♥Simon Says Stamp and Show GDT and Tutorial and a Giveaway! ♥

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Today I am Guest Designing at the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge Blog! They have the BEST Vintage style challenges around and this week's challenge is called "A Little Stamping"! You can use either a small stamp on your creation or use a stamp in some small way. Get creative and have fun!!

I actually didn't use a small stamp, by any means, or either stamp in a small way! But I have a fun tutorial over there on how to use Bleach with your images! It's so easy and fun and gives great highlights to stamped, embossed images using household bleach.

These are sneaky peeks of 2 of the cards I made. To see them in full, please visit the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge Blog.

I f you leave me a comment both here on this post and 1 over on the Challenge Blog, you will have 2 chances to win a fun, vintage inspired Surprise Goodie Bag from me! And if you join in on the challenge, I will give you an extra chance! Just let me know you joined it by leaving me your Entry #. You can join the latest challenge HERE! Easy Peasy!! Good luck and more importantly, have fun!

And before I go, I want to give a special thank you to May Flaum, the DT Leader, over at the Simon Says Stamp and Show Blog! I had so much fun coming over to the "Vintage Side"!! Thank you for having me!

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♥ Simon Says Stamp and Show GDT ♥

♥ This was supposed to Auto-Post this morning! Yeah Right!! Blogger!!! ughh! ♥

Happy Monday everyone!! I hope you all had a glorious weekend! This week I am Guest Designing for the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge Blog! Yes, I am on the Simon Says Stamp DT but this is the Vintage Challenge Blog for Simon Says that I'm GDT for! I am super excited about it too! Love my vintage!!
                             
                                             

I am just showing you a little sneaky peek, for now, of 1 of my cards. I will have a full tutorial for Stamping with Bleach Out images, on the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge Blog on Wednesday!

So make sure you stop by there on Wednesday and leave me some love! I will have a Giveaway from a "Random Comment" on both the Simon Says Stamp and Show Blog and mine from comments on Wednesday's posts! The winners will receive a special Goody Bag from me!! :)

Oh, and please stop by the Simon Says Stamp and Show Blog now to leave some love for the Super amazing DT over there! Such talent!!

Have a great day/night!

hugs...

♥ A Monochromatic Shabby Chic Card ♥

Hi everyone! Just stopping in to share a card I made for 2 awesome challenge blogs. The Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge Blog and the Let's Get Shabby Challenge Blog. Both of their challenges this week is to make a card using only one color. So FUN and challenging!

I used some gorgeous papers by Prima from their Printery line. I also used some Prima lace trim, punched butterflies, Liquid Pearls, lace, seam binding, a chipboard heart, paint, a button, glitter and the "beautiful" is from the Princess Blush stamp set by My Mind's Eye.

I hope you all have a "beautiful" day! Thanks for stopping by my little blog! I really appreciate it!

Hugs and lottsa love...

♥ Simon Says...SUPER Hop and Treasure Hunt! ♥

For the second year in a row, Simon Says Stamp and Show and The Simon Says Stamp Challenges  are joining forces to bring you a SUPER hop and treasure hunt to celebrate the approaching fall and winter holidays.

To help celebrate we will be giving a BIG BASKET OF CRAFTING GOODIES to the winner of this hop! PLUS 3 $25 VOUCHERS to the Simon Says Stamp Store! The vouchers will be the hidden treasure on 3 DT blogs and you have to find them.

The Blog hop will start, today, August 31st, on the Simon Says Challenge Blog

and will finish on September 5th, at on the Simon Says Stamp and Show Blog.

The theme for both challenges this week will be ANYTHING GOES. You can make anything you like … a card, an ATC, a Scrapbook layout … the possibilities are endless!

You will need to hop through each blog, find the little parcel of goodies and make a note on which designer’s blog you found them. You do not HAVE to comment on all the DT blogs but we would appreciate any comments you would like to leave. If you lose your way at any time a full list of all the participating blogs with links will be available on Simon Says Stamp Challenge and the Stamp and Show Challenge blogs

For more details please refer to the Simon Says Stamp Challenge or the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge blogs for more details.

The last stop on the hop is the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge blog. You will need to leave a comment there with the names of the 3 blogs with treasure chest pictures. The comments will be moderated so you will not be able to see the answers.

If you arrived here from the super talented Mandy's Blog,  then you are going in the right direction otherwise you need to start at the beginning on the Simon Says Stamp Challenge.

For my card, I used the adorable Itty Bitty stamp set called "Enjoy this Day" by Unity Stamps. I love the vintage style bicycle and beautiful sentiment. I used some pretty paper by Cosmo Cricket. I also dry embossed the paper with an old Cuttlebug Embossing Folder. I don't remember the name of it but it has alot of vines and flowers on it. I then ran some Pebbles pastel chalks over the embossed areas to give it color. I also ran my paper doily and tag through the Cuttlebug with the Swiss Dots folder.

To finish off my card, I added some Prima trim, seam binding ribbon, glitter and some Liquid Pearls in White Opal.

From here you need to go to the super talented and very sweet Heather's Blog for more inspiration :-) I would appreciate a comment if you would like to leave one

Have fun hopping along!!