March Challenge ~ TRAVEL

Hi everyone and welcome to a brand new challenge for March!

Thank you for all your fabulous entries to last month's challenge. The lucky winner will be announced in the next few days, so make sure you check back to see who it is.

This month we are welcoming the very talented Sue West as our Guest Designer and we are all really looking forward to seeing the wonderful artwork and creativity that she will be bringing to the team.

The new challenge for this month is all about TRAVEL and to join in with this challenge is simple; make a piece of artwork, include the theme and some rubberstamping, pop back here to link up using the Froggy at the bottom of this post, so that we can see what you've made and then, leave us a comment to let us know you have joined in. As ever there will be candy for one randomly picked entrant - £15 worth of The Artistic Stamper stamps of your choice plus the Kling On to mount them onto. And... if you use Artistic Stamper stamps on your entry, you will be entered twice into the draw! 

Before you start creating, just take a look at our Creative Team's stunning creations for this month's challenge.

SIOUX

Sioux used the cycling image from the "Open Road" plate, the graph paper background and the sentiment to make a CAS card.

ALISON

Alison stamped the Journey sentiment in a rainbow of Distress Ink colours, stamped the Mini from the Cars Plate in black, then coloured it with distress inks. She stamped the Europe Background onto Kraft Glassine paper, crumpled it, then rolled it up to make a map, adding string & a philosophy tag.

KAT

Kat has uses for her tag, distress stains Tattered Rose, Frayed Burlap & Tea Dye, Distress Inks Antique Linen & Vintage Photo, all the images are stamped with archival ink Coffee, & the stamps she has used are all Tim Holtz with the exception of the Small Cogs & Stipple background Kat has added a piece of torn map & a couple of memo pins & finished off with some string through the hole of her tag.

EMMA

For my challenge piece, I used a Manila tag and dragged Weathered Wood and Antique Linen Distress Stains over it and then heat dried it. Next, I inked up the Eiffel Tower, Tim Holtz stamp from my stash and stamping directly onto the tag. I made up two blooms from Grungepaper, blended with Tumbled Glass DI, using the Flower Power Stamp Plate and also stamped and coloured some leaves from the same stamp sheet. I added a quote from the Traveling Words Stamp sheet and attached it to my tag with a Idea-ology Hinge Clip. Finally I added some vintage ribbon, dyed with Weathered Wood Distress Stain.

We're really looking forward to seeing your interpretation of our theme and all your wonderful creations in the challenge this month and please, don't forget to add a comment when you post your entry.

That's about it from me for now...thank you for looking.

Hope you all have a happy and very creative month.

Emma x