Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Winners-Day!

Hello Everyone ... Here are the results for the Take Your Pick Challenge! The winner of the randomly drawn $50.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher is
67 Alipeeps
Congratulations Alipeeps ... 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 ...
10 Forgotten Scraps
29 Lisa
39 Shelly Hickox
Congratulations to each of you ... your work was Fabulous! 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 ... this week we want you to see your Idea-Ology! ... and we have another $50 Simon Says Stamp voucher to give away!

Monday, February 27, 2012

Simon Says Stamp and Show ... An Idea-Ology Bonanza!

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 ... Your Idea-Ology! 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...
Art Parts Sweetheart Frames was the starting point for Tracy's creation this week to create a piece perfect for someone who has just moved home.  Decorated with Artful Dwellings, covered with Metal Foil and embossed with the Postal, and Rays and Retro Circles Texture Fades. Add into the mix plenty of Idea-Ology including Hitch Fasteners, Jump Rings, Plaquette, Accoutrements Buttons, Alpha Parts Newsprint and Ransom, Hinge Clip, Timepiece, Game Spinner, Word Key and Word Stick Charm.
Ellen altered a 6x6 canvas this week, creating her background with distress stains (aged mahogany, crushed olive and picket fence), adding stamps from Tim's new mixed media set and the sentiment from Tim's new words for thought set, stamping different words in different colors.  Then she added pen nibs, link chain, the bird adornment, the birdcage, and metal corners to finish off her idea-ology bonanza!
Terry had lots of  fun making Tags, and decided to make another one. The background is made with Tissue Tape Sketchbook, layered with Distress Crackle Paint, coloured with Distress inks. On the double layered Grungeboard butterfly Terry used the sentiment from Flights of Fancy with Sprocket Gears and Game Spinners. The flower is made with the Mini Paper Rosettes, the paper from Tim's Vintage Shabby Paperstack and on top an Idea-ology Philosophy Tag.
How many different Idea~ology pieces can be put on one Wendy Vecchi ~ ATC Art??? ....the number is 11!! Sketchbook and Symphony Tissue Tape, Hanger Clips, Jump Rings, Adage Ticket, Timepieces, Baubles, Metal Game Spinners, Hitch Fasteners, Locket Keys and Corners.
Candy combined Wendy Vecchi's new stamp set Call It Art, her Scallop Trim Art Parts and her Art Parts Film Strip Frame, Dyan Reaveley's Basic Backgrounds, her new release Word Love stamps, and lots of Tim Holtz' Ideaology to create this week's challenge piece.  From the "Off The Hook" Ransom Alpha Parts title to the vintage telephone that is literally off the hook, there are techniques using Embossing Powders, Distress Ink, Crackle Accents, Film Strip Ribbon and much more.
Nancy's latest obsession is burlap and she combined that with Idea-ology to create a canvas celebrating Spring. Tim's Caged Bird die started this project with added Idea-ology embellishments including a hitch fastener and swivel clasp to hang the bird cage.  Grungeboard Mini Alphas, Idea-ology foliage and a book plate round out the canvas.  
Idea-ology-The Science of Ideas! Not every Cinderella wants glass...so Sarah created an alternative Grungy Steampunk Slipper plated with embossed metal and loaded with Hitch fasteners, Sprockets, Timepieces, Ornate Plates and Regal Wings to name but a few!
Dan has always loved the idea-ology Ornate Plates and on this project he decided to paint and ink them to give them an antique Swedish feel. The background to each panel was embossed with his Cuttlebug and a Moroccan Screen embossing folder before staining with Antique Linen Distress Stain and then highlighting with Distress Ink.  In addition to some photos from the Lost and Found Paper Stack, he added Accoutrement Buttons, a mini pin and a type charm.
I took a 6" X 6" wooden frame and attached lots of Grungeboard Alpha Soup; Some Idea-Ology Corners and a few Game pieces before painting it with Claudine Hellmuth's paint and a Gold Dabber. The centre piece is one of Tim's large circle Fragments with an Idea-Ology Curio Knob to finish.

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, 4th March 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!

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Winners-Day!

Hello Everyone ... Here are the results for the Anything Goes Challenge! The winner of the randomly drawn $50.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher is
58 Tindaloo
Congratulations Tindaloo ... 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 ...
231 Sue C
303 Ellen Brons
354 DeeDee Catron
Congratulations to each of you ... your work was Fabulous! 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 ... this week we want you to take your pick ... London/Paris/New York! ... and we have another $50 Simon Says Stamp voucher to give away!

Monday, February 20, 2012

Simon Says Stamp and Show Take Your Pick ... London, Paris or New York!

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 ...London, Paris or New York! 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...
CHEERIO!  Candy chose to spotlight London with her 5x7 canvas.  London Underground from Artistic Outpost was the perfect stamp set for this project!  A canvas painted in Traditional Tan and washed in Sable Brown Studio Paints is adorned with stamping, transfer techniques, ephemera, Tissue Tape, and Ideaology pieces.
With the Queen's Jubilee and the Olympics there was only one choice for Tracy, it had to be LONDON, using the fabulous London Underground and Loverly London plates from Artistic Outpost to create her door hinged card. Add into the mix plenty of colour from vermillion Archival Ink, brushed corduroy and vintage photo Distress Inks.
Sarah went French a la ATC chunky style using Artistic Outpost's Paris Exposition. She covered each side with torn layers distressed with Vintage Photo ink. The balloons were stamped onto Manilla cardstock swooshed with Stormy Sky and Rusty Hinge Distress Stains, all finished off with metals findings coloured with Alcohol Inks.
Paris is one of Nancy's favorite cities in the world so this tag is an homage to the city of lights. After cutting the cardstock into a large postcard size tag, she stamped images from French Market, Post CardCurtain Call and a Crafty Secrets sets. With embossing powder, heat gun and iron, Nancy used the blended batik technique found on page 36 in The Compendium of Curiosities book 1.
Say the word Paris and Lynne thinks of the "City of Love"!! She cut her tag and Rosette from Curtain Call. She tore up the edges with the Distrezz it All. Using Embossing Ink, she stamped on the tag then brushed on Forever Red Perfect Pearls. The heart was cut from Clearly For Art Whiteout and covered with Glue and Seal, Distress Crackle Paint ~ Rock Candy and Alcohol Inks.
Terry decided to make a Tag for the challenge and went for a romantic mood. The background was made with Tim's Alterations Textures Fades Postcards and Sheet Music Set.To create the pinker tones, Terry used Victorian Velvet, Tattered Rose and on the borders, Vintage Photo. She used Tim's French Market and played with The Journey for her sentiment.
Ellen had no trouble coming up with a "London" project this week.  She started with a 4 x 4 shadow box and covered it with paper from the 6x6 Paddington papers from 7 Gypsies.  She added a Maya Road chipboard frame to the center, with a photo actually taken in London!  Added some London embellishments and a curio knob to the top.  A quick and easy memento of a great day spent with a great friend.
I went with Paris and Chip. Of course you can't do Paris without Tim's Shabby French Stamps and some Graphic 45 Curtain Call. The butterflies are Claudine Hellmuth's Sticky Backed Canvas and the butterflies are Tim's Mover and Shaper.
Dan's original plan was to make a London-themed piece, but at the last minute he switched to Paris, it must be the croissant he had for breakfast!  He used Tim Holtz's I See Paris and Creative Textures stamp sets, along with Distress Stains, Distress Ink pads and sections from the Lost and Found and Kraft Resist card stacks.
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, 26th 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!

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Winners Day!

Hello Everyone ... Here are the results for the Recipe Challenge! The winner of the randomly drawn $50.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher is
12 Polly
Congratulations Polly ... 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 ...
23 Zeffy
41 Anita Houston
46 Jan Smith
Congratulations to each of you ... your work was Truly Delicious! 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 ... this week anything goes! ... and we have another $50 Simon Says Stamp voucher to give away!

Monday, February 13, 2012

Simon Says Stamp and Show Anything Goes!

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 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! Before you start take a look at what the Design Team came up with...
Dan is really enjoying playing around with Claudine Hellmuth's paints right now, and "anything goes" gave him the perfect excuse to get good and messy!  Other products he used included the Numero, Winged Things 2 and Psychedelic Grunge stamp sets
Ellen decided to get "Dylusional" this week! She used Ranger's paint dabbers  for almost the entire tag, She scraped paint onto the tag for the background (raspberry, pool and snow cap), stamped with paint and Dylusions stamps for some accents, and then stamped some Dylusions images on white card stock and colored in with watered down paint.  Stamped the spider/web and sentiment with jet black archival ink.
 
Tracy decided to liven things up a little this week with a few bright colours from Distress Stains spiced marmalade, fired brick and mustard seed along with funky images from Dylusions in the form of Love Struck Lucy, Around The Edge, How Does Your Garden Grow and Basic Backgrounds stamp sets. A little texture from Gesso and Tracy's tag accordion is good to go!
Anything goes....well Lynne took this at face value. She collected some supplies, Gesso, Multi Medium, Distress Stain, Perfect Pearls Mist, Archival Ink ~ Sepia and Jet Black, an acrylic paint mixture, Altered Orange and Traditional Tan and a few non~traditional supplies, dictionary paper, cardboard, toilet paper roll, plastic grocery bag and ooooohhhh the fun she had!! Join her and play along!!!
Nancy chose one of her favorite tried-and-true Tim background techniques: ink and flick.  Here she used Fired Brick, Peeled Paint, Weathered Wood and Rusty Hinge Distress Inks, blending colors onto a manila tag. Next, Nancy stamped the saying from Urban Tapestry onto a piece of  transparency (similar to this one) with black Staz-On. Resin flowers, a Tim hinge clip and vintage lace were added to the tag.
Candy decided to dip her toes into the Dylusional waters this week by creating her first Dylusional tag.  Using a combination of the uber talented Dyan Reaveley's Stamp Sets; Candy created this colorful and whimsical tag. Color Wash bathes the background and all of the detail work is done using a Small Sakura Water Brush and Distress Reinkers
To Sarah, 'Anything Goes' is a chance to let the imagination run free. She made a girl's dress, sewn using Tim's Tissue Wrap aged with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. She stamped the dress with Papillon butterflies, added an Idea-ology Ornate plate to the belt before finishing off with a buttoned back and home-made wire coat-hanger.
Terry decided to make a box and matching bag with lots of hearts, since she loves hearts. The background of both are worked on with Gesso and Distress Inks. The hearts on the box and the wings are from the Grungeboard set from The Tim, lots of crackle paint is used on the lid of the box, the lace with hearts is worked on with Tattered Rose and VictiorianVelvet and Vintage Photo and the sentiment is from The Tim's Philosophy Tags.
I have the journalling bug good and proper ... so I used the Anything Goes theme to make a mini journal! I coloured the cover with Frayed Burlap Distress Stain and added Vintage Photo Distress Ink around the edges. The stamps I used were Tim Holtz Shabby French and Odds and Ends. The pages are all Ranger Manilla Cardstock ... which is my favourite surface to ink on.
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, 19th 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!

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Winners-Day!

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!

Monday, February 6, 2012

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

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...
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 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.
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!! 
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.
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 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.
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 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 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!

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Winners-Day!

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!