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

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

This week we are challenging you to make something that is:

NOT A CARD

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 Thom Santilla into the Designer Spotlight. If you haven’t visited her blog before then you are in for a real treat!

Thom recycled a couple of old frames and colored them with Antique Linen and Black Soot Distress Paint. He then used a  sanding disc on the edges to show the lighter color. He painted Hitch Fasteners and Hinge Clips  and coated with Glossy Accents. For the background he used Collage Strips,   and added Photo Booth images and some extra hardware for the focus.

Andrea decorated a tin and made a fabric ribbon to tie around it. She used Tim’s Mini Glitch and Glitch 2 stamp sets for the images and sewed the ribbon using Tim’s Eclectic Elements Multi Collage fabric. She added drips of Tim’s Fluorescent Alcohol Ink and his Chitchat stickers to finish it off.

Anna-Karin made a mini book from file folders die cut with Tim Holtz Vault Noteworthy set. The book was stamped with various sentiment, texture and image stamps by Tim Holtz, such as the butterfly on the front which comes from the Flutter set. The dots were stamped with Tim’s Tiny Textures.

Barbara continues to be inspired by spring! Today, she created a series of ATCs using the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Floristry CMS485 stamp paired with the Simon Says Stamp Floristry Wafer Dies sss485 . She colored the backgrounds with Ranger Ink Distress Spray Stain and some Stickles for sparkle. She cut the ATCs with the Sizzix Collector Thinlits Dies 665926.

Cheiron created a tag using the Tim Holtz Halftone and Rings as her background to create a resist. She blended Evergreen Bough and Ripe Persimmon Distress Inks. She added a Photobooth Photo and a sentiment from the Small Talk Stickers.

Emma altered an idea-ology Mini Clipboard using many of the amazing products from Tim Holtz. She covered the board with the Neutral 8 x 8 Paper Palette Collection before adding layers of detail including Paper Dolls, a Quote Chip Label and Etcetera Trims.

Kath created an Easter Wishes Wall Panel using Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Etcetera Rectangles Panel, Linked Circles and Stitches Layering Stencils, Simon Says Stamp A Little Artsy stamp set, Tim Holtz/Sizzix Feathered Friends, Wildflower Stems 1, Alphanumeric Bulletin and Handwritten Celebrate Thinlits.

Macarena made an industrial tag using for the background Tim Holtz Idea-ology Collage Paper Archive glued with Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium Matte. She made up the composition with Tim Holtz Idea-ology Paper Strips and Stencil Cards and Cello Sticker Tape.

Maura made two memorydex/follodex cards using tim Holtz’s Inquisitive and the Professor stamps. She created a background with Tim Holtz Collage Papers Archives and distress paints like Tim’s Fossilized Amber.

Meihsia was inspired to create a mixed media tag using Tim Holtz Clear Stamps and Stencil Hipster Bunny, Plaid and Polkadot on the background, then colored it with Zig Kuretake Gansai Tambi 24 COLOR Set and decorated it with May Arts White Wrinkled Faux Silk Ribbon with Cut.

Zoey made her background blending Distress ink and Distress spray stain. She also added texture thought layering stencils and Distress Crayons. The focal piece are layering elements from the Ideaology Collection.

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