Extending SanDee&amelie's March 2020 Challenge due to Covid 19

Hi, servus and welcome to a special challenge post announcement in very special times. I hope you and your loved ones are all well and safe and coping well with isolation and all the other (necessary) new rules and circumstances that have been turning everyday life into unknown territory for all of us these days.

Due to a lot of services and businesses (including both our sponsors) being forced to "take a break" right now to keep their employees safe and to help slow down and minimising the spreading of Covid 19 we have decided to not take a break actually but instead turn our actual March challenge into a two-months long challenge (like we usually do with our summer and winter specials). We hope that by the start of May things will slowly start to get back to normal and then we will also know more so we can decide on how to carry on. But carry on we will - especially as creating is such a good means to escape reality for some time and especially a good way to practice mindfulness which has become even more important these days!

So here's the plan so far: the March challenge stays open until the end of April and as this turns our challenge into a two-months long one we will this time accept six instead of the usual three entries per player. And by May 15th we hope to be able to announce the Top5 and prize winners as usual again. So keep creating and sharing your steampunk and industrial style makes with us! Let's all share inspiration and help keep up our spirits. 

Lovely 

Kerstin 

is sharing a new awesome project for your inspiration today 

which you can check out in more detail on her blog HERE

Isn't is awesome how Kerstin has kind of "sculpted" a self made steampunk texture plate she created using a soft mold around a glass bottle?! 

Looking at her fantastic project really makes me want to try this out myself (even though - or especially though - I am not good at working with molds)!
I really admire her skill, imagination and talent! And look at the yummy texture and the beautiful rusty look! 

...and of course it is also always a good thing to check out the makes that have already been entered to the challenge by our players so far. And - more important than ever - please, take a moment to leave a little love on the peoples' blogs and sites you're visiting - this way you will definitely put smiles on peoples faces. Urgently needed smiles, right?! ;)

You can either scroll to the previous challenge post (if you haven't checked out the design team's makes for the March challenge) or just use the collection at the bottom of this post here (as I have just added it to this post as well).

Hang in there and remember to keep creating to practice mindfulness!

Wishing you and your loved ones all the best!

Stay safe!

Claudia & the SASPC Team

xxx

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SASPC Winter Special Reminder, our New DecoArt Prize Bundle and some Christmas Steampunk

Hi, servus and welcome to our reminder post for this year's winter special challenge over here at SanDee&amelie's Steampunk Challenges, dear steampunk and industrial style friends!

Our winter special challenge is already in full swing and there's still time until the end of December to play along! For more details on the challenge theme and for some inspiration from the DT, please click on the image on top of our side bar to get taken to the challenge kick off post. But there's new inspiration from the DT today as well - so maybe you should first read to the end of this post ;)
The button to enter your project to our inLinkz collection can be found at the end of this post here but also with the post from 1. November.

Our next challenge starts on January 1st and the Top5 and prize winners from the winter special challenge will be announced on January 15th. But now on to some exciting news...

I am very happy and proud to introduce to you our new amazing prize bundle from DecoArt for 2019!!!!

A collection of 9 selected DecoArt Americana premium acrylic paints and 6 premium mediums in a fantastic prize bundle about $50 worth will be our new give-away for the new year! Wow! A huge thank you to my wonderful DecoArt ladies and to DecoArt for their generosity!

And lovely Glenda from boozybear with her fantastic steampunk chipboard pieces (in a surprise package) will be with us again too of course!

So don't miss the chance to win - all you have to do is play along ;)


And if you need a little additional inspiration to get you going, here are some makes from the design team to celebrate Christmas steampunk style ;)

Kerstin

has created this amazing "Wishes" tag and lighted two beautiful Christmas (or Advent) candles for you.

I love that little scroll at the bottom of the tag!

I guess the clock is counting down the days until Christmas Eve... ;)

Brigitte 

went for traditional greens and reds for Christmas...

and for some cool texture

Maura's

"Circuit to the Christmas Star"

shows how beautifully steampunk and a Christmas theme

can be fused

Susan

has come up with a stunning Christmas tag

that has some amazing crackle and hints of rusty shades and wire

and I

- Claudia -

had to play with some newly bought house dies and created a little 

winter scene on a Christmas tag, using various metal paints and other glitter effect paints alongside 

a good dose of faux rust on the houses

Even the snow has been stained with rust it seems... ;)

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The team and I would like to wish you all 

and a Happy New Year!

We hope to see you play along with us again in 2019. Thank you to all our wonderfully creative and true players out there and to our generous sponsors for being part of this wonderful creative journey! You all rock and we wouldn't be here without you! Mwah! xxx

Happy holidays!

Claudia & the SASPC Team

XXX

New Challenge, New Host, New Projects - SASPC's May 2018 Challenge

Hi, servus and welcome to a special challenge kick off post today!
There are some changes at the moment that I want you to know about, before we head on to this month's challenge.

First of all, we have to sadly say Good-bye to lovely Nate, who is leaving the DT due to (only wonderful) changes in her private life and the team and I would like to say a huge THANK YOU for being with us on this journey and also wish her the very best for her future endeavours.

Secondly, I would like to introduce my new challenge co-host for the future; lovely Maura from Maura's Musings. As I found I need to spend less time sitting at my computer (and sitting in general because I need to get moving again due to health reasons), I called out for some assistance and she was there to help in the wink of an eye!

Here's what she tells us about herself:

I've joyously jumped to the right side of my brain and love playing with color. It all started when I was a kid sitting under the tree in the backyard drawing, but now my muse inspires me to work in mixed media and steampunk. I especially like to use my imagination when creating my art and am often inspired by books I’ve read or places I’ve traveled.  I enjoy life with my family in the Adirondack region of New York, and am blessed with a beautiful view of the mountains outside of my studio area (a corner of our living room). Travel, gardening and reading make me a happy camper, and I am still fascinated by clouds and rocks from my years of teaching earth science.

Please, welcome her as our new challenge host! I am so happy to have her by my side! We will be alternately hosting the challenges for each month from now on and I am looking forward to her making things hum over here!

With one woman down for Team A's projects, there are only three inspirational projects today, but we will change that too with June and post all projects on the 1st of the month and only announce our Top5 and prize winners on the 15th. This way the Top5 and DT projects will also stand alone and not be rivaling in the future - so they all will get the visibility they truly deserve ;)

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Our May Challenge - it is once more an 

Anything Goes - Steampunk/Industrial

and open until the end of the month. 

Same rules as usual apply and if you return on the 15th there will be more inspiration by the DT and the announcement of our April Top 5 and prize winners! 

Susan

is finally kicking off our May challenge

with this wonderful

Steampunk Shrine

She has combined found objects in the most beautiful way

and created some awesome texture on the shrine!

Alexa

has once more outdone herself as well

and created this amazing "old industrial mini plant board"

using DecoArt products and some cool embellishments.

Zoja

embellished and painted an artist palette
and turned it into this beautiful piece of altered art:

 

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Our challenge is open until the end of the month! By playing along you get the chance to win one of our two fab prizes generously donated by our sponsors DecoArt media

and 

boozybear

Just make sure you follow our few challenge rules (see top of the page) to get included with our prize draws! Maybe you will even make it to our Top5! 

Hope to see you play along soon

and as always

hugs and happy crafting!

Claudia & the SASPC Team

xxx

Top 5 and Prize Winners - Winter Special Challenge Nov/Dec 2017

Hi, servus and welcome to the announcement of our Top 5 and prize winners from the winter special challenge, dear steampunk and industrial style friends!

As the winter special was a two-months long challenge, I decided to add a little surprise prize to the usual two give-aways (being sponsored as always by DecoArt media and boozybear)...it's just a small bundle of stuff I put together, but I wanted to personally share a little love and it is also meant as a huge THANK YOU in return for all the amazing entries you all have been sharing with me and my team during the last year! By doing so you make me a very happy and proud challenge blog owner, you know? XXX


Don't forget to return on the 15th, as Team B will be sharing their makes with you then! And of course the actual January challenge is open and waits for your entries! We are back to normal swing which means: it is open until the end of the month and the usual challenge rules apply.

Please note: I had to do a little update on the rules which means I've added the info that we will not be accepting whole video tutorial entries. But short two-minute long videos only showing the finished project (for example if it has moving parts or something like that that is worth being shown) are welcome! But honestly we prefer still images linked to our collections - be it from your blogs, pinterest, instagram or facebook accounts. As long as we do not necessarily have to have an account there to be able to comment on your entries, everything's fine. Thank you for your understanding!

But now on to our Top 5! As always we've had the most amazing creations being entered to our challenge and I have been - once more - stunned by your imagination and creativity! So much inspiration, so much to admire and explore! Thank you all so much for playing along and sharing your fantastic art! To me ALL entries are winning projects as I love each and every one. But I know that many of you love the contest idea behind challenges as it adds to the fun...so "Top 5" there have to be and pick we must (which is always a hard job. I am glad that at least random.org does the picking for me when it comes to the prizes...phew!...I simply couldn't decide if and which makes would "deserve" a prize more than others...).

....aaand the 

Top 5 

this time are...

Olga

with her amazing "dieselpunk" project

Veana's

fantastic "book of mystery"

Julia

who created this amazing notebook

Roshini

with her stunning mixed media tag

and 

Natassa

who simply charmed us all with her adorable steampunk christmas tree project

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Huge congrats and thank you very much for playing along, ladies! Well done! Please, feel free to grab the Top5 badge for display on your blogs! 

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And now on to our prize winners - picked randomly among all proper entries. 

Please, note, that there are four weeks time from the day of the announcement to claim your prizes! Just contact me via the email address given in the side bar. DecoArt prize winners, please, also add a phone number to your shipping info as DecoArt will only ship when they have a number to call in case there's some issues with shipping. 

Random.org picked the entries... 

#5 - julD

as our 

DecoArt media prize winner!

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#24 - Turwen

as our 

boozybear steampunk chipboard prize winner

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and my special little

surprise prize package

(donated by myself)

goes to

#9 - Irena

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Yay! Congrats on your prize wins, ladies! I am awaiting your emails with shipping infos (and, please, don't write to me in Cyrillic/Russian as I can't read it and do not speak any Russian at all. Sorry. ;)

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With our Top 5 and winners being announced I am almost done for now. Just a short reminder on our Team B makes, which will be shared on here in two days! Our January challenge  is awaiting your entries....and there's one more boozybear special inspirational project waiting for you, which will go live on the 23rd (yes...those who've followed our boozybear special feature will have noticed that it is my project that is still missing ;) ). So stay tuned! 

I hope to see you play along with us soon!

Hugs and happy crafting!

Claudia & the SASPC Team

xxx

SASPC October 2017 Prize Winners and Top 5

Servus, hi and welcome to today's announcement of our October Top 5 and prize winners, dear steampunk mixed media friends!

Our October challenge has had 45 fantastic entries and - as always - picking our Top5 was hard. We definitely loved every single project that has been entered into our challenge! So thank you all so much for playing along and sharing your creativity and inspiration with us! XXX


Random.org picked two prize winners among all proper entries for me and here they come:

the fab DecoArt media prize bundle

goes to

#24 - Jess! 

and a boozybear steampunk chipboard surprise package 

goes to 

#28 - Angela!

Yay! Congrats on your prize wins, ladies, and thanks for playing along! Please, email me under the address given in the side bar so we can have your prizes be sent to you asap!

And now on to our Top 5 from the October challenge!

(they appear in no particular order)

Simo

KalySto

Nastasya

eMKa

and

Юлия

(Julia)

Wow! We loved your breathtaking art, ladies! Huge congrats on making our Top 5! Well deserved! Please, feel free to grab this badge for display on your blogs. We hope to see you play along with us again soon!

Our actual SASPC steampunk winter special challenge is open until the end of the year - so two months time instead of just one to play along and still have enough time for enjoying some good Christmas crafting! ;)

We will be sharing the makes of Team B on 1st December this time. In the meantime watch out for our additional boozybear feature posts ;)

Hugs and happy crafting!

Claudia & the SASPC Team

xxx

Our SASPC May 2017 Top 5 and Prize Winners

Hi, servus and welcome, dear creative steampunk and industrial style friends! It's time to announce our Top5 and prize winners from the May challenge and you are just in time to find out if you are among them! If you haven't played along last month but would like to win one of our two prize bundles that we give away each month, there is still time to play along with our June challenge that you can find over HERE (or by clicking on the top image on our side bar).


As always we've had the most amazing entries and picking our favourites was a hard job - but in the end we managed to come up with five projects that got - slightly - more votes than the others - so we proudly present our last challenge's Top5 (in no particular order):

Helga

with her amazing altered book card:

Simo

with a fab steampunk art journal

An

amazing steampunk keepsake box

by

Iris

Barbara's

most charming underwater scene with kraken 

and last but not least

Irena's

beautifully altered vase

Wow! Congrats, ladies and thank you all so much for playing along! You really rocked this challenge! Please, feel free to grab the badge for display on your blogs. 

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And now on to our prize winners who were - as always - drawn among all proper entries.

This bundle of DecoArt media goodness 

goes to

#15 - Barbara 

and a surprise steampunk chipboard package from boozybear

goes to

#11 - Jackie C.

Congrats on your prize wins, Barbara and Jackie! Please, email me your shipping details under the address given in our side bar so we can arrange everything. (DecoArt media prize winners, please, also give a  phone number alongside your shipping address). 

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Oh well,....to me all our players are winners and I love each and every single project! Thank you all so much for playing along and sharing your fab makes with us! This spot would be nothing without you! 

Our actual challenge is still open until the end of the month and the makes of Team A can be looked at over HERE. If you check back in a few days on the 15th, you can also gather another bundle of inspiration from Team B and their projects! 

We hope to see you then and/or play along with us soon! 

Hugs and happy crafting!

Claudia & your SASPC Team

xxx

Our February Challenge - and Some Great News!

Hi, servus and welcome back to our constantly growing mixed media steampunk corner!

Time to start another

Anything Goes - Steampunk/Industrial

challenge and along with some wonderful inspirational makes from team A comes an announcement: we have another new prize sponsor who is joining us:

lovely Glenda from boozybear who produces and sells the most beautiful steampunk chipboard pieces on her Etsy store that I have ever seen! Welcome to our creative steampunk family, Glenda! We are so happy to have you with us!!!

Starting with the February challenge each month Glenda will be giving away one fantastic prize pack of assorted chipboard pieces to one winner who will be randomly drawn from all proper entries! So make sure you don't miss the chance to win!!!!

Of course if you want to be sure to get some of her steampunk chipboard goodness just hop over to Glenda's Etsy store and shop away. She ships worldwide and shipping costs are really affordable - and I am sure you will love her designs as much as I do!!!

Then we also have the fabulous prize pack sponsored by DecoArt Media

 to give away each month - gosh! I am the happiest and proudest challenge blog owner in whole crafty blogland right now. Yay! Thank you so much, boozybear and DecoArt Media!

To win one or the other all you have to do is play along and enter (up to three) projects to our monthly challenge. To make sure it is a proper entry, please check out our few rules if you haven't done so already or are new to our challenges. It would be a shame if we had to exclude you from the prize draws or top votes! The rules can be found with the pages section below our challenge blog header.

Our challenges will all be "anything goes - steampunk/industrial" ones from now on - so this enables you to let yourselves be struck by inspiration, follow your (steampunk) hearts and enjoy some happy steampunk craftin' time!

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Team A have created some wonderful projects for your inspiration! To learn more about any how-tos and products used, please, visit their blogs (just click their names to get there) - and let them know you have been there by leaving a short comment! We all know how much we love a little recognition - no matter how short the comment - so please, take a few secs to make them happy!

(for larger view, please click on the images)

Nate

Bonjour à toutes ,
voici ma façon d'interpréter par ce canvas,
la St Valentin

Agnieszka

'Chemical fumes' art journal entry, aka playing around with
Media Fluid Acrylics and water. ;)

Susan

Steampunk Love...

Brigitte

A tag "The key of my heart"

Paint, patine, paper, charms, beads....
with DecoArts products.

Zoja

I recycled old wall calendar to make album for my favourite, very old ( about 1890) victorian photos. I wanted it gold :) and it is almost.

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 The prize winner and Top5 from the January challenge will be announced on Saturday, 13th February! Another bundle of inspirational projects awaits you on the 15th of each month - so make sure you don't miss it! 

Our challenges are open until the last day of the month, 23:55 pm CET. To enter your make, use the inlinkz collection at the bottom of this post. 

Hugs and happy crafting,

Claudia & the SASPC Team

xxx