TSC24: Ribbons and Lace + Anniversary Blog Hop

From Russia With Love

Last month, we celebrated the grand opening of the new Stampsmith Online Store - we're still jittering with excitement - it's so amazing!! A HUGE thank you to everyone who sent in their spooktacular projects for October's Halloween challenge! Here are just a few of the highlights! If you would like our special 'featured' badge for your blog, please contact Valerie (her link is in the sidebar).

Michelle

Linda M. Leow

Darlene

And random.org says this week's winner of the Stampsmith gift certificate is... #7 Karen at Karen's Card Creations!! Congratulations!! Please contact Valerie for all of the details (her link is in the sidebar).

And now for Challenge #24:
Ribbons And Lace
Plus Our Anniversary Blog Hop!! 

This month we are celebrating The Stampsmith Challenge's one year anniversary and we couldn't be more excited to give you an extra chance to win... read on!!

This month's lovely theme of Ribbons and Lace was suggested by Lynne. Create a project that includes ribbon, lace and at least one Stampsmith Stamp and link your project here! All projects will be entered in a random draw at the end of the month.  The winner will get to select their choice of a full sheet of Stampsmith rubber valued at $21!

In addition, at the end of this month, we will be entering ALL of the comments from this blog and each of the designers' blogs into a hat for an additional full sheet of Stampsmith rubber - also valued at $21!!! The more love you leave, the more chances you'll have to win!!

Please start by leaving a comment here on this blog and then head on over to Melanie Bennett's blog to leave her some love and she'll let you know your next stop in the hop! Here is a list of all of the blogs in this hop... be sure to stop at 'em all!  Have fun hopping and good luck in the draw!

• The Stampsmith Challenge
• Melanie Bennett
• Karen McAlpine
• Lynne Moncrieff
• Julie Mutch
• Debbie Reid
• Valerie Wilson

TSC15 - Birthday Theme - Using Stamps From Any Company - And A Bonus!!

Floral Alphabet

Welcome to The Stampsmith Challenge!  Today we have some highlights to share from the fabulous entries sent in for the Starring Role challenge - as well as the winner of the draw and, of course, the new challenge!

The Stampsmith has so many images of famous stars and your projects certainly made wonderful use of them! As always, you've made it incredibly difficult to choose just a few highlights, but we've managed to pick just a few :) Ladies, please email Valerie for our featured badge for your sidebar!

Crafty Dawn

Mary Ann Evans

Alison (Craftytrog)

We are extremely pleased to congratulate #4 - Alison (Craftytrog) at Craftytrog's Inky Adventures who won the random draw for the Stampsmith gift certificate! Please contact Valerie for all of the details!

And now for Challenge #15: 
Birthday Theme  
- Using Any Stamps
- And a Bonus!!

This week, Valerie (our birthday girl!!) challenges us to create a project with a Birthday Theme! This is the first of the month, so you are welcome to use stamps from any company... of course, if you have Stampsmith stamps, we'd love to see your inspiration with them :)

As a bonus, this week we are also going to give you a chance to have your name entered multiple times in the draw! If you mention our challenge to your stamping friends and they participate in our challenge, you will each get an extra chance to win the draw! All they have to do is link to your blog and our blog in their writeup!!  So be sure to spread the word to play along!

The design team has some great inspiration to help jumpstart your creativity!

Karen McAlpine 

Lynne Moncrieff

Valerie Wilson

Julie Mutch