Saturday, June 30, 2012

June Challenge Winners!

After some deliberation I have for you the winner and top 3 for the June Beach Scene challenge!



Our random winner of the Rubbernecker certificate is....#61 Stamping Sue.


Please email me, Sue and I will connect you with Kittie so that you can order your stamps.


Once again we had a difficult choice to make.  All the entries were really great beach scenes.  You all should be proud of your creations. The top THREE winners are.........


#13 Sue Drees


#37 Theresa P


email entry from Margaret


Here is your badge ladies - display it proudly!

Thanks again to Rubbernecker and Kittie Kits for sponsoring our June Beach Scene challenge. Stop by on Sunday to find out the theme for July and see all the great inspiration from the design team. 

See you all tomorrow!
NancyD

Friday, June 29, 2012

Last day to enter Beach challenge!


Today is the last day to enter the Beach - "a bit of sand and water" challenge.  I have another email entry and this time it is from Margaret. 


Margaret wrote, 

"Margaret from Yorkshire here again with another card, This time for the Beach Scene challenge.  The stamps I used for this one were from Butterfly Kisses.  I used Versafine black to stamp the images and then water coloured using Distress inks.  Hope you like the card. "




Thanks Margaret!


I decided to make another card for the challenge as well.  This time I used a new background image from Digital Delights that has a built-in beach scene.  I added a couple of Wendy's characters to finish it off.




I hope you enjoy these last two creations before the challenge closes later this afternoon.  I'll be back on Saturday with the winners for this month!


Have a great day!
NancyD

Thursday, June 28, 2012

eMail Entry From Dawn

Hi everyone! Today I have an email entry from Dawn.  She wrote, 

"Dawn here again, from Yorkshire UK, with an entry for the June Challenge.  As luck would have it, there were some beach scene stamps as a free gift with a magazine this month ("Simply Homemade" magazine; stamps by www.emmaball.co.uk), so I thought I just had to use some of them to make a card for the Beach Scenes challenge - hope you like it."




Thanks Dawn!


There is just 2 days left in our Beach - "a bit of sand and water" challenge.  You can email an entry just as Dawn has done if you do not have a blog or Split Coast Stampers account.


You may enter up to three times (we love to see your creations!), but you must create a scene with images and the project must be completed (no unmounted work or ATCs).


I'll be back on Saturday with the winners for this month!


Have a great day!
NancyD

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Beach Scenes - Final Week


This is the final week of our beach scenes challenge.  Please remember it is a scene with a bit of sand and water.  You may use stamps or digis just as long as you focus on the scene.  


For those who wish to take a turn at a guest design spot, just add GDT after you name when you post your project.  I will be contacting you later this week to get you set up for your guest spot.


We have an email entry for this week from Barb G.




And from our design team this week......



Don't forget to check out our sponsor Rubbernecker and Kittie  Kits - Cause a Scene. Kittie has a great beach set of stamps that all work together to easily make a wonderful scene.





Nancy - Crafting Passions




Be sure to check out the links to our design team member's blogs so you can see more pictures of their creations and an explanation of how they made these wonderful scenes.

Ok, now it is your turn.  Let's see those beach scenes with a bit of sand and water.  You may enter up to 3 times and include as many challenges as you like.  Be sure your work is a new finished piece - no back linking.  You will find Mr. Linky here.


Have a wonderful Sunday!
NancyD

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Beach Scenes - Week 3

We are continuing our beach theme challenge for the month of June.  Please remember it is a beach scene with a bit of sand and water.  You may use stamps or digis just as long as you focus on the scene.  


We are also starting a new program of guest design team members. If you would like a turn as guest designer during the summer, just put GDT next to your name when you link up your creation.  I will contact you with a GDT date and your beautiful work will be showcased along side our design team. If you have already linked your creation just send me an email and you will be included.


Now, on to our inspiration for this week.


Don't forget to check out our sponsor Rubbernecker and Kittie  Kits - Cause a Scene. Kittie has a great beach set of stamps that all work together to easily make a wonderful scene.

Be sure to check out the links to our design team member's blogs so you can see more pictures of their creations and an explanation of how they made these wonderful scenes.


Ok, now it is your turn.  Let's see those beach scenes with a bit of sand and water.  You may enter up to 3 times and include as many challenges as you like.  Be sure your work is a new finished piece - no back linking.  You will find Mr. Linky here.


Thanks for stopping by. Have a wonderful Sunday!
NancyD

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Beach Scene - A Bit of Sand and Water

Yes, our challenge for the month of June is to create a beach scene with a bit of sand and water.  You may use stamps or digis just as long as you focus on the scene.  We have wonderful beach scenes from two of our new design team members for inspiration.


We are also starting a new program of guest design team members. If you would like a turn as guest designer during the summer, just put GDT next to your name when you link up your creation.  I will contact you with a GDT date and your beautiful work will be showcased along side our design team. If you have already linked your creation just send me an email and you will be included.


Now, on to our inspiration for this week.

Anna-Karin created this wonderful scrapbook page with her son running along the beach.
Don't forget to check out our sponsor Rubbernecker and Kittie  Kits - Cause a Scene. Kittie has a great beach set of stamps that all work together to easily make a wonderful scene.

Anja created this wonderful relaxing scene card.

Nadia (Dianna Scarlet) made this fabulously realistic scene with Stampscapes stamps.
Be sure to check out the links to our design team member's blogs so you can see more pictures of their creations and an explanation of how they made these wonderful scenes.


Ok, now it is your turn.  Let's see those beach scenes with a bit of sand and water.  You may enter up to 3 times and include as many challenges as you like.  Be sure your work is a new finished piece - no back linking.  You will find Mr. Linky here.


Thanks for stopping by. Have a wonderful Sunday!
NancyD

Sunday, June 3, 2012

May Winners, New Design Team and June Challenge


There is too much to post this morning!  We have winners for the May challenge, new design team members and a new challenge for the month of June.


A big thank you to our sponsor for the month of May, Zoe from Make it Crafty generously donated a gift certificate to her store.



Our random winner of the Make it Crafty gift certificate is.....#71 Terry Bardal.


Please email me, Terry and I will connect you with Zoe so that you can order your new supplies.


We had a wonderful 75 entries in the Spring Flowers challenge.  There were so many excellent ones to choose from.  You all should be proud of your creations. However, the top THREE winners are.........








email entry - Barb G

Here is your badge ladies - display it proudly!

Now on to the new design team.  We had many wonderful entries and it was fun to choose from such talented crafters.  Anja and Shaz are remaining on the team and now we have new friends to create with.  Let me introduce you to our new team mates:




My name is Anna-Karin and I have been doing arts and crafts my whole life, but papercrafting is the one that has totally captured my heart and mind. I have been making cards since 2002, when I got the idea of making my own Christmas cards. It turned out to be a brilliant idea and cardmaking has given me numerous hours of fun since then. I got my first stamp that same year and stamping is what I enjoy the most. My stamps are my absolute favorite tools and I love creating something using only white paper, stamps and ink. I love trying out new and old techniques, to experiment and try different products and tools.

Scenic stamping is probably my favourite type of stamping. It is so wonderful to be able to create my own natural environments and my head is full of scenes waiting to be stamped. I use Stampscapes, Sutter and sometimes also Beeswax stamps, also mixing in my other ‘non-scenic’ stamps into my scenes sometimes. I love all stamps, but if I had to choose, Stampscapes are my favourites. I was very happy when Kevin from Stampscapes published 6 of my scenes as idea cards.

After having posted my cards and layouts on Flickr and Two Peas for a long time, I started a blog last year, it’s a lot of fun.  I try to make scenic stamping more known by regularly including it in my design team work, as well as at the Stamping Board at Two Peas in a Bucket, where I have been an active member for a long time now.  My blog: www.layersofink.blogspot.com



Hi, my name is Nadia aka Dianascarlett.  I am mother of two kids, son Alexey 6, daughter Victoria 4.
I have been married for 17 years.  I was originally from Russia and now live in America since 1989.

I have been a crafter for about over 6 years now. I have two blogs, one is is Russian, one is in English. 

I recently started my own on  line scrapbooking materials store at ScrapAffair.  My blog: http://scrapaffair.blogspot.com/



Crafting is something I have always done in some form or another, but card making for about ten years. I am privileged to design and teach for companies here in the UK, as well as Animal Spirit Stamps in the States.  I also run a couple of challenges including a monthly one for Penny Black. Although I love to dabble in all things crafty, inking and brayering remain my favorite techniques and are what I teach and demo. Because my mobility is poor, crafting fills a good amount of my time, although I do work part time in my husbands office.


I love working with floral and silhouette stamps and creating scenes. I have a good number of Stampscape stamps, Lavinia and Inkylicious to name a few. I was trilled when you started your challenge as I find every time I do a demo, it is a style of crafting so many clearly want to learn but lack confidence so the inspiration offered by your challenge fills that void perfectly.  My blog: http://stamping-fantasies.blogspot.co.uk/



Ok, now to the part for which you have been waiting so patiently.


Our theme for June is Beach Scenes - a bit of sand and water.  Please remember that this is a scenic blog and we are more interested in the scene than any of the cute characters.  Your scene this month must include a beach with sand and water.


Here is what a few of the DT members came up with.  We will have posts from our new DT members next week.













Our sponsor this month is Rubbernecker Stamps with Kittie Kits.  Kittie was on our last design team and helped to arrange for this sponsorship.  Please check out Kittie's great scenic kits and all the other wonderful images at Rubbernecker.


Please check the rules on the side bar or on the rules tab before posting.  Have fun making your great beach scenes and I will be back next Sunday with more inspiration from our new design team.

NancyD