Take It Make It Challenge: Winner's Profile!

Hello!

Welcome to our Winners Profile, showcasing the Design Winner of last month's Take It Make It challenge!

The very talented winner of the September 2019 challenge is:

Milka Gubo

find her here:

www.craftymilka.blogspot.com

Milka won the challenge with this beautiful card. We loved the wonderful vintage feel of the colour scheme, with a modern image providing a beautiful contrast!

We asked Milka a few questions about stamping (well, we are Craft Stamper after all!)

Q: How long have you been a stamper, and how did you get started?
A:

I’ve been stamping for 5 years. In summer 2013, when I moved to another part of Croatia, I accidentally ran into a cardmaking challenge and discovered a whole new world to me! First I worked with digital images. My first physical stamps were actually prizes I won in challenges I played.

Q: What are your favourite kinds of stamps, and do you have a favourite stamp company?
A:

My favourite kinds of stamps are cute and fun, but I also like elegant and flowery stamps and vintage style stamps.

My favourite stamp companies are: Clearly Besotted, Create a Smile, Gerda Steiner Designs, Jane’s Doodles, Lawn Fawn, Mama Elephant, My Favorite Things, Paper Smooches, Simon Says Stamp, Stamping Bella, Stampers Anonymous, Uniko, Your Next Stamp.

Q: Describe your style, are you a messy kind of stamper or a more 'clean and simple' kind of person?
A:

My style would be clean and simple, but I also like to step out of my comfort zone and create something “busy” or “messy”.

Q: What kind of projects do you like creating the most?
A:

I like creating CAS (clean and simple) and interactive cards the most.

Q: Apart from stamps, what is the one product you wouldn't be without when you craft?
A:

I love to colour and I couldn’t craft without colours (coloured pencils or ink pads).

We also asked Milka to share a couple of her favourite stamped creations with us, and tell us why she likes them so much. Here is what she has chosen:

"Watercolouring is my favourite colouring technique, but I wanted to step out of my comfort zone and try something I've never tried before: no line colouring with coloured pencils on Kraft. I was more than satisfied with my no line colouring and will surely do it more in the future. On this card I used Jane’s Doodles stamps" - Milka

https://craftymilka.blogspot.com/2019/07/hello-summer-card.html

"I love creating CAS cards and interactive cards. Combining those two with rainbow colours is a winning design for me! On this card I used a sentiment stamp from Lawn Fawn" - Milka

https://craftymilka.blogspot.com/2019/02/rainbow-circles-birthday-shaker-card.html

Congratulations on being our September Design Winner Milka, it was lovely to learn a little more about you!

Do YOU fancy having a winners profile all about you on the CS blog? 

The profile is part of the prize package for each Design Winner of our challenges. All you need to do is enter a creation into the challenge, then if you are voted Design Winner everyone will be reading all about you before you know it!

Take It Make It October Challenge: Inspiration

Hello!

Our October Take It Make It challenge is well underway... some stunning entries so far, we can't wait to see what else you lovely lot can dream up!

As ever, we have another wonderful selection of inspiration eye candy from our Design Team to share today..... but first a little reminder...

 ALL of our challenges this year are 'Anything Goes' stamping challenges!

So....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. As long as you have stamped somewhere on your project, then you're good to go!

We have two prizes on offer, as always. The first  will be randomly chosen from all the eligible entries of the challenge. To make sure your project is eligible to win, make sure you have followed our challenge guidelines. These can be found on our sidebar over here ---------->

and also in a tab under the banner at the top.

PLEASE REMEMBER: We only want to see ONE project in each individual blog post entry!

A set counts as more than one :)

The amazing prize on offer this month for the randomly chosen winner is..... (drum roll please..........) 

This week we have TWO amazing guest designers for you, sadly Maria wasn't able to share last month, so we're so happy to share today instead!

 So... brace yourself for some amazing art....

 Guest Designer: Maria Fischer 

Guest Designer: Ann Chuang 

Donna Gray

Elizabeth Robinson

Majo Wybranietz

Melina Dahl

Shirley Bampton

Suz Humphreys

STUNNING work :) 

We really hope you've been inspired to enter the challenge! You can find the link up tool on our blog post from last week right HERE! 

Blog Exclusive: Lotte Kristensen

Good morning!

 

In the November issue of Craft Stamper magazine, the uber talented Lotte Kristensen shared a stunning Little Beaded Gelli Journal with us. The magazine showed us how to get that Gelli printed look for the covers of the journal, today we're sharing how to create the journal itself!

Gab a cuppa, sit back and enjoy!

 Little Beaded Gelli Journal by Lotte Kristensen

ADDITIONAL MATERIALS FOR MAKING UP THE JOURNAL:

PaperArtsy Eclectica Mini 39 rubber stamp

Tsukineko VersaFine Ink Pad: Onyx Black

Bone folder

Narrow double sided sticky tape

Light green-blue embroidery thread and beads; sewing needle

Glue stick

Scrap pieces of white, Kraft and light blue card

STEP ONE

Take the pages which have been stamped around the edges, fold in half, and score the edge with a bone folder. 

 

STEP TWO

Stick double sided tape all around the edges, and diagonally across the page.

STEP THREE

Attach another piece of folded paper on top, and repeat as above until you have as many pages as you wish

 – I had about 25.

STEP FOUR

Make a piercing template as detailed in photograph, and use to make holes on the first and last page fold at 

the spine. I used a Posca pen to colour the spine, or you could just use some acrylic paint. Dry.

STEP FIVE

Cut a piece of embroidery thread around 75 cm long, tie a double knot at around 10 cm, and from the inside 

stick the needle through to the front. Add as many beads as it takes to span the spine, then stick needle 

through opposite hole to the inside of the back. 

STEP SIX

Go through the next hole, add beads and repeat with each set of holes until you have done the entire spine. 

Work back through the holes and beads until you return to the top, strengthening the beadwork, and returning 

to the beginning.

STEP SEVEN

Add beads as you like to both ends of the embroidery thread, secure the ends by going back through beads 

already done, tie a knot, go through a few more beads and cut thread.

STEP EIGHT

Take the piece of A5 paper which has been stamped over its entire surface, and cut in half. Attach a piece 

front and back, using double sided sticky tape.

STEP NINE

Stamp the Eclectica mini stamp onto white paper and trim. Layer onto Kraft, then blue paper and glue onto 

the front of the journal. And we're done! 

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Thanks so much Lotte! We just adore the colour scheme, the layers and the fact that you've made the whole 

thing from scratch! 

The whole article, including a step by step guide on how to Gelli print the pages, can be found in the 

November 2019 issue of Craft Stamper Magazine.

 

Take it Make It Challenge: October

Welcome to the October Take It Make It stamping challenge!

Take a stamp and make something amazing!

All our challenges have an 

Anything Goes theme.

That means you can create whatever your imagination dreams up, as long as you have used a hand stamped image on your creation somewhere!

We would love to see cards, art journal pages, ATC's, ATCoins, canvas, 3D projects, layouts, jewellery, planner pages etc etc. The list is endless, create something you love and then share it with us!

Any themes, any styles, any colours. You may use whatever brands and products you wish.

We have TWO winners each month. Firstly, we have our Design Winner. This winner is chosen by our design team, who vote for their top three favourites from all eliglible entries. Whichever design gets the most votes is declared the winner!

The Design Winner of the challenge will be featured across a double page spread in Craft Stamper magazine, will recieve a winner's profile post here on the blog, and will have a Guest Designer slot in an upcoming challenge. Such a nice way to get you and your art noticed!

The second winner is our randomly chosen winner. This winner is selected at random from all eligible entries, and wins the Blog Challenge prize. This month, the prize is.....

 In order to be eligible to win EITHER prize, the project submitted must abide by our challenge guidelines. The guidelines can be found by clicking the tab at the top of the page, or to the right in our sidebar. PLEASE take a look and make sure all guidelines are followed before you submit your entry. The most common reason we have to exclude an entry is because the blog post linked to has more than one project in it. Please remember we want to see one project per blog post, not a set or a group, no matter how similar!

We hope the wonderful prize has tempted you to enter!

Our wonderful design team have created some stunning art to share with you, you can see some today, and some next Friday in our Inspiration post :) 

Enjoy!

Cheremane Smith 

 

Elina Stromberg

Ellie Knol

 

Linda Walmsley 

 

Mandi Mance

 

Preeti Datta

 

LOVE the wonderful array of projects! Thank you Design Team :) 

So.... have a read of the guidelines, create something amazing and upload it so we all can see. Can't wait!