I am thrilled to be joining a star studded group of artists to celebrate Simon Says Stamp's newest release, HOLLY JOLLY, on the Simon Blog, today! I don't know about you, but I love the Christmas season! This new release from Simon is filled with all kinds of products to help get you in a holly jolly mood and get you started with the Christmas festivities for card and gift giving!! I have chosen to showcase two of the wonderful new sentiment dies as well a set of new dies, for the hop, today, having two cards to share with you...
I took strips of what are my current favorite Christmas colors, and adhered them to a thin piece of cardstock. I used the fun and pretty new CZ Design Chunky Merry die for my colored strips, and die cut the sentiment from them. I then layered the die cut sentiment with several layers of white die cuts. I enclosed the sentiment with holly leaves from the new CZ Design Chunky Trees and Holly die set. I used Tonic Morning Dew drops to fill in the berries of the holly leaves. I used 1/2" strips of white cardstock and adhered them diagonally over another piece of cardstock(I LOVE diangonal stripes at Christmas) and framed that with gold cardstock. Here's a close up...
The second one, I used the pretty new CZ Design Peace die ...
I opted to keep the peace sentiments white and give the color to their backgrounds. I also chose to use more pastel colors for the backgrounds...and the colors were done with...paint chips. Yes, I love to use paint chips. I layered the sentiments as well as their backgrounds, and then adhered them to a gray background that I had stamped and white embossed with snow flakes, using the different circle stamps from the Simon Holiday Sparkle Greetings stamp set. I think of peace when I see gentle falling snow, and the gray cardstock gave it more of nighttime feel for me. I used a sentiment from the older CZ Design Clean Line Christmas...thought it went perfectly with all my "Peace"s. I then dotted random sentiments with Tonic jewel drops. Here's a close up...
I have had so much fun!! Your fun is yet to come!! Simon Says Stamp will be generously giving away a $25 coupon to each stop on the hop from the comment section of our blogs, so if you leave a comment on each blog of the hop, you will have LOTS of chances to win!! The winners will be announced on Wednesday, November 11th on the Simon Blog, so make sure you check the Simon Blog to see if you are a winner! Here's a list of all the participants:
Lisa Addesa<----YOU ARE HERE
One last thing...don't forget the offer in the banner at the top...use the code on the banner to get a free exclusive mini Speckled Egg Distress Ink pad...good with any purchase, but only good until the end of the day tomorrow, or until supplies last, so don't wait!
Thanks so much for visiting my blog, today, hope you have a great day!!
I LOVE what you did with the dies! Soooo beautiful especially with the PEACE
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card. I love the striped Merry sentiment with the touches of gold. This would work for any of the chunky word dies. Thanks for the inspiration.
ReplyDeleteLovely festive cards.
ReplyDeleteLove your cards! The Merry card is so festive and the Peace card is gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteThese are so very pretty! I love the striped Merry!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful cards! Love the idea of putting strips together to cut out words. Great way to use up my scraps! Thank you for the inspiration!
ReplyDeleteStunning! You are a magician with dies and die cuts. Thank you for creating and inspiring us!!
ReplyDeleteSuper cute cards!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE your cards and especially how you created the Merry sentiment!! So creative!!
ReplyDeleteOMG I love how you used up your scraps. So exciting.
ReplyDeleteLove the graphic vibe of the cards-read job on the colors, too.
ReplyDeleteI love the way you used the strips of cardstock and added in the gold metallic. That's just genius! Beautiful graphic cards!
ReplyDeleteGreat use of both dies -- particularly like the "striped" Merry.
ReplyDeleteSome great, graphic sentiments with this release!
ReplyDeleteBoth cards are great! Thank you so much for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the Merry card!!! Both are beautiful but that one caught me up in happy! Can't wait to try to create a similar one! Thanks for the inspiration!
ReplyDeleteReally like your "fav" Christmas colors and how you used them in the Merry die. Think I will give it a try. Thanks for your inspiration.
ReplyDeleteinteresting cards, I will try too.
ReplyDeleteLove the Merry card! It's so amazing!
ReplyDeleteyour cards are very creative - thasnks for sharing
ReplyDeleteLove the fresh look of these cards! That bit of gold in the Merry is a great touch!
ReplyDeleteYour cards are very festive! It is fun to watch.
ReplyDeleteThanks Lisa. Your Card is beautiful!!
ReplyDeleteLove your card designs. Your first card is beautiful!
ReplyDeleteLove that warm hugs card. I need that merry and peace die. Love everything you created.
ReplyDeleteI love both cards, but that slimline with the repeated dies is FABULOUS!
ReplyDeleteLove your cards, both of them. Simple, but so cute. Love the Merry in the striped cardstock.
ReplyDeleteBoth of your cards are gorgeous! I especially love the striped letters on your first card.
ReplyDeleteLooks like you had a lot of fun die cutting
ReplyDeleteLove both of the cards, but I will certainly CASE the peace card. Thanks for the inspiration!
ReplyDeleteI love your cards. The color and the stripes are so fun!
ReplyDeleteI love these cards!! Those CZ dies are so fun and I really enjoy the way you used them. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI love the pattern paper created with thin strips, great way to use up tiny scraps that I can't bear to throw away.
ReplyDeleteThe pretty pastels on your second card work beautifully with the bold sentiment! The first card is so fun and festive.
ReplyDeletePretty cards! Thanks for sharing them!
ReplyDeleteWow! You created beautiful cards from these dies and they are great ideas!
ReplyDeleteTwo beautiful cards! I especially like the inlayed one.
ReplyDeleteTwo beautiful modern cards with much inspiration!!
ReplyDeleteWonderful cards, love the merry card and your color combos!
ReplyDeleteThis is one of my very favorite! Love that bright and bold big MERRY!
ReplyDeleteLove the first card with the stripes
ReplyDeleteof color in the sentiment. Really
pops. The second card is more
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Love the Peace card. The colors are great!
ReplyDeleteThe chunky Merry card caught my eye the second I saw the release on SSS! I just love what you did with it!
ReplyDeleteWonderful use of color on both card.
ReplyDeleteChristmas is my favorite time of the year as well. I love checking out the new release to decide what will be on my cards this year
ReplyDeleteBoth of your cards are fabulous. I love that you featured a word die cut for both - wonderful idea!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful cards ... these new dies are amazing!
ReplyDeleteTerrific cards! I'm especially fond of the MERRY slimline!
ReplyDeleteLovely cards! I really like the look of the colored strips in the merry die. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteSuch simple and gorgeous pages!
ReplyDelete-- Dalis
Fantastic cards! Are paint chips swatch cards from the paint store?
ReplyDeleteI always love your cards! They are simple yet so beautiful!
ReplyDeleteGreat cards.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I just love your chunky Merry and holly. Such a great idea!
ReplyDeleteGreat, simple, clean, festive. Wonderful cards!
ReplyDeleteVery classy cards!
ReplyDeleteThe first one is my favorite.
Thanks for sharing.
These turned out wonderful!!! Word dies are my favorite, inlaying the self made stripes is genius!!
ReplyDeleteFestive and fun card designs!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant cards!
ReplyDeleteThe stripes on the Merry are adorable. You have a great eye for color and texture!
ReplyDeleteGot carried away and commented on the wrong blog design. Love the strips especially with the shimmer! Since I said I loved the peace on the joy blog. I'll add here how much I loved the joy! All in all I love these word dies. They are the perfect size!
ReplyDeleteLove the way you used these awesome sentiment dies and the pretty holly die! Wonderful cards with pretty color combos!
ReplyDeleteLisa, what a great way to create your own patterned paper. Simply sweet festive cards. Thank you for sharing you techniques with us.
ReplyDeleteThat makes for a beautiful but easy card!
ReplyDeleteWow love your beautiful Merry card, its so cool!!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite is the Peace card. [Bunny]
ReplyDeleteHow fun! Love’m.
ReplyDeleteThat merry with all the strips of different colors is gorgeous! What a great Idea.
ReplyDeleteLove your cards.
Your cards are gorgeous! I love the bright colors combined with the gold on the Merry card!
ReplyDeleteWonderful cards. My favorite is the first one -- beautiful!
ReplyDeleteYour card is super fun
ReplyDeleteI can see why you had fun making these cards Lisa. They are just my idea of ideal. The first one has a playful elegance to it, whilst the second one does give a feel of peace & I don't think it's because the word itself is repeated, but because of the grey background & the soft pastel colours. Well done!
ReplyDeleteYour cards are gorgeous! I do so love your style!
ReplyDeleteLove traditional green and red for Christmas cards and your use of the on the first card is beautiful.
ReplyDeleteBoth cards are great!
ReplyDeleteI especially like your MERRY card. The striped paper behind is so cute.
ReplyDeleteYour peace card just brought me so much joy! Awesome job. Thanks for sharing your creativity!
ReplyDeleteVery fun. Love the colors you chose.
ReplyDeleteThey're beautiful and so much work has gone into them!
ReplyDeleteWow!!! Super Fabulous cards!!! Love the rainbow Peace card!!!
ReplyDeleteLove the MERRY card!!!! Clever!
ReplyDeleteLove what you did with those word dies!
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to use a repeated sentiment with a varigated shadow color...oooh the possibilites!
ReplyDelete-motherbirdd Robin
I adore your first Merry card--the letter colors are so cool!
ReplyDeleteLove the stripes. The colors are so vivid and the way the words played with the background. Great job.
ReplyDeleteI always enjoy your cards and all of the ways you seem to use the same dies differently, these are beautiful
ReplyDeleteWow, these are stunning. I especially like the use of scraps behind the word.
ReplyDeleteVery lovely festive cards! Wonderful!
ReplyDeleteBoth cards are so pretty. I love how you took your favorite colors and die cut the Merry card, fabulous!
ReplyDeleteFun, I especially like the first one!
ReplyDeleteTwo beautiful and festive cards.
ReplyDeleteLovely cards. I like the new chunky word dies and I am crazy for slim line right now so you know #1 was my most favorite.
ReplyDeleteI love this card, I will be buying this die
ReplyDeletePretty Cards! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI literally said "Oh Yeah," when I saw the Merry card. Great job on both!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous cards. Love the colors of the Merry card.
ReplyDeleteI'm loving the fun & colorful stripes you've given to the 'merry' die cut, as well as the softly colored base shadows for the 'peace' die cuts!
ReplyDeleteAWESOME slimline card!
ReplyDeleteOh, goodness, Lisa.... I was sitting here just going blog to blog and then I got to yours. The first one w/ the striped letters has a lot of appeal b/c it has a lot of white space, which I appreciate. But then I saw that "Peace" card and now I am wishing I could insert the "mind blown" emoji here. I mean!! Wow!! I just love the rainbow element, the repetition piece.... it's SO good! Blessings on you and yours now and always. Thanks for showing that!!
ReplyDeleteLori S in PA
Gorgeous cards!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing.
Love how these word dies have a couple of different parts that come with them so you can do endless of techniques with them just like you did on these stunning and georgous card's
ReplyDeleteHi Lisa :) Your cards are clean, simple AND beautiful!!! Great release! TFS :)
ReplyDeleteI LOVE both of these! The first one is just beautiful with the gold and multi-colored sentiment! And I love all the soft colors you used with the peace sentiment on that gray cardstock!
ReplyDeleteI loved both your cards Lisa. My favourite is the Merry card. Awesome SSS release.
ReplyDeleteGreat cards...I like the Merry word being a little wonky...smile..
ReplyDeleteWonderful cards! I love the way you've used all those different cardstocks in your creations! Thanks so much for the great inspiration. Take care! :)
ReplyDeleteThe multi-color look is wonderful for merry. Slimline cards r popular.
ReplyDeleteMelissa
"Sunshine HoneyBee"
Fun color combos! Love the idea of creating the white striped background, I am going to try it with red and white. Thanks for the wonderful inspiration!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful cards. I love how the words pop.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! Love the technique you used for the Merry :)
ReplyDeletewow, absolutely stunning!
ReplyDeleteLove the color combos you chose for both cards, a delightful change from the traditional red and green!
ReplyDeleteFestive and pretty cards in these colors.
ReplyDeleteSo lovely. Great die cutting with multicolored paper.
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