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

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

This week we are challenging you to:

LET’S ART JOURNAL

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

Simona made a double spread in her journal using Dina Wakley Media Focals set 2 Transparencies, Acrylic paint Minty, Lime and Papaya, Tim Holtz cling rubber stamps ‘Way with Words’ and ‘Faded Type’, AALL & Create Lotza Plusez 6X6 stencil and ‘Artist Kit’ A6 clear stamps

Andrea made a small art journal using scraps from Amy Tangerine’s Paper Play book and Dina Wakley’s Collage Sparks 1 and 3. She added patterns using Tim Holtz’s Mixed Media 2 and Seth Apter’s ESA35 stamp sets. She added color with Distress Crayons and watercolors.

Anna-Karin made an art journal page with some wise words. The words were die cut with Tim Holtz Sizzix Handwritten Journey and Handwritten Celebrate. The picture wheels were die cut with Tim’s Vault Picture Show from Ranger Heavystock paper and Simon Says Stamp Acetate Sheets.

Barbara created a page for her Art Journal inspired by the sun and spring colors. For the background, she chose an 8 x 8 sheet from Stamperia Daisy Art pad. She used a stamp by Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous, Embroidery CMS486, matched with a Simon Says Stamp Wafer Dies. She chose Ranger Ink Distress Ink Pad Mini to color her page. In the center, a photo from Idea-ology Snapshots Volume 2.

Cheiron created a page in her art journal using her palette of Distress Watercolor Pencil shavings as her first layer. She added stamps from the Tim Holtz Mini Media Marks and Tidbits sets. She added Dina Wakley Typed Ledgers quote and a Paint By Number stamp as the focal points on her page.

Kath created a page in her Stamperia Stone Paper Mixed Media Journal to celebrate the arrival of Spring using Tim Holtz/Idea-ology Yellow Palette Collection paper, Simon Says Stamp Petal Lattice Stencil, images from Simon Says Stamp A Little Artsy stamp set, Simon Says Stamp A Little Artsy Stencils and Masks and Tim Holtz/Sizzix Handwritten Celebrate and Alphanumeric Shadow Upper Thinlits.

Macarena can’t wait for the Spring to come and explode in full bloom so she made an Art Journal page in search of Spring using Stamperia Create Happiness Secret Diary Selection of 5 Rice Papers as her background which she completed with AALL & Create Fly Around A5 Rub-Ons. The sentiment was cut out with Tim Holtz Sizzix Alphanumeric Cutout Lower die set.

Maura has been thinking of Spring, especially since it has been a long, snowy winter. She created a background of images and tied them together with the Simon Says Stamp Grid stencil. Since she went with a black and white background, she added bright flowers and ferns with Tracy Evans Beauty Surrounds Us stamps and Simple Stories Vintage Woodlands stamps..

Meihsia was inspired to create an art journal page using Stamperia Family Patchwork Stencil on the background, and decorated it with Tim Holtz idea-ology Layers Photo Studio and Tim Holtz idea-ology Paper Dolls Mini.

Zoey made this art journal spread using Distress Paint and Distress Spritz to add some shine. She also used Textured Paste through stencil and ideaology items as decoration.

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