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

Wishing you all a Very Happy New Year! We hope you had a wonderful time over the holidays and we hope you have fabulous 2025!

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

This week we would like you to get 2025 off to a great start with:

SOMETHING NEW

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 AALL & Create 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 Pauline C into the Designer Spotlight. If you haven’t visited her blog before then you are in for a real treat!

Pauline made a vintage style card using her new AALL & Create Floral Flyer Clear Stamp Set, Papyrus Essence and Parallel Rectangle Die Sets. The background was created using Art Notes and Quill Ends Stamp Sets and  Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pads and a Dot Fade Layering Stencil. The butterfly and pen nib were coloured with Distress Watercolor Pencils.

Andrea used several newer AALL & Create products for her MemoryDex card: the Penned With Love die set, Heartnook die set, Petal Pottery die set as well as Vocabulary Blend stamps, Bits of Alpha stamps, and Power Words washi tape.

Anna-Karin made an art journal page for the beginning of the new year. She used the AALL & Create Flower Press stamp for the focal image, which was colored with pencils. The hearts were made with the Simon Says Stamp Falling in Love stencil from the new To Love release.

Barbara wanted to start the year with something really new for her, a memorydex card. The card is cut with the AALL & Create Spring Sprouts Dies 49. In the center a stamp from the Mr. Frostie set by Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous, a wreath cut with the Funky Wreath Thinlits Dies by Tim Holtz Sizzix. For the background she used various Ranger Distress Spritz and Distress Mica Stain in shades of blue.

Lols used a new AALL& Create Mad Tea Party Stamp Set to make a quirky card. She colored the Mad Hatter with Copic Markers and added a couple of fun googly eyes. For the background she used a selection of Tim Holtz Layering Stencils and Distress Inks.

Macarena made a set of cards with this cute couple of robots from Creative Expressions Botology Better Together stamp set. On the background there is “love” repetition all around the page with letters by Tim Holtz Sign Painter. She also added Penny Black Ascending dies to add a green touch.

Maura is trying out a new idea making a mushroom themed zine. She learned that mushrooms are a symbol of luck in some cultures, and thought this would be a great way to start a new year. She used AALL and Create’s Mycelium Potions stamps, AALL and Create’s Edison Glow stamp, AALL and Create’s Onion Skin stencil and Fungal Trips Ephemera.

Meihsia was inspired to create a mixed media tag using her new AALL & Create Buttercream Birdy Bliss A7 Clear Stamps on the background, and decorated it with Tim Holtz idea-ology SENTIMENTS Label Stickers and Pinkfresh Studio Foiled Sentiments 6 Ephemera Set.

Zoey used Tim Holtz Distress Crackle Paste to create these wonderful crackles! She also used Tim Holtz Ideaology to decorate her tag. She used Distress Sprays to add colors and Tim Holtz Photomatic as main focus of her tag!

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 Cold and Frosty Challenge!

#105 Gerrina – Anna-Karin says: This winter scene by Gerrina is amazing! I really like the look of the landscape and deer on the black paper. The scene is very frosty and peaceful.

#47 Jean Manis – Barbara says: Jean created a fabulous card. I love her clean and simple style! The pop of red and the snow detail on the trees are perfect! Amazing job!

#128 Debbie Emmons – Lols loves this Cold and Frosty Christmas Wreath! The ice skates are gorgeous and the greenery, pearls and cheesecloth are all just fabulous! Beautifully done Debbie!

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 number:

Congratulations Wendy! Below you can see Wendy’s lovely Let it Snow 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