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

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

This week we are challenging you to make a project with:

Food and/or Drink

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

It’s Monica’s last week with us in the Designer Spotlight and we would like to say a huge thank you for all of your creations over the past month. It has been a real pleasure to have you along with us :-)

Monica made a card with Lawn Fawn Baked with love and Sprinkled With Joy clear stamp sets along with the Stinkin’ Cute Set to make the heart garland. She covered the center of the biscuits with Morning Dew Nuvo Crystal Drops, to give the jam a glossy effect, and added a wooden shelf to host all the elements. As a last touch she added a few Simon Moonshine Sequins for sparkle.

Andrea wishes you could order up a cup of crafty inspiration whenever the creative well runs dry! She made a card reflecting that hope using Papertrey Ink’s Brew to Go die set, Prima Gouache paint, and Vicki Boutin’s Color Study paper.

Anna-Karin created three lollipops using Simon Says Stamp Mix and Match Circles stamp set. The bright background was done with Simon Says Stamp Twirling embossing folder and colored with Distress Watercolor Pencils.

Barbara chose an Etcetera Tag for her project inspired by Alice in Wonderland (freely inspired!). She used three dies by Tim Holtz Sizzix: Papercut Cafe, Tailored, Celebrate Colorize Thinlits Dies. Alice is an Idea-Ology Paper Doll painted with a mix of Alcohol Inks, Monsoon and Patina. In the background, you can spy Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Layering Stencil Harlequin together with Ranger Ink Distress Grit Paste Translucent, Embossing Glaze Antique Linen and Speckled Egg.

Cheiron created a tea themed wall hanging using the Tim Holtz Papercut Cafe dies. She created her background with Distress Spray Stain in Spun Sugar. She painted each cup with a different pattern using Distress Paints and added a sentiment created with the new Alphanumeric Bulletin letters and a tiny heart from the Stacked Hearts dies.

Emma created a tag using a mix up of Sizzix dies from Tim Holtz including Bunny Games, Papercut Cafe, Layered Plaid and Framed Tags. Her stacked teacups were coloured with Distress Inks before adding Distress Glaze over the top to create an enamelled effect and she finished her project with the “Perfection” stamp from the Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz Eccentric stamp set.

Kath made a trio of cards to celebrate CAKE, her favourite food group using Tim Holtz Distress Oxides and stencils to create the backgrounds and Tim Holtz/Sizzix Celebrate Colorize, Brushstroke Flowers Mini and Alphanumeric Bulletin, Bold and Tiny Type Lower Thinlits to decorate.

Lols made a card using a new Tim Holtz Papercuts Cafe Die Set. She blended Peacock Feathers and Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide Ink onto the die cut pieces. For the background she used Tim Holtz Splatters, Dot Fade and Mini Set 5 Stencils. She finished with some machine stitching and a sentiment from a Simon Says Stamp Coffee and Tea Clear Stamp Set.

Macarena made a set of card with mushrooms using Katzelkraft Mushpignons stamps and cut a part of the images with Tim Holtz Sizzix Framed Tags die.

Maura made an art journal page with a fun look at tea. She used the Tim Holtz Sizzix Papercut Cafe and Gentlemen Thinlit dies, along with an image from a tea catalog.

Meihsia was inspired to create a hello card using Stamperia KLIMT 6×6 Paper on the background, and decorated it with the beer image from Tim Holtz Cling Rubber Stamps BEER BLUEPRINT and the sentiment from CZ Design Wafer Dies BASIC TRIO.

Zoey used Tim Holtz Layering Stencil Splatters to add texture to her tag’s background. She then used Ground Espresso Distress Oxide , Antique Linen and Frayed Burlap to add color. From an used coffee filter she die cut the feathers using Feathery Thinlits

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!

Follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram

Do you use Instagram ?  If so please add  #sssmchallengeso we can see your entries there too!

There are fabulous give aways and inspiration from fabulous designers on a daily basis over on the Simon Says Stamp Blog, if you haven’t subscribed by email you may want to so you don’t miss out

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 

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

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

This week we are challenging you to make a project with:

BEAUTIFUL BLOOMS

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

Monica made a vivid floral card with the Simon Says Stamp Stencil Peony Bouquet along with the sentiment from Altenew Beautiful Day Clear Stamp Set. She made the watercolor effect blending the Distress Ink pads and refreshing the colors on the paper with a wet brush. As a last touch she added some details with Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils and added a few Moonshine Sequins for sparkle.

Andrea made a notebook using Waffle Flower’s A7 Disc Bound Dies and added some floral accents using Tim Holtz’s Bouquet Findings. She also added some stamping with Tim Holtz’s Mini Glitch stamp set and threw in some dots with Altenew’s Many Dots washi tape.

Anna-Karin tucked dimensional flowers into an envelope on this card. The flowers were die cut with Simon Says Stamp Morning Blossom and the envelope with the Gift Card Pocket Envelope. The beautiful embossing folder used for the background is Simon Says Stamp Spun Glass.

Barbara this week dedicated her project to the spring that will arrive soon. She chose a spring/pastel color palette to create a card using Sizzix’s Alphanumeric Bulletin Thinlits Dies for Tim Holtz along with Ranger Light Gray Distress Holiday Woodgrain Cardstock, Stampers Anonymous’s Floral Outline stamps set for Tim Holtz and colored everything with various Distress Mini Ink Pads.

Cheiron created a card for a friend who loves sunflowers. She used the Tim Holtz Sizzix Blossom Thinlits die along with Distress Inks to create her sunflowers. She added it to a background of Tumbled Glass Distress Spray Stain stamped with the Stampers Anonymous Ledger Script in Hickory Smoke Distress Archival Ink . She finished the card with some detailing using Distress Watercolor Pencils and a sentiment from the Noteworthy Stamp set.

This week, Emma is feeling love in the air and she used the Sizzix Mini Brushstroke Flowers Die by Tim Holtz to add some beautiful blooms to her idea-ology Vignette Box project. She arranged the flowers around a PhotoBooth image, in a Deco Frame Adornment before completing the make with a sentiment, XOXO using the Bulletin Alphanumerics Dies.

Kath created an Art Journal page in her Dylusions Small Creative Journal using Tim Holtz/Sizzix Blossom and Alphanumeric Bulletin Thinlits as the focal points on a Distress Paint background, stencilled and stamped using Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Focus and Gradient Dot Layering Stencils and Faded Type stamp set.

Lols  made a card using a new Waffle Flower Cosmos Clear Stamp and Die Combo and she colored the flower with Daniel Smith Watercolor Paints. For the background she stamped some flowers with White Pigment Ink and used White Embossing Powder and heat set before blending Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide Ink over the top. She finished with a Tim Holtz Label Sticker and a strip of My Favorite Things Black and White Plaid Paper.

Macarena made a pair of cactus bloom using the Tim Holtz Sizzix Funky Cactus dies and placing them onto a vellum sheet from Studio Light Write Your Story set with the Tim Holtz Black Distress Woodgrain Cardstock as a background.

Maura created a vintage, distressed style card this week. She used Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Botanic Collage set, Prima Art Ingredients Steampunk Metal Flakes, and Simon Says Stamp Old Letter 1878 background stamp.

Meihsia was inspired to create a watercolored thank you card using Simon Says Cling Stamps DAFFODIL FIELD on the background, and colored it with Prima Marketing WATERCOLOR CONFETTI SET Art Philosophy. The sentiment was die cut using CZ Design Wafer Dies BASIC TRIO.

Zoey used the newly released die from the Everyday Line Blossom and Alphanumeric Bullettin to decorate her tag. She used Distress Spray Stain and Distress Inks to add color

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!

Follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram

Do you use Instagram ?  If so please add  #sssmchallengeso we can see your entries there too!

There are fabulous give aways and inspiration from fabulous designers on a daily basis over on the Simon Says Stamp Blog, if you haven’t subscribed by email you may want to so you don’t miss out

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