Simon Says Stamp and Show

Winners-Day!

2012-02-08T05:00:00.000Z

Hello Everyone ... Here are the results for the Kings and Queens Challenge! The winner of the randomly drawn $50.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher is
35 Rhea
Congratulations Rhea ... Please claim your prize within the next two weeks by emailing Linda with your details so we can arrange for you to start buying yummy goodies!
Now for the next bit ... every week the entire Design Team nominate their favourites and the three pieces of art work with the most votes gets a fabulous blinkie! This week the winners that have been selected to join the elite club of vintage artists that can proudly display our top three blinkie are ...
2 Stampersuzz
3 Ann C
16 Silvia/Barnie
Congratulations to each of you ... your work was Majestic! Please email Linda and she will send you the Top 3 Blinkie! Thank you to everyone that took part last week. Don't forget to check out this week's Challenge ... we want to see your interpretation of our Recipe theme ... and we have another $50 Simon Says Stamp voucher to give away!

Simon Says Stamp and Show Torn Edges; Distress Inks; a Button and some Wings Recipe Challenge!

2012-02-06T05:00:00.000Z

Hello Everybody! First things first ... The bad news ... Sadly, we have to say goodbye to Linda Coughlin ... Linda has lots of other exciting projects to work on so she has decided to step down from the Design Team. I am sure you will join us in wishing Linda the best of everything in her new ventures and Thanking her for her wonderful inspiration each week.
Secondly ... The Good news is ... The Simon Says Stamp team is expecting a new addition ... we are delighted that the wonderful Sarah is expecting a baby. I am sure I can speak for all of you as well as the team in wishing many many congratulations to Sarah and her husband. Sarah may need to move a bit further away from her craft sheet in the coming months but we are thrilled that she is retaining her place on the team.
Next up ... Business as usual ... Thank you for playing along with our last Challenge! The winners will be announced this Wednesday .... so don't forget to check back ... this could be your winning week! This week Simon Says Stamp and Show ... Torn Edges; Distress Inks; a Button and Some Wings! If you want to join in the fun ... all you need to do is ... create something that ties in with our theme ... pop it on your blog ... and come back here and link up so everyone can see what you made! Before you start take a look at what the Design Team came up with...

Dan

It's been quite a while since Dan last made an art doll, so he took the opportunity to add that element into his recipe for this project! Products he used included the Artistic Collages and Royal Script stamp sets, Vintage Photo Distress Ink and the Kraft Resist Card Stack.

Tracy Evans

Tracy decided on decorating an old vintage tin for this weeks piece. Torn Edges check, in the form of torn vintage papers from on old book. Distress Inks check, in the form of brushed corduroy and vintage photo. Button check, from Tim's Accoutrements Buttons. Wings check, using the Heart Wings die. With a little help from Wendy Vecchi from A Form Of Art and It's Face Art, along with the Sewing Room die and Gadget Gears die.

Candy Colwell

Hmmm...a recipe. Candy created this brightly colored and fun dimensional canvas using a mixture of various "liquid ingredients" including Distress Stains, Archival Inks, Studio Paints, Matte Multi Medium and Glimmer Mist Sprays. Add some "dry ingredients" including torn book pages, buttons, Tim Holtz and Dyan Reaveley Stamps; mix well, form into a collage and heat to dry. Wha-Lah!!

Lynne Forsythe

On one of Lynne's travels she came across some ATC canvas's and scoffed them up, wishing now she had bought more. She tore up pieces of dictionary paper and adhered it with Multi Medium. She dabbed on some Dusty Concord, Broken China and Victorian Velvet Distress Stain. When dry she layered on some Gesso. The Butterfly is made from CFA WhiteOut and other wonderful goodies!!!

Sarah Engels-Greer

Sarah fancied a little fabric frenzy! She used Wendy Vecchi's Nature's Art, Ranger Archival Inks and canvas to create stamped fabric. She drew a template, cut lots of birdy layers and stitched them together before distressing and inking the edges. Their stamped Tattered Florals bonnets are embellished with buttons, all finished off with three little words.

Nancy Wethington

This Valentine's gift bag was inked with Fired Brick and Vintage Photo Distress Inks then die cut with Tim's On The Edge Doily Die. Grungeboard wings were added to a dollar store heart doily before inking with more Distress Ink and spritzing with a mix of water and Perfect Pearls *Pearl* Pigment Powder. A friendship stamp tops off the heart and wings.

Ellen Vargo

Ellen went "Dylusional" this week, taking a tag with a painted background and adding images from Dyan Reaveley's Dylusions stamp line, colored in with distress inks. Then she added vintage buttons to the circle border, and a sentiment to the back of a torn journaling ticket by Tim Holtz.

Linda Elbourne

For my tag I used Tim Holtz Shabby French stamps; Tim's Sewing Room die and lots of Distress Stains and Distress Inks... Not forgetting the Shrink Plastic ... which is always a whole lot of fun!

Terry

Terry decided to take her Recipe all the way to The Wendy Vecchi....she made a wallhanger and decorated inside and out. She worked with the Just Flutterby Butterfly from Wendy and her big Sis Just Fly, they have torn edges and are distressed. The wallhanger is worked on with Forest Moss, Rusty Hinge , Weathered Wood ,Vintage Photo and offcourse Crackle Clear Rock Candy and Distress Crackle Paint. The sentiment is from The Wendy's Studio 490 Dreams of Art. On each corner she placed buttons to finish her project.

Linda Coughlin

Linda altered a box left over from Christmas using Tim Holtz's Mini Love Struck for her winged things and tore and pieced his Tissue Wrap for her torn edges. Plenty of Old Paper and Vintage Photo distress inks were used to give her piece a vintage look and feel. Other products used included Picket Fence Distress Stain, Claudine Hellmuth Multi Medium Matte and the Mini Paper Rosette die.

Please stop by The Design Team's individual blogs for more detailed pictures and further information on their work...Just click on their names! We are looking forward to seeing your interpretation of this theme! Our wonderful site sponsor Simon Says Stamp is once again giving away a $50 gift voucher!

The prize will go to a random entry chosen by Random Generator. The challenge will close at Midnight Eastern time on Sunday, 12th February 2012 and the winner will be announced during the following week. To qualify all you need to do is create a new piece of work ... post it on your blog ... with a link to this site and then pop a link below so everyone can come see what you made!

Winners-Day!

2012-02-01T05:00:00.000Z

Hello Everyone ... Here are the results for the Song Title Challenge! The winner of the randomly drawn $50.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher is
73 The Paper Artsist
Congratulations ... Please claim your prize within the next two weeks by emailing Linda with your details so we can arrange for you to start buying yummy goodies!
Now for the next bit ... every week the entire Design Team nominate their favourites and the three pieces of art work with the most votes gets a fabulous blinkie! This week the winners that have been selected to join the elite club of vintage artists that can proudly display our top three blinkie are ...
8 Stampersuzz
12 Shelly Hickox
81 Kim Dellow
Congratulations to each of you ... your work was Top Drawer! Please email Linda and she will send you the Top 3 Blinkie! Thank you to everyone that took part last week. Don't forget to check out this week's Challenge ... we want to see your Kings and Queens ... and we have another $50 Simon Says Stamp voucher to give away!

Simon Says Stamp and Show Kings and Queens!

2012-01-30T05:00:00.000Z

Hello Everybody! Thank you for playing along with our last Challenge! The winners will be announced this Wednesday .... so don't forget to check back ... this could be your winning week! This week Simon Says Stamp and Show ... Kings and Queens! If you want to join in the fun ... all you need to do is ... create something that ties in with our theme ... pop it on your blog ... and come back here and link up so everyone can see what you made! Before you start take a look at what the Design Team came up with...

Dan

Whoever gets Dan's card is certainly going to feel like they're king for a day! Dan stamped his king on a range of different patterned papers which he had first "knocked back" with a couple of layers of Picket Fence Distress Stain. He also used the Winged Things 2 stamp set and pages from the Lost and Found and Seasonal card stacks.

Tracy Evans

As soon as Tracy saw this theme she knew she wanted to use the It's Face Art and Art Fit For A Queen sets by Wendy Vecchi to create her QUEEN theme along with a Large Flourish Frame. A torn paper background and a little colouring from Distress Inks broken china and wild honey bring this piece to life.

Ellen Vargo

Ellen went royal Wendy Vecchi style this week, using Studio 490 art parts: queens and crowns, wings and leaves, as well as stamps from Studio 490, and the mini crown adornment from Tim Holtz as eyelashes! All the inks used were distress inks.

Candy Colwell

"Magic" features various techniques using Distress Stains. How about a magic card trick using the King and Queen (and Jack) from Tim Holtz' Poker Face Texture Trades? The clowns from Tim Holtz' The Big Top stamp set are colored using a small Sakura Water Brush and adding Scattered Straw, Barn Door, Dusty Concord, Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Peeled Paint and Wild Honey Distress Stains.

Lynne Forsythe

Every "QUEEN" should have a crown! Lynne created her's using the Distressed Doily Die and Kraft Resist paper, lathered on Picket Fence Distress Stain and sprinkled it with Fairy Dust. As she is the "QUEEN" of all things flowers....her crown must be adorned with Mini Tattered Florals with Pearl centers!

Nancy Wethington

Kings and Queens got Nancy thinking about upcoming Fat Tuesday & Mardi Gras. So she turned to an image from Tim's Crowded Attic paper pack and created a card that will accompany a King cake to a friend's house. The images were painted with Crackle Accents and the King was captured in a Memory Frame before adding a crown charm.

Sarah Engels-Greer

Sarah created an inky ode to love with her Queen of Hearts canvas. She painted the background with Vintage Photo and Wild Honey Distress Stains before adding Rock Candy Crackle Paint. The hearts are made from embossed Ranger Foil Tape, are splattered with Alcohol Inks before being adorned with findings and Idea-ology.

Terry

Terry made a candle booklet.The front is worked on with Vintage Photo, Worn Lipstick, Forest Moss and Rusty Hinge. She made the Queen with the Embossing folder from The Tim Holtz and the Crown is made from Grungeboard and worked on with Crackle Distress Paint and Distress inks.

Linda Coughlin

Linda made a fun little tag featuring wheeled things and a king of spades cut from Kraft-Core Core'dinations and embossed with Tim's Poker Face Texture Fade. Her label was cut with the Styled Labels die and the Crackle Accents coated letters were cut from with the Vintage Market die.

Linda Elbourne

I decided to make Tim Holtz's Mona my queen and I turned her into desk thingie! Lots of Studio 490 Art Parts, Idea-Ology and Fired Brick Distress Stickles for Mona's crown. Don't you just love the Artistic Outpost London Underground stamps ... I know Mona is n't a Brit ... but the Union Jack always makes me think of the Queen and the sentiment is perfect for my desk!

The prize will go to a random entry chosen by Random Generator. The challenge will close at Midnight Eastern time on Sunday, 5th February 2012 and the winner will be announced during the following week. To qualify all you need to do is create a new piece of work ... post it on your blog ... with a link to this site and then pop a link below so everyone can come see what you made!

Winners-Day!

2012-01-25T05:00:00.001Z

Hello Everyone ... Here are the results for the Anything But a Card Challenge! The winner of the randomly drawn $50.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher is
20 CraftyGirl
Congratulations ... Please claim your prize within the next two weeks by emailing Linda with your details so we can arrange for you to start buying yummy goodies!
Now for the next bit ... every week the entire Design Team nominate their favourites and the three pieces of art work with the most votes gets a fabulous blinkie! This week the winners that have been selected to join the elite club of vintage artists that can proudly display our top three blinkie are ...
26 Zuzu
45 Sandra
73 Paula W
Congratulations to each of you ... your work was Top Drawer! Please email Linda and she will send you the Top 3 Blinkie! Thank you to everyone that took part last week. Don't forget to check out this week's Challenge ... we want you to make Anything But a Card ... and we have another $50 Simon Says Stamp voucher to give away!

Simon Says Stamp and Show a Song Title!

2012-01-23T05:00:00.003Z

Hello Everybody! Thank you for playing along with our last Challenge! The winners will be announced this Wednesday .... so don't forget to check back ... this could be your winning week! This week Simon Says Stamp and Show ... A Song Title! If you want to join in the fun ... all you need to do is ... create something that ties in with our theme ... pop it on your blog ... and come back here and link up so everyone can see what you made! Before you start take a look at what the Design Team came up with...

Dan

For his song, Dan chose the original version of "Another Suitcase in Another Hall" from Evita, by Barbara Dickson. To transform the chipboard suitcase that he's had kicking around in a drawer for a couple of years, products he used included Traditional Tan paint by Claudine Hellmuth, the I See Paris, Artistic Collages and Creative Muse stamp sets, and Walnut Stain Distress Ink.

Tracy Evans

Back To Black by Amy Winehouse is Tracy's song title choice represented by a black heart box decorated with hearts from Wendy Vecchi's Love To Make Art set. Coupled with a little foliage from the Tattered Pinecone and a flower from the Tattered Florals die and a key embellishment from Tim's Idea-ology Locket Keys.

Candy Colwell

Candy chose a classic song title, "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" for her fun 6x6 chipboard dimensional piece. Marilyn is all decked out in her designer Tim Holtz Dress Form made from Charcoal Black and Painterly Pink Studio Paints and Glam Pink Stickles. Add some Star Dust Stickles on Alpha Part "Diamonds" on top of a Harlequin background.

Ellen Vargo

Ellen's chose the song "Imagine" by John Lennon. She did a tag using kraft resist paper, aged mahogany distress stain, gadget gears, crackle paint, various idea-ology, and the "imagination" stamp, all by Tim Holtz. Wouldn't the world be great if that song were true.... alas, we can only "imagine".

Sarah Engels-Greer

Sarah couldn't resist her jazz favourite, Frank's "Fly Me to the Moon" and created a new 'slant' on the song! She used Wendy Vecchi Art Parts including the Sample Pack, Pocket Watch and For the Guys. Her Steampunk fellow is flying high with light-bulb and Idea-ology wings and the whole lunar journey is set inside an old picture frame.

Lynne Forsythe

Lynne is still in the Valentines mood.....a little Black Gesso, some Forever Red Perfect Pearls Mist, Fired Brick Distress Stickles and the Mini Harlequin template are the perfect backdrop for the canvas embossed heart.

'Cause......ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE!!!

Nancy Wethington

Nancy's inspiration came courtesy of a Bruno Mars song. The base of this Graphic 45 mini album is a Black Policy Envelope book and celebrates accepting someone *just the way you are*. Curtain Call seemed the appropriate paper and that's paired with For The Record stickers and embellishments.

Linda Coughlin

"Cupid, draw back your bow and let your arrow go" by Sam Cooke is the song Linda was inspired by for her piece this week. And she was humming it as she created this sweet Valentine's Day home decor piece using lots of Tim Holtz goodies including the Paper Rosette, Love Stuck and Tattered Pinecones dies. Other products used include Picket Fence Distress Stain, Picket Fence Distress Crackle Paint and Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel (UTEE).

Terry

Terry's favourite song is "Happiness" by Alexis Jordan so she made a Tag with lots of Happiness. The background is worked on with Tim's Embossing folder, is heat-embossed and uses lots of Distress Inks. The sentiments are from Artistic Outpost, the Butterfly from The Wendy and lots of roses are worked on with Rock Candy Crackle Paint. To finish, Terry added lace at the bottom and underneath the image.

Linda Elbourne

Hopefully it is obvious that my song was Simon and Garfunkel's "Homeward Bound". After covering my box frame with Tim's Kraft Resist Paper ... I had a serious play with lots of Wendy Vecchi Art Parts this week. I also used oodles of Idea-Ology and Tim's mini Rosette die.

The prize will go to a random entry chosen by Random Generator. The challenge will close at Midnight Eastern time on Sunday, 29th January 2012 and the winner will be announced during the following week. To qualify all you need to do is create a new piece of work ... post it on your blog ... with a link to this site and then pop a link below so everyone can come see what you made!

Winners-Day!

2012-01-18T05:00:00.001Z

Hello Everyone ... Here are the results for the Red Letter Day Challenge! The winner of the randomly drawn $50.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher is
27 Blackdragon
Congratulations ... Please claim your prize within the next two weeks by emailing Linda with your details so we can arrange for you to start buying yummy goodies!
Now for the next bit ... every week the entire Design Team nominate their favourites and the three pieces of art work with the most votes gets a fabulous blinkie! This week the winners that have been selected to join the elite club of vintage artists that can proudly display our top three blinkie are ...
41 Elly
57 TracyH
58 Anita Houston
Congratulations to each of you ... your work was Top Drawer! Please email Linda and she will send you the Top 3 Blinkie! Thank you to everyone that took part last week. Don't forget to check out this week's Challenge ... we want you to make Anything But a Card ... and we have another $50 Simon Says Stamp voucher to give away!

Simon Says Stamp and Show Anything But a Card!

2012-01-16T05:01:00.009Z

Hello Everybody! Thank you for playing along with our last Challenge! The winners will be announced this Wednesday .... so don't forget to check back ... this could be your winning week! This week Simon Says Stamp and Show ... Anything But a Card! If you want to join in the fun ... all you need to do is ... create something that ties in with our theme ... pop it on your blog ... and come back here and link up so everyone can see what you made! Before you start take a look at what the Design Team came up with...

Tracy Evans

This weeks theme was a great opportunity for Tracy to use the Timely Pocket Watch Art Parts, coloured with Distress Stain aged mahogany and stamped with the stripes from Art Fit For A Queen using StazOn black ink. Paper from BoBunny Timepiece Collection was added to the inside of the pocket watch with a little dimension added from the Weathered Clock die. Throw in a little Clear Rock Candy for texture and Gadget Gears for a little more interest. The handsome gent in the middle is from Studio 490 So Serious, coupled with embellishments in the form of a Timepiece and Game Spinners.

Sarah Engels-Greer

Sarah altered an electrical socket box with Alcohol Ink to create a Metal Shrine of Love for Valentine's Day! Her painted Grungepaper roses are made with the Tattered Florals Die and stamped with Stuff to Say. Ruler Ribbon, Charm Clip and Trinket Pin touches of Idea-ology finish her alternative idea to a card!

Lynne Forsythe

Now that the "holidays" are over.....it's time to be looking ahead to the next one! "HEART" day! She pulled out an old used canvas, applied some Black Gesso, misted on some Aged Mahogany Distress Reinker, when dry she dabbed on some Aged Mahogany Distress Stickles. Using the left over's from last week she diecut a heart and misted it with Aged Mahogany Distress Reinker and inked edges with Vintage Photo. Do you see the District Market Tissue Wrap.........mmmmm love that stuff!

Dan

Dan's framed art piece may be many things, but it's certainly not a card! Although the photo doesn't really show it too well, there is a lot of depth to his piece, which is why he used a shadow frame for it. Products he used include the Artful Artifacts and Numero stamp sets, and Claudine Hellmuth acrylic paints.

Candy Colwell

Candy decided to do something outside of her comfort zone by using a White Opaque Pen to highlight the art work on her project. This colorful "visionary" #8 Tag features various Distress Ink Colors and is stamped with images from Wendy Vecchi's An Eye For Art and Art Parts Stamp sets.

Ellen Vargo

Ellen decided to go mini this week and made at ATC (Artist Trading Card). She used alcohol inks on every element including Ranger Metal Foil Tape embossed with a texture fade folder, Tim Holtz' fragments, and various idea-ology!

Nancy Wethington

Nancy loves this Maya Road ATC Stand so she used that to interpret this week's theme. The perfect size for small photos and desktop, this adorable mini stand is filled with chipboard hearts, flowers and family photos.

Terry

Terry decided to go for Valentines Day and altered an "old" egg-shaped chocolate box. She used Gesso on the outside and lots of Red tinted Distress inks. She worked with a little bit of The Tim, a little bit of The Wendy and a lot of herself (LOL) The hearts are worked on with lots of Rock Candy Crackle Paint and Crackle Distress Paint. On top she placed a Just Fly Butterfly.

Linda Coughlin

Linda's tag uses the tissue paper technique from Tim Holtz's tag #12 from this year's Christmas tags. It was stamped with Fabulous Flourishes and tissue paper was stamped with the Sheet Music stamp. Picket Fence Distress Stain and Rock Candy Distress Stickles were also used on the tag. The oval double rosette was cut from crinoline with the Mini Rosette die and the bottom strip was cut with the Vintage Lace die.

Linda Elbourne

I started off with a block of wood to make this chunky ATC. I had a wonderful time playing with the Graphic 45 Le Cirque 8X8 papers and Le Cirque stamps. I also used Tim's On The Edge Pennant die and my ProMarkers.

The prize will go to a random entry chosen by Random Generator. The challenge will close at Midnight Eastern time on Sunday, 22nd January 2012 and the winner will be announced during the following week. To qualify all you need to do is create a new piece of work ... post it on your blog ... with a link to this site and then pop a link below so everyone can come see what you made!

Winners-Day!

2012-01-11T05:00:00.001Z

Hello Everyone ... Here are the results for the Something Old ... Something New Challenge! The winner of the randomly drawn $50.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher is
115 SusanK
Congratulations Susan ... Please claim your prize within the next two weeks by emailing Linda with your details so we can arrange for you to start buying yummy goodies!
Now for the next bit ... every week the entire Design Team nominate their favourites and the three pieces of art work with the most votes gets a fabulous blinkie! This week the winners that have been selected to join the elite club of vintage artists that can proudly display our top three blinkie are ...
78 Anita Houston
104 giogio
105 Chris dark
Congratulations to each of you ... your work was Top Drawer! Please email Linda and she will send you the Top 3 Blinkie! Thank you to everyone that took part last week. Don't forget to check out this week's Challenge ... we want to see your Red Letter Day interpretations ... and we have another $50 Simon Says Stamp voucher to give away!

Simon Says Stamp and Show a Red Letter Day!

2012-01-09T05:00:00.002Z

Hello Everybody! Thank you for playing along with our last Challenge! The winners will be announced this Wednesday .... so don't forget to check back ... this could be your winning week! This week Simon Says Stamp and Show ... A Red Letter Day! If you want to join in the fun ... all you need to do is ... create something that ties in with our theme ... pop it on your blog ... and come back here and link up so everyone can see what you made! Before you start take a look at what the Design Team came up with...

Tracy Evans

Following a search on Google, Tracy found that red letter day originated from the practice of marking the dates of church festivals on calendars in red. The term came into wider use in 1549 when the first Book Of Common Prayer included a calendar with holy days marked in red ink, these dates were designated in the book as a red-letter day. Red letter day today is also known as a gift experience. With this in mind Tracy tried to incorporate both into her card using Tim's Air Travel set to represent the gift experience, a flight being the experience or the journey. Dates highlighted in red were used taken from the Odds and Ends set along with the sentiment stamped in red using vermillion Archival Ink . A dashing gentlemen from the Steampunk set has been added to a bottle cap and a little embossing using clear embossing powder for dimension. Copper brads and a Blue Moon metal charm token add a little more interest to the card.

Lynne Forsythe

When she thinks of Red Letter Day.....she thinks of the day one is born......THE BEST DAY EVER!! So, she created this ATC to commemorate such a WONDERFUL day!! The base of her ATC is a piece of cardboard, which she dipped in water, then ran through an embossing folder. She then painted it with acrylic paint, she then sanded it, inked it, spritzed it. The chipboard topper was colored using Distress Ink and then spritzed. The wooden lock was painted then inked. The flowers were made from toilet paper, paper towels and watercolor paper colored with various Distress Stains and Reinker Mixtures.

Nancy Wethington

Nancy took this challenge both figuratively and literally. With Tim's birthday this past weekend, Nancy created a birthday card featuring District Market Advert paper and Mini Cirque Alphabets. Fired Brick Distress Embossing Powder along with Distress Embossing Ink were used for the letters. Edges were distressed with a Tonic Edge Distresser and Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

Candy Colwell

Candy's RED LETTER DAY is something that really impacted the world; VJ Day, September 2, 1945-the official end of World War II. In her nostalgic dimensional 6x6 piece, Candy recreated the excitement of that day. Her "tin type" background using a Metal Foil Sheet is embellished with a Tim Holtz' Pocket Watch, complete with a mini Pacific Rim Map from his Crowded Attic Paper Stash and "1945" created from the Newsprint Alpha Parts covered in Glossy Accents. See the little film reel? That began as two gears from Tim Holtz' Mini Gears die cut, gear ends cut off and then heat embossed with Silver Embossing Powder. Add a little dowel rod and Tim's Film Strip Ribbon and you've got a vintage film reel! The elaborate bunting began with Tim Holtz' Medium side rosette from the Mini Paper Rosettes die cut.

Terry

When Terry heard about the RED LETTER DAY, she didn't know what it meant, but after some amazing teamies explained it to her she made a tag and took the theme LITERALLY. She made a tag using a wonderful image of a little girl. She used Crackle Paint Rock Candy and distressed the borders with the Paper distresser. The background of the Tag was done a Tim Holtz technique from the 12 Tags of Christmas... She used a Tim Holtz embossing folder, then embossed almost the whole tag with Copper Embossing powder. The flowers were worked on with Crackle Paint Rock Candy and everything is distressed with Forest Moss, Bundled Sage, Worn Lipstick, Barn Door, Frayed Burlap and Vintage Photo. The sentiment was made using Barn Door and rewritten with the Spica Glitter Marker.

Ellen Vargo

Ellen interpreted red letter day as a day worthy of remembrance, and decided to create a simple tag to remember her Dad. She printed an old photo of her Dad on Neenah white card stock (isn't that old jalopy awesome?), adhered it to the a #8 manila tag with multi medium matte, and added some alpha parts to "remember" him by. She used a pearl pen to add the black dots between the numbers in the date, and to highlight 'dad' at the bottom. Added some brushed corduroy distress ink to the edges to add to the vintage feel, and some ribbon to top it off.

Linda Coughlin

Linda is in a Valentine's Day frame of mind and "red letter" made her think of a love letter. She created a wall hanging based on that using stamps from Tim Holtz's Urban Grunge and Crafty Secret's Rosy Wishes embossed with Ranger Superfine Gold Embossing Powder. The Tattered Florals and Elegant Flourishes dies were used to create the embellishments and her filigree metal corner was heat embossed with white embossing powder and then sanded to give it a worn enamel appearance.

Sarah Engels-Greer

Lots of birthdays this month means many circled calender dates, so Sarah went for an all metal take on that elusive subject 'The Male Card'. She also wanted to pay a little birthday tribute to Mr. Tim with oodles of Idea-ology. Her Steampunk Gent lives a Memory Frame suspended from a flying Timepiece and is layered across the Weathered Clock, made with corrugated cardboard and Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink to create an old wooden effect. It also returns inside the card with a well-loved Tim phrase.

Dan

Dan is mindful that Valentine's Day is creeping ever closer, so he chose that to be his red letter day for this week's challenge! He started by painting his base card with Claudine Hellmuth Studio Acrylic Paint in sable brown, blank canvas and dash of red, which he applied with a Ranger Craft Scraper. Stamps he used were drawn from the Royal Script, From the Heart, Floral Tattoo and Odds and Ends sets.

Linda Elbourne

I began with a literal meaning when I first started making this journal ... then I thought ... how nice would this be as a present with some tickets to a London attraction? To assemble the book I used my Bind it all with some Red 1" wires and to decorate I used Artistic Outpost London Underground; Ranger Archival Ink in Crimson; Vintage Photo Distress Ink; Tim Holtz Vintage Market Strip Die and some truly scrumptious Blue Moon Charms.

The prize will go to a random entry chosen by Random Generator. The challenge will close at Midnight Eastern time on Sunday, 15th January 2012 and the winner will be announced during the following week. To qualify all you need to do is create a new piece of work ... post it on your blog ... with a link to this site and then pop a link below so everyone can come see what you made!

Winners-Day!

2012-01-04T05:00:00.002Z

Hello Everyone ... Here are the results for the Tim Holtz Themed Tag Theme! The winner of the randomly drawn $50.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher is
108 Renee Zarate
Congratulations Renee ... Please claim your prize within the next two weeks by emailing Linda with your details so we can arrange for you to start buying yummy goodies!
Now for the next bit ... every week the entire Design Team nominate their favourites and the three pieces of art work with the most votes gets a fabulous blinkie! This week the winners that have been selected to join the elite club of vintage artists that can proudly display our top three blinkie are ...
44 Shelly Hickox
72 Hilda
77 Silvia/Barnie
Congratulations to each of you ... your work was Awesome! Please email Linda and she will send you the Top 3 Blinkie! Thank you to everyone that took part last week. Don't forget to check out this week's Challenge ... we want to see something old ... something new ... and we have another $50 Simon Says Stamp voucher to give away!

Simon Says Stamp and Show Something Old ... Something New!

2012-01-02T05:00:00.002Z

Hello Everybody! Happy New Year! Thank you for playing along with our last Challenge! The winners will be announced this Wednesday .... so don't forget to check back ... this could be your winning week! This week Simon Says Stamp and Show ... Something Old ... Something New! If you want to join in the fun ... all you need to do is ... create something that ties in with our theme ... pop it on your blog ... and come back here and link up so everyone can see what you made! Before you start take a look at what the Design Team came up with...

Tracy Evans

An old vintage tin for Tracy's something old, coloured with Alcohol Inks raisin and rust, creating a little steampunk piece using images from Tim Holtz Steampunk set. Something new being a new stamp, Tim's Synchronicity stamp, a perfect addition for a little steampunk, with the addition of Spockets and Game Spinner. Wendy's images also play a part in this piece in the form of the Steampunk Art set along with background image from Tim's Grunge Cirque set. A little background colour from Distress Ink aged mahogany and the inside is complete.

Lynne Forsythe

With the new year upon us, it's a time to ponder on the past year and to look ahead to the new beginning!! Lynne's not one for resolutions, so this year she's created a monthly goal art journal. She dug into her stash for something old....Magic Mesh, ATC pages and a piece of vintage lace. For new things....she used a Berry Vine wood flourish colored with Peeled Paint Distress Stain. The Super Mega Bottle Cap with an ATC in the background, filled in with Crackle Accents and accented with flowers. With the Chicken Wire template she spritzed the cover with Vintage Photo Reinker mixture and Forever Red Perfect Pearls. She bound her whole album with her Bind it All.

Candy Colwell

When Candy saw the first challenge of the new year is "Something Old, Something New"; she immediately thought of weddings. Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. So, she decided to mimic those beautiful ornate cabinet card pages from vintage photo albums to create a "vintage" wedding frame. She began with Tim Holtz' Vintage Cabinet Card and Small Easel die cuts. She used Tim's Fabulous Flourishes and Queen's Gold Embossing Powder to recreate the beautiful ornate matting. She added Tim's Distressed Doily and his Tattered Pine Cones; which are not pine cones but sweetheart roses, a Tattered Flower and greenery die cut from Tim's Tattered Flowers, and a embellished Rosette to complete her beautiful "vintage" wedding frame.

Nancy Wethington

A 20 year old tin that was originally intended for counted cross stitch is paired with Teresa Collins World Traveler and Tim's rosette dies. In addition to making rosettes, Nancy used the mini paper rosette dies to encircle the candles. The Journey stamp set decorates the center heart. You may want to visit Nancy's blog to see close-ups of each of the 3 heart collages.

Sarah Engels-Greer

After lots of tinsel, turkey and indulgence, Sarah was in the mood for spring colours and stress free crafting. She took an old wooden photo frame and covered it using Design paper from My Mind's Eye Gertie Range edged with Aged Mahogany Distress Ink. She added Art Parts leaves painted with Claudine Hellmuth paint, two Just Fly butterflies from Wendy Vecchi and finished off with a sentiment and vintage buttons.

Terry

When Terry heard the new theme for this weeks challenge she immediatley thought of Love.....and 2012.....so she made A Love gift bag to start the NEW YEAR with lots of love.....she used an "old" bag and altered it with a lovely image from a girl, worked on her with Crackle Paint Rock Candy just like the rose. Underneith the image she used a heart shaped doily. The papers that she used are from Graphic 45 Baby and Bride. She distressed everything with Rusty Hinge, Vintage Photo and Worn Lipstick.

Ellen Vargo

Ellen decided to incorporate antique hardware, key and pin for her "something old" with new art parts by Studio 490 and a quote from the "Twilight" book. She started with the large heart frame, coloring the top frame with brushed corduroy distress stain and stamping with the script stamp, then added the art part leaf/scroll, coloring with crushed olive distress stain, and stamping with forest moss distress ink and embossing that with clear embossing powder. Added some antique findings along with some new, and stamped the quote with a mini alpha set .

Dan

Dan's "old" part of this project was an individual configurations element he had left over from a project he made a long while back. The "new" was some of Tim Holtz's recent limited edition Distress Ink pads. Products he used included the Psychedelic Grunge, Creative Textures, School Desk, Spills and Splatters and The Big Top stamp sets. He also used Gathered Twigs and Festive Berries Distress Inks and some Claudine Hellmuth Gesso.

Linda Coughlin

Linda used lots of her favorite oldies (Fabulous Flourishs stamp, Elegant Flourishs die, Tag and Bookplates die, LOVE stamp from Stuff to Say, Picket Fence distress crackle paint) on this project, but her "old" highlights are the four wonderful vintage buttons sent to her recently by a friend. Her "new" is the tattered rose created with her newly acquired Tattered Pinecone die and the seam binding dyed just for this project with a blend of Aged Mahogony and Tattered Rose distress inks.

Linda Elbourne

I decided to take an old project and revamp it with some new! My wall hanger is made using Maya Road Chip; Vintage Photo Distress Inks and Oodles of Studio 490 Stamps that just happen to be old friends of mine! The flowers are all made from Grungepaper ... and there it is ... Something Old with Some New!

The prize will go to a random entry chosen by Random Generator. The challenge will close at Midnight Eastern time on Sunday, 8th January 2012 and the winner will be announced during the following week. To qualify all you need to do is create a new piece of work ... post it on your blog ... with a link to this site and then pop a link below so everyone can come see what you made!

Winners-Day and Season's Greetings!

2011-12-21T05:00:00.001Z

Hello Everyone ... Here are the results for the Thru' The Looking Glass/ Dimensional Challenge! The winner of the randomly drawn $50.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher is
24 Judy L
Congratulations Judy ... Please claim your prize within the next two weeks by emailing Linda with your details so we can arrange for you to start buying yummy goodies!
Now for the next bit ... every week the entire Design Team nominate their favourites and the three pieces of art work with the most votes gets a fabulous blinkie! This week the winners that have been selected to join the elite club of vintage artists that can proudly display our top three blinkie are ...
13 Tara C
22 blackdragon
39 Anika
Congratulations to each of you ... your work was Awesome! Please email Linda and she will send you the Top 3 Blinkie! Thank you to everyone that took part last week. Don't forget to check out this week's Challenge ... we want to see your Tim Holtz Themed Tags... and we have another $50 Simon Says Stamp voucher to give away!
All that remains is for the team and I to wish you

a very Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Simon Says Stamp and Show A Tim Holtz Themed Tag!

2011-12-19T05:00:00.001Z

Happy Monday People ... Thank you for playing along with last week's challenge ... The winners will be announced on Wednesday .... so don't forget to check back ... this could be your lucky week! This week Simon Says Stamp and Show wants to show Tim some love for all the fun he gives us with his 12 Christmas tags every year ... So ... Simon Says Stamp and Show a Tim Themed Tag! Due to everyone being so busy with Holiday preparations this challenge will run for two weeks ... which means we will be back on Monday 2nd January 2012 with a new theme.
You can join in the fun as many times as you like over the next two weeks... all you need to do is ... create something that ties in with our theme ... pop it on your blog ... and come back here and link up so everyone can see what you made! To start you on your way... take a look at some inspiration from the Design Team ...

Ellen Vargo

Ellen had a blast making this Tim Holtz inspired Christmas themed tag. She used Christmas kraft resist paper, the tags and bookplates Sizzix die and winter seasonal distress inks for the base of her tag, then added an ornate plate with stamping from Christmas mini 3 stamp set, adding rock candy crackle paint on the greeting. Then she cut the pine tree out of grungeboard, used peeled paint and walnut stain distress stains to color the tree, and added diamond dust on the branches using art glitter glue.

Tracy Evans

Tracy has not had chance to join in with the 12 tags of Christmas so this was her ideal opportunity to indulge in a little tag creativity, creating a tag accordion. Each tag has a little inspiration from Tim thrown in for good measure using many of the Alterations dies including Winter Wonder, Reindeer Flight, Carved Ornaments, Tag & Bookplate, along with the Mini Reindeer & 25, and Joy.

Nancy Wethington

Nancy was having so much fun creating Christmas tags she just couldn't stop at one. The tag on the left uses Ice Resin on 7 Gypsies tissue collage paper to create the background before adding a Spellbinders die and a stamped image from Graphic 45 Christmas Emporium stamp set. The image was colored with pencils before adding *snow* to the little girl's outfit.

Candy Colwell

Candy has created three tags to share with you. Her first tag was inked with Tumbled Glass, Stormy Sky and Picket Fence Distress Stains and dry embossed using Tim's Tall Pines Texture Fade embossing folder. Add some Snow, some Tim Holtz Reindeer, Tim's Newsprint Alpha Parts distressed with a Gold Paint Dabber, and you have "PEACE". The traditional Christmas tag in the center features a background stamped with images from Tim's Holiday Minis and inked using his new Winter Seasonal Distress Inks plus Scattered Straw then topped with Pearl Perfect Pearl Mist. Her Crackled Snowman tag on the right is dry embossed with Tim's Vintage Holiday Texture Fade.

Lynne Forsythe

Lynne created her own tag by using a piece of paper from Tim's ~ Kraft Resist Paper and the Tag and Bookplate die. Using Distress Embossing Ink and White UTEE, she created the snowflakes. With Picket Fence and Faded Jeans Distress Stains, she covered the tag. Next, she inked up her music stamp with Black Soot and stamped the tag. She followed the instructions from Tim's Kraft Glassine video, and created the leaves using Meadow and Lettuce Alcohol inks, Gold Mixative and Blending Solution.

Sarah Engels-Greer

Sarah created two festive tags inspired by Mr. Tim and sprinkled them with a little Wendy Vecchi magic. She used her Red Pepper, Snow Cap and Pool Paint Dabbers and an array of crafting goodies including the Seasonal Silhouettes stamps, Grungeboard Letters, Art Parts, Idea-ology and scrumpled Kraft Glassine paper flowers...and even gave Rudolph a bit of bling on his nose!

Terry

Terry made several tiny tags and one huge one.... She used The Tim's newest Winter Edition Distress Inks, embossed the background with the Stars folder and then embossed the stars with white embossing powder. For decoration she used some pine-cones and a self-made strip underneath.The pine-cones were worked on with an Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber, the stamp set is Tim's Season's Silhouettes and Gold Stickles was used on the sentiment. For more details visit Terry's blog.

Linda Coughlin

Linda was inspired by Tim's #10 tag featuring a vintage Santa image and a fragment charm. She broke out her new Tim Holtz Seasonal Distress Inks and used the Festive Greenery, Styled Labels and Hardware Findings dies. She stamped the Believe stamp from Tim Holtz's Holiday Minis set into hot gold embossing. A few smears of gesso finished her tag off.

Dan

Although Dan usually colours with Promarkers, for this tag he decided to return to a favourite technique he hadn't used in a while - painting with a waterbrush. Santa from Tim Holtz's Letter to Santa stamp set was coloured using Distress Stains in Barn Door and Peeled Paint, with some Tattered Rose on his face and then layered on top of a panel from the Seasonal paper stash. Finally, as a finishing touch, Dan added a Chain Tassel and an Accoutrement Button!

Linda Elbourne

I wanted to move away from my usual Christmas Colours so I went for Tumbled Glass Distress Stain; Vintage Photo Distress Ink and Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearl Mist. All the elements of my tag are Tim Holtz including the adorable Christmas Muse Tokens apart from the Fired Brick coloured Holly ... which is from Wendy Vecchi's Studio 490 Card Art Essentials.

Please stop by The Design Team's individual blogs for more detailed pictures and further information on their work ... Just click on their names! We are looking forward to seeing your interpretation of this theme! Our wonderful site sponsor Simon Says Stamp is giving away a $50 gift voucher!

The prize will go to a random entry chosen by Random Generator. The challenge will close at Midnight Eastern time on Sunday, 1st January 2012 and the winner will be announced during the following week. To qualify all you need to do is create a new piece of work ... post it on your blog ... with a link to this site and then pop a link below so everyone can come see what you made!

Winners-Day!

2011-12-14T05:00:00.002Z

Hello Everyone ... Here are the results for the Elements of Time Challenge! The winner of the randomly drawn $50.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher is
9 Sandra
Congratulations Sandra ... Please claim your prize within the next two weeks by emailing Linda with your details so we can arrange for you to start buying yummy goodies!
Now for the next bit ... every week the entire Design Team nominate their favourites and the three pieces of art work with the most votes gets a fabulous blinkie! This week the winners that have been selected to join the elite club of vintage artists that can proudly display our top three blinkie are ...
1 BlackDragon
11 Giogio
15 Dragon/Frankie
Congratulations to each of you ... your work was Awesome! Please email Linda and she will send you the Top 3 Blinkie! Thank you to everyone that took part last week. Don't forget to check out this week's Challenge ... we want to see your Projects with Depth ... and we have another $50 Simon Says Stamp voucher to give away!

Simon Says Stamp and Show Thru' the Looking Glass - Projects with Depth!

2011-12-12T05:00:00.012Z

Hello Everybody! Thank you for playing along with last week's Challenge! The winners will be announced this Wednesday .... so don't forget to check back ... this could be your winning week! This week Simon Says Stamp and Show ... Thru' the Looking Glass - Projects with Depth! If you want to join in the fun ... all you need to do is ... create something that ties in with our theme ... pop it on your blog ... and come back here and link up so everyone can see what you made! Before you start take a look at what the Design Team came up with...

Tracy Evans

As soon as Tracy knew this weeks challenge was projects with depth she really wanted to decorate a configuration box, something she had not had chance to do for a while. She decided on a Christmas configuration coloured with Distress Stain Vintage Photo and decorated with papers from the My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Christmas paper pad. Tracy had great fun decorating each area with Christmas finds along with the use of the Reindeer Flight die, The Tattered Pinecone Die, and The Pine Tree. JOY was added using Grunge Blocks along with a mini Christmas tree and sleigh. Small frames were decorated with images from the Seasonal Salvage Stickers and a Christmas Muse Token and several vintage finds.

Ellen Vargo

Ellen went all out with a configuration box this week. She started with a medium configurations, and rather than leaving all the boxes inside the frame, she took 4 out and attached them on either side. She used christmas kraft resist paper, tissue tape, and 7 gypsies antique brass corners to line and wrap the piece. Then filled it with lots of yummy knick-knacks (many of which she "borrowed" from her hubby's model train pieces!). Other elements used were: corked vials altered with butterscotch alcohol ink, optical lens, wreath from christmas adornments, xmas red stickles, ornate plate, WISH stamp, mini old jalopy, bingo piece, seasonal salvage stickers, and melissa frances glass glitter.

Candy Colwell

This weeks' dimensional theme is perfect for Candy's creation...a sparkly sleigh for Santa. The base of the sleigh is a 2x3 Configuration Box compartment colored with a Cranberry Paint Dabber. Santa's chair dons a beautiful vintage Santa from Tim's Seasonal Pape r Stash. The sparkly runners for Santa's sleigh are courtesy of the Vintage Noel die cut. The sparkly top of Santa's chair is from Tim's Vintage Lace die cut. All that festive sparkle is courtesy of Martha Stewart's White Gold Glitter. Some Tim Holtz Trimmings, Mini Holiday St amp Sets, Silver Embossing Power and Platinum Stickles help to put the perfect finishing touches on Santa's Magical Sleigh.

Dan

Dan has been watching a lot of Christmas movies lately to get himself into the holiday spirit and was inspired to make this 3D diorama card after watching "The Polar Express"! He made his swirling winter sky with Claudine Hellmuth Studio Paints in Charcoal Black, Smidge of Blue, Sky Blue and Blank Canvas, before adding snowflakes with a Ranger Opaque White Pen. White Enamel Accents was used for the snow on his tree branches and Rock Candy Stickles added a touch of bling to his snowflakes. The frame was coloured with Distress Ink pads in Weathered Wood and Tumbled Glass and the Santa from the Holiday Wishes stamp set was coloured with Promarkers.

Nancy Wethington

These little 7 Gypsies trays were calling Nancy's name as was the new Simple Stories Year-O-Graphy papers. With both in hand, Nancy created a birthday calendar. The birth date would be highlighted on each month's calendar with a photo of the honoree in a Tim H oltz ornate plate. The calendars from the Simple Stories collection were cut and then put together with the help of a Zutter Bind-It-All. A Kaiser Craft wood branch along with a 7 Gypsies bottle and sticker adds to the overall theme of a precious life. A Tim Holtz memo pin marks the occasion.

Lynne Forsythe

This was Lynne's first time outta the shoot with a Configurations Box!! She had to admit it was a bit intimidating but she dove in....and never looked back! She chose to theme her box around Christmas and snow!! She gathered up old and new doo dads to include the wooden snowflake and ruler piece, a clear bottle and some bakers twine. Everything was adhered in and onto the box with Multi Medium....the best dang stuff in the world!!!

Sarah Engels-Greer

Sarah created a dimensional hanging star inspired by Tim's seventh tag with Glassine Paper leaves and Joyful Song Stamps. She used lots of her favourite techniques and products including Ranger Metal Tape, Alcohol Inks, and the Textile embossing folder. Sarah aged the stamped centre with Rock Candy Crackle and Distress Ink and finished off her star with vintage lace and two hat pins.

Terry

Terry was experimenting with the Configuration Box and teasing her teamies a bit but at the last minute she decided to create a Vintage Steampunk Configuration box. She used Tim's Configuration Box and Tissue Tape on top of the box. The papers used for the background are from Graphic 45, Steampunk Debutant. The compartments were filled with The Tim's Sprocket Gears, Timepieces, Spinners, 7 Gypsies Clear Bottles and everything was distressed with Distress Inks from the Winter Limited Editon, Forest Moss, Spiced Marmalade and Vintage Photo. Terry played with Rock Candy Crackle Paint and Picket Fence Crackle Paint on the Box top and front and the stamps are from The Tim Holtz Seamless Experience set.

Linda Coughlin

For her dimensional project, Linda took the plunge into the configurations box scene with her first ever configurations box. She featured a collection of sweet shabby/vintage style items. She used Tim Holtz dies: Tattered Florals, Tattered Pinecone, Reindeer Flight and Festive Greenery. Other products used include Spellbinder Scallop Square Nestabilities, Snow Flurries embossing folder and gold glass glitter.

Linda Elbourne

I set to work on the largest Configuration ... I covered it with Tissue Tape and a mixture of Lost and Found and The Seasonal Paper Stack. All the papers were distressed with Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a bit of Vintage Photo Distress Stickles. The final sample is packed to the rafters with Idea-Ology including Corked Vials; Light Bulbs and an Ornate Plate.

The prize will go to a random entry chosen by Random Generator. The challenge will close at Midnight Eastern time on Sunday, 18th December 2011 and the winner will be announced during the following week. To qualify all you need to do is create a new piece of work ... post it on your blog ... with a link to this site and then pop a link below so everyone can come see what you made!

Winners-Day!

2011-12-07T09:16:00.000Z

Hello Everyone ... Here are the results for the Stars Challenge! The winner of the randomly drawn $50.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher is
28 Claudia's Karteria
Congratulations Claudia ... Please claim your prize within the next two weeks by emailing Linda with your details so we can arrange for you to start buying yummy goodies!
Now for the next bit ... every week the entire Design Team nominate their favourites and the three pieces of art work with the most votes gets a fabulous blinkie! This week the winners that have been selected to join the elite club of vintage artists that can proudly display our top three blinkie are ...
15 Stampersuzz
24 Anita Houston
49 Kaz
Congratulations to each of you ... your work was Awesome! Please email Linda and she will send you the Top 3 Blinkie! Thank you to everyone that took part last week. Don't forget to check out this week's Challenge ... we want to see your Elements of Time ... and we have another $50 Simon Says Stamp voucher to give away!

Simon Says Stamp and Show Some Elements of Time!

2011-12-05T05:00:00.001Z

Hello Everybody! Thank you for playing along with last week's Challenge! The winners will be announced this Wednesday .... so don't forget to check back ... this could be your winning week! This week Simon Says Stamp and Show ... some Time! If you want to join in the fun ... all you need to do is ... create something that ties in with our theme ... pop it on your blog ... and come back here and link up so everyone can see what you made! Before you start take a look at what the Design Team came up with...

Tracy Evans

Tracy decided to decorate one of Wendy's Timely Pocket Watches, adorned with Tim's Timepieces and Game Spinners. Tracy used the gentlemen from Tim's Steampunk set to decorate the inside of the pocket watch, stamped onto paper from BoBunny's Timepiece collection. The pocket watch was coloured with Distress Stain Aged Mahogany and stamped with the background stamp from Tim's Steampunk set.

Ellen Vargo

Ellen decided to make a Christmas project for this week's "elements of time" challenge. She started with the art parts pocket watches (both large and small) and embellished with paper from seasonal paper stack, rock candy crackle paint, weathered clock die, black and gold paint dabbers, idea-ology gears, Christmas muse token, "25" plaquette, a distressed timepiece, some antique brass chain, a rhinestone brad from Jennie Bowlin, and an antique brass key (eBay find...). And of course, stamped the sentiment with her mini alpha set.

Nancy Wethington

Nancy's favorite colors to work with are shades of red, golden yellows and black mixed with cream so she turned to Cosmo Cricket Circa 1934 for this week's challenge. She began with an 8x8 Canvas which she painted with Jenni Bowlin Stick Candy. The Circa 1934 paper was adhered to the canvas then Nancy started layering the cardstock stickers on top of that before adding a real pocket watch hanging from a hitch fastener and swivel clasp to create this office-type desk/shelf clock.

Candy Colwell

Candy decided to try to incorporate more than just clocks into her "Elements of Time" piece. After all, isn't time measured not only by clocks but by calendars and photographs? So, she created a dimensional cuckoo clock from left over Configuration Box compartments; covered in clock faces from Tim's Lost and Found Paper Stash and edged with the Calendar Tissue Tape. Her piece is dripping with Ideaology used to embellish her altered cuckoo, Time Pieces, Vials, Ornate Plates and Mini Gear die cuts. A filmstrip ribbon depicting important milestones (and elements of time) in Candy's life graces the top.

Terry

Terry decided to try out the Pocket Watch from The Tim Holtz... What a fabulous way to make Christmas scenery, especially creating SANTA'S watch! She altered a Vintage Santa with Distress Inks and used the Sprocket Gears and Game Spinners inside the Pocket Watch. Santa is holding a Timepiece to let everyone know that it's almost time for Christmas. Terry also added some snow and Stickles inside the Pocket Watch to make it look like the North-pole.

Lynne Forsythe

Lynne was inspired by Christmas Past invoked by the Christmas Emporium Collection by Graphic 45, which she cut and layered inside of the Pocket Watch. She added various Stickles to help the image pop. To accent her "Timepiece" she stamped Merry Christmas onto some seam binding with Jet Black Archival Ink and heat set. She then spritzed it with Barn Door and Aged Mahogany. And how about the zipper pieces down the side of her Black Tag??

Sarah Engels-Greer

From empty Configurations Box to vintage cabinet! Sarah's flying Gents reside in three Pocket Watches trimmed with Ball Chain and Sprockets, have Idea-ology wings for a little time travel and are suspended from Swivel Clasps. The cabinet is lined with torn pages and Elements of Time return in the die-cut Weathered Clocks and Ruler Ribbon. Distress Stains and Rock Candy Crackle Paint create an antique wooden look, finished off with Idea-ology Time Pieces and metal findings.

Linda Coughlin

The Tim Holtz Pocket Watch Texture Fade, Idea-ology Time Pieces and the Holy Branch die were the Elements of Time Linda used for her time tag. She thought the quote from the Wendy Vecchi Seriously Art set tied in perfectly with her game spinner pointing to midnight and the end/beginning of another day.

Dan

Dan chose to decorate this compartmentalised shadow frame with designs from the DCWV Tattered Time card stack. In addition to the idea-ology pocket watch, he also used the Calendar 1, Going Somewhere, World Traveler, Soulful Journey and The Big Top stamp sets and some idea-ology sprocket gears.

Linda Elbourne

I filled my Idea-Ology Pocket Watch with some Paperscraps and Doodads that were distressed using Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a Blending Tool. I then added some embellishments including a Game Spinner and a Pen nib. The second pendant was made using Wendy Vecchi's Studio 490 Clock stamp; some Glossy Accents; a Facet and a Sprocket Gear!

The prize will go to a random entry chosen by Random Generator. The challenge will close at Midnight Eastern time on Sunday, 11th December 2011 and the winner will be announced during the following week. To qualify all you need to do is create a new piece of work ... post it on your blog ... with a link to this site and then pop a link below so everyone can come see what you made!

Winners-Day!

2011-11-30T05:00:00.001Z

Hello Everyone ... Here are the results for the Ticket Challenge! The winner of the randomly drawn $50.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher is
12 Bonnie McLain
Congratulations Bonnie ... Please claim your prize within the next two weeks by emailing Linda with your details so we can arrange for you to start buying yummy goodies!
Now for the next bit ... every week the entire Design Team nominate their favourites and the three pieces of art work with the most votes gets a fabulous blinkie! This week the winners that have been selected to join the elite club of vintage artists that can proudly display our top three blinkie are ...
31 Gillian
41 Marita Soutar
54 Cindy Pointe
Congratulations to each of you ... your work was Awesome! Please email Linda and she will send you the Top 3 Blinkie! Thank you to everyone that took part last week. Don't forget to check out this week's Challenge ... we want to see your Stars... and we have another $50 Simon Says Stamp voucher to give away!

Simon Says Stamp and Show Some Stars!

2011-11-28T05:00:00.001Z

Hello Everybody! Thank you for playing along with last week's Challenge! The winners will be announced this Wednesday .... so don't forget to check back ... this could be your winning week! This week Simon Says Stamp and Show ... some Tickets! If you want to join in the fun ... all you need to do is ... create something that ties in with our theme ... pop it on your blog ... and come back here and link up so everyone can see what you made! Before you start take a look at what the Design Team came up with...

Nancy Wethington

Nancy is decorating for Christmas so the natural choice for this week's challenge was an ornamental star. The base is clear acrylic that was embossed using the Allegro embossing folder on a Vagabond. It was then painted with Ranger's Gold Dabber. The paint was gently wiped off so that it stayed only within the deep grooves of the embossed music. Using Graphic 45's 8x8 Christmas Emporium paper, fussy cuts were made and adhered to the front of the embossed star along with Hero Arts Olive Green Gemstones.

Tracy Evans

Tracy created a Christmas card and matching gift bag charm using Tim's Season's Silhouettes and Odds and Ends stamps along with the Reindeer Flight die. The stars on the charm and on the card have been decorated with Ten Second Studio metal and embossed with the Snow Flurries Texture Fade. Embellishments include Christmas Adornments, Jump Rings, Placquettes and Swivel Clasp.

Candy Colwell

Candy is transforming one of her Christmas trees into a "vintage" tree. She also loves vintage Santas. So she created this "vintage" Christmas Star Tree Topper using a Victorian Santa image and an extra large glittery snowflake. It took Platinum and Rock Candy Stickles, Fun Flock, Art Glitter's Ultra Fine Crystal Glitter, and Distress Inks and Refills, Wonder Tape and Glossy Accents to help create this festive and dimensional Tree Topper.

Linda Coughlin

Vintage glass glittered gold stars are the focal point of Linda's holiday wall hanging. The stars are layered over a rosette cut from kraft glassine paper with the Tim Holtz Mini Rosette die. Linda used the Tim Holtz Concerto make to create a vintage style background and created a gold embossed collage of holiday elements with the Tim Holtz Festive Greenery decorative strip die.

Lynne Forsythe

With all the festivities and travel going on this week, Lynne created a rather simple project. She located a 3d star pattern and cut out two from a bit of Kraft Resist Paper. Using a scoring blade she scored the star. With Broken China and Stormy Sky Distress Stain she colored the star. She then adhered the two stars together. To finish off the star embellishment she used the Tattered Pine Cone die.

Sarah Engels-Greer

Sarah thought star-shaped cookie cutters could make great Christmas decorations and this 'Believe" star is one of three altered designs. Sarah created her star using Ranger Metal sheets embossed with the Textile folder, the cutter and metal are coloured with Alcohol inks and the star is adorned with an Idea-ology Philosophy tag.

Terry

With Christmas in mind, Terry created a candle-holder with lots of stars. Just perfect for a seasonal table centre-piece! She worked with the fabulous Christmas Emporium papers from Graphic 45, and for the stars she worked with Golden Distress Stickles using lots of Distress Inks on the edges and reindeer. To finish her festive piece, Terry topped everything off with Perfect Pearls Mist.

Ellen Vargo

Ellen altered a 6x6 canvas for this week's star theme. She used red pepper, citrus, pearl and copper paint dabbers, spellbinders nestaboard (stars), Tim Holtz star stamp (from bitty grunge set), black pitt pen, molding paste. Added some random patches of mirobeads, a sentiment stamped with mini alpha stamps, and added some bling. May all your wishes come true!

Dan

Dan covered this pocket journal with a design from the Retro Grunge card stack, adding the central stamped detail with the Psychedelic Grunge stamp set. All that was needed then was an Idea-ology chain tassel, making the perfect finishing touch for this stocking stuffer!

Linda Elbourne

I rustled up a card for this week's theme using Wendy Vecchi's Studio 490 Botanical Art. I coloured my background with Wild Honey; Forest Moss and Rusty Hinge Distress Inks. I stamped in Coffee and Jet Black Archival. I finished with a Shimmer of Ranger Sunflower Sparkle Perfect Pearl Mist. I punched my stars out of Black card and glossed them up with Black Enamel Accents.

The prize will go to a random entry chosen by Random Generator. The challenge will close at Midnight Eastern time on Sunday, 4th December 2011 and the winner will be announced during the following week. To qualify all you need to do is create a new piece of work ... post it on your blog ... with a link to this site and then pop a link below so everyone can come see what you made!

Winners-Day!

2011-11-23T05:00:00.001Z

Hello Everyone ... Here are the results for the Women Only Challenge! The winner of the randomly drawn $50.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher is
59. Gillian
Congratulations Gillian ... Please claim your prize within the next two weeks by emailing Linda with your details so we can arrange for you to start buying yummy goodies!
Now for the next bit ... every week the entire Design Team nominate their favourites and the three pieces of art work with the most votes gets a fabulous blinkie! This week the winners that have been selected to join the elite club of vintage artists that can proudly display our top three blinkie are ...
25 MsPlum
55 AlieHdV
64 Valerka
Congratulations to each of you ... your work was Awesome! Please email Linda and she will send you the Top 3 Blinkie! Thank you to everyone that took part last week. Don't forget to check out this week's Challenge ... we want to see your Women Only Interpretations... and we have another $50 Simon Says Stamp voucher to give away!

Simon Says Stamp and Show Some Tickets!

2011-11-21T05:00:00.012Z

Hello Everybody! Thank you for playing along with last week's Challenge! The winners will be announced this Wednesday .... so don't forget to check back ... this could be your winning week! This week Simon Says Stamp and Show ... some Tickets! If you want to join in the fun ... all you need to do is ... create something that ties in with our theme ... pop it on your blog ... and come back here and link up so everyone can see what you made! Before you start take a look at what the Design Team came up with...

Nancy Wethington

For this challenge Nancy turned to Tim Holtz Journaling Tickets to create a mini-banner. After inking the edges with Ranger Archival Sepia ink, she used the same ink and stamped background images from Tim's Mini-Holiday set. The stamp set was also used on the tops of miscellaneous chipboard letters. A Marvy Snow Pen was used on the trees and Santa's hat before bits of ephemera were added to each tag.

Tracy Evans

A page from the Maya Road Birdcage book was the starting point for Tracy's creation this week, covered with the Kraft Resist Paper Stash using the page with the bird image, coloured with Distress Stain faded jeans, the bird image on the paper then led Tracy to using the Caged Bird Alterations Die to co-ordinate, cut from Grungepaper. The bird cage was aged with Distress Ink vintage photo and embellished with metal pieces from Tracy's stash. The bird cage was then adorned with Tim Holtz Adage Tickets, again aged along with a Tattered Floral, cut from fabric.

Candy Colwell

With the holidays fast approaching, Candy decided to create an extra large ticket embellished with Tim Holtz' NEW Vintage Noel, Tattered Pinecone and Mini Snowflakes die cuts. The basic ticket is embossed with Queens Gold and Copper Snowflakes then sealed using Tim Holtz' Rusted Enamel technique as seen in Tim's Compendium of Curiosities Book-page 41. Colorized with various Stickles and Art Glitter Dazzlers; Candy's big ticket is a perfect package decoration or Christmas Tree ornament. Check out the Tickets Santa is holding! Have you been "Naughty" or "Nice"?

Sarah Engels-Greer

Sarah had been thinking that tickets could make great flowers, so this was the perfect week to try things out! She used Idea-ology Adage Tickets for petals, edged them with Aged Mahogany and used bottle tops, like these, for centres. She added vintage photos of two lovely ladies filling them with Glossy Accents for a glass effect finish. She attached them to thick wire coloured with Alcohol Inks, added string accents and displayed them in an old wooden off-cut. Just the ticket!

Lynne Forsythe

Once Lynne had the Antiquities 8 x 8 pad in her hand she just couldn't wait to create with it!! So she pulled out her Canvas Corp Cards, Mini Damask and Gathered Twigs Distress ink. Once the face of the card was inked up she cut out the flower using the Spiral Blossom 1 die, sanded the edges and created the beautiful flower. OH.....let's not forget the Adage Ticket.......SOAR.

Dan

While making this card Dan took the opportunity to tackle one of the items on his "techniques I keep meaning to try" list - Versamark shabby resist (just Versamark without any embossing powder, let it dry then ink over the top). Apart from a bit of sewing machine jiggery-pokery and the Versamark ink pad, other products he used included the Lost and Found and Kraft Resist card stacks, Distress Ink pads, the Floral Tattoo and Odds and Ends stamp sets and a journalling ticket!

Terry

When Terry had some new stamps in her hands, she knew right away what she wanted to make with the tickets theme. She made a card with lots of homemade tickets of different sizes and colours. She worked with the new distress inks, from the Fall Seasonal Edition and Winter Seasonal Edition. For the background she worked with the Silhouette Grass from Hero Arts and heat embossed it with the copper embossing powder. The sentiment on the upper ticket is from The Tims Odds and Ends. The butterflies are from Nellie Snellen, punch and emboss almost at the same time.

Ellen Vargo

Ellen decided to make a key chain of tickets using the blank ticket die and matching stamp from Memory Box. She added an ornate plate and phrase on the cover, and then used movers and shapers dies with grungeboard and rock candy crackle paint for the remaining tickets. Each ticket has a simple word stamped with a mini alpha stamp set.

Linda Coughlin

A Tim Holtz Journaling Ticket and a stamp from the Holiday Minis 3 set embossed in bright red creates a focal point for Linda's Christmas ornament (that was cut with a Spellbinders die). She embellished her die cut reindeer with an Elegant Flourishes die cut and her Viva Pearl Pen.

Linda Elbourne

I headed straight for my new Tim Holtz Mini Reindeer and 25 Movers and Shapers this week and then tried to work out how I was going to incorporate some tickets! I settled on a trio of ATC's! So using Fired Brick Distress Stain; Maroon Archival and Walnut Stain Distress Ink I coloured and stamped Wendy Vecchi's Script stamp on some ATC Manilla blanks. The holly was made using off cuts of Manilla card and another Wendy Vecchi stamp! Some Christmas Adornments and a bit of Distress Stickles ... What Fun! Ho Ho Ho!

The prize will go to a random entry chosen by Random Generator. The challenge will close at Midnight Eastern time on Sunday, 27th November 2011 and the winner will be announced during the following week. To qualify all you need to do is create a new piece of work ... post it on your blog ... with a link to this site and then pop a link below so everyone can come see what you made!

Winners-Day!

2011-11-16T04:00:00.001Z

Hello Everyone ... Here are the results for the UpCycling/ReCycling Challenge! The winner of the randomly drawn $50.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher is
1. Suzi
Congratulations Suzi ... Please claim your prize within the next two weeks by emailing Linda with your details so we can arrange for you to start buying yummy goodies! Oh ... and keep reading ... You were n't just a favourite with Mr Random.Org!!!
Now for the next bit ... every week the entire Design Team nominate their favourites and the three pieces of art work with the most votes gets a fabulous blinkie! This week the winners that have been selected to join the elite club of vintage artists that can proudly display our top three blinkie are ...
1. Suzi
24 Stampersuzz
32 Dragon / Frankie
Congratulations to each of you ... your work was Awesome! Double congratulations to Suzi ... This is the first time we have had a double whammy! Please email Linda and she will send you the Top 3 Blinkie! Thank you to everyone that took part last week. Don't forget to check out this week's Challenge ... we want to see your Women Only Interpretations... and we have another $50 Simon Says Stamp voucher to give away!

Simon Says Stamp and Show Some Women Only!

2011-11-14T05:00:00.002Z

Hello Everybody! Thank you for playing along with last week's Challenge! The winners will be announced this Wednesday .... so don't forget to check back ... this could be your winning week! This week Simon Says Stamp and Show ... some Women Only! If you want to join in the fun ... all you need to do is ... create something that ties in with our theme ... pop it on your blog ... and come back here and link up so everyone can see what you made! Before you start take a look at what the Design Team came up with...

Nancy Wethington

One of the most beautiful women in the U.S. is this gift from France. Nancy designed this tag using images from Crafty Secrets Adventure & Travel Vintage Cuts. The tag was embossed with a Polka Dot Cuttlebug Embossing Folder then inked with Distress Ink. Accents were added using Spellbinders Parisian die and a bronze colored Mini Rosette. Miscellaneous ribbon and frames finished off the Statue of Liberty tag.

Tracy Evans

Tracy decided to decorate a bodice this week and one with a very womanly figure too, decorated with recycled tissue paper coloured with Adirondack Color Wash Espresso and Sunset Orange. The bodice has been adorned with flowers made from Tissue Tape, ribbon, Accoutrements and a Philosophy Tag attached with Jump Rings.

Candy Colwell

This week, Candy decided to take a trip to her most favorite place; OZ, to visit the strong female characters of that movie. So, she packed her suitcase covered in Graphic 45's The Magic Of Oz Collection; distressed with various Ranger Distress Inks and Ranger Stickles and headed down the yellow brick road! Several Tim Holtz Ideaology pieces, Glossy Accents, Wonder Tape, and Tim Holtz On The Edge die cuts were essential in creating her suitcase.

Terry

When Terry thought of Women Only, she was thinking of an altered photo-frame, a perfect fit for women only...so she found a fab classy lady on the net. The frame is worked on with Wendy Vecchi's Art Parts Leaves and she played with Faded Jeans. The Flowers are from The Wendy, Dreams of Art and worked on with Distress Crackle Paint and coloured with Vintage Photo, Faded Jeans and Forest Moss. On the flowers she used some spacers and the Perlen pen. The swirls are from The Tim's Grungeboard Elements and coloured with the Peeled Paint and Faded Jeans.

Lynne Forsythe

Lynne's thoughts immediately went to Graphic 45 papers when she saw this weeks challenge. The line she chose to use was Steampunk Debutante!!! She then chose a black tag which she embossed, diecut into and spritzed with Perfect Pearls Mist (can't get enough of that stuff!!!) She cut out one of the ladies, covered her with Rock Candy Crackle Paint and did up her hair with Sprocket Gears! Every GAL should.......FOLLOW HER DREAMS!!

Dan

For this week's theme, Dan chose to make a feature of a strong female image from a female designer - Wendy Vecchi. To make this "in your face" composition, products he used on this card included the It's Face Art stamp set, the Lost and Found and Retro Grunge card stacks, Distress Stains and a Ranger Archival Black ink pad.

Sarah Engels-Greer

Ah, the untold mysteries of the female mind! Sarah took the Phrenology image from Art Rules by Wendy Vecchi and allowed her imagination to run wild creating an abstract piece depicting thoughts, dreams and memories. She used many of Wendy's Studio 490 stamps, an array of Art Parts including the Sample Pack, Leaves and Simply Wings and lots of Distress Inks.

Ellen Vargo

Ellen decided to get girly Dylusions-style with this week's theme, going for the painty/messy/stencil look. She used Claudine Hellmuth Studio paints in modern red, landscape green and classic teal. Then added layers of white and black gesso scraped through stencils, scraped more paint over that, accenting with white paint pen and black pitt pen. Added Dylusions images painted with distress stains, and finally some stickles and idea-ology to finish it off.

Linda Coughlin

A sweet and feminine vintage-inspired Christmas ornament in creams and gold is what Linda thought of for the Women Only challenge. With a lovely Victoria angel as a focal point, she used the largest heart from the Spellbinders heart die set, Melissa Frances vintage crepe paper, the Tim Holtz mini rosette die, gold acrylic paint dabber, and Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

Linda Elbourne

For Women Only week I decided to go for Women Only designed stamps ... and we all know what that means ... Lots of yummy Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 designs ... in fact tooooo many to list here ... so have a squizz at this little lot! The colours I used for my tag book were Shabby Shutters Distress Stain; Broken China Distress Ink; Turquoise Perfect Pearls Mist and Jet Black Archival. I finished the book off by binding the tags with ribbon and adding a bit of Idea-Ology.

The prize will go to a random entry chosen by Random Generator. The challenge will close at Midnight Eastern time on Sunday, 20th November 2011 and the winner will be announced during the following week. To qualify all you need to do is create a new piece of work ... post it on your blog ... with a link to this site and then pop a link below so everyone can come see what you made!

Winners-Day!

2011-11-09T04:00:00.002Z

Hello Everyone ... Here are the results for the House Challenge! The winner of the randomly drawn $50.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher is
4 Wendy Bickford
Congratulations Wendy ... Please claim your prize within the next two weeks by emailing Linda with your details so we can arrange for you to start buying yummy goodies!
Now for the next bit ... every week the entire Design Team nominate their favourites and the three pieces of art work with the most votes gets a fabulous blinkie! This week the winners that have been selected to join the elite club of vintage artists that can proudly display our top three blinkie are ...
11 Blackdragon
12 Shelly Hickox
25 Marje Kemper
Congratulations to each of you ... your work was Awesome! Please email Linda and she will send you the Top 3 Blinkie! Thank you to everyone that took part last week. Don't forget to check out this week's Challenge ... we want to see your Upcycling/Recycling... and we have another $50 Simon Says Stamp voucher to give away!

Simon Says Stamp and Show some Up-Cycling/Re-Cycling!

2011-11-07T04:00:00.002Z

Hello Everybody! Thank you for playing along with last week's Challenge! The winners will be announced this Wednesday .... so don't forget to check back ... this could be your winning week! This week Simon Says Stamp and Show ... some Up-Cycling/Re-Cycling! If you want to join in the fun ... all you need to do is ... create something that ties in with our theme ... pop it on your blog ... and come back here and link up so everyone can see what you made! Before you start take a look at what the Design Team came up with...

Tracy Evans

Tracy decided to recycle a book cover this week decorated with tissue paper recycled from a shoe box and coloured with Adirondack Color Wash Espresso and Sunset Orange. Tracy decorated the book cover with images from Tim's Papillon set along with embellishments including Memo Pins, Jump Rings, Corners and Philosophy Tag along with the Filmstrip Frames Decorative Strip Die.

Candy Colwell

Candy is really in the Christmas spirit with this vintage/retro decoration made from recycling a plain wooden frame, a Christmas napkin and some Tim Holtz Ideaology Muse Token packaging. Candy made the frame using her Melting Pot, Beeswax and a Christmas napkin. Then she added Forever Red, Kiwi, Forever Green Perfect Pearls and some Patina and Platinum Stickles for that added holiday glitz and shimmer. The retro Santas are mounted underneath the packaging from Tim Holtz' Muse Tokens.

Nancy Wethington

Nancy has several of these open top boxes and this was the perfect challenge to figure out what to do with them. She turned it into an *in box* for daily mail by first spraying the box with Adirondack Color Wash. After it dried, the outside and inside were covered using 7 Gypsies 8x8 Lille paper pack. M-A-I-L letters were adhered to the front as well as other 7 Gypsies ephemera. Add 7 Gypsies stationary and give as a gift during the holidays!

Lynne Forsythe

Lynne acquired these metal stars a while back.....they are intended to be Christmas Tree Ornaments, however she had something else in mind. Using the brand spankin' new Tattered Pinecone Die, Kraft Resist paper, and Gathered Twigs Distress Ink, a plan was coming together. She used her Drill Punch on the stars so she could link them together with large jump rings. She pulled out scrap pieces of Bazzill to create the Fir Sprigs and accented them with Rock Candy Distress Stickles to look like snow.

Sarah Engels-Greer

A bit of Designer Trash! Sarah made a Festive Gift Bag from a vintage newspaper. She white-washed it using Picket Fence Distress Stain and lined the inside with Graphic 45 Paper. The star is made from a toilet roll which she also lined and then painted with Gesso and Rock Candy Crackle paint. The tags were also made from newspaper, stamped with Tim's Season's Silhouettes set and distressed with Stormy Sky.

Dan

Dan is making many of his gifts this Christmas, and has been saving all the small boxes he can find to recycle as gift packaging. This is the box that his mobile phone came in, and it's the perfect size for 3 jars of his corn and pepper relish and caramelised onion chutney! Products he used included Martha Stewart's Baker's Twine, Tim Holtz's Seasonal Paper Stack, the Holiday Wishes stamp set and his trusty Scotch ATG gun.

Terry

Terry is always recycling "old" stuff so this challenge was right up her alley. She made a Christmas wrapping out of an old box for underwear. LOL, mens underwear LOL! She used the fabby paperpad from Graphic 45, played with Vintage Photo and Aged Mahogany and worked with The Tim's Odds and Ends. The front was worked on with Distress Crackle Paint. The lace is from her own stash and was made into a bow.

Ellen Vargo

Ellen recycled the cover of an old book by cutting it in half and hinging the two pieces together. She covered each side with Claudine Hellmuth's sticky back canvas, used Ranger's craft scraper to apply a thick uneven coat of gesso, stained with brushed corduroy distress stain, and used a combination of Studio 490 Art Parts, Dylusions stamps, and Tim Holtz pen nibs and adornments to embellish.

Linda Coughlin

Linda gave new life to a tired old picture frame by wrapping it in torn, frayed strips of homespun type frabric and embellishing it with leaves cut with the Tim Holtz Tattered Leaves die. Some of the leaves were cut from acrylic packaging and colored with alcohol inks. The frame holds a background stamped with the Tim Holtz Book Covers stamp and embellished with the heart from Wendy Vecchi's Love to Make Art.

Linda Elbourne

I decided to Up-Cycle a Baked Bean Can ... I covered it with Grungepaper then added a Tim Holtz Styled Label Die and lots of Wendy Vecchi's Make Mine Mini Art stamped Grungepaper flowers which were coloured using Peeled Paint and Faded Jeans Distress Inks.

The prize will go to a random entry chosen by Random Generator. The challenge will close at Midnight Eastern time on Sunday, 13th November 2011 and the winner will be announced during the following week. To qualify all you need to do is create a new piece of work ... post it on your blog ... with a link to this site and then pop a link below so everyone can come see what you made!

Winners-Day!

2011-11-02T04:00:00.002Z

Hello Everyone ... Here are the results for the Colour Challenge! The winner of the randomly drawn $50.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher is
92 Weenie Thomas
Congratulations Weenie ... Please claim your prize within the next two weeks by emailing Linda with your details so we can arrange for you to start buying yummy goodies!
Now for the next bit ... every week the entire Design Team nominate their favourites and the three pieces of art work with the most votes gets a fabulous blinkie! This week the winners that have been selected to join the elite club of vintage artists that can proudly display our top three blinkie are ...
57 Sue The Iron
64 Melissa Bove
74 Mariette
Congratulations to each of you ... your work was Awesome! Please email Linda and she will send you the Top 3 Blinkie! Thank you to everyone that took part last week. Don't forget to check out this week's Challenge ... we want to see your houses... and we have another $50 Simon Says Stamp voucher to give away!