July Winner and Top3

Hello, dear Steampunks!

It's time to announce (proudly of course) the Top3 of both the 2D and 3D entries for our July "Rust" challenge!

We had once more a hard time choosing because all of the projects you entered were absolutely amazing and full of creativity! We are so proud about all our great players who join us so constantly. And we are happy about all those who stumble over our place for the first time and let us know how glad they are that they found it :)

The comments from you that let us know our efforts are appreciated (and noticed) are a lovely reward for us. Thank you.

But now to our Top3. Here they come in no particular order:

2D

Astrid Maclean

Monique

Susan Janicula

3D

Rosie

Esther

Tina

Congrats to all of you (please, feel free to grab the winners badge for display on your blogs) - but also to all who entered a project to our challenge!

You all did an awesome job and if we hadn't promised to choose Top3s, you would all be our winners. 

Now finally to our prize winner, who will receive the wonderful "Real Rust" and an edition of the "Just Stamps" magazine from Daniela Rogall, who was our generous sponsor for this prize. Thank you once more, Daniela, for the great gifts!

And random.org chose my lucky number:

ELLY!

Congrats to you too! Please, let me know the adress Daniela has to mail the prize to. Have fun!

Our August challenge - "Matchbox Steampunk" is open until the end of August and we hope you will all join in again (or for the first time ;)!

Hugs,

SanDee&amelie

August challenge "Matchbox Steampunk"

Welcome back, dear Steampunk friends! Die amelie here, to bring to you the challenge for August.

But first we want to thank you again for entering all those fab projects with our challenges all the time! We are definitely blown away by all your artistic and creative work. It is you who make this place so special! :)

This month we want you to 

incorporate one or more matchboxes 

with your Steampunk projects. 

As usual our challenge is "anything goes" 

as long as it is Steampunk and you stick to the rules and theme.
Top3 and prize winner of the July challenge will be announced within the next few days, so, please, come back to check if you are one of them.  

We have the special pleasure to introduce to you this month's guest designer:

Candy Colwell! 

I am so glad she said yes, when I asked her if she wanted to join us for this month's challenge to create something for your inspiration. And inspirational it is what Candy creates (and contageous too of course ;). Her make for our challenge proves it so well:

So fantastic, isn't it? When I first saw what she had made for our challenge, I really couldn't believe my eyes.... a miniature dresser, made with so much care and thought. Even the smallest details are worth giving them a closer look!

I also asked her if she wanted to tell us a bit about herself and she agreed:

I am married to my high school sweetheart and we’ve been married for 38 years.  We have two wonderful children; a girl and a boy, and four precious grandchildren.

 

I have always loved art although I’ve never had any formal training, other than being fortunate enough to attend Ranger U in 2011.  I am currently a design team member for Simon Says Stamp and Show.  This has been so much fun for me on two levels.  The different challenge themes really make you have to stretch your imagination to come up with new and unique ideas every week.  I really enjoy that.  But even more than that, I have met so many wonderful and talented people that have become friends all over the world through our interactions from Simon Says Stamp and Show.  Claudia, you are a perfect example of this! 

 

What inspires me?  Everything!  Sometimes it’s the lyrics of a song.  Sometimes it’s simply a color.  You never know what is out there, waiting to inspire you.  Just keep that creative eye open!  I do know that I am fascinated by how something is put together.  Once I understand the construction of something, I like to really try to create something with it that I’ve never seen before. 

 

I love Steampunk because you can be “quirky” with your art.  You can take things that you normally wouldn’t think would go together but somehow, in Steampunk, they do!  I love metal, detail and vintage style.  The combination of those three things is perfect for Steampunk pieces.

 

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Thank you so much, Candy, for the Q&A session and for your brilliant and utterly gorgeous design piece! So without any further ado....here come the projects of the DT:


Sandra gave the fab Andy Skinner Timeworn Techniques a try with her matchbox and created a wonderful tiny keepsake with loads of awesome texture and detail:

SanDee1899

I approached the theme from a more abstract angle and by doing so (quite accidentally) developed a new form of art: Steampunk Cubism *lol

die amelie

I hope we have inspired all of you to have your very own joyful play with matchboxes, turning them into something Steampunk-y!

We wish you a lot of fun and a happy time crafting and look forward to seeing your wonderful entries with us soon! You always create such awesome projects for our challenges by all of which we are sooo proud as they are all so veeerrry, very creative and so very well made too! So we can hardly wait to see your matchbox Steampunk!

We will announce July's prize winner and Top3  in about a week, so, please, come back then to check if you are one of them.

Aaaand last but not least: 

GUEST DESIGNER CALL

We have decided on a new addition to our challenge blog: in future we would love to choose the candidates for a guest designer appearance on our challenges from you - our true and highly talented players. So if you want to be our guest designer for one of our challenges, please, add a "GD" to your name when entering our current challenges via the inlinkz tool. We will put up a list from all those who signal that they want to be our guests and contact you for a guest designer's appearance when the time has come (but not later than three weeks before the challenge with you as our GD goes online).

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Don't be shy!  We would be happy to be able to welcome you as our guest designers soon! ;)

As this is a 3D project due to the theme, there is only one collection this time ;)
So, please, enter your project using the inlinkz link below (and add the "GD" if you want to be our guest designer soon).

Please, enter your project via the inlinkz-tool below. 

Hugs,

SanDee&amelie xxx

Second July Spotlight

Hi there and "servus" from overheated Vienna! Die amelie here to bring you another spotlight on one of this month's fantastic projects that have already been entered with our  challenge.

cbee aka Caro

Isn't her card awesome? I love all the layers, the lace and the browns and blue! Thank you, Caro, for entering this gorgeous project! Please, feel free to grab our spotlight button for display on your blog :)

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There's still one more week left to enter a project and become eligible for the wonderful prize sponsored by Daniela Rogall! 

Happy crafting!

SanDee&amelie xx

July Spotlight and Prize

Servus and hello, dear Steampunk friends and crafters!

I welcome you back to our tiny Steampunk space to show you our first spotlight of this month and to tell you about the prize we will give away to this month's randomly drawn winner. So all who enter our challenge with a project that follows the theme and the rules are eligible for this awesome gift from this month's sponsor, Daniela Rogall, owner of creavil store.

Daniela is giving away a jar of "Real Rust" and a copy of her awesome stamp magazine "Just Stamps" - awesome, isn't it?

Thank you so much, Daniela, for being our sponsor this month!

And now to our July spotlight.  I LOVE how Jenny aka Buttons used the various metals with her project and the corrugated card gear is so brilliant! For those who know how hard it is to master the very small format of an ATC it will be obvious how great she managed to create the impression of a large canvas... a stunning effect and loads of awesome texture!

Thank you, Jenny, for entering our challenge with your wonderful art! Please, feel free to grab the spotlight badge and display it with your blog.

And you, dear readers and players, be reminded: there are still (or only? I don't know ;) two more weeks left to enter our Rust challenge and thus get eligible for Daniela Rogall's great prize!

Hugs and happy Steampunk crafting!

die amelie xxx

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:

ScrapMan

Susan Janicula

Sam

3D:

Tina

Keren

Mikaela

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

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

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

Daniela Rogall. 

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:

SanDee1899

 die amelie 

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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 :