Craft Stamper TIMI Challenge - November - Take a Stamp

Hi everyone,

Today is the start of a new 'Take it, Make it' Challenge over at Craft Stamper, and the theme this month is 'Take A Stamp'.  This means you can enter ANY stamped creation you have made recently, be it a card, artwork, mixed media, anything.

I have taken an mdf bauble, which I painted in Indigoblu's Gee Sso Good black Gesso.  This is then left until completely dry, or flake can stick to it.  You can also use the black as chalk board paint, just make sure you do a few layers first.

I have then stamped Splattered Heart in Flitterglu, and used Chocolate Box Megaflake.  I stamped Dinkie Butterfly splat the same, but onto a piece of black stamping card, and flaked again.  I cut the centre's only out, cutting round the butterfly leaving a small flake border.  These were adhered with silicone glue.

All it needs is a pretty ribbon and you have a handmade bauble.  You can decorate the other side too, the same or different, so that when it turns on the tree you can see both sides.  Or you can add the date you made it, so you can keep it for years and always know.

Our sponsor this month is Magenta Stamps.

So head across to the TIMI challenge, check out the inspiration from the rest of the Design Team, and then join us and enter your creations.  Don't forget to check out the guidelines, and most of all, enjoy!

Have a good week,

Best Wishes,

Nikki
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Indigoblu Challenge Reminder - October - Time Flies

Morning all,

Today is reminder day for the Indigoblu Challenge, and this month the theme is 'Time Flies'.  I am sharing with you some of my previous makes for Indigoblu, that fit the theme, and give you some idea.  I love watches and cogs and clocks, so I have plenty of makes to choose from, but these are a few of my favourite. 

My first make is using the 'Time Flies' stamp set from Indigoblu, and is stamped with distress ink and coloured with distress ink, in first and second gen stamping all over, and in sections on the background.  It's then added to with some black stamping and layering of the card, and the sentiment.

My second piece for you is my favourite ever, I wear this all the time.  It's an Indigoblu fob watch bezel, with 6 or seven layer's of resin, containing cogs, stamping, music sheet, (yes, look closely), bits of megaflake, and embellishments.  The wings are created using the Script stamp, onto tissue paper, and glued to wire armature's.  It's then coated in several coats of resin to harden them.  Inside the fob watch, the word eccentric pops up, this was from the Sarah's Choice stamp set.

And my third piece is again distress ink and white embossing, using Music Sheet stamp set and Time Flies.  I used Vintage photo distress ink in varying levels all over the card, and stamped and embossed everything in white as a contrast.  Some embellishments are added and it's all layered up.

I hope this gives you a little inspiration for our Challenge, and you can see the ladie's inspiration HERE too.  

We would love to see your entries this month, please join us HERE.

All we need is that you use Indigoblu stamps in your design.

Good luck!

Best Wishes,

Nikki

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Craft Stamper October Challenge Reminder - Take a technique

Morning everyone,

It's reminder time at Craft Stamper again, in the Take it Make it Challenge.  This month the theme is 'Take a Technique, and comes from the new strapline of the magazine, Ink Stitch Paint Collage Print Paper.  And of course.. stamp!  

So take any of the above techniques (or all of them), include stamping somewhere on your piece, and enter the challenge!

We have two prizes on offer this month, the first is our sponsor prize. This winner will be chosen randomly from all of the entries in the challenge! The sponsor for October is

Calico Craft Parts

Calico Craft Parts create and stock an incredible array of MDF and greyboard laser cut shapes, soooo many to choose from, and such wonderful quality. From cogs and spiderwebs through to shadow boxes and ATB (Artist Trading Block) kits, there really is something for everyone!

 The prize this month is this wonderful selection of goodies:

We have: 

Top row left to right: 3" plain ATB cube kit, mini cogs style 1, geometric cut out ATC blank.
Middle row left to right: Mini fancy shapes 1 wood plaques, 2" square aperture ATB cube kit, mini crowns style 3.
Bottom row left to right: Fleur De Lis frame ATC blank, Mini butterflies style 3, Fancy cut out frame ATC blank.

Wow! Fabulous prize!

 Our randomly drawn winner will be one lucky person! 

Our second winner is our Design Winner. This winner is chosen by our DT, who all vote for their favourite design from all of the entries. This winner will have their winning project published in Craft Stamper Magazine, (with a 2 page spread of their very own!), they will have a GDT slot for an upcoming challenge, and will also feature in their very own Winners Profile blog post! 

This is my inspiration piece, a small canvas painted with studio acrylics, in bright pinks, yellow's, blue and white, accented in black.  There is a Tim Holtz rub on on there, Indigoblu sentiment stamps and the little question/exclamation mark, and my favourite stampotique girl.  I've edged the circles in fine liner pen, and drawn the border.  The large circle marks were added with a lid dipped in paint, and I've used an old credit card for the lines.  She is grounded on an old book page, and the flower stamp was from a magazine, stamped three times and cut out.

I had great fun making this, and I love the sentiment - it's very true you know!  

So we hope to see you at the Craft Stamper Blog, we'd love to see your entries to the TIMI challenge.

Good luck and best wishes,

Nikki

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Craft Stamper TIMI Challenge October - Take a Technique

Hi everyone,

It's the start of a new challenge over on the Craft Stamper Take it Make it blog.  This is what we need from you, and what you can win.

October Challenge:

'Take A Technique' 
Use one or more of the following processes in your art: 
Ink Stitch Paint Collage Print Paper
(and include stamping somewhere!)

 Show us how unique you can be, create anything your imagination cares to dream up! Share your cards, journal pages, layouts, 3D assemblage or whatever else takes your fancy. Your project can be any theme, any colour you want... as long as you've stamped somewhere, and used one or more of the processes listed above, then you're good to go!

We have two prizes on offer this month, the first is our sponsor prize. This winner will be chosen randomly from all of the entries in the challenge! The sponsor for October is

Calico Craft Parts

Calico Craft Parts create and stock an incredible array of MDF and greyboard laser cut shapes, soooo many to choose from, and such wonderful quality. From cogs and spiderwebs through to shadow boxes and ATB (Artist Trading Block) kits, there really is something for everyone!

 The prize this month is this wonderful selection of goodies:

We have: 

Top row left to right: 3" plain ATB cube kit, mini cogs style 1, geometric cut out ATC blank.
Middle row left to right: Mini fancy shapes 1 wood plaques, 2" square aperture ATB cube kit, mini crowns style 3.
Bottom row left to right: Fleur De Lis frame ATC blank, Mini butterflies style 3, Fancy cut out frame ATC blank.

Wow! Fabulous prize!

 Our randomly drawn winner will be one lucky person! 

Our second winner is our Design Winner. This winner is chosen by our DT, who all vote for their favourite design from all of the entries. This winner will have their winning project published in Craft Stamper Magazine, (with a 2 page spread of their very own!), they will have a GDT slot for an upcoming challenge, and will also feature in their very own Winners Profile blog post! 

I hope the prizes have given you all an incentive to win...... and how about some eye candy from the DT to give you some beautifully stamped  inspiration! As there are ATB cube kits in the prize, the DT thought they would share some ATB projects with everyone! The cubes used are the exact ones featured in the prize bundle.

*** Remember though, you can enter ANY KIND of project for this challenge! ***

So here is my inspiration piece, I absolutely love these ATB's, they glued together perfectly, and covered well.  You can paint them or paper them, ink them or texture them.  It's up to you.  Mine seemed to lend itself to a Christmas theme, although I might be a little early!

Firstly I used Flitterglu to glue my cube together.  It's not just good for flake you know!  As it's very tacky, it grabs well and holds strongly on mdf or ply etc.  Once glued, I covered all the sides in BoBunny papers from my stash, it's the gold and silver collection christmas papers, I loved the spotty but distressed look.  

Over this, I stamped Indigoblu's Limor Webber Ink Splats, in Stazon Spiced Chai, in 2nd gen stamping, and then some 1st gen.  If you are new to stamping, 1st gen (generation) is taking your stamp straight to paper after inking, but 2nd gen is stamping once on scrap, then taking it to your paper, to get a muted result.

I then stamped Indigoblu's brand new Christmas Icons, onto one of the patterned papers, again with stazon.  They were cut out and edged in ink, and layered onto the cube sides.

I used some lovely embellishments in scrabble letter style, for the Merry, and used Stazon's new Studio Glaze,  in Neon Amplify (it's white but heat it and it puffs up like snow!)  This was added to the letters and the edge of my cube, and the cube was distressed all round with Vintage photo distress ink to add to the aged effect.

Some lovely little feet were added, and my ATB was complete.

Hope you like it! 

Join us at Craft Stamper for some awesome inspiration, and remember you can enter any project into the challenge, as long as it fits the theme and has stamping on it somewhere.  It doesn't have to be an ATB, our  inspiration is just to show you what you can do with the fab prizes this month.

Good luck and best wishes,

Nikki

xxx

Craft Stamper September TIMI Reminder - Take a stamp

Good morning, hope today finds you well.  It's Craft Stamper TIMI challenge reminder time, over on the blog we have some more inspiration for you, and this month's theme is an easy one - take a stamp!  

We would love to see your stamped creations, you can check out the rules here, there aren't too many, I promise!

Our sponsor this month is:

STAMPlorations!

The Prize: Stamp Plate The Birds and The Blooms (pic below) PLUS two stencils!

STAMPlorations have also been incredibly generous and have supplied a coupon code for Craft Stamper challenge players to take advantage of free shipping from the store! The code is: CSTAKEITMAKEIT and is good for free shipping on orders over $20 (£12.90). The coupon will work all through September, and can be combined with any other STAMPlorations coupon.

My inspiration is using Indigoblu's brand new 'Clearly' stamp set, Triple Bauble.  These are excellent quality clear polymer stamps, designed by Lauren White for Indigoblu.  As you can see it's billed as a christmas stamp, but so versatile - lollipops or balloons I see!  

It's a two part stamp, you stamp the plain outline of the bauble in ink, and then colour it as you wish, and then stamp the second scribbly outline, in flitterglu, and you can add megaflakes, or glitter, it gives a lovely distressed outline.  Of course you could use ink for both parts, but the flakes show up so well.

I also used the scribbly outline to make a border around the card in megaflakes, I love the circles!

It's distressed and layered onto similar coloured card, and onto a card blank.

We'd love to see your designs, you can enter HERE.  

Don't forget to check out the Design team's individual blog's to check out how they made their projects too :)

Bye for now, have fun creating,

Best Wishes,

Nikki. 

xxx

Craft Stamper September TIMI challenge - Take a stamp

Hi all,

It's Craft Stamper TIMI challenge time, over on the blog we have some fab inspiration for you, and this month's theme is an easy one - take a stamp!  

We would love to see your stamped creations, you can check out the rules here, there aren't too many, I promise!

Our sponsor this month is:

STAMPlorations!

The Prize: Two stencils: Bold Florals, Leaf Print
Stamp Set: Boxed Blooms and Bold Sentiments

STAMPlorations have also been incredibly generous and have supplied a coupon code for Craft Stamper challenge players to take advantage of free shipping from the store! The code is: CSTAKEITMAKEIT and is good for free shipping on orders over $20 (£12.90). The coupon will work all through September, and can be combined with any other STAMPlorations coupon.

My inspiration for this month's challenge is a Journal page, showing one of my favourite thoughts..

If moth's like light so much, why don't they come out in the day?  

I used Dylusion spray inks, Indigoblu Gee Sso Good, (black and white), a credit card to make lines and lids to make circles, and Indigoblu's Grand Tour II stamps. 

We'd love to see your designs, you can enter HERE.  

Don't forget to check out the Design team's individual blog's to check out how they made their projects too :)

Bye for now, have fun creating,

Best Wishes,

Nikki. 

xxx

Indigoblu Challenge 31 - Frame it!

Hi all,

Today the new challenge is up over on the Indigoblu Challenge blog.  We have some awesome inspiration for you, and the theme this month is Frame It.

Our prizes are stamp plates of your choice from Indigoblu, and a guest spot on our blog!  We'd love to see your entries, and you can visit all our team's pages and see how they made their fab pieces.

All we ask is you use your Indigoblu stamps to enter.  You can find the rules here too.

My inspiration piece is a necklace I made from the fantastic new paper's from Indigoblu - Floral Vignette's.  These are strong, quality paper's that have a unique property in that the last item printed on them resist's paint, and creates an awesome effect for canvases etc.  I have used them in a different way, and cut out parts to layer up in this necklace, using resin.  The image is first coated in slap it on, to seal it, all around the edges and each side.  It's then glued into the bezel (my frame), and Amazing Clear resin added over three days to build layers and make it look like the butterflies are above the flowers flying.

Hope you like it.

Don't forget to check out what it's all about :)

Have a fab weekend, 

Best Wishes,

Nikki K.

xx