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

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

This week we are challenging you to have:

FUN WITH FOIL

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

Natasha made a foiled ATC for todays challenge. She added color to the panel using a variety of Distress Inks, Oxides, and Distress Spray Stains.  She added foil to her background using Ranger Sticky Embossing Powder and added Vellum and Simon Says Stamp Etched Flower Buds for the focus. She finished with a sentiment and splatters! 

Andrea used Gold Deco Foil and double-sided tape to add some shine to her card. She cut it out with Mama Elephant’s Deckled Frames die set and utilized Tim Holtz’s Multi Collage Fabric for the scene in the center. She also used Tim Holtz’s Mixed Media 2 stamp set to add some colorful dots.

Anna-Karin created a shiny foil forest on a tag. She used Ranger Frozen Shiny Transfer Foil Sheets for the foil elements. The trees were die cut with Simon Says Stamp Frosty Tree Gathering and Little Evergreen Trees.

Barbara created a mini Etcetera Tag dedicated to frozen season. She made a winter landscape using the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Mr. Frostie CMS 499 stamp set along with the exclusive coordinating wafer dies by Simon Says Stamp. In keeping with our theme, she chose Ranger Ink Frozen Shiny Transfer Foil Sheets to shine the sentiment.

Cheiron created a fun background on her card by making “foil tape” with Ranger Frozen Foil Sheets and Be Creative Double Sided Tape. She added sentiments and a cake with the CZ Design Birthday Palooza stamps and dies and EZ Strips Reverse Birthday.

Emma‘s vintage style panel used Deco Foil Transfer Sheets to accentuate the embossed detail of the Typewriter 3D Embossed background, that she used on her Stampers Anonymous Etcetera Panel. She also added Metallic Foil Gilding Flakes to add shimmer and shine on the globe that she die cut using the Sizzix Vault World Travel Die by Tim Holtz

Kath created a frosty winter card using Simon Says Dashing Snowflakes Embossing Folder from the Heart to Heart release, Ranger Sticky Embossing Powder, Gina K Gold Sequins Fancy Foil and to complete the winter scene, Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Mr Frostie and co-ordinating dies.

Macarena made a masculine birthday card using as a foil the Tim Holtz Idea-ology  Kraft Stock Metallic Classic, sanded them with Tim Holtz Distress Sanding Disks, covered with Dina Wakley Black Acrylic Paint, wiped out the excess and cut out Tim Holtz Sizzix Countdown dies.

Maura headed to her art journal this week. She used Prima Metallic Flakes and Lawn Fawn Rainbow Foil Washi Tape in her background, added a layer of stamping with Paper Artsy Seth Aper Mini 123 , and a focal image with Paper Artsy Kate Crane KCM024.

Meihsia was inspired to create a Valentine’s Day card using Studio Light Gold, Silver And Rose Foil Paper Pad and Pretty Pink Posh Big Valentine Cupcake Dies to make the cup cake on the card, and decorated it with Tim Holtz Sizzix TRUE LOVE Colorize Thinlits Dies.

Zoey added Metal Gold flakes over embossing paste and Tacky Medium. She also used a mix of Distress Ink + Distress Oxide Spray Stain to add color to her tag. To decorate she used Ideaology embellishments

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!

Follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram

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 

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

Happy New Year!! We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and hope Santa left you something crafty in your stocking! :-)

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

This week we are challenging you to:

SOMETHING NEW

New Year, New Craft Stash, New Baby, New Job, anything ‘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 Paper Artsy. 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 Natasha Vacca into the Designer Spotlight. If you haven’t visited her blog before then you are in for a real treat!

Natasha created a large playing card using a new Paper Artsy Cosmos Edition Stamp Set. She added texture and detail to the background using the Tim Holtz Entomology Collage Paper  along with Acrylic Paints, Antique Linen and Vintage Photo Distress Ink and Crayons! She heat embossed the flowers and colored using a Gansai Tambi Watercolors Set. The project was completed using twine, a sentiment, and white splatters!  

Andrea made a notebook full of good wishes for the new year. She used Paper Artsy stamps from some of her favorite designers, such as Seth Apter’s EM124 stamp and his EM142 stamp. She also used Kate Crane’s KCM002 stamp and words from her KC016 stamp set. She pulled in some fabric scraps from the Odile Bailloeul Festival Fat Quarter Fabric Bundle.

Anna-Karin made a January art journal page, to celebrate the first month of the new year. She used Paper Artsy Winter Umbels and Winter Grasses stamp sets. The background was made with Paper Artsy Infusions Colored Stain.

Barbara created a trio of winter/New Year’s greeting tags using Paper Artsy Mattints and Ranger Distress Ink Spray Stain. The center of each tag is from a stamp set by Tim Holtz’s Stampers Anonymous Christmas Blueprint CMS 135

Cheiron created a card to set an intention for the New Year using Paper Artsy Golden Sands Infusions to create a background with the Dina Wakley Media Mushy Dots Stencil. She combined it with Pine Needles Distress Oxide, some coloring from Distress Watercolor Pencils and stamps from the Tim Holtz Eccentric set. For a focal image she added a leaf from the Dina Wakley Bold Botanicals stamps.

Kath – created a frosty winter card to welcome in the New Year using Simon Says Stamp The Small Things stamp set, Crystal Snowflake wafer dies and Cool Tones Pawsitively Dazzling Gems from the January 2025 Card Kit along with PaperArtsy In The Navy Infusions and Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Worn Text stamp set.

Macarena made a underwater scene using new Paper Artsy Hot Pics Printed Tissue pt01 and fussy cut the fish, coloring it from behind and glued with Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium. She embellished the scene with corals from Craft Consortium Sea and Shore dies and Spellbinders Set Sail Etched Dies.

Maura created a batch of ATC’s with a nature theme and mushrooms symbolizing good fortune, prosperity and longevity in the new year. She used new Paper Artsy’s Scrapcosy Stamps and Hot Picks Printed Tissue, Tim Holtz Peacock Feathers Distress Spritz, and Tracy Evans Numerical Cats.

Meihsia was inspired to create a tag to celebrate the new year using Paper Artsy Lynne Perrella Cling Stamps on the background, and decorated it with her new die cut collections from Karen Burniston Fireworks Dies and Simon Says Stamp CHAMPAGNE FLUTES Wafer Dies.

Zoey used for the first time a blend of Paper Artsy Infusions (Olive Tree, Walnut, Green Man), she also used some Sizzix Thinlits to decorate her tag and Distress Spray Stain to highlight her main word “now”

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!

Follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram

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