{"id":38312,"date":"2025-04-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/?p=38312"},"modified":"2025-04-24T03:53:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T07:53:41","slug":"simon-says-blooming-blooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/?p=38312","title":{"rendered":"Simon Says: Blooming 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 Treats 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 add some:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blooming 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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Fiona<\/a> made a card using an Alpine Plant Clear Stamp Set<\/a> and Stencils<\/a> from Tracy Evans Boutique Designs<\/a>. <\/a>For the background she used Tim Holtz Salvaged Patina <\/a>and Peeled Paint<\/a> Distress Paints and Watercolour Pencils<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Andrea<\/a> made a vibrant flower card using Tim Holtz’s Brushstroke Flowers Mini Die Set<\/a>, along with Pinkfresh Studio’s Dotted Fancy Frames Die Set<\/a>. The quote is from Dina Wakley’s Ledger Papers, Set 2<\/a> and she also incorporated some patterned paper from Amy Tangerine’s Paper Play<\/a> book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Barbara<\/a> was inspired to create retro flowers by the Tim Holtz Sizzix Vault Thinlits Atomic Retro Dies<\/a>. She used Stampers Anonymous Layering Stencil Shifter Burst<\/a>, used with Ranger Ink Distress Oxide Ink Pads <\/a>for the background<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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K<\/a>ath<\/a> created a page in her Dina Wakley Media Ledger Journal<\/a> using images from Simon Says Beautiful and Curious 6″ x 8″ stamp set <\/a>and Distress Crayons<\/a> from the May 2025 Card Kit<\/a>, along with Tim Holtz\/Stampers Anonymous Mosaic<\/a> and <\/a>Bubbles<\/a> Mini Layering Stencils from Sets 28 and 46 to add interest to the background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Macarena<\/a> made a set of botanical tags as her celebration of Spring. She stamped the delicate Tim Holtz Forgotten Garden<\/a> botanicals as a focal point of each tag and Tim Holtz Field Notes<\/a>, Fragments<\/a> and Sign Painter<\/a> in the background. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meihsia<\/a> was inspired to create a mixed media tag using Stamperia Shabby Rose 8×8 Paper<\/a> on the background, and decorated it with Tim Holtz Sizzix WILDFLOWER STEMS 1 Thinlits Die<\/a> and Tim Holtz idea-ology LOCKET KEYS Metal Hardware Keyhole<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zoey<\/a> used her favorite shades of pink distress ink<\/a> for her background – she also mixed some stencils (Mini Set 52<\/a> + Typo <\/a>)and stamps (Documented<\/a> + Botanic Collage<\/a> )to add some texture.
Her main focus is the beautiful Daisy<\/a> and some Ideaology<\/a> embellishments<\/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