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

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

This week we are challenging you to have some:

FUN WITH PAINT

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

Rox used Dina Wakley Media Flower Crowns Cling Stamps along with Scribble Sticks and water to paint the image. She stamped a second floral image that once coloured she added 3D Foam Squares for extra dimension. She added some extra glimmer using Tim Holtz Distress Spritz and finished by mounting the card onto Black Card Stock and machine stitched around the edges.

Andrea used Dina Wakley paint and some watercolors to give this small notebook a bold new cover. She also used Dina’s Scribble Sticks and Tim Holtz’s Photobooth images.

Anna-Karin made a whole lot of gel printed pages and used some of them for an art journal page. The pages were done on Gelli Arts 5×7 Gel Printing Plate and with many Simon Says Stamp Embossing folders. The title was die cut with Tim Holtz Sizzix Alphanumeric Bulletin dies.

Cheiron used all of her favorite colors of Tim Holtz Distress Paint to create her background. She added layers with the Dotted and Digits stencils and added some dots with a white Posca pen. She finished her card with a Simon Says Stamp Whirl Fancy Leaf Die Cut, and a sentiment from the CZ Design Good Greetings 1 stamps and coordinating dies.

Kath used Tim Holtz/Ranger Picket Fence Distress Paint and Simon Says Stamp Leafy Greens 6″ x 6″ Stencil to create a resist on the background of her card and decorated with Simon Says Stamp Floral Word Builder stamps and co-ordinating dies along with Floral Word Builder Sentiments set for the sentiment.

Maura made a duo of ATC’s using watercolor, Dina Wakley acrylic paints in Peacock and Radical, and Tracy Evan’s Quirky Birds stamps.

Meihsia was inspired to create a watercolor birthday card using Rainbow Splash Cardstock Rainbow Pack as the card base, then Stamped the card with Simon Says Stamps and Dies Cottagecore set, and colored it with it with Zig Kuretake Gansai Tambi 24 COLOR Set.

Zoey created this mini book used Distress Paint for her background and Tim Holtz Tiny Things Stamps with Simon Says Stamp Dies Bundle. She inked up the edges with Distress Ink and bits of collage paper and ideaology embellishments

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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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 

We have 3 artists in the Designer Spotlight for the Back To School Challenge!

#6 Wendylynn / Paper Whims – Anna-Karin says: Wendy made a series of stunning mixed media cards on the back to school topic. I really like the bright colors, school-themed products and fun vintage images.

#3. Janet Katz – Andrea says, I absolutely love the nostalgic look of this card! The colors are soft and the layers give it a great sense of depth and texture. I also really appreciated how the creator offered up substitute products in her write-up for some of the items she used that were older and may be harder to find. It’s a truly beautiful project!

#1 Lily B – Meihsia says, this is such a gorgeous creation. I love the beautiful stenciling and stamping on the cover of this composition book. The soft color scheme and the layout design are fantastic!

Congratulations!

Please copy this spotlight badge, display it on the sidebar of your blog and if you could please link it to Simon Says Stamp!

We now have this lovely badge for you to add to your sidebar if you are this weeks, or a previous, winner please feel free to add this to your sidebar and please link it to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge

So who is the lucky winner of the $25 voucher? Please note, all of our winners are chosen at random so everyone has an equal chance of winning. Good Luck to all!

Here is your random number:

Congratulations Manue De! Here you can see the stunning Back to School card:

Congratulations! Please email us so we can explain how you can claim your prize, the address is on the sidebar.

Be sure to include your full name in the email so we can issue a Gift Certificate 

Thanks to everyone who joined in with the challenge and we hope you will all join in our current challenge too!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin and the DT