Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge

We also have a special challenge for children between the ages of 2 and 16! CLICK HERE or on the logo to go directly to the challenge page

Thank you for joining us for the Food and Drink Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

This week we are challenging you to join us for our 7th Birthday celebrations

Happy Birthday

We would like you to create something to help with our birthday celebration! It could be a card, a tag to attach to a gift, a gift or maybe a birthday banner or cake topper! Whatever you decide to make we will be looking forward to seeing how you join us for the party!

As it is the first Monday of the month, as as it is our birthday, we are showcasing our very own Simon Says Stamp Products!

A birthday wouldn’t be the same without extra gifts so for this challenge we will be giving away not one but 2 X $50 vouchers to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store

Remember to click on the person’s name to see all of the details of how we made these creations and leave these wonderful girls some comment love

This month we are welcoming the lovely and super talented Simona Rebecchi  aka Ginny and the Sheep. I am sure you will have all visited her fabulous blog but just in case you missed it you really need to drop by, it is full of awesome eye candy!

Simo is so thrilled to celebrate our Birthday and for  being chosen as Guest Designer for this month, so she made a Journal spread with some of her all time favorite goodies, together with our Simon’s Exclusives ‘Sentiments of Be’ Die and Stamp Set and ‘You’ Die

Andrea made some gift card boxes using Simon Says Stamp’s Hydrangea Petal dies, Grunge Alphabet stamp set, and Sparkle and Shine stamp set.

Anna-Karin made a clear whale-themed birthday card, using a whole bunch of Simon Says Stamp Exclusive stamps, dies and surfaces, such as the brand new Encouraging Animals stamp and die set, Big Day die, Circle Doodle Background stamp, and vellum.

Barbara celebrates her birthday during this month same as Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog! She created a birthday card with a lot of Simon’s Exclusives dies and stamps: new  FLORAL BURST COLLAGE Wafer Dies, Simon Says Clear Stamps AUTUMN GREETINGS, Simon Says Stamp BEST DAY EVER Wafer Die, Simon Says Clear Stamps ENVELOPE GREETINGS and Distress oxides.

Cathie created a fun and cheerful card using bright colors to celebrate Simon’s 7th birthday. She created a fun party style background using the Simon Says Stamp Curly Streamers dies and Falling Snow stencil. The beautiful sentiment is from the Big Scripty Greetings stamp set.

Emma created a fun birthday card, combining a Tim Holtz Crazy Dog with the Simon Says Stamp Collage Frond die and Flora Background Stamp.

Kath made a birthday card using Simon Says Stamp Circular Lace Stencil, Bouquet of Thanks and Stitched Alphabet stamp sets

Lols made a card using a Circle Doodles Embossing Texture Plate, a Painted Happy Birthday Die, Balloons Die and Eyelet Arch Border Die 

Macarena  went into a Birthday card with a very mixed-media background using Simon Says Stamp Extra Large Dots stencil and kept it in her favorite pink/purple color combo using Infusions and Metallique Paints. For the frame she used Simon Says Stamp Stitched Squares and Clustered Leaves dies. Finally she put the sentiment using SSS Happy Birthday die.

Maura made a card of 7’s to celebrate, using Simon Says Stamp’s Kaleidoscope Background stamp and It’s Your Birthday set, along with Simon’s High Dive and Doll Pink inks.

Meihsia celebrates Simon’s birthday with creating a mixed media gift tag using Simon Says Rubber Stamp Falling Stars on the background and the cute unicorn image from Simon Says Clear Stamp Magical Birthday.

Sandra made a birthday card using Simon Says Stamp Big Hugs die and Simon Says Stamp Intense Black Ink, along with a few Distress Oxides to create the background

Zoey used Simon Says Clear Stamp HELLO BEAUTIFUL , Simon Says Clear Stamp BIRTHDAY FLOWERS and watercolors to create this card

So now it’s YOUR turn to get out your inks, paints and all things arty and start creating! We are looking forward to seeing what you make!

There are fabulous Give Aways and inspiration from fabulous designers on a daily basis over on the Simon Says Stamp Blog , if you haven’t subscribed by email you may want to so you don’t miss out

You have until Monday  8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in

We will also be choosing a selection of our entries to put in the spotlight – a special honor where we talk about why we loved that entry in particular and award a special badge too! For the full rules, read the “challenge rules” posted in the side-bar here on our blog.