SanDee&amelie's June 2020 Steampunk Challenge

Hi, servus and welcome to our June challenge, dear steampunk and industrial style crafting friends!

I hope you are all well and safe and on your way back to (almost) normal in and after these crazy times!
Our June challenge is - once more - an

Anything Goes - Steampunk/Industrial

one - so you are free to create what brings you joy (as long as it fits the steampunk or industrial theme and follows our few challenge rules of course).

Our wonderfully generous and true sponsors DecoArt and boozybear are with us again - so the two prizes will be given away as usual after the challenge has ended. As always we will be picking our Top 5 and randomly drawing our prize winners among all proper entries after the challenge has closed at the end of the month and announce these on the 15th the month after.

Having said this, let's head on to the makes of my wonderful design team! If you want to learn more about how they've done their projects and what they've used, simply visit their blogs by clicking on their names. To get a larger view, simply click on the images.

 Kerstin

is once more all into her favourite summer theme - the Sea! 

And she really knows how to beautifully combine it with a steampunk theme!!!!

"Sea calls me" 

is the title of her beautiful canvas

and as always she has created loads of amazing texture and structures.

Susan

went for a beautiful symmetrical lay out this time.

I love all the layers she has built up on the black page

(and especially those mechanical corner pieces)! 

Zoja

embellished her giant cog with a 

"mechanical chameleon"

and other yummy stuff.

And as usual she went for a striking and bold colour scheme! 

It shows beautifully that steampunk does not always have to be

brown and metallic, right?

Maura

wowed me once more with her imagination

and created loads of amazing copper patina

on her beautiful treasure box

Was this found in an old ship wreck?

What is hidden inside?

and I

- Claudia - 

have created a birthday tag for a special friend.

Of course it had to have loads of crackle and my favourite colour scheme

for industrial style makes and I have used DecoArt and DecoArt media paints

and products to achieve it. 

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For more info on the projects of the team simply click on their names to get to their blog posts. 

If you have a little time, please, leave them a little love too. Thank you! 

The challenge is open until the end of the month and we are back to our usual three entries per person. Please, do not forget to link to our challenge blog - whatever platform you are entering our challenge from (it always breaks my heart when I have to exclude an entry from our Top 5 picks and prize draws!). 

If you check back on the 15th you will find out about the Top 5 and prize winners of our May challenge. 

Hugs and happy crafting!

Claudia & the SASPC Team

xxx

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March-April Extended Challenge Top 7 and Prize Winners!

Welcome, welcome dear steampunk friends! I truly hope this post finds you and your loved ones well. As you know, we extended our last challenge due to COVID-19, and we had SO many awesome and amazing entries!! It was a joy to see all the steampunk/industrial magic you created and shared with us and each other. Thank you!

PRIZE WINNERS!!

Our prize winners are drawn at random from all proper entries. Our generous friends at DecoArt Media and the lovely Glenda at Boozybear provide the amazing pries. Please note that DecoArt is slowly starting up production again, and plans to start shipping the end of May. There could easily be unforeseen delays from our wonderful sponsors. We really appreciate their support and wish all of them and their staff the best!

The fabulous bundle of DecoArt Media goodness goes to

#35 Angela of Felix the Crafty Cat

and a surprise package of awesome steampunk chipboard from Boozybear goes to

#55 Megumi aka Ink-LadyBlue

Congratulations on your prize wins, and thanks so much for joining us in our challenge with your amazing makes! Please email Claudia (vonpappe2- her address is in the sidebar) so she can forward your shipping details to Glenda and DecoArt asap. DecoArt winners, please include a phone number. 

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Drumroll Please!!

With all the awesome entries from our extended challenge, we had to go beyond a top 5. So without further ado, let me introduce our TOP 7 (in no particular order)!!

 TIITONYY

created this awesome steampunk inspired violin with some natural elements in a gorgeous patina

 CATHY 

has created the most imaginative piece with a Funko doll. 

I am sure this character has a story to tell. 

 MACARENA

built a robot out of cogs, gears and bits and added a bit of romance with that flower. 

Are you thinking about all the bits you have to build with?

 VEENA

turned a lightbulb into a gorgeous rusty butterfly made of cogs and gears!

Look closely at all those wonderful embellishments.

MEGUMI

is wonderfully talented at creating moving steampunk projects! 

How cool is this steampunk gum ball machine?

SHRADDHA

has created a gorgeous altered boat to carry us on our journey through life! 

She shares some lovely thoughts too on her post.

LISA

puts an interesting and darker twist on steampunk with her creative piece!

It's like a step back to the time of the barber surgeon. 

Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for sharing your amazing makes and awesome inspiration with all of us! Please feel free to grab the Top 5 badge from above (or the sidebar) and display it on your blog. 

Congratulations!!!

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MANY THANKS to each and every one of you who participated in our extended challenge during these difficult times. We are so inspired by your beautiful creative work and look forward to each entry.  May creativity connect us and keep us in good spirits around the globe! We look forward to your entries in our May challenge, which is open until May 31. As always, anything steampunk/industrial in mixed media is welcome. 

Keep the cogs and gears of creativity turning in our little steampunk universe! 

Hugs, blessings of health, and happy crafting!

Maura and the SASPC team

xxx

Sandee & Amelie's May Steampunk Challenge

Welcome back friends! We hope this finds you and your loved ones in good health. We are so happy to be back together for our steampunk/industrial challenge with you, and are thrilled with the phenomenal participation over the last two months with our COVID-19 extended challenge.

Perhaps you found more time to create while safely at home, or maybe it was your way to destress after a day of working...whatever the reason, we love seeing the amazing makes you created and shared here with us. It is an honor to share our little steampunk corner of the universe with you! 

THANK YOU!!

As always, our challenge this month is

STEAMPUNK/INDUSTRIAL
Anything Goes.


We welcome all types of projects that fit our steampunk/industrial mixed media theme. Please check the rules for the details. Maybe this is your first steampunk project, we would love to see it! Maybe you have entered before, welcome back! This challenge is open to all levels, and we love the inspiration you share here.

Many, many thanks to our awesome sponsors who keep the cogs and gears turning here!

DecoArt 

and boozybear

At the end of each challenge, two winners are randomly selected from all proper entries (be sure to check out our posted rules) and will either get an awesome DecoArt Media prize package, or an amazing chipboard package.

 In these continuing uncertain times due to the global pandemic, our awesome sponsors have been impacted with closings. We are trying to get the prizes out in our usual time frame, but please understand there may be a delay in processing and getting the prizes out to the winners. 

Now, on to the wonderful makes from our team...

Claudia

is much into ATC's this year, and here is her latest called...

"The Inventor"

Kerstin

has a wonderful house shaped creation for us in a limited edition

"Heart and Soul" 

Zoja

is sharing a huge tag filled with gorgeous textures and rust

Susan

created this wonderfully textured tag with a nature theme - check out that huge insect!

and I, Maura

made two artist trading cards with steampunk hares and words of encouragement

Thanks for stopping by our little corner of the Steampunk Universe. We hope to see you playing along with us this month in our steampunk/industrial challenge which is open until the end of May. 

Remember, we will have two prize draws and choose the design team's Top 5!

Top 5 for May and prize winners will be posted on June 15th, 

so be sure to pop back to check that out. 

(Check back May 15 for the winners from the past two months.)

Time to put your top hat on and get crafting with us!

Hugs, and happy crafting!

Maura & the SASPC Team

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Extending SanDee&amelie's March 2020 Challenge due to Covid 19

Hi, servus and welcome to a special challenge post announcement in very special times. I hope you and your loved ones are all well and safe and coping well with isolation and all the other (necessary) new rules and circumstances that have been turning everyday life into unknown territory for all of us these days.

Due to a lot of services and businesses (including both our sponsors) being forced to "take a break" right now to keep their employees safe and to help slow down and minimising the spreading of Covid 19 we have decided to not take a break actually but instead turn our actual March challenge into a two-months long challenge (like we usually do with our summer and winter specials). We hope that by the start of May things will slowly start to get back to normal and then we will also know more so we can decide on how to carry on. But carry on we will - especially as creating is such a good means to escape reality for some time and especially a good way to practice mindfulness which has become even more important these days!

So here's the plan so far: the March challenge stays open until the end of April and as this turns our challenge into a two-months long one we will this time accept six instead of the usual three entries per player. And by May 15th we hope to be able to announce the Top5 and prize winners as usual again. So keep creating and sharing your steampunk and industrial style makes with us! Let's all share inspiration and help keep up our spirits. 

Lovely 

Kerstin 

is sharing a new awesome project for your inspiration today 

which you can check out in more detail on her blog HERE

Isn't is awesome how Kerstin has kind of "sculpted" a self made steampunk texture plate she created using a soft mold around a glass bottle?! 

Looking at her fantastic project really makes me want to try this out myself (even though - or especially though - I am not good at working with molds)!
I really admire her skill, imagination and talent! And look at the yummy texture and the beautiful rusty look! 

...and of course it is also always a good thing to check out the makes that have already been entered to the challenge by our players so far. And - more important than ever - please, take a moment to leave a little love on the peoples' blogs and sites you're visiting - this way you will definitely put smiles on peoples faces. Urgently needed smiles, right?! ;)

You can either scroll to the previous challenge post (if you haven't checked out the design team's makes for the March challenge) or just use the collection at the bottom of this post here (as I have just added it to this post as well).

Hang in there and remember to keep creating to practice mindfulness!

Wishing you and your loved ones all the best!

Stay safe!

Claudia & the SASPC Team

xxx

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SanDee&amelie's February 2020 Top 5 and Prize Winners

Servus, hi and welcome to our announcement of the February Top 5 and prize winners, dear steampunk and industrial style friends!

As always I would like to thank everyone who is entering our challenges for their incredibly inspiring creativity they share with us - this is my main goal with this challenge blog; to make this an inspirational spot to go to when you are looking for some mixed media, card or tag art inspiration in steampunk or industrial style! You all really never fail to amaze the team and myself! You all rock!

Our actual March challenge is of course already in full swing and we are awaiting your entries for this one again ;) - the prizes are the same as always...which brings me to announcing the February prize winners straight away:

The fabulous DecoArt premium prize bundle

goes to

entry #6 - Craftyartista

and

a surprise package of beautiful steampunk chipboard pieces 

designed and sold by boozybear

goes to 

#33 - Macarena 

Congrats on your prize wins, ladies, and thanks so much for playing along! Please, contact me under my email (address see in our side bar) so I can have your prizes be sent to your places. DecoArt also need a phone number (in case of parcel tracking issues) - so, please, include that with your shipping info as well.

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Now let's head straight on to presenting our 

Top 5

(as always these are presented in no particular order

and we sadly once more cannot present each make in a picture as some still 

enter our challenge via Instagram...)

Esther

wowed us with this amazing altered mobile phone case: 

Julia

gave her perpetual calendar a fantastic make over

that we all thought was pure eye-candy

Cathy's

mind blowingly beautiful piece of industrial style 

abstract art made it into our Top 5

which made me especially happy as this was my personal 

favourite ;)

Sadly

Marina's

fantastic "Mechanical Sea" layout cannot be shown 

as she entered our challenge via Instagram

and also 

Chaitali

amazed us (sadly via Instagram) with a brilliantly altered boot

(yes, you're reading this right - a boot). 

If you want to take a look at what they've entered

click on their names to get taken to their Instagram posts. 

Congrats on making our Top5, ladies! We loved your projects a lot and hope to see you play along with us again soon! Please, feel free to grab the Top 5 badge for display on your blogs! xxx

As we love and think it important to shine the well deserved spotlights on ALL our Top5 projects we are asking our players to either enter our challenges via other platforms than Instagram OR to follow the instructions on how to enter a direct image of the project and add links and email manually - to make this easier I have added a short how-to to our tabs with the challenge rules and other info (right below our challenge blog header) that explains how to enter an image to an inlinkz collection directly from your image folder from your devices you're using. As Instagram do no longer allow to fetch images from their site, these cannot be displayed with our Top 5 posts. 

Thanks for your understanding! 

This challenge blog is mainly about YOU, our players, and YOUR CREATIVITY! 

So not being able to have them here in one spot for everyone to see actually makes me sad and is 

quite frustrating too. 

To get to the actual challenge and check out the design team's and players' makes so far, simply

click HERE - we hope to see you play along with us this month! 

Hugs and happy crafting!

Claudia & the SASPC Team

xxx

SanDee&amelie's March 2020 Steampunk Challenge

Hi, servus and thanks so much for stopping by and being part of our monthly challenges once again!
Claudia here this month to present to you our March challenge, which is once again an

Anything Goes - Steampunk/Industrial 

themed one.

Just before we dive into steampunk crafting fun I would like to once more address the fact that we ask all our players who enter our challenges via Instagram to upload their pictures directly to our InLinkz collection instead of giving the Instagram link. They have made some changes to their platform at the start of the year - one of which doesn't allow fetching images from their platform anymore. But as this is a challenge blog that is mainly about sharing inspiration and getting inspired by the others' projects (and only secondly about making Top5 or win two of our sponsors' generous prize bundles), being able to see these in a picture is crucial (at least from my point of view).

For all those not familiar with uploading images to Inlinkz directly from their devices and how to add a link and email address I have put up a short how-to that you can find in our tabs right below our challenge blog header.

This way we will be able to show ALL your Top 5 projects again instead of just having links and names in our  Top 5 listings! Thanks for your understanding!

Bespoken "prize bundles" are - as always - being donated by our two generous and true sponsors DecoArt and boozybear to whom the team and I would once more like to shout out a huge "THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR GENEROSITY AND FOR BEING WITH US!"
As usual two prize winners will be selected at the end of the month via random.org among all proper entries - so make sure you've checked our few rules (which you can find with the "Da Rules" tab below our blog header). The challenge is open until the end of the month and prize winners are announced on the 15th of the following month.

My wonderful design team have once more come up with awesomely inspiring projects and I always love the variety in their approaches to the steampunk or industrial theme! But let's stop talking - take a look for yourselves:

Kerstin

has created another stunning art journal page

filled with beautiful texture

that she calls "Moments in Time"

She has used some chipboards, stencils and paper cut outs as well as some self made casts she has done using a newly bought soft mold and an "extraordinary filling" - so check out her blog to find out more! 

Zoja

has used her "favourite colours and die cut hearts alongside some moons" on a beautiful base that has an extraordinary shape - so eye-catching, isn't it? 

Susan

has come up with a journal page as well. Look at all those layers and collaged elements! I love those pops of vibrant colours here and there and that loosely done background! 

Maura's

"Steampunk Illuminati"

project had her (and me) come up with many intriguing questions...

"What would Paris look like in the steampunk universe? Was the Eiffel Tower a device to collect the aether? A portal to another dimension? Could it be, the answers are all hidden in the symbols of this piece?"

Here's a close up of her project 

showing beautiful texture, patina and crackle

and I

- Claudia - 

went once more for some of my favourite craft parts, vintage portraits and background techniques (using DecoArt media products)

to create this plaque with three handsome "moustache gentlemen"

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For more information and images, please, visit the team's blogs by clicking on their names and if you can spare a second or two, please, leave them a little love so they know their hard work is appreciated! Thank you so much!

This bundle of steampunk inspiration should get you going I guess ;)
We hope to see you play along with us this month and cannot wait what it is that you will come up with this time!

Hugs and happy steampunk crafting!

Claudia & the SASPC Team

xxx

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Click here to enter

SanDee & Amelie's January 2020 Top 5 and Prize Winners

Welcome back friends!

 Here comes the best part of "the job" - getting to announce the Top 5 and Prize Winners! 

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE remember to link to our challenge by using our URL, so that you can be considered for our Top 5 and Prize Winners. Also a reminder again, that if you post on Instagram, we cannot access a photo to share here, since they have changed their platform, so if you have a blog or Facebook, it is better to link that - we can copy a picture from those to share. 

You are the heart and soul of why we do this, and it is truly my pleasure to make the announcements for our January steampunk/industrial "Anything Goes" challenge. 

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 PRIZE WINNERS!! 

Our prize winners are drawn at random from all proper entries. Our generous friends at DecoArt Media,  and the lovely Glenda at Boozybear provide the amazing prizes! As always, we are very thankful for their support. 

The fabulous bundle of DecoArt media goodness  goes to

#7 Sara

and a surprise package of awesome steampunk chipboard from boozybear goes to

#14 Ink-LadyBlue

 Congratulations on your prize wins, and thanks so much for joining us in our challenge! 

Please email Claudia (vonpappe2 - her address is in the sidebar) so she can forward your shipping details to Glenda and DecoArt asap. DecoArt winners, please include a phone number. 

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 Drumroll please!!  Our Top 5 from the January Challenge (in no particular order)

#2 Macarena

...inspires us with her gorgeous rust and awesome textures on her card...oh be still, my rusty heart!

#4 Chaitali

...has an awesome mix of steampunk and the Wild West on her make! 

(check it out on Instagram)

#13 Esther

...has made this awesome desktop organizer that even has a place for her mobile! Wouldn't we all love to get organized with this?

#14 Ink-LadyBlue

...wows us again with her amazing moving cards! Isn't this steampunk heart cool?

#15 Susanne

....made this birthday card for one lucky friend! So many awesome details and layers here!

Thank you for sharing your amazing makes and wonderful inspiration with us!  Please feel free to grab the Top 5 badge from above (or the sidebar), and display it on your blog.  Congratulations!!

 MANY THANKS to everyone who entered our January challenge!  We truly are inspired by the creativity of each and every one of you. We are so happy to have all of you playing along with us at SASPC - you rock our little steampunk universe! 

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 The February challenge is open until the end of the month, so you still have plenty of time to create and share with us. We would love to see you link up your makes and enter our challenge this month, so please join us in our steampunk/industrial mixed media challenge!  

 Keep the cogs and gears of creativity turning, 

Hugs and happy crafting!

 Maura & the SASPC team xxx