Simon Says........New Somethings!

Welcome to another challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog!

Happy New Year and welcome to our first challenge of 2017 !  Our theme this week is "New Somethings" and the team are showcasing Simon Says Stamp exclusive products. 

My "new" is a set of Simon rose dies from the last DieCember release called Hey Love.  I die-cut them once and made 2 cards from them, using the positive and negative die-cuts.

This first one uses the negative die-cuts, and some papers that I made ages ago using the polished stone technique (pouncing alcohol inks on glossy white paper).   I love how this one appears to have been stenciled, but I just used the positive die-cut as a spacer to insert my negative pieces, gluing them down one by one, then removing the outine die, which I then used on my 2nd card below.

supplies: white and aqua cardstock, my own polished stone papers, Simon's Elegant Roses dies and It's Your Birthday stamps, DieNamics Layered Leaves, Blueprints 20 stitched rectangle, Winnie & Walter Audrey's Cutaways scalloped rectangle

For this one, I used the positive die-cuts:

supplies: white cardstock, my own polished stone papers, Simon's Elegant Roses dies and It's Your Birthday stamps, DieNamics Layered Leaves, Taylored Expressions Garden Party embossing folder, Winnie & Walter Audrey's Cutaways scalloped rectangle, Doodlebug enamel dots

I used another "new" crafty item on this last card, the lovely Garden Party embossing folder.

Now it's your turn - I can't wait to see what you create!  Heidi has provided another $50.00 gift voucher

to the amazing Simon Says Stamp store for 1 lucky random winner of this week's challenge!