Make Your Own Background
This week on the Monday Challenge, we are leaving the designer papers in the drawer and making our own backgrounds for our projects. There are so many different techniques that you can use, from stenciling, embossing, gelli-printing, stamping, and so many more. The Design Team has used several techniques and hopefully they will give you some ideas of what you can do too!
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!
We are showcasing Darkroom Door Products this week, you don’t have to use them to join in, but if you have them we would love to see them used on your projects!
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!
This week we are welcoming the lovely and super talented Amber Sheaves into the Designer Spotlight.
Amber made a sunny background for a card and used a ‘Happy Quote Cling Stamp’:
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Andrea Ockey Parr made her background out of a paper towels, and used a Robin Cling Stamp:
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Emma Williams was in her element getting messy with paint and used a Beauty Quote as the focal point:
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Do you use Instagram? If so please add #sssmchallenge to your challenge entry uploads so we can see them on there too!
Spring Plush – Winners!
Last Friday we had a really fabulous and fun Blog Hop to celebrate the new release from Simon Says Stamp called “Spring Plush!” We shared lots of ideas for using our new felt and our new Plush Dies. If the comments are any indication, it seems you are all hooked on felt too! It’s so fun to create something a bit different. 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 “Spring Plush” 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!:
Using Die Cuts for Foam Stamping & Stamp Kissing
Hi readers! Happy Monday! I hope you had a fabulous weekend! We’re back with special guest Yana Smakula, and I just love her idea of really stretching her wafer thin dies from the March 2016 card kit and the Springtime Shapes by turning them into foam stamps! Be sure to read on and watch the video for more info! Happy stamping!
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Thanks for reading today, and thanks to Yana for being our guest!
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