Simon Says Stamp Festive Fun Release Blog Hop 1!

Hi, friends! Welcome to day one of two special release blog hops celebrating our Festive Fun release! Come back tomorrow for more amazing inspiration!

Get into the holiday spirit with our Festive Fun collection! Step into a winter wonderland with our Forest Ring and Heartfelt Snowflake dies, Frosty Pines embossing folder, and Falling Snowflakes foil transfer cards; evoke the nostalgia of a holiday home with our Cookie Sheet dies, Old-Fashioned Christmas stamps and dies, and Christmas Sweets and Treats embossing folder; and delight in new snowman products like our Snow Buddies set and Arthur, Oliver, and Frosty dies!

What’s more, you’re going to have great options for color schemes with NEW Pastel Inks; NEW Cookie, Gingerbread, and Cocoa Pawsitively Saturated Inks; and our perfectly curated Holiday Ink Bundle and Winter Ink Bundle. And don’t miss TWO more sizes of our indispensable Craft Tacky Mats.

Let’s get a sneak peek of what’s in store for our blog hop today with inspiration from Nina-Marie Trapani and Susan R. Opel! They used products from our Festive Fun release to make these fantastic projects:

Festive Fun Blog Hop Nina-Marie Trapani Forest Ring die and Frosty Pines embossing folder

Festive Fun Blog Hop Susan R. Opel Whirl Stars and Scripty Peace dies, Butter and Peachy Pawsitively Dazzling Gems

We love our customers! And we love your enthusiasm for our exclusive releases and blog hops. To celebrate, Simon has set aside a free gift just for you! Our NEW and exclusive Cozy Together stamp and die set is automatically added to your cart that contains $100 or more of Festive Fun release products! This gift with purchase will expire 11/10 at 11:59 pm EST or while supplies last. Check out the details on the banner at the top of this post for information about claiming your gift.

Ready for even more Festive Fun inspiration? Hop along with these talented designers! You’ll be inspired AND for every comment you leave on each blog, you’ll earn a chance to win a $25 Simon Says Stamp store shopping spree. YAY!

Please let these talented designers know how much you appreciate their designs. They work hard to inspire and excite us!

Thanks again for joining us today!

We hope you will join us on Instagram on Monday, November 18, for an Instagram Hop featuring our Festive Fun release! We are excited to share awesome ideas from several creative minds using these fantastic products.

You’ll love browsing our Festive Fun gallery on our blog for loads of additional inspiration, and you can add your projects to these galleries as well!

You can check out the entire Festive Fun collection here:

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Are you ready for some Festive FUN?!

Santa’s elf Laura Bassen has it all for you in the video below!

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Psst! Join us back RIGHT HERE on our SimonSaysStamp.com blog for a JAM-PACKED 2-Day Blog Hop starting tomorrow Friday, November 8th at 8 AM ET!

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BIG Birthday Cake Card: Yippee for Yana

Hi friends! Please join me in welcoming back the oh-so-talented and amazing Yana Smakula! (Please note: our dear friend Yana is Ukrainian. To show support to our brothers and sisters in Ukraine, please see Yana’s post HERE.)

Hello, crafters, this is Yana Smakula for Simon Says Stamp! Welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video! Today I’m doing partial stenciling to create a masculine birthday card (we can never have too many of those, right?).

I’m using the Big Birthday Stencils Set – this is a fabulous set of 5 stencils to ink blend one large birthday cake to fill an A2 card. I didn’t want to ink blend a full cake, I needed a slightly different cake, a smaller one, so I used only a part of this stencil – the top cake tier.

I ink blended the cake using Seafoam, Surf, Ocean and Charcoal inks. You need 4 ink colors here as the stencils allow you to add beautiful shading to your cake, you can skip the shading, but I think it is that shading that makes this cake look so unique! And delicious, too!

The stencil set comes with candles to add on top of your cake, I wanted to have different candles on my card – long and skinny. I used a skinny stripe stamp (from Cotton Candy Wishes stamp set, any skinny stripe stamp would work) to create 5 candles, I simply stamped them in Pearfection ink. Next, I ink blended the candle flame using Citrine and Honey inks.

To create the sentiment, I stamped “Make it Epic” in Nocturne Black VersaFine Clair ink overlapping part of the cake and added “It’s your birthday” along one of the candles. I also stamped sparkles in Charcoal ink overlapping the candles.

To add texture and pattern to the candles, I used a white pen and drew simple shapes – lines and dots. I trimmed this panel to 3 ¾” x 5” and foam mounted it on to A2 Sea Glass card base. Lastly, I embellished my card with Rainbow Splash Drops. Love the result! Have fun crafting!

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