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Monday, December 15, 2008

Simon Says Stamp has another Elephant Card for You! Peanuts!

What do you think of Peanuts? He is from Simon Says Stamp's new clear stamp set called ELEPHANT LOVE! Dee from our Design Team has created this card for you!

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Sneak Peek Of Simon's New Stamp Set: Elephant Love!

Simon Says Stamp has a sneak peek for you from our newest Clear Stamp Set: ELEPHANT LOVE! Design Team Member, DEE, has created the card above! What do you think of our baby elephant?

Here is the stamp set, please contact if you'd like to preorder the stamp set, they should be into stock any day now!

SMILES!

-Heidi

Friday, December 12, 2008

Simon's Annual Holiday Party

Amber, Carla, Terra, Heidi, Heather, Hallie

Last night, the Simon Team members and their significant others, celebrated our Annual Holiday Party!

My favorite part of the evening was seeing the clipboards and journals that Heather decorated with supplies from our store! She did such a wonderful job and it was a big surprise for us all. She let us each pick one to keep and it was a hard choice as they were all really spectacular!

I liked being able to sit down, relax, celebrate, and eat good food with some of my favorite people on earth! We are so lucky to have good, kind, hard working people making up Simon's Team!

Happy Holidays to you and yours!
-Heidi

Simon's BIG OOOPS!

Simon Says Stamp (mostly me) needs to apologize to yoU! I did not realize that Hero Arts wanted us to wait until December 15 to unveil the Brand new Stamp Designs from their 2009 catalog! Therefore, out of respect for Hero Arts, we have taken down the photos we had posted and are making our listings for these items inactive until December 15.

Simply put, we were so excited to get these wonderful new releases out to you (and many of you had been clammering away asking us how soon we would have the stamps available for sale) that we jumped the gun and put them up too quickly.

Again, we are sorry to you and to Hero Arts for our well intentioned mistake!

Be sure to stop back December 15 when we hope to have all of the products back online!

-Heidi

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Hero Arts 2009 Catalog Release!

Hero Arts 2009 Catalog stamps have arrived into our warehouse!
Be inspired!
Ideas above!
Visit our store to buy the beautiful stamps making these great cards! We are listing all of the new stamps! The images will be available December 15!

-Heidi

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Some Christmas Blog Eye Candy!

One of our friends, Timcsoca, made this, check out her blog! Pictures are worth a thousand words if you don't speak her language!

Thought we'd give you some pretty eye candy for the holidays!

-Heidi

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Simon Says Stamp Design Team Call!

Simon Says Stamp is preparing to release 22 fresh and fabulous Clear Stamp sets! Do you blog? Are you a card maker / scrapbooker / visual artist who likes to inspire others with her/his work?

Send us an email with the subject line DESIGN TEAM CALL. Tell us a little bit about yourself and submit a few pieces of your work, send us the link to your blog. We will forward you details about becoming a Design Team Member for Simon Says Stamp! Our last Design Team featured 17 creative talents from all over the world! Pass the info to your creative friends and family!

Existing Design Team members, feel free to email us too! We will be releasing our newest collections soon and can't wait to see what you create!

- Smiles and Rubber Hugs,
Heidi

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Postage for your Christmas Card Envelopes!

No matter how you are sending your Christmas mail, this Rubber Stamp set : Designer Christmas Postage adds a great holiday feeling to your envelope or your card!
Stamps:

Comment to today's blog and we will do a random.org drawing next week. The winner will receive this set of 4 Hero Arts Stamps! *Blog Candy Alert*!

Ok, Back to procrastinating my cards....*wink*
-Heidi

Tim Holtz Continues to Inspire Awe With His Christmas Projects!

Amazing I say! This man Tim Holtz is just incredible! Be sure to check out his blog! Tim is featuring "The 12 Days of Christmas" with Tags. He has very detailed instructions and great photographs to show you how he made the above projects! All supplies are sold in www.SimonSaysStamp.com. We are a premier Retailer for all things Tim Holtz!

Happy Saturday!

-Heidi

Friday, December 5, 2008

Simon Says Clear Stamps Christmas Card Calendar Set!

SNEAK PEEK!!
*Warning* We are brimming with joy and excitement over the new Simon Says Clear Stamps! I am cheezy gushy thrilled to be soooo close to showing you our new products! Please forgive me if I shamelessly plug our artist and Simon Team for working together to create the new Stamps!

Simon Says Stamp is just finishing another run of our exclusive clear stamps! Made in the USA with the highest grade photopolymer, these stamps are a delight! We have listened to you, our customers, and are trying to give you exactly what you want!

I think Sara D has outdone herself this time! This stamp set shown here: Christmas Card Calendar was a last minute addition to our Winter "run" of stamps. We have a very limited supply available in our www.SimonSaysStamp.com store. What do you think? Let Sara know! She works hard day and night creating for our stamping pleasures ;)

We have 21 more fabulous designs to share...would you like us to preview them on the blog?

-Heidi

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Create Beautiful Holiday Ornaments with Ranger Alcohol Inks and Perfect Pearls!

Time to Deck the Halls!

How would you like the step by step instructions to make these beautiful holiday ornaments using Ranger products? Well, this is the season of giving....so here it is!

Click on this link "Ranger Holiday Ornaments" and see how to make these marvelous works of art.

Supplies used are Adirondack Alcohol Ink, Adirondack Alcohol Ink Metal Mixatives, Adirondack Alcohol Ink Blending Solution, Adirondack Ink Applicator and Felt, Perfect Pearls Pigment Powders, Inkssentials Non-Stick Craft Sheet, Inkssentials Mini Mister, Craft Stick, and a clean glass ornament! We have Prima BUBBLES containers - which can be used as ornaments - filled with Prima Flowers in our store! Great value and nonbreakable too!

We would love to see what beautiful color combinations you crafty critters come up with! Let's all get into the Christmas spirit and spread a little cheer!

~TERRA

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Tim Holtz 12 Days of Christmas Tag!

It's Tim Holtz's 12 Days of Christmas Tags straight from tim himself!

i can't believe the endless requests from so many of you asking for the "12 tags of christmas" to return again this year. thank you so much for sharing your excitement about the tags last year - who knew? i honestly didn't know if i would be able to find the time to do it again this year, but here we are...day 1! i enjoy the holiday season so much and especially like the creative side of it all. as far back as i can remember since i was a little kid, making things was all part of what we did around christmas time to celebrate. from the projects in school like glittered pine cones and paper link chains to ornaments made of dough - this time of year inspires many of us to make things by hand. throughout the year we often get too busy to take the time to be creative and make things, yet something about the season inspires us to take a little more time. hopefully for the next 12 days you'll take a little time for yourself and try out some of these techniques. whatever holiday you celebrate customized these to your own individual artistic style - just have fun with it all and enjoy the festive journey...

supplies: distress inks: fired brick, aged mahogany, peeled paint, vintage photo, distress stickles: fired brick, ink blending tool, mini mister, archival ink/jet black, glossy accents, heat tool, grungeboard, mask/concerto (tim holtz idea-ology); rubber stamps: lamp post P3-1338, music V1-1339, set CMS-048 (stampers anonymous); scissors, paper distresser, (tonic); (glue dots); tag, ribbon

step 1: place mask onto tag burnishing it lightly with your hand.

step 2: ink over mask with distress ink using an ink blending tool working in a twisting and tapping motion vs. a swiping motion to avoid lifting the mask off.

step 3: repeat until entire tag is inked - be sure to ink the tag with intense color.

step 4: ink stamp with archival ink and stamp over masked tag. (*be sure to use a waterproof ink for this step.)

step 5: when finished inking, wipe excess ink off mask. carefully remove mask by peeling it away from tag and return to storage sheet.

step 6: mist tag with water from mini mister to allow inks to start blending and bleeding into masked area. (*we used distress inks for the background because they are reactive with water and will spread out when wet and create various tones of color.)

step 7: dry inks with heat tool.

step 8: stamp lamp post grungeboard sheet with archival ink. let dry.

step 9: cut image out with scissors.

step 10: ink edges with distress ink using ink blending tool.

step 11: remove "joy" and "mini holly" from seasonal grungeboard pack.

step 12: ink pieces with distress ink using blending tool.

step 13: adhere grungeboard, lamp post and joy to tag with glossy accents.

step 14: cut holly pieces apart and adhere them to the lamp post with glossy accents.

step 15: drag paper distresser along the edges of the tag to create a tattered effect.

step 16: apply distress stickles over "joy" spreading it around with the tip of the bottle. let dry.

step 17: apply glue dots to lamp post.

step 18: tie ribbon on bells and adhere to tag with glue dots (*i like to use glue dots for any dimensional object since they hold on to just about everything and still allow it to stay flexible.)

now it's time for "my favorite things" giveaways! each day in addition to the technique, i am giving away a few fun and festive prizes from some of my favorite companies! be sure to tell your friends about the "12 tags of christmas" since the more unique visitors i get each day, the more prizes i will be giving away! for your chance to win each day, simply click the word "comments" below and leave a comment sharing your favorite things about the holidays. winners will be chosen at random and posted the following day with the next technique!!!
good luck, have fun, and enjoy a little holiday creativity...t!m

By the way, Did you know you can buy the supplies for this at our Superstore!? www.SimonSaysStamp.com has the best selection of Tim Holtz products in the world! We still offer free shipping for ALL USA orders over $50 and Free shipping worldwide for orders over $100.

-Heidi

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Simon's Team Christmas Tree!

We skipped blogging last night to put up our Christmas tree and decorate in the office. What do you think? Heather and Amber did a great job! The lights don't show very well in the photo, but it is all blinged out!

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Winter Snowflake Card Idea Inspirations by Hero Arts

The snow is coming and we have some really cool embellishments for your cards this season!
I love the Hero Art's new Felt Snowflakes. Click here to see them in the store:

What about snowflake sequins?! from Hero Arts? Oh yeah baby, we have those too!

Did I hear someone say BRADS? Click here to see Hero Art's snowflake brad fasteners.

Simon Says Stamp wants to be your one stop shop for card making, scrapbooking, and altered art supplies! We still have a shipping special : FREE SHIPPING TO USA for all orders over $50 and FREE International shipping all orders over $100! Stop in and have a peek ;)

-Heidi

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