Simon Says........Something New!

Happy New Year!  And it's a new challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge blog!

This week our theme is Something New ....... new baby, new home, new crafty item, you get the picture!  The Design Team are using Simon exclusive products this week.

I'm using some new Simon stamp sets for my cards this week.  I made a stamp-heavy, layered card and a CAS one.

supplies: Simon's Lots of Snowflakes, Hand Lettered Winter Wishes, and Island Blue cardstock (for framing panels), also teal glitter cardstock and the largest of Wplus9's Snowflake Trio dies, silver sequins.

I had planned to make this card using the new Simon Stitched Rectangles dies, but I keep missing them as they come into stock and sell back out again!  They would have made making this card so much easier......but I was determined, so I did it the hard way.  I started with 1 panel of white cardstock and stamped everything you see on it then took my paper trimmer and cut out the inner rectangle, and then a secondary one from what was left.  Each panel was framed with Island Blue cardstock, and then put back together, lifting each one above the other with adhesive squares.   My second card uses the same snowflake theme, but was so much easier to make, using a panel of negative snowflake die-cuts.

supplies: Simon's Hand Lettered Winter Wishes, Wplus9's Snowflake Trio dies, teal glitter cardstock, Lawn Fawn sequins

Now it's your turn!  As always, Heidi has provided another $50.00 gift voucher for the random winner of our challenge, to be used at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store!