Craft a Scene By the Sea Challenge - Week 4

Our theme for the month of June is "By the Sea".  Our designers are really enjoying this theme and we hope you are too. If you need to you can Jump to the link here.

I more wonderful email entries to share.  This one is from Barbara in Houston Texas.

This one is from Margaret:

Margaret from Huddersfield in Yorkshire with my entry for “Beside the Sea Challenge.”  The lighthouse, the cliff top and the birds in flight are from Lindsay Mason’s Personal Impressions  “Cliff  Top Scene” , whilst the rocks were created using free stamps from the “Creative Stamping Magazine”, and are actually bird’s eggs.    After I stamped and coloured in the lighthouse, the cliff and rocks, I had to mask them all so that I could create the background using a sponge and Adirondack inks, and a white gel pen to give an illusion of waves.  I’m not sure where I got the small boat stamp.

I didn’t’ have a seagull stamp of the correct size, so I stamped the only one I had and then took a photograph of the image, imported this into Photoshop and resized the image creating two or three different sizes, printed the result and cut them out, using the two you see in the front of my card. 

Take a 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

It's time to finish up your entry! 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 By the Sea Challenge - Week 3

As this post goes out over the web, I am actually sitting by the fire enjoying the great outdoors by my own sea here in the Northwest.  I love the ocean, the crashing waves, the sound of gulls and the smell of salt air. Hope that mental image inspires you to enter our challenge this month. If you need to you can Jump to the link here.

You can add your own twist on this scene by entering your card or project into our "By the Sea" challenge.

We want stamped or digi'd scenes with foreground and background images by the sea which means  you need to include a bit of sand and water.  Take a look at what the talented Craft a Scene design team has created as your guide.

I have three wonderful scenes by my friend Barb G whom I met at the Savanna stamping retreat a few years ago. Barb sent these in by email. You can find all of Barb's wonderful work on the Stampscapes II Yahoo group.

Sue - Sue's Crafty Corner

Anna-Karin - Layers of Ink

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 By the Sea Challenge - Week 2

Our theme - "By the Sea" continues here at Craft a Scene with beautiful images of the seashore.  I see lots of variety with the design team as well as the challengers.  Now is the time to enter your wonderful creation!

We want to stamped or digi'd scenes with foreground and background images by the sea which means  you need to include a bit of sand and water.  Take a look at this wonderful card by our very talented Rachel from the Craft a Scene design team.

Rachel - Fisher's Cards and Crafts

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 June Challenge - By the Sea

Our theme for the month of June is "By the Sea".  School is out and families are headed out on vacation.  I am sure many of you will be venturing out to the beach to enjoy some sun.

We want to stamped or digi'd scenes with foreground and background images by the sea which means you need to include a bit of sand and water.  Take a look at what the talented Craft a Scene design team has created as your guide.

Anna-Karin - Layers of Ink

Claire - Claire's Crafty Creations

Pia - Pippins Stampscapes

Maggie - Silver Crafter

Rachel - Fisher's Cards and Crafts

Sue - Sue's Crafty Corner

Dora - Dora's Craft Corner

What a wonderful variety of garden scenes! Now it is your turn to "Make your own garden" project. 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

An InLinkz Link-up

Craft a Scene Garden Scene Winners

Happy Sunday to everyone!  I am actually out camping this weekend and enjoying the sun.  Today is the day we reveal our wonderful top 3 challenge entries.

This it was easy to pick the top 3 cards as there were not that many entries that actually qualified.  We are a scenic challenge which means that the entry must be a stamped or digi'd scene with background and foreground images. 

Here are the selections for the top three for May.  Be sure to take our badge to add to your blogs (if you have one). 

BarbG email entry

#10 Angelique - Engel Designs Scrap

#7 Dreja - Dreja's Bastelwelt

Beautiful cards everyone!  I will be back in a few moments with our next challenge.

NancyD

Email Entries for Craft a Scene Garden Challenge

I've got a couple more email entries to share with you all today.

BarbG has posted with us in the past and she does amazing layered work.

DawnR posts regularly on our challenge and she wrote:

I've enjoyed mixing a selection of stamps to make my garden scene for this month's Craft A Scene challenge - I've called this entry "Over the Garden Fence".  I'd made the front of the card some time ago, using an Art
Impressions Front'n'Back stamp, together with their fence and cobbles*, but I wasn't sure what to put inside the card.  It needed to be something that could be seen over the fence, whilst also perhaps having something hidden to be revealed when the card was opened.  Then, when this month's challenge was announced, I looked through my stamps and came across the Winnie the Pooh set that I'd bought from a charity shop, which included this stamp of Pooh tenderly planting a flower, which I thought would be a great subject for the little girl to be looking at over the fence.  I added to the scene with plantpots from Lindsay Mason (Personal Impressions) and flowers from Clarity Stamp.  I made the mistake of stamping my sentiment (from Inkylicious) before I added the Clarity cherry blossom, so one of the branches is overhanging the words a little too far, but I hope it's still legible.

To begin with, I left my scene like that, but it needed something to the left of the plantpots - and then, this weekend, I bought a Papercraft Inspirations magazine that had a set of freebie stamps - including this
second little girl, who was ideal to go into that empty space.  I had to stamp her onto a separate piece of paper and cut her out to stick over the original scene, so that she could stand in front of the flower-pots.





(*  PS: I absolutely love that cobbles stamp from Art Impressions - and it was through the Craft a Scene challenges that I discovered it!  I saw it used by one of your Design Team, Brenda, way back in July 2012, and I just had to have it!)






Well, that's all for today.  Happy stamping!
NancyD