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Embellish Birds Color Challenge :: The Angel Company from Christina Franco
14 Comments »Posted in ChallengeJul 30, 2010
Chris Franco is an Independent Demonstrator with The Angel Company™ (TAC). The Angel Company’s Creative Cling™ stamping system combined with their deeply etched vulcanized stamps make these the most affordable and versatile rubber stamps available on the market today. You will be thrilled at the large variety and style of stamps offered, their exclusive Soar with it Collection paper line, name brand products and accessories and recently TAC has partnered with COPIC and Bazzill. Did you know you can buy reinkers for your favorite ink pads as well? Palette, Kaleidacolor, Brilliance, VersaMagic, StazOn, Versamark and Memento! At The Angel Company™ expressing creativity is about celebrating life! It’s passionate. It’s meaningful. It’s truly about living.
Chris is happy to ship anywhere around the world so browse her online catalog and then send her an email if you would like to place an order. Be sure to check back each month because there are surprise sales and specials stamp offering.
Be sure to visit her blog to take a peek at what Chris created for this challenge and have one more chance to win a great prize! And stop by her website where you can be further inspired. . .and SHOP!
This challenge requires you to create a project using the color challenge and birds. There are many was to incorporate birds, from stamps to die cuts. Show us your favorite ways to use birds on your paper craft projects.
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.
*White/Cream make be used as an additional neutral color.
Don’t forget:
1. Use the colors in the Polaroid-inspired color swatches (featured in the image above) and
2. Use birds.
You have until Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 11:59 pm EST to submit your entries below.
The photos used in the graphic are by Boldlifestyle 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.
If you miss the deadline, please do not link your posting in the comments area.
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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. The designers will be highlighted in a blog posting. Additionally, there will be a designer who will be featured and will win a gift certificate to The Angel Company from Christina. 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.
The design team has done it again! They’ve created some fun, elegant, creative, striking, and fabulous projects showcasing some of The Angel Company’s bird stamps! So, take a peek at what they created and get started on your own bird-themed project.
Brown Cardstock
Beautiful Friendship stamp set retired (but if you like this style, you can find something similar here!)
Swirled Spring Life stamp set
Miss Moxie Collection
Fall Harvest stamp set
Mia’s Cottage Collection
Exotic Bird Collage stamp set
Hemingway Collection
Little Bird stamp set
More Mimi Collection
All Things of Nature stamp set
Angelee Collection
Challenge ends Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 11:59 PM EST
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I am so thrilled to be the sponsor this week and I am blown away with the samples! So much variety and such beautiful work!
I wanted to play along too and posted a card myself and chance for blog candy on my blog.
http://allamericanstampers.blogspot.com/2010/07/embellish-magazine-blog-hop-check-it.html
Good luck to everyone!
WHOO HOO!! I was first to post to the challenge – that has never happened before!!
I feel just as excited as Michelle becuase I usually am the last one to get my submission in. Great challenge this week ladies. I love the colours.
Beautiful creations by DT! Love them all! And love this new challenge!
great color combo! and love birdies. very fun challenge. have a great day! *hugs* steph
LOL – I sympathise with the other ladies who are thrilled to have their submissions in already – I’m also usually late! What a great challenge – I loved working with these colours! Thank you!
[...] night I was browsing around for some inspiration and fell in love with Embellish Mag’s colors. I haven’t played the last few of them and I felt like I really have to do this one. I used [...]
Thank you very much for the wonderful inspiration by all the DT. Love the colour combo.
Cami
What beautiful colors. Thanks for the challenge!
I finally entered a card. I will try to do some more. This is a fun place to stop in and get inspired.Thank you.
Donna
thank you so much for this awesome challenge!! it was so fun to play with this color combo and sweet birds
The design team works are just amazing!!
hugs
Sasya
Darn – I’m too late! I thought the cutoff was midnight, not mid-day. Oh well – next time maybe life on the home front will let me get linked in time.
Thanks so much for the challenge! It was a lot of fun to do.
Here’s mine anyway, just for fun.
http://stampandcolor.wordpress.com/2010/08/12/happy-bird-day/
[...] This one from Embellish Magazine appealed to me because I have new stamps from Whiff of Joy with birds on them that I’ve already been playing with, and I like color challenges. [...]
WOW! What a great turn out to the challenge…I really enjoyed visiting each of the submissions and I’ve learned a lot along the way!
Thanks again to Ashley and the awesome Design Team – I appreciated the chance to be the sponsor for this wonderful color challenge! I think a lot of folks will be returning to this color scheme.