Winner of the Children's Anything Goes Challenge

Oh my goodness I am so glad the random gen has to pick the winner because I certainly couldn't !! It has been such a pleasure to see all the wonderful artwork from all the children who took part :-) We had 100 entries ,,, woo hoo !!! :-) Thank you each and every one of you for joining in and a special thank you to our Young Design team :-)

Now ,,, pressing the button ,,,,,, who is the lucky winner of this fab $50 prize ?????????

Here are your random numbers:

44

Timestamp: 2011-04-30 17:26:17 UTC



The lucky girl is 5 year old Hayley with this FABULOUS card and Easter Bunny Hat :-)

Congratulations Hayley :-) Please ask your Mum ( Aussie Loz) to email us so that we can explain how you claim your prize :-)

Thanks to everyone for your feedback too, it was really nice to read your positive comments :-)

LuvLols and the DT x x x

Simon Says.....Anything Goes AND you get to join us on a BLOG HOP!!!

If you are here to enter the special children's challenge CLICK HERE

Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog is celebrating our 2nd Anniversary!!! So this week we have some FUN planned out for you!!!! Before I get to the fun stuff, I just want to thank everyone for joining us last week! There were some fabulous entries, what a talented bunch of followers we have!!! Mwahhh!!!! Thank you for the lovely comments you leave for us too :-) We really appreciate you taking the time to leave them and it lets us know that we are getting it right ,,,, hopefully :-)

So this week, our challenge for you is one of my favourites - ANYTHING GOES!!!! AND, to celebrate our anniversary, we are having a BLOG HOP!!!!

So, get your hopping shoes on cuz the prizes are AWESOME!!!! All you have to do is

1) join us this week for our challenge,
2) HOP to ALL the Design Team blogs
AND
3) leave a comment at each one.
THAT'S IT!!! Easy huh???

Heidi the owner of Simon Says Stamp will be giving away a FABULOUS parcel of goodies to not 1 but 3 lucky entrants !! Woo Hoo !!! ( we will have photo's soon xx)



Heidi has also given EACH Design Team Member a $10 Gift Certificate to give away to one lucky commenter! So BE SURE to hit each one and leave a comment!!!!

Here is the order of blogs for you to hop to:


VICKY

MANDY

TARA

DAWNY P

DOMI

DEBBY

MELISSA

JANE

HEATHER

CHRISTINE

LOLS

CHRIS

JO

MARCEA

So ,,,,, what are you waiting for ?? Start hopping and crafting :-) We will be looking forward to seeing what you make :-)
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Simon Says Stamp Special Childrens Challenge :-)

Good Morning all :-) We hope you are all having a lovely weekend and the children are all enjoying the Easter holidays !! :-)

We thought it might be nice to provide a little bit of extra incentive to get the children crafting by giving them their very own challenge :-) With all the April Showers pouring down it is nice to stay indoors and get the paints, paper and glue out !! :-)

The theme is nice and easy ,,,,

ANYTHING GOES !! :-)

To be eligible for a chance to win a prize the child must be between 2 and 16 years old :-) Adults are allowed to help a little bit only :-)

This challenge will end on Saturday 30th April at 6pm CET ( 5 pm UK time ) ,, so plenty of time to get creative :-)

One lucky entrantwill win a $50 Voucher to the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store

We have some very special and very talented designers joining us especially for this challenge :-) We would like to thank them all for joining us and providing such lovely inspiration :-)

Please click on their names to visit their blogs and leave them a comment :-)

Antonio Bove {Melissa's 5 yr old son}

Izzy (age 3) Jo's Daughter

Mollie (age 9) Jo's Daughter

Hannah (age 11) Tara's Daughter

Connor (age 6) Jane's Son

Kara (age 3) Jane's Daughter

Gemma (aged 12) - Mandy's niece

Kyla (Dawny's Grandaughter aged 5, going on 18!!!!)

Sorry to all Tilda fans but she insisted on giving her a mouth and red freckles lol!!!

Sydney aged 10 ( Joey's Daughter )

I think you would all agree, the Designers have done a wonderful job ! :-) Now we would like to see the wonderful creations from all the young designers out there :-)

Please leave a link to the child's creation with Mr Linky and please remember to Turn Off Word Verification xx :-)
This Special Design Team are also allowed to link their creations to Mr Linky too :-)

Happy Crafting !!! :-)

Winner of the Emboss It Challenge :-)

Thanks for all your fabulous entries to the Emboss It Challenge ,,,,, the lucky winner of this $50 voucher to Simon Says Stamp Store is ,,,,,

Here are your random numbers:

186

Timestamp: 2011-04-27 17:28:26 UTC

The lucky winner this week is Caroline F :-) congratulations !!! Please email us so we can explain how you can claim your prize :-)

luv

Lols and the DT x x x

Simon Says ... EMBOSS IT !! :-)

If you are looking for the Challenge especially for Children aged between 2 and 16 years old please CLICK HERE

Good Morning all !! We hope you are all fit and well and enjoying the Easter holidays
Before moving on to the challenge we have some happy news to share :-) Marcea our 'old' teamie has agreed to rejoin the team !! Welcome back to the Simon Says Stamp family !!,, we missed you :-)

Thanks for all your fabulous entries to our 'For a Child' Challenge, we hope you remember to pop one or 2 in the post to the poorly children xx

Don't forget that we have the 'Children's Anything Goes Challenge running too which is specifically for children who are aged between 2 and 16 years to enter.



This week the theme is

EMBOSS IT ... so wet or dry embossing is OK :-)

The DT have been using stamps from Belles 'n Whistles this week :-) such cute images ! You don't HAVE to use them but if you have any we would love to see them :-)


As usual Heidi will be giving one lucky entrant a $50 voucher to her FANTASTIC Simon Says Stamp Superstore !! See the NEWEST stuff on the All New Just In Page For fabulous tutorials, inspiration and candy you should keep an eye on the Simon Says Stamp Blog too !!! :-)

Here are some fabulous cards from our Designer in the Spotlight Vicky and the DT to inspire you :-)

VICKY

MARCEA

JO

MANDY

TARA

DAWNY P

DOMI

DEBBY

MELISSA

JANE

HEATHER

CHRISTINE

LOLS

CHRIS

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Jaymee's email entries for the Children's Challenge

Hi all :-) We have just recieved these 4 lovely cards from 7 year old Jaymee :-) Jaymee has been to cardmaking lessons so she could join in with the challenge !! :-)

Well done Jaymee, your cards are all fabulous !!

Thanks for joining in and good luck :-)

luv
Lols and the DT x x x

Jaymee's 2nd email entry for the Children's Challenge

Jaymee is keeping busy crafting this week :-) This is her 2nd email entry, isn't it a gorgeous card, Jaymee is only 7 years old ! :-)
Please leave her a comment on this post :-)

luv
Lols x x x

Winner of the Simon Says For A Child Challenge....

Thanks for all your entries last week :-) We had over 300,,, 333 to be precise !!! Woo Hoo !! We hope at least some of those will be sent to the children registered with Post Pals or Make a Child Smile charities :-)

OK ,,, pressing the button ,,, who will the lucky entrant be this week ,,,,,,

Here are your random numbers:

332

Timestamp: 2011-04-20 08:13:00 UTC

Tiara aka Dreamin' of Paradise !! It's YOU !! you were the penultimate entry !! :-)

Congratulations :-) Please email us so we can explain how you can claim your prize :-)

luv
Lols and the DT x x x

Simon Says Stamp Children's Challenge ,,,,, reminder :-)

Hi all :-) We are having lots of fabulous entries to our special challenge especially for children aged between( and including ) 2 and 16years.

With all the turmoil going on in the world ,,, wars, natural disasters ,,, pollution ,, I wanted to share this card that Lia made.
Lia is 7 years old !! What an inspiration !!

Luv
Lols x x x

Jezreel Anne's Email entry for the Children's Challenge

We have just received this lovely email entry for Jezreel Anne for the Children's Challenge. She has made this lovely decorated paper bag and dress embellishment. :-)

Thanks for your entry :-)

please leave comments for Jezreel Anne on this post :-)


Luv
Lols x x x

Elizabeth Rossi's new blog on the block :-)

Hi all ,,, Good Morning everyone :-) I hope you all had a lovely weekend with loads of yummy choccy :-)

Elizabeth Rossi has sent in a couple of email card entries over the last couple of challenges and she has now taken the plunge and has joined us in blogland :-)

Please pop over to her blog here http://snowboarderchic.blogspot.com/
and give her a warm welcome :-)

luv
Lols x x x

Elizabeth Rossi,,, email entry for the Embossing challenge

We received this gorgeous email entry from Elizabeth Rossi :-) Thanks for joining in with our challenge

Please leave comments for Elizabeth on this post :-)

luv
Lols x x x

Simon Says ,,,,,,, Card for a Child Challenge :-)

Good Morning all !! We hope you are all fit and well and looking forward to the Easter Break :-)

Before moving on to the challenge we have some sad news to share, Kathy has decided to step down from the team :-( We would like to thank Kathy for her hard work and we wish her the very best of luck for the future, it has been a pleasure to work with you Kathy :-)

Thanks for all yourt fabulous entries to our Easter/Spring Colours Challenge and thanks for all your lovely comments too :-) We appreciate you taking the time to leave them xx
We will be back later to announce the lucky winner :-)

This week the theme is

FOR A CHILD

So any card or creation to be given to a child. We would also like to encourage you to think about poorly children and send a card to a child registered with Post Pals or Make a Child Smile. Please click on the links to read more about these charitable organisations. I know that the cards they receive are very welcome. Please think about them ,, not just today but throughout the year. Thank You xx

As usual Heidi will be giving one lucky entrant a $50 voucher to her FANTASTIC Simon Says Stamp Superstore !! See the NEWEST stuff on the All New Just In Page For fabulous tutorials, inspiration and candy you should keep an eye on the Simon Says Stamp Blog too !!! :-)

This week we are joined by the lovely and super talented Vicky aka Angeldrummer who has agreed to be in the Designer Spotlight :-) Dawny, Heather, Jo and Myself ( Lols) were lucky enough to meet Vicky at the NEC a few weeks ago ,,, isn't blogging terrific !! We get to make so many new friends :-)
Waves to Vicky :-)

Now for some fabulous inspiration from Vicky and the DT :-)

VICKY

CHRIS

JO

MANDY

TARA

DAWNY P

DOMI

DEBBY

MELISSA

JANE

HEATHER

made 2 !!! :-)

CHRISTINE

LOLS

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Happy Crafting !! :-)