Let it Be Spring - Week 4

Another week has past and we are still looking for your wonderful Spring scenic creations. You may click here to go directly to mr. linky.

Penny Nichols emailed me her wonderful scene to be included in the challenge.

I would like to announce that Claire from Clair's Crafty Creations has joined our design team.  Claire was a recent guest designer and when we asked if she would like to continue on a regular basis she said yes!

I'm Claire from a quiet corner of north east England where I live with my son, two dogs and a very cheeky parrot. I work full time for a mental health charity and stamping is my escape from the stresses of work. I've been stamping for about 8 years and if I'm not at work or out with my dogs you will usually find me in my craft room. I don't have a particular style of craft, I love everything from cute to vintage.

I'm so excited to be a designer for Craft a Scene, its always one of my favourite challenges as I love to start with a blank sheet of card and create a scene using ink and stamps. Claire's blog is Crlair's Craty Creations.

Here is what our wonderful design team has made for your inspiration this week.

Claire - Claire's Crafty Creations

Pia - Pippins Stampscapes

Now that you have scene what we mean by a Spring Scene, lets see what you make for our challenge. 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.

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

Have fun creating!

NancyD

Welcome To Our New Design Team Members

Let's all give a warm welcome to the new additions to our wonderful design team.  Please leave them a little love on their blogs and we will all look forward to their great projects over the coming weeks.


Pia - Pippin's Stampscapes

My name is Pia, but I call myself Pippin in most places concerning crafts. I live in beautiful Lapland in the northern parts of Sweden with my husband Michael and our cutie dog Cindy.

I have been making cards since 2006 and I love it. I have always been crafting in some ways. I have made my own clothes since I was about 12 years old. I also make jewelry and I paint, mostly water colours. Scenic stamping is my absolute favourite, and I first discovered Beeswax Rubber Stamps in 2007. Then Stampscapes came into my world, and I just love them. I often incorporate different stamp brands into my scenes, often stamps that are not intended for scenic stamping. I see it as a challenge for myself to use as many different stamps as possible, also digital stamps. Sometimes I even draw my own pictures if I don't have a suitable stamp for my scene.  

I am very happy to be a part of this fantastic design team.

Rachel - Fisher's Cards and Crafts

Hello, my name is Rachel Fisher. I'm a 44 year old mum of two young girls - Lucy who is 6 and Penny who will be 5 when this hits the blogs! I'm very happily married to Shaun who is a physics Professor and we live in the Lune Valley in Lancashire. 

I run - this year I'm running the great North run for Asthma UK. I do aerobics classes. I run a pack of Rainbows and chair the PTA at the girls' school. I also go into the school one morning a week to hear the children read and also run a gardening club at school. 

When I have time I love to craft - stamping is my passion - recently I've been doing the Chemistry 101 course by Tim Holtz and I'm loving every minute of it!

Sue - Sue's Crafty Corner

Hi name is Sue, I'm 52 and I live in the North of Hampshire in the UK, along with my Husband Steve of 33 years. I have two grown up Children Vicky 29 and Martin 26, Vicky lives with her partner and Martin still lives at home.


I've been crafting most of my life, starting with knitting and sewing, something that both my Mother and Grandmother taught me to do. As I've got older I've tried lots of different crafts, some for a short time and some that have lasted longer. 

I've been card making for about 10 years now, I started with CD's and very quickly
found myself buying stamps and ink pads. This is now my passion, although I do enjoy a good book, and like to travel when funds allow.


Welcome to our team ladies!

NancyD

Majestic Mountains - October Theme

Our theme for the month of October is "Majestic Mountains".  We want to see all kinds of finished creations with a focus on mountains.  The design team has made some incredible creations and I will share those with in you just a short read.

First I would like to introduce you to our new design team members!  Please welcome Sally, Manderly and Maggie!

Sally - Crafty Salutations

I live in Nottingham, with my husband Steve of 23 years and my fifteen year old daughter, Megan. I am a full time primary school teacher, so I don’t get to craft quite as much as I’d like! I have crafted in some form or another since childhood.  I first discovered rubber stamping when I visited Edwinstowe Craft Centre sixteen years ago. A lovely lady called Sally Ann showed me heat embossing and I was hooked! About twelve years ago I was working in a school when the head teacher introduced me to my friend Lynne and said she made cards too. It wasn't long before we were chatting about different techniques and arranging joint crafting sessions and trips to any craft shop within driving distance!

I have been blogging for 3½ years and have made so many wonderful friends here in blog land. I post mainly about my cards, but I still love baking and you will sometimes find photos of my cakes on my blog too, along with photos of scenery and wildlife. I love to create countryside scenes with my stamps and have a large range of trees, butterflies, grasses and flowers. I also have a large collection of distress inks and Adirondack inks, and use a brayer and ink dusters to create backgrounds. 

Manderly - Manderly

Hello!  I'm Manderly, a housewife to Larry, my sweetheart and rock for many years. Oh! I can't forget our dog U-lee, who is our little shadow!  Growing up, there was always some kind of crafting project going on in our family.  As I grew older, Dad started wood crafts.  He did the cutting, Mom and I the painting, and we sold our wares at the old style swap meets.  We did pretty good!  I tend to go full-steam into whatever I am doing...seems I live, eat and breath making cards, according to hubby!  True.  I started out making cards for family, then a few years later discovered on the internet that there was a whole world of card makers that love the craft as much as I.  Such talent and wonderful people!  My favorite part of card making is the coloring.  Reminds me of being a little girl again, making sure to stay in the lines.  After coloring, I love to put the image in a scene and  build a scenario to tell a story.  So much fun!  I am very delighted that Craft A Scene has asked me to join their super talented Design Team!  Such a wonderful Challenge blog.  And you, Craft A Scene entrants, are in a class of your own!  So much unique talent to see.  I am hoping to be an inspiration to you, but I have a feeling that you will inspire me!    

Maggie - Silver Crafter

My name is Margaret, and I have been (and still am) happily married to Geoff for over 40 years. Both our children are now married and have given us lovely grandchildren to play with. After years of having nutty Burmese cats, we now have two even nuttier working cocker spaniels to keep us busy and amused. 

I have been crafting in some way most of my life, knitting, crochet, embroidery, cross stitch and anything else around.  I do have a real butterfly mind, and like to vary what I do.

I only got started on card making 4 years ago when we were asked to do the wedding invitations for our son's wedding. The design was very plain and simple, with gold peel off stickers - just what they asked for, and carried through to the place cards and thank you cards.  Of course, I bought far too many cards and far too many peel offs, so what do you do in that case..... you've got it - you buy more stuff to help you use it all up. Then you need more equipment and more stuff because you do not quite have the right colour to do the next project. And so it goes on until the craft box becomes a craft room to give you space to work, then you find you are restricted to a small area to sit because the stuff has taken over.   Then you move into a craft room and still end up in a small space to work in.  It is so addictive.

I tend to mix techniques and styles, decoupage, stamping and digi stamping.  My stamps all tend to be from British designers, especially Clarity Stamps which are such good quality, Stampsaway and Sheena Douglas.  I do have a couple of Stampscapes, and have mixed them with other stamps to make a card.  It is such good fun to take a number of stamps and create a landscape from them.

Have a stop by the blogs of the design team members and leave them a little love welcoming them to the team.

Mountains, mountains everywhere - let's see what the DT came up with.......

Dora - Dora's Craft Corner

Dora has a free mountain image on her blog that you can use to make your Majestic Mountains entry (if needed).

Brenda - Floral Fantasies

Nadia - Scrap Affair

Anna-Karin - Layers of Ink

Nancy - Crafting Passions

Okay folks, now it is your turn to create a scene with mountains.  We are looking for stamped or digi scenes that are finished projects (no ATC's or unmounted work).  If you are not sure what constitutes a scenic project, check out the information here.

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

May Winners, New Design Team and June Challenge

There is too much to post this morning!  We have winners for the May challenge, new design team members and a new challenge for the month of June.


A big thank you to our sponsor for the month of May, Zoe from Make it Crafty generously donated a gift certificate to her store.



Our random winner of the Make it Crafty gift certificate is.....#71 Terry Bardal.


Please email me, Terry and I will connect you with Zoe so that you can order your new supplies.


We had a wonderful 75 entries in the Spring Flowers challenge.  There were so many excellent ones to choose from.  You all should be proud of your creations. However, the top THREE winners are.........

#8 Carla

#39 Linda

email entry - Barb G

Here is your badge ladies - display it proudly!

Now on to the new design team.  We had many wonderful entries and it was fun to choose from such talented crafters.  Anja and Shaz are remaining on the team and now we have new friends to create with.  Let me introduce you to our new team mates:

Anna-Karin - Layers of Ink

My name is Anna-Karin and I have been doing arts and crafts my whole life, but papercrafting is the one that has totally captured my heart and mind. I have been making cards since 2002, when I got the idea of making my own Christmas cards. It turned out to be a brilliant idea and cardmaking has given me numerous hours of fun since then. I got my first stamp that same year and stamping is what I enjoy the most. My stamps are my absolute favorite tools and I love creating something using only white paper, stamps and ink. I love trying out new and old techniques, to experiment and try different products and tools.

Scenic stamping is probably my favourite type of stamping. It is so wonderful to be able to create my own natural environments and my head is full of scenes waiting to be stamped. I use Stampscapes, Sutter and sometimes also Beeswax stamps, also mixing in my other ‘non-scenic’ stamps into my scenes sometimes. I love all stamps, but if I had to choose, Stampscapes are my favourites. I was very happy when Kevin from Stampscapes published 6 of my scenes as idea cards.

After having posted my cards and layouts on Flickr and Two Peas for a long time, I started a blog last year, it’s a lot of fun.  I try to make scenic stamping more known by regularly including it in my design team work, as well as at the Stamping Board at Two Peas in a Bucket, where I have been an active member for a long time now.  My blog: www.layersofink.blogspot.com

Nadia - Scrap Affair

Hi, my name is Nadia aka Dianascarlett.  I am mother of two kids, son Alexey 6, daughter Victoria 4.

I have been married for 17 years.  I was originally from Russia and now live in America since 1989.

I have been a crafter for about over 6 years now. I have two blogs, one is is Russian, one is in English. 

I recently started my own on  line scrapbooking materials store at ScrapAffair.  My blog: http://scrapaffair.blogspot.com/

Brenda - Floral Fantasies

Crafting is something I have always done in some form or another, but card making for about ten years. I am privileged to design and teach for companies here in the UK, as well as Animal Spirit Stamps in the States.  I also run a couple of challenges including a monthly one for Penny Black. Although I love to dabble in all things crafty, inking and brayering remain my favorite techniques and are what I teach and demo. Because my mobility is poor, crafting fills a good amount of my time, although I do work part time in my husbands office.

I love working with floral and silhouette stamps and creating scenes. I have a good number of Stampscape stamps, Lavinia and Inkylicious to name a few. I was trilled when you started your challenge as I find every time I do a demo, it is a style of crafting so many clearly want to learn but lack confidence so the inspiration offered by your challenge fills that void perfectly.  My blog: http://stamping-fantasies.blogspot.co.uk/

Ok, now to the part for which you have been waiting so patiently.


Our theme for June is Beach Scenes - a bit of sand and water.  Please remember that this is a scenic blog and we are more interested in the scene than any of the cute characters.  Your scene this month must include a beach with sand and water.


Here is what a few of the DT members came up with.  We will have posts from our new DT members next week.

Anja - Stamping Anja

Sharon - Silver Wolf Cards

NancyD - Crafting Passions

Nadia - Scrap Affair

Our sponsor this month is Rubbernecker Stamps with Kittie Kits.  Kittie was on our last design team and helped to arrange for this sponsorship.  Please check out Kittie's great scenic kits and all the other wonderful images at Rubbernecker.


Please check the rules on the side bar or on the rules tab before posting.  Have fun making your great beach scenes and I will be back next Sunday with more inspiration from our new design team.

NancyD

Meet our Wonderful Design Team!

This is the first time I have every had to select a design team and I have to tell you that it is stressful.  Everyone of the applicants are fantastic designers and have wonderful blogs.  With so much talent to choose from it is difficult to pick only 6 DT members.


Please help me welcome our wonderful new design team.

Kittie 

I have been married to my husband Bob for 14 years.  He is the most wonderful and supportive husband, my biggest fan and my most honest critic.  He knows stamping is a very important creative outlet that helps reduce stress from my job in medical management.  I have worked for Florida Hospital and Florida Hospital Medical Group in Orlando, Florida for 34 years.

I was first introduced to stamping in August of 2004 and was instantly intrigued.  My mother was a florist and taught me floral design and I think that creative process has been very helpful to me with card design.  I attribute my creative growth in paper crafting to Splitcoaststampers, the wonderful community of sharing and talented people there and the daily challenges.  I have gained so much from trying new techniques; making myself think outside the box of my comfort zone and doing things with paper that I never dreamed were possible for me.

I have a small line of stamps found at Rubbernecker Stamps called Kittie Kits “Cause a Scene” and currently serve on the Rubbernecker design team.   I have served in the past as a designer for the Splitcoaststampers Dirty Dozen, Stampavie,  Hanna Stamps,  My Favorite Things and as a guest designer for Whipper Snapper.  You can visit Kittie's blog at: www.kittiekraft.typepad.com        

Sharon

My name is Sharon, usually known as Shaz, I am 56 years old, and live in the West Midlands, in England.

I am happily married (for the second time) to my Beloved Husband, Doug, and although we have only been married for two years, we have been a couple for 18 years. Just took us a while to get round to getting married!  I am a heavy metal fan, and a bit of a Goth at heart- you'd never guess from the photo, would you? The photo is a wedding picture, by the way.

I also enjoy reading and gardening, I just need more hours in the days. Oh, and I work as a centreless grinding setter, manufacturing fasteners for the aerospace industry. This means we manufacture the bolts that hold airplanes together!

I have done all sorts of crafts over the years, cross stitch, embroidery, glass painting- card making came along about 12 years ago, and then I discovered rubber stamps, and I was hooked. Like most of us, I never considered myself particularly creative, and I really could not draw a straight line let alone anything more complicated, but stamps mean we can create the most amazing pieces of artwork with very little effort- what’s not to like? When I first came across the Stampscapes line of stamps, I was completely blown away by them, and never expected to be able to create anything like the work I saw on Kevin’s site, but after some trial & error (a lot of those), I began to get pieces I thought were not too bad. Then Beloved Husband kept telling me I should do a blog- so eventually I did, almost two years ago now- and I was so amazed that other people really liked what I did. About 12 months ago, Kevin linked my blog on his gallery page, and recently he also linked my Stampscapes tutorial page on his lessons page- I can't describe how I felt being considered good enough for that accolade! And now I have been lucky enough to be chosen to be a part of this DT- alongside Sandy Hulsart, whose work on Kevins Stampscapes site so inspired me when I started! That’s just so cool! I am looking forward to 'meeting' lots of new friends through this, and ’exploring’ scenic stamping together.  You can visit Sharon's blog at: http://silverwolfcards-shaz.blogspot.com

Sandy

How exciting to be chosen for this new scenic adventure on Craft a Scene.  I began as a scenic stamper the summer of 2005 when I happened upon a simple Stampcapes card in a magazine.  My scenes are very true to Nature, inspired by the beauty I see all around me.  I teach scenic classes locally as well as online at My Creative Classroom.  I also teach Copic, Parchment and Digital Stamping classes.  I just love to craft and am happy to share my passion with you all.  You can visit Sandy's blog at: http://creativemomentswithsandy.blogspot.com

Lisa 

Hi I'm Lisa and I am from Ontario, Canada. I am a mother of 2 and I started scrapbooking when my first child was born 10 years ago.  My crafting then evolved to card making 3 years ago and I started my blog to show case them. 


I am fairly new at using the Stampscapes images but I do love them, I also enjoy making scenes with digital images too.  I am so happy to be part of this fun new team.  You can visit Lisa's blog at: http://lisaspaperfun.blogspot.com/

Anja

My name is Anja and I am thrilled to be part of the design team for Craft a Scene!!

I am married to my wonderful and supporting farmer, together we have 4 energetic boys who keep me on the go and cooking.

We immigrated to Ontario in 1999 from Holland and we are now proud to be Canadian. I started scrapbooking in 1999 and still do but card making and stamping has completely taken over!!

I even dream about it! I really like that you can do so many different things in stamping and the sky is the limit.  I am looking forward to learn lots of new things and share my passion with all of you! You can visit Anja's blog at: http://stampinganja.blogspot.com/

Olga

I am a Christian, Wife, Mother and Nana.  I live in God's country called southwestern Virginia with it's beautiful lakes, rivers and mountains. I still work outside the home full time with Intellectual Disability Adults and have for over 30 years.  They are very special people who have so much to give.  I have been crafting with one thing or another all my adult life and started stamping / scrapbooking in 2000.  I absolutely love it!!!!  You can visit Olga's blog at: http://craftieodamae.blogspot.com

Sheree

I'm Sheree, the Vancouver Island Craft Junkie!  I live on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.  I've been doing crafts for years and they include, quilting, sewing, tole painting, flower arranging, crochet, stamping and the list goes on!  My 'rubber room' is crammed with fantastic 'stuff' so that I can work on whatever I like at that moment in time. 

This past year it's been all about stamping!  Card making has taken over my life for the past year.  Since starting Tole Painting and doing Stampscapes scenes I now look at the world in a different light, taking in the colours of nature, depth of field, etc.  Now I'm on the design team and can hardly wait to share my ideas and also learn from everyone else.   This is perfect for everyone who doesn't live near to a store that offers classes!  You can visit Sheree's blog at: http://vancouverislandcraftjunkie.blogspot.com

Nancy

Hi, I am Nancy or NancyD for challenges that I enter.  I love card making and have been doing it starting back in the 80's (with my mom) when there weren't many companies making stamps.  I remember seeing some of Kevin's designs in the early 90's but wasn't interested in making scenes at that time.

My husband of 35 years and I have raised four wonderful children and we now of five grandchildren with one more on the way (due end of May).  Along the way, I sewed, made cloth dolls, cross-stitched, made quilts, knitted and crocheted up a storm.  Now I mostly knit and make cards.

I found Split Coast Stampers about 1 1/2 years ago and started entering challenges.  Then I discovered the world of blogging and decided I needed to join this special group of crafters.  The whole process has improved my card making ability and transformed me from a CASE artist to a designer with lots more to learn. I am currently designing for Digital Delights, and finishing my terms with Critter Sketch and Paper Cutz .

I became re-acquainted with Stampscapes when I won a sheet of rubber (Stampscapes # 8) from my blogging friend Sheree (who also lives about 30 minutes away).  I started making scenes and fell in love with stamping all over again.  Last Fall we were talking about how there aren't any challenges blogs for scenes so we decided to start our own!  You can visit my blog at: http://craftingpassions.blogspot.com

Well, that is the first challenge design team for Craft a Scene.  Please stop by to visit the DT and congratulate them on their new responsibility. 


The next post will include our talented Sheree with a new card to inspire you.  There is still time to make a card for the "Anything Goes" challenge.


NancyD