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

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

This week we are challenging you to use the:

Sentiment As The Focus

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!

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Carol used a Simon Says Stamp XL Stacked Greetings Stamp Set for the focus and used a Fresh Fruit Cling Stamp for the background. She doodled one piece of fruit and tied it to the sentiment with a Tim Holtz Funky Festive Bow. She used a Tim Holtz Vault Edges Die Set to add a funky border across the top.

Andrea loved this humorous sentiment from AALL & Create’s Free Broom Rides stamp set. She also used Dina Wakley’s Circle Furbabies stamp set for the ferocious feline. She used Dylusions Colour Caykes and Sticks to add scribbly pops of color.

Anna-Karin made an autumn tag with the sentiment in focus. The sentiment and ribbon banner were stamped with the new Simon Says Stamp Pumpkin Blessings set from the STAMPtember®release.

Barbara loves autumn! She was inspired by a stamp from Tim Hotz Stampers Anonymous’ “Thankful Silhouettes” set, which is perfect for this challenge. She created an autumn color palette for her card using the new Ranger Ink Distress Mini Oxide. The leaves were cut out using Sizzix Artsy Leaves Thinlits dies.

Cheiron used the sentiment from the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Urban Tapestry set as the focus of her card. She highlighted the bold words in the sentiment using Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Pencils. She added the sentiment onto a black panel and added it to a card panel embossed with the Large Kaleidoscope Folder.

Kath used Tim Holtz/Sizzix Big Frights and Simple Plaid Thinlits, Stampers Anonymous Spooky Spirits and Perfect Plaids and Idea-ology Mummy Cloth to create a neutral colours Halloween card on a Distress Black HeavyStock and Distress Rock Candy Chunky Glitter background.

Macarena went out of her comfort zone and made a one layer card using Paper Artsy Kate Crane kc009 and kcm013 for building the background and the Tim Holtz Sign Painter stamp as a focal point.

Maura had to use this “perfect for the season” stamp as here focus – Riley and Co’s Electric Cauldron stamp., and since it’s STAMPtember, she used more stamps such as the Simon Says Stamp Friendship Text Background stamp, and Tracy Evans On the Wild Side.

Meihsia was inspired to create a tag using Simon Says Clear Stamps Rain or Shine on the background, and added sentiments with CZ Design Clear Stamps Smile cz397c Friend Like You and Tim Holtz idea-ology 1088 Chitchat Stickers.

Zoey used Tim Holtz Sizzix bold text halloween as main focus on her tag with Tim Holtz Sizzix Layered Jack-O-Lantern . For the background she used Distress Ink and Distress Oxide ink. She also added texture with Tim Holtz Distress Texture Paste Twinkle and highlighted everything with Distress Mica Stain

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