{"id":36482,"date":"2024-09-30T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/?p=36482"},"modified":"2024-10-03T04:08:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T08:08:23","slug":"simon-says-christmas-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/?p=36482","title":{"rendered":"Simon Says: Christmas\/Winter Card"},"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 Not A Card challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week we are asking you to make a:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christmas\/Winter Card<\/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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It\u2019s Kerry’s <\/a>  last week with us in the Designer Spotlight and we would like to say a huge thank you for all of your creations over the past month. It has been a real pleasure to have you along with us :-)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kerry <\/a> used Lawn Fawn’s Build a Birdhouse and Christmas Add-On dies<\/a>, Waffle Flower Mini Slimline Nesting Rectangle Frames Dies<\/a>, Wow White Puff Embossing Powder<\/a>, White Gesso<\/a> and Waffle Flower Elegant Christmas 2 Stamp and Die Set<\/a> for her wintery slimline card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Andrea<\/a> made a Christmas card using Tim Holtz’s Vault Festive Wreath<\/a> die set along with some gorgeous patterned paper from Simple Stories’ Snow Pine Lodge<\/a> collection. She brought in some jolly greens with Dina Wakley’s Lime<\/a> and Fir<\/a> paint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anna-Karin<\/a> made a wintery Christmas tag with a frosty watercolor background. The snowmen and lamppost were die cut with Tim Holtz Vault Winter Wishes set<\/a>. Their bodies were die cut from Simon Says Stamp Velvet Luxury Cardstock<\/a> to give them a soft look and feel. The snowflake is die cut from Simon Says Stamp Vellum.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Barbara<\/a> created a winter tag with an unusual color palette, purple and turquoise! \u200b\u200bShe chose the beautiful snowflake from the Vault Winter Wishes Thinlits dies by Sizzix for Tim Holtz<\/a> as the centerpiece. In the background, she used the new stencil from Stampers Anonymous, Sparkle Fade<\/a> in the mini version. She used Ranger Ink Distress Spritz Picked Raspberry<\/a> to make her tag sparkle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kath<\/a> created a Wintry Christmas card using the Postage Stamp dies included with the Tim Holtz\/Stamptember 2024 stamp set<\/a>, the images from Tim Holtz\/Stampers Anonymous Home For Christmas<\/a>, snowflakes from Mini Weathered Winter<\/a> and Mr Frostie<\/a> and Simon Says Pawsitively Clear Dazzling Gems<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lols <\/a> made a Christmas card using a fun Paper Artsy JOFY 105 Cling Stamp Set<\/a>. She colored with Zig Real Brush watercolor pens<\/a> and added a few dabs of Star Dust Stickles<\/a> and a strand of May Arts Irridescent White Metallic String<\/a> to add some sparkle. For the background she used Distress Inks<\/a>, a Tim Holtz Merry Christmas Layering Stencil<\/a>, a Simon Says Stamp falling Snow Stencil <\/a>and White Embossing Powder<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Macarena<\/a> made a Christmas card using the traditional colors and some dies by Tim Holtz\/Sizzix: Layered Dots<\/a>, Bowtied Colorize<\/a>, Holiday Brushstrokes<\/a> and paper stash: Kraft Stock Stack Cool<\/a>, Kraft Stock Sparkle Classic<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maura<\/a> headed to the funny farm to create her card, the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Funny Farm stamps<\/a>, that is. She also used Simon Says Stamp’s Making Spirits Bright stamps<\/a> and used Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturated Lilac <\/a>and Marine<\/a> inks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meihsia<\/a> was inspired to create a Christmas card using Stamperia Blue Land 12×12 Paper<\/a> on the background, and decorated it with Stamperia Gear Up For Christmas Snowglobes Clear Stamp<\/a> and Copic SKETCH 72 PC SET C Markers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zoey<\/a> use the new Tim Holtz Mr Frostie stamp set<\/a> to decorate her tag! She also used Distress Spray Stain<\/a> and Distress Mica Stain<\/a> to add some sparkle! She also used Distress Archival Ink<\/a> to stamp and Mummy Cloth<\/a> to add some textural element<\/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