February Spotlight and Sponsor

Servus and welcome back, dear Steampunk friends!

Time for the mid-month reminder as usual for our February "Time Machine" challenge which you can still enter to get eligible to win this months prize sponsored by Iris (thank you, Iris!) from

or become one of our chosen Top3 for the 2D or 3D collections. All you have to do is enter a project to our challenge via inlinkz in the challenge post (following the theme and the challenge rules). You can also apply for being Guest Designer with one of our challenges by adding a "GD" to your name when using the inlinkz tool!

But now on to this month's spotlight! And some great news (well, no real news exactly but more a bit of a teaser ;) along with that: we are happy that we will be able to introduce two new members who have joined our DT and will be with us from March! So come back for the March challenge to learn more about who they are and what they have in store for you!

To keep them a bit busy I have already asked them to choose the spotlight for this month and they both went for the same entry (and also tell us why):

Kasia

 and her most fantastic time machine! 

"... her project is really impressive, with all the small elements and the background that is so in sync with the alarm clock insides."

"...As one her first Steampunk projects I think that it has succeeded very well for Kasia. There is no doubt that it is a time machine that can bring us to where we want - by the way, is Kasia still here on Earth?"


Honestly, regarding all the intimidating wires and gears, gauges and spinning hands I wonder too if Kasia has already left this time universe to travel to an alternative one where she discovers the most exciting or terrifying things. Let's hope she has not altered any timelines she shouldn't have!

Well done, Kasia! We love your time machine! Please, feel free to grab the badge for your blog!

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There is still time until the end of February to enter our challenge "Time Machine". We have had a lot of fabulous entries so far, but of course we would like to see yours too ;)

Hugs and happy crafting, 

S, B, A, S & A ;)

January Winner and Top3

Servus and hello, dear Steampunk friends!

Time to announce our prize winner and Top3 from the January challenge! First I want to thank you all for the wonderful and numerous entries! What could be more great a reward than having a lot of folk who want to join in our challenges and by doing so make this place a special meeting point for all those who love creativity with a touch of Steampunk!

First to our winner of last month's prize, which was sponsored by

And random.org chose....drumroll.....:

Susan Janicula! 

Tadaaah!

Please let me know your shipping adress via e-mail so I can forward it to Di from Tando Creative! Congrats and have fun with the goodies!

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And now to the Top3 the DT has chosen

(in no particular order):

2D:

Kerstin F.

Susan Janicula

Dagmar

3D:

Mark

Diana

Elly

Huge congrats to all our winners! Very well done! (And as always choosing was really hard as we loved all the entries). Please, feel free to grab our Top3 badge for display on your blogs! 

The February challenge is already open and we want to see your "Time Machines" - so why not join in and share some Steampunk fun with us? 

Hugs and happy crafting,

B,S&A

The February Challenge - "Time Machine"

Welcome to another edition of SanDee&amelie's Steampunk Challenges, dear Steampunk friends and crafters!

This month our theme is

Time Machine 

and it is totally up to you how you interpret the theme and if you make a tag, a card, an art journal page, a drawing/painting or a crafted or altered 3D project for our challenge. The main focus should be on having fun creating :)

Whatever comes to your mind is good as long as it is Steampunk and fits the theme and our challenge rules!



Thank you so much for all the wonderful entries for our "Use Your New Stash" challenge! The team will have a hard time choosing their Top3 and we will announce them shortly after nex Saturday (due to school holidays over here and us being off for some skiing), so, please, check back next week to see if you are among our Top3 or the randomly drawn prize winner of the Tando Creative prize.

But now on to our Guest Designer for this month.

We are happy to introduce to you 

Sabine 

from  art bee art

Mein Name ist Sabine und ich lebe in einer kleinen Stadt in Deutschland mit meinem Mann. Ich bin Mutter einer Tochter und eines Sohnes.

Ich liebte es seit meiner Kindheit, zu zeichnen, zu malen und zu basteln, und mit verschiedenen Materialien zu experimentieren. Ich hatte einen sehr langweiligen Bürojob, also machte ich kleine Kunstwerke in meiner freien Zeit. Malerei und Kartenherstellung sind jetzt meine Favoriten. Ich mache aber auch gerne Schmuck , und trage ihn auch sehr gerne.

Ich habe schon viele kreative Techniken ausprobiert, z.B. Töpfern, Fimo und vieles Andere mehr. Meine Zeitmaschine für diese challenge wurde aus Fimo gemacht.

My name is Sabine and I live in a small town in Germany with my husband. I am mother of a daughter and of a son.

I loved to draw, paint and craft,  using different materials ,since my childhood . I had a very boring office job, so I made little artworks in my free time. Painting  and card making  are my favourites now. I also like to make jewelry, and I like to wear jewelry.

I have tried many creative techniques, such as pottery, polymer clay and many other more.

My work for this challenge, the time machine, is made with polymer clay.

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Awesome, isn't it? Thank you so much, Sabine, for being with us and sharing some of your lovely art with us!

And if this isn't enough to get your mojo going there are of course the makes from the DT:

Brigitte (coutureuse)

worked her magic again by altering a book.

Claudia (die amelie)

I had an intense play with some die cut cogs and gears. ;)

To see and learn more about details or how tos hop over to the blogs of the DT members - they really put a lot of love and effort in their makes to inspire you. 

Our challenge is - as always - open until the end of the month. Please, check the callenge rules on top of our blog page so you make sure your entry can be counted in. Oh, and see to it that you enter your make to the correct collection as we divide into 2D and 3D makes (which we choose separate Top3 from too). 

This month's sponsor and prize will be announced around mid-month. So come back then to check it out. We look forward to seeing your Time Machines entered soon!

Hugs and happy crafting, 

B, S & A

Enter your projects below:

Mid Month Reminder, a Spotlight and this Month's Prize Sponsor

Hello, hello, dear Steampunk friends,

time to remind you about our current challenge, which wants you to use your new stash (and for which we have already got a real load of awesome entries - wow!)!

By entering a project (that fits the current challenge theme AND follows our general challenge rules) you get eligible for the monthly random prize draw and this month our generous sponsor is

Yay! 

We are so proud that we have this bunch of awesome sponsors for 2014! Thank you all so much :)



I wanted my team to choose a spotlight from the entries so far and Brigitte (coutureuse) went for the lovely, lovely make from

Kerstin F.!

"It has lots of beautiful detail and I love especially the great depth Kerstin has achieved, which makes her project so incredibly awesome!"

A superb choice this is - so huge congrats, Kerstin! Please, feel free to grab the badge for display on your gallery site!

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Don't forget to join our challenge! It is open until the end of January and we look forward to many more stunning projects entered with our "Use Your New Stash - Challenge".

Happy Steampunk crafting!

S,A & B

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

Top3 and Prize Winner of our December Challenge

Hello, dear Steampunk friends,

time to announce the Top3 for the December challenge and the winner of our fab prize!

Thank you to all those who played with us in December - although there's usually not a lot of time left for creating anything else than X-mas cards or doing other preparations for X-mas Eve or the holidays! We loved your vehicles and Santa looking so glad sitting in them (and enjoying his new and faster ride).

As there were only three entries for the 3D collection, there are no Top3 of course, but on the other hand we loved all three entries so much, so I would love to link to them too: Dagmar, Elly and Tina shared the most gorgeous 3D makes with us and they are well worth a visit!

The team had at least to choose from the entries for the 2D collection and these are our Top3 - tadaaah!

Top 3

Susan Janicula

Kerstin

Chaosmaus (Kerstin #2)

Well done, ladies!!! Please, feel free to grab the Top3 badge for your blogs!

And the winner of the fabulous 10 Euro voucher to spend at

  

iiiiis.... 

 Kerstin - Chaosmaus!

Congratulations!

Please, e-mail us (see contact adress on the top of the side bar) for further details, so we can send your prize to you! 

Our actual challenge wants you to "Use Your New Stash" you got for X-mas and can be found here. We would love to see your new stuff and the goodness you create from it! 

Hugs and happy crafting,

S,B&a

 

Happy New Year and the First Challenge!

Yay, welcome back, dear crafting steampunk friends!
It's so great to have you all back and we have a lot of wonderful challenges in store for you ;)

We hope you all have been enjoying the holidays so far! We are sure that you all have got some awesome crafting goodies for X-mas....so this month's challenge is all about using them:

USE YOUR NEW STASH!

This is what we want you to do when you create your steampunk projects for our January challenge ;). Please, mention the new stuff in your post so we can make your entry count!

As usual we have two separate collections for the 3D and 2D makes and we have also managed to get some more wonderful sponsors on board for 2014! They will be introduced a little later this month - so come back to check it out. 

The prize winner and Top 3 of December's challenge will be announced next Saturday (we are so happy that some of you found the time to play with us in December - despite all the X-mas preparations and festivities. Thank you so much!) 

Now, please, welcome our first Guest Designer for 2014: 

Meresanth

from Meresanth Krafts. Yay!

She has made the most wonderful steampunk storage for your inspiration:

Sooo terrific! Wow!
She also made a terrific video of this awesome storage, which can be watched over here. I recommend you watch it, as t reveals some specials the drawers do not show at first sight (and a bit of the how to as well ;). Thank you for this brilliant make, Meresanth, and for the video special too!

And this is what she tells us about her:

My love for crafting started many years ago with jewellery-making, and that is probably where my love for all things metal comes from. :) Recently I have been mainly drawn to paper crafts, however, and I have found a combination of all of my most favourite things in the steampunk and vintage styles.

I like using all kinds of true vintage findings in my projects and it was no different this time, as my new post-Christmas stash includes both some beautiful designer papers and some attic and junkyard findings. All these trinkets needed a worthy place to stay, and so I decided to create a set of book drawers which will be their new home!

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Thank you so much, Meresanth, for being with us and for your awesome inspirational projects! 

Let's have a look at what the DT has in store for you:

coutureuse

SanDee1899

 die amelie

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Our challenge is open until the end of January. Please, make sure that you enter your project to the correct collection (2D or 3D) and most of all: have fun!

Oh, and just in case you forgot: if you want to be our Guest Designer, just add a "GD" to your name when entering your project with our challenge (and we will contact you then). 

Hugs and happy crafting,

SanDee, coutureuse & amelie

 Enter your projects here:
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