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

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

How was your Christmas? We hope you all had a lovely time and hope that Santa left you some nice crafty bits in your stockings!

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

This week the challenge is:

SOMETHING NEW

New Year, New Home, New Job, New Craft Product, New Baby, whatever you can think of!

We are showcasing Hero Arts Products this week. You don’t have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see them used.

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! The Design Team is looking forward to seeing your crafty makes and will pop around to visit you ASAP!

Please remember to click on the person’s name to see all of the details and leave these wonderful designers some comment love.

Andy used a new stamp set from Hero Arts, New Day Butterflies

Barbara used a new stamp set from Hero Arts, Layering Sea and Sky

Diane used a Simon Says Stamp Snowflake Season Stamp Set and Eliza Snowflake Wafer Die and I tried a new technique using Deco Foil Transfer Gel Duo

Jo used a new Hero Arts Surprise Gift Clear Stamp Set

Karin used a Simon Says Stamp So Beautiful stamp and Congrats Die and used new Daniel Smith Watercolors

Kim used a new to me Happy Holidays Stamp and Die Cuts and Happy Coordinating Stamp and Die and the new Simon Says Stamp Funky Flowers Stencil

Lin used a new to me Snowflake Edge Fancy die

Lols used used a new Hero Arts Winter Tree and Animals Stamp and Coordinating Die Sets

Mandy used a new Hero Arts Floral Rose Clear Stamp & White Detail Embossing Powder. I used my new Bundle Girl With A Snowdrop cling stamp for a friend starting a New Job.

Sidnie used a new Hero Arts Crafting Tools Bold Background stamp and Love Stamp and Coordinating Die for the first time.

So now it’s YOUR turn to join in the fun!

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Do you use Instagram ?  If so please add  #ssswchallenge to your challenge entry uploads so we can see them on 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 Wed  8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in

New creations only, please don’t link projects published before the start of the challenge, Only 5 new creations will be eligible in the prize draw

To see all of the previous winner’s posts click on the ‘WINNERS’ 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