Happy DieCember®!

Good afternoon lovely peeps and happy

DieCember®

Written by our lovely Heidi on the Simon Says Stamp blog

Our very first DieCember was in December 2013, and the team is a bit in awe that it's been 10 years already!! I’m not exactly or precisely sure when die cutting became a hot trend in crafting. It’s hard to pinpoint. However, I do know that die cutting has changed the way that we create. Cutting out beautiful and often intricate images is a delightfully fun part of paper crafting. Die cutting embellishes our art in interesting ways. People that aren’t paper crafters are often mystified when they receive a card that has anything die cut involved in the design. If you haven’t experienced this wonderment and awe, be sure to spread some handmade joy this season!

To celebrate dies as one of my most favorite crafty products (after stamps, of course ;)), we are hosting a month-long DieCember® celebration. Throughout the month you will see special features, sales, education, and inspiration that focus on die cutting.

Kicking off our DieCember® celebration is a release of beautiful exclusive wafer-thin dies. 

I can't believe it's our 10th DieCember®! I was lucky enough to be with the fabulous Simon Says Stamp before the very first DieCember®  & it's always my favourite release as I love all things Christmas. 

Today I have featured the beautiful new Snowflake Hexagon dies which I love and have used to not only create cards but also to decorate presents.

 Supplies used -

Simon Says Stamp White Woodgrain Cardstock, Intense Black ink pad, Tacky Glue, Everything Winter Sentiment Strips, Christmas Cheer Stamps set, Arctic Breeze Pearls, Aurora Borealis Gems, Simply White Crystal Drops,  Double Sided Tape, Guillotine Comfort Paper Trimmer, May Arts Twine

There is so much fabulous inspiration to see online featuring products from the new release. To find them please search for the hashtag #SSSDieCember on Instagram or take a peek at the gallery on the Simon Says Stamp blog. 

Thanks for stopping by & have a wonderful day

xxx

Happy DieCember

It's the 1st December & in our world at Simon Says Stamp that means it's time for this years fabulous 

DieCember 

new release.

I ink blended some Broken China distress Oxide over the center area of my card and once dry I stenciled over it using Stormy Sky Distress Oxide with Simon Says Stamps Diagonal Stripe stencil.

I die cut the inner Thank You dies from Simon's new Thank You dies set from the center of my card and then spritzed the background with water before popping the die cuts out.

The Thank You border was die cut using Simon's white wood grain card stock & foam mounted for some added dimension before assembling my sentiment onto my card & adding a few of Simon's Assorted Moonshine sequins to finish.

 Other supplies used -

 Elizabeth Craft Designs Double Sided Tape, Tonic Guillotine, SSS Tacky Glue

I'm entering my card in the following challenges -

Crafty Creations - anything goes,  Lemon Shortbread - anything goes, Creative Moments  anything goes, Get Creative Challenges - anything goes,  Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes

Gift It! - Simon Says Stamp DT

Good afternoon lovely peeps!

Christmas shopping was a success & I'm pleased to say all presents are bought & wrapped, so I just have Christmas cards to write & post now.

Today I have a longer than usual post to share as I am playing catch up & sharing two cards and also my DT project after having a few technical issues with my lap top which are thankfully now resolved :)

It's Wednesday which means -

 at

SIMON SAYS STAMP WEDNESDAY CHALLENGE

& this week our challenge is
GIFT IT!
Make a gift, gift wrap, gift box, gift bag, gift tag, you get the idea!

This week the design team are featuring



products on our cards.
If you have them we would love to see them but as always it's not compulsory to use them to enter our challenge.

Don't forget you can enter our challenge 5 times and there is no limit to how many challenges you combine your entry with.

Do you use Instagram?  If so, please add #ssswchallenge to your challenge entry uploads so we can see them on there too. 

This week I have created a simple gift tag using MFT's Jumbo Fishtail Banner die to create the base and die cut it using Simon's lovely Sea Glass card stock. I also die cut some white card stock using the next size down die & I then blended some Sea Glass ink in the center. 

I have die cut the beautiful Eliza snowflake using Silver Screen card stock and attached it to my tag & stamped a sentiment from Simon's Joy To The World stamp set in Audrey Blue ink. 

As always our lovely Heidi is sponsoring our challenge with a $50 voucher for the fabulous 

Simon Says Stamp Superstore

Simon has again released lots of lovely new products for DieCember! There really are so many gorgeous goodies in this release, I absolutely love the glitter card stock.

I have created a card using Simon's new Joy To The World Stamp Set & stamped a cute nativity scene with them.

I coloured the images with my copics but got a bit carried away with the colouring and totally forgot to write the copic numbers down, sorry! I heat embossed the stars and then added some pretty sparkle to them using a Wink Of Stella clear glitter marker.

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I'm entering my card in the following challenges -

Crafty Creations - anything goes, Crafting From The Heart - anything goes,  Inspiration Destination - anything goes, Lemon Shortbread - anything goes, Creative Moments  anything goes, The Crafty Addicts - anything goes, Create & Makes - anything goes

My last card today features the adorable little Picture Book Happy Penguin wafer die from the DieCember release.

I die cut Simon's 3 Sided Scallop wafer die to create my base and embossed a snowfall background using Taylored Expressions Snowfall embossing folder.  I die cut the cute penguin in black and white glitter card stock and popped him onto the card & added a heat embossed sentiment from Simon's Joy To The World stamp set. To finish I added a few Gloss White Crystal Drops on to some of the embossed snowflakes to add some dimension to my card.

 Other supplies used -

Heat Tool, Watermark Ink Pad, White Embossing Powder, Gloss White & Crystal Glaze Crystal Drops,  Elizabeth Craft Designs double sided tape, Elizabeth Craft Designs Soft Finish Card Stock, Tonic Guillotine, Aleene's Tacky Glue, Cuttlebug, X Press copic blending card, Ink Blending Tool & Kool Tak foam pads.

Apologies for the long post today & thanks for stopping by

It's DieCember at Simon Says Stamp with Swirly Tilda

Hello lovely peeps,

Apologies for being so late with my post tonight, it's been one of those days where absolutely nothing has gone to plan!
 

Today is the start of DieCember at the fabulous

SIMON SAYS STAMP

and I have the pleasure of showcasing one of Simon's lovely new dies.

 

 

The die I am showcasing is called Callilope Flourish which I wanted to use on a Christmas card to show how versatile it is.

I have die cut this pretty die twice and added lots of lovely sparkle to my die cut and then added a gorgeous snowflake which is another of Simon's dies called Snowflake Cluster.

At last I have got around to sharing a card created using one of Magnolia's adorable new Christmas stamps. This little lady is called Swirly Tilda and I love her.

(all goodies linked at the end of my post)



Special sale! Shop this category and use code: DIES to receive 50% off all dies in this category!

 

 

 I'm entering my card in the following challenges -
ABC - Y is for Yuletide, Cards Galore - anything goes, Crafty Hazelnuts - anything goes, Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge - anything goes, Dies R Us - Winter, Sparkles Forum Christmas - blue Christmas, The Craft Garden - Christmas

My lovely Simon Says Stamp teamies are also all featuring new release dies on their blogs so enjoy a hop around and visit the girlies, as always the links to my teamies blogs are in my sidebar.

That's me finished for tonight peeps, thanks for stopping by



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