It's STAMPtember®!!!!

Whoo hoo!!! Hi everyone! Today is an exciting day! It's the beginning of STAMPtember® (or as the non-stamping world calls it, September). ;)  This is the time of year when we start making that transition for summer to fall. School begins, temperatures start to cool down, and Thanksgiving and Christmas will be here before we know it.

Simon Says Stamp has come out with an AMAZING release for STAMPtember® featuring stamps, dies, and stencils for everything from Halloween to Thanksgiving to Christmas and more! In addition, they have come out with 6 new ink colors, new sequins, embossing powders, and stamp cleaner! The Simon brand is growing! Yay!

I have a couple of cards to share but first here is Simon Says Stamp's full STAMPtember® 2014 Release:

Simon Says Stamp Bringing Home the Tree Dies and Stamps Set	Simon Says Stamp Snowy Trees and Sled Dies and Stamps Set	Simon Says Stamp Home for the Holiday Stamp Set	Simon Says Stamp Holidays at Home Dies
Simon Says Stamp Reason for the Season Dies and Stamps Set	Simon Says Stamp Nativity Stamp Set	Simon Says Stamp Holy Couple and Barn Dies	Simon Says Stamp Decorative Ornaments Dies and Stamps Set
Simon Says Stamp Ornaments Stamp Set	Simon Says Stamp Holiday Ornaments Dies	Simon Says Stamp Scribble Trees Dies and Stamps Set	Simon Says Stamp Sketched Trees Stamp Set
Simon Says Stamp Trees and Trunks Dies	Simon Says Stamp SNowfall Assortment Dies and Stamps Set	Simon Says Stamp Lots of Snowflakes Stamp Set	Simon Says Stamp More Fun Flakes Dies Set
Simon Says Stamp So Many Snowflakes Dies Set	Simon Says Stamp Alexis Snowflake Die	Simon Says Stamp Rylynn Snowflake Die	Simon Says Stamp Melody Snowflake Die
Simon Says Stamp Abby Snowflake Die	Simon Says Stamp Costumed Pets Dies and Stamps Set	Simon Says Stamp Trick or Treat Stamp Set	Simon Says Stamp Halloween Dies
Simon Says Stamp Feast of Thanksgiving Dies and Stamps Set	Simon Says Stamp Thanksgiving Table Stamp Set	Simon Says Stamp Thanksgiving Feast Dies	Simon Says Stamp Real Leaves Dies and Stamps Set
Simon Says Stamp Leaves and Scribbles Stamp Set	Simon Says Stamp Fall Leaves Dies	Simon Says Stamp with Clearly Besotted Cute Christmas Characters Dies and Stamps Set	Simon Says with Clearly Besotted Clear Stamps Winter Friends Stamp Set
Simon Says Stamp with Clearly Besotted Cold Weather Friends Dies	Simon Says with Clearly Besotted Wreaths Dies and Stamps Set	Simon Says with Clearly Besotted Autumn Blessings Stamp Set	Simon Says Stamp with Clearly Besotted Fall Wreaths Dies
Simon Says Stamp Sweet Things Stamp Sets	Simon Says Stamp Fruity Sweet Dies and Stamps Set	Simon Says Stamp Sweet Fruits Dies	Simon Says Stamp You're So Sweet Stamp Set
Simon Says Stamp I Love Donuts Stamp Set	Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember Sentiments Stamp Set	Simon Says Stamp Season's Sentiments Stamp Sets	Simon Says Stamp Many Thanks Stamp Set
Simon Says Stamp Peace on Earth Stamp Set	Simon Says Stamp Essential Greetings Stamp Set	Simon Says Stamp Inside Holiday Greetings	Simon Says Stamp Presents and Ornaments Stamp Set
Simon Says Stamp Tons of Hearts Stamp Set	Simon Says Stamp Leaf Background Stamp	Simon Says Stamp Table Place Cards Dies Set	Simon Says Stamp Giving Thanks Die
Simon Says Stamp Thanks Card DIe	Simon Says Stamp Holiday Frames Dies	Simon Says Stamp Scripts of the Season Dies Set	Simon Says Stamp Christmas Blessings Dies
Simon Says Stamp Season's Greetings Dies	Simon Says Stamp Deco Trees Dies	Simon Says Stamp Treesome Dies Set	Simon Says Stamp Wishing Trees Die
Simon Says Stamp Banded Tree Die	Simon Says Stamp Winter Trees Die	Simon Says Stamp Detailed Gifts Dies Set	Simon Says Stamp Brilliant Gifts Die
Simon Says Stamp Pile of Gifts Die	Simon Says Stamp Poinsettia Parade Dies	Simon Says Stamp Star of David Die	Simon Says Stamp Paws Dies
Simon Says Stamp Scattered Circles Dies Set	Simon Says Stamp Luminary Circles Die	Simon Says Stamp Confetti Circle Die	Simon Says Stamp Lot of Stamptember Stencils
Simon Says Stamp Christmas Scene Stencil	Simon Says Stamp Swirls and Dots Stencil	Simon Says Stamp Zig Zag Dots Stencil	Simon Says Stamp Dots and Lines Stencil
Simon Says Stamp Mosaic Ornaments Stencil	Simon Says Stamp Mosaic Stars Stencil	Simon Says Stamp Premium Dye Ink Pads Set of 32 Colors Bonus!	Simon Says Stamp Premium Dye 6 Ink Pads Fairytale Set
Simon Says Stamp Cobblestone Dye Ink	Simon Says Stamp Caribbean Blue Dye Ink	Simon Says Stamp Maliblue Dye Ink	Simon Says Stamp Goldenlocks Dye Ink
Simon Says Stamp Beanstalk Green Dye Ink	Simon Says Stamp Coral Reef Dye Ink	Simon Says Stamp White Fine Detail Embossing Powder	Simon Says Stamp Clear Fine Detail Embossing Powder
Simon Says Stamp Ultra Clean Stamp Cleaner Dauber	Simon Says Stamp Fall Festival Sequins	Simon Says Stamp Celebration Sequins	Simon Says Stamp Purple Haze Sequins
Simon Says Stamp Winter Flurries Sequins

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I'm so excited to have had a chance to play with some of the new goodies and I'm going to share a couple of cards today using FIVE of their new stamp sets. Tomorrow I'll be back to show a couple of cards featuring two of their new stencils.

Here's my first card which is on a 3 1/2 by 9 (business-sized) card base...

I have to admit... I had the "Do You want to Build a Snowman?" song from the movie Frozen playing in my head the whole time I was making this card, lol. :) The stamp set I used to make this cute fellow was Simon's new Sketched Trees Stamp Set. When I saw the tree trunks I immediately thought of snowman arms. I stamped my snowman's arms with Hero Arts Cup O' Joe Shadow Ink before cutting them out and shortening them just a bit. I adhered them to the body of my snowman which was created with MFT circle dies. The nose and scarf were created using two of the outline triangular tree stamps which were stamped on SSS cardstock, cut out, and paper pieced onto my snowman. My snowman's eyes were also created using stamps from this set. Finally, my sentiment is from Simon's new Inside Holiday Greetings Stamp Set.  

Here's my second card...

I did something a little different with this one too. I used 3 of Simon's new Christmas stamp sets to make a non-Christmas card. Christmas only comes once a year so I love it when Christmas stamps can be used year round. This card is actually for my sister who just moved into her first house. I used the 'barn' from Simon's new Nativity Stamp Set as the house, the gifts from the Presents and Ornaments Stamp Set, and the 'home' sentiment and birds from the Home for the Holidays Stamp Set. Finally I used the 'welcome' sentiment from Simon's previously released Baby Stamp Set. The birds and some of the gifts have touches of Wink of Stella Clear Marker and Glossy Accents added to them for interest and the home is popped on the card with foam adhesive.

Supplies:

Simon Says Stamp Scribble Trees Dies and Stamps Set	Simon Says Stamp Sketched Trees Stamp Set	Simon Says Stamp Inside Holiday Greetings	Simon Says Stamp Bringing Home the Tree Dies and Stamps Set	Simon Says Stamp Home for the Holiday Stamp Set
Simon Says Stamp Nativity Stamp Set	Simon Says Stamp Presents and Ornaments Stamp Set	Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember® Baby Clear Stamps	MFT Favorite Things Circle Stax One Dies	Sizzix Big Shot Die Cut Machine
Hero Arts Cup of Joe Shadow Ink	Hero Arts Fresh Peach Shadow Ink	Hero Arts Pale Tomato Shadow Ink	Hero Arts Soft Pool Shadow Ink	Hero Arts Pool Shadow Ink
Hero Arts Green Hills Shadow Ink	Simon Says Stamp Premium Dye Ink - Leaf Green	Versafine Onyx Black Ink Pad	Zig Clear Wink of Stella Glitter Marker	Spectrum Noir Markers
Tonic Studios 12 Inch Guillotine Paper Trimmer	Martha Stewart Scoring Board	Martha Stewart Medium Footed Stamp Mount	EK Success Cutter Bee Scissors	My Minds Eye Ooh La La For Her 6x6 Paper Pad
SSS Surf Blue Cardstock	Simon Says Stamp #100 Cardstock - Lipstick Red	Simon Says Stamp #100 Cardstock - Orange Peel	Neenah Solar White Cardstock 250 sheet	Neenah Solar White Cardstock 25 sheet
Tombow Stamp Runner and Refill	3M Scotch Double-Sided Foam Tape	Ranger Glossy Accents

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Just a reminder that you check out the full Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember® release HERE.

Thanks so much for stopping by!
See you tomorrow!
Sarah