Simon Says Stamp – Send Happiness Release Blog Hop Day 2

Hi, Friends!

Welcome to day 2 of the Simon Says Stamp Send Happiness Release Blog Hop! The Send Happiness Release is packed full of joyous products to bring smiles to your face. I hope my cards help inspire you to create and send happiness too! If you do, be sure to add your images to the gallery!

My first card features the new Lil’ Critters Boston Terrier – how cute is this little guy?! I die-cut him from brown, white, and black cardstock and pieced him together after ink-blending some Ground Espresso Distress Oxide to the outer edges of his body. After piecing him together, I added blush to his cheeks and some white gel highlights.

I used the Stitched Rectangles and Nested Circles to create a frame for him. I attached this die-cut panel over a piece of rainbow patterned paper using foam adhesive and attached the Boston Terrier in the center with foam adhesive also. To finish, I added sentiment strips from the new Reverse Happy sentiments.

The new Folk Heart Background is so pretty and I stamped it to make an emboss-resist card using Distress Oxide Inks (Tattered Rose, Worn Lipstick, Seedless Preserves).

After ink-blending, I splattered my panel with water and white paint. I trimmed it down to mat my cardbase, then attached the sentiment strips as well as some sequins.

My final card uses the Chunky Flower Mask. I applied the mask over a piece of white cardstock and masked off each flower to ink-blend the full rainbow using Distress Oxide Inks (Abandoned Coral, Carved Pumpkin, Squeezed Lemonade, Lucky Clover, Mermaid Lagoon, Wilted Violet).

To finish my card, I stamped a sentiment from the So Far So Good stamp set and die-cut it using a Nested Circle – which cut it perfectly right outside the embossed circle. I used the next size up to die-cut another circle from gold glitter cardstock. I adhered each layer with foam adhesive to the ink-blended panel and finished by adhering coordinating jewels to the centers of each flower.

I hope you enjoyed my projects for this release! Check out the full release – supplies are listed below. Thanks for stopping by!

GIVEAWAY:
Simon Says Stamp is giving away a $25 coupon at every stop on the hop from my comments below. Winners will be chosen over the weekend and posted on the Simon Says Stamp blog on Wednesday, the 1st of July. If you are the winner, you will need to email Simon Says Stamp to claim your prize.

BLOG HOP LIST:
Simon Says Stamp Blog
Debby Hughes
Laura Bassen
Heather Hoffman
Sidnie Des Jardins
Vicky Papaioannou
Emma Williams
Laurie Willison
Bobbi Lemanski
Caly Person
Betty Wright
Lin Brandyberry

SUPPLIES:
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SSS Lil Critters Boston Terrier	SSS Reverse Happy	SSS Folk Heart	SSS Chunky Flower Mask	SSS Stitched Rectangles
SSS Nested Circles	SSS So Far So Good	SSS Cardstock	Sakura White Gelly Roll SSS	SSS Assortment Glitter Cardstock
TH Distress Oxide SSS	Neenah Solar White 80 lb SSS	Neenah Solar White 110 lb SSS	MFT Over the Rainbow Paper Pack	Wagner Heat Tool SSS
Versamark Ink SSS	Embossing Powder Bag SSS	HA White Detail EP SSS	ATG Gun SSS	3M Scotch Foam Tape SSS
Distress Collage Medium Matte SSS	LF Stamp Shammy SSS	WRMK Precision Advanced Press SSS	Mini Score Board SSS	Teflon Bone Folder SSS
Tim Holtz Tonic Guillotine Trimmer SSS	TH Glass Media Mat SSS	Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber SSS

DESTASH SALE!
If you’re interested in buying some lightly used or unused products in mystery destash boxes, please check out my Destash Sale Page!