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


Stamps Kay used:

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





Michelle Used



Janet

Janet used
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.




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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 -
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
 
 
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
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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)




Lisa (O) used:




Brenda used -

Paper made by Jill at The Stamp Man using Starburst sprays and webbing spray. (Thanks Jill it is perfect for this box)




Vix used: Starburst Stains (Ramblin' Rose Pink), AOD 62 - Artistic Elements, Pearl white adirondack paint dabber

Jill





Aspects of Design 62 Artistic Elements stamp sheet
Moonglow embossing powder- Bougainvillea red teal
USArtQuest - Various Mica Flakes and Mica D'Lites


The winner / top 5 will be announced on the 4th March. So good luck and have fun.






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Monday, 31 January 2011

Winner of Challenge 14 - Distress

Good morning everyone.

It's Brenda here and I am so pleased to be able to announce the winners of my 'Distress' challenge.

We had 169 fabulous entries so it was really difficult to choose a winner and top 5. But here they are - - - - - - -

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


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

The other four who make up the Top 5 are ----
26 Linda Peo - Fun 2 B Mimi
63  Susan - Killam Creative
148 Maddy - Mad Imaginations

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

Thank you all for entering and supporting our challenges.
I hope everyone is getting an oriental card done to enter Sarah's challenge which is open until the 9.00 pm on the 10th February.
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 {brenda} and the Design Team xoxox
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Friday, 28 January 2011

Challenge # 15 Oriental

Thanks so much to the many, many people who joined us for our 'distress' challenge. This time we're going all 'oriental', a theme the talented design team have interpreted in some beautiful ways.

This week we also welcome a brand new team member! Lisa O enjoys scrapbooking and photography as well as gardening and can be found in her Craft Garden regularly :)  Her debut project is just stunning:



Lisa used:


Janet

Janet used:
Red archival ink
Oriental word peel offs - sale room

Frankie

Frankie used:


Jill used
Paper and Tassle from the Oriental Card Making Kit
USArtQuest Great tape
USArtQuest Medium Mica Tile
USArtQuest Mica D'Lites and Mica Flakes
Fan charm from the shop

Sarah

Sarah used:
Starburst Stains in shades of red and gold
Oriental patterned paper
dragonfly charm


Lisa (Sparkle)

Lisa used:
Scrunch technique with Icicle Creek Starburst stains
Non Sequitur Springtime in the Orient stamps
Embellishments from Oriental card making kit

Have fun going all oriental over the next two weeks and leave some love on the DT blogs when you bob over to see how they made their wonderful creations. You have until 9.00 pm on the 10th February to link your project below. The winner receives a £10 gift voucher to spend at The Stampman.  We have an 'oriental kit' available for only £7.50 over at The StampMan shop if you fancy playing around with some papers and embellishments, or check out our oriental section for stamps available in this theme. Our next challenge, starting 11th February, the month of love, is 'hearts' with the gorgeous Lisa Sparkle.

We are looking forward to visiting you to see what you have made.

From Sarah and the Design Team


Please click on the inlinkz link below to add your entry.






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Friday, 14 January 2011

Challenge # 14 - Distress

Happy New Year to all our lovely readers and challenge entrants, we hope you have had a good start to 2011 and that you have a wonderful year ahead.

Woo hoo it's Friday and another Stamp Man Challenge and this week it is me, Brenda, who is organising the challenge for you for the first time.

Thankyou to everyone who took part in our blog hop, challenge and award event for the last fortnight. You have really come up trumps with all the fabulous things we have been seeing from all around the world.

I couldn't be more excited to ask you to show us your projects this time that have been DisTresSed in some way. Just have a look at the amazing DT eye candy to see how versatile this theme is. Link your creation below so that we can come and see what you have been making and please link back to us from your blog post.


I have used -
Tim Holtz stamps - Weathered Textiles, Mini Classics, Shabby French
Alcohol Inks - Cranberry and Gold
USArtQuest  - Mica Tiles
Tim Holtz dies Elegant Flourishes and Heart Wings  (Grab some of these at reduced prices now)


Lisa used:
 


Janet used
Cuttlebug cogs and wheels embossing folder
Distressing tool


Debbie used
Tim Holtz Sizzix Bigz Die-Bird Cage and Tattered Florals
Heroarts Rubber stamp- Fabulous Florish
Idea-ology




Frankie

Frankie made a mini album and used such things as
Tim Holtz grunge paper
Claudine Helmuth sticky back canvas
Tim Holtz idea-ology various charms etc
Tim Holtz dies e.g. tag and bookplate
and
Tim Holtz key etc
Starburst stains - various

Sarah
Sarah created a double page spread in her journal, adding
some tiny snippets of artwork in clear plastic coin pockets.
She used:
Acrylic paint in blues and browns
Distress Inks in blues and browns
Distress Ink ReInker - Weathered Wood
Tim Holtz - cling mounted set - Mini Muse CMS 063
Tim Holtz tissue tape
lace


Michelle

I can tell you that the lovely Sarah is hosting the next challenge on the 28th January and her theme will be 'Oriental', so whilst you are distressing away, be thinking of your next project with us and don't forget the winner receives a £10 voucher to spend at the Stamp Man shop, so what are you waiting for? Happy crafting, have fun and we hope to see you linked below before 12.00 pm on the 27th January.

Have fun with distress techniques over the next two weeks and leave some love on the DT blogs. You have until 9.00 pm on the 27th January to link your project below.

We are looking forward to visiting you to see what you have made.

From Brenda and the Design Team




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Friday, 31 December 2010

Challenge # 13 The Stamp Man, Blog Hop, Challenge, and Award Event for 2010

Thank you to everyone who entered our anything goes tag challenge, so many beautiful tags!  The Top 5 will be announced soon and will be listed on the separate Challenge Winner’s page (under the header).

We are doing something a little different for Challenge # 13.  Last year we held our first awards event, the awards were for proudly presenting your best/favourite crafting project you feel you made during the year.   We are going to hold it again this year but we are linking it with our fortnightly Challenge. 

We would like you to join in the challenge, which is to show us your best/favourite project of 2010.  The award blinkie is just a nice random award for anyone that joins in.  Display your award blinkie on your sidebar with a link back to this blog.

The most important part of this is that we would like you all to have fun and enjoy taking time to look back on your crafting over the last year, so pick something you have made that you are particularly proud of and feel was your best/favourite work of 2010. 

We are also holding a blog hop!  As you go through the blog hop you will see that the ladies on the design team have shared their favourite challenge projects with you too.  Their cards are shown below as usual but visiting their blogs will give more details about their projects, also they will be giving you clues for a chance to win prizes!

For this challenge and the blog hop, prizes will be randomly picked and given to those that have completed the following
  • Join in the actual challenge with your best/favourite project linked with Inlinkz as usual
  • Take your award blinkie with pride and display it on your sidebar with a link back to here.
  • Follow your way around the blog hop in the order you are given along the way, collect all the letters/code you will find on each blog. Write these down then work out the answer when the blog hop is finished.
  • Leave a comment on ALL the blogs you visit in the blog hop 
  • Post our event blinkie onto your blogs or a post about the event with your best/favourite project
  • Email the answer to: thestampman@btconnect.com by 9pm (GMT) on Thursday 13th January 2011.  Please put blog hop answer as the email title
If you get carried away looking through the work on the blogs you visit and run out of time to complete the hop that day, make a note of where you stop and start again another day.  You have 2 weeks to complete the awards, challenge and the blog hop, so there is no rush to get to the end, enjoy the journey and admire the scenery along the way!

The blog hop will start at the Main Stamp Man blog, where you will also find out about the prizes!!!

After seeing photos of the prizes, leaving a comment and collecting your first letter, you will be asked to come back here.

Your second letter is a P

Your next blog to visit (your 3rd) will be Janet, Clarky J’s Play Space.

Have fun hopping!!

Have a very happy, healthy and prosperous New Year!!!

Jill

Jill
Distress Inks Stormy Sky and Pumice Stone
Hero Arts cling stamps CG144 Time to Stamp and CG186 Big Clock
Heart Wings Stamp from Tracey's AOD62 Artistic Elements stamp sheet
Tim's Alteration Gadget Gears Sizzix die,

Lisa
Stamps used:
Stampendous Agapanthus
Sentiment from Aspects of Design 61- Butterfly beauties

Brenda
Nestabilities Scalloped circle die
Tim Holtz Alterations Brackets die

Sarah


Sue used: 

Debbie used
Aspects of design Mens



Michelle Used
Habico Chinese Flower Set 2

Vix

Vix used: Alluring ladies stamp set & Sticky back canvas

Kay
Stamps Kay used:
Aspects of Design No.56 Funky Flowers and No.58 Fancy Flourishes
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