Hello Friends, How are you today? I am super excited to be hopping along with Simon Says Stamp & friends to celebrate the exciting new release “Encouraging Words“! Yes Please!
To start at the beginning of the hop go to the Simon Says Stamp blog. If you are coming from the INCREDIBLY talented Debby Hughes blog you are in the right place.
For the hop I created a set of cards and a bonus card! Love the flexibility of this release and the happy, encouraging & fun stamps and dies that put a smile on your face.
Mini cards are always nice to have on hand to tuck in someones wallet, lunch, backpack, workout bag or purse etc. I had fun combining the stitched alphabet stamp set with “Encouraging Animals” … F.U.N. !
Two layers of glossy accents were added to the cool cat’s sunglasses. Copic blending solution on a rag gave him some texture to resemble some fur.
The rag technique was added to the bear. Glossy accents were added twice to the toucan’s beak. Adding a pop of color on the inside of the cards is something I always try to do.
Suzy’s watercolor cards are always packed in my travel bag and I am excited when new ones are released. Love these “Fruit Puns” OMG cute right! Orange you glad!! If you want to check more of Suzy’s adorable coloring cards click here. These images are super easy to watercolor because they are nice and large for easy blending. I pulled out my Zig markers to get these bold results.
The cards are one layer and I wanted some dimension so I cut the card horizontally. To finish off my card … Lucy’s sequin mixes do the trick. They are always my favorite because of the variety and colors. The final touch is adding some faux stitching with a white gel pen.
These cuts were made with my paper trimmer carefully watching the blade so I knew when to stop. The rest I cut with scissors.
Once the oranges are dry I colored with a medium & light blue zig coloring around the image … then I add water to blend out the color with my brush. Adding a bit of dark blue in the nooks & crannies makes the image pop even more. In this video I explain how I like to color a background with Zigs.
Using a sharpie fine tip marker to color in the letters made them stand out. Foam tape was added to the orange part of my card for more dimension.
GIVEAWAY: Simon Says stamp is giving away a $25 coupon to every stop on the hop. To quality just leave comments on the blogs. Thank you Simon for 12 chances to win!! All winners will be posted on the Simon Says Stamp blog this Tuesday.
NEXT on the hop is the lovely and talented Yana Smakula !! Thank you for your visit today it’s always appreciated and have a great weekend. Hugs, Kathy
P.S. Simon is having another hop on Saturday so be sure to to visit the Simon blog on Saturday for more inspiration!
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DAY 27. Oh my!
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more of simon says jan card kit
Such an inventive use of the animals and words. Plus I love your mini tutorial on coloring the fruit backgrounds.
Hermosos proyectos!! Me encantaron
Wow!! So much fun packed in all your cards!! Love the colors-just makes you smile and giggle!
Love those little animals and your coloring!
Encouragement cards are adorable, very creative. Thanks for sharing. Nikki
That orange card is fantastic
Love all your cards!!
Sooo coool!!!
Love all the cute mini cards. Everyone deserves encouragement and these are perfect.
I really love your idea of making mini encouragement cards! Great back-to-school project!
adorable cards – love all your different color combos – so creative!
Great inspiration, thanks for sharing!
So many cute cards!
Wow always impressed by your coloring abilities. Thanks for sharing your lovely cards with us:)
I’m really starting to enjoy these simple lines stamps, after seeing all these fun ideas!
Love the creative way you used the Stitched Alphabet and Encouraging Animals. Those cards are fabulous.
WOW, each time I read through your explanations, I pick up on something new! Mini cards, what a great idea, using an image to replace a letter, and so much more. Wish I could learn to color like you do. Awesome!!
☺️☺️☺️ Thank you so much, Linda. I’m so glad you find my blog posts informative and inspiring! Thanks for making me smile!
Love the big words in combination with the animals
I love the cards – made me think of the fun flash cards I used as a kid.
This stitched alpha is so cool and I love how you paired the letters with the really cute animals on these nice little cards! Terrific coloring too!
Those would be so cute to write in and slip into your little ones lunches! Loving this release.
My littles aren’t so little anymore! LOL – you’re right though, great idea!!!
Fabulous! I love the clever use of the images on those little cards, and your coloring always amazes me.
Love your creations, Kathy! Such vibrant coloring, as always.
Wow your watercolor card is outstanding!! Love the trick of getting fur w/ blending solution too!
Love, love, love your cards! You’re very talented!
Great inspirations,lovely cards.
What great cards. Love how you used the alphabet stamps and cute animals together. Fantastic job.
Can’t help but smile looking at these just nice cards.
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Love these mini cards and your coloring is fantastic! Love them! Thanks for sharing your inspiration with us!
These cards are adorable. I really like how you made them.
so cute; love the colors in your orange card
Encouraging words
The mini cards are so so pretty Kathy!! Love your coloring. Suzy’s watercolor cards are so much fun!
Kathy, Your right what a great group of stamps. I love the stitched alphabet and the animals. They make really cute cards! Love your coloring!
Thank you so much, Amy!
Love the details! Keep them coming!
Awe, thanks Kris!
I love the mini cards! Such bright colors and awesome sayings!
Love the new release – the world needs more “encouraging words”
I agree with you on both! The world does certainly need more encouragement and the new release does NOT disappoint!
The stitched alphabet stamp works in so many ways so it’s versatility is a great incentive to buy it! Love your coloring techniques!
What a great release from SSS, and great coloring by you! Thanks for sharing.
These cards bring a huge smile to my face!
I love this Encouraging Words release! Awesome card, I love the layers and especially the Orange you glad card!
Awesome cards! I have fallen in love with this collection! I love having a big assortment of word dies so that I am never at a loss for words for my cards
I wasn’t going to order from this release . . . no, no, no! But I saw your cards and those two stamps went right into my cart! My grandchildren will love finding these in their lunch boxes! And I will love making them. Thanks for the inspiration.
Awe, I’m happy I inspired you! This release is super fabulous and you definitely won’t be disappointed that you bought things once they arrive! Have fun creating!
Love the cute encouraging cards. Thanks for sharing.
What a wonderful cards and fabulous release!! You’re creations ALWAYS inspire me!
Awe, thanks Kathy! ☺️☺️
so many cool ideas!!!
Fantastic projects Kathy! Love the sweet animal images and they go perfectly with the stitched alphabet set… great coloring as usual! Oh, that water color card… sweet and yummy!
I love how you used the stitched letter stamps. So cute!
Those little critters are adorable to pop into kids lunchboxes and to share with friends!
Great ideas, and loved those little critters.
Fabulous new set and amazing coloring as always!
Cute and colorful cards. Love the adorable animals with that alphabet.
Those mini cards rock!
I AM SO GLAD WE ARE FRIENDS!
I like the combination of words and those big animals. Kids would love these, and adults, too.
Love Encouraging Words!
Fabulous mini cards and I love the Suzy’s too Kathy!
Love the idea of mini cards and those animal cards are so clean and simple…but what an IMPACT!
Wow! Love these cards! The animals are so adorable and so well painted. My grandchildren would love these cards!
How Colorful! Love the idea of mini cards and those animal cards are so clean and simple…but what an IMPACT!
Love those mini cards!
So creative! Love how you combined them. Awesome new release
LOVE the small cards with their great bright colors and super cute critters!
I love the animal cards. They are SO cute!
Wow fabulous new release and love the way you have made those mini cards.
Love those animals, the words, and your coloring…!!!
Thank you for your inspiration. So much fun & what a wonderful way to encourage the younger ones. Thanks.
Your Mini cards are fabulous Kathy, I love this new release.
Beautiful cards – love the colouring and the addition of the coloured liner.
Great ideas with the release.
Beautiful cards!
Love how you combined the two sets for the mini cards! Super cute!!! And you can never go wrong with Suzy’s watercolor cards!!! Nice job! Reminds me that I need to dig out my Zigs and give them some love 🙂
I agree – always love Suzy’s watercolor designs, too! LOL have fun coloring with your Zigs!
I LOVE the mini cards, so cute!
These cute mini-cards are just adorable, great ready to go watercolor pieces to, awesome release in short, like we are just to from SSS!
Love the cards! The mini’s are wonderful–so colorful! Thank you so much for sharing!
Hi Kathy ~ While my kids were growing up I was always sticking notes in their lunchboxes and would leave notes here and there for them to find when they went off to college. These are perfect for leaving RAK notes and those alphabet stamps are just, plain fun. Your card, of course, is beautiful (I think I have to return my Zigs…they don’t work as well as yours do…lol!). Thanks for the inspiration and I hope you have a wonderful weekend. ~HUGS~
#kindnessmatters
LOL keep practicing with your Zigs. Also, the type of paper you use them on makes a HUGE difference. Try them on strathmore bristol smooth paper (relatively inexpensive and at most big box stores) or on the Ranger Distress watercolor cardstock. Really makes a gigantic difference!! Thanks as always, Maggie!
Love the mini cards! Love these stamps
Adorable cards, I love the critters!
These cards just had me smiling out loud~
Love those cute little aanimal cards. I need to get that stamp set and put together some cards for my grandson’s lunch as a special treat. Thanks.
Great encouraging ideas!
Love the color blending on the fruit!
I absolutely love the encouraging words stamp set, the little critters are so adorable!
LOVE the encouragement cards, i will definitely be scrap-lifting these 🙂
Great cards – I especially like the ones where you’ve combined the alphabet and the critters in such a fun way.
Your orange card is simply stunning. I agree with Maggie B, my zigs don’t seem to work as well as yours .. but these may be operator related . Thank you for sharing your beautiful creations!
Thanks for the sweet words, Karen. As I just mentioned to Maggie B – the type of paper you use with the Zigs makes a huge difference. If you haven’t already try them on Strathmore Bristol smooth paper (at most big box stores and online) or watercolor cardstock. Makes a HUGE difference with the Zigs!
Love the encouragement cards!!! Bright, fun, and usable.
Really, really love your mini cards! The toucan is fantastic!
Love that die Kindness Matters, because it sure does. Also the watercolour fruit stamps. Thanks for explaining how you painted it so well.
Kathy, I love your clever use of the stitched alphabet stamps. So cute & encouraging. Love your fruit bonus card too. Thank you for sharing.
Bright. Colourful and cheerful. Did I say love your cards?
☺️ thank you, Gail!
Love the note cards and the fruit always enjoy seeing what you create
Fabulous cards! I like how you split the orange panel into two pieces and layered them. The animals cards are ADORBS! Can’t wait for mine to come in so I can try this.
Yay! Have fun creating!
Thanks for making me smile today! Your cards are fun and inspire happy thoughts!
That is so sweet of you to say, Jennifer. Thank you!
Awesome coloring!!! Love the animals and fruit.
I just LOVE all your cards. They are so colorful and fun and just make me smile. Thanks for the tutorial. I can’t wait to get home and watch it.
Wow, fabulous cards and new products from SSS! I especially love the bold alphabet and cute critter stamps!
I think you can’t do any better and every time you prove me wrong. I love the fun feeling I get looking at your cards!
Awe, You’re making me blush, Laura! LOL! Thank you!!!
Cute as always!
Like the CAS with cuteness of the critters & ssentiments.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Awesome cards. Love the way the animals make a letter~
I love how you used the alphabet stamps! So cute! Great job!
LOVE those adorable mini cards!!! And great idea about cutting the Suzy`s paintable card for dimension, and it’s beautifully colored too.
Beautiful coloring!
Oh my gosh, your mini cards are so cute! I love the stitched alphabet set and the new critters are simply adorable!
Love hops – not only to possibly win but to see all the wonderful creations for ideas in creating – yours are no exception – lovely creations here with those animals and the fruit! Fabulous sentiments as well TFS
So adorable. I love the idea of just popping a car in a friends door. These would be perfect. I also love anything friends card related. I love my Girlfriends. Friends since childhood. Thank you for a chance to win!
Such great coloring!!
SO STINK’IN CUTE KATHY!!!! You just made these stamps POP with your magic! 😉
Thank you, Becky! ☺️
Super fun new release and love your examples/coloring!
These take me back to when my son was in school. I loved to tuck notes in his lunchbox, but they weren’t nearly this much fun! But I did send some daily notes along with him, his wife, and their son when they went to Brazil on a mission trip recently. They were back-packing, so we took a small photo album with an encouraging word, Bible verse, or encouragement for all three of them from my grand-girls and me. It was such a fun project to do with the girls. Thanks so much for the smile today!
These cards are delightful. They are quite inspirational.
Always struggle with my zig markers, so every example makes me want to be better and try again
I have discovered that the kind of paper you use with the Zigs, makes a huge difference. If you haven’t tried already I recommend Strathmore Bristol smooth paper or watercolor paper. Practice makes perfect! Have fun coloring!
Love love all your cards and of course I watched your video again because I love watching and learning from neighbor in my dreams!
My children are grown so I didn’t think I would be too interested in this release….was I ever WRONG! I love it all.
LOL- I know what you mean! My children are grown, too! LOL
I always enjoy a good pun and your mini cards are adorable!!
What beautiful coloring! Have a great weekend!
Cute cards! Thanks
Your cards are so bright and colorful! I love those juicy oranges! Beautiful work!
Take Care!
Michele
Great color choices!
I love your creative way to use that awesome alphabet Kathy! Fabulous projects!
Your cards are adorable! I’m in love with this series of goodies. Trying to figure what I can get. Love them all and particularly love your ideas!
Love your cards! The mini cards are just perfect for a lunchbox hug. 🙂
Adding that “extra” blue in the corners really does pop the image. I’m very, very new to watercoloring. That is a great technique to add to my learning! Thanks for sharing.
Kathy, these little cards are so adorable. My boys would love any one of them. TFS.
These really POP! Love them!
Love the critters and the WORDS, great cards!!!!!
Once again Kathy, you have created absolutely beautiful cards!! I always love seeing your name on the blog hop line up!!! You are a fabulous person and astounding creator!!! I love all that you do!! Thank you so much!!
Cool mini cards ! And the juicy orange card is fun !
Oh those critter cards and sentiments are just too much fun. I also love the color choices. So happy colors. The Orange card is awesome.. Love it.
Beautiful coloring! I love the sentiments that go with these sets, especially the animals.
Very cute cards! Really like the stitched alphabets and the way they were colored.
The Encouraging Words set makes some really cute cards!!
I really like the mini cards! adorable! That stitched alphabet is so versatile. Loved how you used the animals as letters…Thanks so much for all the inspiration!
I really love love love your watercolored fruit card!! <3
So fun and colorful! Beautiful cards! Thanks so much for the inspiration! ❤️
Oh, my goodness, these cards are just so cute!! What a great idea for the kiddies heading off to school.
Beautiful cards! Love what you did with the alphabet!
These are beautiful. Thank you. Kindness and education
Such fun cards and cheerful thoughts!
Love the color and dimension you created with the oranges.
I love Suzy’s watercolor cards for the same reason, Kathy. I love this new one and how you used your Zigs!
Awesome cards.
your cards are so so adorable. love how you used the new stitched letters.
These cards are so cute and encouraging!
Cute cards!
I love all of these cards but my favourite are the ones with the stitched alphabet and the encouraging critters I just love them.
Your cards are all great, but the mini cards are extra wonderful! I have a little guy who’s a bit nervous about starting kindergarten in a couple of weeks. I can just imagine tucking one of those in his lunch or backpack each day for a little love from Mommy during his day. 🙂 Thanks for the inspiration!
He will love that for his first day at Kindergarten!!! Great idea! Happy I could inspire you!
Your mini cards are cute! Have to try your rag technique which looks very nice on the bear.
I love all of your ideas. Super cute!
Your card is so bright and happy; however, those mini cards – I WANT! They are absolutely fabulous, Kathy!
Encouraging words…I love the mini cards! They are so cute! I love how you used the animals as letters. The cat is my favorite!!
Such a cute idea and I love the phrases you made with the letters and animals! I have trouble water coloring backgrounds so am thankful for your video. (I think I’m too impatient to let it all dry first.)
Kathy, that technique with the rag really makes those critters look fuzzy! I am definitely going to try that. I do have Zig markers and your video is so great. This crazy card making world, I wish I could afford all the great products. I do agree about Suzy’s adorable cards. I always have something to color when we are traveling. Love all these great encouragement things. One can never have enough! How are things going on your Road Trip adventures?
The adventure just begins! It’s great but so, so busy! Thanks for your sweet comment, as always, Anne!
I am in love with these cards…colors, sentiments, layout…love it all!
Oh my goodness Kathy your set of cards could NOT be any sweeter. I am totally wanting those alphabet stamps! Your colouring is so amazing regardless of what medium you use!
Your card is fabulous, I love Suzy’s water colour cards too to travel with, they are great!
Great cards and coloring! Loving the new encouraging animals and Suzy’s watercolor prints!
I love the watercoloring! So fresh and summery if you know what I mean. If I could only do this. Thanks!
You CAN do this, Candy! Play and have fun! Practice makes perfect!
Cool cards, and your coloring is amazing!
I love what you did with the stitched letters and the animals!
Love, love, love those little cards you made! So fun! And those watercolour printables are awesome.
Awesome cards !
Love, love, love, love, LOVE those stitched alphabet letters! Such a fab set too with the little animals. I love how you’ve used the whale instead of an O as well. Great set of cards. Xx
This is the coolest us e I have seen for those animals!
Love the animals! And the watercoloring!
You inspire me with your new stamps to create some encouraging words cards to give to random people. Random acts of kindness.
Yay, that’s awesome! Glad I could inspire you! #kindnessmatters
AH! these are so simply cute. love them.
OH this is superb! Being in Florida, I’m SHORE glad to see your Orange card!! Terrific watercoloring and beautiful little cards – perfect for flash card type learning tools, too!
LOL! Yes, that’s a fantastic idea!!
All of your cards are so cute and inspiring!
So cute… I love your mini cards! Thanks for sharing ❤️
Those little critters are cutie patooties!
Encouraging Words! We all need more of those!
I couldn’t agree more, Margaret! ☺️
You make everything looks fun!
Great cards, I love the large letters.
I love your little couragement cards and the play on words with the animals is just adorable❤️
Encouraging Words
Sweet set of cards! I love replacing letters in sentiments with images too. Love these!
Love the animals
These are a lot of fun. Thanks for the hop SSS!
I love the set of mini cards! That whale is so cute! I’m a sucker for whales!
Love your mini cards. The Encouraging Animals stamps are precious — the whole Encouraging Words release is wonderful.
Great coloring and card making Kathy! This new release from Simon is wonderful.
So much delightful goodness on these projects, my friend!
Love always triumphs hate ! ❤️❤️❤️
Absolutely!!!!
Cute and puny! Love it!
The mini cards are a great idea! I wish that I could color even a little like you. I have come to the conclusion, that I don’t see what you see when you look at something. You are super talented!
Never give up ! ❤️❤️
Love this card! The color combination is Amazing!!
Orange you glad we love your cards? These stamps and dies will give us so so many options to make the people around us feel loved and appreciated! As always, your cards are ingenious and inspiring. Hugs, treen
Wow, ingenious?!? I’m so flattered. Thank you, Treen!
I love your colouring Kathy! All your cards are so special!
Love your cute animal cards! Also appreciate your video on using Zig markers. I’m still experimenting with mine and haven’t been too pleased with my results. I’ll give them a try again.
I have discovered that for me, the kind of paper I use with the Zigs makes a huge difference. If you haven’t already I suggest you try Strathmore Bristol smooth paper or watercolor paper (I personally like Ranger Watercolor cardstock and have a link to it listed at the end of the blogpost.) Hope this is helpful!
The mini cards are super cool & I love the orange card! Superb coloring, as always!
Thanks for the reminder how great little cards are as a way to encourage people.
Love the fun colors!
Thanks for the extra incentive to use my zigs more… they are so vibrant! Your critter cards are great . The cat with the sunnies (Australian for sunglasses) is my favourite!
OK, I have a new favorite: the stitched alphabet. So many uses and they’re big enough for some effective coloring. Thanks Kathy and thanks SSS!
I think your cards are wonderful. So happy and cheerful and -encouraging!
Love it all!
but cat is my favorite!
I need that cat!
hugs
Love the Encouraging Words set ~ you made really cute cards with it! :0)
Love the animal encouragement cards but the orange card is my favorite. Nice coloring
Real like how explained your coloring.
Have blessed day.
Kim
Really adorable cards!!
Love the ombre look to your letters and the cute critters.
You are really an inspiration. I love how you used the animals for letters. Very cute.
Cute animals and good puns – I love this release! Your cards show the Encouraging Animals off beautifully!
Beautiful coloring, great cards! Thanks for the inspiration!
Love focusing on kindness for the new school year.
Love these mini cards! Inspired!!
Great use of the stitched letters.
I always love your work! Gorgeous cards! Thank you for your creativity!
These stamps and the cards you made were so cute, loved the words too!
Wow! What great cards. Love the way you put the animals in place of letters and the colouring is beautiful. Thanks for the inspiration.
Love, love, love the mini cards and the adorable creatures. Beautifully done and so precious.
Such wonderful cards! Thank you for the inspiratioN!
The corny play on words in the orange stamp set made me smile, and I’m guessing it would make a recipient of the card do so too.
Gorgeous coloring as always! OK, do you recommend those trios of copics?
Thanks for the inspiration and your kindness for sharing!
What an awesome idea to use “Encouraging Words” on a stack of little cards you have on hand for any occassion.
ADORABLE!!!! Love this new release!!!
I just love how large these words are. This is my favorite release yet!
Love the mini cards, so cute. Love your coloring, superb!
Love the words and animals. So beautiful and fun. Hugz
Love the alphabet stamp. Your cards are so colorful
your little mini “tuck-in” cards are adorable!!
I love how you used your colors to make you notice your beautiful art work.
The sayings are so cute
Everything you made is Fantastic!!!
I love the Encouraging Words release and your cards are lovely! What a great idea!
What a great card. The stamps are amazing.
Love, LOve, LOVE these cards! And truly love the Kindness Matters! Great inspiration!
Beautiful cards !
Great cards, and love the way you do the backgrounds.
This set of little cards is so delightful. Love the way you incorporated the critters into the words and used a bit of something special on each. Isn’t that alphabet great? Thanks, too, for another way to use the coloring cards. Thanks for sharing it all on this blog hop, Kathy.
Thanks for sharing your talent!
what an adorable release – the products are delightful and the cards are so fun!
Hey! Just love your fun and colorful cards! They couldn’t be any better! 🙂
Loved the colorful cards and the playful sayings. Thanks for sharing.
“Encouraging Words” what a fun release! Beautiful cards and sentiments!
Love how you used those big letters!
You have a way of taking an ordinary coloring page and making a piece of art! Gorgeous.
What sweet cards! I used to put little cards in my kids lunches, backpacks or lockers when they were little, these would have been perfect for that. Thanks for sharing.
Adorable … you make every card pop!
I love what you did with the alphabets and critters!
I love these cards. So cute.
Beautifully coloured cards. You are so talented.
The mini cards are such a great ideas, so cute!
I love the colouring on the orange card. This release is amazing!
I love the critters, but I especially love the clever sentiments.
Gorgeous. Cute. Colourful. Love these cards. Thank you for the inspiration!
Fabulous cards, love your beautiful coloring!
Well, I love it all !! The mini cards are just irresistible and the big one is so bright and cheerful. Awesome job, as always ! Thanks for sharing.
My other comment didn’t have “Encouraging Words” in it.
The mini cards are a great idea and the animals are so cute. Thanks for sharing your ideas and talent.
Great designs! Surprise someone by leaving one of these encouraging, inspirational cards on their desk, in their to go order, windshield or hand them out to strangers who need a pick me up on a gloomy, hectic day…
I love these and I just realized it would be such a great set to create the lunchbox notes I put in my son’s lunch every day for school! Thanks for the inspiration!
Wow; I LOVE the idea of the mini-cards!!!
WOW these are so lovely!!!! Love these inspirational and encouraging cards!!! What a beautiful way to pick someone up or just to put a smile on their face! Thanks for sharing, have a great weekend!
Hugs,
Jo
love that encouraging card set. so fun!
Love that cool cat!
Loved the cards and the cute animals always make me smile! thanks for sharing your creativity
Awe, thanks Angie! ☺️
All your cards are awesome! I love the layout of the first cards, very creative!
I LOVE your cards with Encouraging Animals & the Alphabet. Thanks also for the Zig colouring tips.
Wonderful as always Kathy! Love the cute alphabet and critters! THanks for the inspiration!
Wow, these are to cute!!! I think these little cards are a great idea, will have to make some of these, thanks for the idea
Dang, these are cute! Love the coloring.
Like you, love the puns!
Thanks for making me SMILE today!
Those animals are so adorable! How could you NOT smile if you got one of these??
Love love the card sets AND the fruit card
“Encouraging Words”
The mini cards using the encouraging stamps and sentiments are too sweet! They would be perfect lunch box notes! Thanks for the inspiration 🙂
Beautiful coloring
Love the way you modified the Suzy’s card to add dimension. The critter cards are absolutely adorable!
I really like the idea of mini cards and your cards are wonderful.
Great cards love the idea of encouragement cards.
All of your cards are great, Kathy! I especially love the ones with the Stitched Alphabet and Encouraging Animals. They are super cute and they have great messages!
Adorable animal cards and FABBY water colour fruit card-LOVE! LOVE this new ENCOURAGING WORDS release!!!
Such cute little cards with the animals :o)
I love the mini card idea! How cute and your coloring is on point, as always! Thanks for the inspiration!
Adorable! Very clever to combine the animals and the alphabet like that. I’m loving this release!
Oh these cards are so cute!!! I will have to buy these stamp sets.
“Encouraging Words” are the best!
Love all the cute mini cards!
Super cute cards! Love the Encouraging Words!
Oh, my goodness! These little mini cards are adorable!!! I love how you did the sentiments and the little critters are just too cute! We all need “encouraging words” now an then. : )
Great cards Kathy!
I love what you did with the little cool cat stamp set with all the other cute animals. What a fun release!
What a cute idea!
Love your ideas. The Encouraging Animals are just so adorable.
All of your cards are wonderful…they would make the recipient’s day and bring a smile to their face. Great Job..Love them all .
These are just so fun. wonderful job, Kathy.
Love the critter cards & the watercolors background really completes the fruit card very well!
Love this release. Super cute cards!
I love your cards! The cute animals and their wonderful messages are perfect together. Thank you for sharing!
Love your cards! That alphabet set is wonderful!
Such a clever idea to use the cool animals to relay your sentiment…. I love it! thanks for sharing.
These cards are so colorful and have such interesting sentiments, I love your play on words. I will be back after the blog hop to watch the Copic markers video.
What a fun alphabet set! Thanks for sharing your awesome work.
Fabulous coloring on
all your cards! Such
fun animals.
Carla from Utah
Really liked your cards!! I never would have thought to cut apart the printed card like you did either.
Super cute cards…loved it…
Beautiful cards! Such a colorful bunch!
Love those oranges! All the critters are so cute & nicely colored.
Cute cards! But that orange is so so vibrant 😀
Great cards, this is a lovely release. thank you for sharing
Oh so cute!
Your critter cards are too cute. Love your colouring.
Super fun card designs, Kathy!! The way they are colored is fantastic (of course!) but these new SSS products are also very clever and “smile-worthy!” How could anyone not love them?? Thanks for sharing these great ideas for ways to use them!!
Fantastic cards!
Love the idea of mini cards, would be great to send to my staff. Thank you for the inspiration.
Super duper. Your mini cards are wonderful. I also enjoyed seeing how you used the zig markers on the Suzy watercolor card. Beautiful and very inspirational. Thank you.
Awe, thanks so much for you kind words, Barbara!
Those cards are really cute. Love the alphabet stamps. Thanks.
I love your coloring on the Stitched Alphabet!
Neat idea to combine the two new stamp sets to make unique cards on the first batch.
You’re obviously very creative! I don’t think I ever would have thought to combine the animals and letters the way you did, but it is SOOO cute.
☺️☺️☺️ thanks so much for the compliment, Ann!
OMGosh, I gotta have that toucan stamp!
OMG! Love the cards! It’s too adorable!! I totally love & admire your creativity, Kathy!
Encouraging words: Life is tough but so are you
love this mini cards with the big alphas. Great.
Cute cards! Great work
I love your four cute cards Kathy. I like how you combined the sets and of course your colouring is awesome. Why oh why do I never remember to add colour on the inside of my cards??. It’s so worth it, a simple touch but adds so much to the overall look of the card. And I agree having a set of Suzy’s cards ready in your bag is always a great idea. And fun to see how you changed it up a little. Hope you enjoy the weekend with your family , hugs, Lisa x
Thank you so much for always being so sweet and encouraging, Lisa. I appreciate you!
Great cards, very clever!
Cute cards! I really love how you watercolored with your Zig markers. Ji
I love what you did with coloring the letters!
I love blog hops because they inspire me to create!!!
I just adore the way you used the animals and words too cute .
Such cute cards! I hope to one day color as well as you!
I love your critters. You give me the inspiration to make the world a more colorful place.
love the bold letters behind the critters and the sentiments made me giggle
Great cards. Thanks
Ok, these encouraging word cards are just way too cute!!!! I love them!
Wow I love these cards and those mini cards are a fabulous idea!
I love the fruit. Great coloring.
Love your cards. The coloring on them is beautiful
I love how you used the Alphabet stamps & the Encouraging Animals together!
I love tucking little notes into my kids’ lunchboxes, and your notes are so cute! Love the alphabet and darling critters! Gorgeous watercoloring, too!
Your cards are always soawesome. Love how you incorporated the animals with the alphabet. So cute.
I love your cards! They are so cute.
Wow (OoO) The olors are so vivid.
I still have to try that watercolor when budget allows….
*colors
I LOVE your cute set of animal cards..,.LOVE the design!! Your Suzy watercoloring card is also amazing!!
Your cards are adorable and your coloring is amazing.
Your watercolor oranges are nice.
I always enjoy your cards and VIDEOS are so helpful to us visual learners! Love your work!
Thank you, Sandra! Goodnto know you find my videos helpful! Appreciate your sweet comments!
Wonderful cards. Love the the little animals cards. Thanks for sharing….
Cute cards!
I love your coloring on these cards. Encouraging words release is a must have!
I agree, Bobbie! This release is amazing!
what a great idea: mini cards but they still pack quite the punch. love those stitched letters adding to my cart now and the little animals are already on their way to me. 🙂
Whooo hooo! Have fun creating with these cuties!!
Very fun cards. love this new release.
Amazing cards. Such bright colors!
totally awesome Kathy! TFS
You did a beautiful job of showcasing the products. Thank you for the inspiration.
I love all your cards! Your coloring is so detailed and just perfection! Great SSS release. Love all of these caring sentiments! Love starting my weekend with a fabulous blog hop!
Thanks for sharing!
Oh, Debbie. You’re so kind. Thank you for making me smile! I appreciate your comments, always!
Super cute cards, I just love those cute critters, and the stitched alphabet stamp set. Will definitely have to put these on my wish list.
So inspiring. Definitely will need those alphabet stamps and those cute critters. TFS
Those would be so great to put in the granddaughters lunch bags each day. Thanks for sharing your background technique as well.
Oh these are fabulous, love how you’ve colored them.
The Mini Cards, what a wonderful idea…. off to make some myself. Thanks for sharing your wonderful ideas.
I adore the idea of mini cards that I can keep tucked into my purse or glove compartment so when someone needs a pick me up or a just because you’re you card I can just hand it over. This release is amazing!
So much adorableness!!!!! Love your little encouraging cards!!
Hmmmm, I might just have to add the stitched letters to my collection! Beautiful job!
I love your cute cards!
this is a great idea.
this would be fun to add to a library book
when someone checks one out. A little
surprise and a happy thought.
thanks for sharing.
What a fantastic idea, Mary! That would be a delightful surprise to the person checking out the book!
I am in love with this release. Those critters are so cute.
So cute and cheerful!
What a fun set of little card, I love them !
Great colouring on the extra card.
Thank you for sharing your talent !
The mini cards are everything! I love making them, giving them, and getting them! Some great ideas for a new twist.
Your animal set is so cute and would make a great bundle to give a friend!
The glossy effect is amazing. The colors are SO vibrant!!!
Also, #EncouragingWords
Always an inspiration! Love your cards, so cute!
I’m a bird person, so the toucan got me right away. Good idea to highlight the bill with GLossy Accents. super cure pins too. Thanks.
Love your cards!
Love those mini cards! I do believe the alphabet set is a must have!!
Adorable little mini cards!
I especially love the mini cards! Cute, clever and pretty easy! Thanks for sharing.
Love your cards Kathy! So cute.
GREAT cards – love them!
All your mini cards are adorable, but I love the “orange” watercolored card. It is amazing. tfs
Wonderful fun cards. I love the cat in glasses. This is a great release. Thanks for the inspiration, I already ordered the animal set.
I absolutely LOVE the mini animal/word cards you made. SO CUTE!!
Beautiful depth! Thank you.
SQUEAL!! SUPER SUPER SUPER AWESOME Release and Cards!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEKEND!! =)
Love your cards and the big letter stamps!
Nice!
Love the mini cards. You picked great colors and such fun ways to replace a letter with a critter.
Just darling ideas
Great card and cute animals. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
Really love that orange card. Very nice.
I love your mini Encouraging Words cards…really sweet!
Love the little cards!!!! And the coloring on the orange card is amazing!!!!
Really love all you’re cards. Especially, the bold animal characters ones.
Great cards, I love the use of the alphabet stamps an animals.
Love the fruit and animal puns!! The toucan is adorable!!
I love this release!! Your cards are adorable!!! Thanks for sharing!
Hugs
Pam Allen
Mini cards !! Super cute. Love your use of all the products.
Love the video about Zig backgrounds. Cards are adorable!
Love the mini cards!
Fabulous projects. Love them all!
Great ideas! Little cards to have on hand & ready to go. Using an alpha set to amp up a sentiment. Cutting up images for more interest. I’m so going to use all those ideas. Thanks for the inspiration!
What a cute and fun card! Thank you for showing us how you made it.
Love your cards!
Great samples of this release. The mini cards are darling.
These cards are precious. I’d give them to every kid I know.
So darling Kathy! I haven’t made any mini cards in a while, need to so I can have one for the first day of (high) school! Thank you for the inspiration!
Love the little critters, thanks for sharing.
Love this release and the cards you made. So fun!
Those animal cards are stinking cute!!! I will be your ideas.
Such cute cards! Love those animal stamps.
As always your colouring is spectacular and love how you used the images with the sentiments, so clever!!!
These are amazing! I love the orange card!
Love all of your cards today especially those featuring those adorable critters and the awesome stitched alphabet set!
Fantastic cards! Your coloring is amazing.
Fun cards colored so cheerfully !
Fun cards !
Such cute and bright “Encouraging Words”! Thanks and God Bless! ILuvTheEucharist @ aol dot com
That orange card, reminds me of the old knock knock joke: orange you glad I didn’t say banana?? 🙂
LOL
What a great set of cards! Very creative!
Wonderful cards! Love the encouraging animals, and the mini cards are a great idea! Love how you did the coloring and added the texture with the rag.
Love your toucan, whale and orange slices, amazing work!
I am in love with your cards! Those adorable little cards to stick in lunch boxes are so cute! I don’t have any children so I would have no where to put them but they are very cute. You’re coloring is amazing as always and everything is so colorful.
I love the orange card! I have a huge orange stamp that we used in my preschool to teach them about fruits. I stamped it on like flash cards for them and colored it. The teachers loved it. I didn’t add sequins to it though and I don’t know how the teachers would have felt about that. I love those coloring cards! They look like so much fun! Thanks for showing us your colorful cards and for giving us the chance to win something. I can’t wait to win!
Amazing projects, Kathy – just love your coloring, as always!!
I love the mini cards you’ve created!! Your colouring is incredible as always!!
These are all amazing, Kathy! Love them all! The first set of cards is my favourite! 🙂
Your cards are just adorable – love how you’ve colored them. The orange card is awesome!
Cute colorful cards.
I really must have a play day with my Zigs. These are lovely.
Love your mini cards! The pop of color on the inside is fun, too.
Love! Love! These cards! You did an awesome job in the way you used the colors! Great job!
What a fun set of cards! Love that you added that pop of color inside too. Wonderful coloring on that orange.
Your cards are all wonderful! Love how you showcase this release! Love the ones with the animals.
Wonderful set of cards for lunch boxes. I love them!
I love how you replaced letters with the different animals, I love these stamps!
I love to make fun sized cards- this is so inspirational! Thank you!
Love the colouring on the oranges card!! And those mini cards are adorable 🙂
great mix of stamps to use the Large Letters
Love all the cards, they are all adorable!! Love the Encouraging Words release!
What a cute idea! Thanks!
The animals are just too cute, especially the sayings.
Seriously fabulous cards!
Your cards make me smile and my inner child giggle. These are right up my alley!
Creative and Colorful Cards using the products from the Encouraging Words release from Simon Says Stamp.
Terrific mini cards. They would put a smile on anyone’s face when they found them in theIraq lunch bag or tote.
Supercute designs!
Just too cute!
These cards make me smile
Oh my goodness…. I love them all…. so dang cute!
We’re allergic to all kinds of animals in our house but these animals are welcome here! Very cute!
LOL!!! Have fun playing with these cuties!
“Encouraging words” are necessary !
Love the cute mini cards!
These are so cute. I love the whale.
WOW – Great colorful bold cards and the messages are simple and positive! LOVE these cards!
Love how you used the alphas in the sentiment. Very cute.
Totally cool cards! I especially love the “Orange you glad we’re friends ” cards! Such vibrant and crisp colors! TFS!
Awesome new poducts! Love your sweet cards!
Amazing cards!Love the coloring and all!Thank you for sharing!
What a great idea to make little note cards to have on hand for any situation!
Your mini note cards are awesome.
Your cards are so much fun! and the colors are beautiful.
I love the little card ideas!
Such cute cards, and as always your coloring is delightful!
Love your play on words!
Love all your projects! The ombre-look you got on your lettering is awesome. Love your coloring! Thank you for the chance to win!
Wow Kathy, these cards are absolutely amazing!!
Such cute mini cards! Those would be great for lunchbox notes, and I love the vibrancy of the watercoloring on that last card!
Everyone needs to see these encouraging words!! Your GORGEOUS coloring is off the charts!!! Am shopping to get these great new releases!!
Your color choices are fabulous!
How cute are these?! You did an amazing job with all of them! I really like the animal cards.
Absolutely marvelous mini cards showcasing a release that’s perfect for my niece and nephew’s classmates, their teachers and, of course, the two of them! Encouraging, uplifting and down-right adorable!
~carol
The animal cards are so stinkin cute, I just can’t stand it! I was on the fence about that set until I saw these……
These cards a so bold, bright and beautiful. Love the Stitch litters they are awesome .
such great little notes. love how you used the animals as letters.
I love what you have created with the new release and have given me inspiration on how to use them.
These are adorable and I love the fun way you’ve used the stitched alphabet!
Love the bright cheerful little cards
Those mini cards are perfect! I am going to start making some for my kids.
I love your mini cards! Such a creative idea that shows off the wonderful new alphabet dies and the adorable critter. Thanks for the inspiration!
FABULOUS FABULOUS FABULOUS again. I could leave the whole comment on your blog via SSS at that FABULOUS. In fact I can’t think of a better word to describe your mini cards. Well apart from BRILLIANT too.
Awe, you’re so sweet, Angela. Thank you!! ☺️
I love puns! Nice little cards clever idea!
so much deliciousness…
Such an inventive use of the animals and words! Adorable!
Love the cool cat
I love these wonderful cards!
Love the little encouraging notes idea for young and old alike and the fruity puns are soooo cute!
love your use of the animals
Hi ! I have never heard about using the Copic blending solution on a rag to simulate fur on animal pictures. Gotta try soon. Thanks for the tip !
It really gives you so much texture! I have many YouTube videos showing exactly how you so it if you’re interest.
http://www.youtube.com/thedailymarker
“Encouraging Words”
I’m in love for your adorable and stunning cards!!!
Love the cards with the animals, so cute!
Your coloring is so detailed!!! Thank you for sharing your creativity!
Oh, I love the critter combos you’ve made on your cards! See, I look for this kind of inspiration when I’m thinking, “I’d probably never use those (…whaterver craft item…)”, and someone like you comes along to show me just how fun this can be!
Thank you •very much• for sharing!
Those cards are very cute! I love the funny sentiments. Very creative and original.
Wonderful cards! Thank you for sharing your amazing creative talents.
Your card are so fun and playful! Really loved the orange card! Almost wanted to taste it
The Encouraging Animals are adorable!
Such cute cards.
the big words and the animals are so cool together.
Love the card set! Cute cute cards!
Just love your cards – and the animal stamp set – SO cute!! Love your use of color!
Adorable cards which brought smiles to my faces. I see them being placed in lunch boxes, brief cases, or on student desks. Thanks for the coloring tutorial,
I LOVE that you put critters in as letters in these Encouraging Words cards!!! Especially the cat!! Love the cat!! Now if I can just talk you into sending me the cat! >^.^< MOL!!! (that's Meow Out Loud!!)
Hi, Kathy! I haven’t been in blogland lately but I decided to do the hop today and I’m so glad I did! Those critter cards are soooo cute – I’m loving those alphabet stamps too as they are so fun to colour and there are so many options – love how you combined them with the punny sentiments! And as usual, your colouring looks amazing!
Mini cards are a nice idea to have on hand… Or in my desk drawer at school! 😉
I think these cards are so cute. Don’t look too hard to make and great for all occasions
These are wonderful !!
Do you ever do anything that isn’t outstanding? I don’t think so. Love this card.
Aweee, thanks, Charlotte !!
These cards are too cute for words! What an awesome idea to use the animals as letters or part of the sentiment, so clever!! I always learn atleast 1 if not many cool new techniques from you and today is no exception! I have a 5 yr old thats starting school this year and I just love your idea of putting a mini card into her lunch box! Thank you so much for the great ideas and for sharing!
Wow, thank you so much, Jennifer. I’m very flattered and happy that you find my posts educational and inspiring. Thanks for making me smile!
Sure love that teddy with a flower. Very Nice!
Such fun cards, Kathy. Love how you’ve mixed and matched the critters and letter stamps and your watercoloured cards are so bright and cheerful.
Marianne x
Amazing!!!
I love this, Kathy. You’re so brave to color in your whole entire background with the blue marker – I’d be terrified to do this!
Try it! You’ll be pleasantly surprised with how it turns out!!! It’s all about having fun anyway, right?! Happy creating!
Awesome cards@ I love the multi layered word!
Fun awesome cards!
Great cards as always Kathy! Love those balloons!
I loooooooove the white card! What an awesome idea!
Wonderful work as always. Love your style.
Encouraging Words 🙂
WOW – WONDERFUL cards Kathy!
LOVE your COOL & CLEVER words and critters! As always, your designs EXCITE and INSPIRE!
Thank you so much for your sweet comment, Tracy!
So inspiring ! I love all the characters and words But the coloring is so lively and vibrant Thank You!