The Stamp Man Challenge Blog: February 2011

Friday, 25 February 2011

Challenge # 17 Curls and Swirls theme

Hi, Sue here ! It's my turn to set the next fortnightly challenge from The Stamp Man! Thank you to everyone who entered our Hearts challenge, your work is absolutely amazing !

For this challenge we would like to see some Curls and Swirls ! I have to say I am addicted to curls and swirls so I was really excited to do this challenge !

As ever there's a brilliant prize to be had courtesy of The Stamp Man, so dig out your curls and swirls and show us what you can do ! Make sure you link to your entry at the bottom of this post. You have until 9pm on Thursday 10 March to join in.

Our Design Team have produced some stunning work for your inspiration, click on their names to see how they created their projects.

Sue

Sue used :
Aspects of Design - Classical Instruments
Tim Holtz Die - Elegant Flourishes
Distress Ink - Walnut Stain, Tea Dye & Vintage Photo
Tim Holtz - Vintage Market alphabet strip
Tim Holtz - Ticket Strip
Tim Holtz - Lost & Found paper

Kay

Stamps Kay used:

Aspects of Design No.56 Funky Flowers and No.58 Fancy Flourishes un-mounted stamp sheets

Lisa (O)

Lisa used:
Distress Inks-Bundled Sage, Spun Sugar and Worn Lipstick

Tim Holtz swirl stamp and swirl mask
Tim Holtz Tattered Florals & Swirl Sissix die
French Country Starburst Stains
Moonshadow Mist-Treasure Island Aqua
Cosmic Shimmer Embossing Powder

Lisa Sparkle

Lisa used:
Aspects of Design 40 Dragonfly Dreams
Distress Inks-Spiced Marmalade and Peeled Paint

Michelle

Michelle Used

Janet

Janet used

alcohol inks, perfect medium, silver embossing powder,

Tim Holtz shabby French flourish stamp

Brenda

Brenda used

Adirondak alcohol inks - gold, cranberry, meadow and red pepper
Tim Holtz stamps - Shabby French, Reindeer Flight
Distress Inks - barn door, aged mahogany, walnut stain
Cosmic Shimmer Mist - red firefly
Tim Holtz - Elegant Flourishes die

Please remember -
Your entry must be your own work and not be backlinked.
Please link to your challenge entry not your blog as this will enable us to find your card easily.
Also please include a link in your post to our challenge.
Please place your post link and name with Inlinkz under the relevant theme.
You may enter more than once if your projects are entirely different i.e 1 card, 1 tag, 1 atc etc
We are happy for you to enter as many challenges as you would like to.

You have until 9.00 pm on the 10th March to link your project below.

Good luck everyone.

Friday, 18 February 2011

Oriental Theme Winners

Hi All

In future we are going to post the Top 5/Winner of challenges on the alternate Friday, ie one week after the challenge closes. This will give us more time to choose the winner and further four to make up the Top 5 and allow all the Design Team to contribute to the outcome. So keep an eye out for the challenges you have entered.

Onto the real business for this week then. We had some beautiful cards and projects for the Oriental theme and it was very difficult, as usual, to choose the winner and top 5. Thank you for all your contributions ........

The top prize of £10 of Stamp Man Gift Vouchers goes to -

1 Sylvia Anne - Poppy's Papercraft Patch

Please can you contact Jill at thestampman@btconnect.com to claim your prize.

The other four who make up the Top 5 are ----

6 - Neil Walker - Neelz Expressionz

14 - Kate T - Craft Life

15 - Claire C - Claire's Crafty Creations

27 - Nancy - Windstar Creations

Well done ladies and gent! Please all of you take your blinkies from the sidebar:)

This is to remind you that the current challenge is a 'Hearts' theme and can be found at the post below this one. It would be lovely to see you join us if you haven't already done so.

Thank you all for entering and supporting our challenges.

Remember our challenges are open for 2 weeks and we publish themes ahead of time to give you plenty of time to take part.

Have a fab crafty week and do go take a look at the Stamp Man on-line shop to see what is currently in stock.

luv and hugs the Design Team xoxox

Friday, 11 February 2011

Challenge # 16 Hearts theme

Hello! Lisa here to welcome you to another fabulous fortnightly challenge from The Stamp Man! Thank you to everyone who entered our Oriental challenge, we had some stunning projects to browse through.

For this challenge we would like to see some Hearts! Not difficult as Valentine's Day approaches!!!!

As ever there's a brilliant prize to be had courtesy of The Stamp Man, so wear your hearts on your sleeves (well, your blogs anyway!) and link to your entry at the bottom of this post. You have until 9pm on 24th February to join in.

Our Design Team have been feeling the lurve and have produced some stunning inspiration to get you going. Click on the names to see how the team created their projects.

Lisa (Sparkle)