Hello Everyone! 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 ... Your Favourite Stamp! 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! First take a look at what the Design Team came up with...
Candy's favorite stamp(s) today (they change daily) are from Wendy Vecchi's Tools For Art set. They inspired this colorful and whimsical artist's palette. She combined the paint brush and ink bottles stamps with a few other sentiment stamps and various flower and leaves stamps from Wendy. Then she added Wendy Vecchi's Borders and Bottles Art Parts, Color Washes, Distress Stains, Adirondak Embossing Powders and Tim Holtz' Kraft Resist Paper to complete this "artsy" piece.
Sarah just adores the Retro glamour of this sassy dame from Tim's Pattern Pieces Stamp. Sarah also loves the fresh design of the 1950's and decided on a red dress code and created a little City Chic - handbag style! She used the Chip Block Die, Claudine Hellmuth paints, a Cuttlebug Embossing Folder and a few hours scissor work...See lots more photos and details on Sarah's blog.
Nancy sat down to create something using Tim Holtz' dress form stamp from his Haberdashery set, but, then she wanted background and embellishment ... then, next thing she knew, she had a set of tags using many of her favorite stamps! Nancy stayed with one set of Ranger Distress Inks - Antique Linen, Rusty Hinge, Walnut Stain, Chipped Sapphire, Forest Moss, Fired Brick. You can see the tags individually on Nancy's blog here.
Lori decided to continue with the Wendy Vecchi style this week, as many of her stamps are Lori's favorites! For this card she chose her current favorite background stamp from Art Colors Life, stamped with Denim pigment ink. The flowers are from the same stamp set, as is the "Simplify". The flowers are colored with Watermelon Adirondack pigment ink and overstamped with the text stamp from Love to Make Art. Check her blog for more details!
Choosing a favourite stamp was without a doubt the toughest challenge yet! Kim really had to think about this one and decided on Wendy's background stamps! Alphabetically art is Kim's go to stamp and are on the sides of the hand made box. But more recently art colors life background stamp really impresses and is on the lid, used with white embossing powder. Everything is sanded and scuffed; all the edges are generously inked with frayed burlap distress inks!
Dan's favorite stamp from the Tim Holtz range is without doubt the "David" head from Tim's Artful Artifacts set. It's strong graphic style means that even the craziest color combinations still work with it. Other products used here include the Kraft Resist card stack, Fired Brick Distress Stain and the Bitty Grunge stamp set. More details on Dan's blog!
Many of you already know that I pick the themes each week ... so from the very moment I chose this one ... I knew exactly which stamp ... erm ... I mean stamps I was going to use! First up is the very first Tim Holtz stamp I ever bought many moons ago ... Mona and of course Wendy Vecchi's mini butterfly from Make Mine Mini Art. I used Faded Jeans and Peeled Paint Distress Inks to colour.
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 5th June 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!
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A very good wednesday morning to you all... the winner of this week's randomly drawn $50.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher is
15 Kim B
Congratulations Kim ... 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 Gayle 14 Eileen 37 Psypengui
Congratulations to each of you ... your work was inspirational! Please email Linda and she will send you the Top 3 Blinkie! We really did have lots of fabulous entries so Thank you to everyone that took part.
Don't forget to check out this week's Challenge ... we want to see your Wendy Style ... please note you DO NOT need Wendy's stamps for the challenge ... we have another $50 Simon Says Stamp voucher to give away!
Hello Everyone! 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 Wendy Vecchi Style! 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! If you have n't got anything Wendy Vecchi ... Don't panic ... use the stash you already have ... but first take a look at what the Design Team came up with...
As you all know I LOVE everything Wendy Vecchi / Studio 490 related! So I had a wonderful time filling my 7Gypsies Printers tray with lots of Wendy Vecchi stamps and goodies in addition to some Idea-Ology. This sample was quite tricky to photgraph so for more detailed pictures check out my blog.
Lori loves the Studio 490 style, especially the flowers! And.. the motivational sentiments. So she chose both to make a home decor piece! She used stamps from Live and Make Art, She Created Art, Mail Art, and It's Face Art, along with some new Clearly for Art Blackout to demonstrate her passion for Studio 490!
Make a little bird-house for your soul...! For Sarah, it was definitely a case of Be Happy, Live and Make Art with Wendy's Vecchi's stamps of the same name. Sarah wanted to create a flourish of florals and enjoyed playing with Clearly For Art, various Art Parts, and lots of Distress Inks. She also used Claudine Helmuth's great Studio Paints, lots of Matt Medium and would never have survived without Tim Holtz's indispensable scissors! See more photos and details on Sarah's blog.
Linda is a novice where Wendy Vecchi's work is concerned so she chose to make a small simple wall hanging out of a coaster. She knew polka dots were one of Wendy's favorite patterns so she made sure to incorporate plenty into her piece. Products used include the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals Die, Grunge Paper, Broken China and Tea Dye Distress Inks as well as Vintage Photo Distress Stain. She also used several Tim Holtz stamp sets including Papillon, Mini Classics and Curiosities.
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 29th May 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!
Have Fun!
Please link directly to your post NOT your blog and please do not include links to work that has been posted prior to the first day of the challenge ... Thank you
Hello everyone ... wow ... what a lot of entries we had for our Anything Goes theme ... Thank you all for joining in ... without further ado ... the winner of the randomly drawn $50.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher is
232 Lisa Aka Myran
Congratulations Lisa ... 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 ... 35 Ellen Brons 54 Anika 296 Carrie on Crafting
Congratulations to each of you ... your work was truly amazing! Please email Linda and she will send you the Top 3 Blinkie! We really did have lots of fabulous entries so Thank you to everyone that took part.
Don't forget to check out this week's Challenge ... we have another $50 Simon Says Stamp voucher to give away!
Hello Everyone! Thank you for playing along with last week's challenge ... we had a record number of entries ... like everyone we had a few problems with Blogger ... we struggled to leave a comment on some blogs ... so in most cases we left a message on the post before ... but HUGE apologies to anyone we may have missed ... We did manage to visit you all and 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 ... An Old Wives Tale! 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! This theme definitely gets the old grey cells working ... so if you are stuck for an idea ... take a look at some inspiration from the Design Team ...
A 5x7 canvas is the basis for this whimsical view of Candy's favorite old wives' tale. The colorful background was achieved by blending Claudine Hellmuth's Classic Teal and A Dab Of Yellow Studio Paints. A haunting man's image, from a black and white picture, was transferred onto the canvas using Matte Multi Medium. Add a vintage eye chart from Tim Holtz' Oddities Stamp Set, a vintage picture of a cross eyed boy, a dusting of some Perfect Pearls, and two optical lenses and you've got "Don't Cross Your Eyes...They Will Stick Like That!"
*Find a penny, pick it up and all day long you'll have good luck* came to Nancy on a walk with her dog when she spotted a penny. After returning home from the walk, she gathered things that were symbols of luck i.e., 7 Gypsies Bingo paper, Tim Holtz Bingo stamp and miscellaneous ephemera on top of Graphic 45 background paper. The lucky penny finished off the card front.
Lori had to think pretty hard on this theme, but, she came up with....breaking a mirror gives you seven years bad luck. She used paper from Lost and Found, tissue tape, salvage stickers, and a grungeboard number 7 to finish this tale!
Nancy never thought of "Star light, star bright" as an old wives' tale, but, it showed up in the lists she found online - so, she made an oversized birthday tag for a friend. Wendy Vecchi's Celestial Art stamp provided the stars hanging over Tim Holtz's Rickety House & Iron Gate Sizzix dies.
"A bird in the Hand......." is what came to mind Lynne's mind when she saw this challenge. She created her "mini sketchbook" beginning with 7gypsies ~ Book Cover. She bound her book together with her handy dandy Bind it All! She smeared Tarnished Brass Distress Crackle paint around the edges. Then she covered a piece of cardboard with Tissue Tape and die cut it using the Caged Bird Die. And the AMAZING tree is a stamp from Winter Sketchbook. Head on over to her blog for more details.
Sarah remembers asking her mum on which day she was born and that's how she learnt 'Monday's Child'. Seven hanging tags tell the story....turns out Sarah is a Friday lass. She used many versatile products including Distress Inks, a Snow Cap Dabber, Tim Holtz Stamps, Glassine Paper and Multi-Medium. More details and photos on Sarah's blog.
Kim had trouble choosing just one Old Wives' Tale but decided to use salt as her theme... The Background has been treated with salt sprinkled onto distress stains to create a texture similar to watercolour effect. The bird image stamped in coffee archival, the bird's has a little salt glued to give a subtle shimmer. For the bird cage Kim tried some salt embossing and applied distress inks to enhance. The tattered flower was cut from distress Coredinations cardstock, with a sculpture flower centre.
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 22nd May 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!
Have Fun!
Please link directly to your post NOT your blog and please do not include links to work that has been posted prior to the first day of the challenge ... Thank you
Hello everyone ... the winner of the randomly drawn $50.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher from the Hands theme is
44 Dorothy S
Congratulations Dorothy ... 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 ... 18 Carrie on Crafting 26 Eileen 48 Susie Little
Congratulations to each of you ... your work was truly amazing! Please email Linda and she will send you the Top 3 Blinkie! We really did have lots of fabulous entries so Thank you to everyone that took part.
Don't forget to check out this week's Challenge ... we have another wonderful $50 Simon Says Stamp voucher to give away!
Hello Everyone! 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 ... Anything Goes! 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! To start you on your way... take a look at some inspiration from the Design Team ...
Having just returned from Ranger U, Candy decided to create a background sampler using twelve techniques she learned. A 7 Gypsies Printer Tray is the perfect decorative piece to display the backgrounds and embellishments! Candy incorporated Distress Inks, Paint Dabbers, Alcohol Inks and Color Washes to create totally different looks. Then she embellished each compartment with faux porcelain flowers made from UTEE, various Tim Holtz Ideaology pieces, stamps and die cuts for a very colorful and detailed piece.
Sarah decided to be both Girly and Grungy by creating a ring binder book of flowers and metal. She decorated the cover with crinoline Rosette flowers and grunged up some old Thicker letters with her Snow-Cap Dabber and Distress embossing powder. Sarah also used lashings of Distress Inks, a Wendy Vecchi leaf stamp and various design papers to fill the inside...see lots more photos and details on Sarah's blog.
Kim was inspired to draw around her hand onto shrink plastic, then adhere Patterned paper to the underside and shaped. The Wendy Vecchi art parts have been treated with cosmic shimmer effect using cafe perfect pearls, patterned paper and gear. While the shrink was out a butterfly was stamped and the back coloured with paint dabber, finished with a clock hand centre. Other ranger goodies adorn this piece too!
I am scheduling this post from Holland so I had to make my sample before I left! After decorating my first Configuration a few weeks ago I could n't wait to have a go at another one! This time I used lots of Wendy Vecchi Stamps; Grunge Paper with bits and pieces of Ideaology.
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 15th May 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!
Have Fun!
Please link directly to your post NOT your blog and please do not include links to work that has been posted prior to the first day of the challenge ... Thank you
Hello everyone ... Before I announce the results for the Buttons Challenge ... please could I ask you all to double check your links when entering the challenge ... we have had a couple of occassions when the links have been posted to a picture and the Design Team were unable to get back to the blog to leave a comment; share some love or check the link ... Thank you :0)
Now that is out of the way ... the winner of the randomly drawn $50.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher is
67 Jan Hunnicut
Congratulations Jan ... 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 Stampersuzz 51 Kaz 69 Kath
Congratulations to each of you ... your work was truly amazing! Please email Linda and she will send you the Top 3 Blinkie! We really did have lots of fabulous entries so Thank you to everyone that took part.
Hello one and all! We hope you are enjoying your holiday! 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 Hands! 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! To start you on your way... take a look at some inspiration from the Design Team ...
After much pondering Lynne decided how she wanted to portray.....HANDS.....by tracing her own hand onto a piece of Grungeboard. She then colored it with various Distress Inks and added Tarnished Brass and Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint. She pulled out her jar of metal goodies to find Metal Watch Faces, Game Spinners, a Word Key. The Alpha Parts were just the perfect addition to her piece. For more info pop on over to her blog.
Candy decided to turn back the hands of time with this nostalgic "Four Generations" wall decor piece. A 7 Gypsies Librarie Drawer, turned on it's side is the perfect memory box! The hands on the hands of the embossed clock are from Tim Holtz' Steampunk Stamp Set. This piece is full of Ideaology including Vials, Sprockets and Gears, a Metal Number "4" that looks like chipped porcelain, an ever versatile Ornate Plate, a Knob and a Pocket Watch featuring a collage of Candy and her brother nestled in a Santos Hand. Check out her blog for more pictures and details.
*Hands* conjured up all sorts of images for Nancy: handmade; ranch hand; handy. Since she needed a new notebook, Nancy chose to decorate the cover with Graphic 45 hands from Communique, Graphic 45 buttons, 7 Gypsies rub-on hands on an optical lens and Idea-ology spinners (clock hands).
When Nancy saw this saying about friends & hands, she was inspired to make this simple piece using paper cut from Tim Holtz's Idea-ology Crowded Attic paper stash for the background in a plain black frame. She then stamped Tim Holtz's Girls Rule stamp with Distress Ink Embossing Ink, finished with Black embossing powder. The saying's done with rub-on letters, the flower's one she created with tulle & glittered with Ranger's Tiara Stickles.
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 8th May 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!
Have Fun!
Please link directly to your post NOT your blog and please do not include links to work that has been posted prior to the first day of the challenge ... Thank you