day 2 Blog Hop at the Simon Blog...celebrating their newest release, Moments in Time!  I have used a couple of the wonderful new dies on the first card, and the same daisy, as well as a new stamp set on the second...such fun!!

I LOVE daises, and this new daisy die is beautiful!  I die cut and colored the center, then added some green to the green die cut stem and shading to the petals.  When I saw this die, I knew that I wanted to pair it up with black and white polka dotted paper, and I found what I believe to be my very last scrap...just big enough to put on the end of the card.  I used one of the pretty stitched border dies, and popped up the panel over the piece of black patterned paper.  I added a stamped, die cut, and layered sentiment.  Ahhhh....happiness!!  Here's a close up...

THEN...I realized that in my box of goodies from Simon (I often go straight to the dies, first)there was  a really wonderful stamp for making dotted paper...a swiss dot stamp!!!!...Now I can MAKE my own patterned paper...and I did!!...

I rubbed my black cardstock with a magic powder bag to get rid of static, put the stamp in my MISTI so it would stamp perfectly, and stamped with versamark then white embossed.  I LOVE that these dots are so close together...what a wonderful stamp!!  What I love about making my own black and white polka dotted paper, is that the black background to the dots is true black...most patterned paper is not dark black...just look at the difference between the first card and the second.  I still love the first card, but love the black of the second.  I opted to make the card a 5x5, because I wanted the heart to be centered(the heart was die cut with a Simon heart die that appears to be disontinued).  Did you know that the special postage stamps you might use for hand processing cards that are thick, delicate of have bling, at the post office, are good for square cards, too?! Just FYI.  Here's a close up...

 Okay...I had SO much fun making my cards!!  As I always like to say...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, June 4th, so make sure you check the Simon Blog on the 4th, 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
Suzy Plantamura
Nichol Spohr
Amy Rysavy
                              Lisa Addesa<----You are Here!
Debby Hughes
Emily Midgett
Yana Smakula
Cheiron Brandon
Tina Smith
Sandi MacIver
Alberto Gava
Karin Åkesdotter
Kulbir Kirkland
Samantha Pfrimmer

Just to let you know...as you read in the title of this post, this is day2 of 2 blog hops, celebrating this release!  SO...there was another blog hop yesterday...and that gives you not only more projects with wonderful inspiration, but also more chances to win one of the $25 coupons from Simon!  Hope you will hop along and join the fun and inspiration, today, and check out yesterday's hop at the Simon Blog! ALSO...don't forget the offer in the banner at the top of the post!  You will automatically receive the not yet released Best Fishes stamp set with any purchase of products from the Moments in Time release !   The offer is only good until the end of the day tomorrow, June 1st, while supplies last.  Thank you so much for stopping by and "keep hopping"...hugs!  

      Lisa