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Monday, March 30

Bunny Hop

Hello Monday, my friends! And welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Thank you for joining us for the Let's Art Journal Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

It's been wonderful having Simona with us this month. I am sure you have enjoyed her beautiful inspiration as much as I have!

This week the challenge is: EMBOSS IT!

Happy Easter to those of you who celebrate! I created a batch of cards to send out to friends and family, with a bunny theme.

I stamped a fluffle of rabbits on watercolor paper.

I was thinking of how rabbits enjoy being in the garden, so embossed the background with daisies.

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I wanted the embossing to show a bit more, so went over it with Lemonade ink.

I stamped Happy Easter...

Meanwhile, I colored my rabbits with Tombow markers, went over them with a water brush, then cut them out.

I stamped a sentiment and bunnies inside the card.

Now, I have a fluffle of rabbit cards ready to mail out!

HAPPY EASTER!

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away a $25 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store
Supplies:

Tim Holtz Mr Rabbit stamps

Simon Says Stamp Hoppy Days Ahead stamps

Simon Says Stamp Fresh Daisies Embossing Folder

Big Shot

Simon Says Stamp Nocturne and Lemonade inks

Simon Says Stamp Rainbow Splash Cardstock

Canson Watercolor paper

Simon Says Stamp Small Blending Brush

Simon Says Stamp Everyday Scissors

Simon Says Stamp Big Momma Foam Tape

Paper Trimmer

Waterbrush

Tombow Markers

A5 Ccards and Envelopes

So now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting! Maura

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Saturday, March 22

Simon Says Rain or Shine!

Simon Says Stamp Rain or Shine Release!

Hello creative friends! Welcome to the Rain of Shine Blog hop! We are all about the new release at Simon Says Stamp today.I am using the Ear-risistably Cute stamp set, and made a set of place cards for the Easter table.

HAPPY EASTER PLACE CARDS

I began by stamping the bunny images on Simon's heavy white cardstock. Next, I used colored pencils to color the images.

Once colored, I fussy cut the top of the images out, then folded the paper in half and creased with the bone folder. (In retrospect, I think next time I would stamp the images separately and adhere to the place card.)

I added thin strips of washi tape to the bottom, and sequins and buttons to finish the place cards.

Each of the bunny images is here on a place card for the table at Easter.

Bunny Trio 1

Bunny Trio 2

And...here's another project using this stamp set!

A TRIO OF ATCs

SHARE YOUR CREATIONS WITH THE NEW RELEASE IN OUR GALLERY https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/blog/simon-brand-galleries/rain-or-shine-2025-gallery/

LEAVE A COMMENT HERE ON THIS POST FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A $25 VOUCHER. NAMES WILL BE DRAWN FROM EACH BLOG ON THE HOP AND POSTED ON THE SIMON SAYS STAMP BLOG WEDS. MARCH 26! HOW COOL IS THAT?!!

BE SURE TO CHECK OUT ALL THE STOPS ON THIS FABULOUS HOP!!

Simon Says Stamp Blog
Nina-Marie Trapani
Barbara Tarayao
Cathy Zielske
Laura Bassen
Heather Hoffman
Keisha Charles
Heather Ruwe
Yana Smakula
Miriam Prantner
Mindy Eggen
Jean Doeringsfeld
Kim Hamilton
Maura Hibbitts You are here
Samantha Pfrimmer
Hanh Nguyen

ALSO, BE SURE TO CHECK OUT FRIDAY'S HOP TOO FOR MORE INSPO!!

SUPPLIES:

Simon Says Stamp Ear-risistably Cute stamp set

Simon Says Stamp Versa Fine Clair Nocturne ink

Simon Says Stamp Fine Detail Scissors

Simon Says Stamp #120 white cardstock

Bone Folder

Colored Pencils

Bearly Art Precision Glue

Buttons and Sequins from stash

Thursday, March 18

Let's Hop!

Hoppy Spring!

Hello friends! I have a quick share of the cards I made with a hopping theme for a class recently. They are on springs so the frog and small rabbit move.

Monday, March 12

Easter Inspiration

Hello friends, it's Monday and that means a new challenge at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! This week we have this gorgeous mood board, designed by Zoey, to inspire you for this week's challenge Easter Inspired.

I was especially inspired by the bunny and gorgeous colors to make my Easter card.

If you are like me, every once in awhile something comes in the mail that catches your eye, and not for the content, but the paper. I mean, who could throw away a pink holographic envelope? I knew I could use it for something, and I die cut some bunnies with it - if you look behind each bunny you will see a shiny shadow.

Why not emboss dots onto dots?

The stamp platform works great to layout the words and bunny for inside my card.

I added lots of carrots in the background and a bit of watercolor on the bunny and some glitter gloss.

When I put my bunnies on the dots, they didn't show up enough, so I toned it down a bit with white paint, and popped up the pink a bit more with the worm lipstick ink.

I've had Dina Wakley's new washi tape sitting on my desk, and I looked over at it as I was working and thought, "hey, these colors would look great on this!"

It was fun die cutting the bunnies in the bright papers from Pink and Main and putting them together. I looked at it and thought, hmm, needs something, which turned out to be a splash of Rainbow Unicorn from 28 Lilac Lane. This is a fantastic spring mix!

I wanted to add fluffy bunny tails, but when I tried it, I just laughed, they looked so weird. Maybe if I had tiny pom poms?

My joyous little bunny brigade wishes you a Happy Easter (if you celebrate), and a lovely spring to everyone!

Now it's your turn to be inspired by Zoey's mood board and Easter! I hope you will join us in this week's challenge. One participant will be chosen for a $50 shopping voucher from our generous friends at Simon Says Stamp!