{"id":30244,"date":"2023-01-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/?p=30244"},"modified":"2023-01-24T02:08:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T07:08:54","slug":"simon-says-beautiful-blooms-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/?p=30244","title":{"rendered":"Simon Says: Beautiful Blooms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you for joining us for the Animals Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week we are challenging you to make a project with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BEAUTIFUL BLOOMS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lovely folks over at Simon Says Stamp<\/a> are generously giving away a FABULOUS $25 voucher to shop at the  Simon Says Stamp Store! <\/a>All you have to do is take out your crafty supplies, make something following this week\u2019s 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! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monica<\/a> made a vivid floral card with the Simon Says Stamp Stencil Peony Bouquet<\/a> along with the sentiment from Altenew Beautiful Day Clear Stamp Set<\/a>. She made the watercolor effect blending the Distress Ink pads and refreshing the colors on the paper with a wet brush. As a last touch she added some details with Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils<\/a> and added a few Moonshine Sequins<\/a> for sparkle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Andrea<\/a> made a notebook using Waffle Flower’s A7 Disc Bound Dies<\/a> and added some floral accents using Tim Holtz’s Bouquet Findings<\/a>. She also added some stamping with Tim Holtz’s Mini Glitch<\/a> stamp set and threw in some dots with Altenew’s Many Dots<\/a> washi tape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anna-Karin<\/a> tucked dimensional flowers into an envelope on this card. The flowers were die cut with Simon Says Stamp Morning Blossom<\/a> and the envelope with the Gift Card Pocket Envelope<\/a>. The beautiful embossing folder used for the background is Simon Says Stamp Spun Glass<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Barbara<\/a> this week dedicated her project to the spring that will arrive soon. She chose a spring\/pastel color palette to create a card using Sizzix’s Alphanumeric Bulletin Thinlits Dies for Tim Holtz <\/a>along with Ranger Light Gray Distress Holiday Woodgrain Cardstock<\/a>, Stampers Anonymous’s Floral Outline stamps set for Tim Holtz<\/a> and colored everything with various Distress Mini Ink Pads<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cheiron<\/a> created a card for a friend who loves sunflowers. She used the Tim Holtz Sizzix Blossom<\/a> Thinlits die along with Distress Inks<\/a> to create her sunflowers. She added it to a background of Tumbled Glass<\/a> Distress Spray Stain stamped with the Stampers Anonymous Ledger Script<\/a> in Hickory Smoke<\/a> Distress Archival Ink . She finished the card with some detailing using Distress Watercolor Pencils<\/a> and a sentiment from the Noteworthy<\/a> Stamp set. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This week, Emma<\/a> is feeling love in the air and she used the Sizzix Mini Brushstroke Flowers Die by Tim Holtz<\/a> to add some beautiful blooms to her idea-ology Vignette Box<\/a> project. She arranged the flowers around a PhotoBooth image<\/a>, in a Deco Frame Adornment<\/a> before completing the make with a sentiment, XOXO using the Bulletin Alphanumerics Dies<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kath<\/a> created an Art Journal page in her Dylusions Small Creative Journal<\/a> using Tim Holtz\/Sizzix Blossom<\/a> and Alphanumeric Bulletin<\/a> Thinlits as the focal points on a Distress Paint background, stencilled and stamped using Tim Holtz\/Stampers Anonymous Focus<\/a> and Gradient Dot<\/a> Layering Stencils and Faded Type<\/a> stamp set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lols <\/a> made a card using a new Waffle Flower Cosmos Clear Stamp and Die Combo<\/a> and she colored the flower with Daniel Smith Watercolor Paints<\/a>. For the background she stamped some flowers with White Pigment Ink<\/a> and used White Embossing Powder<\/a> and heat set before blending Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide Ink<\/a> over the top. She finished with a Tim Holtz Label Sticker<\/a> and a strip of My Favorite Things Black and White Plaid Paper<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Macarena<\/a> made a pair of cactus bloom using the Tim Holtz Sizzix Funky Cactus<\/a> dies and placing them onto a vellum sheet from Studio Light Write Your Story<\/a> set with the Tim Holtz Black Distress Woodgrain Cardstock<\/a> as a background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maura <\/a>created a vintage, distressed style card this week. She used Tim Holtz\/Stampers Anonymous Botanic Collage set<\/a>, Prima Art Ingredients Steampunk Metal Flakes<\/a>, and Simon Says Stamp Old Letter 1878 background stamp.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meihsia<\/a> was inspired to create a watercolored thank you card using Simon Says Cling Stamps DAFFODIL FIELD<\/a> on the background, and colored it with Prima Marketing WATERCOLOR CONFETTI SET Art Philosophy<\/a>. The sentiment was die cut using CZ Design Wafer Dies BASIC TRIO<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zoey<\/a> used the newly released die from the Everyday Line Blossom<\/a> and Alphanumeric Bullettin<\/a> to decorate her tag. She used Distress Spray Stain<\/a> and Distress Inks <\/a>to add color<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Do you use Instagram ?  If so please add  #sssmchallenge<\/a>so we can see your entries there too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are fabulous give aways and inspiration from fabulous designers on a daily basis over on the Simon Says Stamp Blog,<\/a> if you haven’t subscribed by email you may want to so you don’t miss out<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You have until Monday  8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please note that all previous challenges and winners posts can be accessed by clicking on the button at the very bottom of this page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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You are invited to the Inlinkz<\/strong> link party!<\/p>\nClick here to enter<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n