April Mid Month Reminder and Spotlight

Servus, dear Steampunk friends!

Time to remind you of our actual challenge "Your Favourite Technique Goes Steampunk"...which is rather close to an anything goes theme if you ask me... and as we only ask for a "twist" of Steampunk to be added to make your entries count I would take the chance if I were you ;)

There's also a fab prize to be won (randomly) for those who enter a proper project. This month 3rd Eye are our generous sponsor and they also offer a 10% discount code for the whole month to use for our readers! Find out more about it here.


And now on to our spotlight from the entries for the actual challenge so far:

This fabulous alteration was done by fabulously talented Nicole from Canadian Nickel Scrap'n! Adorable, isn't it? Please, feel free to take the badge for display on your blog, Nicole! And thank you so much for sharing your awesome creations with us!

Hope to see you all play along with us soon! Hugs and happy crafting, Claudia & the gang ;)

This month's prize sponsor, a discount code and a fab journal spread

Servus and welcome back to the promised announcement of our sponsor for this month's challenge and the additional inspirational project that is meant to get your mojo flowing.

Lovely Drycha from 3rdEye store is with us again and providing us with a fab give-away for one lucky winner (whom we will randomly draw from all proper entries with the April challenge)!

She also generously offers a 10% discount code for all of our readers who want to shop with her online store! You just have to fill in the code "STEAMPUNK" in the window for codes during placing an order. This code is valid until the end of April. It  is for 3rd Eye goodies only, not for classes.


 Rikka from 3rdEye design team created a marvellous project for our challenge to share with you today:

Rikka said: "I thought about the technique a long time. I use many techniques, but what's my favorite one? Then I decided to use my all time "go to" technique - adding some masking tape to the background, spreading a coat of gesso on top and coloring the surface with mists. To add a little steampunk there I went with nostalgic tones, used a light bulb printed washi together with the masking tape and added some alcohol ink to the mix. To get the page more grungier I then added some modelling paste to the corners and stamped to the wet medium using a cogs stamp by 3rd Eye. Black splashes, clocks, mesh tape and a huge wing finish the look."


Products from 3rd Eye used on this make :

Chipboard Sheet Lightbulbs (http://3rdeyecraft.com/en_US/p/chipboards-sheet-TEC-004-lightbulbs/206)

Chipboard Sheet Clocks (http://3rdeyecraft.com/en_US/p/TEC-035-clocks/577)

Stamp Checkerboard (http://3rdeyecraft.com/en_US/p/checkerboard-TES-116/143)

Stamp Cogs (http://3rdeyecraft.com/en_US/p/cogs-/66)

Stamp Lightbulbs (http://3rdeyecraft.com/en_US/p/Lightbulbs/42)

Stamp Studs border (http://3rdeyecraft.com/en_US/p/studs-border/5)

Stamp Clock Set of 3 (http://3rdeyecraft.com/en_US/p/TES-206-clocks-set-of-3-/608)

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It's sooo beautiful, isn't it?

Thank you, Rikka and Drycha, for being with us this month and helping us make this place so special!

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If you haven't already read this month's challenge post you can find it (along with some awesome inspiration from "my" fab DT) over here.  If you haven't played with us before I would kindly ask you to read the general rules stuff first - I really hate to exclude and delete improper entries as we know that a lot of love and labour has gone into them. But we have to be fair to all those who take the time and follow the rules.

The whole team is curious to learn about YOUR favourite techniques - and about how you can use them with a Steampunk creation! Hope to see you enter our challenge soon! Oh, and don't forget about that discount code offer! 3rdEye really have a lovely range of rubber stamps and other stuff. ;)

Hugs and happy crafting,
Claudia - aka die amelie xx

Welcome our generous sponsors for 2014!

Day 10 of our january challenge "Use Your New Stash!" and we have some awesome news to share with you!

Sandra, Brigitte and me are so happy and excited: we could manage to get some really terrific sponsors on board for 2014 and we would love to introduce them to you. So, please, welcome with us all those awesome sponsors old and anew:

We are so happy to have with us again:

and

(former Mixed Media Place)

and new to the team are:

and also

will be with us once more this year for one challenge!

Yay! Isn't this incredible? All those generous people providing us with terrific prizes to give away on our tiny challenge blog!!! Sandra, Brigitte and me would like to say a big "THANK YOU SO MUCH!" to all of you! It's is such a wonderful thing to have you with us on the journey and we want you to know that we are deeply grateful! 

Our current january challenge  is still open and you, dear players, readers and followers, get eligible for the prize draw by entering a 2D or 3D project to it before the end of January. Also - if you want to be with us as a Guest Designer, just add GD to your name when entering the collections via the inlinkz tool. 

We look forward to having a wonderful challenging new year here at our tiny creative steampunk spot. Please, keep entering your awesome art to our challenges as you already did in 2013! By doing so you make us very proud and happy :)

Hugs,

SanDee, Brigitte&amelie

June Spotlight

Dear Blogger and friends,

thank you so much for your paticipation on the June Challenge so fare. This STEAMPUNK CHALLENGE is still open till end of June but I really wanted to Spotlight one of your amazing Project even if it took a little bit longer this time.
The decision has been very difficult  as always - but finally I am proud to  present you

froebelsternchen

I absolutely love the texture on this Project and colours are just fabulous! Susi, feel free to grab the Patch :-)

Futher I do also like to Thank our Sponsor for the

Voucher to the 3rd Eye store!

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So cool!

Happy Crafting and hope to see more of your amazing Project.

XOXO SanDee & amelie

Top3 and Prize Winner - May Challenge

Hello, dear friends, readers and followers!
This is me, die amelie, back with the announcement of our Top3 and the randomly drawn winner of the awesome Redlead Stencils!

As this time SanDee and me weren't at one with all three entries we wanted to see with the Top (which we usually are - which is quite remarkable), she told me I should choose the third Top entry from our voting lists. But I decided to pick two more entries - one from her votes list and one from mine  - so we actually have a Top4 this time! And here they come - in no particular order:

Ana K.

Matilde

Sam

Lori

Congrats, ladies! We really loved what we saw! And huge congrats to all the others who participated too! As usual it was really hard to make a choice! We so do hope that you will all play with us again and want to thank you for making this place such an awesome spot filled with loads of creativity and inspiration!

Now to our prize winner, who gets the three lovely stencils, given to me by Chris and Sharon from Redlead!

A big THANK YOU once more to you both for supporting us with this great gift!

Which means that our lucky winner this time is:

Mark!

Congrats, Mark, and have fun with your new stencils! Please, contact me (by clicking the contact button in the side bar) for claiming your prize! 

Our new challenge "Underwater Steampunk" has just started and this time we offer  separate 2D AND 3D collections again. We hope you will join in and by doing so get the chance to win Drycha's voucher for shopping with her awesome 3rdEye stamp shop!

Hugs and happy crafting,

SanDee&amelie

June Challenge - "Underwater"

Hello and welcome to our brand new challenge for this month!

As usual there were awesome entries with our Altered Playing Cards challenge across the board, so choosing our Top3 will - as usual ;) - be a hard job, but we will announce them and the (randomly drawn) winner of the cool Redlead stencils soon!

This month we want you to create 

Underwater Steampunk!

This time we will have a 2D and 3D section again, so feel free to create "anything goes" as long as it sticks to our theme and pay attention to enter your project with the correct collection (at the bottom of this erhemm erhemm quite word and picture heavy post).

Our June Guest Designer is Drycha  from 3rd Eye, who also provides us with the prize for this month's challenge winner! Drycha designs (and offers) a lot of awesome stamps with her store - most of them usable in very versatile ways and great for art journaling or any other mixed media art! You will learn more about her in a few secs.

To show the versatility and range of her lovely stamps SanDee and I agreed to do our inspirational projects for this month's challenge using 3rd Eye stamps only! (Which definitely did not feel like being narrowed down with options for awesome designs ;)

SanDee1899

die amelie

And now, please, welcome Drycha and see what she created for us (and of course you) on this special  occasion ;)

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Hello!

I'm Karolina Stopyra but You can know me also as Drycha. I'm owner and designer of 3rd Eye.

I'm so happy to be here with You!

 Instead of typical "about me" description, SanDee&amelie asked me some questions. Here they're:

What does "being creative" mean to you? 

Creativity is inventing. Recycling is creative. Making cable storage from toilet paper tubes is creative, stamping grass from hair of stamp with man was creative (die amelie did it;), making shovel from old detergent bootle is creative, meaking memo game from bootle caps... Well, creativity is squeezing more potential than originally planned from things, from occurrences, from everyday life.

When did you start designing your own stamps (and why)? 

I started my own business 'cause I wanted to share my ideas. I haven't seen stamps with eyes, with anatomical hearts, skull stamps was only abroad and so expensive... So I did all I wanted on my own :) I wanted to make something different and something in my style... 

I don't want to tell that I have only super rare stamps - of course not. I have checkered board, arrows, flowers... ;) I wanna share something more practical too, for example stamp beams  - You can create your own radial backgrounds without big expensive stamps! ...and You can stamp different background patterns, You can use "beam" as petal... Many different ways!

Where do you draw inspiration from?

 Music and emotions. Clouds and light. Textures... just everything around.

What makes you go for a new art journaling page?

Inspiration or need for playing with paper, medias...

How does your working space have to be like to make your creativity flow? 

Tidy up! My place have to be tidy up when I'm starting. I don't like to dabble in stash from lately done project, so I have to clean up my space after creating. Every jars and bottles of medias and other stuff going to their place, paper scraps goes to folder with separators or to basket with las times scraps, crystals go to basket with crystals etc... By the way, tidying can be very inspirational, You can find interesting forgotten stuff ;)

What are your favourite stamps (which qualities should they have)?

You ask me about faves from stamps I designed? ;) TES-016 el bahia - it's pattern found in Morrocan palace named "el Bahia", I remake it into designs extremely comfortable to extend, i worked hard with it but I'm proud about effect. I like stamps with shading 'cause they're more realistic. I think that I usually use stamps for making backgrounds so everything is perfect ;) Try to check only few favorites from these ;)

      

Ok, You had long trip with my writing... Hope You're not bored! Here's my project designed specially for "Underwater" challenge :)

Despite visions about amazing underwater ship of Captain Nemo in steampunk style or something like that I decided to create something more funny :a Fishy card with cogs scales.

 My boyfriend told it's rather creepy than funny but I hope You like it ;)

 I stamped cogs on scrap paper and punch circles, then color edges of "scales"with Distress Stain and glued to base. I made some scales using lightbulb.
Lips and eyes are stamps too. Aaaaand I used more stamps ;) Anchors background and tulle on the head and fins. Oh, and lines on fins.


You can find here only paper, stamps, black pigment ink, few colors of Distress Stains and white Distress Marker.

I want to thank so much SanDee and Die Amelie for inviting me here!

I'm so happy to be Guest on this blog but I'm also Sponsor :)

So what's the prize for winner of that challenge?

Voucher to the 3rd Eye store!

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So, isn't that cool? 

Drycha also offers a 10% discount code for the first three persons who place an order in her 3rd Eye store. Just write the code underwater on the basket, during placing your order. 

(If the code is not valid - sorry, You're late... 3rdEye have PayPal and DotPay. They ship internationally. One discount code per person.)

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3rd Eye also has a reveal of new designs today!

On the occasion of our "underwater" challenge Drycha created lovely seahorses (the same as on the voucher above).

Check 3rd Eye blog to look at all new designs and for a chance to win some of them!

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Wow! Thank you so much, Drycha, for your lovely visit, for the fab fab fab underwater project and for being our generous sponsor this month!

After this heavy load of inspiration and goodies on offer there's just one more thing to say to our dear readers old and new: we hope to see you soon with us, sharing your awesome and fun Underwater Steampunk projects! 

Hugs and happy crafting,

SanDee&amelie

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