HAPPY NEW YEAR :-)

On behalf of all the Simon Says Stamp team, Heidi, the Design Team and all the girls who work so hard in the office making sure all your orders are shipped quickly I would like to wish you all a Happy and Prosperous New year :-)

Thank you so much for all your support since we started this challenge :-) You have all been fabulous and we really appreciate you joining in :-)

Hope you all have a wonderful evening and a lovely weekend too ;-)
luv
Lols and the DT x x x

Merry Christmas :-)

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE :-) We would like to thank you all for your support over these last few months. It is hard to believe that it is only 7 months since we started this challenge and it has been such a wonderful experience for us all :-) Thank You for making it such a HUGE sucess and joining in our challenges :-)



Santa has been and brought this wonderful gift for one of our lucky entrants !!!! :-) I would love this parcel of goodies and I am sure most of you would like it too !! So to be in with a chance all you have to do is enter our 'PARTY' Challenge which finishes on the 6th Jan :-)

On behalf of all the Simon Says Stamp team , Heidi, the behind the scenes office staff and of course the Design Team we would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year :-)

Don't forget the Simon Says Stamp online shop is open 24 hours a day even over Christmas,,, !!! :-) ha ha ha :-)

Luv
Lols and the DT x x x

Simon Says... PARTY!!!!!

Oh WOW !! what a fabulous response to the Merry Christmas Challenge :-) We were amazed at how many entries we had last week ,, Thank You all so much for taking the time to enter our challenge :-) We know how very busy you all are x x

Before we go any further we have some sad news, Anna has decided to step down from the DT, we are all very sorry to see her go but fully understand that she has many family and work commitments at the moment. We would like to wish her all the very best and hope she will pop back and visit us often x x

So moving on to brighter things ,,,,,,,

We would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year :-) We are going to take a week off now so you have until 6th January to enter,,, loads of time :-)

Tis the Season to PARTY!!!!! This time of year is very busy with parties and parties and more parties & it doesn't stop until after New Years Eve!!!! So, the challenge this week is to PARTY ON!!!!! Show us your PARTY!!!!! Party Hardy!!! Gimme a P........ Ok, I'll stop!!! LOL

Link your creation with Mr. Linky & one lucky random winner will win.....



A SURPRISE !!! This gift will be opened on Christmas Day so have to wait till Santa has been before you can see what he brought !!! :-)

Hallo,
diese Woche haben wir das Thema:
PARTY
für Euch.
Es gibt ein Überraschungspaket zu gewinnen, welches ihr ab Heilig Abend hier sehn könnt *gg*

Wir wünschen Euch allen frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr.
Diese Challenge hier läuft bis zum 6. Jan 2010, da wir nächste Woche eine Pause einlegen.

Because Christmas is all about KIDS, we have asked GEORGINA to be our Guest Designer this week! Georgina is only 9 years old and she is AWESOME!!!! She just started her blog but already has 2 cards on it that are incredible!!!! Go check it out!!!! What a sweetie!!!

GEORGINA




Here are the PARTY creations from our wonderful Design Team:-

CHRIS

DEBBY




DOMI




LORRAINE




IRIS

JO

TÍMEA






Thanks for PARTYING with us this week!!!! Don't forget to look for hidden candy!!!!! Stay tuned for the winner of last weeks challenge!!!!

Chris & the Simon Says Stamp Challenge DT :-)

Simon Says Merry Christmas Challenge Winner :-)

I have just pressed the button and the Random generator chose,,,,,
Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

52

Timestamp: 2009-12-23 07:59:15 UTC

the winner is Terri Sherman :-) Congratulations Terri if you email us we will explain how you can claim your prize :-)

Luv
Lols and the DT

Sydney's New Blog

Sydney, who is in our Designer Spotlight this week has just started her own blog :-) It's called Sydney's Creations :-) Please pop by to leave her a nice comment.

This is the fabulous card she made :-)



There is no comment box with this post so you HAVE to go there to leave a comment :-)

Luv
Lols x x

12 days of Christmas prizes on Papercraft Planet ;-)

Our very own Heidi is giving away lots of lovely prizes on Papercraft Planet ! Very easy to enter ,, most are just little Christmas trivia quizzes ,, :-) Go and see you might just win something :-)
We're not getting many entries into this one!!! You really have a good chance of winning a prize !! Go and have a peek !! :-)

Click HERE to get there :-)

Good Luck :-)

Simon Says Let it Snow Challenge winner ;-)

I have just pressed the button and the winner of the challenge drawn at random is

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

79

Timestamp: 2009-12-16 17:30:21 UTC

The winner is Joe-Anne :-) Congratulations Joe-Anne :-) If you email us we will explain how you can claim your prize :-)

Lols and the DT :-) x x

Simon Says.... Merry Christmas :-)

What an amazing response we had to last week's challenge of "Let it Snow" ! We had lots and lots of amazing entries, thank you so much for taking the time to enter as we appreciate how busy everyone is at the moment.


Well, its only 8 more sleeps until Santa comes and for this week's challenge all we want you to do is say "Merry Christmas" ! Such an easy challenge as we are all up to our eyes in Christmas cards at the moment !!

Unsere Challengethema diese Woche ist:
Fröhliche Weihnachten
Wir sind schon sehr auf Eure Kreationen dazu gespannt.

Heti kihívásunk témája: "Boldog Karácsony!"

Heti vendégtervezőink, Ria és Sydney! Látogass el blogjaikra és nézd meg gyönyörű alkotásaikat!

A kihíváshoz inspirációt meríthettek a DT tagok alkotásaiból is. A nyeremény egy 25 dolláros utalvány, amit a Simon Says Stamp weáruházban vásárolhat le a szerencsés nyertes!Jó alkotást és sok szerencsét kívánok!:)

Heidi will be giving away this fabulous prize and will pay the shipping costs too ! :-)






As it is Christmas we have invited 2 special people to be in our Designer Spotlight :-)
RIA ,, who I am sure needs little introduction as you ALL know who she is :-) If by some chance you have been living on another planet and haven't visited her blog you really should , it is fabulous ! :-)


We have also invited SYDNEY :-) Sydney is Joey's daughter(AKA Joey's Stuff) and often makes beautiful cards with her mum :-) Christmas is a time for children and so we would like to encourage you all to get your children involved in this challenge :-)


RIA



SYDNEY




DEBBY




JO




CHRIS


LORRAINE



Domi
























Iris


Happy Crafting !

Don't forget to look for candy !!!! :-)

Jo and the Simon Says Challenge DT x

12 days of Christmas prizes on Papercraft Planet ;-)

Our very own Heidi is giving away lots of lovely prizes on Papercraft Planet ! Very easy to enter ,, most are just little Christmas trivia quizzes ,, :-) Go and see you might just win something :-)

Click HERE to get there :-)

Good Luck :-)

Say No to Word Verification !!

I am making an appeal to all of you to please turn off the word verification option. It makes leaving comments so much more time consuming. We all like to receive comments and with time being limited the less time spent having to mess about with the nonsense letters in word verification the more we can leave for entrants !
Please TURN IT OFF

Winner of the Simon says Charming Challenge ;-)

Have just pressed the button ,.. our lucky winner this week is !!!!!

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

92

Timestamp: 2009-12-09 08:02:55 UTC

Tha lucky winner this week is RIA !! :-) Congratulations Ria :-) If you email us we will explain how you can claim your prize

Lols and the DT x x

Simon Says,,,,, Let It Snow :-)

We had a fabulous response to last weeks challenge,,, so thank you to everyone for joining in, we know how busy you all are at this time of year and we appreciate you taking the time to link your creations with us :-)
A big Thank You too to Wendy Vecchi for joining us last week ,, what an honour it was to have Wendy in our Designer Spotlight !! :-)

Our challenge this week is,,,

'LET IT SNOW'

I love snow, when you can sit in a warm room with a nice drink and watch it through the window :-)
This week we have the very talented APRIL ROSE joining us in the Designer Spotlight :-) if you haven't visited her blog yet then you should ! her work is fabulous ! :-)

Hallo,
diese Woche haben wir das Thema:
let it snow
für Euch.
Viel Spass bei dieser neuen Herausforderung.

A Simon Says Challenge heti kihívásának témája: Essen a hó!:)Inspirációt meríthetsz a DT tagok és heti vendégtervezőnk, April Rose munkáiból. Látogass el blogjaikra és nézd meg mesés munkáikat! A nyeremény egy 25 dolláros utalvány, amit a Simon Says Stamp webáruházban tud levásárolni a szerencsés nyertes! Jó alkotást és sok szerencsét kívánok!

As usual Heidi will be giving away this fabulous prize to one lucky entrant :-) Don't forget your creations MUST be new and not posted on your blog before the challenge starts AND you must mention our challenge in the post :-) Apart from that you can do what you like and hope you have fun :-)

APRIL ROSE made 2 cards !! :-)






JO




CHRIS



TÍMEA

DEBBY



IRIS




LORRAINE




DOMI



Don't forget to visit April's blog and leave her a comment :-) Also if you visit the DT you may find candy along the way :-) I will be back soon to announce a winner of the last challenge so stay tuned !! :-)




Happy Crafting :-)
Lols and the DT

Last week's winner ??

The winner of the challenge last week still has not contacted us !! We did leave a message in the comment section of the card that you made for the Winter Love challenge. If we don't hear from you before the next challenge is posted on Wednesday then we will re draw another name from the entries for that challenge ,,,,, so check !!!! :-)

Don't forget that there is candy around on the DT blogs too ! :-)

Happy Crafting :-)
Lols and the DT x x

WINNER - Winter Love

What a lot of gorgeous entries we had to our Winter Love challenge. Unfortunately, there can only be one winner and that is......

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers: 10 - Sally B

Timestamp: 2009-12-02 09:57:47 UTC

Many congratulations ! If you could please email us we can arrange for you to claim your prize.

Happy Crafting !

Jo and the Simon Says Challenge DT x

Simon Says....So Charming

Another great response last week everyone...wow!!! I am feeling the love!!!!! Thank you to all who entered & congratulations to the winner (TBA very soon!!!)

This weeks challenge for you is "SO CHARMING" - charms are becoming a big hit lately so what better time to get them out and create something with charms!!!! They don't have to be shop bought ones, you could make your own maybe from tin foil, shrink plastic, tin cans ( be careful here ,, don't want any injuries blamed on us !) :-)

Sziasztok! Heti kihívásunkon szeretnénk ha alkotásodat valamilyen fémfüggővel díszítenéd. Itt meg tudod nézni, hogy miről is van szó. Ha nincs neked ilyened, akkor készíteni is tudsz pl. egy konzerves doboz tetejéből kivágsz egy kis szívet, készítesz rá egy pici lyukat és már kész is, de pl.nyakláncra való medál is jó.:) Inspirációt meríthetsz a DT tagok alkotásaiból is! Heti vendégtervezőnk Wendy Vecchi. Wendy egy nagyon tehetséges tervező! Látogass el blogjára, fantasztikusak a munkái!!!

This week, we have a VERY special guest designer with us, Wendy Vecchi. Wendy has an amazing blog !!!! She is pure talent! Not only does she design her own stamps, studio 490, she does design work for Maya Road,Tim Holtz,idea-ology and Ranger. Wendy is also an exclusive demo artist for Ranger and was demonstrating on the same Mexican cruise as our very own Heidi and Terra a few weeks ago !! If you haven't been to her blog, you REALLY should .....just click on her name and it will take you right there!!!! Here is Wendy's project & a supply list and instructions so you TOO can create something as wonderful!!!!

WENDY VECCHI





Products used:

All stamps by studio 490/Stampers Anonymous available at Simon Says Stamp!
Inks and stickles by Ranger jet black archival, olive archival & coffee archival
brushed corduroy, black soot, faded jeans, spiced marmalade & peeled paint distress ink
One page from Maya Road's 5 inch sq. banner book
grungepaper, idea-ology
muse token, tim holtz, idea-ology
rock candy distress stickles
trinket pins by Maya Road
bling by Heidi Swapp
Sakura glaze pen, black

instructions:
Ink the chipboard base with brushed corduroy ink & edge with black soot, using the blending tool
Stamp the background stamp using coffee archival
stamp the alphabet border, using black ink
stamp 3 ferns, using olive archival
stamp a large & smaller studio 490 flower on grungepaper, cut out & ink with faded jeans on both sides
overstamp the flowers with the polka dot background stamp & black ink
shape the petals
stamp 3 leaves on grungepaper, cut out & ink with peeled paint, then stamp the backs with any background stamp
stamp the butterfly onto grungepaper, cut out & ink with spiced marmalade, then shape wings
mask off butterfly & stamp just the antennaetoward the left side of the hanging
assemble as shown
add rhinestone borders & rhinestones to the butterfly and rock candy distress stickles to the flower & butterfly
add accents with the glaze pen and the trinket pin
use 2 swivel clasps & a jump ring to make the hanger

sign & date the back...sit back & admire the art you created!
wendy


CHRIS



DOMI




















IRIS




Tímea

LOLS

Anna

Debby







AND, of course, one lucky winner will win this:

So be sure to join us this week!!!! We can't wait to see what you create!!! Thanks for stopping by & playing with us this week!!!!

Simon Says.......Winter Love

Wow, what an amazing response we had to last week's challenge of Animal Antics. Thank you all so much for sharing your creations with us.

This week's challenge we want to see some love in the air, Winter love.

The usual rules apply. Your creation must be new and not posted before this challenge and you MUST mention this challenge in your posting to be eligible for the prize draw. If you don't have a blog you can email your entries to us and we will post them on this blog :-)

Heti kihívásunk témája "Téli szerelem, szeretet". Inspirációt meríthetsz a DT tagok és heti vendégünk, Norma Lee alkotásaiból. A szabályok a régiek. Alkotásodnak újnak kell lennie és a kihívást meg kell említened a blogodon. A nyeremény egy 25 dolláros utalván, amit a Simon Says Stamp webáruházban lehet levásárolni! Jó alkotást és sok szerencsét kívánok!:)

Heidi will be giving away this fab prize including shipping :-)




It is with great sadness that we have to say goodbye to our wonderful DT member, Kim. We are so sorry to see you leave us Kim but we wish you every happiness in the future and thank you so much for being part of our team and for giving us all so much inspiration in our crafty lives !

Again this week we have NORMA LEE joining us in the Designer Spotlight, Norma Lee won a challenge on our Papercraft Planet forum and has a fantastic blog so if you haven't popped by to see it yet you're in for a treat :-)

NORMA





JO



Chris



LORRAINE






Debby


DOMI


























Tímea

Iris




ANNA

Don't forget to visit the DT blogs you may find some hidden candy :-) Also please drop by and leave a nice comment for Norma Lee she has done a brilliant job :-)
Please leave a direct link to your post, not your blog as sometimes it is difficult for us to find it :-)
Happy Crafting :-)