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

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

This week we are challenging you to make something:

MASCULINE

Now it’s time for us to think about the health of the men in our lives and encourage them to get checked in Movember!

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 Tim Holtz. 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 back the lovely Pauline C into the Designer Spotlight. If you haven’t visited her blog before then you are in for a real treat!

Pauline made a travel-themed masculine card, featuring Tim Holtz Road Trip stamps and Dot Fade Layering Stencil, along with Tracy Evans Boutique Designs Background Elements and Garden Elements stamps. She created her background with a selection of Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink pads, and embellished with Idea-ology Mini Gears, Ephemera Pack Memoir, and Small Talk Stickers. 

Andrea made a card using some of her favorite Tim Holtz stamp sets: Halftone and Rings, Theories and Sideshow. She also used Tim’s Specimen die set for the card itself and used his Stars and Gradient Dots stencils for the background elements, along with some Cello Sticker Tape. The dapper gent is from Tim’s Photobooth images.

Barbara created a masculine Christmas-themed tag using Tim Holtz’s Sizzix Christmas Vault Series die. The background was created with Ranger Ink Distress Spray Stain, Tumbled Glass Speckled Egg and a Stampers Anonymous stencil from Mini Set 44. The tag was cut with Simon Says Stamp Luggage Tags Wafer Dies.

Cheiron used one of her favorite masculine Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous stamps, The Inspector, to create her card. She combined it with lots of coloring with Distress Watercolor Pencils and some spray from the Distress Sprayer to blend it. She finished the card with a Small Talk Sticker.

Kath created a card using Tim Holtz/Sizzix Large A5 Texture Fade Typewriter, Idea-ology Halloween 2024 and Archives Collage Papers, Gauge Dials, Ephemera Snippets, Paper Dolls Poses and Snarky Small Talk Stickers.

Macarena made a layered and textured masculine card using for the background Tim Holtz Tidbits stamps and Tim Holtz Layering Stencil Wheel with Distress Texture Paste Black Opaque. She also added elements from Tim Holtz Idea-ology Urban Layers set.

Maura created a tag inspired by her son who loves to collect natural objects. She used Tim Holtz Observations and Inquisitive stamps, along with Tim Holtz Christmas Background papers and Archives Collage papers.

Meihsia was inspired to create a mixed media tag using Tim Holtz Cling Rubber Stamps THE PROFESSOR on the background, and decorated it with Tim Holtz idea-ology INDUSTRiAL GEARS Embellishments and Tim Holtz idea-ology LABEL STICKERS THOUGHTS.

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