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

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

This week we are challenging you to make it:

MONOCHROME

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

Wanda used a Tim Holtz No. 8 tag along with 2 fabrics from the Palette Yellow collection, a Ledger Script stamp set and a Mini Stencil Set.  She used a Simon Says Stamp Abundant Leaves Die Set . To add more texture she used Fossilized Amber Embossing Glaze and Translucent Texture Paste. She colored with Fossilized Amber and Mustard Seed Distress Inks and Distress Spray Stain Scattered Straw Distress Spray Stain.

Andrea went with bold blues for her tag. She played with the new Seth Apter Sizzix dies, Twisters and Roundabouts, and used a ModaScrap Unconventional Tags die for the base. She also added some Paper Play collage scraps and stamped her own patterns using Tim Holtz’s Media Marks 2 set.

Anna-Karin was inspired by the sun and created a yellow tag. She used Tim Holtz Vault Flourish ML Embossing Folder for the background. The flowers were die cut with various die sets by Simon Says Stamp, such as the Poised Primula and the Rustic Layering Flower.

Barbara chose a neutral color palette for her tag. She created it using the new Tim Holtz Sizzix 3D Large Embossing Folder Typewriter, Stampers Anonymous Curiosity Shop Stamp Set, Simon Says Stamp Curiosity Shop Wafer Dies, and Ranger Ink Distress Ink pad Speckled Egg.

Kath decorated a Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Mini Etcetera Tag using 49and Market Color Swatch Charcoal 6″ x 8″ patterned papers, Rub-on Transfers, Charcoal Acetate Assortment, Tim Holtz/Idea-ology Baseboard Window Frame, Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Mosaic Mini Layering Stencil from Set 28 and Distress Texture Paste Opaque Crackle. 

Macarena decided to go green and used several shades of green using Tim Holtz Distress St. Patric’s Day Oxide Ink Pad Bundle on the Simon Says Clear Stamp Mod Plants. She made a round window with Pinkfresh Studio Stitched Scallop Circle Essentials dies.

Maura used coordinating inks to create two monochrome cards in contrasting colors. She used the Simon Says Stamp Mod FlowerPlants set, and Simon’s Pawsitively Saturated inks like Rhubarb and Amethyst.

Meihsia was inspired to create a mixed media tag using Stamperia Roseland 8×8 Paper on the background, and decorated it with Tim Holtz idea-ology PAPER DOLLS MiNi and Prima Marketing Sparkling Flowers 25 And Peppermint.

Zoey used Twisters Thinlits, Word Wafers and Borderlines to create texture on her tag. She also used a bunch of browns distress products and highlighted the textures with Distress Picket Fence

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 Masculine Challenge!

#51 The Crafty Den– Lols loves how Denise added circles and splatters to this super card! The colors and whole design is fabulous!

#32: Birgit: Andrea says, I love how this card combines whimsy and sophistication. The layers are gorgeous and add so much dimension. I like how the scene plays with scale, too, with some of the flowers bigger than the house. It gives it a magical feeling.

#82 Donna Phelan Meihsia says, This is such a fantastic creation! Love the beautiful stamping and embossing on these postcards. The color scheme and the distressed vintage effect are awesome!

Here are your random numbers:

81

Timestamp: 2025-06-13 10:29:30 UTC

Congratulations Susanne!!

and this is Susanne’s fabulous card!

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!

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!

luv

Lols and the DT