Skipping Stones Design (SSD) is a stamp company whose mission is to help paper crafters share the gift of laughter one stamp at a time. SSD started in 2005 and has a variety of stamps in their online store to attract all paper crafters. Their stamps are photopolymer high quality clear stamps and priced just right. On their blog, SSD challenges crafters with a sketch every week.
This challenge requires you to create a project using butterflies. Butterflies may be stamped, die cut, punched or on patterned paper! You can incorporate the theme in many ways, such as a card, scrapbook layout, mini book, tag, gift bag, box, etc. The main colors are highlighted in Polaroid inspired color swatches. Keep the colors of your project as close to the colors in the challenge image. Remember, colors can be incorporated into your project in more ways than cardstock.
Don’t forget:
1. Use the colors in the Polaroid-inspired color swatches (featured in the image above) and
2. Use butterflies.
You have until Thursday, June 3, 2010 at 11:59 pm EST to submit your entries below.
The photos used in the graphic are by Ashley McArthur Photography.
Upload a photo of your project to your blog or online gallery, such as Splitcoaststampers, Flickr, or Papertrey Ink, then copy the direct link to your project to the embedded link widget below. If you do not have a direct link to your blog/gallery posting that features the challenge, your link may be deleted. If it is deleted, no biggie, just come back and re-link the correct link! Only links left in the link widget will be considered for challenge submissions.
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We also have a Flickr Group available to share your projects. Please add your projects to Embellish Magazine Flickr group.
If you want to use the graphic above, feel free to, but make sure you right-click and choose the “Save Image As” choice to save it to your computer, then upload to your blog!
After the challenge ends, the design team will select six designers who created hot projects to highlight. Additionally, there will be a designer who will be featured and will win three stamp sets, including Garden Stamp Kiss, Whispering Wings, and Healing Wings. The featured designers and the winner will be posted the week following the challenge end date. The winner must contact Embellish Magazine within 48 hours of the announcement. We reserve the right to select a new winner if the designer makes no contact.
Ashley used the Healing Wings stamp set to create her gratitude card.
Charlene used Healing Wings + Dandelion Dreams stamp set and created this cute fluttering card.
Mariana‘s butterfly was stamped from the Healing Wings stamp set and used the backgrounds in the Garden Stamp Kiss set.
Sarah stamped with Healing Wings stamp set to create her card.
Tina’s card created a lush garden using the Dandelion Dreams stamp set.
Challenge ends Thursday, June 3, 2010 at 11:59 PM EST
