Welcome our New DT Members!

Servus and welcome back!

It's time - and a huge pleasure for us - to announce our new Design Team members! Finally!!!!

As I have already said last time: we had the most wonderful applications from around the globe from the most amazingly talented Steampunk crafters and artists and if I could have I would have taken on all of them....lol...but that would have lead to SanDee&amelie's Steampunk Challenges risking having more DT members than players perhaps...which might look a bit awkward to be honest. ;)
So sadly I had to not only send four happy invites to four lovely ladies but also send some refusals to some lovely ladies.... sigh. Just know: we loved all of your artwork - but choose we must! xxx


So just give me a second to put on my Kermit-the-Frog costume - so I can wave my hands in a proper fashion when I shout: "Get ready to welcome our new, fantastic ladies Niki, Maura, Dee and Zoja! Applause, applause, applaaauuusssseee!!!!!!" (*wavingaboutmadly)

To learn more about our new ladies' arts and crafts just click their DT badges to get to their blogs! Or use the list of their blog names:

Dee Adams

Two Crafting Sisters (Maura)

Pawsitively Creative Crafts (Niki)

Bo Licho Nie Spi (Zoja)

If you leave them a warm welcome comment that would make them very happy!

We are so excited to have them with us now and work alongside these fabulously talented and lovely ladies! Welcome to the team! XXX

You will see their first steampunk projects for our challenge blog in March - so watch out!

If you haven't already joined in our actual challenge "Unfinished Steampunk", why not take a closer look (HERE and HERE) and play along? There's still time until the end of the month to enter a project and thus get eligible for winning our prize (which is donated by Retro Kraft Shop this month! Yay!).

Hugs and happy crafting,

Claudia and the (grown) SASPC-team!

xxx

"Three's my Lucky Number" - Mid Month Reminder

Servus and welcome back to the second part of this month's challenge

"Three's my Lucky Number"

in which we want to see threes and threesomes of all kinds with your makes (and some cool/vintage/grunge/... Steampunk of course).

By following the LINK to the introductional post for the challenge you will also get to the inspirational pieces team A has done to get you on track. Today it is time for team B to provide you with some more!

And it is also time to reveal this month's sponsor who will donate a prize to one randomly drawn winner after the challenge has closed (which will be on January 31st at midnight Central European Time) :

  Bastel-Welt Schobes, who are giving away a 20 Euro voucher to use at their web store! We are very grateful to have them with us this year and what a fab start they make for 2015! 

So don't hesitate - create! lol

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Now to the makes of team B:

(if you want to see more details or learn more about the projects just click the teamies' names to get to their blogs. And if you even take the time to leave them a short comment so they know you were there, you will make them very happy!

Laura

Loved making this...grungy gears softened by grungy roses - all in 3's of course!

Kerstin

All good things come in threes, or?

Adventure, Fantasy and Power - that's my favourites, when I think about the magical Steampunk world.

More details can be found on my blog. 

Claudia

"Three Men in a Boat"

the Steampunk version 

Mixed media on a 4x6'' Art Journal Card. 

(my new favourite substrate to work on!)

My "Three Men in a Boat" (based on the novel by Jerome K. Jerome) haven't entered their Steampunk boat yet - but the look like real pioneers and more than ready to go, don't they? 

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 You see? There are more than three ways to interpret our challenge ;)

You get to the post with the inlinkz collections (for the 2D and 3D makes) by clicking HERE. 

Prize winner and Top 3 will be announced about a week after the new challenge has started (maybe a little later this time due to school (and therefore skiing) holidays over at my place). And we will also announce our new DT members from the DT Call (which is still open until the end of January too! Further information can be found HERE).

We are looking forward to see your wonderful entries soon! 

Hugs and happy crafting!

Claudia and the SASPC team

xxx

Mid Month reminder and a DT Call

Hello, servus and welcome to our little crafty Steampunk corner!

By now I guess everyone is heading full speed towards X-mas festivities and has been busily preparing, baking and crafting away with X-mas decorations and/or presents. Those who haven't already checked out the post from December 1st - we have decided to do some excessive X-mas-wishing around the Steampunk globe instead of a challenge. One happy X-mas wishing person will win a fab $25 voucher to use at Inspiration Emporium! And, please, make sure you follow all the criteria to get eligible (details can be found by clicking HERE).

So after this slightly different mid-month-reminder let's head on directly to even more exciting things...yay! As SASPC is slowly but constantly growing (thanks to our true and talented players and my fab DT) we have decided to look out for two more team members and to do so we are having our very first

DT Call!  

 

What do we need from you and what will you get in return?

You should love what you do and find the right mix of fun and sense of responsibility.

You need to 

- create one project per month (and for these there are deadlines to be met),
- post about your DT project on your blog and link to the challenge blog,
- use your DT badge and the challenge blog badge (with the link) on your blog,
- there's some commenting to do as well as
- the monthly voting our Top3
- and there's our DT blog that needs to be checked regularly so communication works as smooth and quickly as possible. 
- And I as the blog owner who sets up the posts and who communicates with our prize sponsors, have to be able to rely on you with this.


We really are a very relaxed DT and we don't regard SanDee&amelie's Steampunk Challenges being a business.
There's no payment and no recompensation for your creative "work" (except the joy and fun you should have creating and sharing your makes with the team and our players on the challenge blog) as we aren't connected to an online shop or any other business . It's for the joy of sharing Steampunk art of all kinds that we do what we do.

The whole team is very aware of the fact that real life has the habit of interfering with personal resources, plans and schedules - so as long as we can talk about it we will always find a way to help out and/or find a solution, when DT work would get affected.

We don't have terms you apply for - we hope you will become part of our artistic community and travel with us as far as it feels good and right for you. But we expect you to stay at least one whole year (so we won't have to start a new DT Call in just a few months. Comprende? ;)

We try to keep DT requirements on a relaxed level. Our challenges are always "anything goes" but theme- connected. We are looking for mixed media artists, tag and ATC makers, art journallers, stampers, alterers...we love it when you have develloped your own individual "Steampunk Attitude" for your creations.

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Why did I write such a sermon? lol

Because I don't want anyone to waste precious time on applying for something he or she doesn't really fit in well enough to feel comfortable with and/or even have joy in doing. Being part of our DT will not make you famous I am afraid. Our goal is to enjoy, inspire and share art with others who think alike. That's all there is to it honestly. 

So after that has been said you just need to know how to apply:

the DT Call will run from today until 31. January 2015. 

Please, send an e-mail to vonpappe2@yahoo.de and include 

- a link to your blog,
- an image of or link to a post showing one of your own favourite (Steampunk) creations
- and some lines about yourself and also explaining why you think SanDee&amelie's could be the place and team for you.

If you haven't done any steampunk yet but want to explore new territory, create something new and Steampunk-ish to show. Steampunk expertise isn't a criteria for us.

We already are an international team - so applications from all around the globe are welcome (as long as you are able to also include some short and understandable information in English besides your own language about your make and the challenge theme with your blog posts!) :) 

We will try to get in touch with all applicants asap and as time allows. The two new DT members will start with the March challenge and will be informed well in time. If there are any questions I forgot to answer in this post, just email me.

Good luck!

Claudia and the SASPC-Team

xxx

And don't forget about our X-mas "event".

Our generous sponsor this month is: