Simon Says..........Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge!  We are celebrating our 8th birthday this week!

Our theme, of course, is Happy Birthday and we're playing with our own Simon Says Stamp exclusives this week.

My first card would work for a spring birthday:

supplies: white cardstock, Bristol paper, Simon's Friendship Blooms and More Spring Flowers, Zig markers and water, broken china distress oxide ink and ink blending tool

My flowers were colored and cut out.  Then I sponged on some broken china oxide ink in the area where I wanted them to be.  Next I stamped my sentiment, and lastly, I added my flowers, popping up the bottom daffodil for some extra dimension.

My next card uses a Simon die, and ink colors that might be most appropriate for a summer birthday:

supplies: white cardstock, Simon Painted Happy Birthday die, Diagonal Stripe stencil, finger dauber, Fresh Fruit ink cubes, sequins to match

I started by cutting my sentiment, and not removing it from the paper scrap until I had colored the individual letters, using the new Fresh Fruit ink cubes and a finger dauber.  After popping out the sentiment, I glued it onto the scalloped pinpoint rectangle.  Next I trimmed another piece of cardstock just slightly smaller than an A2 size, and used my diagonal stencil and the same inks to color that.  Everything was then layered to my card base, and I added some sequins that matched in the corner of the scalloped piece.

Now it's your turn - I can't wait to see what you create!  Because it's a special day for us, our amazing Heidi has provided EIGHT $50.00 gift vouchers

to the amazing Simon Says Stamp store for 8 lucky random winners of this week's challenge!