Craft a Scene Trees Top 3

We had a wonderful turnout for our theme, Trees, Trees, Trees.  I see lots of variety in the scenes and an amazing number of tree stamps. Well it is time to reveal our top 3 winners.  

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If you do not have a blog then be sure to check back for the comments left about your fabulous entries.

Here are the selections for the top three for November - Trees, Trees, Trees.



Margaret - email entry

Barb - email entry

#18 Carola - Caro's Welt

Thank you all for entering the Trees challenge.  I'll be back in a moment with our next challenge.

NancyD

Craft a Scene Trees Challenge - Final Week

This is the final week of the Trees theme and there is still time to get your 3 projects added to the challenge.  I don't have any new inspiration for you but there is plenty to enjoy just by looking at all the other entries.

I will see you again next Sunday when we reveal the top 3 entries from the Trees theme.

Have fun creating!

NancyD

Craft a Scene Trees Challenge - Week 4

Trees, Trees, Trees is the theme this month and I am lovin all the wonderful creations that have been linked. This is one of those 5 week months so you still have another week to make a project with trees.  If you need to skip to Mr. Linky you can do so here.

Look at what the talented Craft a Scene design team has created as your inspiration. 


Claire - Claire's crafty Creations

Pia - Pippins Stampscapes

Dora - Dora's Craft Corner

Now it is your turn to make a scene that includes a moon.  You may enter up to 3 times and as many other challenges as you wish. If you do not have a blog or account on Split Coast Stampers, then just email me a picture of the piece and I will add it to one of our posts.  

If you are not sure what constitutes a scenic project, check out the information here.

Have fun creating!

NancyD

Craft a Scene Trees Challenge - Week 3

Today is clear and c-c-c-cold in the Northwest!  I do love the fall with all its colors and weather changes. We are continuing our Trees challenge and we are seeing very beautiful entries.  It seems this challenge does inspire you all.  You can jump to Mr. Linky if you wish, but why not scroll down and check out our new inspiration.

I have some lovely email entries to share as well as our faithful DT designs.

Margaret in Yorkshire - 

Margaret from Huddersfield in Yorkshire.  Haven’t been in touch for a while, I’ve either left it too late to enter the challenge , or I just haven’t had an idea for a card. 

The Trees, Tress, Trees Challenge set me thinking, and looking through our stock of stamps I decided to use just one set of stamps from Claritystamp.  The name of the stamp set is Winter Trees and their Mantles and includes 4 bear trees and 4 mantles , or foliage stamps along with a border stamp.

For the card I used Adirondack inkpads in blues and greens , a brayer and torn paper to create the background.  I then stamped the border along the bottom and added the bare trees using Versafine onyx black.  I then added the Mantles using various shades of greens.  Then with Adirondack inkpad in Pesto and torn paper I grounded all the trees.  As a final touch I added some tiny bird ,also from Claritystamp, and sponged around the edges to help add dimention.

I have named the picture Woodland Glen.  Hope you like it.

And from her daughter Dawn - 

I bought a Memory Box stencil the other week which fits the theme perfectly, so I've made two cards with it.  For the first, I used just one stamp - a Pheasant from Clarity Stamps; for my second, I used all Lavinia stamps (Stag, various Snowflakes, and a Fern stamp to add foliage around the edge).

Well, that's two Christmas cards finished at least!

Here is what our talented Sue has created for you today. 

Sue - Sue's Crafty Corner

Now it is your turn to make a scene that includes a moon.  You may enter up to 3 times and as many other challenges as you wish. If you do not have a blog or account on Split Coast Stampers, then just email me a picture of the piece and I will add it to one of our posts.  

If you are not sure what constitutes a scenic project, check out the information here.

Have fun creating!

NancyD

Craft a Scene Trees, Trees, Trees Challenge - Week 2

This is our second week of the Trees challenge and we already have several wonderful entries.  This is such a nice time of year with a great variety of weather days.  So far, my town has had torrential rains, warm sunny days, cloudy grey days and a frost (so much for the garden).  The trees respond to this variety by dropping there leaves all over my yard!

I have email entries from Barb this week - love the birch trees!

Please make sure that your scenic card, tag or project has stamped images in the foreground and background.  We are a scenic challenge after all!  

Rachel has made us a fabulous card for inspiration. 

Rachel - Fisher's Cards and Crafts

Now it is your turn to make a scene that includes a moon.  You may enter up to 3 times and as many other challenges as you wish. If you do not have a blog or account on Split Coast Stampers, then just email me a picture of the piece and I will add it to one of our posts.  

If you are not sure what constitutes a scenic project, check out the information here.

Have fun creating!

NancyD

Craft a Scene Trees, Trees, Trees Challenge

With the advent of fall and the passing of Halloween we are seeing all the green leaves turn a multitude of colors.....

This wonderful fall scene with all the trees turning makes me think of a particular Stampscapes stamp that I own.  If you haven't guessed yet, our theme for the month of November is Trees, trees, trees.

Please make sure that your scenic card, tag or project has stamped images of trees with foreground and background images.  We are a scenic challenge after all!  

Here is what the talented Craft a Scene design team has created as your inspiration this month. 

Anna-Karin - Layers of Ink

Rachel - Fisher's Cards and Crafts

Sue - Sue's Crafty Corner

Dora - Dora's Craft Corner

Claire - Claire's Crafty Creations

Pia - Pippins Stampscapes

Now it is your turn to make a scene that includes lots of trees.  You may enter up to 3 times and as many other challenges as you wish. If you do not have a blog or account on Split Coast Stampers, then just email me a picture of the piece and I will add it to one of our posts.  

If you are not sure what constitutes a scenic project, check out the information here.

Have fun creating!

NancyD

An InLinkz Link-up

Craft a Scene Trees Challenge Winners!

Hello everyone, I have our "Trees, Trees, Trees" winner and our top 3 for November.  We had 43 blog entries and 1 great email entry this month.

I always use Random.org first to find the winner of our prize so that I don't also call them a Top 3 winner. This time 6. Darlene Pavlick  



Reach out to me Darlene with your mailing address and I will send out your stamp.

When we review all the great entries each month for the Top 3 we are looking for finished projects (cards, bookmarks, framed art, etc), and scenes that are stamped or digi'd with all the scenic elements mentioned in our rules.  They we all really great this month (they usually are) and I am trying not to pick the same ones each month too.

Our Top 3 this month are:


3. Carola 

31. MaggieH 

 36. Helen in the UK (2)

Congratulations to all!  I will be back in a few minutes with our next challenge.

NancyD

Trees Email Entry

Hi everyone!

I have an email entry from our friend Dawn in the UK.  She writes:

The tree stamp, from Personal Impressions, Winter Birds-Tall Trees, just asked to be made into a card for the November challenge, so I just had to buy it.  I paired it up with two of Clarity Reindeer stamps, which I stamped onto the card first.  I covered the deer with masks and then stamped the trees three times.  After colouring the deer using Promarkers I used Adirondack inks and torn paper with a sponge to create the sky and the snowy foreground and then added a little sparkle to the trees using a Clear Star Gelly Roll pen, before layering onto a piece of card which I had embossed around the edges using Versamark and Heat it Up embossing powder in blue.

Hope you like it.

And here is her lovely card!

I will be back on Sunday with winners of the trees challenge and our theme for December.

NancyD

Craft a Scene Trees Challenge - Final Week

This is the final week of our theme is "Trees, Trees, Trees". This means you should create a stamped or digi'd scene that shows us a lot of trees. Pretty simple, right?  You can jump to mr. linky here.

I have an amazing design team who is very creative and has wonderful inspiration to guide you through the theme.

Dora - Dora's Craft Corner

Pia - Pippins Stampscapes

Thanks ladies for such wonderful inspiration!

You may enter up to 3 times and as many challenges as you wish. If you do not have a blog or account on Split Coast Stampers, then just email me a picture of the piece and I will add it to one of our posts.  

If you are not sure what constitutes a scenic project, check out the information here.

Don't forget to add GDT to your link if you wish to be considered for a guest spot.

Have fun creating!

NancyD

Craft a Scene Trees Challenge - Week 3

This is the third week of our theme is "Trees, Trees, Trees". This means you should create a stamped or digi'd scene that shows us a lot of trees. Pretty simple, right?

Two amazing scenes ladies!!!  It is wonderful to see how different everyone interprets the theme and every scene is just gorgeous.

Anna-Karin - Layers of Ink

Sue - Sue's Crafty Corner

You may enter up to 3 times and as many challenges as you wish. If you do not have a blog or account on Split Coast Stampers, then just email me a picture of the piece and I will add it to one of our posts.  

If you are not sure what constitutes a scenic project, check out the information here.

Don't forget to add GDT to your link if you wish to be considered for a guest spot.

Have fun creating!

NancyD

Craft a Scene Trees Challenge - Week 2

This is the second week of our theme is "Trees, Trees, Trees". This means you should create a stamped or digi'd scene that shows us a lot of trees. Pretty simple, right?

The design team has wonderful inspiration to guide you through the theme.

Nancy - Crafting Passions

Rachel - Fisher's Cards and Crafts

That is such a nice variety of different TREE scenes that you should have no trouble coming up with your own special set of trees.  

You may enter up to 3 times and as many challenges as you wish. If you do not have a blog or account on Split Coast Stampers, then just email me a picture of the piece and I will add it to one of our posts.  

If you are not sure what constitutes a scenic project, check out the information here.

Don't forget to add GDT to your link if you wish to be considered for a guest spot.

Have fun creating!

NancyD

Craft a Scene - Trees, Trees, Trees

This month our theme is "Trees, Trees, Trees". This means you should create a stamped or digi'd scene that shows us a lot of trees. Pretty simple, right?

I have an amazing design team who is very creative and has wonderful inspiration to guide you through the theme.

Anna-Karin - Layers of Ink

Dora - Dora's Craft Corner

Nancy - Crafting Passions

Pia - Pippins Stampscapes

Rachel - Fisher's Cards and Crafts

Sue - Sue's Crafty Corner

That is such a nice variety of different TREE scenes that you should have no trouble coming up with your own special set of trees.  

You may enter up to 3 times and as many challenges as you wish. If you do not have a blog or account on Split Coast Stampers, then just email me a picture of the piece and I will add it to one of our posts.  

If you are not sure what constitutes a scenic project, check out the information here.

Don't forget to add GDT to your link if you wish to be considered for a guest spot.

Have fun creating!

NancyD

Trees Challenge Winners and New Team Mate

Hello everyone!  I have an post to proclaim our winners from the Trees, Trees, Trees challenge and to introduce you to one of our new team mates, Dora.

I used Random.org to find our winner who is non other than #36 Sue from Sue's Craft Card.  Reach out to me Sue with your address and we will send you the Sr. Stampalot stamp.

The top Three are always difficult to choose and this month is no exception. We looked closely at the trees and only considered those that met the challenge rules.

So, here are our top 3 picks for The Trees, Trees, Trees challenge (in no particular order):



#41 - Helen - Helen Quilts

#33 - Shaz in Oz

#13 - Sally H - Crafty Salutations

Even though the DT Call is still running (closes Friday, Oct 5th), I thought I would introduce you to one of our new team mates, Dora.

My name is: Dora Buist- de Vries.  I have been married for 17 years and we have four childeren (a daughter at age of 16  then our second child , a son, is deceased during birth, then a daughter at age of 13 and a  son at age of 10).
We have a farm and  grow  grain, peas, onions and sugar beets. We have a three cats, two rabbits (a blue Flemisch giant, a guinea pig), and a Friesian horse.  So there is lots of life around the farm.  I work in the weekends and evenings at homecare as a nurse. 
 
I have been making cards for a long time, starting with 3D cards and few years ago I learned about stamps and colouring with derwent colour pencils. I have always liked to draw along with the children, or helping with decorating the school windows or decors.  A few years ago I also started to combine stamps with my own drawings and it is so much fun to do.  It is amazing that I am now joining the team of Craft a Scene. I loved making scenes for this challenge blog.  It is always a challenge to make a card that fits into the challenge and then to try and  colour it in.....its so much fun! I love to see what scenes others make with their own stamps and colouring materials.

I will be back next Sunday to announce the new team and the theme for October along with some incredible creations from the design team.

NancyD

Trees Challenge eMail Entries

One of our regular challenge players is Margaret from Huddersfield in Yorkshire England.  She sent me two cards for our Trees challenge.

I stamped the images for the Lady in the Park on to white card using Adirondack Pitch Black.  The Trees , Lamp Post and Lady are from Clarity Stamps, and the Fence is from Tanda stamps.

I coloured the background using Grey, Black and a touch of Purple crayons.  The lady was created using archival ink on the stamp and a sandwich of Fantasy Film and Angelina Fibres placed over the stamp and fused together using a craft iron (This is a Clarity Stamp technique, not sure if it would work with any make of stamp)  This gives a multi coloured shimmer effect, which may not show up very well on the printed image, but is very effective on the card.  The lady was then cut out and attached to the card with three dimensional foam pads.  I used  3D Clear Gloss Finish on the window of the Lamp to give the effect of glass.

The second card was created using mainly Hobby Art stamps along with the Split Tree from Clarity, which comes in two halves and can be used separately, as in the side trees or melded together to make a larger tree as the one in the centre of the card.  I used water colour paints to complete the scene.

There are still a few days left to enter your cards in the challenge.  Your projects must have at least three trees on it.  

You may enter up to 3 times and as many challenges as you wish.  If you do not have a blog or account on Split Coast Stampers, then just email me a picture like Margaret did and I will add it to one of our posts.  

Don't forget to add GDT to your link if you wish to be considered for a guest spot.  Click here to enter the challenge.

Have fun creating!
NancyD

Trees, Trees, Trees - Final Week

This is the second week of the DT Call.  If you are interested in joining our wonderful team please email me and the team will take a look at your blog.  We are looking for all skill levels so please don't think that you are not good enough.  As design teams go, your responsibilities are light.  We make two projects per month and comment on a selection of entries.  If you are new to blogging or design teams you will find this a great place to start.

Brenda has done a fabulous job providing us more eye candy and inspiration for our Trees, Trees, Trees challenge.

Brenda - Floral Fantasies

Our fabulous sponsor this month is Sr. Stampalot.  They have offered us a special wood mounted stamp to go along with our theme.

Okay folks, now it is your turn to create a scene with at least three trees on it.  We are looking for stamped or digi scenes that are finished projects (no ATC's or unmounted work).  

You may enter up to 3 times and as many challenges as you wish.  If you do not have a blog or account on Split Coast Stampers, then just email me a picture of the piece and I will add it to one of our posts.  

Don't forget to add GDT to your link if you wish to be considered for a guest spot.

Have fun creating!
NancyD