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

Thank you for joining us for the Not A Card Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

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

BRIGHT & CHEERFUL

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

Thom used a Tim Holtz Bold Sayings and stamped the words in different shades of green for the background and used a Brush MarkStitches Stencil and Tim Holtz Stitch Bunny dies for the main focus. He then used a Tim Holtz Alphanumeric Tiny Type Lower to make the sentiment to finish

Andrea made a bright and cheery card using AALL & Create’s Film Drip and Retro Numbers die sets. She added more bold colors by incorporating Odile Bailloeul Festival fabric scraps.

Anna-Karin made a bright and cheerful card using a floral stamp from Simon Says Stamp Beautiful and Curious. She used Tim Holtz Handwritten Celebrate to die cut the sentiment. The background was also stamped with Tim Holtz Halftone stamp.

Barbara created a tag using the Tim Holtz – Stampers Anonymous Bubbles stencil for the background. In the center, she used a Lavinia Stamps, Sebastian the Seahorses. To create the underwater landscape, she chose two Sizzix Thinlits dies, Wildflower and Wildflower Stems 1.

Cheiron created a fun floral card using the Simon Says Stamp Folk Flowers stamps and stencils. She colored them in with Distress Paints and stamped over them with Distress Archival Ink in Black Soot.
She added an A2 frame die and finished her card with the CZ Design Thank You die.

Kath created 2 cards with neutral backgrounds using Simon Says Stamp Big Basket Weave Stencil, added bright and cheerful coloured butterflies using Simon Says Stamp Artsy Butterflies stamp set and the co-ordinating Artsy Butterflies Stencils/Masks and Tim Holtz/Ideaology Thoughts Label Stickers for the sentiments.

Macarena made a tag full of happiness and love using Tim Holtz Love Notes Stamps and Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Mica Stain Rainbow Set for the background. Then she cut out some leaves from Tim Holtz Sizzix Leaf Fragments die and added 49 and Market Chipboards.

Maura made a duo of bright and cheerful floral bouquet tags. She used Tim Holtz’z Abstract Florals stamps, the matching Simon Says Stamp Abstract Florals dies, Tim Holtz’s Deco Feather Layering Stencil, and Daniel Smith watercolors like Turquoise.

Meihsia was inspired to create a tag using Mama Elephant Boba Tea Clear Stamps and Paper Artsy Eclectica3 Scrapcosy Mini Cling Stamp on the background, and colored it with Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Spray Mustard Seed Ranger and Copic SKETCH 72 PC SET D Markers.

Zoey made this bright and fun tag using Dina Wakley Media Gloss. She also used a photobooth picture for her main focus and some stamped flowers to add some more interest.

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