Sweet Wishes Blog Hop Day 2!

I have the honor and thrill to be joining a whole bunch of wonderfully talented artists, to celebrate, with a Blog Hop at the Simon Blog,  Simon Says Stamp's newest release, Sweet Wishes!  This is a fun and beautiful release...there are stamps, dies, embossing folders, and accessories,  that celebrate everyday, as well as the upcoming Christmas season!  I have used one of the beautiful new die sets, with Fall in mind, to make a couple cards...

This Autumn Sunflower die set is beautiful!  I do love sunflowers, and this die makes for some really pretty and easy/simple flowers and cards!  I die cut the flower from dark yellow cardstock.  I layered the brown center.  I stamped the background with Fog ink, and adhered the flower to the backround, along with stamping, then die cutting the sentiment, love this sentiment, BTW, from a new stamp/die set from this release! I thought it perfect for this card with the contrast between the gray images of the background,  and the bright golden yellow of the flower!  Here's a close up...

Then....I had an idea!  What if I took this simple, beautiful flower, and using the same sentiment, made the flower, REALLY full of color...all different color??!!...

I die cut the flower petals from white cardstock, and colored the petals with different color markers.  I die cut the center from black cardstock  and used the same background and sentiment for this card, as for the first card...just thought it would be fun to see the difference in the two, yet having so many similarities.  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, October 16th, so make sure you check the Simon Blog on the 16th, 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
Emily Midgett
Amy Rysavy
Debby Hughes
                                 Lisa Addesa<------You are Here!
Alberto Gava
Kulbir Kirkland
Heather Hoffman
Allison Frazier
Maura Hibbitts
Misty Elam
Mary Reiner
Anne Fiene

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 2 of blog hops, celebrating this release!  There was another blog hop yesterday...and that gives you not only 14 more projects with wonderful inspiration, but also 14 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 Fancy Tidings of Cheer die set with any purchase!!   Simply follow the 3-step directions in the banner, and the die set is yours!  Do remember, though, that the offer is only good until the end of the day on October 13th(tomorrow), or until 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