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CLICK HERE<\/a> to see who is in the Designer Spotlight and who is the winner of the Winter Wonderland Challenge\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hi all and welcome to another week on the\u00a0Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thank you for joining us for the Winter Challenge and we hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year.<\/p>\n

We will be announcing a Design Team Call so be sure to pop back tomorrow!<\/span><\/p>\n

This week the challenge is<\/p>\n

SOMETHING NEW<\/span><\/h1>\n

With the dawning of a \u00a0New Year New it’s time to think about Something New, New Baby, New Home, New Job, New Crafty Stash, I am sure you will all think of something and we will be looking forward to seeing what it is!<\/p>\n

We are introducing a couple of new features to the challenges. We will be showcasing a brand or product designer every first Monday of the month and to start the ball rolling we are all using\u00a0Tim Holtz<\/a>\u00a0Products! Tim is a great inspiration to all of us and I am sure that most, if not all of us have something of his in our crafty stash.\u00a0\u00a0You don’t have to use Tim Holtz<\/a>‘s products\u00a0to join in with the challenge, but if you have them we would love to see them used!<\/p>\n

We will also be inviting crafters to join us in a monthly Designer Spotlight. We will be looking for vintage, \u00a0artistic style designers, so if you would like an opportunity in the spotlight then please enter the challenges and show your arty side.<\/p>\n

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous\u00a0Simon Says Stamp Store<\/a><\/p>\n

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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<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Our first designer in the spotlight is the lovely and super talented Zoey<\/a> aka Scrapsaurus.<\/a> Zoey has a fabulous blog and if you haven’t visited her before then you are in for a real treat! Please visit her blog and give her a warm welcome!<\/p>\n

Zoey<\/a>\u00a0loves the ‘magic’ of the lifecycle of a butterfly and the beautiful new life when it bursts free from the chrysalis.<\/p>\n

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I wanted to alter a canvas, for the background I used pieces of paper from the\u00a0Tim Holtz Paper Stash Crowded Attic<\/a>.\u00a0I sealed the sides of the canvas with\u00a0Tissue Tape Symphony Music Self Adhesive Vintage Paper<\/a>. I toned down the paper with\u00a0Dina Wakley Gesso<\/a>\u00a0and added color with\u00a0Fossilized Amber<\/a>,\u00a0Mermaid Lagoon<\/a>,Walnut Stain<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Black Soot<\/a>\u00a0Distress Inks.\u00a0I die cut from pieces of\u00a0Black Cardstock<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0a butterfly from a\u00a0Butterfly Duo<\/a>\u00a0Die Set and made the ‘roses’ using a\u00a0Tattered Pinecone<\/a>\u00a0Die.<\/p>\n

Andrea<\/a> wanted to start out a new year with a new planner.<\/p>\n

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I love the new Simple Stories Carpe Diem planners<\/a>!\u00a0 I wanted to use this planner as a reflective journal and place to record ideas and inspiration. \u00a0 This is the front page for my creative ideas section and I used one of my favorite Tim Holtz dies, the Picture Wheel,<\/a> to give it some oomph.\u00a0 I colored the wheel with Distress Ink and Distress Stain<\/a> and added some colorful Tim Holtz Sizzix splats<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anna-Karin<\/a> had fun making an art journal page about the new brand year.<\/p>\n

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It is no surprise that I love to create with Tim Holtz products, and here I used stencils<\/a>, punches<\/a>, stamps<\/a> and dies<\/a> to create an art journal page about the new year that just started. The background is a dark blue\/black, meant to look like a night time sky and inspired by my baby boy’s new jersey. I used gold paint<\/a>, gold rub-ons<\/a> and two different gold surfaces to create a festive feeling.<\/p>\n

Barbara<\/a>\u00a0wishes everyone a Happy New Year!<\/p>\n

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What better way for me to start this year of challenges! I want to celebrate the new year with a calender inspired by Tim’s products! I used\u00a0tags\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0stamps<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0to display days ,\u00a0Letterpress\u00a0<\/a>to show \u00a0the year,\u00a0Idea-ology<\/a>\u00a0stuff to enrich my project and \u00a0all kind of\u00a0Distress\u00a0<\/a>! I hope you like it !<\/p>\n

Cheiron<\/a> made something new with something old on this mini canvas by mixing her Dina Wakley paints to make new colors.<\/p>\n

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I love mixing paints and playing with color so I used Dina Wakley’s color mixing chart to mix up some new paint colors with the Paint Set of 12<\/a> I already had. I stamped tissue paper with Archival Ink using the Scribbly Birds in Fligh<\/a>t set and added a big die cut word cut from Tim Holtz’s Word Play<\/a>\u00a0alphabet die to make my inspirational canvas.<\/p>\n

Emma<\/a>\u00a0was in her element using Tim Holtz products to create a card to celebrate the New Year!<\/p>\n

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I love creating with Tim Holtz products, so for me, this week’s challenge was just perfect! I created a card celebrating the new year and new adventures by using various idea-ology pieces and one of my all time favourite dies,\u00a0the globe<\/a>. I\u00a0added these to a marbled background made of alcohol inks and transparent texture paste<\/a>, applied through the Lace layering stencil<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lols<\/a>\u00a0needed to make a New Home card for a special friend.<\/p>\n

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I love the Tim Holtz Bird Crazy Stamp and Die Set<\/a> and the coordinating Crazy Things<\/a> set, they are such fun! I have this crazy bird painting the walls of his New Home with the help of a Scribbles and Splat Die Set<\/a>, and some Distress Ink Pads<\/a>. I used some Letter Tiles<\/a> to make the words ‘New Home’, but you know how it is when you play scrabble, the tiles always get jumbled up!<\/p>\n

Maura<\/a> is celebrating the new little wonders in life.<\/p>\n

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My creative muse led me on a completely different path with this project than where I thought to go – I must have been giddy thinking about using my Tim Holtz stuff. I have been admiring all of the wonderful work by my teamies with this Tim Holtz Flip Frame<\/a> and knew I had to get one. I love it! I had new supplies to play with, like the Candy Apple Red Distress Paint,<\/a> the Chevron stencil<\/a> and the Vintage Platinum Glitter<\/a>, so of course I had to use them. It was fun digging into my “Tim” stash of old and new products to make this.<\/p>\n

Meihsia<\/a> was inspired to create a spring tag with a new wafer die.<\/p>\n

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Sandra’s<\/a>\u00a0used a new technique and made some shaker invitations to send out for her upcoming birthday.
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\nI’ve never made a shaker card before, that’s something new for me.\u00a0I wasn’t planning on making one, but it just went that direction all of a sudden. Love when the inspiration takes me to creative\u00a0places I never thought I would go. I used the Mini Pocket Watch die<\/a> to creat the shaker shape and the Retro Circles Embossing Folder<\/a> with the Pool Paint Dabber<\/a> to create the background.<\/p>\n

Suzz\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 used some new products, she had recently bought the \u00a0Tim Holtz – Sizzix Tiny Tattered Florals\u00a0 <\/a>\u00a0and wanted to play with them.<\/p>\n

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I decided to create a whimsical flowery tree on a canvas using a mix of the flowers created with Authentique Adore Papers<\/a> and a hint of Heidi Swapp – Raspberry Art Screen<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 The background is a mix of a painted background with\u00a0 embossed flowers using the Tim Holtz Layering Stencil Doily<\/a> and Wendy Vecchi White Embossing Paste.<\/a><\/p>\n

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

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Do you use Instagram ? \u00a0If so please add\u00a0\u00a0#sssmchallenge<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>so we can see your entries there too!<\/p>\n

There are fabulous Give Aways and inspiration from fabulous designers on a daily basis over on the\u00a0Simon Says Stamp Blog<\/a>\u00a0, if you haven’t subscribed by email you may want to so you don’t miss out<\/p>\n

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You have until Monday \u00a08am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in<\/p>\n

We will also be choosing 3 of our entries to put in the spotlight – a special honor where we talk about why we loved that entry in particular and award a special badge too! For the full rules, read the “challenge rules” posted in the side-bar here on our blog.
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