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

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

This week the challenge is:

We’re All A-Buzz

The obvious prompt is bees, but it can also mean being very busy, buzzed with excitement etc, I am sure you will all think of something!

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! The Design Team is looking forward to seeing your crafty makes and will pop around to visit you ASAP!

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

Cath created a fabulous art panel and used Tim Holtz Mixed Media Thinlits, and Tim Holtz Distress Inks to create the backdrop for these Bee-utiful Pink Ink stamps on her ‘Just BEEcause‘  creation.

Andrea, like team member Kath, paid homage to the buzz-worthy Distress news this week by coloring her Dina Wakley 6×6 white journal page using only Distress products. She also used Tim Holtz’s Glitch 2 stamp set, his Dotted and Halftone stencils, and Inky Antics’ Paint Love stamp set.

Anna-Karin created an ATC with a bee theme. She used the Darkroom Door Buzzing Bees stamp set and combined it with Tim Holtz mica flakes. The flakes were colored with alcohol ink.

Barbara created a grunge styled panel with a lot of elements that remember the hive! She used Tim Holtz Sizzix Geo Insects and Tim Holtz Hard Core Art Panels 4 Inch Hexagons as focal point of her work. She also used  Distress Oxide Spray, Ranger Woodgrain Cardstock, Idea-ology Optical lens Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Patchwork 2. 

Cheiron created a bee themed card using the Tim Holtz Sizzix Geo Insects and Stacked Tiles Hexagon dies. She inked the Hexagons with Distress Ink and stamped over them with lots of different background stamps including Stampers Anonymous Halftone and Rings and Flower Shop. She embossed her bee with Distress Embossing Glazes and finished her card with a Quote Chip.

Emma was all a-buzz making this fun card using Tim Holtz’s Snarky Cat stamp set by Stampers Anonymous! She combined the adorable scaredy cat with bees from the Entomology stamp set and toadstools from the Tiny Toadstools set and finished with the ‘What’s Up?’ message from Crazy Talk.

Kath created an art journal page to celebrate the news that has the crafting world All A-Buzz. Tim Holtz fans everywhere are super duper excited and eagerly waiting the reveal of the new Distress colour that will be joining the Distress Family on May 20th. She used Idea-ology Abandoned Paper Stash, Urban Layers Ephemera and Theories Quote Chips, Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Grid Dot Layering Stencil and Tim Holtz/Sizzix Retro Type Bigz die and Alphanumeric Label Thinlits

Macarena made a sunny honey tag with lots of bees on the background using Tim Holtz Entomology stamps and dies. For the sentiment she used Tim Holtz Sizzix Alphanumeric Tiny Upper and Lower dies.

Maura made a bee themed birthday card for her son. She used the Simon Says Stamp BEE Yourself and Birthday Sweets stamp sets, along with several Daniel Smith watercolors like Hansa Yellow Medium.

Meihsia was inspired to create a mixed media tag using Tim Holtz Mini Stencil Set 39 for the texture on the background, and decorated it with Tim Holtz Idea-Ology Specimen Remnant Rubs and Theories Quote Chips. 

Sandra was inspired by the Minc demo and made a card using Distress Resist Spray and the Mini Honeycomb stencil, the background she made with Distress Ink Mustard Seed, Fossilized Amber, Walnut Stain, and Distress Oxide Walnut Stain.

Zoey used distress paint and distress crayons to decor this tag. She was inspired by using HONEYCOMB dies to create texture on her tag.

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