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

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

This week we would like you to join us for the Monday Challenge’s 15th Birthday Celebrations!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Can you believe that this challenge has been going for 15 years! The time has flown by hasn’t it! We would like to say a huge thank you to all of our fellow crafters who have joined us over the years and we hope you will continue to join us.

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 AALL & Create. 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.

As it’s our birthday the lovely folks over at Simon Says Stamp have generously increased the prize this week to a FABULOUS $50 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 Ann Chuang into the Designer Spotlight. If you haven’t visited her blog before then you are in for a real treat!

Ann used an AALL & Create COFFEE TIME A7 Clear Stamp Set. She used Stencils along with Tim Holtz Distress Texture Paste and spritzed with Distress Spray Stain. To finish she stamped the number ’15’ to celebrate the Monday Challenge’s 15th birthday!

Andrea made a birthday tag using some amazing AALL & Create products: Faded Memories Ephemera, Clipped Mailers Ephemera, Rose Reverie Ephemera and the Letter Soup, Tear it Out and Heartnook die sets.

Anna-Karin made a birthday card using the fun AALL & Create Tudor Cottage stamp set. The scene was colored with watercolors and the words come from AALL & Create Mindful Moments.

Barbara created a card using the Wild Rose stencil by AALL & Create, along with Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Mini Oxide Ink Pads. For the background, she chose the mini version of the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Linked Stencil (mini set 52). The sentiment is from the Floristry set by Stampers Anonymous, and the mini label is cut with the Sizzix Collector Thinlits Dies.

Cheiron created a birthday tag using AALL & Create Something Good washi tape along with some of her favorite Tim Holtz products including the Hearts Layering stencil , Distress Texture Paste, Alcohol Neons and Cello Sticker Tape.

Kath made a birthday card using AALL & Create Antique Wayfinder Layer It Up Washi Tape and the Heapza Hexagonz Stencil to create the background, added a die-cut flower using Tim Holtz/Sizzix Vault Wildflowers Thinlits and Idea-ology Sentiments Label Sticker.

Lols used an AALL & Create Wacky Woof Tales Stamp Set along with a Skycrossed Paradise Die Set. She colored the images with Karin Brushmarker Pro Brushes and then masked them. For the background she used Tim Holtz Bricked and Leafy Layering Stencils along with Distress Oxide Inks and then splattered with Distress Spritz.

Macarena made a 70th Birthday card making a background with AALL & Create Metallic Motif Layer It Up Washi Tape 107. For the number made with Tim Holtz Sizzix Countdown dies she used Tim Holtz Idea-ology 8×8 Paper Stash Metallic 3 Kraft Stock and sanded them out with Tim Holtz Distress Sanding Disk.

Maura is celebrating our 15th birthday with a card, using AALL and Create’s Numberarama dies and Woof It Up stamps, and Simon Says Stamp’s Grid stencil.

Meihsia was inspired to create a birthday card with the stamps AALL & Create Woof It Up A7 Clear Stamps and Simon Says Stamps and Dies Birthday Love, and colored it using Copic SKETCH 72 PC SET C.

Zoey is celebrating with a birthday card! She used Create Bubble Talk Dies by AALL & Create as main focal point on her tag! She also used Tim Holtz Mini Bouquet Stamps with Simon Says Stamp Dies and Sizzix Countdown to write the 15. The sentiment is from the collection AALL & Create Mindful Moments Ephemera

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 

We also have a Simon Says Stamp Kid’s Summer Vacation Challenge which is hosted on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog