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

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

This week we are challenging you to:

LOOK TO THE NIGHT SKY

stars, universe, planets

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 Cassie’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 :-)

Cassie used Creative Expressions Mr Stargazer and Astrology Table Cling Stamps to stargaze at the planets. Her images were painted with Tim Holtz Distress Reinkers. She added an Idealogy Quote Token to finish. 

Andrea made a tag using AALL & Create’s Tag It Yourself die set for the base. She used several Tim Holtz products to bring the sky to life: the Stars stencil, Vault Christmas Magic die set, Media Marks 2 stamp set and Seasonal Scribbles stamp set.

Anna-Karin created a winter landscape in her art journal. The trees were stamped with Simon Says Stamp Forest Scenery and the moon was die cut with Tim Holtz Sizzix Vault Christmas Magic set. The stars om the sky were made by splattering Winsor & Newton Permanent White Gouache on the background.

Barbara created a couple of tags inspired by two beautiful stamps: Celestial Navigation by AAll & Create and World Traveler CMS027 by Stampers Anonymous. She chose the colors of the night sky and used various Ranger Distress Mica Stains to reproduce them. She added some stars with the Falling Stars stencil by Tim Holtz, used with Distress Crayons, which was used with Ranger Stickles Cosmic Glitter.

Emma was inspired by one of her childhood favourites, Mary Poppins and she created a moonlit scene using Tim Holtz products. She used a combination of Sizzix/Tim Holtz including The Park, Vault World Travel and Falling Stars to bring the scene to life, and set this against an inky background and a moon, created with the Stampers Anonymous Moon Mask.

Kath created a sparkling starry night sky using Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Moon Mask Stencils and Starry Mini Layering Stencil from Set 31, Dusty Concord Distress Spray Stain, Distress Oxide Spray, Tim Holtz/Sizzix Vault Christmas Magic and Bold Text 2 Thinlits.

Macarena made a set of starry night sky tags using as a base Craft Consortium The Essential Glitter Card Stock Black which she touched with several Distress Oxide Inks to get the starry look. Then she made a composition with Tim Holtz Sizzix Feathered Friends and Hero Arts Fancy Dies Mushroom and Ferns.

Maura made a pair of celestial ATCs this week. She used AALL and Create’s Astroventurer Stamp, with Simon Says Stamp Versa Fine Clair Nocturne Ink. She used Daniel Smith Quinacridone Purple Watercolor for her stamped background, and added some Tim Holtz Sprocket Gears to one ATC.

Meihsia was inspired to create a tag using Simon Says Clear Stamps Once Upon a Dream on the background, then colored the image with Zig Kuretake Gansai Tambi 48 COLOR Set and added sentiments using Tim Holtz idea-ology SMALL TALK Stickers.

Zoey used Distress Ink + Distress Oxide to create this magical galaxy look. She also used Tim Holtz Sizzix Forest Shadows Thinlits Dies to create her scene and Tim Holtz idea-ology metallic Sticker Book to add her sentiment. She used Idea-ology Mummy cloth and Distress Spray Tarnished Brass to tie everything together!

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