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

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

This week we would like you to:

HAVE A HEART

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

It’s Pauline’s last week with us in the Designer Spotlight and we would like to say a huge thank you for all of your creations over the past month. It has been a real pleasure to have you along with us :-)

Pauline created a quirky hearts and flowers card using various products by Tracy Evans Boutique Designs, including Snippet Stencil SS12 – Heart, and stamps TE5 Clematis, TE6 Branched Heart, TE10 Quirky Birds, TE11 Background Elements, TE16 Artsy Alphas/Numbers, TE30 Garden Elements and TE32 Alpha Florals. The background was created using various Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inkpads.

Andrea made a love-themed tag using AALL & Create’s Faded Memories Ephemera Die Cuts for the tag itself and AALL & Create’s Rose Reverie Ephemera Die Cuts to decorate the tag. She also used Dina Wakley’s Collage Sparks 1 for the Love sentiment.

Anna-Karin made a tag with a stenciled heart background. The background was made with the lovely Simon Says Stamp Falling In Love stencil. The butterfly was stamped with Simon Says Stamp Beautiful Butterflies stamp set and watercolored with Distress Ink.

Barbara created two tags using various stencils and stamps from Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous for the backgrounds including Love Notes CMS 477, Watercolor CMS 217 stamp set and Hearts and Rays Layering Stencils. She added Idea-Ology Salvaged Heart colored with Ranger Ink Alcohol Inks. The arrow in the center is cut with Sizzix Love Notes Sidekick Dies and Texture Fade.

Emma is feeling the love and she created a Stampers Anonymous Etcetera Panel. She used the Tim Holtz Stacked Hearts Die Set by Sizzix to create a dimensional background before adding various idea-ology pieces including Flourish Adornments, Floral Adornments, Sweetheart Adorments and completing the make with a couple from the Mini Paper Dolls pack.

Kath used Simon Says Tucked Hearts 6″ x 6″ stamp set to create the background, Tim Holtz Idea-ology Palette Ephemera and sentiments from Simon Says Always and Forever 6″ x 8″ stamp set to make a vintage inspired Valentine card, decorated with a Tim Holtz Idea-ology Word Key, Lawn Fawn White Hemp Twine and Trinity Stamps Creamy Vanilla Heart Sprinkles.

Macarena made a cute card with a couple of robots from Creative Expresions Botology Better Together stamp set. The background was made with Tim Holtz Sign Painter stamps.

Maura headed to her art journal to create a heartfelt page. She used Creative Expression’s Botology Better together stamps, along with Picket Fence’s Vintage Heart stamp, using Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturated inks like Mocha and Rhubarb.

Meihsia was inspired to create a mixed media tag using Tim Holtz Flip Top Distress Paint on the background, and decorated it with Simon Says Stamp Lined Heart Wafer Dies and Simon Says Stamp Sentiment Strips Gratitude. 

Zoey used a wire thread to make her little guy. She also used Tim Holtz Collage Paper to “dress” him. The structure is Idea-Ology vignette that she entirely covered with a mix of Texture Paste and Grit Paste. She added color using Distress Paint + Spray, then added Tack Nails to the side as decoration and a little happiness stickers

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