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

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

As this month we are celebrating DieCember® we would like you to:

Use Dies

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

Rox used a Tim Holtz Sizzix Vintage Sled, coloured with Distress Inks and added some elements in Gold Metallic Card. She layered the sled onto a background created using a Woodgrain Texture Fade Embossing Folder and added some Christmas Ephemera pieces and stitched the border to finish. 

Andrea made a tag using Simon’s Label Tags dies, Clean Line Christmas Stamp Set, Circle Loops Dies, Mini Stars Party Die, and Falling Snow Stencil.

Anna-Karin made a tag with trees die cut from Simon Says Stamp Vellum and Glitter Cardstock. The trees were made with Simon Says Stamp Party Hat and Fir Branches dies. Tim Holtz Metallic Droplets are perfect baubles.

Barbara loves so much to use dies of every kind! She created two Christmas tags using Olive Leaves by Simon Says Stamp and Big Tidings by Sizzix for Tim Holtz. In the background she used Stampers Anonymous Stencil Twinkle together with Ranger Ink Embossing Powder Vintage Pearl.

Cheiron finally managed to use her Simon Says Stamp Wonky Tree-O dies. She painted some Dina Wakley Gloss Spray onto tissue paper and adhered it to cardstock using Distress Collage Medium. She cut them out and then added some doodling with Posca and Moonlight pens and added sentiments from the CZ Design Christmas Typewriter stamps.

Emma is getting ready for Santa’s arrival and she made a vintage style Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz Etcetera Tag using the gorgeous Simon Says Stamp Fretwork Snowflake to create the background which she then painted with Rustic Wilderness Distress Paint. To complete the tag she used Tim Holtz Christmas Ephemera, Festive Marquee and Holiday Bells.

Kath decorated a gift bag using Simon Says Stamp Willow Snowflake, created shimmery texture on the background with Tim Holtz/Sizzix Pine Branches 3D Texture Fade and Sterling Foundry Wax, added Walter and his Mrs, the DieCember exclusive surprise from Tim Holtz and Simon Says Stamp, Hero Arts Holiday Message Strip Rub-Ons and Trinity Stamps Candy Apple Heart Sprinkles to send warm wishes to the recipient.

Macarena made a pinky sweet shaker card using Simon Says Stamp Nested Domed Arches dies for the window and Etched Laurel Leaves with Outline Clustered Leaves for the decoration. For the pink background she used Tim Holtz Ranger Kitsch Flamingo Distress Oxide Ink.

Maura made a simple tag using the DieCember Simon Says Stamp Long Leaf Pine Sprig die, Simon Says Stamp Label Tags die, a new favorite ink – Simon Says Stamp Intense Black ink, and added a bit of sparkle with Wink of Stella.

Meihsia was inspired to create a mixed media tag using Tim Holtz Idea-ology 2023 Christmas Layer Frame on the background, and decorated it with Tim Holtz Sizzix FEATHERED FRIENDS Thinlits Die and Tim Holtz Idea-ology 2023 Christmas Adornments Deck The Halls.

Zoey used Tim Holtz Framed Tag as the base of her tag, then used Tim Holtz Big Tidings as main focus. She also used other dies to decorate the tag and used Statue Foundry Wax to add some highlights.

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