Welcome to the Simon Says Stamp Joy For You blog hop

Hi Everyone and a very warm welcome to the Simon Says Stamp Joy For You Release – Day 2 Blog Hop. 

As a special bonus this not-yet-released Simon Says Stamp The Joy of Snow 3x4 stamp will be automatically added to your cart that contains any purchase from the exclusive Joy For You collection This gift with purchase will expire 11/8 at 11:59 pm EST or while supplies last.

I'm delighted to be joining in with Day 2 of the Blog Hop today alongside lots of talented designers ! 🎄❤️

Please leave me a comment below to be in with a chance of winning a $25 website coupon. One lucky winner will be chosen from all the comments left on my blog post.

The new Joy For You collection is full of wonderful festive crafting inspiration, and today I'm sharing a traditional Christmas card using the Decorative Ornaments stamp set 3478ssc.

Christmas crafting is my absolute favourite and although I am not normally a big "bling girl", at Christmas out come the glitters and sparkles to add to my festive makes. This is one of the 3 design team samples I made with the decorative ornaments stamp set.

I decided to go for a classic Christmas colour combination of red, green and gold, with a little tartan thrown in for good measure!

For my background, I used a sheet from gorgeous Tim Holtz Christmas Palette paper pack. I love the traditional red tartan design, and thought it would be the perfect backdrop for these lovely ornaments.

I stamped the ornaments on red card and gold heat embossed them, adding metallic pen details to give a rich, festive appearance. I really like the different shapes and intricate patterns, which remind me of vintage Christmas decorations.

I added gold twine and foam pads to the backs of the ornaments to raise them up. 

I stuck them in place on the paper and covered the top with a strip of gold card.

For my sentiment I stamped the Merry Christmas greeting.  I grunged it up using scorched timber distress ink and framed it with more of the tartan paper. 

To create the greenery across the top of my card, I used Tim Holtz' Mini Holiday Greenery dies, cutting lots of little branches and leaves in different shades of green. 

I arranged them in layers to create a full, festive display, with the ornaments appearing to hang beneath and stuck the sentiment over the top on raised foam pads. 

I also added some little red pearls to resemble berries, and painted the leaves, berries and edges of the sentiment with the amazing new Tim Holtz Liquid Tinsel for a touch of Christmas sparkle. ✨

I love how all the different elements work together to create a traditional Christmas card with plenty of dimension and festive details. 

Here is my card once more.

There is plenty of wonderful inspiration to discover on this hop. So do make sure you follow it and visit the other participants' blogs here and check out all the other fabulous makes featuring the new Joy For You collection!

You can shop the whole collection here.

Products I used in my make are (click to be taken to the website)

Decorative Ornaments 3478 ssc

Versamark embossing ink pad

Ranger gold embossing powder

Tim Holtz Holiday greens mini

Tim Holtz Christmas palette paper pack

Scorched timber distress ink pad

Tim Holtz liquid tinsel antiqued fine

I will also be sharing my other makes using this set over on my Instagram account over the coming days. The first one was shared on Thursday. Check it out here.

Remember, one lucky winner chosen from all the comments left on my post and will receive a $25 Simon Says Stamp website coupon! 🎉

And the best part? Simon Says Stamp ships worldwide, so everyone can join in the fun! 🌍💕

Happy hopping and happy crafting!

Here is the whole hop, do check out all the amazing inspiration and be in with a chance of winning a $25 coupon at every stop of the hop! 

Simon Says Stamp Blog 

Heather Hoffman

Suzy Plantamura

Cathy Zielske

Jennifer McGuire

Laura Bassen

Keisha Charles

Amy Rysavy

Bibi Cameron

Mindy Eggen

Bobbi Lemanski

Alberto Gava

Anna-Karin Evaldsson

Lorraine Aquilina

Jane Tyrrell  You are here!

Bye for now,

Jane x

2026 Fall/Winter coffee lovers blog hop

Hi Everyone I am delighted to be participating as a STAMPlorations designer in this fun event. It starts today and runs until 13th November.

This is a first for me and if it is also a first for you this is the direct link with all the details.

STAMPlorations is one of the 20 generous sponsors of the hop and is Shery is offering;

1 winner a $25 prize code

2 winners a coffee-themed digital stamp (winner's choice)

Unlike most blog hops this is an event which requires you to add your projects to the linky over there. The more projects you link the more your chances are of winning. STAMPlorations also has a post sharing some more of our DT makes. Do check it out here. Also there is a sale over on the website with 30% off all coffee themed products, no code is needed. 

PLUS if you put my unique code STAMPGIRLJANE in the ADDITIONAL COMMENTS SECTION  during checkout on the STAMPlorations website,  a coffee-themed paper goods sampler will be included in your order FOR FREE. Shery has also written a post for the event on the STAMP blog which you can see here 

This is the coffee themed card I made for some inspiration

I made an autumn inspired distress stain spray background and  Sketchy coffee cups and the Coffee always stamp sets. 

I stamped the sentiment and added hearts from the sketchy cups and fussy cut the fun cups to add to the scene, 

I then mounted it onto black card and a white card blank. 

Here is it once more.

I hope I may have inspired you to play along with this fun challenge, this is the direct link again.

 Remember, the more projects you link the more your chances are of winning. The hop closes on 13th November. Good luck. 

Have fun and enjoy your coffee themed making!

Remember to follow me over on Instagram here where I share all my creative makes. 

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Come and join in with our STAMPlorations "Tag" challenge

Hi Everyone, STAMPlorations is hosting a fun November  "tag blog hop and linky party" over on their blog. Check out all the details on their blog here  Projects can be anything as long as they have tags in them with a holiday theme. However, holiday tags can be non-Christmas -- it can be for any holiday. Projects can be just tags, or cards with tags in them, or scrapbook pages with tags in them, etc. Just pop over to the blog and link up your project.

There are fab prize to be had too;

• $25 prize code to ONE (1) randomly drawn participant to the Holiday TAGplorations Challenge whose project features a STAMPlorations product

• $15 prize code to ONE (1) randomly drawn participant to the Holiday TAGplorations challenge

• Choice of Tag Dies to ONE (1) randomly drawn participant to the Holiday TAGplorations challenge

• $7 prize code to THREE (3) randomly drawn commenters

The Linky is open until November 30, 11:55 pm Pacific.

I've created a Christmas card featuring a little collection of vintage-style Christmas tags, tied with red and white baker's twine and finished with two sparkly baubles in gold and silver. ✨🎁

And this is how it came together. I have clickable links throughout my post and if you would like 20% off any website orders do read to the end. 

 I gave a little spray of distress stain spray to a piece of kraft card . Using the Christmas tree stencil I applied gold stencil paste and let it dry. 

I used a sentiment from the Homespun Christmas stamp set and added some distress inks to the music sheets ephemera piece found in the lovely Perfect Pairs Classic Christmas set. (I absolutely love this set of ephemera and the quality and thickness of the card used is fab)

I stamped the Merry Christmas from the Homespun Christmas stamp set and  hand cut a little tag and punched a hole and threaded it onto a length of Bakers twine.

In my stash I found some die cut baubles I had made and not used last year. They were made with the No 1 bauble die
and No 2 layering bauble die  

tying bows at each end. 

I matted onto red card and a white card blank. Here is my finished card.

I hope this may have inspired you to join in with our little challenge. If you would like to buy any supplies you can use my unique design team code STAMPGIRLJANE at checkout on the website and save a whopping 20% on your orders. As an extra during November, if you use my code at checkout  you will have a FREE paper goods sampler pack valued at $7 included with your order.

   

Remember to also check me out on Instagram here where I share my creative makes most days. I'll  be back with some more Tag inspiration for this fun challenge later in November. Here is the link again. Remember to leave me a comment here as you might win one of the prizes on offer 🤩

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x