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

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Top3 June Challenge "Underwater"

Finally access to blogger has been reinstalled and Sandra can join in again, so we did our voting of the Top3 for the 2D and 3D sections of our Underwater Challenge!

We were again blown away by the high quality of all the entries and in a certain way all of you are winners to us, but we promised to do Top3s so choose we must and here they come (in no particular order):

 Winners Underwater Steampunk


2D:









3D:








Our huge congrats for those truly deserved wins to all of you!!! Please, feel free to grab our badge for display on your blogs:


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We are so proud and happy that you all share these loads of awesome projects with us!!! Thank you all so much!
Our current challenge "Rust" is still open until the end of the month and we are looking forward to see many awesome entries again. 

Hugs and happy crafting,

SanDee&amelie

Monday, July 8, 2013

June Prize Winner

Hello and welcome back, dear Steampunk lovers friends and followers!

Claudia - die amelie here to bring you the winner of Drycha's awesome voucher for her 3rdEye store. Check it out - she has a lot of brilliant stamp designs in store for you - from Steampunk to Scrapbooking and Art Journaling as well. :)

And random.org chooooooooose......






C'est Coutureuse!


Congratulations, Coutureuse! Please, use the "Contact" button to send me your e-mail adress, so I can forward it to Drycha. Happy shopping and stamping! :)

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As Sandra is not only dealing with a nasty flu but also has some strange problems with blogger not letting her use the post forms, our communication has slowed down a little...so, please, give us some more time to finish the votes for our Top3 for June! We will announce them as soon as possible - promise! 

See you soon and happy crafting!

die amelie x

Monday, July 1, 2013

New Challenge for July --- it´s all about "RUST"

Dear Bloggers and Friends,
well,  it looked a bit like the hot temperatures (and then maybe the terrible floodings) during the first half  of June kept a lot of you away from their workdesks, since we only got few entries for our monthly challenge then (we already wondered if we chose a theme that wasn't up to your taste at all).
But then the second half of June has shown us that you are all still with us -  THANK YOU all so much for the marvelous projects you have once more entered to our June challenge!
You can guess that it will be hard to select the TOP 3 (as usual;) - which will be anounced within a week.

So this month's challenge theme wants you to 

create a project that incorporates 

RUST! 


No matter how - you can use Real Rust or any of the known media that create a rust-like surface (acrylic paint techniques, embossing powders and enamels, alcohol inks, rusted objects used with your creation ....even colours with the "name" of rust...) as long as it is Steampunk you show us!
We kindly ask new visitors to check out the rules stuff (to be found at the top of the page) and pay attention to enter their projects to the right collection as we offer both: a separate 2D (for tags, cards, paintings, drawings,...) and a 3D collection (for altered objects, 3D paper crafts  and anything three-dimensional)!

For July we once more managed to get another special guest designer for our challenge - we proudly present you


Applause, applause!!!:


thank you so much, Daniela, for being our fabulous guest this month, and our generous prize sponsor too! (To learn more about the prize that Daniela is giving away to this month's winner, come back at mid month to check).

And this is what Daniela has prepared for your inspiration! So coooool, isn't it?



And this is how her guitar looked like during its making, after applying the Real Rust and some PanPastels.


For a more detailed StepxStep check out her blog.

And here's what Daniela told us about her (for the English translation, please scroll down a bit):
Hallo,
ich freue mich sehr in diesem Monat Gast-Designer bei SanDee und Amelie zu sein und für alle die noch nichts von mir gehört haben, möchte ich mich kurz vorstellen. Mein Name ist Daniela Rogall, Shop-Inhaberin von creavil und Herausgeberin von "Just Stamps  – einfach stempeln", dem Magazin für Stempler, Scrapper & Mixed Media Artists.

Ich gebe leidenschaftlich gerne Workshops und bin auch privat sehr aktiv, denn ich liebe den Austausch.
In diesem Monat dreht sich alles um Rost und Patina, ein Lieblingsthema von mir. Ich beschäftige mich seit Monaten sehr intensiv damit, denn dieser Effekt ist einfach genial und passt wunderbar zu Steampunk-Kreationen. Etwas zu Rosten ist in der Regel ein langwieriger Prozess, aber es gibt Mittel und Wege diese zu verkürzen oder den Effekt nach zustellen. Patina entsteht durch Ablagerungen auf Oberflächen von Metallen und kann unterschiedliche Farben haben. Das ist abhängig vom Metall. Rost ist auch eine Patina, ein Alterungseffekt, nur das Rost das Metall auf dem es sich ablagert nach und nach zerstört. Dennoch übt Rost eine ganze eignen Faszination aus und wird gerne für die Gestaltung eingesetzt. 
Für mein Beispiel habe ich Original Rust eingesetzt. Original Rust ist ein Granulat, das auf die Oberfläche gerieben wird und da es eine Eisenoxid-Basis hat, sofort den Rosteffekt darstellt. Original Rust lässt sich mit anderen Farben kombinieren, so dass Farbeffekte eingefügt werden können und der Rost-Patina-Effekt so plastischer dargestellt werden kann. 


The English translation:


    Hi,

I am very pleased to be here as a guest designer this month with SanDee and amelie and I want to introduce myself a bit to those who haven't heard of me yet. My name is Daniela Rogall,  I am shop owner of creavil and editor of "Just Stamps - einfach stempeln", a magazine for stampers, scrappers and Mixed Media artists.

I love to do workshops and also to communicate with creative people in private about my crafting hobbies.
This month is all about rust and patina, one of my favourites. I have been heavily into rusting for some months now, as I love this effect and it goes so well with Steampunk creations.The rusting process usually is quite time consuming, but there are means to speed this up or even imitate the look. Patina consits of deposits on metal surfaces and can appear in various colours due to the sort of metal. Rust is also patina, an ageing effect, only that rust (very slowly) destroys the metal it appears on. However rust has its very own magic and is often used for creating art. 
With my example I used "Original Rust". This is a granulate that - once applied to the surface by rubbing it on and being based on ferrous oxide - immediately becomes real rust. Original rust can be combined with other colours, so you can add colour effects and imitate intense rust patina more plastically. 







And here come the design team projects:








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So without any further ado we wish you a lot of fun with creating something "rusty" and look forward to seeing your awesome entries with our challenge soon!

Hugs,
SanDee&amelie


Enter your project to the 2D or 3D collection below :

Thursday, June 20, 2013

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



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

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

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:













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


Saturday, June 1, 2013

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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 ;)










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 ;)
el bahia - background  rose under construction set TES-110     leaf

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.)


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!


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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