Show Us Your Metal On The Monday Challenge
This week on the Monday Challenge, we’re asking you to ‘Show Us Your Metal’. You could add a metallic charm, brads, pins etc or you could use metallic card, embossing powders or pastes. There are so many products to choose from, we will be looking forward to seeing what you decide to use!
Once you have made your creation just go ahead and upload it into the linky on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge blog! We can’t wait to see what you make!
As always, we’re offering a chance to win a $50 Gift Voucher to Simon Says Stamp! All YOU need to do is join in with the challenge!
Below are three projects created by the design team, that showcase this weeks theme! You can visit the challenge blog to get all the details and see the amazing cards and projects that the design team has created this week. If you click on each designers name, you’ll be taken directly to their blog where you’ll get more details about their project! Be sure to give these talented ladies some comments!
Created by Cheiron Brandon:
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Created by Macarena Ziuziakowska:
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Created by Maura Hibbitts:
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So now it’s your turn to get arty, have a rummage through your draws to find some metallic elements and join in!
Do you use Instagram? If so please add #sssmchallenge to your challenge entry uploads so we can see them on there too!
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My Favorite – Blog Hop – Winners!
Last Friday we had a really fabulous and fun Blog Hop to celebrate the newest release from Simon Says Stamp called “My Favorite!” Judging by the comments, it was one of YOUR favorites! We shared lots of ideas for using our new Spring stamps and dies. This truly was a fun release! If you haven’t had a chance to visit the hop, click here to view the first post. I know you will find lots of tips, tricks and inspiration! The “My Favorite” Gallery is chock full of awesome inspiration and has been updated – and we hope you will take a look! (Be sure to add your links if you’ve made something with the new stamps and dies!) To see the entire new release click here!
BIG Congratulations to all of the blog hop winners! Thank you for hopping along with us and taking the time to leave feedback for the designers in the form of comments along the way :) I know they really really enjoy hearing from you!
Winners list by blog!:
CONGRATULATIONS WINNERS! Please check your inboxes for an email from us asking for your shipping address so we can send you the Simon Prize Pack! If for some reason we couldn’t access your email, please email [email protected] and let us know you are one of our Blog Hop winners for the Simon Super Surprise pack and provide your mailing address. Thank you again for hopping along with us!
Studio Monday with Nina-Marie: Encouragement Cards for Kids
Hi friends! Thanks for tuning into week 3 of the Studio Monday with Nina-Marie feature! This week Nina is back with three adorable encouragement cards. I think they could also be great cards to give to teachers! Read on, and enjoy!
Hi everyone it’s Nina-Marie here today…welcome back to Studio Monday! For today’s video tutorial, I’m going to be sharing some inspiration on pairing the new Better Together and Scandinavian Prints stamp sets from Neat & Tangled to create fun encouragement cards for kids!
The adorable children images from Better Together are so sweet, and I love how each kid is holding their own little furry friend. I did all the coloring of these images using Copic markers, which I will be walking you through on the video. For reference, you can see the colors broken down below:
Girl with dog: RV10, RV23, R27, R46, R59, E33, E37, E47, R20, C3, C5, C7, 100, E0000, E51,E21
Girl with owl: E0000, E00, E21, E23, E17, E18, E37, E47, E84, RV00, R20, RV52, Y00, Y11,Y06, BG0000, BG01
Boy with fox: E00, E21, E57, E47, E49, Y38, YR15, YR68, R46, R59, R89, YR20, YR82, YR12
I also did some watercoloring using Prima’s Watercolor Confections (the Classics set) and a Penny Black Inc. stencil to create a whimsical background for these little kids. I love the uneven texture of the dots, as it matches perfectly with the style of the children.
I’ll be walking you through how I created this background -as well as the entire set of cards- in the video! Be sure to give it a “thumbs up” if you enjoy and subscribe to our YouTube channel for more weekly inspiration!
Thanks for stopping by today and have a happy week of creating! :)
xoxo, Nina-Marie
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