Desert Island Crafting

Good morning to you all, time for some mid month inspiration which this months sees the start of a little bit of fun with our Desert Island Crafting where each month we will feature one of the DT. Each will be allowed six items of their choice, for the colouring medium they are allowed five colours but need to explain their choice and in addition each can have 50 sheets of cardstock

This month it's the turn of our Tracy and you will see below her items of choices and also another lovely card from her:

My six essential Desert Island crafting items are:-

1) Colouring Medium (we are allowed 5 colours) - Distress inks - Brushed Corduroy, Stormy Sky, Worn Lipstick, Shabby Shutters, Mustard Seed.

I chose distress Inks as I can use them to colour images and to ink around edges, and as a versatile colouring medium I can mix colours to make colours, hence my colour shade choices.

2) Guillotine - I'm a bit of symmetrical person and have to have straight lines

3) Collall - all purpose glue - it just sticks anything and could complete a full card using that as the only adhesive.

4) Flower Punch - being partial to my handmade flowers on my cards one of these would be a must for me to embellish.

5) Stickles Diamond Dust this is my favourite and I love my sparkle

6) A set of House Mouse stamps - they are my all time favourite stamps

In addition we are all allowed 50 sheets of cardstock of our choice - I would choose 25 sheets of white as I could colour stain them with inks, then 25 sheets of assorted pastel colours as I like pastels best.

I know I'll have forgot some kind of essential

Tracy x

Thanks so much Tracy, I had a feeling those little mice would make an appearance.

There is still plenty of time to join in with this months challenge where we have an option theme, Tracy's sketch and/or summer colours an as always you can enter up to three times to increase you choice of wining the fabulous prize from Little Claires who are this months lovely sponsor.

July challenge

Welcome to our July challenge where we are pleases to introduce a fabulous new sponsor Little Claire Designs and of course a great new theme.

But before I tell you about that I have some bad new and good news to share, our lovely Pinky is taking a few months break to concentrate on family and her card making business which has become rather busy lately. We will all miss you so much Pinky and your lovely cards, but understand you need to take time out and really hope you will be back with us again soon.

But that does bring me to the good news, we have decided to increase the DT to eight and I am so thrilled to announce the new crafty girls to our team Eret and Maddy. Both have been regular's at Stamping Sensations over the years and have both been challenge winners so it was an easy decision to invite them to join us. I hope you will join myself and the DT in giving them a very warm welcome.

So now for our theme which is an option, a lovely sketch designed by our own Tracy and Summer colours. This means you can use just the sketch, just summer colours or combine the two, it's up to you completely. 

Now to introduce our sponsor..........................

‘Little Claire is a team of 3 consisting of Gill (Little Claire) Steve and Carol (long suffering member of staff/friend/all round good egg!) ‘Necessity is the mother of invention’ this is the saying that sums up the creation of Little Claire Designs.


We love stamps and what better way to satisfy the stamping ‘urge’ than to create our own designs exactly as we want them!

Our products are designed and manufactured here in the UK and we get really excited when an idea comes to fruition and ends up as a real live stamp and is translated into a beautiful card.  And talking about beautiful cards, we are very fortunate to have a wonderful team of designers who are very loyal and supportive to Little Claire and they make the most amazing card samples which in turn help to sell our stamps & accessories, thank you to our ‘Teamies’ x

So this is us, we are always moving forward, constantly thinking of new ideas, sketch book always to hand, we love what we do and hope you do too x’

And now for some inspiration from the design team and this months Guest Designer who we are very pleased to welcome................Marianne, who has made this delightful card.............

Brenda

Francesca

Eret

Lynne
Using Little Claire's "Swirly Whirlies Owl Family" (part of stamp)

Maddy

Sally
using little Claire's Cherish, Hug, Dream stamp set

Tracy

Good luck with the challenge everyone and myself and the DT are really looking forward to seeing all your lovely creations this month.

June winners

Morning Peeps and a really big thank you for all your fabulous entries to our June challenge, so many of them and each one special in their own way.

With so many to choose from it was really tough coming up with our favourites, but we got there in the end and the lucky winner of the fabby prize from our lovely sponsor Heartfelt Creations is..................

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Primia

Isn't this so beautifully soft and delicate

Congratulations Primia, please mail me with your full name and postal address so I can arrange for your prize to be posted to you.

And our top 3 are actually a Top 4 this month an there was a tie and with so many entries we though it only fair all four of your were mentioned...........................

Kari

What a wonderful creation for a lucky couple

Janice

Such striking colours and composition

Ellen

A lovely array of blossom and butterflies

Misti

So very elegant and stylish

Well done to you all and well deserved recognition, please grab yourself our Top 3 logo to display on your own blogs.

I will be back Sunday with a new challenge and another fabulous sponsor.

Meet Ruth

Hello Peeps, today I am here to introduce you to another member of our DT members - Ruth, you know that little fly on the wall reveal where they tell us a bit more about their favourite crafting techniques and products.

Our theme this month is Summer Blooms and is proving very popular and no surprises really considering the fab prize on offer from Heartfelt Creations.

When did your love of stamping begin?

As soon as I started to make cards. I started off just using punches but quickly moved onto stamping.

What do you enjoy most about it?   

Being able to use different colours or types of ink etc to achieve lots of effects from one stamp.

What is your favourite make of stamp ?  

Honestly....Tonic Studios!! Just look at my blog!

What is your most used stamp/product and why?  

 I think I would have to say flower stamps. I just love them.

What colours to you most enjoy working with ?    

My favourite colour is turquoise but I think I am drawn more to pinks and reds when stamping.

What inspires your designs?   

 Most definitely nature.

Thanks for popping in and don't forget you still have a couple more week to join in with this months challenge, or if you have have already done so why not enter again to be in with an even greater chance of winning this months fab prize.

June challenge

A very good morning to you all and welcome to our June challenge here at Stamping Sensation. This month we have another wonderful sponsor Heartfelt Creations whose products most of you will be familiar with from your local craft store or Create and Craft TV where their stamps and dies are regularly featured. 

As always we welcome any form of hand crafted project providing it follows the theme which this month is...........

********Summer Blooms********

I was lucky enough to be introduced to our sponsors innovative matching stamp and dies sets at CHA a couple of years ago and can recommend the quality of their products, since that time their range has widened and offers something for every occasion in your crafting calendar. 

Heartfelt Creations provides a unique line of artistic stamps, detailed dies and designer papers. Many of our stamps coordinate with our exclusive Spellbinders™ dies. The innovation of our stamps paired with matching dies offers a whole new dimension of possibilities and quickly adds eye-popping 3D depth to any project. Our designer papers are designed to coordinate with our product collections adding the perfect complement to any Heartfelt Creations stamp or die. And here is the fabulous prize on offer which is so complimentary to this months theme.

We are thrilled to welcome Eret as our Guest Designer this month and she has created another stunning card to share with us all..................

Brenda
Using Heartfelt Creations Chateau Window die set

Francesca

Lynne
Using Heartfelt Creations Dutch Iris

Pinky

Ruth

Sally


Tracy

Have fun with your floral creations and we look forward to seeing all your entries.

May winners

Good Morning to you all, I am just popping in to announce the winners of our May challenge.

The were awesome really awesome entries and myself and the DT thoroughly enjoyed looks at all your work, our thanks to you all for joining in again this month. But as always decisions had to be made and I am pleased to announce this months winner is............................

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Marianne

Just look at all that lush texture and embossing

Well done Marianne, please mail me with your full postal addy so I can arrange to get your fabby Tonic prize off to you. You can also go pick our our winners logo to display on your own blog.

And our Top 3.............................

Dot

What a fabulous shadow box

Birgit

Elegant and vintage cleverly combined

Carol

CAS sophistication

Well done all of you, well deserved recognition, please do grab our Top 3 logo for your own blogs.

Don't forget to pop back Sunday for our brand new June challenge.

Mid month inspiration

In our May mid month post we are spotlighting on Franceasca and you can read a little about her crafting below. She has also created another lovely card following this months Embossing and Texture theme, looks like some stamping onto fabric there Francesca, very nice.............

Here are her answers to the questions put to the DT..................

Q) When did your love of stamping begin?

A) I started stamping in 2004 when I couldn't find any wedding invites I liked my friend suggested I made them after hours of looking on the internet I found a stamp I really liked, bought it, made my invites and have been creating since.

Q) What do you enjoy most about it?

A) How one stamp can look so different depended on the way you use it .

Q) What is your favourite make of stamp ?

A) Wow this is hard I do have a lot of different  stamps that I adore mainly anything cute. 

Q) What is your most used stamp/product and why?

A) My most used product must be my copic pens I will use them on most cards and love spending time colouring.

Q) What colours to you most enjoy working with ?

A) My favourite colour combination is pink and green it can be used for so many different occasions.

Q) What inspires your designs?

A) Everything can give me inspiration, if I am making the card for a specific person I get inspired by their likes.

Thanks for looking everyone and if you have not already joined in this month I really hope you will do so, there is still a couple of weeks to get your thinking cap on.