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

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

This month we would like you to:

Wrap It Up

tags/ wrapping paper/boxes etc

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

Carrie is wrapping her packages with these fun tags and ornaments! She dove into Tim Holtz Paper Dolls Collection to create a collage of fun. The Home for Christmas stamps made the perfect background addition. She stamped the pine leaves in Potting Soil and Black Archival Inks and then added some Glossy Accents and paint splatters for more festive fun!

Andrea decorated a tin gift box using Seth Apter’s Twisters dies. She stamped some festive stars using Tim Holtz’s Darling Christmas stamp set and used some Neon alcohol ink for some pops of color.

Anna-Karin altered a box into a Christmas Gift Box using gesso, paper, paint, stamps and dies. The lid is embellished with a dimensional heart, die cut with Simon Says Stamp Heart Shaker set from the new DieCember® release. The patterned paper comes from Tim Holtz Christmas Backdrops and the gems are Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Dazzling Lilac Gems.

Cheiron created a tag for a very special gift using the CZ Design Nested Wafer Tags and embossed them with the Simon Says Stamp Starbright Embossing Folder. She went over the raised areas with some Gilded Foundry Wax and heated it with a heat tool to set it. She added the Frosty Tree Gathering die and a sentiment from the CZ Design Tree Plate Greetings sentiments. To complete her tag she added some Metallic Gold Pearls and Metallic String.

Emma used Tim Holtz stamps to create a gift wrap set which includes, paper, tags and a present topper. She used a combination of Tim Holtz stamps including the Holiday Sketchbook Die and Stamp Bundle, coloured with Distress Watercolour Pencils for her tags and Mr Frostie and Holiday Postmarks for the gift wrap.

She also created a present topper using the Snowflake Rosette Die that is FREE with $30 or more of Tim Holtz branded purchase.

Kath has been busy making quick and easy tags to decorate her Christmas gift packages. She used Simon Says Layered Scallop Tags and Triangle Santa dies, Old Letter Clear Stamp, Red/White Bakers Twine, Tim Holtz STAMPtember Festive Sentiments stamps and dies and Reverse Merriest Christmas Sentiment Strips.

Macarena made a set of gift tags with a sweet snowmen using for the background Tim Holtz Sign Painter stamps set and Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Festive Berries and Mowed Lawn.

Maura had fun folding these holiday medallions that can be used to top a gift or embellisher gift bag. She used Tim Holtz’s Christmas background papers, Tim Holtz’s distress Hickory Smoke Spritz, and Simon Says Stamp Chunky Glitter.

Meihsia was inspired to create four Christmas tags using Simon Says Clear Stamps Christmas Cats on the background, and colored them with Copic SKETCH 72 PC SET D Markers then decorated them with Tim Holtz idea-ology Confections Bundle. 

Zoey made these little tags using Tim Holtz Tattedered Christmas Stamp with Simon Says Stamp coordinating dies to decorate them! She also used Distress Spritz to add some sparkle and layering stencil to add textures.

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 

We have 3 artists in the Designer Spotlight for the Dies Challenge!

#133 Craftyfield – Anna-Karin says: This Christmas card is amazing. The design with the doors that open to reveal the beautiful scene on the inside is so well done. The die cut elements add the perfect finishing touch.

#65 Lynn Stevens – Lols loves this wreath framed Santa! What a fabulous card!! perfect!! :-)

#8 Debbie Emmons – Cheiron says: I love all of these die cut tags from Debbie! The beautiful holly, the whimsical deer with his specs and that tag with the black and white? Amazing contrast!

Congratulations!

Please copy this spotlight badge, display it on the sidebar of your blog and if you could please link it to Simon Says Stamp!

We now have this lovely badge for you to add to your sidebar if you are this weeks, or a previous, winner please feel free to add this to your sidebar and please link it to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge

So who is the lucky winner of the $25 voucher? Please note, all of our winners are chosen at random so everyone has an equal chance of winning. Good Luck to all!

Here is your random winner:

Congratulations Daria Z! Below you can see Daria’s beautiful Christmas card:

Congratulations! Please email us so we can explain how you can claim your prize, the address is on the sidebar.

Be sure to include your full name in the email so we can issue a Gift Certificate 

Thanks to everyone who joined in with the challenge and we hope you will all join in our current challenge too!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin and the DT