Hello Everyone ... Here are the results for the Background Challenge! The winner of the randomly drawn $50.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher is
74 Caro
Congratulations Caro ... 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!
5 Blackdragon
37 Christscrap
59 Anita Houston
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 Tags! ... and we have another $50 Simon Says Stamp voucher to give away!
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Monday, March 26, 2012
Simon Says Stamp and Show ... a Tag!
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 ... A Tag! If you want to join in the fun
... all you need to do is ... create a Tag! ... 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...
Tracy is paying homage to the fabulous new Charles & Amelia plate from Artistic Outpost to create an adventurous tag cut using the tag and bookplate die. Add into the mix plenty of Nostalgic Tissue Tape for interest in the background and plenty of metal in the form of Philosophy Tag and Screw Brads .
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, 1st April 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!
Tracy is paying homage to the fabulous new Charles & Amelia plate from Artistic Outpost to create an adventurous tag cut using the tag and bookplate die. Add into the mix plenty of Nostalgic Tissue Tape for interest in the background and plenty of metal in the form of Philosophy Tag and Screw Brads .
It's up, up and away this week with Candy's dimensional hot air balloon tag featuring Tim Holtz' new Remnants stamp set. Her background is done with Wild Honey and Vintage Photo Distress Stains with a touch of Broken China and Black Soot Distress Inks. Ideaology Foliage and Memo Pins create a lovely "FLY" flower garden below.
A lot of changes in life are on the way for Sarah and although she's not taken the plunge into Art Journalling she expressed her moods in a triptych of tags. Distress Stains, Distress Inks, a Signo Gel Pen and her favourite Wendy Vecchi stamps were her artistic tools.
Nancy is completely enamored with Prima's newest lines so she turned to Prima's Almanac paper stack and covered the tag before adding a bird ATC image from the same papers. A Prima wood ticket was added as well as a Prima clock face. Using a piece of Canvas Corp burlap, Nancy gathered the burlap creating a border at the bottom of the tag.
Spring is in the air....actually might be more like summer but whatever it is....Lynne is LOVIN' IT!! and it inspired her to create a "SPRING" tag!! She used LOTS on Distress Inks, Distress Stains and Perfect Pearls then pulled out her Melting Pot and Beeswax and COVERED EVERYTHING with wax....ohhhh the fun!!
Terry created a set of Party Tags for her daughter's birthday! She used the Tim Holtz Papillon stamp set combined with The Wendy Vecchi Just Flutterby Butterfly. Terry used lots of Rock Candy Crackle Paint and Crackle Accents on top to finish off these fun tags.
Dan used Promarkers to colour the 2 photocopied images he used as the focus on his tag. The stamps he used were from the At The Movies and Oddities stamp sets. After stamping the film strips, he masked them off and coloured the panels with Distress Inks and stamped over them, finally adding some water drops before fixing the two figures in place.
Ellen used color wash sprays to create a blended background, and then added stamps with paint dabbers and archival inks, a new sentiment stamp from Tim Holtz, some grapevine hearts and an idea-ology key, finishing off the edges with some zigzag stitching.
Using a Ranger Size 5 Manilla Tag as a guide I made a chain of tags out of White Card. I used Wild Honey Distress Stain and Dylusions Sprays to colour the background stamping some Tim Holtz background stamps in Vermillion. I then set about filling the tags with Dylusion Stamped images and doodles. I used my ProMarkers to colour the images in.
Wednesday, March 21, 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
230 Jane
Congratulations Jane ... 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!
89 Julia
210 Heidi
344 Manumama
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 Handmade Backgrounds! ... and we have another $50 Simon Says Stamp voucher to give away!
230 Jane
Congratulations Jane ... 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!
89 Julia
210 Heidi
344 Manumama
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 Handmade Backgrounds! ... and we have another $50 Simon Says Stamp voucher to give away!
Monday, March 19, 2012
Simon Says Stamp and Show Your Handmade Backgrounds!
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 ... A Handmade Background! If you want to join in the fun ... all you need to do is ... create something with a handmade background! ... 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...
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, 25th 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!
Lynne Forsythe
Sarah Engels-Greer
Candy Colwell
Tracy Evans
Tracy is on her travels this week and by hot air balloon too from the new Tim Holtz Remnants stamps, set against a background created adding Tim Holtz Nostalgic Tissue Tape; one layer of Claudine Hellmuth Studio Classic Teal paint, random layers of Vaseline (petroleum jelly) and then a top coat of Claudine Hellmuth's Traditional Tan paint to create a unique background. Add into the mix the handsome gentleman from Tim's Steampunk set and a little Idea-ology Sprocket Gears and Light Bulb.
Lynne created her background using Dyan Reaveley's ~ Around the Edge stamps. A bit of white and clear UTEE accented with Forever Green Perfect Pearls. To finish off her diecut tag, she inked up some diecut flowers with Distress Stains and misted them with various Perfect Pearl Mists!!
Sarah Engels-Greer
A little psychedelic retro-grunge! Sarah pounded Kraft Glassine Paper with Picket Fence and Pool Alcohol Inks before embossing with Retro circles and getting inky with Walnut Stain and her new Tim stamps. Random stitching and a Trinket pin finish off this funky card!
Candy Colwell
Candy loves Dyan Reaveley's products and features them in her first ever Art Journal pages! She created her backgrounds using various Distress Reinker colors and water in a Mini Mister. She also added texture by stamping with Studio Paints. Then the real fun began as Candy randomly stamped images from Dyan's fabulous stamps sets. The detail work was done using Tim Holtz incredible new Distress Markers.
Beginning with a simple tag and Ranger's metal foil tape sheets, Nancy embossed a background with a Cuttlebug Script embossing folder and Spellbinders Parisian Accents. After embossing, she used the Vintaj patinas and painted over the embossed metal, thinning the patina out with the glaze. Dark accents were added along the tag edges with alcohol ink before adding the stamped & embossed Graphic 45 image.
It's all about the BACKGROUNDS! Terry had that thought in mind when she made her Easter Spool. Lots of Vintage Photo, Crackle and Distress Crackle Paint were used. The background of the spool are made with Tissue Tape and the Easter Elements Bigz Dies from Tim Holtz.
Ellen created a handmade background with Dylusions sprays and stencils, some white gesso, and then added Dylusions stamps over the top with Ranger's new specialty stamping paper, accented with distress markers, perfect pearls, some colored hemp twine and a white pen.
Dan opted to make Claudine Hellmuth's Studio paints his focus for this challenge. Other products he used included the Royal Script stamp set and Paper Artsy's Man with Moustache stamp Walnut Stain distress ink and a black Versafine Onyx Black ink pad.
My background was made using Wild Honey Distress Stain; Dylusions Ink Sprays and then loads of background stamping with lots of Tim Holtz Ultimate Grunge and Pyschedelic Grunge sheets. I often start on A4 size and then chop down to the size I want. This week I have opted for ATC's and I got all funky with Dylusions Stamps.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Winners-day!
Hello Everyone ... Here are the results for the Bottle It Challenge! The winner of the randomly drawn $50.00 Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher is
10 Marianne
Congratulations Marianne ... 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!
5 Minxy
26 Heidi
40 Claire C
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 you make anything! ... and we have another $50 Simon Says Stamp voucher to give away!
10 Marianne
Congratulations Marianne ... 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!
5 Minxy
26 Heidi
40 Claire C
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 you make anything! ... and we have another $50 Simon Says Stamp voucher to give away!