New Year, New Challenge, New Ways, New Sponsor! Happy 2016!!!

"Out with the old, in with the new: may you be happy the whole year through. Happy New Year!"

or

"Prosit, Neujahr!"

as we love to wish each other here in Vienna!

The SASPC team and I hope you have all had the most wonderful Christmas holidays and New Year's celebrations and wish you all the best for 2016!

We also wish Laura from Laurart, who is leaving the team (gladly for good reasons only!), all the best for her future creative endeavours and want to say "thank you for being with us and sharing your awesome Steampunk art! Working alongside you has been a great pleasure and we hope you won't stop creating steampunk art in the future!"

And I hope no one thinks it was her (besides the old year in general) I was talking about when saying "Out with the old"...!!! (Sorry, Laura! ;) I was talking about our sponsors who have been with us for the last year(s) and helped make this place what it is now. (thank you all so much for supporting our little creative spot!!!) We are saying our good-bye to them because today I have the great pleasure to announce that we are having a brand new sponsor who will also be our one and only prize sponsor from now on - please, welcome

DecoArt Media,

who will be giving away a small steampunk prize package filled with some of their fantastic DecoArt Media goodness to one of our players (who will be picked randomly among the proper entries) every month!

Isn't that fantastic?! 2016 will be so grand (thanks to the lovely ladies from DecoArt saying "yes" to my sponsor request)! Yessss! Thank you so much for being with us!!

The prize bundle has been chosen by humble me (as you might already have guessed by looking at the colour tones) and I hope you like what I have put together for you: it should be a great little bundle of DecoArt Media to get you started on creating various rust and metal effects, worn surfaces and delicious bling as well.

To introduce our new sponsor's fabulous mixed media range accordingly, the DT are all shining a little spotlight on one particular product of their choice. So I recommend you visit their blogs to learn more about them (and the other DecoArt products they have used with their projects)!

Oh, and before I forget: our challenges will all be

"Anything Goes - Steampunk/Industrial"

from now on.

Without your creativity being narrowed down by a theme or twist we hope to provide you with everything you need to let your imagination run wild and find YOUR way of creating steampunk and/or industrial mixed media art and share it with all of us!

Of course there are still some rules to follow...but only a few - so if you haven't checked them by now I would ask you to do so to make sure you enter a proper project and post to our challenges (as it would be a shame if we had to exclude someone from prize draws or top votes)!

And now - finally - to the projects of Team A. Here we go!

Brigitte

Canvas for 2016

Happy New Year !

DecoArt media used:

tuto on my blog

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NATE

BOITE A MUSIQUE

Je viens par ma boite à musique vous présenter mes meilleurs vœux pour cette nouvelle année qu' elle vous apporte joie , gaieté ,bonheur et santé et pleins de belles inspirations scrap ...

Vous découvrirais tous les moindres détails sur mon blog le scrap de nate de cette boite à musique qui diffuse une douce mélodie de part son mécanisme .

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Zoja.

I made calendar cover with nautical steampunk mood.

I used several DecoArt products, but most beloved and preferred were here metallic lustre paints.

More details on my blog

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Agnieszka

Crackle water effect, anyone? :) Here's a little sneak peak of what you can achieve with a little DecoArt Crackle Glaze and white Antiquing Medium.
Check out the whole art journal page and more on the technique on my blog.

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Susan

This is a printed photo, and I have used DecoArt media Fluid Acrylics Raw Umber and Quinacridone Gold with Matte Medium to make it look aged and very old.

See how do it and more details on my blog.

Our challenge will (as usual) be open until the end of the month and our Top5 and prize winner will be announced about a week after the challenge has closed. There will be more inspiration from Team B on the 15th of the month - so make sure you don't miss it!

We also have a facebook group where we all share steampunk related art, questions, inspiration and thoughts - "SASPC Open Studio" - which I would like to invite you to join.

We can't wait to see the steampunk projects with which you will be starting off the new year!!!

Hugs and happy crafting,

Claudia & the SASPC Team

xxx

Enter your projects here: