Hello!
I am very excited to announce.... *cue drum roll*..
The brand new June Challenge!
We
loved all your potato stamped entries last month, who knew the humble spud could produce such fabulous stamps! We can't wait to see all the projects featuring this
months theme!
What Can You Win?
For the June challenge, we are delighted to be sponsored once again by Indigo Blu!
Indigo Blu are UK suppliers of wonderful rubber stamps, gilding flakes and glues, not to mention a huge selection of crafting goodies!
The prize for the June challenge is this fabulous stamp plate, plus a tube of Kroma Crackle. perfect for adding texture to your art work!
PLUS:The Design Team will have a look at all your gorgeous work, and choose
their Top Three..... and the overall Winner will get published in Craft
Stamper magazine! Yes, the winning
entry will appear in the UK's number one stamping magazine!
AND: The Challenge winner will be offered a Guest Designer spot for an upcoming challenge!
So, to recap....A gorgeous Indigo Blu stamp plate, Kroma Crackle, publication AND a Guest DT spot? Sounds good to me!
Now for the Challenge details!
We want to see how you lovely lot tackle a technique showcased in Craft
Stamper
magazine.
Hels Sheridan has a wonderful project in the July issue, showcasing a technique she has invented called Bleach Blocking.
So, we would love to see your creations using
The Bleach Blocking Technique!
Bleach Blocking? This is a wonderfully simple, but oh so effective way to create a background. Simply colour your cardstock with Distress Inks, then remove some of the ink using a clean, damp blending tool. Because you have a rectangular blending tool, the 'bleached out' areas will appear in blocks!
Along
with some of the regular Craft Stamper DT, the Take It , Make It DT
have created some
fabulous eye candy using the bleach blocking technique.
If you click on the
artists name, it will take you to their blogs, where there may well be
loads
more pics of these gorgeous creations!
Have we inspired YOU to have a play and enter? Yay!!!
All you need to do now is have a read through the boring (but essential!) rules
and guidelines, then upload your entry using the Linky tool at the end of
the post! Can't wait to see what you create!
Do you love our challenges as much as we do? Feel free to grab the button and display it with pride!
Guidelines for Craft Stamper Take It, Make It Challenge
- Entry dates: Friday June 6th 2014 - midnight Wednesday June 25th 2014
- Winner to be announced in a
blog post here: 9am Friday June 27th 2014
- All entries must feature the Bleach Blocking background technique.
- All entries must contain stamping.
- No digi stamps please, unless
combined with actual stamping.
- Projects can be of any theme, any colour.
- Projects can be a card, layout, journal page, art panel, tag, 3D item, anything at all, as long as it follows all guidelines and features that months technique.
- The winning entry MUST be
posted to the magazine for photography before it can be published. Please
keep hold of your entry, we cannot publish in the magazine images sent via
computer.
- Entry is via the linking
tool at the end of the post. We are very sorry that we can't accept email
entries to this challenge. Please provide deep links to your actual
project post, not just a link to your blog (to do this, click
on the title
of the relevant blog entry and copy/paste the URL in the relevant
box when uploading your entry). The DT will not go searching your entire blog for the project we want to
see!
- No backlinking.
- New work
only please, not work previously published anywhere else.
- Entry is welcome from
anywhere in the world.
- Multiple
entry is welcomed, as
long as each project has a separate blog post, is original, and
fulfills all the entry requirements. One project per post please!
- Entries can be combined
with other blog challenges.
- An obvious link back to the Craft Stamper Blog must be included in your blog post.
- The July 2014 challenge will
be announced here on Friday July 4th 2014, at 9am.
PLEASE consider turning off word verification on your
blog. It is very difficult for the DT to comment on as many blogs as we would
like to when word verification slows us down!
Competition rules: Competitions/giveaways are
open to all (including overseas readers) except employees of Traplet
Publications Ltd and their families; regular contributors to any of Traplet
Publications’ magazines; employees of our printers; or anyone connected with
the prizes offered. By entering the competition you accept that your project
may be printed in the magazine. All entries must be received by midnight on the
specified closing date. There are no cash alternatives and prizes are
non-transferable. We reserve the right to use the winners’ name/work in any
Traplet-produced literature including, but not exclusive to, our website and
marketing materials. Judges decision is final and no correspondence will be
entered into.
Congratulations Elaine!
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