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

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

This week we are challenging you to add some:

Beautiful Blooms

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! The Design Team is looking forward to seeing your crafty makes and will pop around to visit you ASAP!

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

Nikki has created her Beautiful Bloom bright journal page using PaperArtsy Stamps, TS054 and TS055, by Tracy Scott. Layers have been created using mostly one stamp from the set and painted with PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylics.

Anna-Karin made an Artist Trading Card with three poppies on a green background. The flowers and sentiment were stamped with the Simon Says Stamp Thoughtful Flowers set and colored with Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils.

Barbara chose the Roses 3D Embossing Folder die by Tim Holtz Sizzix as the star of her card. She completed the card using Embossing Glaze powders in Rustic Wilderness, Crackling Campfire, Tattered Rose colors. For the background, she used a lot of Tim Holz Ranger Distress Inks, the Faded Type stamp set, and Linen stencil by Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous.

Cheiron used the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Flower Shop stamps for the focal element of her card. She inked up her background with Distress Inks and stamped over it with images from the Faded Type and Documented sets. She created her background with the Ornate Trims set then finished with a sentiment from Tiny Text.

Emma chose to use one of her favourite floral stamps from the Stampers Anonymous Dearly Departed stamp set by Tim Holtz. She watercolored the image with Distress ReInkers for a vibrant colour palette and added background layers using various stamp sets, including The Poinsettia and Field Notes.

Kath was inspired by the beautiful sunshine weather in her neck of the woods and the wildflower meadow in full bloom she passes on a daily walk to create a set of notecards using Tim Holtz/Sizzix Flower Field Thinlits coloured with Distress Re-inkers and Simon Says Hello Sunshine stamp set and Build A Rainbow Stencil.

Macarena made a most delicate card using for her watercolor background the Impression Obsession Peony Pattern stamp and just 2 colors of Distress Oxide Inks: Kitsch Flamingo and Bundled Sage. She used a leftover from cutting out the Sizzix Tattered Buterfly Bigz die.

Maura loves bright, cheerful dandelions and created a spread in her art journal, using the Simon Says Stamp Dandelion Messages stamp set, Simon’s Dandelion wafer die, and added a bright pop of yellow with Rina K Designs Hello Yellow Neon Glitz Glitter.

Meihsia was inspired to create a mixed media tag using Tim Holtz Sizzix Wildflower Steam 1 Thnlits Die to make the beautiful blooms and decorated it with Ranger Stickles Glitter Glue and Tim Holtz Idea-Ology Quotations Metallic Stickers. 

Sandra used her favorite flowers for her card which is the yarrow of the Wildflower die set and made a soft background using Typeset Collage paper with White Gesso and Distress Paint Speckled Egg on top.

Zoey made her background using Kitsch Flamingo as her main color, then she covered the entire tag with the beautiful Botanical Collage Paper. She added layers of snippets of paper and washi tape. The focal point is this romantic rose from the Engravings.

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 Mixed Media Challenge!

#63 Granne – Anna-Karin says: These altered playing cards with transferred images are gorgeous. Such a beautiful effect with the layers and I really like the added sentiments.

#98 Christine L – Sandra says: What a stunning card, the background has such pretty soft colors and interesting textures, and the butterfly is just amazing and love the color combo.

#10 Tracey – Meihsia says: This is such a stunning creation! Love the beautiful layered embellishments. All the details and elements are awesome! Fabulous design!

Congratulations everyone and thank you for joining us!

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’s your random number:

Congratulations Jennifer Cooper! Below you can see Jennifer’s fun card:

Congratulations! Please email us so we can explain how you can claim your prize, a clickable link 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