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

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

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

4 LEGGED FRIENDS

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

It’s Thom’s last week with us in the Designer Spotlight and we would like to say a huge thank you for all of your creations over the past month. It has been a real pleasure to have you along with us :-)

Thom made a birthday card for his great nephew Giovanni who turns 2 in June. The letters were die cut with Tim Holtz Alphanumeric Classic Upper and Alphanumeric Bold. The gift boxes were made with the present in the Tim Holtz Celebrate set. For the 4 legged friends, Thom used the Cat and Elephant stamp from Simon Says Stamp Wild Love. There is white tissue paper inside each gift.

Andrea doesn’t know how friendly bears are (and hopes she won’t find out), but she does love Dina Wakley’s Scribbly Bears stamp set. She used AALL & Create’s Driplight die for some funky edges. She also used Tim Holtz’s Cello Sticker Tape and Collage Layer Frames for added dimension.

Anna-Karin made a piggy bank card using Tim Holtz Childhood Blueprint stamp set. The sentiment comes from Simon Says Stamp Beautiful and Curious and the sequins are from the pretty Opal Rainbow set.

Barbara created a card featuring Luka, a super cute cat by Lavinia Stamps. To create this landscape, she used other stamps from the same brand: Tree of Courage, Faelorn Rest. For coloring, she chose Lavinia Stamps Elements Premium Dye Ink Pads: Lemon Drop, Mulberry, Mermaid, Pixie Green. For stamping, she used Simon Says Stamp Nocturne Black VersaFine Clair Ink Pad.

Cheiron always loves a four legged friend, especially a snarky cat. She used the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Snarky Cat stamps and colored them in lightly with Distress Watercolor Pencils. She placed them over a background of Peeled Paint and Rusty Hinge Distress Oxides. She added some texture with the Halftone stencil.

Emma went crazy with this challenge and created a set of mini gift envelopes and a matching card using the Stampers Anonymous Mini Crazy Cats and Dogs, Crazy Thoughts and Mini Crazy Things stamp set by Tim Holtz.

Kath decorated a Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous #8 Etcetera Tag inspired by childhood memories of fun times spent with her sister and their much loved four legged friend. She used Tim Holtz Idea-ology Pink Palette Collection paper, Mosaic Mini Layering stencil from Set 28, Simon Says Stamp Long Stem Florals stamp set and co-ordinating dies, Tim Holtz Idea-ology Paper Dolls and Sizzix Handwritten Love and Tiny Type Lower Thinlits.

Macarena as a cats lover made a tag with a cat of course. She used her favorite Stamperia Furry Friends collection: 8×8 Paper and Assorted Die Cuts. She also added in the background AALL & Create Fly Around A5 Rub Ons.

Maura headed to her art journal again this week to celebrate her grand pups and kitties. She used AALL and Create’s You’re Pawsome and Just Memories stamps along with Simon Says Stamp’s Pop of Color stamps.

Meihsia was inspired to create a cute birthday card using The Greeting Farm Birthday Cats Clear Stamps and Rainbow Splash Cardstock Rainbow Pack on the background, and colored it with Copic SKETCH 72 PC SET A Markers.

Zoey used Distress Paint to create her background and mixed with Distress Oxide Spray. She added crackle texture through the flourish stencil and then highlighted the cracks with Foundry Wax. The main image is from Found Relatives.

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