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

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

This week we are challenging you to:

MAKE YOUR OWN BACKGROUND

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 Tracy Evans. 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 Simona Rebecchi into the Designer Spotlight. If you haven’t visited her blog before then you are in for a real treat!

Simona made a card using a Tracy Evans Grungs Stencil and Background Elements Stamp to make the background. For the main focus she used a Tracy Evans Insect Stamp Set and Tim Holtz Countdown Dies.

Andrea made a tag using Tracy Evans’ Quirky Birds stamp set. She created her background by painting, scribbling, and stamping images from Tim Holtz’s Halftone & Rings and Floral Elements stamp sets. The tag is cut using AALL & Create’s Tag It Yourself die set.

Anna-Karin‘s Tracy Evans stamps are still on their way, so instead she used one of Tracy’s older designs, the AALL & Create Flower Press stamp. The background was made with the Simon Says Stamp Scattered Leaves stencil set, from the new Beautiful Moments release. The sentiment comes from Simon Says Stamp Printmaking Clovers set.

Barbara created a card using a stamp set from Tracy Evans Boutique Designs, One of a Kind. For the background, she used various inks from Simon Says Stamp, Pawsitively Saturated Ink Cubes, a stencil from Tim Holtz’s Mini Set 22, and a Stampers Anonymous Note Quotes CMS 463 stamp.

Cheiron created a background with Distress Paints and Collage Paper. She added Distress Opaque Crackle Texture Paste through the Tracy Evans Distressed Background Snippet stencil. She finished the card with a floral image and sentiment from the Tim Holtz Abstract Florals stamps.

Kath created a page in her Stamperia Stone Paper A5 Mixed Media Journal using Tracy Evans Boutique Designs Artsy Alpha and Numbers and Background Elements A7 stamps, Daisy Daisy 6″ x 6″ Stencil, Distress Grit Paste Opaque and Simon Says Stamp EZ Strips XL Reverse Basics for the page title.

Macarena went a bit wild with the Tim Holtz Mica Stains and made a messy background with lots of layers of colors. Before she heat embossed Tracy Evans Boutique Designs Art Backdrop stamp. Then she covered a part of the tag with an acetate stamped with Tim Holtz Specimen butterfly stamp.

Maura was inspired by a book she listened to , to created two bookmark tags to give as gifts. She used Tracy Evans Feathered Friends stamps, Tracy Evans Grunge stencil, Tracy Evans Creative Spark stamps, and Tracy Evans Numerical Cats stamps.

Meihsia was inspired to create a mixed media tag using Tracy Evans Boutique Designs Background Elements A7 Clear Stamps te11 and Tracy Evans Boutique Designs Create Your Own Story A5 Clear Stamps on the background and decorated it with Tim Holtz idea-ology Salvaged Hearts.

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 

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

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

This week we are challenging you to make something:

WHATEVER THE WEATHER

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 Cassie’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 :-)

Cassie used a Tim Holtz Tiny Prints Stamp for her background. For the main focus she used a car is from Home for Christmas stamp set and she popped a few flowers from a Tim Holtz/Simon Says Stamp Mini Bouquet Stamp and Coordinating Die Set on the roof!

Anna-Karin made an art journal page in memory of the beautiful winter weather during the past two months. She white embossed snowflakes from Simon Says Stamp Snowflake Season on the background and painted with Daniel Smith watercolors. The page was done in Stamperia’s Happiness Mixed Media Journal.

Andrea used sunrays cut from AALL & Create’s Voltage Stars die for her colorful sunny card. She used AALL & Create’s Retro Numbers die for the shape of the card itself. She also utilized watercolors and Atomic Alcohol Ink for pops of color.

Cheiron is wishing for spring!!! She created a card with some tiny spring blooms using the Simon Says Stamp Simple Flowers Wafer dies. She cut her flowers out of colorful spring colored cardstock and layered them over Simon Says Stamp Black Cardstock to really make them pop. She added a sentiment from the Simon Says Stamp EZ Strips XL Reverse Basics that she cut with the EZ Strips Banners Wafer die.

Emma was inspired by the lyrics of the song, Come Rain Or Come Shine because whatever the weather, love is all around! She used the bunnies from the Sizzix Vault Bunny + Chick Thinlits Dies by Tim Holtz as focal points on her envelope and postage stamp set. She added die cut hearts from the Lovebirds die set and completed these pieces by adding stamped and die cut ephemera using the Correspondence Stamp and SSS Die Bundle.

Kath was inspired by the signs in her garden that Spring is on the way to create a series of notecards using Simon Says Stamp Watercolor Bouquet and Brushstroke Greetings stamp sets, Watercolor Bouquet and Brushstroke Greetings co-ordinating dies and Pawsitively Saturated Inks.

Macarena was inspired by the beautiful sunsets she experienced in Spain and made a tag reflecting one of them. She built up the sunset colors using mainly Tim Holtz Distress Mica Stains and a strongly pigmented Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Reinkers. She saved the colors in between the layers using Ranger Dina Wakley Media Clear Gloss Spray. She used also Spellbinders Set Sail Etched Dies.

Maura was inspired by the resilience of ducks to thrive in any weather. She made a card using Simon Says Stamp’s Rubber Ducky die, Simon Says Stamp Waves stencil and Simon Says Stamp Rainbow Splash cardstock.

Meihsia was inspired to create a card using Simon Says Clear Stamps Rain or Shine on the background, and colored it with Copic SKETCH 72 PC SET B Markers and Zig Kuretake Gansai Tambi 24 COLOR Set.

Zoey used Tim Holtz Cling Rubber Stamps Watercolor as main focus on her tag. She used Distress Ink in the background then layered some dark Oxide through the Nordic stencil. She also added some glimmer with Distress SPRITZ!

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