SASPC Summer Special 2019 Top 5 and Prize Winners

Hi, servus and welcome back after the summer holidays! Claudia here with the huge pleasure to announce the Top 5 and prize winners from this year's steampunk summer special challenge.

We had some amazing fifty-five entries and picking our personal favourites and limiting them down to only five was really hard (honestly I loved ALL the projects entered as they were all so inspiring and done with so much imagination and love for detail....well, honestly all the entries always are...which makes me the happiest and proudest challenge blog owner on this planet ;). But the rules are the rules...so pick we must! And we have ;)

But let me announce our prize winners first. These were randomly picked among all proper entries and this amazing bundle of DecoArt premium paints and media from our wonderful prize sponsor 

DecoArt 

goes to 

entry #38 - Maryann

And a surprise package of beautiful steampunk chipboard pieces 

designed and donated by our other wonderful sponsor Glenda aka 

boozybear 

goes to 

entry #27 - Sara Emily

Congrats on your prize wins, Maryann and Sara! Thanks for playing along and sharing your beautiful projects! Please, contact me under the email address in our sidebar so I can forward your shipping info to our sponsors. Maryann, please, also include a phone number as DecoArt only ship if they have a number to call in case of delivery issues.

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But now on to our Top...nah...let me remind you of our actual September challenge first. *evilgiggle
It has - as always - started on the 1st of the month and is open until 30th September. Please, make sure you check our few rules if you haven't already done so - it would be a shame if we had to exclude anyone from our Top 5 votes and prize draws! Simply click HERE to get to the actual challenge - or use the badge on top of our sidebar. We hope you will share some more incredible steampunk goodness with us again this month!


And now it's (finally!) time for some applause for our....

Top 5

from this year's Summer Special Challenge!!!!

(As always they're presented in no particular order and you can visit their blogs to learn more about their makes by clicking on their names)

Lisa 

who blew us away with

"Steampunk Atlantis"

Ink-LadyBlue

who created a heart box

with moving gears in it! 

Lisa

(a different Lisa this time ;)

who created the most wonderful

birthday card a dad could wish for

Macarena

who wowed us with this highly textural

steampunk card

and finally

Marie

who created some steampunk magic

by altering a facial creme container

Congrats and thank you all soooo much, ladies, for sharing your inspiring, wonderful makes with us! The team and I just loved loved loved them so much! Please, feel free to grab the Top5 badge for display on your blogs!

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Well, that's it from the team and me so far. We are already awaiting your new entries for this month's challenge. We're sure you will all - as always - blow us away again with your creativity and imagination! 

Hugs and happy steampunk crafting!

Claudia & the SASPC Team

xxx

Sandee and Amelie's September 2019 Steampunk Challenge

Hello and welcome friends, to our little corner of the Steampunk Universe! 

Maura here, and all I can say is WOW!! 

What a fantastic turnout for our Summer Special Challenge! I can tell already, it's going to be super difficult for the design team to select our Top Five. Thanks so much to each and every one of you who entered our Summer challenge and  to those of you who stopped by to visit, we truly appreciate it. 

The design team shares their makes at the beginning of each month to jumpstart your creativity.

Our September challenge is, as usual...

Anything Goes Steampunk/Industrial

We welcome all types of projects (except digitally created) and encourage everyone, from beginner to  experienced to join us every month and share your creations. Show us your tags, cards, canvas, art journal, altered objects...whatever you can imagine that fits our theme of steampunk/industrial. We truly are in awe of the imagination and creativity of you, our players, and look forward each challenge to see where your creative muse took you!

Many thanks to our wonderful and generous sponsors, 

DecoArt

 and boozybear

 for keeping the gears and cogs turning here at SASPC!

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.

Now...on to the awesome makes from our wonderful team!




Zoja

created this very cool, and a bit spooky, altered box with lots of great dimensional elements!

Look how it slides up to reveal a hidden compartment filled with treasures. 

Susan

has turned her hand to a bit of sewing and fabric incorporated into her mixed media masterpiece!

Claudia

up cycled some packaging materials and combined paints and prepared die cuts from her "holiday tool box" to create a mixed media panel (with improvised stand) that she titled

"The Inventor"

Brigitte

made a canvas board titled "The Dog on the Wall" using paint, stencil, die cut and image...

Looks like a lot of math going on here!

Kerstin

shares another textural masterpiece titled

"Another Path"

Look carefully and you can see the bicycle hanging from chains!

Detail...

and I, Maura

"Rust Never Sleeps"

My muse works in mysterious ways...I was inspired to create my ATC's by a broken down washing machine with rusty pipes, an old truck with a rusted frame, and a song! I'm sharing the story behind that on my blog. 

Detail of one of Maura's "rusty pipes"

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 September. 

Remember, we will have two prize draws and choose the design team's Top 5, and post on September 15th, so be sure to pop back to check that out.

Time to put your top hat on, cinch up your corset, or tie on your spats, and get crafting with us!

Hugs, and happy crafting!

Maura & the SASPC Team

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

SanDee&amelie's June 2019 Top 5 and Prize Winners

Hi, servus and welcome to our announcement of the Top 5 and prize winners from our June challenge, dear steampunk and industrial style friends!

I hope you are enjoying a wonderful summer! Over here (at Lake Atter, in Austria's beautiful Salzkammergut) it has been raining for the last two days - which actually is quite welcome as our goal was to flee the city heat of Vienna and find a bit of refreshment. ;)

As always on the fifteenth t's time to announce our Top 5 from the June challenge and also the two lucky persons whom random.org has picked as our prize winners. So let's start with the latter....


The awesome DecoArt premium prize bundle

goes to 

entry #16 - Lisa Andersson 

and a surprise package of cool steampunk chippies from Glenda aka boozybear

goes to

entry #26 - Magdalena 

from Magdalena's Attic

Congrats, ladies, on your prize wins and thank you so much for playing along and sharing your awesome projects with us. Please, contact me under the email address given in the side bar, so I can have your prizes sent to you asap. There are four weeks time after the announcement to claim your prizes. I hope to hear from you soon. ;)

And a huge THANK YOU to our generous prize sponsors, of course! xxx


And now on to the June

Top 5

, which were - as always - hard to pick, as we loved all the projects entered. There were two entries that got the fifth-most votes, so we have a Top 6 this time. As always, these are presented in no particular order.

Kath

who entered this amazing steampunk card

Tina

who created this utterly imaginative project

that she titled "Reclaimed"

Tracey

who blew us away with this fantastic mini album 

Magdalena

who made this beautiful steampunk card

Sara

who wowed us with this lovely mixed media panel

and 

Margarita

who entered these two adorable Artist Trading Coins

Oh, wow! Thank you so much, ladies, for sharing all these beauties with us and huge congrats on making our Top 5 this month! Please, feel free to grab the Top 5 badge for display on your blogs. 

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Our annual steampunk summer special challenge is already live and open until the end of August (so you have two months time to play along). You can click HERE 

or on the picture here

to get there or use the badge on top of our side bar that also leads to the current challenge. We hope to see you play along with us soon! 

Happy holidays and happy crafting!

Claudia & the SASPC Team

xxx

SanDee&amelie's 2019 Steampunk Summer Special Challenge

Hi, servus and welcome to our annual summer special challenge, dear steampunk and industrial style friends!

As always we are having a two months long challenge that starts today and ends on 31st August, so you can all enjoy the summer and have a good time outdoors and yet still (hopefully) also find the time (on one or the other rainy day) to craft a steampunk or industrial style project to share with us over here on SanDee&amelie's Steampunk Challenges!

As this is a two months long challenge you are allowed to enter up to five projects instead of the usual three - this means two more chances to win one of the two fab prizes being donated by our wonderful sponsors DecoArt and boozybear!

Of course we can only include proper entries with our prize draws and top votes, so, please, make sure to check our few challenge rules (these can be found under "Da Rules" at the top of our blog, right below the header).

My wonderful team have once more shown amazing imagination and have invested a lot of love and labour to create some awesomely inspiring projects for you (and I can't wait to see what you will amaze us with too during July and August)!

I really would appreciate it if you took some seconds to visit their blogs and leave them a little love there. You get to their blogs by clicking on their names. Thank you!

Maura

wonders 

"Doesn't everyone want a Borg Beetle Portfolio, after all, summer is sure bug season around here!? 

I'm using a kraft portfolio that I've altered with steampunk paper and stencil and DecoArt Media. I incorporated previous work into this project, and used it to hold more." 

The wonderful beetle's details were painted using DecoArt media fluid acrylic paints. 

Brigitte

altered a wooden Home decoration piece

and turned it into really cool steampunk goodness

I always love it when she uses real electronic parts on her makes:

Susan's

tag celebrates wanderlust -

and summer is the perfect time to give in to it, isn't it?

Kerstin

wows us with a new photo album in industrial grunge style

I love that weathered look on those planks she has created! 

And the inside of the cover is awesome too!

Zoja

used a beautiful vintage airship image on her 

"Inspiration Board with Airship"

and I

-Claudia-

have chosen an Artist Trading Block (ATB) as my format to work on

and created a "Time Machine ATB" using loads of MDF craft parts and 

DecoArt media products and paints.

Hmmm...what special date could that be? 

Where - no! When would you like to travel to if you could travel through time?

Loads of yummy texture and stencilled goodness!

As always there's a detailed tutorial and lots of pictures over at my blog!

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More information and pictures of the finished projects can be found on the design team's blogs as always.

We hope this bundle of inspiration has put you in the perfect creative mood for some steampunk or industrial style fun! We would love to see you join in our summer special challenge! And don't forget to visit us here again on 15th July, when we will announce our June Top5 and prize winners! ;)

The team and I wish you all

happy holidays! 

Claudia & the SASPC Team

xxx

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Click here to enter

SASPC 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! 

You are the heart and soul of why we do this, and it is truly my pleasure to make the announcements for our May 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

#4 eMKa

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

#3 Simo

 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 May Challenge (in no particular order) 

Cathy

Cathy transforms a compact into this amazing steampunk piece. What a beautiful example of up cycling! If you haven't started collecting a stash of odds and ends, this will encourage you to do that. 

eMKa

Look at this beautiful octopus Magda created to guard the steampunk treasure chest! Lovely patinas and textures here, and aren't you wondering what's inside that chest?

Katya

What an amazing little world inside the lightbulb! Katya has really packed it full of detail and texture. I'm sure there's a story in here!

Sandra

A gorgeous masculine card with awesome texture and color. Look closely,  there is so much to discover here!

Silvia

Loving the mix of awesome rust and gears with the black and white images and lots of fun touches on this wonderful creation! 

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 May challenge! It is always so difficult for the DT to pick the Top 5 from all of the awesome entries, because 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 June 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! 

Look for our special summer challenge coming in July!

 Keep the cogs and gears of creativity turning,

 Hugs and happy crafting! 

 Maura & the SASPC team

 xxx