February 2018 Challenge: Mid Month Reminder + January Top5 and Prize Winners

Hi, servus and welcome to the first of our new mid-month posts here at SanDee&amelie's Steampunk Challenges!

I have decided for now to combine the announcement of our Top5 and prize winners from the previous month with the second round up of inspirational makes for the actual challenge. I am currently thinking on making some changes to the way of doing our challenge and Top5 and prize winner posts, so it gets easier for me to run the blog (as I am not feeling my very best and haven't done so for quite some time now). I want to keep this challenge blog up and running (for our players and myself) - maybe it just needs some tweaking here and there to make it more joyful again and less of a challenge (hahah, pun intended). So, please, be patient, if you find I have been adding changes again!

So here we go!
Let's start with the additional dose of inspiration first and with reminding you of our challenge theme, which is once more

"Anything Goes - Steampunk/Industrial"

so you're all free to have fun and happily create away! Please, check our challenge rules ("Da Rules") for some recent updates, if you haven't already. (you'll find these on top of the blog page - right below the banner). Thank you! The linkup tool to enter your projects to can be found at the bottom of this post or with the challenge post from the 1st of the month.

As always our challenge will be open until the end of the month and there will be two lucky winners picked among all proper entries, who will either win the fab DecoArt media prize bundle

or a surprise steampunk chipboard package sponsored by lovely Glenda - aka boozybear!

All you have to do to win, is play along and have a little steampunk/industrial fun!


But now on to the makes of Brigitte, Maura, Kerstin and myself - or simply "Team B" ;)

Brigitte

created a heart shaped canvas that holds 

the key to her heart

(and the mysterious number 14...I wish I knew what it stands for ;)

Kerstin

says she loves to try some new ideas and to leave her comfort zone

once in a while. This time she wanted to create with fabric. 

And she turned "a very simple cotton bag into a very special cotton bag.

Let's go shopping!"

Maura

says:

"I was inspired by Valentine's Day ....think chocolates and pink valentines

to create my SteamPink Lady."

and I 

-Claudia-

have created a little APC (Altered Playing Card) duo,

playing around with some Calico Craft Parts, left over die cuts, rubber stamping 

and DecoArt media products. 

(I am always amazed by how much media you can squeeze into such a small format ;)

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If you want to learn more about the projects and the how-tos or simply take a closer look at details, simply hop over to the teamies' blogs (by clicking their names). If you want to make them very happy, please, leave a short comment so they know you've been visiting. Also don't forget to check out the makes of Team A if you haven't done so already! Thank you!

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Now on to our Top 5 and prize winners from the January challenge! 

And these are:

(in no particular order)

Barbara 

with this amazing tag

Nataliya

who made this beautiful journal

Sara

who created this amazing piece

"thinking in- and outside the box"

Julia

with this fantastically imaginative project

and 

Aleksandra

who made this breathtakingly beautiful notebook cover

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Huge congrats, ladies! So very well done! Please, feel free to grab the badge for display on your blogs!

Thanks so much for playing along! 

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And last but not least: our January prize winners:

The DecoArt media prize bundle goes to:

#15 

Linda Simpson

and 

the boozybear chipboard surprise package goes to:

#21

Barbara Yaya

Congrats on your prize wins, Linda and Barbara! Please, contact me via email (see sidebar), so I can have your goodies sent to your places! DecoArt will need a phone number for shipping as well, Linda, so, please, add that to your shipping data as well. 

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Hugs and happy crafting,

Claudia & the SASPC Team

xxx