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

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

For this challenge we would like you to make anything festive:

Merry Christmas/ Happy Holidays

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

Carrie created the most adorable hand-made holiday book using papers and accents from Arden Creative Studio’s Season of Joy  Paper Pack and  Ephemera Pack. She watercolored and inked rag paper pages, then added adorable cats from the AALL & Create Winter Whiskers Die-Cuts! A very special 8-year-old helped with the last page!! Please pop by Carrie’s IG gallery to see the pages!

An old Bigz die was used for the tags that were decorated and popped into the opening of the pages.

Andrea made a Christmas card using AALL & Create’s Snowland die set. She added color using Distress Watercolor Pencils (Set 3) and Dina Wakley’s Media Gloss spray. The sentiment is from Tim Holtz’s Christmas Sticker Book.

Anna-Karin made an art journal page inspired the poinsettia plant she got a couple of days ago. The flowers were stamped with Tim Holtz The Poinsettia and watercolored. The star stamps come from Simon Says Stamp Festive Merriment and the page was done in Stamperia Mixed Media Happiness Journal 4×8.5 in.

Barbara created a rustic Christmas tag. She chose the Tim Holtz Sizzix 3D Large A5 Embossing Folder Lumber 666884 die as the base. The tree in the center is from the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Cling Rubber Stamps Just Believe cms031 set. The star is a coordinating stamp from the Tim Holtz Holiday Things Stamps with Simon Says Stamp Dies Bundle.

Cheiron used the Tim Holtz Retro Santa along with the Bold Text Christmas cut from Matte Gold Cardstock to create a fun city scene. She colored her background with Uncharted Mariner Distress Spray Stain and added Distress Foundry Wax for a finishing touch.

Emma created a Stampers Anonymous Etcetera Panel all about the night before Christmas, using Tim Holtz products to tell the story. She added dimension to the panel, by using an Etcetera Facade before adding layers including Woodland Garlands, Christmas Layers and a splash of sparkle with the Tim Holtz Distress Glitter Bundle.

Kath created a Christmas card using Simon Says Stamp Wispy Pine Needle Frame Embossing Folder and Merry Cover die, Tim Holtz/Sizzix Festive Gatherings Thinlits,  Idea-ology Christmas Backdrops 2025 Papers and Distress Rock Candy Glitter.

Macarena loved to play with the mooses from Tim Holtz Sizzix Merry Moose Die set which is basicaly almost all she used here. Thye die is prrfect for make a complete holiday scene. For the background she used Tim Holtz Distress Faded Jeans Oxide Ink Pad.

Maura made a Christmas decor piece for a coffee loving friend. She used Stamperia’s Mug Crafty Shapes, Simon Says Stamp’s Friendship Text Background stamp, Simon Says Stamp’s Tree Lot stencil, and added some holiday glitz with Dylusions White Linen Shimmer Paint.

Meihsia was inspired to create a mixed media Christmas tag using Simon Says Stamp Radiant Burst Wafer Die on the background, and decorated it with Tim Holtz idea-ology 2025 Christmas Layers and Paper Dolls and Tim Holtz idea-ology 2025 Christmas Sticker.

Zoey created the focal point of this tag using coordinating stamp and dies. She built a layered background with Distress Spray Stain, then added depth and shading using Distress Oxide Ink. To finish, she heat-embossed the sentiment with Gold Embossing Powder, perfectly tying all the elements together for a cohesive look.

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 Use Dies Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

This month we would like you to:

Wrap It Up

tags/ wrapping paper/boxes etc

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

Carrie is wrapping her packages with these fun tags and ornaments! She dove into Tim Holtz Paper Dolls Collection to create a collage of fun. The Home for Christmas stamps made the perfect background addition. She stamped the pine leaves in Potting Soil and Black Archival Inks and then added some Glossy Accents and paint splatters for more festive fun!

Andrea decorated a tin gift box using Seth Apter’s Twisters dies. She stamped some festive stars using Tim Holtz’s Darling Christmas stamp set and used some Neon alcohol ink for some pops of color.

Anna-Karin altered a box into a Christmas Gift Box using gesso, paper, paint, stamps and dies. The lid is embellished with a dimensional heart, die cut with Simon Says Stamp Heart Shaker set from the new DieCember® release. The patterned paper comes from Tim Holtz Christmas Backdrops and the gems are Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Dazzling Lilac Gems.

Cheiron created a tag for a very special gift using the CZ Design Nested Wafer Tags and embossed them with the Simon Says Stamp Starbright Embossing Folder. She went over the raised areas with some Gilded Foundry Wax and heated it with a heat tool to set it. She added the Frosty Tree Gathering die and a sentiment from the CZ Design Tree Plate Greetings sentiments. To complete her tag she added some Metallic Gold Pearls and Metallic String.

Emma used Tim Holtz stamps to create a gift wrap set which includes, paper, tags and a present topper. She used a combination of Tim Holtz stamps including the Holiday Sketchbook Die and Stamp Bundle, coloured with Distress Watercolour Pencils for her tags and Mr Frostie and Holiday Postmarks for the gift wrap.

She also created a present topper using the Snowflake Rosette Die that is FREE with $30 or more of Tim Holtz branded purchase.

Kath has been busy making quick and easy tags to decorate her Christmas gift packages. She used Simon Says Layered Scallop Tags and Triangle Santa dies, Old Letter Clear Stamp, Red/White Bakers Twine, Tim Holtz STAMPtember Festive Sentiments stamps and dies and Reverse Merriest Christmas Sentiment Strips.

Macarena made a set of gift tags with a sweet snowmen using for the background Tim Holtz Sign Painter stamps set and Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Festive Berries and Mowed Lawn.

Maura had fun folding these holiday medallions that can be used to top a gift or embellisher gift bag. She used Tim Holtz’s Christmas background papers, Tim Holtz’s distress Hickory Smoke Spritz, and Simon Says Stamp Chunky Glitter.

Meihsia was inspired to create four Christmas tags using Simon Says Clear Stamps Christmas Cats on the background, and colored them with Copic SKETCH 72 PC SET D Markers then decorated them with Tim Holtz idea-ology Confections Bundle. 

Zoey made these little tags using Tim Holtz Tattedered Christmas Stamp with Simon Says Stamp coordinating dies to decorate them! She also used Distress Spritz to add some sparkle and layering stencil to add textures.

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