October Spotlight

Time for a spotlight, don't you think too?

I found this little treasure I want to share with you today. It's from Amy Petrou:

I love the stitched together metal plates - this idea is sooo brilliant (and if allowed to I might borrow it some time ;).

Thank you for the awesome inspiration, Amy! Please, feel free to take the badge for your site.

We already have an awesome bundle of lovely projects entered to our October challenge, but there is still more time to go....and maybe win the gorgeous Red Lead stencils ;)
To get to our current challenge, please, click here or click the image on top of the side bar. Thank you!

Hugs and happy crafting!

die amelie x

Prize for October's Challenge and Reminder

Hello and servus, dear Steampunk friends and crafters!

Time to announce the prize for this month's challenge and to remind you that there are still two more weeks left for entering our Steampunk Tic Tac Toe challenge and thus become eligible for our randomly drawn prize winner.
We would love to see your tags, cards, altered items,... entered soon with our 2D and 3D projects collections ;)

Chris and Sharon from Red Lead 

were once again so kind and generous to donate two stencils from their awesome range to give away to our winner! A huge THANK YOU to Chris and Sharon  for this awesome prize! :)

(If you click the shop badge you get to their fab on line store)

Aren't they great? I love using their stencils - especially for my art journaling but also for some of my steampunk makes ;) 

To win these all you have to do is create a project for our TicTacToe Steampunk challenge and enter it - random.org will pick the winner from the entries then about a week after the challenge has ended on October 31st.

September Prize Winner and Top3

Oooops, sorry I am a bit late today, but things have been a bit hectic during the last days as I slipped in the shower two days ago and almost broke my ribs - seems I was lucky "just" to have some heavy bruises on my left side (moving is a bit hurtful and raising my left arm is not a good idea at the moment) and the x-ray that had to be done didn't show any severe injuries.... *phew!

So I am here now (at last!!) to bring to you the Top3 of our september challenge "Dolls 'n Robots" and the randomly drawn prize winner of the 10 Euro voucher for Irishteddy's online store.

The entries were - as usual - absolutely fantastically thought-outside-the-box ones and we loved them all! We really appreciate the amount of creativity and thought you always put into the makes you enter with our challenges! Thank you so much!

As there were only three entries with our 2D collection, we decided to just vote a Top winner...

Here they come (in no particular order):

2D

Meresanth

3D

Tabitha

Keren

Angela

Congrats, ladies! Soooo very well done! Please, feel free to grab  the Top3 badge for display on your blogs! 

And now on to our prize winner. And random.org picked Nr.9

which is 

Tina!

Congrats , Tina, you won a 10 Euro voucher for shopping with Irishteddy's well sorted online store! (Thank you so much, Iris, for being our generous sponsor! ;)

Please, contact me (see link at the sidebar) for further details!

(I always add the numbers of the 3D collection's entries to the numbers of the 2D collection before using random.org, so #9 over at the 3D collection is actually the 3D entry #6 - just in case any of you wondered how this works).

Our new challenge for october has already started - this month we are playing Steampunk Tic Tac Toe! We would love you to join us and have fun!

Hugs and happy crafting,

SanDee&amelie xx

Tic Tac Toe - The October Challenge

Hello, dear Steampunk friends!

It's time for another challenge and this time we decided to play 

Steampunk Tic Tac Toe

with you.

So all you have to do is choose three ingredients from one straight line of the diagram (horizontally, vertically or diagonally) and use them for your Steampunk creations. As usual we provide you with two separate collections for the 2D and 3D projects (so, please, pay attention to enter your projects to the correct inlinkz collection).

We were once again blown away by your entries for our last challenge, all of them being so creative and unique!!! Thank you so much for playing with us - we are so happy to have you so constantly with us! You really make this spot so special!

The Top3 from the september challenge will be announced on saturday as will the randomly drawn prize winner of the 10 Euro voucher for Irishteddy's store! So, please, come back next saturday to check if you are one of the chosen.

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 As usual we have an awesomely talented guest with us and I am so happy to introduce Tina from Tina's Craftworld to you!

If you want to be with us as our Guest Designer (which we would LOVE you to) just add GD to your name when entering our challenge via the inlinkz-tool. We will contact you for further details then.

So here comes Tina's make:

Isn't it amazing? Tina chose "Texture - Wings - Gears" for her adorably altered handbag.
I just love the colours, all the steampunk embellishments and that winged cross!!! An utterly whimsy and artsy make and sooo inspiring! If you visit her blog you will find a How To for this terrific project!

Tina also was willing to tell us a bit about her:

Hello ladies

Here a little bit of me: 

Today I am pleased and honored to be the guest designer for the month of October on the challenge blog Sandee & amelie's Steampunk.

Hello my name is Tina Suitella  I'm a single mom and I live near Amsterdam.

I have been scrapbooking and card making for over 15 years. 

Like many of you, scrapbooking is a big part of my life and I do it almost every day. 

I also enjoy cooking making cakes and decorating, home décor, reading and art. if I have a certain style, 

no I do not think so I find everything beautiful, mixed media steampunk vintage and romantic layouts and I like to use a lot of flowers on my layout.

Hugs Tina

Thank you, Tina, for being with us and for creating such a wonderful steampunk bag for our Tic Tac Toe challenge!

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For more inspiration look at what SanDee and me created for you:

SanDee1899

also chose Texture, Wings and Gears for her creation:

and I went for Metal, Texture and Letters:

die amelie

We are (impatiently *lol) looking forward to seeing your fab entries soon (with the2D and 3D collections below)! 

Hugs and happy crafting!

SanDee&amelie

Enter your projects here:

September Spotlight

Hello and servus out there, all ye Steampunk admirers!

I am here today to share with you a Spotlight - thrown onto one of our fabulous artists who have already joined in our "Dolls 'n Robots" Challenge for this month. (It is still open until the end of the month and all who enter get eligible for the random prize draw for a 10 Euro voucher for the awesome Irishteddy's on line store! So don't hesitate - there's still some time left to create a tag, card, paper doll, altered art robot... or whatever you think suits the theme).

Today's spotlight features the absolutely adorable whimsy make of Chrissie from Jumbled Crafts! 

She creates the most enchanting Steampunk characters from felt and gorgeous embellishments - this time it is "Alexandra Nealy", a "scientist with a secret". (Check out her great blog to learn more).

Thank you, Chrissie, for sharing this fantastic and imaginative make with us! Please, feel free to grab the badge for your blog!



Hugs and happy crafting,

die amelie x

Mid Month Reminder and September's Prize Sponsor

Hello, dear Steampunk friends!

We are here to remind you of our "Dolls 'n Robots" challenge for september.
There are only three entries at the moment (hope the theme didn't scare anyone off...we are still waiting for 2D projects like tags, cards,.... honestly whatever you can imagine fits the theme as long as it is Steampunk) and this always troubles us a bit, being anxious that we might not have chosen a theme that meets your expectations or taste.

But we have learned that many of you create rather elaborate projects which take their time in planning and making...even though we also would love to see some  tags and cards from you ;) This challenge is meant for everyone, who loves Steampunk and paper crafting, mixed media and/or drawing, painting, altering....

But gladly there are still two more weeks to go and we also have a wonderful prize to give away once again, this time sponsored by 

Iris from Irishteddy's! 

Thank you so much, Iris, for being one of our very first regular sponsors for our challenges! This means a lot to us, as we both are great fans of your online store (I admit, I leave most of my crafting money with Iris' awesome shop ;). 

She is generously giving away a 10 Euro voucher for shopping with her on line store to one randomly chosen winner! Isn't that great?

Paper dolls, stamped Steampunk dolls or robots, dolls or robots we haven't even heard of yet.... we are waiting for your creations! ;)

Have a happy time crafting!

SanDee&amelie

Tadaah! Top3 and Prize Winner

It's time to announce the Top 3 for our august "Matchbox Steampunk" challenge! As always you entered overwhelming projects to our challenge (which makes us veeeery proud) and the choice was hard to make, but it had to be done. So here they come (in no particular order):

Angela from Felix the Crafty Cat

Laura from Laurart

Tabitha from Kluckingbear

Congrats and thank you so much for sharing your awesome art with us! Please, feel free to grab the badge for display on your blogs! :)

And now to our prize winnner!

Our prize sponsor for the August challenge is lovely Tusia from 

and she is giving away the wonderful 7Dots Studio "Messy Head Collection"! 

And random.org choose Nr. 4 this time:

Laura! 

Congrats (again) on your double win! So well done and deserved! Have fun with your lovely prize! your shipping adress will be forwarded to Tusia as soon as you send it to me (see Contact button on top of the side bar). Maybe you also want to visit her online store (she really has a lot of great mixed media on offer) - then just click her shop banner above.

Our current challenge "Dolls 'n Robots" is open for the whole of September and you can enter it with whatever you come up with as long as your creation fits the theme and is Steampunk. This may be a stamped dolls/robots image, an altered object, a jumping jack, a paper doll, .... the possibilities only end with your imagination ;)

We are - as always - curiously waiting for your creations!

Hugs and happy crafting,

SanDee&amelie