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

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

This week we are challenging you to:

Paint It

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 Dyan Reaveley. 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 Cassie Lynch aka mk_knits into the Designer Spotlight. If you haven’t visited her blog before then you are in for a real treat!

Cassie used Lemon Zest, Island Parrot, Blue Lagoon, and Squeezed Orange Dylusion Paint to make her background and to color the Fancy Florals by Dyan Reaveley. She added buttons from her stash for the center of the flowers.

Andrea made a mini book out of a Dylusions Black Journaling Tag folded in half. She colored the front with several of her favorite Dylusions paints such as Balmy Night, Rose Quartz, and Strawberry Daquiri. She used Whimsy Stamps’ Boho Alphabet for the “Try” sentiment.

Barbara created a trio of tags mixing Ground Coffee and Slate Grey Dylusions Inks Spray with various Ranger Ink Distress Spray. She chooses three stamps sets by Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous: The Professor CMS373, Tim Holtz Clear Stamps and Stencil Observations and The Inspector CMS465. She also added Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Layering Stencil Brush Arch, Element Stencils Everyday Art, Mini Stencil Set 53

Cheiron used Dylusions Rose Quartz Ink Spray, Gesso and Distress Paints in Cracked Pistachio and Wild Honey to create the background on her mixed media card. She stenciled through the Mini Brush Mark stencil, added some stamping with Distress Archival Ink and lots of splatter. She finished her card with some leaves from the Media Marks 1 set and added a sentiment from the Note Quotes stamps.

Kath used Tim Holtz/Ranger “Back From The Vault” Distress Paints to colour one of the preprinted pages in her Dylusions Creative Dyary. She added stencilling using Dylusions Dyalog Border It Stencil, a sentiment quote from Borders and Quotes Colouring Sheets and doodled circles using Dylusions Paint Pens.

Meihsia was inspired to create a mixed media Mother’s Day tag using Simon Says Clear Stamps SWOOPY FLOWERS for the image on the background, colored it with Ranger DYLUSIONS INK SPRAY SET OF 6 Dyan Reaveley and added a sentiment using Simon Says Stamp Simple Mother’s Day Wafer Dies. 

Zoey used Ranger Dylusions Vibrant Turquoise paint through Tim Holtz Brush Hex stencil. She then used Tim Holtz Idea-ology Collage Tiles and Tim Holtz Idea-ology Photomatic to decorate the 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