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

Thank you for joining us for the Red/White/Blue 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

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 Paper Artsy. 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 Thom Santilla into the Designer Spotlight. If you haven’t visited her blog before then you are in for a real treat!

Thom personalised a notebook cover using Tim Holtz Backdrops #2 Papers and a painted panel using Paper Artsy Duck Eggs and Candy Floss Acrylic Paints and a Kate Crane Stencil. He used an Idea-ology Baseboard Frame and Tim Holtz Rubber Stamp Perspective Stamp for the butterflies. He finished with a sentiment from Idea ology Quote Chips/Theories

Andrea used PaperArtsy stamps from some of her favorite designers for her bright painty tag (the shape of which came from Waffle Flower’s Nesting Tags die set). She used Kate Crane’s KC014 stamp along with Seth Apter’s EM124 and EM105 stamps. She loves using Dina Wakley’s acrylic paints!

Anna-Karin made a tag using watercolor paint, gouache and Paper Artsy Infusions Colored Stain The Sage and In The Navy. The grasses were stamped with Paper Artsy Alison Bomber Winter Umbels and Winter Grasses

Barbara loves playing with paints! This week she had fun with Paper Artsy Mattints, mixed with Ranger Ink Distress Texture Paste Crackle opaque. To create her tag she chose stamps and stencils from Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous: Perspective, Flourish and Latticework, Noteworthy, Nature and Ringer, the Mini Stencil 9 and the Mini Stencil 55

Kath made a simple mixed media card using PaperArtsy Fresco Paints and Tim Holtz Distress Brayer to create the background, applied detail with paint through PaperArtsy Kate Crane PS427 Stencil, added a stamped image using Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Embroidery and Idea-ology Metallic Stickers.

Macarena made a set of colorful tags using for the background Paper Artsy Seth Apter Printed Tissue pt06 which she painted with Stamperia Allegro Acrylic Paints. Then she added birds from Tim Holtz Sizzix Silhouette Birds and painted them with Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint Abandoned Coral.

Maura created a set of memorydex cards inspired by Seth Apter. She used several paints such as Paper Artsy Kiwi Gold and Rusty. Layers were buildt up with tissue paper, stencils, and stamps like Seth Apter’s Paper Artsy EM 109 and EM 128 mini stamps.

Meihsia was inspired to create a tag using Paper Artsy Kate Crane Mini Stencil and Paper Artsy JOFY Stencilon the background, and colored it with Tim Holtz Flip Top Distress Paint Foursome Bundle 6 and Tim Holtz Flip Top Distress Paint Foursome Bundle 3.

Zoey used Paper Artsy Blank Tissue Paper to add interest to her background. She also used Distress Ink + Paint and some Tim Holtz Ideaology epehemera. She finished off her panel by adding Paper Artsy Fresco Finish

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 Red/White/Blue Challenge!

#14 Edith Mars – Anna-Karin says: The background layers of this tag are stunning, with all that red and blue and the dot and flower pattern. I also really like that one of the girls is holding that big flower.

#52. Denise Bryant: Andrea says, This card made me smile the second I saw it! It is festive and full of life, yet such a simple and wonderful design. I thought this was a genius pairing of different types of craft supplies to bring one scene to life. Great work!

#33 Minpinsloveme – Meihsia says, This is such a fun and fantastic card! Love the beautiful stitches and the layered embellishments. The whole design is awesome!

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 Marlena M! Below you can see the great cards that Marlena made for the challenge:

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 stamping!

Anna-Karin and the DT