Rain or Shine Blog Hop~Day 1!

I am so thrilled to be a part of today's blog hop, over at the Simon Says Stamp Blog, celebrating Simon Says Stamp's newest release...Rain or Shine!  There are so many wonderful products in this release, and I have used one of the fun new dies to make three cards with it and it's pieces...

I die cut the Nifty Star Plate three times.  I removed all the stars and adhered the panels together.  I used the die to emboss, not die cut, a fourth piece, making it a panel, then colored the embossed panel with three different color inks.  I opted to make these stars, flowers...so...I made some black enamel dots to put in all of centers of the flowers.  Below, I snapped a pic of how I make them.  I have some of my dies in cassette sleeves.  When I want some enamel dots, I put the enamel accents on the outside of cassette sleeve, let it dry, then get them off with an exact knife....

Below is a close up of the colored flowers, the dots and the sentiment that I had covered with glossy accents to give it some fun shine...

THEN...I used all the stars from the  die cuts, and made them into flowers!! 

I thought the stars, when put together, looked SO cute as flowers...especially as my much loved daisies, when I put a yellow center in them!!

I used an old scrap of polka dotted paper to line my flowers on, and a sentiment from one of the new stamp sets.  Here's a close up...

Then, another CAS card done with the small stars from the die cut frame...

I used a sentiment from the stamp set from Simon's April Card Kit...the sentiments in this set are beautiful!   I positioned the flowers around the sentiment.  On both cards, I adhered three pieces for the bottom layer of the flower, and only one piece for the top layer of the flower.  Here's a close up... 

Okay...I had SO much fun making my 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, March 26th, so make sure you check the Simon Blog on the 26th, 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
Suzy Plantamura
Jennifer McGuire
Debby Hughes
Emily Midgett
                                  Lisa Addesa<-----You are HERE!
Tina Smith
Anna-Karin Evaldsson
Karin Åkesdotter
Sandi MacIver
Tracy Ware
Barb Engler
Michelle Short
Charlene Madrid

 Just to let you know...as you read in the title of this post, this is day 1 of 2 blog hops, celebrating this release!  SO...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!  Hope you will hop along and join the fun and inspiration! ALSO...don't forget the offer in the banner at the top of the post!  You will automatically receive the Balloon Bouquet die when you spend $23 or more of Rain or Shine release products !   The offer is only good until the end of the day on March 31st, while supplies last.  Thank you so much for stopping by and "keep hopping"...hugs!  

      Lisa