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

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

This week we are challenging you to:

MAKE YOUR OWN BACKGROUND

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 Tracy Evans. 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 Simona Rebecchi into the Designer Spotlight. If you haven’t visited her blog before then you are in for a real treat!

Simona made a card using a Tracy Evans Grungs Stencil and Background Elements Stamp to make the background. For the main focus she used a Tracy Evans Insect Stamp Set and Tim Holtz Countdown Dies.

Andrea made a tag using Tracy Evans’ Quirky Birds stamp set. She created her background by painting, scribbling, and stamping images from Tim Holtz’s Halftone & Rings and Floral Elements stamp sets. The tag is cut using AALL & Create’s Tag It Yourself die set.

Anna-Karin‘s Tracy Evans stamps are still on their way, so instead she used one of Tracy’s older designs, the AALL & Create Flower Press stamp. The background was made with the Simon Says Stamp Scattered Leaves stencil set, from the new Beautiful Moments release. The sentiment comes from Simon Says Stamp Printmaking Clovers set.

Barbara created a card using a stamp set from Tracy Evans Boutique Designs, One of a Kind. For the background, she used various inks from Simon Says Stamp, Pawsitively Saturated Ink Cubes, a stencil from Tim Holtz’s Mini Set 22, and a Stampers Anonymous Note Quotes CMS 463 stamp.

Cheiron created a background with Distress Paints and Collage Paper. She added Distress Opaque Crackle Texture Paste through the Tracy Evans Distressed Background Snippet stencil. She finished the card with a floral image and sentiment from the Tim Holtz Abstract Florals stamps.

Kath created a page in her Stamperia Stone Paper A5 Mixed Media Journal using Tracy Evans Boutique Designs Artsy Alpha and Numbers and Background Elements A7 stamps, Daisy Daisy 6″ x 6″ Stencil, Distress Grit Paste Opaque and Simon Says Stamp EZ Strips XL Reverse Basics for the page title.

Macarena went a bit wild with the Tim Holtz Mica Stains and made a messy background with lots of layers of colors. Before she heat embossed Tracy Evans Boutique Designs Art Backdrop stamp. Then she covered a part of the tag with an acetate stamped with Tim Holtz Specimen butterfly stamp.

Maura was inspired by a book she listened to , to created two bookmark tags to give as gifts. She used Tracy Evans Feathered Friends stamps, Tracy Evans Grunge stencil, Tracy Evans Creative Spark stamps, and Tracy Evans Numerical Cats stamps.

Meihsia was inspired to create a mixed media tag using Tracy Evans Boutique Designs Background Elements A7 Clear Stamps te11 and Tracy Evans Boutique Designs Create Your Own Story A5 Clear Stamps on the background and decorated it with Tim Holtz idea-ology Salvaged Hearts.

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