Now let's talk about the Summer Distress challenge winners! Every creation was so great to see, and so much variety from winter creations to art journals to tags - loved it! If you've not yet picked up the summer distress inks I strongly recommend them. They're awesome colors!
Be sure to visit their blogs and check out their amazing entries. So inspiring! Congratulations to each of you on a challenge well done! Please email May for the Top 3 Blinkie.
Now I'd like to thank Simon Says Stamp for another great chance to win a $50 voucher!!
Congratulations! Please claim your prize within the next two weeks by emailing Maywith your details.
I'd like to thank everyone who took part in the challenge. It is always a joy to see what you create. I'd also like to say thank you again to Simon Says Stamp for their generosity - each week we give away a $50 gift voucher to the shop that you can use to buy all kinds of fabulous stamps, inks, and paper crafting supplies. Remember - you just need to enter the challenge each week to be entered into the drawing!
We've got a lot of great challenges coming your way - as well as some really inspiring guests coming up and a new design team member to be announced next week... Stay tuned!
We are going to challenge you to read all about it indeed this week - because in addition to our challenge we have a blog hop going on!!
We are helping kick off STAMPtember ™ festivities with prizes, inspiration, and more!
Simon Says Stamp was founded in 2002 with an interest in exclusively selling rubber stamps. It didn’t take long until we realized we couldn’t stop there. Over the past 10 years we celebrate rubber stamping in its full glory by giving access to people around the world to a one stop shop. Rubber stamps still remain the heart of our business and we are celebrating by hosting a “STAMPtember” ™ event intended to inspire, educate, and celebrate the greatness of rubber stamping. Part of the enticement of rubber stamping is that stamps can be used in creating or complementing ANYTHING! From stamping dates on bank documents and postage parcels in the early 18th century, rubber stamping has dramatically expanded to include card making, scrapbooking, mixed media and many forms of altering and expressing art.
This week here at the Stamp and Show blog our challenge is to "read all about it" - here you can see how our team interpreted that challenge:
Read All About it: Do you love text patterned stamps and papers? Have a book that you’ve been meaning to alter? Want to cover a new journal front or use a book as inspiration for your next project? Please do share! This week, we’re all about words. Whether it’s from actual book pages or just inspired by, projects with a newsprint accent or that are classic literature inspired - we can’t wait to see what you’re up to this week.
Those are just some sneak peeks at this week's Design Team Projects. To see the full projects, check out the team's blogs! Oh yes, and by the way you'll want to be sure and leave comments along the way because everyone is giving away a $25 gift certificate [so be sure to leave comments!] to www.simonsaysstamp.com too!!
This happens to be the the final stop of the blog hop - so if you're just joining in you can go back and start at the beginning at the Simon Says Stamp blog and travel along the way seeing new projects and getting chances to win prizes.
But wait, there's more!! You see here on the Simon Says Stamp and Show blog you know that we have a weekly challenge and give-away each week. Well guess what? In honor of the blog hop we're doing a HUGE drawing for a $100 gift certificate from Simon Says Stamp this week!!!
How great is that?
To be entered, you just need to create something for the "Read all about it" challenge. It can be any kind of project that is inspired by the challenge, OR a project that features stamping (since this is Stamptember!!). Once done, post it with a link back here, and then add it to our inlinkz list below.
This challenge closes at 11:59pm EST on Sunday September 9th. You can see our full rules in the side-bar - we look forward to seeing what you come up with - happy crafting!
The "Summer Distress" challenge for this week is still open, so be sure to get your entries uploaded and linked up!
Let's mix this up, and announce the design team's choices for the top 3 from the No Rules challenge last week first! I must tell you- I was amazed by every single entry I had the pleasure of looking at. With more than 400 entries last week - you really blew me away! Thank you all for entering and sharing your talents with us.
Without further delay, here are the top 3 from the No Rules challenge:
Be sure to visit their blogs and check out their amazing entries. So inspiring! Congratulations to each of you on a challenge well done! Please email May for the Top 3 Blinkie.
Now I'd like to thank Simon Says Stamp for another great chance to win a $50 voucher!!
Congratulations! Please claim your prize within the next two weeks by emailing Maywith your details.
I'd like to thank everyone who took part in the challenge. It is always a joy to see what you create. I'd also like to say thank you again to Simon Says Stamp for their generosity - each week we give away a $50 gift voucher to the shop that you can use to buy all kinds of fabulous stamps, inks, and paper crafting supplies. Remember - you just need to enter the challenge each week to be entered into the drawing!
and here's a tip- you'll REALLY want to tune in this Monday for the new challenge... rumor has it there are some surprises in store...
The newest addition to the Tim Holtz distress family is the summer trio of colors. Whether you are inspired by the color palette or just one of the colors, or if you are looking to use your own new distress colors - heat things up this week with Mowed Lawn, Picked Raspberry, and Salty Ocean and see what happens.
Perhaps your summer inspiration takes you to a whole different color palette - we’d love to see that too. Before you do - check out all of the creations that the design team came up with:
Candy has created this colorful dimensional vintage style tag.
I sometimes have trouble using bright color and I know I'm not alone. But I love the new Seasonal Summer Distress Ink colors. And if it's "Tim", I've got to have it! So, employing the faded layers technique, I was able to create a colorful background well within my comfort zone. Combining a Book Plate, images from Tim Holtz' Papillon,Girls Rule and Haberdashery, I was able to achieve a feminine vintage layered look.
I (May) ended up creating a tag using the same French Collage stamp that Candy did, but with a very different end result!
I wanted to feature the summer distress palette in a few ways, so I started by blending the three colors down the tag, then I inked my background stamp with all three colors, added plenty of water, and stamped right over the top. I love that I could layer the colors - but then I wasn't sure what I wanted to do next! I decided to grunge it up with the mixed media stamps and brown ink on the edges, but then I brightened things back up with green trim and a foilheart that features the pink distress ink mixed with paint to color it. If it isn't obvious by now - I'm smitten with these colors both toned down or allowed to shine to their full bright potential!
Inspiration always strikes when Tracyhas a reorganisation in her craft room in the form of found/forgotten pieces, this miniature frame being a perfect example, small in stature but BIG on impact.
I enjoyed working outside my comfort zone of earthy tones, creating my miniature piece with the fabulous new Summer Seasonal Distress Ink colours. The hardest part of this project was working on such a small scale and knowing when to stop. The fractured doll is my focal point and has been given an angelic makeover with the addition of wings from the Regal Adornments.
Suzz had thoughts of beautiful bright colors in Stained Glass windows and Tiffany lamps when she started her project.
My inspiration for this piece started with the bright Summer Seasonal Distress Ink colors and the striking woman in the Crafty Secrets Believe set. I used the distress inks and a waterbrush to color the image and the background. The striking colors reminded me of an Art Deco design which helped me select the black flourishes from the Spellbinders Die Fancy Tags 2.
Bright colors and high contrast are two of Ashli's favorite things, so she was eager to experiment with the Summer Distress colors!
The first thing I usually do when I get new inks, is grab some scraps of white card stock and rub a little here, blend a little there and just see what happens. The colors of the new Summer Distress Inks are so gorgeous, I couldn't bare to toss out my experimental scraps. Instead, they became a banner for my layout! Layered over a fringed remnant of salvaged curtains and a pretty pink paper from Crate's Little Bo Peep collection they are such a fun embellishment. Some chipboard words from Crate's Random collection provided the title.
Those Summer Distress colors are so gorgeous and they reminded me of a lovely summery day, when you hear the birds sing all around, so I wanted to tone those bright colors down a little. I've used lots of Picket Fence Distress Stain and mixed them with the Summer Distress inks by using a brush and did the Wrinkle Free technique to create the background. I've repeated this several times until I was happy with the result.I stamped the Flourish stamp of the Artful Things Stamp Set around the borders with Frost White ColorBox ink for some interest. In front of the Bird Cage die sits the Forest Bird and he is very happy to be out of his cage for the summer.
Anna-Karin went travelling in her imagination and made a little suitcase which opens to reveal an important message and a dimensional scene:
I was feeling really happy so I decided to make this cheerful Tag with the Summer Distress Inks. These colours are really bright and made me really happy. I used all three colours on the background, then I played with the Mini Chicken Wire Stencil and the Tim Holtz Stampset Papillon too. Since I am a huge fan of butterflies and The Tim one too I had to used his fabulous butterflies. I worked on the heart, butterflies and the roses with UTEE and I just love it. It gives such a fabulous glazed look. So what do you get when you mix all these ingredients together? A Happy Summer Cheerful Tag.
Sarah decided to get all inky with a jumbo sized tag and a lots of butterflies to create a summer scene...
I was so glad to open up my bright new inks and feel alive! Being a new mum means lots of sleepless nights and a busy routine so I escaped with a blast of colour and a flurry of free-flying butterflies. I played around with with my Summer Distress Inks, embossing ink and my Dylusions stencil as I thought it would be fun to see how a faux batik method would work with a stencil. I stippled the Distress Inks through the stencil, embossed them with clear powder to 'set' the colour and after removing the embossing powder by iron I could add white highlighting with my Signo Pen. Then the flight of Wendy Vecchi butterflies accompanied by a bright Chit Chat thought for the day.
Dan decided to paint with the Summer Distress colours to decorate a plain frame.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but it's nothing without a nice frame around it. When I started decorating this frame for my niece I decided that I wanted it to have a subtle element of childhood memory to it, which hopefully is there in the hint of Cavallini abc tape you can see through the gesso. I used all 3 Summer Distress colours on the leaves, painting them with a water brush - I used to use that technique a lot with distress inks, it was nice to revisit it again!
I encourage you to check out each of the design team member's blogs for more photos, supply lists, and more. Simply click on their name (above the photo of their project) to visit their blog.
Now that we've shared the team creations - we're ready to see yours! As always, Simon Says Stamp is giving away a $50 gift voucher that will go to a random entry chosen by Random Generator. The challenge will close at 11:59pm Eastern time on Sunday, September 2 and the winner will be announced during the following week. To qualify all you need to do is create a new project that ties in with our theme and post it to your blog, along with a link back to this challenge, and add a link here.
For the full rules, read the "challenge rules" posted in the side-bar here on our blog.
We can't wait to see what you make!
The "no rules" challenge for this week is open, so be sure to get your entries uploaded and linked up!
Holy smokes. If you're looking for technique inspiration, be sure to scroll down and look at the entries in the favorite technique challenge because they are incredible! So much talent, and so much crafty ideas and goodness shared. Thank you to each and every one of you who entered.
Also, many thanks to Simon Says Stamp for another great chance to win a $50 voucher!!
The lucky (randomly drawn) winner for is...
123 Judy Cantrell
Congratulations! Please claim your prize within the next two weeks by emailing Maywith your details. Now let's talk top 3. Each week our design team members vote for their favorite challenge entries and we share the results here. The prize? A top 3 blinkie and the honor of being chosen as one of the favorite entries of the challenge of course. Huge congrats to these amazing crafters:
Be sure to visit their blogs and check out their amazing entries. So inspiring! Congratulations to each of you on a challenge well done! Please email May for the Top 3 Blinkie.
I'd like to thank everyone who took part in the challenge. It is always a joy to see what you create. I'd also like to say thank you to Simon Says Stamp for their generosity - each week we give away a $50 gift voucher to the shop that you can use to buy all kinds of fabulous stamps, inks, and paper crafting supplies. Remember - you just need to enter the challenge each week to be entered into the drawing!
Rules? We don’t need any rules! With school starting and soccer and busy schedules over here the last thing I want is more rules. So let’s get wild with an ANYTHING goes week. Create something and share with us - we can’t wait to see what you’ve been up to.
Suzz went small on her project today. She pulled out a few dominoes and created a mini book with a Parisian theme.
I participate in a art swap where they have been showcasing some beautiful domino books. They inspired me create my own domino book. I painted the covers of the domino surface using StazOn Metallic - Silver Ink. I stamped the images inside and on the book cover using the Stampendous Charm Collection. The cover is decorated with gems, feathers and a pretty Kaiser Resin Flower. The metallic trim is embossed using silver embossing powder.
Tracy's fellow Design Team member Sarah has recently given birth to a
beautiful baby daughter Ruby and when Sarah sent the team a snapshot, Tracy was inspired almost immediately to create a card to commemorate this special occasion.
The red in Ruby's little outfit inspired me to get my fired brick Distress ink out and create an inky background to showcase Ruby's beautiful snapshot. This card just flowed from start to finish and came together beautifully, I love creating when everything works so perfectly! To add that personal touch I added Ruby's name to jump rings adhered with Glossy Accents along with many gold highlights and machine stitching for that hand made feel.
Ashli is often inspired by a simple sheet of patterned paper, especially when it makes her smile.
"When Pigs Fly, by Graphic 45 just makes me giggle! Those little pigs were just begging to be fussy cut and put on a page. After roughly cutting 7 simple squares from cream card stock, various October Afternoon patterned papers were used to embellish my little interactive folders. A finishing touch of Doodle Twine invites the viewer to open each card and see what lies beneath. Perhaps something silly like... when pigs fly, I will stop drinking coffee!"
Candy knows that the Halloween season of crafting is fast approaching. She's getting a jump on it by creating this spooktacular coffin.
Sandra Mouwen finally received the pictures of the party she organised for her parents, and she utilized them to create this frame album.
My parents are married for 40 years this year and I threw them a surprise party a while back. I wanted to give them something to remember that day. I had this frame laying around and it was perfect for this project. I covered the frame with Tissue Tape and for the cover I used a clear sheet and embossed it with the Collage Embossing Folder. On top of that I cut out the Weathered Clock and painted it black with Pitch Black Paint Dabber and finished it with a the Waterfall Glimmer Glaze. The date of the party is spelled with the Maya Road Bingo Numbers.
I (May) was inspired to try something completely different - after all, it is no rules week, right? I made a crafty video to share and I hope you enjoy. I hope to play with more videos on the challenge blog in future:
Sarah played with a fusion of colours and styles to create her funky card.
I just love this sassy lady from Tim's Pattern Pieces stamp set! I love her retro look and stylish clothes which just ooze lots of 1950's glamour. But I thought I would bring her into the 21st century with a splash of Dylusions Spray Inks and some funky shapes teamed up with Tim's Mixed Media dots. I had fun mixing things up with punched circles, splatters and bold colours, all finished off with Chit Chat words to express my my thought of the day. Be different. Be yourself!
Terry was having fun with the No Rules and made a wallhanger with no rules at all.
Dan started out to make a card but ended up with something he's framed and put on his wall.
OK, so I'll admit that I don't get to the theatre often enough to have seen the musical Les Miserables, but I have seen the poster and this reminds me of that a bit. Somehow. No? The face is one of Tim Holtz's iconic wood-mounted stamps, happily now available in the Classics #5 set. I'm loving that Tim has brought out these classics wood-free, I only have room for maple on pancakes! Things I used on the background included Distress Stains in Aged Mahogany and Mustard Seed and some Festive Berries Distress Ink.
Anna-Karin made a mini-book called ‘Postcards from the past’
These photos from a visit to an old farming community, which is now a museum, needed a home. The idea behind the mini-book came from the Stamper’s Anonymous Folded Paper stamp, which was stamped as a base for all the pages. A postcard stamp and some ink turned the pages into vintage postcards. The cover was cut from chipboard, covered with a perfect MME woodgrain paper, die-cut with the Sizzix Brackets die, and embellished with an aged clock, some stamping, printed tape and a rose ribbon.
I encourage you to check out each of the design team member's blogs for more photos, supply lists, and more. Simply click on their name (above the photo of their project) to visit their blog.
Now that we've shared their creations - we're ready to see yours! As always, Simon Says Stamp is once again giving away a $50 gift voucher that will go to a random entry chosen by Random Generator. The challenge will close at 11:59pm Eastern time on Sunday, August 26 and the winner will be announced during the following week. To qualify all you need to do is create a new project that ties in with our theme and post it to your blog along with a link back to this challenge, and then add a link here.
For the full rules, read the "challenge rules" posted in the side-bar here on our blog. We can't wait to see what you make.
