Prairie Paper & Ink

SSS STAMPtember 2017 Release & Review!

Sooooooo exciting to kick off STAMPtember®!!! For those of you not aware: Simon Says Stamp started STAMPtember® several years ago and it's a month-long celebration of stamping and crafting and FUN. There's a BIG release today (more on that below!) and a bunch of special exclusive collaboration releases throughout the month as well as giveaways and goodness-knows what sort of excitement.

I highly recommend following the Simon Says Stamp blog HERE <-----click! as well as the Simon Says Stamp Facebook page <-----click! to stay in the know!

OK here's my Release & Review video (note that I'm only showing some of the items being released - I've linked to all of them (in the order I showed them in the video, as well as the other items I mentioned) below). You can see the full release at the SSS store HERE.

AAANNNDDD stay tuned b/c I'll have a blog hop post and video coming in a little bit and there's gonna be GIVEAWAYS!!! ;) ;) <3

 

You can watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <-------click!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. If the product images have sets of letters below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. SSS = Simon Says Stamp, AZ = Amazon, MFT = My Favourite Things, SnS = Scrap N Stamp (Canada) etc. Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home with my kids! I appreciate your support more than words can say!

I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself!  

Die Cut Scene Cards | Honey Bee Stamps & Ellen Hutson llc United We Flourish Blog Hop

Hello everyone! I'm so excited to be participating in a collaborative blog hop between the Honey Bee Stamps and Ellen Hutson llc teams this morning to celebrate their United We Flourish release!

There's a TON of inspiration along the way as well as giveaway info so be sure to read to the end!

Here's what I created:

I started pulling out different shades of yellow card stock and then got die cutting and ended up making 2 cards because I was having so much fun!

I combined the Sending Sunshine stamps with the coordinating Ray of Sunshine word dies, and the Partly Cloudy (love those little stitched swirls in all the clouds!) and Sunburst A2 Cover Plate dies to create my first scene.

For my second card I stamped the words from the Sending Sunshine set onto die cuts I created with the HB Cloud Borders dies, and adhered those over another Sunburst A2 Die cut sun.

On both cards I was rather liberal with the sequins from the new HB Sunny Days sequin mix - they were just too pretty to limit to just a few ;)

On the insides of both cards I created sentiments using stamps from the Sending Sunshine stamp set. I have to admit the one on the right just makes me snicker - I like tongue-in-cheek sentiments like that.

If you want to see how these cards came together you can watch my video below:

Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <--------click!

Next stop on the hop is Carissa Wiley's fab blog <-----click!

Here's the list of all the stops in case you may have missed any:

Honey Bee Blog

The CLASSroom

Amy Rysavy (you're here!)

Carissa Wiley

Carly Tee Minner

Carolyn Peeler

Julia Stainton

Lisa Adametz

Lisa Cisneros

Melissa Bickford

Nicole Sphor

Taniesa Vlasak

Now for the GIVEAWAY info - to celebrate, two randomly selected commenters will win a $30 gift certificate to the Ellen Hutson shop. To enter just leave a comment on the Ellen Hutson Classroom blog or the Honey Bee blog by 11:59pm PST on Friday, September 8^th.

Thanks so much for stopping by!! :)

ETA: I wanted to add this note from Melissa (owner of Honey Bee Stamps): Honey Bee Stamps is Sending Sunshine to Texas. For the State of Texas and helping with the recovery, we are donating a portion of the sales to the JJ Watt Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund. This fund gives 100% of all donations back to those in need.

I am so proud to be working with such wonderful and generous people/companies (SOOOOO many of my crafting friends in Texas are rallying together and collecting donations and helping those in need - it's been wonderful to see!!).

 I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. If the product images have sets of letters below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. SSS = Simon Says Stamp, AZ = Amazon, MFT = My Favourite Things, SnS = Scrap N Stamp (Canada) etc. Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home with my kids! I appreciate your support more than words can say!

I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself!