The Stampsmith Challenge

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

TSC8: Travel - At least one Stampsmith Stamp

Welcome to The Stampsmith Challenge and thank you to everyone who participated in the Royalty theme! Your projects were all unbelievably regal!!

Here are just a few of the wonderful projects submitted for this theme. If the creators would like to contact Valerie, she has a special badge for your sidebars!

Cockney Blonde

Dawn

Cynthia Schelzig

A royal wave and congratulations to #2, Alison (Craftytrog) who is the winner of the draw for the gift certificate to the Stampsmith Store! Please contact Valerie for details.

And now for Challenge #8: Travel

Lynne is our hostess this week and one of her favorite themes is travel. She asks us to create a project (using at least one Stampsmith image) reflecting a recent trip, a destination you'd like to visit, memories of a by-gone travel era or whatever inspiration this topic brings to you. Be sure to play along for your chance to win a gift certificate to shop in the Stampsmith Store.

The design team has been busy providing some beautiful inspiration for this challenge and invite you to join the fun!

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

TSC7: Royalty - Using Any Stamp Company

From the Pin-Ups Plate

Hi everyone!

The Linky Tool we are using is undergoing some upgrades. If it is not showing, please just leave a comment with a link to your project and we'll be happy to add it as soon as the Linky Tool is back!

Welcome back to another Stampsmith Challenge! We would like to send out a sincere thank you to everyone who linked up their beautiful work for the Love challenge - your projects are Love-ly!!

Here is a closer look at a few of the highlights. Please email Valerie if you would like our special badge for your sidebar!

Jack

Jane Wetzel

June Campbell

A big congratulations to #1 - Sue The Iron who won the random draw for the Stampsmith Gift Certificate! Please contact Valerie for all of the details!

And now for Challenge #7: Royalty

From the Royalty Plate

This week, Lynne is hosting our "Royalty" challenge. She would like to see how you interpret this theme with projects depicting royalty of any sort - royal couples, princes or princesses, royalty in music, a royal gesture, royalty of history, etc.

This week we invite everyone to join in - even if you don't have any Stampsmith stamps yet!

This is your chance to play for a chance to win a $10 gift certificate to the Stampsmith Store to start your collection!

As always, we just can't wait to see your creations and have a bit of design team inspiration to get your started!

Friday, January 14, 2011

TSC6: The Power Of Love - At Least One Stampsmith Stamp - Other Stamps Welcome

Happy New Year!

We are excited that the first thing we get to do in 2011 is give away a Stampsmith grab bag! It was great fun hearing about all of your holiday traditions! There were so many great ideas to inspire our families for next year's holiday celebrations!

Without further ado, let's find out who the winner is Rhonda at Lost In Cardland who wrote "Christmas morning we all love eggs benedict! But the best part of Christmas is the day after, Boxing Day, we have Pajama Day! We stay in PJs most of the day and listen to our new music, read our new magazines and books, drink our new tea or hot chocolate and generally relax."

Congratulations, Rhonda!
Please e-mail Valerie your mailing address :)

And now for Challenge #6

This week, Lynne is hosting our "Love" challenge. She would like to see how you interpret this theme with projects depicting any kind of love - marriage, valentine, love for a pet, love for a child, etc. We can't wait to see your creations and have a bit of design team inspiration to get your started!

We look forward to seeing your creations!

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Stampsmith Blog Candy - Open To All

For your sidebar!

It is with great excitement that we get to unveil our holiday surprise!

This month, instead of challenges, the very generous Estelle has offered a grab bag of her beautiful Stampsmith images for a spectacular blog candy!!!

In keeping with the holiday tradition of giving, the Design Team has also decided to spoil the lucky winner with a few other little surprises, so be sure to enter by January 15th for your chance to win!

To enter, simply use our linky tool below to tell us about your own little holiday tradition... that's it - it's that easy!

Now for the highlights from last week's Holiday Challenge! There were so many beautiful entries and great gift ideas! Thank you to everyone who shared their inspiration with us! Here are just a few of the highlights... please email Valerie if you would like our special badge for your sidebar!

Alison

Cheryl

Margie

And finally, a huge congratulations to the winner of our random draw for the Stampsmith gift certificate, #4 - Artyventure! Please email Valerie for details!

Happy holidays to everyone
from Estelle and The Design Team!

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

TSC5: The Holiday Season - Open To Any Stamps

A very huge thank you to everyone who participated in the With Gratitude challenge - your projects are smashing!

Here are just a few of the wonderful highlights... please email Valerie if you would like our special badge for your sidebar!

by Cheryl

by hellerlittle

by Lena

Drumroll please!! And the winner of the random draw is... Cathy at Cathy's Corner!! Congratulations, Cathy!
Please email Valerie for details!

And now for Challenge #5

From The Madonna Plate

We know you're out there getting ready to celebrate the holidays in your own special way and we hope you'll take the opportunity to share some of your great creations with us before taking a break during the holidays (during which, we're going to feature something totally awesome - so be sure to check back)!

If you have Stampsmith images, we'd love to see what you've created with them! If you don't have any Stampsmith images, please play along with images from any company for your chance to win a gift certificate to the Stampsmith store! You're invited to join the fun even if you don't have your own blog - you can still upload your image for a chance to win! One lucky winner will be expanding (or starting) their Stampsmith collection on December 15th!

Once again, our beautiful design team has been busy generating some wonderful inspiration for your projects! Click on the designer's name to visit their blog for more details about each creation!

We just can't wait to see your creations! And we remind you to stop back on Dec.15 when we reveal the winner AND our holiday surprise!

Monday, November 15, 2010

TSC4: With Gratitude - At Least One Stampsmith Image - Other Stamps Welcome!

Celtic 3 Plate

Hi Everyone,

It is Karen here again. Wow, the Ovalicious challenge entries were oval extreme! We had lots of beautiful entries! Thank you all so much for participating! Here are some of the gorgeous highlights :

Melanie Bennett

Yvonne Balmer

Joanna K

Gals, please email Valerie if you would like our special badge for your sidebar.

Congratulations to Melanie Bennet who won the draw for the Stampsmith gift certificate this week! Please contact Valerie for details!

And now for Challenge #4

Celtic 2 Plate

In honor of Thanksgiving, the theme for this challenge is Thank you, Thanks, or Thankful. So, you must use a Thank you, thanks, or thankful sentiment on your project.

Project for the challenges on the 15th of each month must also include at least one Stampsmith Stamp. You can make any type of project from 3-D to cards. You will have until November 30th to complete your project and link it up here. And, of course, there is a fabulous prize. One person will be selected at random for a gift certificate to the Stampsmith Shop. I will also be selecting the three Highlights from this challenge. The winner and Highlights will be announced on December 1st. Dec. 1st will be the last challenge before we take our Christmas break. After Christmas we will be back on January 15th with a new challenge.

Our Design Team has some fabulous projects to inspire you.

Monday, November 1, 2010

TSC3: Oval-icious - Using Any Stamp Company!

Art Nouveau 2 Plate

Well, the Stampsmithees have totally rocked our 'minimal color' challenge!! Thank you to everyone who joined us in adding some color to our black and white world!! Your work is very inspiring! Here are a few of the beautiful projects we would like to highlight for this challenge! Check out the close-up details on these gems! Would our highlighted artists please email Valerie if you would like our special badge for your sidebar :)

Julie Forest

hellerlittle

Sue

AND.... Congratulations to #3: Jane Wetzel, our winner of the random draw for a $10 gift certificate to The Stampsmith Shop!!!! Jane, please e-mail Valerie for all of the details!

And now, this week's challenge...

It’s me, Karen McAlpine. I am your hostess today for Challenge #3. So, that means I have selected the theme. I thought it would be fun to do a shape challenge. Your challenge, if you should decide to accept it, is to make a project that uses one or more Oval Shapes.

Here are a few ideas to get you started: oval die cuts, punches, oval shaped stamps, or decorative paper with ovals. You do not have to use Stampsmith Stamps for this challenge. But, if you have them, we would love to see you use them. You can make any type of project from 3-D to cards. You will have until November 14th to complete your project and link it up here. And, of course, there is a fabulous prize. One person will be selected at random for a gift certificate to the Stampsmith Shop. I will also be selecting the three Highlights from this challenge. The winner and Highlights will be announced on November 15th. Well, ladies and gentlemen, get busy and show us your Ovals. Have fun! We can’t wait to see what beauties you come up with.

For more inspiration, take a look at the ovalicious projects by The Design Team!