{"id":6097,"date":"2016-08-15T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/?p=6097"},"modified":"2016-08-20T04:01:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T08:01:38","slug":"simon-says-summer-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/?p=6097","title":{"rendered":"Simon Says: Summer Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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 Try To Contain Yourself Challenge, CLICK HERE<\/a> or scroll down to see the winner’s post!<\/p>\n

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

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What is your favorite summer activity? Building sandcastles on the beach, swimming in the ocean waves, enjoying a barbecue with friends, cycling along the forest paths, we will be looking forward to seeing what you make for this challenge!<\/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

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\u00a0Chris<\/a>\u00a0used a Tim Holtz Bird Crazy Stamp And Die Set<\/a> to make some summer fun activity sticks.\u00a0
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Andrea<\/a> loves to read on road trips and summer vacations, so she made a Reading Journal using Pinkfresh’s Bibliophile Stamp Set<\/a>, Seth Apter’s Ring Around die<\/a> and her trusty Crop-A-Dile<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Anna-Karin<\/a> was dreaming of tropical beaches and made a colourful tag using Tim Holtz Sizzix Tropical Thinlits set<\/a>, Ranger’s Texture Paste<\/a> and sequins by 28 Lilac Lane<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Barbara<\/a> loves to have fun with color! She created \u00a0her \u00a0own palette of \u00a0Distress ink using CUSTOM BLEND Distress DIY Ink Pad Ranger \u00a0<\/a>and Distress reinker<\/a>. The seahorse and \u00a0the starfish<\/a> are both sparkling with various embossing powder<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Cathie<\/a>\u00a0created a beach house using the Tim Holtz Village Dwelling<\/a> and Surf Shack<\/a> die sets to replicate a special place where she spends her summer vacations.<\/p>\n

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Cheiron<\/a> made a mixed media card with some bathing beauties from Found Relatives Occasions<\/a> and a background created with\u00a0Crosshatch<\/a>\u00a0Frameworks.<\/p>\n

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Emma<\/a>\u00a0used the Village Dwelling Die<\/a> and the Surf Shack<\/a> die to take you on a summer road trip for good times at 63 Coastal Drive!<\/p>\n

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Kath<\/a> spent a fun Summer at Summer of Creative Chemistry in the company of Tim Holtz and created a binder file to store all her homework tags from Creative Chemistry 103 using Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz\u00a0Wildflowers<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Halftone and Rings<\/a> stamp sets and decorated with lots of Idea-ology<\/a><\/p>\n

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Lols<\/a>\u00a0made an itinerary folder for her upcoming summer vacation trip to India using a Tim Holtz Globe Die<\/a>\u00a0and a Mixed Media 2 Stamp Set<\/a><\/p>\n

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Macarena<\/a> went into a mix of crazy summer colors playing with Wild Honey<\/a> and Cherry Pie<\/a> sprays using Scribbles and Splat<\/a>\u00a0and Mixed Media<\/a> dies.<\/p>\n

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Maura<\/a> was thinking of summer fairs and traveling circuses when she made her tag with Tim Holtz’s Fly Fly Balloon Man stamp<\/a> and bright alcohol inks like Ranger’s Spring Break set<\/a>, using some new ideas she learned in Creative Chemistry 103 with Tim Holtz.<\/p>\n

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Meihsia<\/a> really enjoyed her summer and created this tag with Nautical Blue Print Stamp<\/a>, and colored the background using Sakura Koi Watercolors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sandra<\/a> was inspired by summer nature for this one, and used the Simon Says Stamp Leaves Stencil<\/a> and Butterfly Frenzy<\/a> to make a card\"IMG_5581\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Zoey <\/a>made this art journal page using various distress paint<\/a>, distress spray stain<\/a>\u00a0and distress crayons.<\/a><\/p>\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

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

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We also have a Kids Vacation Challenge running for the whole month of August,\u00a0CLICK HERE<\/a>\u00a0to go directly to the challenge where you will find all of the details plus you will see what our Junior design Team created!
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