Beach Scenes - Final Week

This is the final week of our beach scenes challenge.  Please remember it is a scene with a bit of sand and water.  You may use stamps or digis just as long as you focus on the scene.  


For those who wish to take a turn at a guest design spot, just add GDT after you name when you post your project.  I will be contacting you later this week to get you set up for your guest spot.


We have an email entry for this week from Barb G.

And from our design team this week......

Brenda - Floral Fantasies

Don't forget to check out our sponsor Rubbernecker and Kittie  Kits - Cause a Scene. Kittie has a great beach set of stamps that all work together to easily make a wonderful scene.

Nadia - A Scrap Affair

Nancy - Crafting Passions

Be sure to check out the links to our design team member's blogs so you can see more pictures of their creations and an explanation of how they made these wonderful scenes.

Ok, now it is your turn.  Let's see those beach scenes with a bit of sand and water.  You may enter up to 3 times and include as many challenges as you like.  Be sure your work is a new finished piece - no back linking.  You will find Mr. Linky here.

Have a wonderful Sunday!
NancyD

Beach Scenes - Week 3

We are continuing our beach theme challenge for the month of June.  Please remember it is a beach scene with a bit of sand and water.  You may use stamps or digis just as long as you focus on the scene.  


We are also starting a new program of guest design team members. If you would like a turn as guest designer during the summer, just put GDT next to your name when you link up your creation.  I will contact you with a GDT date and your beautiful work will be showcased along side our design team. If you have already linked your creation just send me an email and you will be included.


Now, on to our inspiration for this week.

Anna-Karin - Layers of Ink

Don't forget to check out our sponsor Rubbernecker and Kittie  Kits - Cause a Scene. Kittie has a great beach set of stamps that all work together to easily make a wonderful scene.

Nadia - A Scrap Affair

Be sure to check out the links to our design team member's blogs so you can see more pictures of their creations and an explanation of how they made these wonderful scenes.

Shaz - Silverwolf Cards

Ok, now it is your turn.  Let's see those beach scenes with a bit of sand and water.  You may enter up to 3 times and include as many challenges as you like.  Be sure your work is a new finished piece - no back linking.  You will find Mr. Linky here.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a wonderful Sunday!
NancyD

Beach Scene - A Bit of Sand and Water

Yes, our challenge for the month of June is to create a beach scene with a bit of sand and water.  You may use stamps or digis just as long as you focus on the scene.  We have wonderful beach scenes from two of our new design team members for inspiration.


We are also starting a new program of guest design team members. If you would like a turn as guest designer during the summer, just put GDT next to your name when you link up your creation.  I will contact you with a GDT date and your beautiful work will be showcased along side our design team. If you have already linked your creation just send me an email and you will be included.


Now, on to our inspiration for this week.

Anna-Karin - Layers of Ink

Anna-Karin created this wonderful scrapbook page with her son running along the beach.

Don't forget to check out our sponsor Rubbernecker and Kittie  Kits - Cause a Scene. Kittie has a great beach set of stamps that all work together to easily make a wonderful scene.

Anja - Stamping Anja

Anja created this wonderful relaxing scene card.

Nadia - A Scrap Affair

Nadia (Dianna Scarlet) made this fabulously realistic scene with Stampscapes stamps.

Be sure to check out the links to our design team member's blogs so you can see more pictures of their creations and an explanation of how they made these wonderful scenes.


Ok, now it is your turn.  Let's see those beach scenes with a bit of sand and water.  You may enter up to 3 times and include as many challenges as you like.  Be sure your work is a new finished piece - no back linking.  You will find Mr. Linky here.


Thanks for stopping by. Have a wonderful Sunday!
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

Spring Flowers Challenge - Final Week and DT Call

Good morning everyone!  This is the final week of the Spring Flowers challenge.  


Our sponsor this month is Zoe over at Make it Crafty.  Check out all the wonderful creations both digi and rubber in her shop.  When you stop by, please mention that you were sent over from Craft a Scene.

I have one Spring Flowers creation to share with you this week.  I made this one using two Make it Crafty images and put them together using Gimp (freeware). You can check out the details of how I made this card on my blog at Crafting Passions.

It is also time for our next Design Team call.  Several of our ladies are stepping down and we need to fill their spots with new faces.If you love making scenes, have a blog and have a few stamps from Stampscapes, Sutter, Beeswax or some of the other companies listed on our Scenic Stamps tab then you may be interested in this 4 month design team position.  "What's involved," you ask?

• Make two creations a month.  They must be scenes following the monthly theme.
• Comment on entries based on your assigned number.
• Promote Craft a Scene by showing our badge on your blog.
• Have fun chatting with our wonderful team!

If this sounds like something you would like to be a part of then please email me, before May 31, with a link to your blog. Please include a short bio (tell me about yourself) and why you would like to be on our team.

Okay, now it is your turn!  Enter the challenge here! Lets see your wonderful finished Spring Flower scene projects (no ATC's or unfinished cards).  You may enter up to three times and you may enter your project into as many challenges as you wish. Just email me your lovely creation, if you do not have a blog.

Happy Sunday!
NancyD

Spring Flowers - email entries

I have some amazing email entries to share with you today.  These three came from Barb who is a member of the StampscapesII group but does not have a blog. I had the privilege of meeting Barb at the Savanna stamping retreat a few weeks ago and learned a lot from her then.


I confess that I have been staring at these wonderful cards for quite a while.  Barb has a special skill when it comes to perspective in scenic stamping.

Well, don't be intimidated by these great creations.  I hope they get your juices flowing and help you create your next entry into our Spring Flowers Scene challenge.

As you know, you may enter up to three times and combine with any other challenges you choose.  You must link directly to your project on your blog or from Split Coast Stampers.  If you do not have a blog then you can do what Barb did and email me your finished project.

Don't forget about our Design Team call.  A couple of our ladies are stepping down and we want to keep the fun going with a new team.  All you have to do is email me at the address in the upper right corner of this blog with your blog address and please include a little about yourself.

Thanks for stopping by.

NancyD