{"id":7439,"date":"2016-12-05T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/?p=7439"},"modified":"2016-12-06T08:16:23","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T13:16:23","slug":"simon-says-christmas-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/?p=7439","title":{"rendered":"Simon Says: Christmas Gifts"},"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 Christmas Tree Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.<\/p>\n

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

Christmas Gifts\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n

As it is the first Monday of the month we are showcasing a company and this week we are promoting our very own Simon Says Stamp Products<\/a>.<\/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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This week we are welcoming Cate Dixson<\/a> into the Designer Spotlight. Cate<\/a> was a junior guest designer for the Summer Vacation Challenge and we thought it would be nice to invite a young designer into the December Spotlight! \u00a0Cate is 15 years old and super talented. Please pop by and give her a warm welcome, Cate is being hosted on the lovely Jenn Shurkus’s Blog<\/a><\/p>\n

Cate<\/a>\u00a0made a super cute gift bag and tucked a small Christmas sweater decorated with glitter into the bag, as well as heart shaped tissue paper. She also used the Simon Says Stamp Stacked Hearts<\/a> die and the Ugly Sweater stamp set<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Andrea<\/a> made a notebook to give as a gift that uses Simon’s Hand Lettered Encouragement<\/a> stamp set, circles from Simon’s I Love Donuts<\/a> stamp set, and background trees from Simon’s One With Nature<\/a> stamp set.<\/p>\n

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Anna-Karin<\/a> made a canvas this week, and is planning to give it away as a Christmas gift. It features winter plants just before the first snowfall, die cut with the Simon Says Stamp Cottage Stems<\/a> and Delicate Thistle<\/a> dies. She also used the You Matter<\/a> background stamp.<\/p>\n

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Barbara<\/a> has created a trio of packages with different collections of Simon’s releases: SNOWFLAKE BLOCK<\/a>, CORBEL ORNAMENT COLLAGE<\/a>, STARS PARADE<\/a>, \u00a0CIRCLE SAYINGS HOLIDAY<\/a>, ABSTRACT TRIANGLES<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Cathie<\/a>\u00a0created a gift card holder using Simon Says Stamp’s Snowflakes for the Season<\/a> and the Holiday Background stamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Cheiron<\/a> made a fun card to hold a gift of cash…for a little girl who still believes in Santa (and unicorns!)<\/p>\n

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Emma<\/a>\u00a0used the beautiful So Very Merry Stamp Set<\/a> to create a trio of Christmas gifts including a gift card holder, floral arrangement tag and candy jar full of sweet surprises!<\/p>\n

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Kath<\/a>\u00a0found some bargain kraft gift bags and brown parcel wrapping paper in her local pound (dollar) store and decorated them to match this year’s Christmas card design using Simon Says Stamp Winter Flowers Stamps<\/a> and Dies<\/a> and the Believe<\/a> Sentiment Stamps from the recent Believe In The Season<\/a> release<\/p>\n

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Macarena<\/a>\u00a0made 3 little boxes for tealights using Simon Says Stamp products: Stacked Stars Die<\/a>, Extra Large Dots Stencil<\/a>, Authentic Vintage Paper<\/a>, Wool White Felt<\/a>, Clear Embossing Powder <\/a>and Premium Dye Ink Pads<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Maura<\/a> made a holiday notepad and wrapped it in handmade tissue paper along with a gift tag, using Simon Says Stamp’s Candy Swirl stencil<\/a> and Doll Pink<\/a> and Teeny Bikini<\/a> inks.<\/p>\n

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Meihsia<\/a> created a Christmas tag for the Christmas gift\u00a0using Simon Says Clear Stamp Big Peace<\/a> and Simon Says Stamp Eliza Snowflake Craft Die<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sandra<\/a> made a Christmas giftcard holder using Simon Says Stamp Wishing die<\/a>, Fog<\/a> and White Pigment Ink<\/a>.
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Zoey <\/a>used Simon Says Clear Stamp Magical Christmas<\/a>\u00a0and Simon Says Stamp Premium Dye High Dive to decorate this little pillow box<\/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 \u00a0a few 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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