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

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

This week we are challenging you to:

USE YOUR FAVORITE TECHNIQUE

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 aka Dylusions. 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 the lovely Rox aka Red Dirt Crafter into the Designer Spotlight. If you haven’t visited her blog before then you are in for a real treat!

Rox’s favorite technique is to collage! She created this fabulous collage using Dylusions Collage Sheets Set 4 and machine stitched to add extra detail. She also added extra colour using markers and a Gold Pen. The quote is from Dina Wakleys Typed Ledgers.  She then mounted the panel onto a black card stitched around the edges, now it’s ready to add to her Dylusions Journal. 

Andrea loves to paint and add collage scraps. She made a journal page in her Dylusions Small Creative Journal and used Dylusions Cherry Pie Shimmer Paint for some pops of pink. She also utilized AALL & Create’s Rose Reverie Ephemera and Power Words Washi Tape.

Anna-Karin has too many favorite techniques to pick one and made a mixed media background with paint, splatters, script stamping, dots and a bunch of sentiments. The page was done in her favorite Dylusions journal, namely the Small Creative Journal. The Simon Says Stamp Chelsea Butterflies were die cut from inky left-overs (another favorite) and misted with Dylusions Dirty Martini Shimmer Spray.

Barbara’s favorite technique is stenciling! She made a card using Ranger Dylusions Large Dot Grid Stencil in the background along with Distress Texture Paste Opaque. She colored everything with Distress Ink pad and Distress Spritz. For the center she chose the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous French Garden CMS 487 stamp set paired with the Simon Says Stamp French Garden Wafer Dies.

Kath’s favorite technique is to create one layer pages in her Dylusions Small Creative Journal using stamps and stencils. She used Tim Holtz/Ranger Distress Oxide Sprays, Distress Oxide Inks and Distress Grit Paste Opaque with Dylusions Dyalog Quilt It Stencils, Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Curiosity Shop, Specimen and Simon Says Stamp Distressed Vintage Love Notes stamp sets.

Macarena’s  favorite technique is to negative stamping with stencils. For this one she used Ranger Dylusions Large Crazy Paving Stencil with Distress Oxide Inks and water. She added Tim Holtz Sizzix Silhouettes Birds and Lovestruck dies as well as Penny Black Ascending Thin Metal Creative die.

Maura’s favorite technique is to art journal! She headed to one of her favorite art journals, the Dylusions 8×8 Creative Journal, added watercolor and then did some subtractive stenciling using the Dylusions Leaf It Out stencil. She added a layer of collage using Seth Apter’s Printed Tissue and Tim Holtz Collage Medium.

Meihsia’s favorite technique is to spray over the stencil. She was inspired to create a mixed media tag using Ranger Dylusions Shimmer Spray Bundle and Tim Holtz Clear Stamps and Stencil Noteworthy, Nature and Ringer on the background, and decorated it with Tim Holtz idea-ology PAPER DOLLS MiNi and Tim Holtz idea-ology GAUGE FRAMES Embellishments.

Zoey’s favorite technique with Dylusions is to create her own enamel look-like embellishments! She used Ranger Dylusions Clear Dyamond Rocks Embossing Powder to create a thick coat over her collaged hearts and over her sentiment. She also used Dyan Reaveley Dylusions Longer The Leaf that she colored with a mix of Dirty Martini and Mushy Peas although the photo does not catch the stunning shine.

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