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Join us every MONDAY for a new challenge! Examples from our Monday Design Team incorporate a vintage artistic style, but we welcome all styles! Show us your take on the challenge!

Simon Says: Bright & Cheerful, featuring Simon Says Stamp Products

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

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

This week we are challenging you to make something:

BRIGHT AND CHEERFUL

As it’s the first Monday of the month we are showcasing a brand/company. This week we are all using our very own Simon Says Stamp Products. 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

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This week we’re welcoming back the lovely Cassie Lynch into the Designer Spotlight. If you haven’t visited her blog before then you are in for a real treat!

Cassie is ready for Spring and flowers. She used a Simon Says Stamp; Quilted Hearts Background Cling Stamp and a Floral Garden Clear Stamp Set. The flowers were colored with Tim Holtz Watercolor Pencils and the sentiment is from a Tim Holtz Tiny Text Stamp Set.

Anna-Karin made a bright and cheerful tag this week. The circle background was made with Simon Says Stamp Mix and Match Circles stencil and Distress Ink. The hearts were die cut from old book paper and vellum using Simon Says Stamp Sweethearts Box die set.

Barbara continues her memory dex card calendar! For her project she used the AAll & Create Spring Sprouts dies and the Simon Says Stamp Stained Glass Heart wafer die. The sentiment and the stencil used in the background are both by Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous: Love Notes CMS477 stamp set and Hearts Layering Stencil mini version set 6. Four Ranger Ink Distress ink pads for coloring, bright as requested by our challenge: Dried Marigold, Kitsch Flamingo, Salvaged Patina and Shaded Lilac.

Kath used Distress Oxide inks to create a bright and cheerful background on Distress Watercolor card, embossed with Simon Says Pinnacle Hearts Embossing Folder and decorated with Tim Holtz/Ideaology Palette Ephemera and the butterfly and sentiment from Simon Says Distressed Vintage Love Notes 6″ x 8″ stamp set.

Macarena used her favorite Simon Says Stamp Mushroom Stems die and embossed their hats with Simon Says Stamp Clear Embossing Powder Fine Details. For the background she chose 49 and Market Spectrum Gardenia Spiral Notebook.

Maura created a rainbow tag of lucky clovers using Simon Says Stamp’s Sketched Clovers stamp set, and Simon’s Pawsitively Saturated inks like Field and Mandarin, with Simon’s Floating Leaves stencil and Small Blending Brushes.

Meihsia was inspired to create a Valentine’s Day card using Simon Says Clear Stamps Lined Heart To Be Loved and Simon Says Stamp Lined Heart Wafer Dies To Be Loved

Zoey used Simon Says Stamp Sunshine Wafer Die as her sentiment in this journal spread. She also used Transparent wings and Stencil Everyday to add some more interest to her page!

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 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Heart Challenge Winner and Designer Spotlights

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We have 3 artists in the Designer Spotlight for the Have A Heart Challenge!

#87 Kathy Holtzinger Crowley – Anna-Karin says: Kathy’s card is gorgeous with all the texture and the great design. I really like the dry embossed heart and the metallic in the background.

#146 Wickedwendycreates-Barbara says: I love this wall hanging so much! Fabulous design, fantastic color and grunge perfection! Amazing project!

#110 Paper Whims– Lols loves Wendy’s Art Journal Page! the cat is just so cute and the postal details are fabulous! This page was created on the inside of an envelope! Genius!

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!

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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

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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 Jenn Borjeson! Below you can see Jenn’s sweet 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 stamping!

Anna-Karin and the DT

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