Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge

Thank you for joining us for the Favorite Technique Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

This week we are challenging you to add:

A BIT O’ GREEN

The lovely folks over at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a FABULOUS $25 voucher to shop at the  Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take out your crafty supplies, make something following this week’s prompt, and add a link in the Inlinkz at the bottom of this post! You can join 5 times so you could have 5 chances to win! How AWESOME is that!! All winners are chosen randomly, so everyone has an equal chance to win! Woo Hoo!! Good Luck to everyone!

Please 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

Rox used a Tim Holtz Floral Trims Cling Stamp Set and Distress Inks for the background. She used a Dina Wakleys Pocket Circles Stamp Set, stamped and cut the images and adhered in place. I also added a retired Tim Holtz Impresslits to add the shamrock, layering it with foam mounts. She added some Tim Holtz Ephemera Snippets and Rub-Ons and machine stitched the edges to finish.

Andrea made a shamrock out of hearts using Honey Bee’s Heart Hugs die set. She used Memory Box’s Fringed Scallop Frame die set for the card itself and made the LUCKY sentiment using AALL & Create’s Letter Soup die set.

Anna-Karin made an art journal page with a whole lot of green. She really like monstera plants and the great shape of the leaves and used Simon Says Stamp Monstera die for the three leaves. The title was stamped with Tim Holtz Sign Painter set and die cut with the coordinating Simon Says Stamp Sign Painter dies.

Barbara created two tags using Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturated Ink Pad SAGE and Ranger Distress Oxide Ink Pad Tattered rose. She chose two stencils from Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous, Shifters Mini Stencil Set 36 and Mini Stencil Set 10, for the backgrounds. The beautiful butterflies are from Simon Says Stamp Embossing Folder and Dies Fantasy Butterflies. For the center point she used Stampers Anonymous Spring Sprung Easter CMS084.

Kath created a card to celebrate St Patrick’s Day using Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Curiosity Shop stamp set, the Simon Says Stamp Curiosity co-ordinating dies, Tim Holtz/Idea-ology Serendipity Collage Paper and Idea-ology Story Stick.

Macarena is waiting for Spring to come and made a card mixing green and yellow using Tim Holtz Abstract Florals as a focal point and Faded Type and Mr. Rabbit stamp sets for the background. For the greens she chose Peeled Paint Oxide, Mowed Lawn Oxide and Wicked Elixir Mica Stain.

Maura took a light touch with green this time in her Dyan Reavely Small Creative Journal. She created multiple layers with paint like Dina Wakley’s Lime Green acrylic, pink and green tissue paper, Seth Apter’s Paper Artsy Printed Tissue, and even a few stamped snowflakes using Simon Says Stamp’s Snowflake Season stamps.

Meihsia was inspired to create a birthday card using AALL & Create Purrfect Birthday A7 Clear to stamp the image, then colored it with Zig Kuretake Gansai Tambi 48 COLOR Set and added sentiments with Tim Holtz idea-ology SENTIMENTS Label Stickers.

Zoey used a bunch of greens in Distress Inks + Paint for her background. She also used Tim Holtz Curiosity Shop stamp set and the Simon Says Stamp Curiosity co-ordinating dies to decorate it!

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!

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You have until Monday  8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in

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

Please note that all previous challenges and winners posts can be accessed by clicking on the button at the very bottom of this page.

Please read the challenge rules on the sidebar. It has come to our attention that some are entering projects that were posted weeks ago. While they may follow the theme they are not eligible to win the voucher. All creations must be newly published. Thank You 

We have 3 artists in the Designer Spotlight for the Favorite Technique Challenge!

#120 Cez – Anna-Karin says: This is such a cool project! There is so much going on here and many fun techniques: stenciling in the background, braided hair, stitching, and such vibrant colors.

#93 Anita – Maura loves the gorgeous mixed media spread Anita created to celerate Spring. Anita used some of her favorite techniques like stenciling, acrylics and splattering. The textures, images and words all work so well together in this ode to Spring. Maura especially likes the imagery of the honeycombs and flowers.

#4 Carriescustomcards – Kath loves Carrie’s beautiful floral card, a reminder of summer with the perfect mix of colours and the gorgeous arrangement placed around the frame.

Congratulations!

Please copy this spotlight badge, display it on the sidebar of your blog and if you could please link it to Simon Says Stamp!

We now have this lovely badge for you to add to your sidebar if you are this weeks, or a previous, winner please feel free to add this to your sidebar and please link it to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge

So who is the lucky winner of the $25 voucher? Please note, all of our winners are chosen at random so everyone has an equal chance of winning. Good Luck to all!

Here is your random number:

Congratulations Donna Phelan! Below you can see Donna’s peace-themed card for the challenge:

Congratulations! Please email us so we can explain how you can claim your prize, the address is on the sidebar.

Be sure to include your full name in the email so we can issue a Gift Certificate 

Thanks to everyone who joined in with the challenge and we hope you will all join in our current challenge too!

Happy stamping!

Anna-Karin and the DT