{"id":8964,"date":"2017-05-15T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/?p=8964"},"modified":"2017-05-15T01:34:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T05:34:12","slug":"simon-says-home-sweet-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/?p=8964","title":{"rendered":"Simon Says: Home Sweet Home"},"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 Frame Up Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.<\/p>\n

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

Home Sweet Home <\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

There are so many ways you can interpret this theme! Whether you choose to make a new home card or a home decor project, we will be looking forward to seeing what you create!\u00a0<\/span><\/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<\/b><\/p>\n

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Sonia<\/a>\u00a0made a House shaped DIY storage organizer using chipboard and \u00a0<\/span>Graphic 45 papers<\/a>\u00a0and used the gorgeous\u00a0<\/span>Prima Dome\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0<\/span>Prima Typo Bulb\u00a0<\/a>as focal embellishments.The draws fit inside\u00a0the house and are designed to hold different sizes of embossing folders. The roof of\u00a0the house also lifts up to store more crafty paraphernalia!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Andrea<\/a> made a set of journaled memory cards about her childhood home, room by room. \u00a0She used one of her favorite dies, Artful Dwellings<\/a>, to make the houses and embellished the cards usingTim Holtz’s Journey design tape<\/a> and a Love Knots stamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Anna-Karin<\/a> made a mini book to document all the homes and places in which she has lived. The base is a Tim Holtz Chronicle Worn Cover, and it was embellished with, among other things, Suburbia Cityscape dies and the Bricked stencil<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Barbara<\/a>\u00a0had much fun creating an Etcetera tag<\/a>! She used Distress paints<\/a> and Distress Oxides<\/a> to color it and Sizzix Tim Holtz Suburbia<\/a> to decorate the centre of her project.<\/p>\n

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Cathie<\/a>\u00a0created a whimsical happy home scene to represent the fun that constantly takes place in her home with her large family. The house was created from the\u00a0Artful Dwellings<\/a> die set and the background scene was painted with several Dina Wakley Heavy Body Acrylic Paints<\/a>\u00a0and stamped with the PaperArtsy EKC 02<\/a> and Jofy 15<\/a> stamp sets.<\/p>\n

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Emma<\/a>\u00a0felt there was no place like home and created a\u00a0project celebrating her home town of London. She used an Etcetera Tag<\/a> as the base, covered with papers from the Correspondence Paper Stash<\/a>\u00a0and added a Paper Doll<\/a> standing against the globe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Kath<\/a> created a framed panel to hang in her craft room using Distress Oxide Inks<\/a> with Sizzix\/Tim Holtz Cityscape Suburbia<\/a> and Commute<\/a> Thinlits<\/p>\n

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Lols <\/a>was inspired to make a home away from home on the shores of the Indian Ocean using shells collected on a beach just south of Goa. She used a Tim Holtz Village Dwelling <\/a>and Surf Shack<\/a>\u00a0to create the base and then had fun putting it all together.<\/p>\n

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Macarena <\/a>made a canvas being inspired by house renovation she uses to make on Springtime. She used Bigz Pipeline Die by Tim Holtz and Sizzix<\/a> and some Distress Oxide Inks<\/a> to give the color to the background and put them also through\u00a0Grid Stencil<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Maura<\/a> had fun creating a little mixed media house from a block of wood and covering it with Crate Paper’s Oasis collection<\/a>, then stamping images with Darkroom Door’s Bookworm set<\/a>, Seth Apter’s Border Lines<\/a> from Impression Obsession, and Carabelle Studio’s Strange Nature<\/a> stamps.<\/p>\n

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Meihsia<\/a> was inspired to create a mixed media tag with sentiments using Tim Holtz Type Charms Alphabets<\/a> and Idea-ology Alpha Parts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sandra<\/a> made\u00a0a card using Distress Oxide Reinkers<\/a> and one of the houses from the Cityscape Metropolis die set<\/a>.
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Zoey<\/a>\u00a0used her favorite Distress Crayons<\/a> to alter this plastic cap<\/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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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 a selection 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\r\n