This month's prize sponsor and a reminder

Hello and servus, dear steampunk crafting friends!

It's mid-month and there are two more weeks left to enter our "Balloon, balloon!" challenge to get eligible for our Top3 and/or the prize win!

This month Tusia from "7 Dots Studio"

 (former owner of Mixed Media Place) 

is our generous sponsor again and she offers the awesome 

9th Wave Collection pack to give away to our randomly chosen prize winner! 

Such a stunning collection! And thank you so much, Tusia, for being our sponsor again! You really make this place special by providing us with your lovely collections!

So come on, creative minds out there, get your mojo flowing and show us your steampunk balloons!

See you soon (hopefully... entering our challenge ;),

SanDee&amelie

Top 3 from the Tic Tac Toe Challenge and Prize Winner

Good morning, dear Steampunk friends!

Time to announce our

 Top3 

for the TicTacToe Challenge 

and the winner of 

the lovely Red Lead stencils!

The team has voted and again it was really hard choosing as you all entered terrific projects to our challenge (as usual). Thank you so much for making this place so special! You really rock this challenge every time!

Starting with the 2D makes (and in no particular order) - our Top3  for October:

2D

barbarayaya

Rosie

Sue O Connell

and 3D:

Elly Pirally

Susan Janicula

Maura

So very well done, ladies! Whoop, whoop! Huge congrats to you all! 

Please, feel free to grab the Top3 badge for display on your blogs! 

And random.org chose our winner of the 

 stencils:

and it iiiiiis:

barbarayaya! 

Yay! Congrats, Barbara, on your fantastic win! We hope you will have a lot of fun creating with these fab stencils! Please, contact us for further details so we can send them to you. (You will find the contact button on top of the side bar).

Our current challenge - "Balloon, Balloon!" is still open until the end of the month and we hope you will play with us again and enter your terrific art!!!

Hugs and happy crafting!

S,A&B!

"Balloon, Balloon!" - November Challenge

Welcome back to another edition of SanDee&amelie's Steampunk Challenges! This month we want you to create something with the theme

"Balloon, Balloon!"

It is totally up to you how you interpret the theme and whether you create a 2D or 3D project - as long as it is Steampunk and the theme is visible with your projects (and we don't have to search for a relating item with the magnifying glass *lol). 

As usual we were blown away by all your entries for our "TicTacToe" challenge (thank you ever sooo much for playing with us and entering such artful and creative makes!) and we will announce the Top3 and prize winner on saturday next week - so, please, come back then to check out if you are among the chosen.

We also want YOU to be our future guest designers. If you want to be with us as a GUEST DESIGNER for one of our monthly challenges just add GD to your name when entering our challenge with a project. We would love to have you as our special guest! :)

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We also had planned on having a special guest with us for this month - Barbara from Magic Delights! 
Sadly and unexpectedly life got in her way and therefore she cannot be with us this month. We hope that she will be able to join us some other month and then we can introduce her and her lovely art to you. Take care, Barbara, and get well soon!!!!

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But now onto some good news: Sandra and me are very happy to introduce to you our very first official DT member - Brigitte, better known to you as coutureuse from "La maison de Coutureuse"!

We were so happy when she said yes to our invitation on joining us permanently as we love her steampunk makes and all of her thought out of the box projects!

And this is what Brigitte tells us about herself:

I have been addicted to crafts for many years. First there were fibers and textiles and now it's mixed media. I love to mix and match this and that, I love altered things - to create a new thing that is totally different. 

Steampunk is a perfect theme for combining art and imagination. Internet is the biggest museum in the world and challenges open the door to creativity. No limits -  except the time...

Welcome to our team, Brigitte! We are so glad to have you with us!

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Of course we all have been busy working on showing you something inspirational to get you going:

coutureuse

Isn't her first make for our challenge fantastic? The balloon is even 3D! So cool!

SanDee1899

die amelie

As always there are two separate (2D and 3D) collections to enter your projects to - so please watch closely when entering them via the inlinkz-tool below (and don't forget about the Guest Designers option ;). Have fun crafting, stamping and getting messy! The challenge rules are to be found at the top of the page and our challenge is open until the end of the month. So there's enough time to roll some ideas in your heads and then get them done. ;)

Looking forward to seeing your awesome creations entered with our challenge soon!

Hugs,

SanDee&amelie

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: