Blog Birthday Giveaway #5 - Simon Says Stamp

Good evening!!! So - this little blog is celebrating FIVE years this month - on October 20th!!! I can hardly believe it has been that long, and yet in some ways I don't remember not doing this. I have been SOOOO incredibly blessed by all the amazing people I have met through this hobby - and so incredibly lucky to work with some AMAZING products and companies. To celebrate I have lined up TONS of giveaways from some of these amazing places. HUGE thanks to each of them for their generous donations of prizes - I'm super excited to be able to share them with you!

So, today's giveaway is a good one I'm telling you! Simon Says Stamp has super generously donated a $50 gift certificate to one lucky winner! YAY!!! I'm excited to begin working with them starting this month, and sharing lots of fun projects using some of their exclusive stamps, dies, inks, cardstock, and more! SSS has just finished celebrating STAMPtember - a month long celebration of stamping, marked by some amazing release and exclusive collaborations with lots of amazing companies! They also carry a large line of just about anything craft related that you could want or imagine. They have an active blog - full of fabulous inspiration, and two wonderful challenge blogs - the Monday Challenge Blog, and the Wednesday Challenge Blog, with weekly challenges and giveaways.

I used one of the adorable STAMPtember releases from SSS to make my card below:

I used the adorable new SSS Warm Christmas Wishes stamp set, stamped with MFT Black Licorice Hybrid ink, and colored with Copics on Copic X-press it Blending cardstock. I don't have the matching dies, so I just fussy cut them out. I layered them with my favorite foam adhesive together with some pattern paper from Basic Grey's 6x6 Juniper Berry paper pad, and the red gingham which is from My Mind's Eye Sleigh Bells Ring 6x6 paper pad (no longer in stock at SSS, but there are some items from that line that you can still find HERE). I rounded one corner using my nice and hefty We R Memory Keepers Corner Chomper, and tied some black May Arts jute twine around, threading through a hole in the rounded corner before tying. Finished off with some enamel dots and a bit of Glossy Accents on the sunglasses and the lights on the trees!

You can enter the giveaway below using Rafflecopter - this is my first time using this method for a giveaway, but since I have so many to do this month I thought it might help make it easier! So - if there are any bumps along the way, please forgive me as I figure them out? 

All giveaways will stay open until the 20th (the official birthday date!) and I will announce all winners that day! If you already follow on Pinterest, Youtube, or Facebook - feel free to leave your name for each day of giveaways, no need to be a new follower only!

Have a wonderful day - and good luck!

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