Rain or Shine Blog Hop WINNERS!
Hello, friends! We hope you are loving our Rain or Shine release!
To celebrate this incredible release, we hosted two amazing blog hops! The hops featured many talented designers and each one created wonderful projects to inspire you. If you missed either of the hops, you can find the direct links here: DAY ONE and DAY TWO.
A BIG thank you to all of YOU who joined us for the hops! We enjoy hearing from each of you, and your words of encouragement and appreciation to each of the designers mean so much to us here at Simon and to them. It’s our tradition to give away gift certificates to random commenters on each blog stop, and today we are revealing all of the winners! So without further ado, I present to you our winners!
from Simon Says Stamp’s blog: Gina Goodling!
from Caly Person’s blog: Maria Giselle B.!
from Nichol Spohr’s blog: Ritva D.!
from Suzy Plantamura’s blog: Connie Hostak!
from Jennifer McGuire’s blog: Kristine Boydstun!
from Debby Hughes’s blog: Nancy Dempsey!
from Emily Midgett’s blog: Fran Smith!
from Lisa Addesa’s blog: Lori A. Riegel, Ph.D.!
from Tina Smith’s blog: janicestovall!
from Anna-Karin Evaldsson’s blog: Melissa Leftrick!
from Karin Åkesdotter’s blog: Lisa Elton!
from Sandi MacIver’s blog: Maryrose Sanders!
from Tracy Ware’s blog: Sandra Baggarly!
from Barb Engler’s blog: Joann!
from Michelle Short’s blog: Joy Meadows!
from Charlene Madrid’s blog: Joanne Agel!
from Simon Says Stamp’s blog: Anna Given!
from Nina-Marie Trapani’s blog: Dottie Mazullo!
from Barbara Tarayao’s blog: Shannon Bettis!
from Cathy Zielske’s blog: Cathy Fuller!
from Laura Bassen’s blog: Sharon Brand!
from Heather Hoffman’s blog: Stacey Kowbel!
from Keisha Charles’s blog: Valerie Hayden!
from Heather Ruwe’s blog: Jill E Hennessy!
from Yana Smakula’s blog: Janet Evans Buonocore!
from Miriam Prantner’s blog: Donna Cala!
from Mindy Eggen’s blog: DIANNA Durbin!
from Jean Doeringsfeld’s blog: Denise Bryant!
from Kim Hamilton’s blog: Susan sonnier!
from Maura Hibbitts’s blog: Donna Phelan!
from Samantha Pfrimmer’s blog: YEN!
from Hanh Nguyen’s blog: Jacki!
If you see your name listed above, CONGRATULATIONS! Please email [email protected] and let him know that you are one of our Rain or Shine release blog hop winners! You’ll receive a $25 Gift Card.
Thanks again for hopping along with us! We hope you enjoy our fantastic Rain or Shine release and that it gives you creative enjoyment for months to come!
You’ll love browsing our Rain or Shine gallery on our blog for loads of additional inspiration, and you can add your projects to these galleries as well!
Winning ROCKS, and so do you!
We hope you will join us on Instagram tomorrow, Thursday, March 27, for an Instagram Hop featuring our Rain or Shine release! We are excited to share awesome ideas from several creative minds using these fantastic products.
Sweet NEW Easter Inspiration from Lawn Fawn!
Hi friends! Happy Wednesday! Please join me in giving a warm welcome back to our blog as a guest, Audrey Tokach! She’s showcasing some adorable new Spring products from Lawn Fawn! Read on to learn more and enjoy!
Hello friends! Audrey here with an Easter card to share with you using the new Spring release from Lawn Fawn! To create my card, I cut the pink floral pattern from the 12×12 collection pack of the Bitsy Blooms patterned paper using the largest die from the Outside In Stitched Rectangles dies. I cut a window in the panel using the Lawn Fawn Outside In Easter Egg Stackables and Easter Egg Frames dies. Nesting Ovals dies would also work beautifully to create a window. I backed window with the pink plaid paper from the Bitsy Blooms 6×6 Petite Paper Pack.
For my focal point, I used the new Build-A-Bunny dies and Build-A-Bunny Accessories dies to create an adorable little girl bunny holding a flower to match the patterned paper, and surrounded her with tiny diecut carrots which can be found in the Build-A-Bunny Accessories die set. For a sentiment, I used the new Henry’s Build-A-Sentiment: Bunny Puns for the first part of my greeting, stamped in Raspberry ink onto an Everyday Sentiment Banner diecut and then used the new Scripty Easter and Scripty Easter Outline dies to create a layered diecut to finish the greeting. Then, I used more of Bitsy Blooms 12×12 collection pack papers to add a plaid layer to an A2 card base before adhering the focal point. To finish things off, I added some white gel pen accents.
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3 WAYS to add Visual Interest on a Mixed Media Card: Crafty With Caly!
Hi everyone! It’s Caly Person here today!
Today’s project uses products from the Simon Says Stamp April 2025 Card Kit – Butterfly Blossoms. There’s mixed media involved and loads of fun!
I created my background first, since that requires the use of collage medium and texture paste. I tore a piece of Tim Holtz idea-ology Serendipity collage paper that I wanted to use and adhered it to the patterned paper from the Paper Rose Bees & Butterflies collection with some Simple Stories Color Palette Warm washi tape using Distress Collage Medium Matte. Be sure to check out the full video below to see it come together!
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I also added the Tim Holtz Sparkle Texture Paste to some butterflies on another piece of patterned paper to give them shimmer and planned to fussy-cut the butterflies to use later. While the background and butterflies dried, I worked on stamping the floral image from the Butterfly Blossoms set and ink-blended it with the coordinating Butterfly Blossoms stencils.
To add color to the background, I used Distress Pearl Mica Crayons in Tart Cranberry, Hocus Pocus, and Winterberry. Distress Crayons are so easy to use, especially over Distress Collage Medium Matte. I simply scribbled the color on and blended it with my index finger, rubbing into place.
I stamped the sentiment and distressed the edges with Antique Linen Distress Ink. I then matted both the background and the sentiment panel over some Honey cardstock, which was included in the kit. For added interest, I ran both panels through my sewing machine and added double stitching along the border. To finish, I fussy-cut some butterflies and added them to my card.
I hope you enjoyed this mixed media project! Thanks so much for visiting!
~Caly
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