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

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

This week we are challenging you to:

Spooky and/or Add Some Purple

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

Alison had a wonderful time getting a little eerie with some moths by moonlight.  The Idea-ology Halloween Moth Transparencies hover over a moonlit meadow with hidden secrets.  The Tim Holtz Moon Masks allow light to gleam on the bone fragments from the Anatomy Chart stamp set – embossed with Wow Bright White powder.  The bones are lying amongst the grasses from Tim’s Nature Discovery set as well as my own PaperArtsy Umbellifer Edition stamps.  And of course the atmosphere is all created with the magical Ranger Distress Inks.  The bats silhouetted against the moon are from The Scarecrow, and you’ll find similar word stickers in this year’s Idea-ology Halloween Sticker Book (mine are from an older version).  Some fine twine finishes things off.

Andrea made a card using Papertrey Ink’s Witches Brew stamp set and Mama Elephant’s Deckled Frames die set for the background. While she’s not a drinker, Andrea loves the skeleton hand from the Spellbinders Boos Cocktails die set.

Anna-Karin made a tag with a spooky little scene featuring Elmira, her house and her cat. There is also some purple. The witch, cat, pumpkin and bats were die cut with Tim Holtz Vault Wicked set and the house comes from Tim’s Halloween Collage Paper. The gems are Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Dazzling Rainbow Gems.

Barbara decided to mix the two themes of this week and created a super spooky tag with purple as the predominant color! She used Ranger Distress Ink Spray Stain Villainous Potion, Hickory Smoke, Wilted Violet and Distress Spritz Wilted Violet to color the background. The spider web stamp and stencil are from Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous, Boo Crazy Stamp set and Layering Stencil Bones. The central portrait is from Tim Holtz Idea-ology Halloween Paper Dolls.

Macarena made a spooky tag combining purple and black and using several elements from Tim Holtz Idea-ology Urban Layers set. She covered the tag with a spider web using Surebonder High Temp Hot Glue Gun.

Maura made a spooky Phantom Palace using AALL and Create’s Phantom Palace die. She also used Tim Holtz Sizzix Wicked and Frightful Things dies, and added fun embellishments with AALL and Create’s Pumps and Skullz ephemera.

Meihsia was inspired to create a mixed media Halloween tag using Simon Says Clear Stamps Spooky Sweets on the background, colored it with Copic SKETCH 72 PC SET C Markers and decorated it with Tim Holtz idea-ology CLiPPiNGS Sticker Book.

Zoey used Tim Holtz Distress Ink for her background and to decorate her tag she used Ideaology Stickers Book , Halloween Layers and Paper Doll and the beautiful Moth Transparencies

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 Fall Mood Board Challenge!

#111 Susanne – Anna-Karin says: Susanne’s card is amazing! I really like the candles and the background with all the textures. And it glows in the dark! How cool is that?! The sentiment is great too.

#59 Jenn Borjeson: Andrea says, I think this color combination is absolutely lovely! And I could relate to Jenn’s post where she talked about finding a technique and doing it over and over for the sheer love of it. She certainly has mastered the art of using Distress Inks on watercolor paper. This is breathtaking!

#104 Dana M Meihsia says: This is such a gorgeous autumn tag! Love the beautiful embellishments and fantastic textures. Wonderful design!

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 Craftyrph! Below you can see Craftyrph’s gorgeous card below:

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