Hello, hello crafty friends! Happy STAMPtember®! Yay!!
Oh my goodness! I am so super excited and extremely honored to be a part of Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember® Blog Hop!!
September is my favourite month of the year other than Christmas for card making and I am ready to enjoy the month-long event, STAMPtember®!! Are you ready?!
A new Stitched Leaf Wreath die is so versatile. It makes 9 adorable autumn leaves at a time. It can be used by itself as a negative wreath panel, or positive die cuts with other supplies. I really love it!!
To create this card, 1) I die cut many autumn leaves from the watercolour paper using Stitched Leaf Wreath die, loosely coloured them with Distress inks using waterbrush. 2) For my watercolour background, I blended onto the watercolour panel with several colours of Distress ink using mini blending tool, spritzed with water using Mini Mister. I then added water droplets. 3) I tied the natural twine at the bottom of the background panel and then mounted it on the SSS white top fold scored card base. 4) To finish it off, I mounted all leaves as shown to the watercolour panel using dimensional foam tape and then stamped the sentiments with black ink – ‘Hello’ from the Hello Friend Stamp Set, ‘SENDING LOVE’ from the Best Hugs Stamp Set. 
Yee haw! What a FUN Christmas!! I particularly LOVE the Warm Christmas Wishes Stamp Set because it’s really happening in Australia lol!
For my second card – oh, super duper fun – I used no-line watercoloring technique. I 1) Stamped images from the Warm Christmas Wishes Stamp Set onto the watercolour paper using Antique Linen Distress ink, coloured them with Distress markers. 2) Stamped the sentiment from the Christmas Graphic Stamp Set on the white card stock using black pigment ink, fussy cut it. 3) Mounted the watercolour panel on the white card base and then adhered the sentiment on that using dimensional foam tape.
For my last card for the hop, I played with warm colours of Hybrid ink cube. These are so soft like pigment inks but quite a juicy like dye inks. SO CHARMING!!
To create my wide striped background, 1) I masked off strips using washi tape and blended with (from the top) Lemon Chiffon dye ink, Twirling Tutu, Rosie cheeks, Apricot, Sunkist hybrid inks, and lastly Sunshine dye ink using mini blending tool. I then stamped images from the Hello Friend Stamp Set on the inked panel using embossing ink, clear heat embossed. I then added machine stitches.
Simon Says Stamp is giving away a prize package on each stop of the hop, so leave a comment for your chance to WIN. Winners will be selected on September 7.
Your next stop on the hop is incredibly talented Yana Smakula. We hope you have all enjoyed the new release blog hop! If you’ve missed any of the stops along the way, please head over to the Simon Says Stamp blog to find all the links of the hop.
Thank you so much for stopping by. Have a fabulous day!
Keep smiling and be blessed! God bless you all!
Love Love Love RejoicingCrafts
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RejoicingCrafts 
Three fantastic cards, I can’t wait for my order to arrive. There is such great inspiration in this hop.
Love all of the cards! The water colored leaves are beautiful!
Your cards are so cute. I’m partial to the fall card, I just love that season. I could use the Christmas set though because I reside in south Florida, nobody makes Christmas stuff for us Floridians. Having a great time on this hop.
I’m inspired by the watercolor background on your first card. It’s Lovely.
Lovely cards! Love all the new products and inspiration!
beautiful cards!! love the colors you have chosen!! lovely!
-Berina
Moxie Craftie
LOVE LOVE LOVE! I am a huge fan of the watercolor look!
I love your beautiful watercolored autumn cards, Perfect…….Thanks
such pretty colors! love that you used the sewing machine on your last card – i’m so lazy!
How pretty are those watercolored leaves!
These cards are beautiful. The little details are perfect.
So much watercolored goodness! Just beautiful cards.
Love your color work…
I absolutely love all three of your cards! You know just how to make a great card to a fabulous card with your attention to detail.
I love the first card with the gorgeous watercoloured leaves. Beautiful!
love your cards enjoyed the hop so much and agan aother great teacher on this hop ty happy Stamptember
Your cards are so great. I absolutely LOVE those little stitched leaves. They are adorable.
What fabulously water colored leaves!
Love it!
Three amazing cards! Love them all! I love those lil leaves, soo cute :)
Especially loved the island santa card. :-) Totally made me smile.
And I absolutely love the leaves – sigh- gorgeous!
I love the watercolors. Beautiful cards. Thanks for sharing!!
I truly love your creativity and talent! So glad I found your blog. Great hop and release!
Loved your gorgeous autumn card with the water colored leaves!
Love these, especially the watercolored leaves. So gorgeous!
These are such AMAZING cards!! I especially love all of the glitter and bling on the warm santa one!!! One of my favorites of the blog hop for sure!!
Two of your cards are very soothing and soft, but you NAILED IT with the Warm Christmas Wishes set! Being from a tropical climate, our Christmases were always vibrant and different and HOT. Love how you brought all that back with a simple card and some color. Thank You!
Love the Cards!!!
beautiful watercolor!
Just love that leaf card……… so soft and pretty!
These cards, as with all of your work, are just wonderful! Thank you for sharing your talent with us!
I adore your Warm Season Greetings card!! It is so stinking cute!!!
All three cards are amazing but I love your watercolored leaves.
BEAUTIFUL falling leaves…..loving santa’s sparkly beard too lol
This is such a great release.
I am in love with the fall card. The watercolor leaves are gorgeous!
The warm Christmas wishes set I like. I live in snowy area during that season, but I have friends that live in warm, non-snowy areas and this set would be perfect. I am appreciative of all the work you do and show on your blog.
Great looking projects!
I love your first card. Using the leaves from the wreath die adds another way to use the die. Thanks.
Both of you hello cards make my heart sing!
I absolutely love what you did with the Warm Christmas Wishes stamp! So whimsical! Thank you for sharing your talent and the beautiful cards.
I love these cards. There is a special glow that you created. love it
Love all your cards. The watercolor background on the first card is something I’d like to succeed in. Haven’t made one that doesn’t hurt my eyes. Haha
So pretty!
I love your cards! Especially love the leaves on your first card! Beautiful!
your Christmas card totally made me giggle!
beautiful cards!
Love all your water coloring and blending. Lovely,
I admire your work and today’s cards are delightful. Great job!
So beautiful!! Love your choice of colors and that soft watercolor look!!!
Love how different each card is!