{"id":406,"date":"2013-09-23T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T04:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/?p=406"},"modified":"2013-09-26T09:51:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T13:51:40","slug":"challenge-and-a-blog-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"Challenge (and a blog hop!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happy Monday everyone! Here at the Monday Challenge blog we’re celebrating STAMPtember\u00ae, Simon Says Stamp’s month-long celebration of all things inky! This week to celebrate we have a special challenge, guest, and we’re sharing our projects blog hop style too!<\/p>\n

The challenge:<\/h4>\n

This week we challenge you to use a Simon Says Stamp exclusive product <\/a>on your project! It could be a stamp, die, stencil, sticker, or\u00a0a kit! You just need to use any Simon Says Stamp product in some way on your project.<\/p>\n

The Blog Hop:<\/h4>\n

For the team’s part in this challenge, we’re all using\u00a0Simon’s new\u00a0art journaling\u00a0kit by Shari Carroll.\u00a0<\/a> This kit is packed with all kinds of fun products, stamps, and it is super inspiring to play with.<\/p>\n

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Above you can see peeks of a few of the projects that our design team created. Instead of showing all of our projects here on the challenge blog, we’re\u00a0sharing them on our own blogs – so we encourage you to\u00a0go hopping and enjoy!<\/p>\n

The whole team, and Shari Carroll herself are all playing along on this fun hop – we hope you’ll go visit the blogs and check out all of the creations made with this fun new kit.<\/p>\n

The first stop is Shari Carroll’s blog<\/a>, and you can follow along the links to see everything the team made starting with her blog.<\/p>\n

Links to everyone participating:<\/h4>\n

Just in case you hit a broken link, or want to re-visit a specific project here are direct links to everyone participating.<\/p>\n

Shari Carroll\u00a0<\/a>
\nCandy Colwell<\/a>
\nSuzanne Czosek\u00a0<\/a>
\nDan\u00a0<\/a>
\nTracy Evans\u00a0<\/a>
\nAnna-Karin Evaldsson\u00a0<\/a>
\nMay Flaum\u00a0<\/a>
\nMeihsia Liu<\/a>
\nSandra Mouwen<\/a>
\nAndrea Ockey Parr\u00a0<\/a>
\nAshli Oliver\u00a0<\/a>
\nMona Pendleton\u00a0<\/a>
\nMichelle Zerull <\/a><\/p>\n

and if you feel so inspired – please do leave comments for the team as you visit their blogs!<\/p>\n

Then,\u00a0start creating and\u00a0join the challenge!<\/h4>\n

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Once you’ve enjoyed the inspiration on the blog hop, it’s time to “hop in” and join the challenge! Remember to be eligible use of ANY Simon exclusive – sticker, kit, stamp, die, stencil, or other product – needs to be used in some way. We are so excited to see what you dream up!<\/p>\n

As always, Simon Says Stamp<\/a> is giving away a $50 gift voucher that will go to a random entry chosen by random generator. To qualify all you need to do is create a new project that ties in (in any way!) with our theme and post it, along with a link back to this challenge, and add a link here. This challenge will end at 11:59pm on Sunday September 29th Eastern time.<\/p>\n

We will also be choosing some 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!<\/p>\n

For the full rules, read the “challenge rules” posted in the side-bar here on our blog.<\/p>\n

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