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

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

This week we would like you to:

ADD SOME TEXTURE

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

Pauline was inspired by her new Sizzix and 49 and Market Floral Mix Cluster Stamp and Die Set which she used over a background created with Distress Oxide inkpads and coloured with Distress watercolor pencils. She added texture by stamping the Lavinia Texture 2 stamp and layering opaque Distress Texture Paste through a AALL & Create Lotza Diamondz stencil.

Andrea added texture with carboard scraps from her recycling bin. She achieved some drippy colors with Distress Oxide Spray in Peacock Feathers and Cracked Pistachio as well as some Just Walnut Infusions. She added some pops of yellow-orange using Dina Wakley’s Scribble Sticks 2 and added numbers with Elizabeth Crafts’ Measurements stamp set.

Anna-Karin was inspired by the snow outside her window and made a textured winter card. She used Simon Says Stamp Wooded Cabin embossing folder in combination with Prismacolor Pencils and Distress Ink. Snow was created with a Sakura Classic White Bold Line Gelly Roll pen.

Barbara added texture to her tag with Ranger Distress Texture Paste Translucent used together with the Spots stencil by Stampers Anonymous for Tim Holtz. For the center she chose a flower from the Abstract Florals bundle which includes the Stampers Anonymous’ stamp set and the matching Simon Says Stamp dies.

Emma created texture on an Etcetera Panel project, using Distress Translucent Texture Paste and Opaque Crackle Paste for the background, stitched details and combined these products with layers of idea-ology metal adornments, broken ruler pieces and rips and tears to the edges of the Tim Holtz Backdrops Vol 3 paper.

Kath created a Winter Wishes card using Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Mr Frostie with the Simon Says Stamp Co-ordinating Dies, Distress Grit Paste with the Latticework Mini Layering Stencil from Set 4 to add texture and Trinity Stamps Candy Apple Heart Sprinkles.

Macarena went quite colorful with her make and for the textured background she used AALL & Create Evergreen Stencil with Tim Holtz Distress Texture Paste Translucent. Then she added a bird from Tim Holtz Feathered Friends die set and some pieces of Idea-ology Urban Layers.

Maura found a photo of a great family memory, and turned it into an art journal page filled with texture. She used Paper Artsy Infusions like Golden Sands, and Tim Holtz Opaque Texture Paste, with the Simon Says Stamp Floating Leaves stencil. She had fun adding ephemera like Tim Holtz Organic Layers.

Meihsia was inspired to create a mixed media tag using Paper Artsy Kate Crane Mini Stencil on the background for the texture, and decorated it with Tim Holtz idea-ology PAPER DOLLS MiNi and Tim Holtz idea-ology Screw Heads.

Zoey used Merchant for the base of her tag, she then added Document Collage paper and used another stamp (Forest Floor) as main focus. She also used Distress Inks + Spray to add color and decorated her tag with Ideaology embellishments.

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 Something New Challenge!

#50 BunnysCards – Kath loves the unusual shape of Bunny’s card, the beautiful vibrant blue snow splattered background that showcases Mr Frostie perfectly.

#113 Kathryn Kanadian– Lols loves this side step card! the chef is fabulous and the cake and oven are brilliant! Love the paper design too, a perfect match! This really made me smile :-)

#29 Fiona W – Maura loves the beautiful, layered tag Fiona created for the new year. The use of numbers that repeat in different sizes and designs really focus on changing time from one year to the nest. The words are perfect for a new year. Gorgeous texture and design, Fiona!

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 are your random numbers:

53

Timestamp: 2025-01-14 09:08:07 UTC

Congratulations Cathy R

and this is Cathy’s gorgeous card made using a new Sizzix/Tim Holtz Artsy Leaves Die Set

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!

luv

Lols and the DT