Friend Like You Blog Hop~Day 1!

I am so excited to be a part of today's Simon Says Stamp Blog Hop~Day 1, over at the Simon Blog!  We are celebrating Simon's newest release, Friend Like You!  I am sharing a couple cards made with a beautiful new Sunflower die, a scalloped die, sentiment stamp, and some other Simon products, made for...  a Friend like you!

This sunflower die is soooo beautiful!  I used two die cuts for each of my sunflowers on both cards.  I gave the bottom layer of each flower an extra layer for some depth  I stamped the background with sunflowers, then added a die cut and layered frame.  I added a die cut and foam layered sentiment.  Here's a close up...

The second one, I used the same flower, but gave it a bit of a different look!...

 I stamped the background differently on both the panel, and the card.  I decided to frame this sunflower, like the first card, but chose to use the new scalloped  circle dies, and made a frame with two of the circle frames taped together.  I die cut the frame once, then again with a piece of foam, then adhered them together.  I thought it looked cool, but was "missing something", so I took a chance and used some old NUVO  drops that don't appear to be available any longer(English Mustard)...THAT made me happy!! I used a sentiment from a beautiful new stamp/die set from this release, the sentiment fits the flower and card so well!

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, July 2nd, so make sure you check the Simon Blog on the 2nd, 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
Amy Rysavy
Debby Hughes
Emily Midgett
                                    Lisa Addesa<----You are Here!
Sandi MacIver
Miriam Prantner
Lorraine Aquilina
Kath Stewart
Barb Engler
Carly Minner
Hanh Nguyen
Mary Reiner
Enza Gudor

 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 one of the $25 coupons 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 *not yet released* You 2 stamp set, when you make any purchase of Friend Like You release products !   The offer is only good until the end of the day on June 29th, while supplies last, so don't wait!  Thank you so much for stopping by and "keep hopping"...hugs!  

      Lisa