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

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

Before moving on to this weeks theme we would like to say farewell to our lovely and super talented teamie, Andrea, who has decided to step down from the team. Thank you for all of your gorgeous creations over the years, we are going to miss your colorful and gorgeous creativity. Wishing you the very best of luck for the future xx

This week we are challenging you to make something:

ICE COLD

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!

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Makena was reminded of all the wonder that the ice cold of winter can bring and immediately thought of snowmen. She made the background using Speckled Egg and Stormy Sky Distress Inks and used a Tim Holtz Mini Swirly Snowflakes Stamp Set . She used Snowman, Branched Birch and Poppystamps Evergreen Trio Dies and finished with Distress Crayons, Mica Spray and various elements from Ideology to pull the frosty look together.

Anna-Karin made a winter village with pastel colors and lots of sparkly snow. She used Tim Holtz Paper Village dies to create the houses. The little deer comes from the Decorative Deer set and the sparkly roofs of the houses were die cut with SSS Glitter Paper.

Barbara created a double project inspired by the fabulous colors of glaciers. The first project is a card realized with Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Bold Tidings 4, Forest Floor, Distress Dry Glitter Clear Rock Candy, Ranger Alcohol Ink Aqua. The second project has made with Idea-ology Display Dome, Idea-ology Salvaged Santa, Distress Grit Paste Opaque, Mica Flakes.

Cheiron created a card with a laminated window of Distress Mica Flakes with a technique inspired by Nina-Marie Trapani to give her card an icy look. She used the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Christmastime 3 and Forest Floor stamp sets along with some Metallic Kraft Stock to frame her card panel.

Emma created a card inspired by Disney’s Frozen. She used Speckled Egg and Iced Spruce Distress Inks to create an icy background, before adding the Sizzix Stunning Snowflake by Tim Holtz as her focal point, together with the word ‘snow’, taken from one of the quotes in the Tim Holtz Bold Tidings 4 stamp set.

Kath has that “Christmas is sneaking up on me” feeling and has created gift card holders for the younger members of the family. She used Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Christmastime 3 and Retro Flakes embossed with Simon Says Antique Gold Embossing Powder on a Distress ink background and added the cute Tim Holtz/Sizzix Papercut Christmas 2 Colorize snowmen

Lols  made an ice cold Christmas Card using a fabulous Tim Holtz Merry Misfits Cling Stamp Set, White Embossing and Moon Dust Stickles Gel for extra icy sparkle.

Macarena made a snowy and icy card using Tim Holtz Sizzix Destination die and the Simon Says Stamp Lil Gnome die. She applied a generous amount of white embossing enamel and the Tim Holtz Distress Mika Flakes.

Maura created an icy cold scene of the polar regions, using Stamperia’s Arctic/Antarctic 8×8 papers, Southern Ocean stencil, and the Arctic/Antarctic die cuts in the Dina Wakley Media Journal.

Meihsia was inspired to create a mixed media holiday tag using Tim Holtz Sizzix Geo Christmas Thinlits Die, and decorated it with Idea-Ology Christmas Word Adornment and Tiny Bell Findings.

Sandra made a Christmas card using the Winged Impresslit as her main focal point, but to make it more wintery, she used Speckled Egg and Weathered Wood Distress Ink with a sprinkle of Burnt Umber Glamour Pigment. 

Zoey used Simon Says Stamp EMBOSSING POWDER GOLD Ultrafine over her favorite stamp Tim Holtz Cling Rubber Stamps 2020 THE POINSETTIA CMS426. For the background of her tag she used various Alcohol Inks and she also decored the tag with Tim Holtz DISTRESS MICA FLAKES Ranger, Tim Holtz Idea-ology CHRISTMAS Sticker Book and Tim Holtz Idea-ology METALLIC DROPLETS

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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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