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

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

This week we are challenging you to:

ADD SOME TEXTURE

As it’s the first Monday of the month we are showcasing a brand/company. This week we are all using some fabulous products from AALL & Create. You don’t have to use them to join in with the challenge but if you have them we would love to see them used.

The lovely folks over at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a FABULOUS $25 voucher to shop at the  Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take out your crafty supplies, make something following this week’s prompt, and add a link in the Inlinkz at the bottom of this post! You can join 5 times so you could have 5 chances to win! How AWESOME is that!! All winners are chosen randomly, so everyone has an equal chance to win! Woo Hoo!! Good Luck to everyone!

Please 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 week we’re welcoming back the lovely Cassie Lynch into the Designer Spotlight. If you haven’t visited her instagram gallery before then you are in for a real treat!

Cassie used an AALL & Create Stamp and Seek Stamp Set along with Tim Holtz Distress Inks. She added texture using Ranger Opaque Crackle Paste and Tim Holtz Ideaology Gadget Gears.  The sentiment is an AALL & Create Sensus Ephemera Die Cuts.

Andrea created texture through layering, using cardboard scraps, and making some “paper charms” that she strung on a piece of yarn. The tag was cut using AALL & Create’s Hexalove die set and the other shapes were cut with AALL & Create’s Heart Marks the Spot die set. The sentiment came from Tim Holtz’s THMM113 stamp set.

Anna-Karin made a mixed media tag with a textured background. The background was created with AALL & Create Mindful Moments words, Distress Paint and a little bit of Diamond Stickles. The house was stamped with AALL & Create Tudor Cottage set.

Barbara made a Valentine’s tag using an unusual color palette:
turquoise and orange. She created the background using an All & Create stencil, Totally Dotty, and Ranger Ink Crackle Paste Translucent. She filled the cracks with Ranger Ink Distress Crayon Tarnished Brush. All the stamps are by Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous: Classics #8 and Valentine Silhouettes cms121.

Cheiron used the AALL & Create Studded Stars stencil with Opaque Texture Paste and Distress Embossing Glaze. She put this over a Dina Wakley 4 inch square tag that she had pained with DIstress Paint. She added white and Hyper Alcohol Neon splatter to her tag. She finished her tag with the Hero Arts We All Started Somewhere stamp and die set.

Emma created a Stampers Anonymous Etcetera Tag and used the AALL & Create Distressed Dreams Timber Tints Papers to add texture to her background. She then added even more texture by using Tim Holtz idea-ology products as a focal point, which included a Vintage Clip and Flourish Adornments which she altered with Distress Paints, Foundry Waxes and Translucent Grit Paste.

Kath created an Art Journal page in her Stamperia Stone Paper A5 Mixed Media Journal using AALL&Create Nebula Nexus and Heapza Hexagonz Stencils, Grit & Grace Rub-ons, Simon Says Stamp Nested Domed Arches Wafer dies, Be Your Beautiful Self stamps and dies and Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Ticking and Grain background stamp.

Macarena made a card using for the background the AALL and Create Metallic Motif Layer It Up Washi Tape and Simon Says Stamp Circle Quilt die. Then she made up a flower using the Simon Says Stamp and Die Mod Plants set and Redesign with Prima Marketing Red White and Blue Mould.

Maura created a tag with the AALL and Create Eyeful stamp, AALL and Create Bolted Gears Ephemera, AALL and Create Aerial Beauties, and Tim Holtz Grit Paste.

Meihsia was inspired to create a mixed media birthday tag using AALL & Create Chain Framed A7 Clear Stamp, AALL & Create Numero Uno A8 Clear Stamps and AALL & Create Buttercream Birdy Bliss A7 Clear Stamps on the background, and added the texture using Tim Holtz Mini Stencil Set 26.

Zoey used AALL & Create Heapza Hexagonz and paste to add texture to the background. The background is made with Distress Oxide Spray and Distress Spray stain. To decorate the tag she used Ideaology Botanical and Snapshots.

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!

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Do you use Instagram ?  If so please add  #sssmchallengeso we can see your entries there too!

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. This is a special honor where we talk about why we loved that entry in particular and award a special badge too! For the full rules please read the challenge rules posted in the side-bar here on our blog.

Please note that all previous challenges and winners posts can be accessed by clicking on the button at the very bottom of this page.

Please read the challenge rules on the sidebar. It has come to our attention that some are entering projects that were posted weeks ago. While they may follow the theme they are not eligible to win the voucher. All creations must be newly published. Thank You 

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

Thank you for joining us for the Things With Wings Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

This week we are challenging you to:

HAVE A HEART

The lovely folks over at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a FABULOUS $25 voucher to shop at the  Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take out your crafty supplies, make something following this week’s prompt, and add a link in the Inlinkz at the bottom of this post! You can join 5 times so you could have 5 chances to win! How AWESOME is that!! All winners are chosen randomly, so everyone has an equal chance to win! Woo Hoo!! Good Luck to everyone!

Please 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

It’s Natasha’s last week with us in the Designer Spotlight and we would like to say a huge thank you for all of your creations over the past month. It has been a real pleasure to have you along with us :-)

Natasha created 2 ATC’s for a special someone for Valentine’s day!  The backgrounds were created using playing cards, acrylic paint, book pages, dry wall tape, and white gesso.  She then die cut hearts using the Basic Hearts die set and used Golden Bloom embossing powder. She added sentiments from Small Talk to complete each card.  

Andrea thought sardines were a great way to say love, so she used the Hero Arts Big Mouth Sardine Tin Die Set and Partners in Brine Stamp Set to create this card. She used watercolors to bring the sardines to life and mimicked the tin look with shiny silver cardstock.

Anna-Karin made a heart-themed tag with shades of pink and red. The background was stamped with Simon Says Stamp Lined Heart and the sentiments are from Simon Says Stamp Love Letter and Retro Hearts. The tag background was inked with Distress Ink.

Barbara created a Valentine’s tag using a stamp from Tim Holtz’s Urban Chic CMS 086 stamp set as the center. Below, she used the Sizzix Vault Rosettes Thinlits dies cut with Idea-ology Sparkle. The background was created using the Harlequin stencil by Stampers Anonymous, combined with Ranger Ink Gold embossing powder.

Cheiron used the Tim Holtz Love Notes stamp set to create her panel. She stamped her hearts and colored them in with Dina Wakley Neon Scribble Sticks and Distress Watercolor Pencils. She added white and Black Soot Distress Paint Splatter. She finished her card with a sentiment from the Simon Says Stamp Label Slides Love & Friendship.

Kath created a Valentine’s Day card using the Be Your Beautiful Self stamp set, Artful Palette Wafer Dies and Tim Holtz/Idea-ology Pink Palette Collection papers from Simon Says Stamp February Card Kit along with the Swiss Dots Clear Background stamp and Love Script Wafer Dies.

Meihsia was inspired to create a Valentine’s Day card using Simon Says Clear Stamp Words of Love Heart to Heart on the background, and decorated it with Tim Holtz Cling Rubber Stamps Love Struck and Tim Holtz idea-ology LABEL STICKERS THOUGHT.

Zoey used Distress Ink Spray and Distress Ink for her background, then used Grit Paste through the heart stencil for added texture. To decorate her tag she used Field Notes Stamp + Coordinating Dies

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!

Follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram

Do you use Instagram ?  If so please add  #sssmchallengeso we can see your entries there too!

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. This is a special honor where we talk about why we loved that entry in particular and award a special badge too! For the full rules please read the challenge rules posted in the side-bar here on our blog.

Please note that all previous challenges and winners posts can be accessed by clicking on the button at the very bottom of this page.

Please read the challenge rules on the sidebar. It has come to our attention that some are entering projects that were posted weeks ago. While they may follow the theme they are not eligible to win the voucher. All creations must be newly published. Thank You