Friday 30 July 2010

Challenge # 2 - Take 2 Colours

 Hi everyone
Wow! Wow! Wow!!!
We were blown away and so very thrilled by your entries into the first of our challenges. Amazing number of entries and fantastic to see so much talent out there! It was sooooo difficult to choose a winner and top 5, eventually we did decide though and was thrilled to see that the winner had used Stampman products! 

Sorry for the delay announcing the winners, lappy trouble!  Now I have a new screen and mother board I can get on with it, but boy it's been hard, I guess giving 152 awards isn't the idea though!   The DT have put forward suggestions from their visits, if you haven't won anything this time, please keep entering, there really wasn't one entry that didn't deserve an award

Top prize - £10 of Stamp Man Gift Vouchers:  109 Lisa!  (received most recommendations)

Rest of Top 5
77 MeggyMay
11 Jozart
122 Jocelyn
86 Georgina

Thank you for taking part in our first challenge and congratulations to the Top 5!!  You'll find your blinkies on the sidebar.  If you used an Aspects of Design stamp please take a gold star even if you didn't reach the Top 5.

I'll now hand you back over to Michelle for details of the next challenge...

On to this weeks challenge - it's easy! Just take two colours!
the DT have done just that and here's their designs. Hope they inspire you to great things! Click on their names to find out how they were made.





Jill used:







Debbie used:






Stamps Kay used:


Aspects of Design No.56 Funky Flowers
Wording from Aspects of Design No.57 Funky Frames



Lisa




Stamp Lisa used:


Jo















Janet used:









Distress Inks - Worn lipstick and crushed olive


Vix


Vix used: Aspects of Design No.56 Funky Flowers, Starburst Stains Ramblin' rose pink & Hydrangea blue from the Victorian Bouquet set, Razzleberry Plum embossing powder & Broken China distress ink.


Michelle



Stamps Habico Oriental flowers and symbols
Ink Adirondak Denim

This challenge runs for 2 weeks until the 13th of August. Just add your details to the Inzlinkz and we can come and visit you.

Can't wait to see what you come up with!


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Thursday 22 July 2010

Challenge # 1 - Anything Goes

Hellooooooo and welcome to the very first Stampman Challenge! We are going to be running fortnightly challenges on every other Friday so I hope you can stop by and join in the fun! We've been very excited preparing for launch day so without further ado our opening challenge is an ANYTHING GOES THEME so a nice easy one.
Future themes can also be found in the sidebar :)

Just some pointers for you...

  • You can make any creation of your choice so long as it meets the challenge set.
  • You may enter more than once if your projects are entirely different i.e 1 card, 1 tag, 1 atc etc
  • You can combine with other challenges
  • Please link to your project not your entire blog
  • You can use any products so long as you follow the challenge
  • Have fun fun fun!!!

We're offering a £10 voucher to spend in The Stampman shop which is also free P&P for orders over £10 with many many items reduced in our Summer Sale!
We will also be choosing our Top 5 and our Special Gold Star award if you use Aspects of Design stamps.

The Design Team have been busy and itching to get going so here are our creations to inspire you, I hope you like :)







Stamps Lisa used:







Frankie used

Aspects of Design plate 56 funky flowers
Tim Holtz distress inks
Mixture of altered paper/fabric flowers including spring blossoms

Kay


Kay used:



Hero Arts Flowers and Leaves

Hero Arts Reversed Flowers and Leaves





Jo used







Jill Used:






Please link to your creation using the froggy link below. Thank You for entering and Good Luck!


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Monday 5 July 2010

Welcome to The Stamp Man Challenge Blog!

Our Design Team are all excited and ready to go with this new venture and we hope you will all join in too.  We will each be taking it turns to host the themes and will be posting the design team's work on each theme here when each theme starts to get the challenge going.

Our first challenge will be starting on 16th July, Vix will be posting more about that in due course.

In the meantime, please read the challenge instructions and help us advertise the challenges by posting the code for our blinkie (top RHS of sidebar) in your sidebars.

We hope you enjoy taking part in our challenges, we cannot wait to see all your work!

Jill Tuck
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Sunday 4 July 2010

Challenge Instructions

Our Design Team will each be taking it turns to host the themes and will be posting the design team's work here to get the theme going.  We will be using stamps that are available to buy from The Stamp Man.  You can use any design for your entry.

Future Themes
We are doing something a little different, people have mentioned that they don't have time to join challenges, well with ours you will have plenty of notice of our future themes so you can plan well ahead to join in which will make them more relaxed and less stressful.  You can plan them to suit your available crafting time, but you will need to wait until the relevant themes' start dates to post them.

Posting your entry
Your entry must be your own work.  Please place your post link and name with Inlinkz under the relevant theme.  After you have listed your link to your challenge entry with us, you are welcome to enter it into other challenges. Please link to your challenge entry not your blog as this will enable us to find your card easily.  To link to your challenge post NOT your blog link, first prepare your post, click on preview, this will give the link to the actual post in your browser bar, copy this into Inlinkz.  Also please include a link to our challenge on your blog post.

Prize
Our design team will be picking our Top 5 entries for each theme.  There will be a top entry for each theme, the winner will receive £10 of Stamp Man Gift Vouchers along with a blinkie to say they won the top prize, we will contact the prizewinner via their blog.  The remaining top 4 will receive a blinkie to say they reached our Top 5.  Entries that do not comply with our challenge rules will not be elible for the prize.

Please spread the word
We'd love and appreciate it if you could spread the word about our new challenges on your blog sidebars.  Please copy the code below the blinkie at the top right hand side of the sidebar for this, thanks in advance:)

Gold Star Award Blinkie
If you use any Aspects of Design stamps in your challenge entries, please take a Gold Star Award blinkie with our thanks for using our stamps!  You don't have to be in the top 5 to take the award.

So, the instructions in brief...
  • You can make any creation of your choice so long as it meets the challenge set.
  • You may enter more than once if your projects are entirely different i.e 1 card, 1 tag, 1 atc etc
  • You can combine with other challenges
  • Please link to your project not your entire blog
  • You can use any products so long as you follow the challenge
  • Have fun fun fun!!!
We're offering a £10 voucher to spend in The Stampman shop which is also free P and P for orders over £10 with many many items reduced in our Summer Sale!

We hope you enjoy taking part in our challenges, we cannot wait to see your work!
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