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

Thank you for joining us for the Red/White/Blue Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

This week we are challenging you to have some:

FUN WITH PAINT

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 Paper Artsy. 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 personalised a notebook cover using Tim Holtz Backdrops #2 Papers and a painted panel using Paper Artsy Duck Eggs and Candy Floss Acrylic Paints and a Kate Crane Stencil. He used an Idea-ology Baseboard Frame and Tim Holtz Rubber Stamp Perspective Stamp for the butterflies. He finished with a sentiment from Idea ology Quote Chips/Theories

Andrea used PaperArtsy stamps from some of her favorite designers for her bright painty tag (the shape of which came from Waffle Flower’s Nesting Tags die set). She used Kate Crane’s KC014 stamp along with Seth Apter’s EM124 and EM105 stamps. She loves using Dina Wakley’s acrylic paints!

Anna-Karin made a tag using watercolor paint, gouache and Paper Artsy Infusions Colored Stain The Sage and In The Navy. The grasses were stamped with Paper Artsy Alison Bomber Winter Umbels and Winter Grasses

Barbara loves playing with paints! This week she had fun with Paper Artsy Mattints, mixed with Ranger Ink Distress Texture Paste Crackle opaque. To create her tag she chose stamps and stencils from Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous: Perspective, Flourish and Latticework, Noteworthy, Nature and Ringer, the Mini Stencil 9 and the Mini Stencil 55

Kath made a simple mixed media card using PaperArtsy Fresco Paints and Tim Holtz Distress Brayer to create the background, applied detail with paint through PaperArtsy Kate Crane PS427 Stencil, added a stamped image using Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Embroidery and Idea-ology Metallic Stickers.

Macarena made a set of colorful tags using for the background Paper Artsy Seth Apter Printed Tissue pt06 which she painted with Stamperia Allegro Acrylic Paints. Then she added birds from Tim Holtz Sizzix Silhouette Birds and painted them with Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint Abandoned Coral.

Maura created a set of memorydex cards inspired by Seth Apter. She used several paints such as Paper Artsy Kiwi Gold and Rusty. Layers were buildt up with tissue paper, stencils, and stamps like Seth Apter’s Paper Artsy EM 109 and EM 128 mini stamps.

Meihsia was inspired to create a tag using Paper Artsy Kate Crane Mini Stencil and Paper Artsy JOFY Stencilon the background, and colored it with Tim Holtz Flip Top Distress Paint Foursome Bundle 6 and Tim Holtz Flip Top Distress Paint Foursome Bundle 3.

Zoey used Paper Artsy Blank Tissue Paper to add interest to her background. She also used Distress Ink + Paint and some Tim Holtz Ideaology epehemera. She finished off her panel by adding Paper Artsy Fresco Finish

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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Do you use Instagram ?  If so please add  #sssmchallengeso we can see your entries there too!

There are fabulous give aways and inspiration from fabulous designers on a daily basis over on the Simon Says Stamp Blog, if you haven’t subscribed by email you may want to so you don’t miss out

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 

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

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

This week we are asking you to add:

RED, WHITE and/or BLUE

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 Wanda’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 :-)

Wanda has a created a card using Creative Worship’s Bloom with Grace Stamp Set and Matching Dies;  Big God stamp; and Kaleidoscope stencil.  For inking and coloring she has used Distress Inks.  The finishing touches are stitching and Simon Says Stamp Rainbow Confetti Sequins.

Andrea made some earrings using Simon Says Stamp’s Stars Wafer Dies, Tim Holtz’s Loop Pins and Media Marks 2 Stamp Set. She also utilized her Crop-A-Dile as well as AALL & Create’s Clipped Mailers Ephemera.

Anna-Karin made a tag with red flowers on a blue background. The flowers were die cut with the Simon Says Stamp Delicate Wildflowers from the new Friend Like You release. The embossing folder used for the background is from the same release and is called Dot Spiral.

Barbara made a pair of tags to wish everyone a happy 4th of July! She used Tim Holtz Sizzix Vault Rosettes Thinlits dies for the center and Tim Holtz Sizzix 3D Large Embossing Folder Lumber for the background. Stampers Anonymous Americana Silhouettes CMS 122, Curiosity Shop CMS 482 (for the number 4) paired with Simon Says Stamp Curiosity Shop Wafer Dies. Ranger Ink Distress Ink pad for the red and blue, Blueprint sketch, and Fired Brick, and Distress Crackle Paste Opaque for the white.

Cheiron used the Sweet Stems stamps and dies from Concord & 9th. She cut her florals from Simon Says Stamp Lipstick Red and Soft Navy cardstocks and then backed her panel with some Ice Vellum. She stamped the sentiment in Night ink and finished her card with white and gold splatter.

Emma wanted to wish all her US friends a very Happy 4th of July and created a vintage style Etcetera Panel. She used a Paper Doll Portrait, surrounded by 3D stars die cut using the die from the Sizzix Vault Rosettes Thinlits Die Set and added this to a background made from the Tim Holtz Correspondence Paper Stash and the Tim Holtz Ornate Trims stamps with Simon Says Stamp Die Bundle Set.

Kath created a 4th of July collage style card using Simon Says EZ Everyday Strips stamp set, EZ Strips Rectangles Wafer die, Tim Holtz Idea-ology Palette Ephemera, Sizzix Vault Sideorder Floristry, Falling Stars Thinlits and Simon Says Sign Painter Numbers die.

Lols decided to take Tim Holtz’s Gladys out for a day at the beach to celebrate the 4th July! For the background she used a new Simon Says Stamp Underwater Stencil Set along with deliciously creamy Pawsitively Saturated Inks. She added a few ink splatters and machine stitching to finish.

Macarena made a card for her friend’s 55th birthday using as a background Tim Holtz Love Notes stamps which she stamped with Tim Holtz Distress Candied Apple Oxide Ink and embossed with Simon Says Stamp Clear Embossing Powder. She cut out a layered window with Simon Says Stamp Squovals dies.

Maura headed to her art journal to create a Fourth of July themed page for this week’s challenge. She used several stamp sets, such as Simon Says Stamp’s Pepita background stamp, Simon Says Stamp’s Old Letter stamp, and Tim Holtz Worn Letters stamps, alongside with some stencils.

Meihsia was inspired to create a mixed media tag using Echo Park Yankee Doodle 6 x 6 Paper Pad on the background, and decorated it with Tim Holtz idea-ology FACTORY TAGS Embellishments and Tim Holtz idea-ology Large Fastener.

Zoey used Stampers Anonymous Americana Silhouettes CMS 122 for her background, she used Clear Embossing Powder then she used Distress Ink + Distress Oxide for her background.

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!

Follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram

Do you use Instagram ?  If so please add  #sssmchallengeso we can see your entries there too!

There are fabulous give aways and inspiration from fabulous designers on a daily basis over on the Simon Says Stamp Blog, if you haven’t subscribed by email you may want to so you don’t miss out

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