October challenge - Warm Autumn Colours

Good morning to you all, it doesn't seem possible this is our October challenge, where has the year gone ? We are keeping it all very seasonal this month and going with the theme of......................

********Autumn********

Lots of ways to interpret this one, it can be just the lovely warm Autumnal colours on your own favourite image, or trees and leaves, it's up to you and remember you can enter three different pieces of artwork and combine with other challenges.

Our lovely sponsors this month are Imagination Crafts and as you will see some of the team have used their products. They are offering one lucky winner a £35 voucher to spend at their on line store.

Imagination Crafts is run by a dedicated Craft Partnership with over 30 years of crafting experience.  We work with a network of nationwide Artists to produce our own range of  Rubber Stamps.  Through our Web Site we aim to provide you with inspiration through originality.  All our rubber stamps are from orignal artwork, our creative ideas using inks, powders, colour and techniques are here to inspire you. We are the UK's leading supplier and stockist of Rollagraph Products most of which are exclusive to us. 

We attend Craft Shows nationwide where we carry a huge range of Rollagraph products as well as our own. Our Show Demonstrations are truly inspiring, we support your interest with Step-by-Step ideas for using the products you buy and we welcome photography of our fantastic Samples and ideas.  Our projects frequently feature in the Craft Magazines and we are happy to share our knowledge and ideas with our friends and customers.  We enjoy problem solving so ask questions and we will try and find the right answer for you and most of all we look forward to meeting you and sharing our crafting ideas!

We have the lovely Kari joining us as this months Guest Designer, you really must pop over to her blog and take a look at her lovely creation. Here is the Autumnal card she has made to share with us all...........

And here are the lovely inspirational pieces from the Design Team, as always they have created some stunning pieces of artwork...................

Brenda
Using Chrysanthemum stencil and copper paste from Imagination Crafts onto a hand stamped background




Eret

Joan

Imagination craft decoupage stamps

Imagination craft  Bullrush stencil and distress inks

Lynne
Using Imagination Crafts Decoupage Stamp Set - Lillies

Maddy

Pinky

Sally
Using Leaf swirl stencil and Decoupage stamp set - leaves

Tracy

Good luck to you all and we look forward to seeing all your lovely Autumnal creations.

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September winners

It's been another fabulous month here at Stamping Sensations and myself and the Design Team have loved seeing all your wonderful entries, thank you so much. So many variations on the wings theme and as always we have had a very difficult time selecting our winner and Top 3 but we did get there eventually and I am pleased to announce that our September winner is.....................

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Gerrina

A fabulous fusion of colour, stenciling and stamping

Congratulations Gerrina, please mail me and I will send you voucher so you can go shopping. And don't forget to collect our winners badge to display on your own blog.

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

Brenda B

Such a pretty ethereal scene

Hazel

A stunning background

Andrea

We couldn't resist this pair of Robins

Very well done to you all, please collect our Top 3 badge to display on your own blogs.

I will be back on Sunday with a new challenge and another great prize.

Treeaholic Sal

Good morning, it's time for our mid month inspirational post and for the next few months each of the Design Team will be sharing their favourite five stamps, explaining what it is about them that appeals to us and also making a card with one of those stamps.

Our first DT to share her favourites is Sally and to those of us who know her it will come as no surprise to see more than one or two trees among her choices. Sal and I decided long ago that some of us suffer a rarely heard of affliction known as a Treeaholic, so I will now pass you over to my fellow Treeaholic.................

Our challenge is to choose our 5 favourite stamps and make something including some or all of them. It was so hard to choose only five! I had about 8 trees on my shortlist!

Here is my card...

Sally

I used my ink dusters to create the background with memento inks in dandelion, Rose bud, Danube blue Tuxedo black and Elderberry
Here are my stamps - I think this is the order I would choose!


 All of my favourite stamps are from Inkylicious.

I realise there are a couple of sets here, but if I have to choose just one from each set, it would be the biggest Northern Pine, the top buzzard from the Old Beech tree set, and the grasses from the picture perfect set !

September challenge - Things with Wings

Good Morning to you all, I hope you are ready for a new challenge which this month is..............

******Things with Wings******

A popular one I am thinking with so many options available, butterflies, birds, fairies and so much more.

As always you can enter up to three times, combine with other challenges, all we ask is that as our name suggests we do want to see some stamping as a focal element of your work, entries not fitting that requirement may well receive comments from the DT but not be eligible for the prize and Top 3 spots.

We are pleased to welcome back Crafty Devils as this months sponsor who are offering a £35 store shopping voucher to this months lucky winner.

Crafty Devils are one of the UK’s leading paper craft specialists with over 10,000 card making, scrapbooking, stamping and die cutting products on line. We aim to bring you the latest high quality products from all over the world, supplying quality branded products including Spellbinders, Marianne Designs, Molly Blooms, Tim Holtz, Ranger, Docrafts, Papermania, Promarkers, plus lots more at the lowest prices around and FREE postage to all UK postcodes for orders over £12.

Before we move on to the work from the Design Team I would like to introduce you to our new DT Joan, she has been a regular entrant to our challenge and has also been selected as a winner and we are so pleased she agreed to join our happy team. I know you will be inspired by her work.

Now onto some inspiration and once again the girls have pulled out all the stop and come up with some stunning pieces of artwork, as has our Guest Designer who this month is Dora who has made this beautiful card.................

And here's what the rest of the team have come up with, do pop along to their individual blogs and see that they have used to create their artwork.............

Brenda

Eret

Joan

Lynne

Maddy

Pinky

Sally

Tracy

Happy crafting and we look forward to seeing all your lovely entries.

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August winners

Good morning to you all, what a bumper month August turned out to be with over 350 entries, thank you all so much, you have no idea how much myself and the Design Team enjoy looking at all your lovely work.

As you might guess with so many entries it's been extra hard choosing our winners, but decisions had to be made and I can reveal that the lucky winner is...............................

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Debbie

We loved your stencil work and pretty muted background

Congratulations Debbie, please mail me so that I can arrange for your prize to be posted off to you and don't forget to collect our winners badge.

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

Mary

A super coastal scene

Lis

Beautifully coloured image

Jackie
Super Vintage photo box

Well done to you all, please go grab our Top 3 badge to display on your own blogs.

I will be back again on Sunday with a new challenge.

Inspiration from Eret

Good morning.   I hope you all had a good weekend. Here in the UK Midlands the weather has been a bit changeable, with wind, rain, sunshine and lots of rainbows! 

Today we have some inspiration from Eret who is sharing two of her favourite creations from the past year.  Over to Eret.......................

Here are my two favourite projects from last year.

I chose first one because it was really interesting to figure out how to put it together and I love the effect from the different embossing powders. They give a look of worn leather. I always enjoy making flowers and  adding them to my project. I shared this suitcase in June. There are also link to the full instructions and the template. The best thing about this suitcase is that it can also be used as a box.

My second project is from February.

It had to be an easel card. This is my favourite card fold type. On this card for the first time I used  embossing powders to colour the flowers. They don't look very realistic but I still love the result. It's fun to experiment. You never know what will come out.

Thanks Eret! What great projects!  Our Anything Goes challenge runs until 3rd September, so there is plenty of time left to enter.

Sally x

August challenge - Anything Goes

Good morning to you all, time for our August challenge which is a day early as I am off on my holidays and wanted to make sure it posts OK before I go. We have kept the theme nice and simple as crafty time always seems limited during the holiday months......................

********Anything Goes********

As always you can enter up to three times, combine with other challenges, all we ask is that as our name suggests we do want to see some stamping as a focal element of your work, entries not fitting that requirement may well receive comments from the DT but those entries will not be eligible for the prize and Top 3 spots.

Tonic Studios are our lovely sponsors this month, they are synonymous with quality and precision cutting products from scissors to punches, guillotines to dies and also a range of clear stamp sets and design paper pads as well. Their products are available from many High Street craft stores and frequently feature on Create and Craft TV. Here is the wonderful prize of  the newly released matching punch and die set Twisted Twine 674e and 584e with a rrp of £39,98....

Now for some inspiration from the Design team and we start this months Guest Designer Joan................

Brenda


Eret

Lynne
Using Tonic Studios Celtic Circle die & Celtic Strip punch

Maddy

Pinky

Sally

Tracy

Happy crafting everyone and we look forward to seeing all your lovely entries.

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