Ships in the Night - Final Week

This is the final week of our theme "Ships in the Night".  The inspiration for this challenge comes from the Longfellow poem Tales of a Wayside Inn.  If you want to skip to Mr. Linky click here, but you will miss the great inspiration below.

We have two wonderful email entries from Gundi and Maureen:

Gundi - I used a fisherman and cattails from Stampscapes, several landscape sets from Stampin Up, and clouds from Art Impressions.  I sponged for color...

Maureen - My friend Maureen used a ship from Embossing Arts, and Beach clear stamps from Inkadinkado, and colored her picture with Prisma Color pencils.  She added glitterglue stars...

As you can see your project needs to have at least one ship/boat and your project should have an evening cast to it - basically dusk to dawn.

Check out this week's wonderful Design Team inspiration and then have a go at your own "Ships in the Night" creation.

Dora - Dora's Craft Corner

Pia - Pippins Stampscapes

This is your last chance to show us your wonderful "Ships in the Night" scenes.  Please make sure your creations are finished projects like cards and tags.  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

Ships in the Night - Week 3

This is the third week of our theme "Ships in the Night".  The inspiration for this challenge comes from the Longfellow poem Tales of a Wayside Inn.  If you want to skip to Mr. Linky click here, but you will miss the great inspiration below.

Your project needs to have at least one ship/boat and your project should have an evening cast to it - basically dusk to dawn.

Have a look at all the wonderful Design Team inspiration and then have a go at your own "Ships in the Night" creation.

Anna-Karin - Layers of Ink

Sue - Sue's Crafty Corner

Now it is your turn to show us your wonderful "Ships in the Night" scenes.  Please make sure your creations are finished projects like cards and tags.  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

Ships in the Night - Week 2

We are continuing our theme for the month of May and it is "Ships in the Night".  The inspiration for this challenge comes from the Longfellow poem Tales of a Wayside Inn.

Your project needs to have at least one ship/boat and your project should have an evening cast to it - basically dusk to dawn.

Have a look at all the wonderful Design Team inspiration and then have a go at your own "Ships in the Night" creation.

Maggie - Silver Crafter

Rachel - Fisher's Cards and Crafts

Now it is your turn to show us your wonderful "Ships in the Night" scenes.  Please make sure your creations are finished projects like cards and tags.  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

May Theme - Ships in the Night

Our theme for the month of May is "Ships in the Night".  The inspiration for this challenge comes from the Longfellow poem Tales of a Wayside Inn:

Ships that pass in the night and speak each other in passing; Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,  Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence.

Tales of a Wayside Inn. Part iii. The Theologian’s Tale: Elizabeth. iv.

So this month you will want to create a scene with at least one ship/boat and your project should have an evening cast to it - basically dusk to dawn.

Have a look at all the wonderful Design Team inspiration and then have a go at your own "Ships in the Night" creation.

Anna-Karin - Layers of Ink

Dora - Dora's Craft Corner

Maggie - Silver Crafter

Nancy - Crafting Passions

Pia - Pippins Stampscapes

Rachel - Fisher's Cards and Crafts

Sue - Sue's Crafty Corner

Now it is your turn to show us your wonderful "Ships in the Night" scenes.  Please make sure your creations are finished projects like cards and tags.  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

Down on the Farm Winners

Good Sunday Morning!  

I am here with a post to proclaim our winners from the Down on the Farm challenge.


Before I get to the winner of this weeks Great Impressions stamp and the amazing top 3, I just want to thank April for being our Guest Designer this month.

So here goes, I used Random.org to find our winner out of 36 entries (a whopping 9 email entries and 27 Linky) who is none other than #8 - Theresa's Studio.   Reach out to me Theresa with your address and I will mail out your Great Impressions stamp (my email address is in the upper right corner of this blog).

This is the stamp that Theresa has won!

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.

Our Top 3 this month are:

#1 Carla

#21 Ineke

#25 Sue

Congratulations to our winner and top 3 challengers.  Come back tomorrow to discover our theme for May and all the splendorifous inspiration from the Design Team.

Have a wonderful day!
NancyD

Last Minute eMail Entry

Hi Everyone,

It is Friday afternoon just before our Down on the Farm challenge closes and I just received an email entry from our friend Dawn Rogers.

Dawn wrote:

I took inspiration from a Michelle Zindorf tutorial for this (Rooster Crows – Tutorial #563) and adapted it to the materials I had.  The rooster stamp is from Clarity; the grasses are Lavinia and Art Impressions; and the fence is from Lindsay Mason (this wasn't a silhouette stamp, so I had to colour it in to make it fit the scene).

For my second entry, "Old MacDonald Had a Farm", I had stamped and water-coloured the three images, using Hobbyart stamps, at the beginning of the month, but couldn't decide how to mount them.  I've ended up rushing this tonight, so it's a bit rough & ready, but I wanted to share the stamped images with you so I hope you'll overlook the faults in the layout and embellishments 

I always enjoy having a go at your Challenges, and also browsing through the many entries and design team offerings, and I generally find some inspiration or useful tips.

Thanks Dawn!

I will be back on Sunday with our winners and next challenge theme.

NancyD