A hearty welcome to SanDee&amelie's challenge blog!

Please, note, that this challenge blog is not related to any business and run without any profit by people, who do this for your and their own leisure time fun! Our only reward are your encouraging comments and your playing along and sharing steampunk fun and mixed media techniques. We appreciate every single entry and comment so much! Thank you for taking the time!

If you are new to this place, please, know that we are so glad that you stopped by our little steampunk corner!
Whether you are a dedicated tag or card maker, art journaler or mixed media lover - this might be the right place for you!
For more information about the rules and the little "steampunk/industrial twist" we ask of you, please check the "about" stuff and then simply jump in and create!

If you are new to steampunk and not sure if this is "your thing", maybe take a look at our winners gallery on pinterest (use the linking button on our side bar). You will find that we're mainly a mixed media challenge blog with a little twist towards steampunk, industrial and/or vintage. So why not give it a try?

We are looking forward to seeing your fab projects entered to one of our challenges soon!



Hugs,
SanDee&amelie&the SASPC team

Friday, May 15, 2020

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)!!




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







has created the most imaginative piece with a Funko doll. 
I am sure this character has a story to tell. 







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?







turned a lightbulb into a gorgeous rusty butterfly made of cogs and gears!
Look closely at all those wonderful embellishments.







is wonderfully talented at creating moving steampunk projects! 
How cool is this steampunk gum ball machine?








has created a gorgeous altered boat to carry us on our journey through life! 
She shares some lovely thoughts too on her post.







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


Friday, May 1, 2020

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...





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

"The Inventor"






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

"Heart and Soul" 








is sharing a huge tag filled with gorgeous textures and rust







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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