Celebrating World Card Making Day with Simon Says Stamp

Hi all :-) I hope you're all having a fabulous weekend and manage to find some crafty time to join in with the World Card Making Day event on the Simon Says Stamp Blog!! 

Simon Says Stamp have invited fabulous designers from around the globe to make Christmas/Holiday themed cards to take part in a World Cardmaking Day event.

! I am thrilled to be taking part and to be representing Malta! ;-)

 Thank you Simon Says Stamp and Susan Opel for inviting me to take part in this worldwide event! :-)

Although I am English I have lived in Gozo, which is Malta's little sister island for 27 years. I have always been interested in all sorts of crafting and used to do cross stitch, embroidery, glass painting, knitting, sewing etc. One day I was walking through the local town of Victoria and a little card making craft shop had recently opened. It was like a eureka moment! from my first look through the window I was hooked. I had a lesson in stamping, bought a load of supplies and never looked back :-)

If you join in with this event you can link up a Christmas/holiday card into the InLinkz on the Simon Says Stamp Blog. 

Random winners will be chosen to win one of 10 $50 gift cards to the Simon store as well as a one subscription to Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine.

I made a couple of cards to share today using an 'On A String' Stamp and Die Set 

I splattered the background with Sparkle Shimmer and Sassy Sapphire Inks and then simply stamped the 'string' and added a few colourfully stamped and die cut snowflakes. 

and I finished the inside.

and for my 2nd one I blended Distress oxide ink and then spritzed and splattered with water.  When it was dry I used white pigment ink and puff sparkle embossing powder to add the snowflakes.

I used the same embossing powder to cover the 'snow' sentiment

and I finished the inside.

FUN FACT: The first World Card Making Day was October 7, 2006. The event was created by a little publication called Paper Crafts magazine, what a great idea to promote card making eh!

So now you can take a trip around the world by visiting all of the blogs taking part!! Enjoy!! :-)

Australia - Gayatri Murali 

Belgium - Laura Sterckx 

Canada - Sarah Moerman 

China - Scarlet Liu 

Colombia - Bibi Cameron 

England - Jo Nevill 

Germany - Maria Fischer 

Greece - Vicky Papaioannou 

Italy - Barbara Schiassi 

Malta - Lorraine Aquilina  you're here ;-)

Poland - Marzena Ziuziakowska 

Russia - Svetlana Pavlova 

Scotland - Debby Hughes 

South Africa - Anna-Karin Evaldsson 

South Korea - Marge Yoon 

Spain - Amanda Korotkova 

Switzerland - Isha Gupta 

Ukraine - Svitlana Shayevich 

USA - Barb Engler


Now you need to go to THIS POST on the Simon Says Stamp Blog and join in! Upload your cards into the InLinkz by 11:59 pm EST on Saturday, October 14th

Challenges:
Crazy 4 Challenges:  Make a Card 
Jingle Belles   Embossing Around the Christmas Tree 
Winter Wonderland.  Anything Christmas Goes 
Christmas At Sweet Stampin'  Anything Christmas 
Sisterhood of Crafting.   Use Dies 

Hope you all have a great card making day! :-)

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Happy Crafting
Luv Lols x x x