Mid Century Holiday Plate

I have used the very cool new Simon Says Stamp Mid Century Holiday Plate die from their All the Joy release, to make a couple Christmas cards!

I decided to use two shades of red and two shades of green shapes on my cards...traditional Christmas colors.  The first card, the pieces sit IN the die cut panel.  On the second card, I layered and adhered the shapes ONTO a card panel that I had embossed the plate image on, so they are raised! 

I die cut one frame, and adhered it to a piece of cardstock with adhesive all over it.  I then placed the pieces into the die cut spaces, and adhered two more layers of die cut frames over it.  I did make the frame a bit larger than an A2 card...liked the bit of space around the edges.  I added a die cut and layered sentiment, and adhered it to a black background made from glossy cardstock.  Here's a close up...

The second one, I embossed the design on a piece of cardstock and adhered layered pieces onto the designated spots on the embossed piece...

This card is an A2...my attempt to see how it would look if I made it "as is".  This one may have taken a bit more time than the first one, as I had to layer each piece...but SO...MUCH...FUN!!  Here's a close up...

Hope your Thanksgiving was delicious and full of fun!! Have had family here...chaos, but so much fun! Onward Christmas!!  

                                                 Thanks for visiting me today!! Hugs!! Lisa

Joyfully Metallic

I have made a Christmas card with a Simon Says Stamp sentiment die, embossing folder and coordinating die, and full card die that I embossed, all from the All the Joy release!....

I die cut and layered the sentiment and hung the ornaments that I had die cut, then put into the embossing folder to give them their design.  I adhered them to a panel that I used a die that I had not die cut, but rather embossed on the card panel.  I adhered the panel to a card.  I had tried a cut down panel, but liked the full panel to give the hanging ornaments a little bit more length that a full panel gave them. 

 Here's a close up...

Getting ready for family coming for Thanksgiving...can't wait...but until then, lots to do!!  

Hoping you are having a great weekend before Thanksgiving!!  

                                                 Thanks for stopping by,  today!! Hugs!! Lisa

Tinkerbell Birthday

I made a card for my granddaughter's birthday using the new Simon Says Stamp Once Upon a Time stamp/die set, from their All the Joy release!...

My granddaughter loves Disney and was Tinkerbell for Halloween, so I thought it perfect to make a birthday card with a fairy...and the one from this new set IS Tinkerbell!  I stamped, die cut, and colored little Tink with markers.  I have made slider cards before, but refreshed myself with THIS video, just in case you were wondering how to make one.  It's pretty simple and real easy to do!  I did have to use a dime instead of a penny on my fairy as a penney was too big for my tiny fairy, and would have stuck out on her sides.  I used the Simon Twinkling Stars background stamp to stamp the card panel as well as a second piece of cardstock, which I used to put behind the slider to make the star panel totally continue behind the fairy.  I used a CZ Design happy birthday die, that I had colored with the markers in ombre fashion, and then glittered the letters and Tink's wings to give some sparkle!  Here's a close up...

I tried to download a video of Tink flying, but it didn't work...may try again later...

You can see it on my Instagram, though!

Happy Birthday my little sweet little princess Isla!  Love you, dolly!!  

Hope your week will be wonderful for all of you reading this post...grocery shopping for some of my Thanksgiving dinner, tomorrow...Thanksgiving already NEXT WEEK..,where is the time going???!!!

Thanks for stopping by, today!! Hugs!! Lisa

Winter Wishes

I have used the beautiful new CZ Design Winter Wishes stamp/die set, from Simon Says Stamp's newest All the Joy release, to make a Christmas card!...

I stamped the poinsettias in two reds and the greens in a bunch of different green inks.  I think all the little leaves are so pretty and all of them together with the flowers, make for one pretty Christmas bouquet!!  I adhered them all together on the card panel that I had stamped and gold embossed a sentiment from a Simon set of very pretty Christmas sentiments, Graceful Holiday Greetings, also from the All the Joy release, and one that I thought went perfectly in size, font, and shape, with the flowers/leaves!  Oh, and I also gold embossed the stamped centers of the flowers!   Here's a close up...

Watching Home Alone 1 and 2 with my son...perfect soon-to-be-Christmas night!  So looking forward to Christmas!!  Hope you are having a wonderful Wednesday...take care!  As always, thank you so very much for stopping by my blog today...I truly appreciate it!!  Hugs!!  Lisa

All the Joy Blog Hop-2!

I am so excited to be joining a dozen talented artists today, celebrating Simon Says Stamp's latest release, All the Joy, at the Simon Blog!  I have used one of the "tweet" new sets, Season's Tweetings, along with a new snow embossing folder and sprig die, to make a couple Christmas cards to share with you for this special day!...

I thought the birds in this stamp set were so cute, but the one above, I found absolutely adorable! Up front, I'm not much of a colorer, but I gave it a go, and no matter, this bird is STILL adorable!!   I colored him in a sparrow kind of coloring, and colored his hat and scarf in red!  I was going to make his hat red and green, but loved the simplicity of red and white!  I layered him and then adhered him between two of the Spruce Sprig die cuts.  I colored the cardstock the sprigs were cut from, with two of the three new shades of green ink, then die cut the sprigs...love how the color turned out...looks like a pine tree!  For the background, I used my brayer, and brayered Simon Fog ink all over the inside flat side of the Soft Snowfall embossing folder.  I tried other grays, but the Fog was the lightest, and that was the look I was going for!  I adhered the sprigs, gluing just the stems(to give the ends some dimension) to the snow, added the bird and the layered sentiment that I had embossed in black(I STILL love the shine of black embossing powder, multitudes of cards later!).  Here's a close up...

The second one, I simply used two of the greenery stems from the set, along with another wonderful sentiment, also from the set!...

These stems looked like mistletoe to me, so I  dotted the berries with white enamel accents, rather than make then red.  I colored the leaves in a kind of softer green, and layered, then arranged them in a kind of flowing way, on light gray cardstock.  When it came to the layout, I decided on popping up the top and bottom panels of the card on either side of the stems.  To use a sentiment from the set, and I think the sentiments have a beautiful font, I chose to partially die cut the sentiment, to have the lower reaching letters go INTO the sprigs' area, not to sit way up on the panel, to be sort of IN with the berries!  So...I cut the panels, leaving some extra room on the top panel, then just ever so slightly partially die cut the sentiment die on the panel.  THEN I stamped the sentiment to fit the curves of the bottom of the die cut panel, stamping with versamark and black embossing...LOVE the shine!  I then fit the berries around all the curves of the sentiment.  I know this card lacks Christmas  pizzazz of color, but I have to tell you...this card makes me happy!  I love it's simplicity and it's flow...true happiness!  Here's a close up...

Okay...I had SO much fun!!  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 8th, so make sure you check the Simon Blog on the 8th, 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

Nichol Spohr

Laura Bassen

Suzy Plantamura

Mindy Eggen

                                Lisa Addesa<------You are Here

Cheiron Brandon

Kulbir Kirkland

Miriam Prantner

Dilay Nacar

Barb Engler

Allison Frazier

Channin Pelletier

Two things before I end my post...There was another hop, yesterday, 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 Holy Stars Stencil!  There are directions on how to do that in the banner above...follow the three easy steps and the stencil is yours for FREE, until the end of the day on November 5th or until supplies last!!

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

Hugs!  Lisa

Bottle Brush Trees

I have used the fun new Simon Says Stamp Small Bottle Brush Tree die set, from their new All the Joy release, to make a simple, sparkly Christmas card...

I thought these trees were so fun, so I decided to use the Simon glitter cardstock in red, dark pink, and light pink, to make some fun and  "love"ly trees!  My thoughts were already thinking ahead to the little sentiment from a previous release, that I just really loved and would go perfect with the shades of red pretty trees!!  I die cut and layered the trees, as well as the heart, and adhered to a panel with the sentiment stamped on it.  Here's a close up...

There's a blog hop over at Simon today on their BLOG, and there will be one tomorrow(I'll be a part of tomorrow's hop😊), hope you will check them out as there will be lots of inspiration and giveaways from Simon!  

Thanks for stopping by, today!! Hugs!! Lisa

All the Joy Release!

It's November 1st and we're less than two months from Christmas!!  The Simon Says Stamp All the Joy release, out today, is filled with wonderful products to help get your Christmas started!  I have made a Christmas card with one of the new die sets, Greenery Swag!...

I die cut the swag from green colored cardstock.  I colo red the ivy shaped leaves with a darker green marker, and added die cut berries, from the die cut strip that comes with the set, full of berries, leaves and flowers!  I glossed the berries, and added three flowers with rhinestones for the centers.  I finished, by adhering lighter die cut leaves to the bottom stem.  I fit a sentiment(also from a new stamp set...Hark the Newborn King)... into the curve of the swag, and embossed in silver!  Here's a close up...

There will be two blog hops over at the Simon Blog,  to celebrate this release...tomorrow and Friday...hope you will check them out for some inspiration, and a possible chance to win some free shopping!  

Thanks for visiting me today!! Hugs!! Lisa

Rainbow Christmas Trees

I have made a couple Christmas cards with the Simon Says Stamp Trees and Stars stamp/die set, from their Season of Wonder release!...

I know the picture of this card shows it at strange angle...I couldn't seem to find another way to show you the prettiness of the silver embossing...it just didn't show in the traditional pose!  The way I made these cards, was to place the stamps and a piece of cardstock in my MISTI.  I stamped four of the trees with Simon Smoke ink, then colored the trees with markers, ALL in RAINBOW...who doesn't love a little rainbow, even at Christmas?!!...

Then I put the colored cardstock back in my MISTI, and restamped with versamark and silver embossed three of the trees, and embossed one with black embossing powder...

I cut them all apart from each other with scissors, then die cut each.  I am saving the two unused trees for later!  I adhered the first one to a silver embossed starry background...

The second was the one that I embossed in black...the santa kind of required it...

I popped it up on a diagonally striped panel....using all of the colors as close to the colors in the colored tree!  I love the shine of the black embossing!!  Here's a close up...

Okay...this is the last day of October...Happy Halloween...tomorrow we're on to Thanksgiving!  Hope you are having a great week...onward November!!  

Thanks for visiting me today!! Hugs!! Lisa

Boho Medallion Flowers

In the midst of Fall and Christmas coming, you can't forget about birthdays!  I have made a birthday card with a Simon Says Stamp die, from their Season of Wonder release!...

I die cut this medallion...I'm calling it a flower, and layered it...three times for three flowers.  I then die cut a bottom layer, and used three different colored cardstocks for each flower.  I then adhered the layered flowers on top of the colored ones, and adhered to an embossed panel(a scrap piece of cardstock.  I popped up the pieces of the card above and below the flowers, having stamped a sentiment on the bottom panel.  Here's a close up...

Hope your weekend will have some "happy" in it!!  I can't wait...it's going to be a beautiful weekend here in Virginia, so I will be out, at some point, enjoying the sunshine and warmer weather!!   

Thanks so much. for stopping by my blog, today!! Hugs!! Lisa

Lovely Fall Colored Leaves

I have made a card with the beautiful new Simon Says Stamp Lovely Leaves die, from the Seasons of Wonder release...

I simply used three Simon Rainbow Splash inks, and blended them on a piece of cardstock. I die cut the leaves from the colored cardstock and gave it one layer just for a little bit of depth.  I adhered it to a panel of woodgrain cardstock.  I added a stamped, die cut, and layered sentiment from another of the new stamp sets.  A little tip:  The woodgrain cardstock is a very bright white.  I stamped the sentiment on the woodgrain cardstock, so it would match the background panel.  How, you ask, did I stamp on textured paper?  I didn't.  I turned the carstock over, before stamping, making it possible to stamp the sentiment on a flat surface!  Here's a close up... 

Fall is here in Virginia...raking every week, with bagged leaves at my curb every week!  Hope you have a great weekend!!Thanks for visiting me today!! Hugs!! Lisa

Berry Branch Christmas Card

I have used two dies from Flora and Fauna, to make a Christmas card...

I cannot pass up a pretty berry branch, and I thought this one HAD to go on a Christmas card!  I will say, though, I modified the berries just a bit.  I generally like to glossy accent the berries, and three of these berries were very close together, and I tried it a first time, and all the glossy accent ran together, so...I die cut 4 little circles(from an old Simon die, Full Card Bubbles...sorry, but no longer available), you could even cut 4 circles,  and covered the circles of the original berries with my die cut berries. I glossy accented the berries BEFORE adhering them over the berries, while also cutting the littlest one on the die cut(the one on the bottom)away from the one next to it, to give the berries a more independent look.  I die cut and layered the "peace" and adhered both the stem and sentiment on a gray piece of cardstock that I had stenciled snow onto with embossing paste.  I really like this Falling Snow stencil...I use it ALOT for simple Christmas cards like this one...gives the umph, that little bit of added interest that fills up empty space without being overwhelming.  It would have looked pretty without the snow, but snow gives it a little something extra!  Here's a close up...

I hope you are having a great start to this new week!  Thank you so much for stopping by my blog! 

 Hugs to you!  Lisa

Halloween Pumpkins

I have made a Halloween card, with the cute jack-o'-lantern pumpkins stamp, from the 

Simon Says Stamp Just Batty stamp/die set, from the Season of Wonder release,

I stamped and cut out the pumpkins( I didn't have the die set), then colored with markers.  I wound up using a florescent yellow for the pumpkins "glow"...beat out all the other yellows.  I die cut the "Happy Halloween" from Simon glossy black cardstock, and layered.  I adhered both the pumpkins and sentiment to a panel that I had embossed using one of the new embossing folders, Wooden Planks.  I brushed on two grays, love the look of these planks!  Here's a close up...

Happy World Card Making Day...card making makes me happy...so happy, too, to share a card with you on this special day!  

Thanks for visiting me today!! Hugs!! Lisa

Season of Wonder Blog Hop Day 1!

I am so happy to be a part of today's Simon Says Stamp Blog Hop, over at the Simon Blog, celebrating their newest release, Season of Wonder!  Christmas is fast approaching, and what better time for a release filled with wonderful products to get your Christmas makings off to a great start!  I have used one of the beautiful new stamp/die sets, to make a couple Christmas cards for today's hop!...

This stamp set is a three part stamp which, when all stamps are stamped on top of one another, make a beautiful Christmas tree!  I have used three different colored green inks, to make each tree.  I will tell you, the easiest and best way to stamp this tree is by FIRST die cutting the tree, then placing the stamps OVER the die cut (I use my MISTI and a small tape runner to adhere the tree to the surface in the MISTI), thus fitting the stamp to the die cut.  This way, your stamping will match every curve of the tree....the branches move with the die cut curves.  For both cards, I used the Simon Falling Snow stencil for the background,  spreading paste over the stencil to make snow.  For the first card, I used the Elegantly Modern Christmas Greetings stamp/die set.  I also used gold glitter embossing powder for both the the decorations, as well as the stars of both trees.  I used an old embossing plate for the diagonal lines.  Here's a close up of this first card...

The second card, I changed layout, sentiment, and decoration on the tree...

I started with a very light gray cardstock, and put snow on it with the stencil and paste.  I then used one of the Simon Layered Hills dies, and made a hill of snow.  I used an older sentiment that "fit" into the space of this tree and layout, and popped both the tree and sentiment up with foam.  Here's a close up... 

Okay...I had SO much fun!!  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, October 11th, so make sure you check the Simon Blog on the 11th, 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

Debby Hughes

Jennifer McGuire

Amy Rysavy

Suzy Plantamura

Emily Midgett

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

Miriam Prantner

Yana Smakula

Tina Smith

Kath Stewart

Jean Doeringsfeld

Kim Hamilton

Seeka

 Two things before I end my post...There will be another blog hop tomorrow, so I hope you will check it out at the Simon Blog!  There is a whole bunch more inspiration and more chances for you to comment for winning 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 Graceful Holly 3D embossing folder with the purchase of $25 or more .  There are directions on how to do that in the banner above...follow the three steps and the embossing folder is yours for FREE, until the end of the day on October 8th or until supplies last!!

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

Hugs!!  Lisa