Sunday, July 28, 2013

Under the Sea - Final Week

This is the last week of our "Under the Sea" challenge.  Our sponsor for the month has been Eureka Stamps plus I have a cute little sea bottom stamp to give away as well.  You can jump right to mr. linky here.

Today I have wonderful email creations to share as well as the wonderful Design Team inspiration.

These next two cards are from Camping Barb.  I first met Barb at the Savanna Retreat in Illinois in 2012.  This is the same great lady that taught me the encaustic technique.










Now it is your turn to show us your own wonderful "Under the sea" scenes.  Please make sure your creations are finished projects like cards and tags and that the scene is focused on images under water.  
You may enter up to 3 times and as many challenges as you wish.  If you do not have a blog or account on Split Coast Stampers, then just email me a picture of the piece and I will add it to one of our posts.  

If you are not sure what constitutes a scenic project, check out the information here.


Don't forget to add GDT to your link if you wish to be considered for a guest spot. 

Have fun creating!
NancyD

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Under the Sea - Week 3

We are continuing our "Under the Sea" theme for the month of July and our sponsor is Eureka Stamps. if you want to skip down to Mr. Linky click here.



Have a look at all the wonderful Design Team inspiration and then have a go at your own "Under the sea" creation.


Anna-Karin - Layers of Ink







OK, so let's see your own wonderful "Under the sea" scenes. Please make sure your creations are finished projects like cards and tags and that the scene is focused on images under water.  

You may enter up to 3 times and as many challenges as you wish.  If you do not have a blog or account on Split Coast Stampers, then just email me a picture of the piece and I will add it to one of our posts.  

If you are not sure what constitutes a scenic project, check out the information here.


Don't forget to add GDT to your link if you wish to be considered for a guest spot. 

Have fun creating!
NancyD

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Under the Sea - Week 2

Our theme for the month of July is "Under the Sea".  This should be a fun challenge to show off our fish and sea creature stamps.


We are also honored to be sponsored by Eureka Stamps


We have several rubber stamp lines featuring over 10,000 designs. We have been offering our own unique stamps and supplies to the craft industry for over 15 years and have loved every minute of it! Keep an eye on our page as we have lots more designs to add!

At Eureka Stamps, our images are available as unmounted, deep etched, natural red rubber stamps OR as digital stamps.

Have a look at all the wonderful Design Team inspiration and then have a go at your own "Under the sea" creation.


Now it is your turn to show us your own wonderful "Under the sea" scenes.  Please make sure your creations are finished projects like cards and tags and that the scene is focused on images under water.  

You may enter up to 3 times and as many challenges as you wish.  If you do not have a blog or account on Split Coast Stampers, then just email me a picture of the piece and I will add it to one of our posts.  

If you are not sure what constitutes a scenic project, check out the information here.

Don't forget to add GDT to your link if you wish to be considered for a guest spot. 

Have fun creating!
NancyD

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Under the Sea Challenge

Our theme for the month of July is "Under the Sea".  This should be a fun challenge to show off our fish and sea creature stamps.


We are also honored to be sponsored by Eureka Stamps


We have several rubber stamp lines featuring over 10,000 designs. We have been offering our own unique stamps and supplies to the craft industry for over 15 years and have loved every minute of it! Keep an eye on our page as we have lots more designs to add!

At Eureka Stamps, our images are available as unmounted, deep etched, natural red rubber stamps OR as digital stamps.

Have a look at all the wonderful Design Team inspiration and then have a go at your own "Under the sea" creation.


Anna-Karin - Layers of Ink









Now it is your turn to show us your own wonderful "Under the sea" scenes.  Please make sure your creations are finished projects like cards and tags and that the scene is focused on images under water.  

You may enter up to 3 times and as many challenges as you wish.  If you do not have a blog or account on Split Coast Stampers, then just email me a picture of the piece and I will add it to one of our posts.  

If you are not sure what constitutes a scenic project, check out the information here.


Don't forget to add GDT to your link if you wish to be considered for a guest spot. 

Have fun creating!
NancyD

Winners - Forest Animals


Good sunny Sunday morning!

Winners, winners, winners is what I have for you this morning.  Actually all the entries were winners in our minds and we loved all 24 of them.



I always use Random.org first to find the winner of our prize so that I don't also call them a Top 3 winner. This time #13 - Jenn was selected in randomness.    


Reach out to me Jenn with your address and I will mail out your special stamp (my email address is in the upper right corner of this blog).  

You may also add this badge to your blog.




When we review all the great entries each month for the Top 3 we are looking for finished projects (cards, bookmarks, framed art, etc), and scenes that are stamped or digi'd with all the scenic elements mentioned in our rules.

Our Top 3 this month are:

#11 - Carla



Email Entry from Maureen


#18 Kathy





Congratulations to all!  I will be back in a few minutes with our next challenge.

NancyD

Friday, July 5, 2013

Forest Animals Email Entries

I have a number of email entries for you today.

Our friends Margaret and her daughter Dawn from the UK sent me their challenge entries via email.....



Great challenge for June, so both Dawn and I have been inspired to create a card.  We share all our stamps, so you’ll see that we’ve both used Lavinia’s “horse & foal” silhouette stamp, but our cards are quite different.  Dawn brayered her background using a Big & Juicy inkpad, and her forest is an Inkylicious stamp  (“The Coppice”).  Then she made a frame by  stamping Lavinia’s “Tree Root”, “Maple Leaf” and “climbing ivy” in versamark and dusting with perfect pearls in various autumn shades, and cutting to produce the border.



For my horse & foal card, I used Lavinia’s “Spring Trees” to form the forest and I sponged the background, as I don’t seem to get good results with the brayer just lately.  The foreground grasses are Clarity stamps.  The embellishment is some dried grasses that I collected and pressed myself.

To tie in with your theme, we decided to title our cards “new forest ponies” – the New Forest Pony is a breed of pony native to the UK and the New Forest is in Hampshire (southern England).  We’re not really sure whether Lavinia’s stamp is really meant to be a New Forest Pony but we’ve decided to apply some artistic licence!

My second card (Lonely Stag) uses Clarity’s “Split Tree” and “Small Stag, standing” together with foliage.


Hope you like our entries and we’re looking forward to the next challenge.

Kind regards
Margaret (and daughter Dawn) from Huddersfield, Yorkshire UK


Our Friends Gundi and Maureen from Texas sent these beauties....

Two more entries!   My friend Maureen's deer is obviously not proudly standing in the Texas woods!   Although maybe the Piney Woods of East TX???   No, we decided it must have been seen on a trip to cooler parts of the country!  She used stamps from Stampin' Up, and Prisma Color pencils.



Near Weatherford, "forest" is synonymous to "impenetrable green wall"!   Oaks and other deciduous trees, overgrown with vines...  Poison Ivy, tarantulas and copper heads, along with mosquitoes, will certainly keep people away...  We are in the third year of a drought, and on short road trip last week I "studied" the woods along the interstate - as well as one can observe while flying by at 65 miles per hour!  And I saw that the lack of rain has thinned the "wall", and in places, it was like looking into dimly lit rooms just beyond the edge of the forest...  A perfect place for a fawn to patiently wait...  The oak tree, oval frame, bell flowers, and bird are from Art Impressions, the fawn is from Embossing Arts, the weeds in the foreground are from Endless Creations, and the leaves in the "non-oak!" tree are from Rubberstamp Tapestry.  I used sponging for the background, and markers for the fawn and tree.


Thank you ladies for all your beautiful work.  These ladies do not have a blogs so you may leave your comments here for them to enjoy.

See you on Sunday with our winners and top three.
NancyD