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Simon Says: Spritz & Splatter

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

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

This week we are challenging you to:

SPRITZ AND SPLATTER

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

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Cassie used Tim Holtz Stacked Hearts Flowers and Brushstroke Flowers Die Sets.  She spritzed the background with Tim Holtz Speckled Egg, Stain Scorched Timber and Picked Raspberry Distress Spray Stain. To finish things off Cassie added Spellbinders Splatter White Opaque Watercolor. 

Andrea made a wildly watery tag with a colored teabag in the background. She used watercolors, Infusions Colored Stain and Dina Wakley Media Gloss. She also incorporated Tim Holtz’s Chit Chat stickers for the sentiment and used the Simon Says Stamp Luggage Tags dies for the tag itself.

Anna-Karin decorated a page in Dina Wakley’s Ledger Journal, using an old family photo as the focal point. The background was sprayed with Saltwater Taffy Distress Spritz and splattered with Winsor & Newton Permanent White Gouache.

Barbara created a tag using different types of sprays to create the background and color the flowers. She chose Ranger Ink Distress Spray Stain, Distress Spritz, and Distress Mica Stain. She used two stamp sets from Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous: Embroidery CMS486 and The Obscure CMS471. In the center is a heart from the Idea-ology Salvaged Hearts pack.

Cheiron used Tim Holtz Distress Spritz and Sparkle Paste to create a background for her Valentine. She sprayed on the Spritz and when it was dry added the Sparkle Paste through the Sparkle Fade stencil. To finish her card she added an image and sentment from the Simon Says Stamp Love Day stamp + die set.

Emma is thinking ahead to Valentine’s Day and created this fun and quirky panel featuring Tim Holtz’s die, The Count and his “love-o-meter”. She used The Inspector stamp and die bundle to create the hearts and gauge and spritzed and splattered Distress Spray Stains and Oxide Sprays onto Mixed Media Heavystock card to make the background for a Rectangular Etcetera Panel.

Kath used Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Hearts Layering Stencil, Love Notes stamp set, Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide Spray and Frayed Burlap Distress Spritz, Simon Says Stamp Lace Heart, Fancy Love and Ornamental Fine Leaves Wafer Dies to create Love themed shaker cards.

Macarena made a sweet tag with some colorful splatter of Tim Holtz Distress Mica Stains on the Paper Artsy Tissue. She made up the composition with Stamperia Furry Friends Assorted Die Cuts and 49 and Market Birdsong Laser Cut Elements.

Maura added lots of splatter and spritz to her set of Valentine’s cards. She used Simon Says Stamp Silver and White Splatters, Tim Holtz’s Distress Spritzes, and Simon Says Stamp;s Words of Love stamp.

Meihsia was inspired to create a mixed media tag using Tim Holtz Flip Top Distress Paint Foursome Bundle 6 and Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Spray Mustard Seed Ranger on the background, and decorated it with Simon Says Clear Stamps Old Fashioned stamped image and Tim Holtz idea-ology LABEL STICKERS THOUGHTS.

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

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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 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Simon Says: Add Some Texture, featuring AALL & Create Products

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

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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 StampAALL & 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!

Follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram

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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 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

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